Chris Martin is a tilted listening animal languaging. He teaches and learns at Unrestricted Interest and curates Multiverse, a series of neurodivergent writing from Milkweed Editions. He is the author of May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future (HarperOne, 2022).

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton, PhD, is an award-winning writer/director with writing produced and published internationally. Her debut collection was The Mortality Shot (Liquid Cat Books); her work has been recently published in Prairie Schooner, PANK, and Nomadic Press. Barclay-Morton lives in New York City, writing a memoir about her autism diagnosis at 57. More: TheUnadaptedOnes.com

Twitter Username: wilhelminapitfa

Website: https://www.theunadaptedones.com

Said Shaiye is an Autistic & ADHD Somali writer and photographer. His debut book, Are You Borg Now?, was a 2022 Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Memoir. He has published work in Indiana Review, Texas Review, Obsidian, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA and teaches college writing in the the twin cities.

Linda N. Masi is the author of the novel Fine Dreams, winner of the Juniper Prize for fiction. Some of her other work appear in Tupelo Quarterly, BlackBerry: A Magazine, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi and is completing a PhD at Texas Tech University.

Twitter Username: RealLindaNMasi

Osahon Ize-Iyamu is a Nigerian writer of fiction that explores the effect of environmental degradation in Nigeria. His story “More Sea than Tar,” which highlights the flooding crisis in Nigeria, has been included in educational materials globally. He has also spoken at Berlin’s 2022 Climate Cultures Festival.

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is an African speculative fiction writer, editor, and publisher from Nigeria. He has won the Nebula, as well as the Nommo, British and World Fantasy awards. He has also been a finalist in the Hugo, Locus, Sturgeon, British Science Fiction and NAACP Image awards.

Author Aya de León teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley. She is acquiring editor at Fighting Chance Books, seeking climate justice fiction. She produced the online conference Black Literature vs. the Climate Emergency, (available on YouTube) and works on climate with the Movement for Black Lives.

Twitter Username: ayadeleon

Website: https://ayadeleon.wordpress.com

Bibiana O. Ossai, a Nigerian born writer, is the winner of the Equinox Journal 2019 Poetry Contest and a recipient of the Marilyn Boutwell Creative Writing Award from Long Island University's humanities department. Her works appear in The River, Book Smuggler's Den, Refractions.

Twitter Username: SaintOaksCom

Website: https://www.bibianaossai.com/

Maria Maloney is the author of two books of poetry, The Lost Letters of Mileva and Cracked Spaces. She is the founder and publisher of Mouthfeel Press and the outreach coordinator for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino Día de los Muertos / Day of the Dead annual festival.

Twitter Username: maloney_ninfa

Carolina Monsivais is the author of three collections of poetry: Somewhere Between Houston and El Paso, Elisa’s Hunger, and Descent. She holds an MFA from NMSU and a PhD from UTEP. Monsivais has worked many years with survivors of patriarchal violence and is a founding member of Poets Against Walls.

Twitter Username: carotlicue

Elisa A. Garza has published two chapbooks, Between the Light / entre la claridad and Familia. Her full-length collection Regalos was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Since her cancer diagnosis, she no longer teaches, but continues to write and work as an editor.

Katherine Hoerth is the author of five poetry books including Goddess Wears Cowboy Boots, which won the Helen C. Smith Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Lamar University and serves as Director of Lamar University Literary Press.

Laura Cesarco Eglin’s latest poetry collections are Between Gone and Leaving—Home and Time/Tempo. She’s the translator of claus and the scorpion by Lara Dopazo Ruibal and Of Death. Minimal Odes by Hilda Hilst. She’s the publisher of Veliz Books and teaches at the University of Houston-Downtown.

Sarah Tomlinson, a former music journalist, has been a ghostwriter since 2008, penning more than twenty books, including five New York Times bestsellers. In 2015, she published the memoir, Good Girl. Her debut novel, The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books in 2024.

Twitter Username: duchessofrock

Website: www.sarahtomlinson.com

Sara Sligar is the author of the novel Take Me Apart (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux). She holds a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania and now lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.

