Manisha Sharma teaches at Iowa State University. Her poetry and fiction has been lauded by Lit Hub, Commonwealth Short Story contest, Amethyst Review, Cream City, Iron Horse, Arts & Letters, ASF, and more. She is also an internationally-certified yoga teacher.

Twitter Username: _sharmamanisha

Website: www.manisha-sharma.com

Srikanth Reddy's most recent book of poetry is Underworld Lit. A recipient of fellowships from the NEA, Creative Capital, and the Guggenheim Foundation, he is currently a professor of English at the University of Chicago.

Anthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020) and The Rendering (Omnidawn, 2023). He has won a Whiting Award and American Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He is copublisher of Noemi Press and teaches at Randolph College's Low Residency MFA.

Twitter Username: anthony_cody

Website: www.anthonycody.com

Cindy Juyoung Ok's debut collection Ward Toward won the 2023 Yale Younger Poets Prize. A Kenyon Review Fellow, poetry editor at Guernica, and host of the Poetry Magazine Podcast, she teaches creative writing at Kenyon College.

Sarah Ghazal Ali is a Pakistani poet and editor. A Stadler Fellow and winner of the Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, her forthcoming debut collection Theophanies was the Editors' Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award. She is the poetry editor for West Branch and lives in the Bay Area, California.

Twitter Username: caesarah_

Bernardo Wade, a writer from New Orleans is an MFA Candidate at IU-Bloomington. He currently serves as the EIC of Indiana Review, and has received support from Tin House, Community of Writers, Frost Place, and the Watering Hole. He moonlights as an equity and justice advocate.

Twitter Username: bernardo_wade

Laura Lee Washburn, director of creative writing at PittState Kansas, author of The Book of Stolen Images, This Good Warm Place, Watching the Contortionists, is EIC of The Coop: Poetry Co-Op. Harbor Review's Washburn Prize is named in honor of her dedication to her students throughout their writing careers.

Jericho Hockett is a psychologist-poet at Washburn University (KS). She interdisciplinarily explores strange beliefs, trauma, and embodied social group membership. Her chapbook Rituals for Dissolution (Port Yonder Press) and full-length poetry book In the Bodies (Unsolicited Press) are forthcoming.

Fable J. Briggs (they/he/she) is a poet and activist from Kansas, writing often about mental illness, neurodiversity, queer and trans experiences, grief, and trauma survival. They released his first book of poems In Orbit: and Other Poems in 2021.

Dennis Etzel, Jr. (he/they) is a neuroqueer writer who lives in Topeka, Kansas and teaches at Washburn University. His poetry books include The Sum of Two Mothers, My Secret Wars of 1984, and This Removed Utopia. They have won awards for diversity and inclusion, and lead Kansas writing workshops.

Twitter Username: poemslyrical

Marcela Sulak's fifth collection, The Fault, is a forthcoming novella-in-verse; she's coedited Family Resemblance, a hybrid anthology and was a National Jewish Book Award finalist, an NEA fellow, and a PEN Translation Award nominee. She edits The Ilanot Review and directs a creative writing program.

Jeannine's memoir, The Part That Burns, was a Kirkus Best 100 Indie Book, received starred reviews from PW and Kirkus, and was a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award. She teaches writing at the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, Catapult, and Elephant Rock.

Twitter Username: _elephantrock

Website: jeannineouellette.com

Esteban Rodríguez, author of six poetry collections, most recently Ordinary Bodies (word west press 2022), and the essay collection Before the Earth Devours Us (Split/Lip Press 2021). He currently lives in south Texas.

Twitter Username: estebanjrod11

Website: https://www.estebanrodriguezpoetry.com/

Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of Wild Milk, a collection of fiction, as well as two collections of poetry, The Babies and Tsim Tsum. Happily, which began as a monthly column on fairytales and motherhood in the Paris Review, is now out from Random House.

