Grace Loh Prasad received her MFA in creative writing from Mills College and is a VONA alumna. Her essays have appeared in Catapult, Ninth Letter, the Manifest-Station, Cha, and Hedgebrook Journal. She is currently working on a memoir/essay collection entitled The Translator’s Daughter.

Jamila Osman is a Somali writer and educator living in Portland, Oregon. Her writing explores the tension between place, history, and identity. Her work has appeared in various literary magazines and news publications. She is a VONA and Winter Tangerine workshop alum.

Mahmud Rahman is a writer and translator. His book Killing the Water includes stories of migrants and dislocated people in Bengal, Boston, Detroit, Providence, and imagined territories.

Nay Saysourinho