Twitter Username: saraxsligar

Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, which the New York Times called “wittily original” and named an Editor’s Choice. Secret Identity was also listed as one of the Best Mysteries of the Year by NPR, Kirkus, Booklist, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, and more.

Twitter Username: alex_segura

Steph Cha is the author of Your House Will Pay, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the California Book Award, and the Juniper Song crime trilogy. She’s a book critic and television writer, as well as the current series editor of the Best American Mystery & Suspense anthology.

Twitter Username: stephycha

Katie Gutierrez's writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, Texas Monthly, and more. Her debut novel, More Than You'll Ever Know, was published by William Morrow in 2022.

Twitter Username: katie_gutz

Kate St. Vincent Vogl teaches at the Loft. She is the author of Lost & Found: A Memoir of Mothers, which ABC news featured. She cowrote Lady Ref as well as Iron Horse Cowgirls. Her essays appear in best-selling anthologies like Why We Ride; her fiction received a Minnesota State Arts Board grant.

Twitter Username: katevogl

Website: www.katevogl.com

Hope Edelman has published seven nonfiction books of her own, including the bestsellers Motherless Daughters and Motherless Mothers, and has cowritten Along the Way with Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez. She teaches workshops throughout the year and is currently collaborating on a nineties rock memoir.

Twitter Username: hope_edelman

Website: www.hopeedelman.com

Isidra Mencos is the author of Promenade of Desire—A Barcelona Memoir, an IPPY Awards silver medalist and Best Book Awards finalist. Her essay, “My Books and I” was listed as Notable in the Best American Essays 2019. She has ghostwritten books for CEOs and people without a high school degree.

Twitter Username: isidramencos

Kate Hopper is a writing coach, editor, and the author of Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers and Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood, and coauthor of Silent Running, a memoir. She leads retreats and teaches online and in Ashland University’s low-residency MFA program.

Twitter Username: mnkatehopper

Website: http://www.katehopper.com

Pauleanna is a celebrity ghostwriter and founder of WritersBlok, who helps high-profile leaders and doers turn their personal stories into powerful brand —when clients want to speak up and shake the room—she gets the call.

Twitter Username: pauleannar

Lauren Brazeal Garza is a PhD candidate in literature at UT Dallas. Her published poetry collections include Gutter, which chronicles her homelessness as a teenager. Her recent work includes an epistolary novel of poems and flash fiction that features fictional interviews with Texan ghosts.

Twitter Username: lbrazealgarza

Website: Www.lbrazealgarza.com

Jennifer Givhan is a Mexican-American and Indigenous poet and novelist and the recipient of the Southwest Book Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices. She is the author of eleven books and raises her children in New Mexico.

Twitter Username: JennGivhan

Website: jennifergivhan.com

Erika T. Wurth’s novel White Horse is a New York Times editors pick, a Good Morning America buzz pick, and an Indie Next, Target Book of the Month, and BOTM Pick. She is a Kenyon and Sewanee fellow, and a narrative artist for Meow Wolf. She is an urban Native of Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent.

Twitter Username: erikatwurth

Website: http://www.erikatwurth.com/

Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, No Gods for Drowning, The Worm and His Kings, and other books of dark fiction. A Locus Award Finalist and member of the HWA, she's also published over ninety short stories in various venues. She lives with her wife in Maryland.

Twitter Username: HaileyPiperSays

Erin E. Adams is a first-generation Haitian American writer and theatre artist. She received her BA with honors in literary arts from Brown University, her MFA in acting from The Old Globe, and her MFA in dramatic writing from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Twitter Username: Iameeadams

Joni B. Cole is the author of seven books, including Good Naked: How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier and Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive. She teaches creative writing at her own Writer's Center of White River Junction in Vermont and other graduate programs and conferences around the country.

Juan J. Morales is the author of three poetry collections and a forthcoming book with UNM Press. He is a CantoMundo Fellow, the editor of Pilgrimage Magazine, an associate dean in the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, and a professor of English at Colorado State University Pueblo.

Twitter Username: moralesjuanj

Emily Bernard is the author of Black is the Body, winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose. She is a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and the Julian Lindsay Green and Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont.