Debora Kuan is the author of three poetry collections: XING, Lunch Portraits, and Women on the Moon. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, New Republic, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She has received residences at Yaddo, Macdowell, and the Santa Fe Art Institute.

Tara Ballard is the author of House of the Night Watch. A PhD student in English at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, Tara is an assistant poetry editor for Prairie Schooner and affiliate editor for Alaska Quarterly Review.

Philip Metres is the author and translator of a number of books, including Shrapnel Maps, The Sound of Listening, Sand Opera, Pictures at an Exhibition, and To See the Earth. His work has garnered Guggenheim and Lannan fellowships, two NEAs, three Arab American book awards, and the Hunt Prize.

Twitter Username: PhilipMetres

Website: www.philipmetres.com

Joseph Harrington is the author of Of Some Sky; Goodnight Whoever’s Listening; Things Come On (an amneoir); and the critical work Poetry and the Public. For several years he has written a real-time online verse-chronicle of the climate crisis, The Poem of Our Climate.

Michael Leong's most recent books are Words on Edge (Black Square Editions, 2018) and Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2020). He is Robert P Hubbard Assistant Professor of Poetry at Kenyon College.

Paisley Rekdal is the author, most recently, of West: A Translation, Appropriate: A Provocation, and Nightingale. A Guggenheim fellow and Utah's former Poet Laureate, she teaches at the University of Utah, where she edits the web archive Mapping Literary Utah and directs the American West Center.

Twitter Username: paisleyrekdal

Jen Soriano (she/they) is a Filipinx writer who has received Artist Trust, Jack Jones, Hugo House, and Vermont Studio Center fellowships. Her debut essay collection Nervous, named one of the best nonfiction debuts of 2023 by Poets & Writers, is now available from Amistad/HarperCollins.

Twitter Username: lionswrite

Website: jensoriano.net

Tijanna O. Eaton is the author of the jail crime memoir BOLT Cutters and has been published in Honey Literary, Noyo Review, and Panorama Journal.  She is board chair of Five Keys Schools and Programs and is the recipient of the Unicorn Authors Club inaugural Alumni Award.

Hans Lindahl is a writer/activist bringing intersex community perspectives to medical education. As the former communications director of interACT, Hans worked to pass a bill against infant genital surgeries. Hans's debut YA novel tackles intersex abuse and the variety of forms queer love can take.

Twitter Username: hihellohans

Karina Muñiz-Pagán is a queer Xicana memoir and fiction writer. She cofounded the writers' collective, Las Malcriadas, to center Latina immigrant storytelling. She is a community-based creative writing coach and teacher, and the strategic partnerships director for the Unicorn Authors Club.

Twitter Username: KarinaM_P

Website: https://karinamp.contently.com/

Raychelle Heath is the director of curriculum and coaching for the Unicorn Authors Club. She is also a poet and storyteller working to tell the multifaceted stories of black women. Her podcast Black Women in Wellness spotlights black wellness women and discusses health and wellness disparities.

An emerging Black writer, and art collector, NaBeela Washington holds a Master's in creative writing and English from Southern New Hampshire University and Bachelor's in visual advertising from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the founder of Lucky Jefferson.

Twitter Username: _simplybee

Steph Liberatore is the founding editor of In Short, a new journal of flash nonfiction (fall 2023), and a professor at George Mason University. Her essays have appeared in River Teeth, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Cream City Review, Inside Higher Ed, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: stephliberatore

Dorothy Chan is the author of five poetry books, including Return of the Chinese Femme. They are an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the cofounder and editor in chief of Honey Literary Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization.

Twitter Username: dorothykchan

Asako Serizawa is the author of Inheritors, which won the PEN/Open Book Award and The Story Prize Spotlight Award. She has received two O. Henry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, NEA, and MacDowell.

Twitter Username: a_serizawa

Website: www.asakoserizawa.com

Kim Coleman Foote is the author of Coleman Hill, a novel inspired by her family's Great Migration experience. She has received writing fellowships from the NEA, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Center for Fiction, and NYFA, and she holds an MFA in creative writing from Chicago State University.

