Reginald Flood

Diem Jones is cofounder and executive director of the VONA/Voices Workshop.

Elmaz Abinader is the author of two books of poetry, This House My Bones, and In the Country of My Dreams..., a memoir, Children of the Roojme, and several one-woman shows including Country of Origin. She is a cofounder of VONA and teaches at Mills College.

Angie Chuang is an associate professor of journalism at American University in Washington, DC. Her memoir is The Four Words for Home. Her work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Vela, the Asian American Literary Review, and others.

Angela Narciso Torres’s book, Blood Orange, won the Willow Books Lit Award in Poetry. A senior editor for RHINO, she has received fellowships from Ragdale and the Illinois Arts Council. She teaches poetry workshops in Chicago.