Twitter Username: emilyebernard

Tim Horvath is the author of Understories, which won the New Hampshire Literary Award, and Circulation. His stories appear in Conjunctions, AGNI, Hayden's Ferry Review, and elsewhere. He is a visiting assistant professor in the Stony Brook MFA in writing and literature and an editor at Conjunctions.

Twitter Username: tim_horvath

Website: www.timhorvath.com

Gary Jackson is the author of the poetry collections origin story and Missing You, Metropolis, and coeditor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry. He’s an associate professor in English and creative writing at the College of Charleston.

Dani Hedlund is the founder and CEO of the international nonprofit Brink Literacy Project and the editor-in-chief of the literary and art collection, F(r)iction.

Twitter Username: DMHedlund

Website: tetheredbyletters.com

Madeline Miller is a writer, classicist, and former high school teacher. Her first novel was The Song of Achilles, which was awarded the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction (now the Women's Prize). Her second novel, Circe, was an instant number one New York Times Bestseller.

Twitter Username: MillerMadeline

Dan Chaon’s most recent book is Sleepwalk: A Novel. Other works include the short story collection Stay Awake, a finalist for the story prize; the national bestsellers Ill Will and Await Your Reply; and Among the Missing, a National Book Award finalist. He retired from Oberlin College in 2018.

Twitter Username: danchaon

Rebecca Roanhorse is a NYTimes bestseller and a Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Award-winning speculative fiction writer. She has written eight novels, multiple short stories and has been published in over a dozen languages. She edited the Best American SFF 2022, and she also writes for TV and Marvel Comics.

Alix E. Harrow is a New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning writer now living in Virginia with her husband and their two semi-feral kids. She is the author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches, and various short fiction.

John Dufresne is the author of two story collections, six novels, and four books on craft, including Flash! a Guide to Writing Very Short Fiction and Storyville: an Illustrated Guide to Writing Fiction. He teaches creative writing at Florida International University, and is at work on a novel.

Omar Figueras is a professor at Miami Dade College and sits on the advisory board of Reading Queer. In January 2019, he received a KWLS Teacher & Librarian Scholarship, and in the summer of 2020, with the sponsorship of the Humanities Edge Grant, he created the MDC Student Writers Conference.

Twitter Username: omar_figueras

Born in Port-au-Prince, M.J. Fievre is the author of the Badass Black Girl series. She's a senior editor at Mango Publishing and a program coordinator at the Miami Book Fair.

Twitter Username: @MJ_Fievre

Website: www.mjfievre.com

Hector Duarte, Jr. is a writer and high school teacher out of Miami, Florida. He edited for The Flash Fiction Offensive and has published widely throughout the internet and in print. His debut short-story collection Desperate Times Call was released by Shotgun Honey books in 2018.

Lyudmyla Khersonska lives in Odessa, Ukraine. She is the author of six books of poetry. A Russophone poet, she speaks about Russia’s war in Ukraine. Her poems have been translated into many languages. Her name was on the list of 33 International Women Writers Who Are Bold for Change.

Kalpna Singh-Chitnis is the author of five poetry collections and founder of River Paw Press. Her works have been published in notable journals and translated into fifteen languages. A Pushcart nominee, she has received the Naji Naaman Literary Prize, Bihar Rajbhasha Award, and Rajiv Gandhi Global Excellence Award.

Twitter Username: AccessKalpna

Website: www.kalpnasinghchitnis.com

Anita Nahal, PhD, CDP, is a Pushcart Prize-nominated Indian American author-academic. She has four poetry books, four for children, five edited anthologies, among others. Her first novel is due in 2023. Anita teaches at the Univeristy of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC. More on her at: www.anitanahal.com

Kalpna Singh-Chitnis is the author of five poetry collections and founder of River Paw Press. Her works have been published in notable journals and translated into fifteen languages. A Pushcart nominee, she has received the Naji Naaman Literary Prize, Bihar Rajbhasha Award, and Rajiv Gandhi Global Excellence Award.