Twitter Username: KimColemanFoote

Website: www.kimfoote.com

Maisy Card is the author of the novel These Ghosts are Family, which won an American Book Award, the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize in fiction, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

Twitter Username: dracm

Shilpi Suneja was born in India. She is the author of the novel House of Caravans. Her writing has been supported by a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship, and a Grub Street Novel Incubator scholarship.

Twitter Username: shilpits

Emily Van Kley is the author of The Cold and the Rust and Arrhythmia. Her work has been awarded the Iowa Review Award, Florida Review Editor's Prize, the Loraine Williams Prize for Poetry, and the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize.

Maya Jewell Zeller is the author, most recently, of out takes/ glove box, chosen by Eduardo Corral as winner of the New American Poetry Prize, and Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts (an interdisciplinary collaboration); she is associate professor at Central Washington University and affiliate faculty for Western Colorado University.

Twitter Username: MayaJZeller

Website: mayajewellzeller.com

Claudia Castro Luna is an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow (2019), Washington State Poet Laureate (2018–2021), and Seattle's first Civic Poet (2015–2017) She is the author of Cipota Under the Moon, Killing Marías, One River, A Thousand Voices, and the chapbook This City.

Twitter Username: ClaudiaC_L

Sun Yung Shin is the author of four poetry collections including The Wet Hex; editor of three anthologies: What We Hunger For: Refugee & Immigrant Stories about Food & Family; A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota; and Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption, and author of two picture books.

Twitter Username: sunyungshin

Website: www.sunyungshin.com

Vi Khi Nao is the author of Swimming With Dead Stars, A Bell Curve Is A Pregnant Straight Line, and the play Waiting for God. She was the winner of 2014 Nightboat Poetry Prize and the 2016 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest for A Brief Alphabet of Torture, a collection of short stories.

Twitter Username: vikhinao

Shawn Girvan received his MFA in creative writing from Goddard College. His work has appeared in The Pitkin Review, Wraparound South, and West Texas Literary Review. Shawn currently teaches and works at the Muse Writers Center in Norfolk, Virginia and is finishing his first memoir.

Dariel Suarez is the Cuban-born author of the novel The Playwright's House and the story collection A Kind of Solitude, winner of the International Latino Book Award. He is education director at GrubStreet and resides in the Boston area.

Twitter Username: https://twitter.com/Darie

Karen Schubert, founding director of Lit Youngstown in 2015, is a NEOMFA graduate and author of The Compost Reader and five poetry chapbooks. She has taught in numerous academic and community settings. Her awards include residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center.

Twitter Username: karen_jedemeure

Philip Memmer is the author of six books of poems, most recently Cairns. He founded and directs the YMCA's Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse, New York, and is publisher at Tiger Bark Press. He also teaches creative writing part-time at Hamilton College.

Heather Newton's award-winning books include The Puppeteer’s Daughters, McMullen Circle, and Under the Mercy Trees. She is cofounder and program manager for the Flatiron Writers Room in Asheville, North Carolina, and teaches creative writing for Charlotte Lit and UNC Asheville's Great Smokies Writing Program.

Jessica Jacobs is the author of four books, including unalone, poems in conversation with the Book of Genesis (Four Way Books, March 2024). She is the founder and executive director of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, a nonprofit literary organization that supports Jewish poets & Jewish poetry.

Twitter Username: jessicalgjacobs

Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Useful Junk (BOA Editions in 2022), and Holy Moly Carry Me, which won the 2018 National Jewish Book award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. She is an English professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Twitter Username: rikam99

Website: erikameitner.com

Yehoshua November is the author of two books of poetry, God's Optimism (an L.A. Times Book Prize finalist) and Two Worlds Exist (a National Jewish Book Award and Paterson Poetry Prize finalist). His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Sun, VQR, and on NPR and Poetry Unbound.