Twitter Username: AccessKalpna

Website: www.kalpnasinghchitnis.com

Octavio Quintanilla is the founder of the literary festival VersoFrontera & publisher of Alabrava Press. His poetry collection, The Book of Wounded Sparrows, is forthcoming from Texas Review Press. He teaches literature and creative writing at Our Lady of the Lake University. IG: @writeroctavioquintanilla

Twitter Username: OctQuintanilla

Candice Louisa Daquin is a licensed trauma psychotherapist specializing in adult survivors of abuse, as well as senior editor with Indie Blu(e) Publishing. Works include coeditorship of anthologies We Will Not Be Silenced (#metoo), SMITTEN (Lesbian poetry), and The Kali Project (female Indian poets).

Olena O'Lear (the pen name of Olena Brosalina) is a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, and editor, PhD born in Kyiv. She is the author of two poetry collections and a number of translations of works by J. R. R. Tolkien and other authors. She works as a translator at Astrolabe Publishing.

Twitter Username: OlenaOLear

Website: http://rivnodennya.in.ua/olir/

Volodymyr Tymchuk is a Ukrainian writer and lieutenant colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participating in the Russian-Ukrainian war. He has published over a dozen poetry collections and anthologies and has been awarded the Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Prize & the Markiyan Shashkevych Regional Prize.

Twitter Username: @slovodiem

Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, writer, and A+ napper. K. has featured in the New York Times, PBS News Hour, The Rumpus, VIDA Review, and RaceForward. They are a MacDowell and Lambda Literary Fellow. Their book More Than Organs received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Award and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist.

Twitter Username: brownroundboi

Kirin is a writer from Albuquerque, New Mexico living in Amsterdam. She was a PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, San Francisco Writers Grotto Fellow, AWP Writer to Writer mentee, and a Steinbeck Fellow. She received residencies from the Vermont Studio Center and Tin House. Find her work at kirinkhan.com

Twitter Username: kirinjaan

Zeyn Joukhadar is the author of The Map of Salt and Stars and Stonewall and Lambda Literary award-winning The Thirty Names of Night. His work appears in Salon, the Paris Review, Kink, This Arab Is Queer, and elsewhere. He is a Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) board member and Periplus mentor.

Twitter Username: ZeynJoukhadar

Website: ZeynJoukhadar.com

River 瑩瑩 Dandelion is an award-winning poet, transformative educator, and liberatory healing practitioner. A Tin House resident, Lambda Literary fellow, and Kundiman fellow, River is the author of remembering (y)our light. www.riverdandelion.com, IG: @rememberingourlight, & Twitter @rivertransforms.

Twitter Username: rivertransforms

Rhoni Blankenhorn is a Filipina American writer and educator based in New York City and Tucson, Arizona. She has received support from The Center for Book Arts, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and elsewhere. She is an MFA candidate in poetry and translation at Columbia University.

Twitter Username: rhonierika

Emily Simon is a writer and teacher living in New York City. She is the author of In Many Ways (2023) and the poetry chapbook Reign is Over (2021). Her poems have appeared in The Quarterless Review, Florida Review, Salt Hill, and Some Kind of Opening.

Born in Shanghai, Lynn Xu is the author of the full-length collection Debts & Lessons and And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight, and the chapbooks June and Tournesol. She teaches at Columbia University and coedits Canarium Books.

Asa Drake is a Filipina American poet and essayist in Central Florida. She has received support from the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, Tin House, and Idyllwild Arts. Her chapbook One Way to Listen was selected by Taneum Bambrick as the winner of Gold Line Press’s 2021 Poetry Chapbook Contest.

Twitter Username: AsaLDrake

Website: https://www.asaldrake.com/

Tyler Darnell is a writer and teacher in Houston, Texas. His work centers on disability, sexuality, and the way these experiences form and shape story.

Twitter Username: writerthoughts

Christie Collins (PhD, Cardiff University) teaches creative writing and literature at Mississippi State University. Her collection of poems titled The Art of Coming Undone is due out winter 2023 from the London-based publisher, The Black Springs Group.

Twitter Username: byccollins

Website: www.bychristiecollins.com

Julia Rose Lewis earned her doctorate in creative and critical writing from Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales. She taught creative writing at Kingston University London and Cardiff University. She is currently teaching at Indiana University Northwest. She is the author of six poetry collections.

Twitter Username: Lilysbarnmate

Said Shaiye is an Autistic & ADHD Somali writer and photographer. His debut book, Are You Borg Now?, was a 2022 Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Memoir. He has published work in Indiana Review, Texas Review, Obsidian, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA and teaches college writing in the the twin cities.

Glenda Bailey-Mershon is the author of Weaver’s Knot: Poems (Finishing Line Press) and the novel Eve’s Garden (Twisted Road Publications), as well as editor of four Jane's Stories anthologies. Her poetry and essays appear in various anthologies and journals, including the Wagtail Roma anthology.

Twitter Username: gbaileymershon

Website: www.glendabaileymershon.com

Caren Gussoff Sumption is the award-winning author of six books—most recently, her postcolonial, deep space, far-future comedy of manners, So Quick Bright Things Come to Confusion—and more than a hundred short stories. She is autistic, Romany, Jewish, and can't carry a tune (she tries anyway, gods help us).

Twitter Username: spitkitten

V. M. Stone is an author, poet, podcaster, and playwright. She recently completed her first novel, THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER (yet to be published) and hosts the podcast Sherlock Says. Her most recent play Dispatches from the End of the World is in development, to be staged in summer 2024.

Lynn Hutchinson Lee is a multidisciplinary artist and writer from Toronto Canada. An excerpt from her unpublished novel NIGHTSHADE was first-place winner of the 2022 Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction. Her writing has appeared in international literary publications. She is a member of chirikli collective.

Twitter Username: LHutchinsonLee

Jan Steckel's debut fiction collection Ghosts and Oceans came out in 2023. Like Flesh Covers Bone won 2019 Rainbow Awards for LGBT Poetry and Best Bisexual Book. The Horizontal Poet won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her chapbooks Mixing Tracks and The Underwater Hospital also won awards.

Twitter Username: horizontalpoet

Website: http://jansteckel.com

Terry Tierney is the author of the irreverent Vietnam-era road novel, Lucky Ride, a poetry collection, The Poet’s Garage, and the upcoming rust belt romance, The Bridge on Beer River. He earned his BA and MA at SUNY Binghamton and a PhD at Emory before surviving several Silicon Valley startups.

Twitter Username: TerryTierney14

Website: http://terrytierney.com

Amaranthia Sepia is a Black, invisibly-disabled creative activist. She is the cofounder of a project with her mother, Claire Jones, called Sista Creatives Rising. Within this project she develops "Art & Mind," a virtual event showcasing underrepresented women & genders.

Claire Jones is a DV and cancer survivor, Buddhist, Frances Perkins Scholar, and Mount Holyoke graduate. Goalcast, BestSelf Media, YOPP published her works. In 2020 she spoke virtually to DV activists at YWCA Central Massachusetts. On August 10, 2023 Jones gave a virtual presentation for Boston Public Library. She's the cofounder of Sista Creative.

Suchandrima Banerjee recently completed her debut novel about a woman who travels across the globe to confront a past trauma at the onset of the pandemic outbreak. Her poetry has appeared/will appear in the San Pedro River Review and the Redwood Anthology. She is a biomedical engineer by profession.

Twitter Username: Suchadream

Sarah Leavitt is the author of three book-length comics: Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (in production as a feature animation); Agnes, Murderess; and Something, Not Nothing (forthcoming fall 2024). She has taught comics classes since 2012 at the UBC School of Creative Writing.

Taylor Brown-Evans is a writer, illustrator, and cartoonist living in Vancouver. His work has appeared in Geist, Matrix, Poetry Is Dead, The Feathertale Review, and Ricepaper Magazine. His 2017 project Songs for a Lost Pod is a comicbook collaboration with musician Leah Abrahamson about a pod of orca.

Eve Salomons is a recent graduate of the UBC creative writing program. They live and make comics in Vancouver, British Columbia, mostly about their own life and sometimes about other people’s.

Emily Chou is a writer-cartoonist from the ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations. She has lived in the United Kingdom, Japan, and Italy and recently graduated with an MFA in creative writing from UBC. Her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies.

Twitter Username: _rhymeswithwow

Patrice Gopo writes stories steeped in themes of place, belonging, and home. She is the author of two essay collections, Autumn Song and All the Colors We Will See. Her debut picture book, All the Places We Call Home, is based on one of her essays. Please visit patricegopo.com to learn more.