Chanda Feldman is the author of Approaching the Fields: poems. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, and has received an NEA Fellowship for Poetry and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She holds an MFA from Cornell University. Chanda teaches creative writing at Oberlin College.

Twitter Username: chanda_feldman

Website: www.chandafeldman.com

Juanita E. Mantz (JEM) is a writer & lawyer with two books, Portrait of a Deputy Public Defender: or, how I became a punk rock lawyer (Bamboo Dart Press, 2021) andTales of an Inland Empire Girl (Los Nietos Press, 2022). She produces the Life of JEM podcast where she interviews writers on writing.

Twitter Username: lifeofjem

Laurie Markvart is a professional singer, musician, published author, songwriter, blogger, and poet. She thrives through life with generalized anxiety disorder and is a social media advocate for positive mental health awareness. She is also a recent breast cancer survivor. She lives in Los Angeles.

Twitter Username: lauriemarkvart

Toni Ann Johnson won the 2021 Flannery O'Connor Award for her linked story collection Light Skin Gone to Waste. She is a 2015 NAACP Image Award nominee for her debut novel Remedy For a Broken Angel and a two-time winner of the Humanitas Prize for her screenplays Ruby Bridges and Crown Heights.

Twitter Username: toniannjohnson

Nikia Chaney is a multigenre author of nonfiction, science fiction, and poetry. Her memoir Ladybug is available from Inlandia Institute (2022). Her forthcoming poetry book To Stir & is forthcoming from Word Works press.

Twitter Username: nikiachaney

Hannah Sward is the bestselling author of Strip: A Memoir which has received rave reviews from authors such as Melissa Broder and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. She has appeared on NBC in honor of National Recovery Month, C-SPAN BookTV and many others discussing trauma, recovery, and healing.

Viktoria Valenzuela is a Macondista and Zoeglossia Fellow. Her writings keep keen focus on Chican@ m(other)ing as disruption and political action.

Twitter Username: viktoriavalenz

Cloud Delfina Cardona is a poet and artist from San Antonio, Texas. They are the cofounder of Infrarrealista Review, a nonprofit organization that promotes and publishes Texan writers. She is the author of What Remains, winner of the 2020 Host Publications Prize.

Twitter Username: cloudelfina

Carlos Fidel Espinoza is a writer and musician, thriving on the vibrant US-Mexico border. His poetry collection How to Lie to a Customs Agent won the Southwest Book Award, and his novel The Sacred History of Braulio Cantero was recently published by FlowerSong Press.

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

Edward Vidaurre is an award-winning poet and author of nine collections of poetry. He is the 2018–19 City of McAllen, Texas Poet Laureate, a 2022 inductee to the Texas Institute of Letters, and publisher of FlowerSong Press.

Lauri Scheyer is Xiaoxiang Distinguished Professor, creative writing director, and poetry center director at Hunan Normal University (China). She is also the founding director of the center for contemporary poetry and poetics and Professor Emeritus of English and creative writing at Cal State LA.

Twitter Username: laurischeyer

Tyrone Williams is the author of seven books of poetry: washpark (with Patrick Clifford), As iZ, Howell, Adventures of Pi, The Hero Project of the Century, On Spec, and c.c. He teaches literature and literary theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati Ohio.

Twitter Username: twilightrenegad

Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~suspend/

David Grundy is the author of A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets and Never by Itself Alone: Queer Poetry in Boston and San Francisco, 1943–Present, coeditor with Lauri Scheyer of Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton, and currently a Humboldt Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin.

Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, Professor Emerita from Spelman College, is an internationally recognized Langston Hughes scholar. She has published one monograph on Hughes's Simple stories and has edited four volumes of short fiction by Hughes.

Twitter Username: JustineXSemple

Kathy Lou Schultz is a poet-scholar. Her scholarship includes a collection of essays, Introduction to Claudia Rankine, and The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka. She is the author of four collections of poetry including Some Vague Wife and Biting Midge: Works in Prose.

Twitter Username: doctor_poetry

Abeer Y. Hoque is a Nigerian-born, Bangladeshi-American writer and photographer. Her books include a monograph of travel photographs and poems (The Long Way Home, 2013), a book of linked stories, poems, and photographs (The Lovers and the Leavers, 2015), and a memoir (Olive Witch, 2017).

Twitter Username: olivewitch

Hananah Zaheer is the author of Lovebirds (Bull City Press, 2021). She serves as fiction editor for Los Angeles Review, a fiction editor for South Asian Avant Garde: a dissident literary anthology, and is the founder of Dubai Literary Salon.

Twitter Username: hananahzaheer

Aditya Desai's stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Taco Bell Quarterly, Tropics of Meta, B O D Y, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Margins, and others. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the literature programs officer for Maryland Humanities.

Twitter Username: atwittya

Kamil Ahsan is currently a doctoral student in History at Yale University, with a prior doctorate in biology from the University of Chicago. Originally from Lahore, Pakistan, he is also a freelance journalist, critic, and the editor of South Asian Avant-Garde (SAAG). He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Twitter Username: kamuleosaurus

Elizabeth Gonzalez James is the author of the novels Mona at Sea (SFWP, 2021) and The Bullet Swallower (Simon & Schuster, forthcoming 2023), and the chapbook Five Conversations About Peter Sellers (Texas Review Press, forthcoming 2023). She is currently the interviews editor at The Rumpus.

Twitter Username: unefemmejames

Website: https://www.elizabethgonzalezjames.com/

Tom Lin is the author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, which won the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, among others. He is a doctoral candidate in English literature at the University of California, Davis.

Twitter Username: tom_lin__

Lauren Francis-Sharma is the author of Book of the Little Axe, a Hurston Wright Award finalist, and 'Til the Well Runs Dry. She is the assistant director of Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a MacDowell fellow, and serves on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.

Twitter Username: laurenfsharma

Website: www.laurenfrancissharma.com

Robin McLean's debut collection Reptile House won the BOA Editions Fiction Prize and was noted as one of the best books of 2015 in the Paris Review. She splits her time between the high plains desert of central Nevada and western Massachusetts where she teaches writing at Clark University.

Claudia Cravens grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has a BA in literature from Bard College and is a graduate of Catapult's Twelve-Month Novel Generator. Lucky Red is her first novel.

Twitter Username: claudia_cravens

Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones is a multigenre writer from Puerto Rico. Her work, which focuses on etymology, dreams, and diaspora, has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, wildness, Ambit Magazine, and other publications. Her first book, The Hurricane Book, was published by Rose Metal Press in October 2023.

Amina Lolita Gautier is the author of four short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, The Loss of All Lost Things, and The Best That You Can Do. For her body of work she has received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.

Twitter Username: DrAminaGautier

Website: https://aminagautier.wordpress.com/

Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (Caguas, Puerto Rico) has published the novels Los días hábiles, Palacio, and Dicen que los dormidos; and the collection of stories Preciosos perdedores. In 2017, he was selected by the Hay Festival as part of Bogotá39, a list of thirty-nine promising writers from the continent under the age of thirty-nine.

Twitter Username: sergioce

Jerilynn Aquino is a Puerto Rican writer from New Jersey. Her work appears in Salt Hill, Booth, The Journal, Gulf Coast, and others. In 2023, she was awarded a residency from Hedgebrook, and in 2022, received an AWP Intro Journals award for her essay "El Velorio: An Elegy."

Twitter Username: jerilynnaquino

Enzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born, award-winning poet, educator, publisher, librettist, and social advocate. He is the author of four collections of poetry, including his most recent book, American Scapegoat, and the twenty-first annual Massachusetts Book Award winner, When My Body Was A Clinched Fist.