Twitter Username: patricegopo

Website: https://www.patricegopo.com/

Grace Talusan's first book, The Body Papers, won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction. She teaches in the nonfiction writing program at Brown University.

Twitter Username: gracet09

Theresa Okokon is a Wisconsinite living in New England. She's is a writer, a storyteller, teacher, and the cohost of Stories From the Stage. Theresa's forthcoming memoir in essays about memory, family stories, and the death of her father is called The Okokon Family Orchestra.

Leslie Contreras Schwartz is a multigenre writer, a 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, and the 2019–2021 Houston Poet Laureate. She is the winner of the 2022 C&R Press Nonfiction Prize for From the Womb of Sky and Earth, a lyrical memoir.

Twitter Username: @lesliecontrerasschwartz

Randon Billings Noble is an essayist. She is the author of the collection Be with Me Always and the editor of the lyric essay anthology A Harp in the Stars. She is the founding editor of the literary magazine After the Art and teaches in the MFA programs at Goucher and West Virginia Wesleyan.

Twitter Username: randonnoble

Website: www.randonbillingsnoble.com

Jessica (she/her) serves as the director of business affairs for the Dramatists Guild. In addition, Jessica has her own solo law practice, The Lit Esquire PLLC, aimed at educating artists of all disciplines about their legal rights to empower them to take control of their careers.

Doug Wright won a Pulitzer and a Tony Award for his play I Am My Own Wife. Broadway musicals include War Paint, Hands on a Hardbody, The Little Mermaid, and Grey Gardens. Films include Quills, an adaptation of his Obie-winning play. Television credits include Tony Bennett's 80th Birthday Special.

Dolores Díaz is a Chicago-based Chicana playwright from the US-Mexico divide that has produced work with various companies including Goodman Theatre, TimeLine Theater, and Stage Left Theatre. She is a Dramatist Guild representative of the Chicago region and a resident artist at Chicago Dramatists.

Robert Maesaka is a St. Louis-based playwright whose work has been performed at Mustard Seed Theatre (White to Gray), the University of South Carolina-Upstate (White to Gray), St. Louis Shakespeare’s Confluence New Play Festival (Tolstoy’s Resurrection), and the Every 28 Hour Play Festival.

Roger Q. Mason (they/them) was recently touted by the Brooklyn Rail as "quickly becoming one of the most significant playwrights of the decade." Their playwriting has been seen on Broadway (Circle in the Square Reading Series), off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, and regionally. Insta: @rogerq.mason

Twitter Username: RogerQMason

Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, writer, and A+ napper. K. has featured in the New York Times, PBS News Hour, The Rumpus, VIDA Review, and RaceForward. They are a MacDowell and Lambda Literary Fellow. Their book More Than Organs received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Award and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist.

Twitter Username: brownroundboi

Saleem Hue Penny (him/friend) is a Black disabled “rural hip-hop blues'' poet who punctuates his work with drum loops, field sounds, gouache, and birch bark. He works at Zoeglossia, edits at Bellevue Literary Review, performs with O | Sessions Black Listening cohort and is a proud Cave Canem fellow.

Twitter Username: huedotart

Website: https://hueart.org

Walela Nehanda is a Black, queer, disabled, nonbinary cultural worker. Their debut title with Penguin Teen, Bless the Blood, is a cancer memoir in poetic form on navigating medical racism, ableism, transphobia, classism, and abuse. It will be released in February 2024.

Joselia Rebekah Hughes is a Best of Net nominated poet, access worker, and artist. She is a poetry editor at Apogee Journal. Her work has been featured in the Massachusetts Review, Split This Rock: The Quarry, The Whitney Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art: VCU, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: joselia_pdf

Jordan Stovall/Wanda Whatever (they/them) is a playwright, arts administrator, queer events producer, and drag artist. They presently serve as the director of outreach and institutional partnerships for the Dramatists Guild, where they have worked since 2016. www.jordanstovall.com

Doug Wright won a Pulitzer and a Tony Award for his play I Am My Own Wife. Broadway musicals include War Paint, Hands on a Hardbody, The Little Mermaid, and Grey Gardens. Films include Quills, an adaptation of his Obie-winning play. Television credits include Tony Bennett's 80th Birthday Special.