Twitter Username: enzothepoet

Website: www.enzosurinink.org

Nathan McClain is the author of Previously Owned (2022) and Scale (2017), both from Four Way Books. He is a graduate from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson and a Cave Canem fellow. He currently teaches at Hampshire College and serves as poetry editor for the Massachusetts Review.

Twitter Username: nathanhmcclain

Kenzie Allen is a Haudenosaunee poet and multimodal artist. She is the author of Cloud Missives (Tin House, 2024). The recipient of a 92Y Discovery Prize and a James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets, she teaches at York University in Toronto, and she is a descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin.

Twitter Username: cerena

Website: http://kenzieallen.co

Michael Mercurio lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. He serves as the director of community engagement for the nonprofit Faraday Publishing Company, working to center the voices and perspectives of the global majority through panels, readings, and workshops.

Rita Banerjee is an assistant professor of creative writing and director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is the author of Echo in Four Beats, CREDO, and A Night with Kali. She received a VAC 2022 Creation Grant, and her work appears in Poets & Writers, VPR, The Rumpus, VIDA, and LARB.

Twitter Username: Rita_Banerjee

Website: http://ritabanerjee.com

Marissa Landrigan is the author of The Vegetarian's Guide to Eating Meat, and her essays have appeared in the Atlantic, Creative Nonfiction, Guernica, Orion, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is an associate professor of writing at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.

Twitter Username: mklandrigan

Website: marissalandrigan.com

Rajiv Mohabir is the author of three collections of poetry including Cultish (Four Way Books, Finalist for the NBCC), a memoir, Antiman (finalist for the PEN Open Book Award), and a collection of translations, I Even Regret Night (Kaya Press, winner of the HMLTA from the Academy of American Poets).

Twitter Username: rajivmohabir

Website: rajivmohabir.com

Monica Prince is an assistant professor of activist and performance writing at Susquehanna University and the author of four poetry collections. Her creative focus is choreopoems, performance poetry, and social justice.

Twitter Username: poetic_moni

Website: www.monicaprince.com

Adriana E. Ramírez is a Mexican-Colombian writer, essayist, critic, and poet based in Pittsburgh. She won the inaugural PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize (2015) for her novella-length work of nonfiction, Dead Boys (Little A, 2016). Her full-length work of nonfiction, The Violence, is forthcoming.

Twitter Username: zadri

Website: www.aeramirez.com

Caitlyn Hunter was the inaugural emerging Black artist-in-residence at Chatham University (2021–22). She is a doctoral candidate at Duquesne University where she researches African American literature and Black food studies. She currently teaches and resides in Southern Maryland.

Twitter Username: Caitdagr8hunter

K. Gorcheva-Newberry won a Prairie Schooner Prize for her first story collection, What Isn't Remembered, long-listed for the PEN/Bingham Prize and short-listed for the Saroyan International Prize. Her debut novel, The Orchard, was picked by New York Post among the best books of 2022, a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize.

Twitter Username: kgnewberry

Jeffrey Dale Lofton is the author of Red Clay Suzie, awarded the Seven Hills Literary Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize. He is a senior advisor at the Library of Congress and cohosts a podcast, Inside Voices, that showcases all things literary.

Twitter Username: JeffreyDLofton

Website: JeffreyDLofton.com

Chris Dennis is the author of Here Is What You Do. His work has appeared in the Paris Review, Playgirl, McSweeney's, Granta, LitHub, Guernica, and Best American Essays. He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship, the Krause Essay Prize, and a New York Times Sidney Award for long-form journalism.

Twitter Username: ChrisDnns

Sasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author of the debut novel Your Presence is Mandatory, which will be out in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, and Brazil in April 2024. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, TIME, Harper's Bazaar, Los Angeles Times, Narrative, and USA Today.

Twitter Username: SashaVasilyuk

Website: www.sashavasilyuk.com

Saul Lemerond is an assistant professor of English at Hanover College. He received his PhD in English with an emphasis in creative writing—fiction. He is dyslexic. He has a book, Digital Voices: Podcasting in the Creative Writing Classroom. Also, his short stories have appeared in JMWW and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: SaulLemerond

Kimberly Ann Southwick is the editor-in-chief and founder of Gigantic Sequins, a literary arts journal. She is an assistant professor at Jacksonville State University. Her full-length collection Orchid Alpha debuted from Trembling Pillow Press in April 2023.

Twitter Username: kimannjosouth

Website: kimberlyannsouthwick.com

Jason McCall holds an MFA from the University of Miami. His recent poetry collections include What Shot Did You Ever Take, A Man Ain't Nothin', and Two-Face God. He teaches at the University of North Alabama.

Twitter Username: JasonMcCall4

Katie Budris is a senior lecturer in writing arts at Rowan University, where she teaches creative writing and serves as coordinator of the MA in Writing program. She is the editor in chief of Glassworks and is the author of two chapbooks of poetry: Mid-Bloom and Prague in Synthetics.

Twitter Username: ktb8482

Website: katiebudris.com

Amy M. Le is a Vietnam War survivor, Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) warrior, award-winning author, and founder of Quill Hawk Publishing, a woman-owned, Asian American hybrid publishing company that helps writers indie publish their books while amplifying diverse voices through storytelling.

Twitter Username: amy_m_le

Website: www.quillhawkpublishing.com

Kiran Bhat is an Indian American author, traveler, and polyglot. He is known as the author of we of the forsaken world... and has had his writing published in various journals such as the Caravan, Outlook India, the Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, SOFTBLOW, etc. He currently lives in Mumbai.

Twitter Username: WeltgeistKiran

Mugabi Byenkya is an award-winning writer of prose, poetry, comics, essays, drama, and songs. Mugabi’s writing is used to teach high school English in Kampala and Toronto schools. In 2018, Mugabi was named one of fifty-six writers who has contributed to their native Uganda’s literary heritage by Writivism.

Twitter Username: mugabsb

Kim Liao's writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, The Rumpus, River Teeth, Fourth River, and others. This includes her viral Lit Hub essay about collecting one hundred rejections a year, which led to the #100rejections challenge. She teaches writing at John Jay College in New York City.

Twitter Username: the_kimlet

Kirstin Chen is a New York Times best-selling author of three novels. Her latest, Counterfeit, is a Reese’s Book Club pick, a Roxane Gay book club pick, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her previous two novels are Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners.

Twitter Username: kirstin_chen

Leland Cheuk is the author of three books of fiction, most recently No Good Very Bad Asian. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, and elsewhere. He runs the indie press 7.13 Books.

Twitter Username: lcheuk

Amy Hassinger is the author of three novels: Nina: Adolescence, The Priest's Madonna, and After the Dam. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, and Sierra magazine, among other venues. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois.

Rachel Stolzman Gullo is the author of two novels, The Sign for Drowning and Practice Dying. Her forthcoming novel Confuse the Wind will come out in June 2024 with Vine Leaves Press. Her debut novel is being republished by 7.13 Books. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.

Sonia Greenfield is the author of five books of poetry: All Possible Histories (RIYT 2022), Helen of Troy is High AF (Harbor Editions 2022), Letdown (White Pine), American Parable (Autumn House), and Boy with a Halo at the Farmer's Market (Codhill). She teaches at Normandale College in Minneapolis.

Twitter Username: SoniaGreenfield

Website: soniagreenfield.com

sam sax is a queer, jewish, writer & educator. Author of Madness (National Poetry Series), ‘Bury It’ (James Laughlin Award), and Pig (Scribner, 2023). They've received fellowships from Yaddo, Macdowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts. They're currently a lecturer at Stanford University.