Roger Q. Mason (they/them) was recently touted by the Brooklyn Rail as "quickly becoming one of the most significant playwrights of the decade." Their playwriting has been seen on Broadway (Circle in the Square Reading Series), off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, and regionally. Insta: @rogerq.mason

Twitter Username: RogerQMason

Tabby Lamb is a nonbinary writer. Tabby won a Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022 for her joyful, queer rom-com, Happy Meal (Roots Touring), which played at the Traverse Theatre before completing a UK and Australia Tour.

Twitter Username: thetabbylamb

Sarah McCraw Crow is the author of the novel The Wrong Kind of Woman. Her writing has appeared in LitHub, Good Housekeeping, BookPage, Calyx, Crab Orchard Review, Stanford Alumni Magazine, Literary Mama, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in New Hampshire.

Twitter Username: @sarahmcrow

Website: https://sarahmccrawcrow.com

Jennifer Savran Kelly's (she//they) debut novel Endpapers was published by Algonquin in 2023. Her short fiction has appeared in Potomac Review, Black Warrior Review, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: savranly

Ava Homa is the award-winning author of the novel Daughters of Smoke and Fire, which was selected for Roxane Gay's book club and won the 2020 Silver Nautilus Award. Ava holds a Master's degree in creative writing from the University of Windsor in Canada. Her words have appeared in BBC and the Guardian.

Twitter Username: AvaHoma

Website: http://www.avahoma.com/

Daisy Alpert Florin is the author of My Last Innocent Year, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Washington Post Staff Pick and an Indie Next pick. She received the 2016 Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence and was a 2019–20 fellow in the BookEnds novel revision fellowship.

Twitter Username: daisy_florin

Karen Dukess is the author of the novel The Last Book Party, which was a Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers and IndieNext pick. She is the host of the Castle Hill Author Talks, a series of virtual and in-person interviews, and teaches writing in Cape Cod and New York.

Twitter Username: karendukess

Oleh Kotsyuba is the manager of publications at Harvard University's Ukrainian Research Institute where he directs the program of publishing scholarly monographs, translations of literary works and documents, and of the peer-reviewed journal, Harvard Ukrainian Studies.

Twitter Username: Oleh_Kotsyuba

Website: https://scholar.harvard.edu/kotsyuba/home

Alex Averbuch is a poet, translator, and scholar. He is the author of three books of poetry. His publications have appeared in the Manhattan Review, Copper Nickel, Plume, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Words Without Borders. His book The Jewish King was a finalist for the Shevchenko National Prize.

Vitaly Chernetsky is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Kansas. His translations from the Ukrainian include two novels and a poetry collection by Yuri Andrukhovych, a novel by Sophia Andrukhovych, and two children's books by Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv.

Twitter Username: globalrhizome

Ivan Kozlenko is a Ukrainian film scholar, writer, culture manager, and a former director of Ukraine's national film archive, Dovzhenko Center. His novel, Tangier, was shortlisted for the national, most prestigious BBC Book of The Year Award in 2017.

Iryna Shuvalova is a Norway-based Ukrainian poet, scholar, and translator. She authored five award-winning books of poetry and coedited Ukraine's first anthology of queer writing. Her work has been translated into twenty-three languages. She holds a PhD in Slavonic studies from the University of Cambridge.

Kimberly Blaeser, founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets and former Wisconsin Poet Laureate, holds the Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at Beloit College. Anishinaabe from White Earth Nation and professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, she also teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her most recent book is Ancient Light.
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Heid E. Erdrich is a poet, writer, editor, and winner of a National Poetry Series award and the 2022 Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress for her most recent book, Little Big Bully. She is an independent scholar and curator of Native American art. Erdrich is Ojibwe, enrolled at Turtle Mountain.
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Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of a National Poetry Series award, the American Book Award, the Whiting Award, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He is from the Navajo Nation.
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Elise Paschen (Osage) is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Nightlife. Her poems have appeared in A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry and Poetry, among others. She is the editor or coeditor of numerous anthologies, including Poetry Speaks and The Eloquent Poem.
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