Twitter Username: samsax1

Website: www.samsax.com

Dustin Brookshire is the author of three chapbooks. His most recent, Never Picked First For Playtime is a tribute to Denise Duhamel’s Kinky. He is the coeditor of Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology.

Twitter Username: Dbrookshire

Angelique Zobitz is the author of the chapbooks Burn Down Your House and Love Letters to the Revolution. Her first book, Seraphim, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press, April 2024. She is poetry editor at The Night Heron Barks and Ran Off with the Star Bassoon and contributing editor at Cave Wall.

Twitter Username: angeliquezobitz

Jonah Mixon-Webster is a poet and conceptual sound artist from Flint, Michigan. His debut poetry collection, Stereo(TYPE), received the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award and the Windham Campbell Prize for Poetry. His works are featured in Harper’s, Yale Review, the New Republic, Callaloo, and BAX 2018.

Twitter Username: jmixweb

Jeremy Broyles is a writer, professor, and voracious consumer of stories. As a first-gen college student, he was a three-time All-American in track and often incorporates sports/games in his fiction. His debut novel Flat Water releases in fall of 2023. He teaches creative writing in Mesa, Arizona.

Twitter Username: _jeremybroyles

Website: jeremybroylesauthor.com

Holly M. Wendt is associate professor of English and director of creative writing at Lebanon Valley College.Their debut novel, Heading North, is forthcoming from Braddock Avenue Books and their prose has appeared in Shenandoah, Passages North, Four Way Review, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: hmwendt

Website: https://www.hollymwendt.com/

Kate Reed Petty's first novel, True Story, was a New York Times Editor's Choice and a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. She lives in Baltimore.

Twitter Username: pettykate

Sarah Cypher is a queer Lebanese American writer, and her debut novel The Skin and Its Girl (Ballantine) uses direct-address first person. Sarah holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College, where she was a Rona Jaffe Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction. She lives in Washington, DC with her wife.

Twitter Username: threepenny

Website: www.sarahcypher.com

Sarah Seltzer is the executive editor at Lilith Magazine, a forty-five year old journal of Jewish feminist journalism, fiction, poetry and art. She is a journalist, critic, and novelist: her debut novel, The Singer Sisters (Flatiron), the story of two generations of female folk singers, is forthcoming.

Twitter Username: sarahmseltzer

Website: sarahmseltzer.com

Kathryn Kysar is the author of two books of poetry, Dark Lake and Pretend the World, and she edited Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers. A previous AWP board member, Kysar is the director of the creative writing program at Anoka-Ramsey Community College in Minneapolis.

Twitter Username: darklake

Website: https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/kathryn_kysar

April Gibson is a Black poet, writer, and professor whose work appears in The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Her forthcoming book of poetry will be published by Amistad Press/Harper Collins in 2024. April teaches English at Malcolm X College in Chicago.

Twitter Username: AprilGibsonPoet

Website: argpoetry.com

Ashley E. Wynter lives in Minneapolis where she participated in a regional Cave Canem workshop. She won first place in the fifty-third New Millennium Award for Poetry and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in West Trade Review and Water~Stone Review. Wynter is editor at Copper Canyon Press.

Twitter Username: ashwritesprose

Halee Kirkwood is a poet and descendant of the Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. They are a 2023–25 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, an inaugural In-Na-Po fellow, and were a 2019–20 Loft Mentor Series Fellow. Their work has been published in Poetry Magazine, Ecotone, Poem-A-Day, and others.

Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto lives in Lincoln, Nebraska where he is pursuing his PhD in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a focus on creative writing (poetry). His works have appeared in Isele Magazine, AFREADA, Poet Lore, Massachusetts Review, Frontier Poetry, Palette Poetry, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: Chinuaezenwa

Shana Youngdahl teaches in the mostly asynchronous MFA program at Lindenwood University. She is the author of the novels As Many Nows As I Can Get and A CATALOG OF BURNT OBJECTS (forthcoming) as well as two poetry collections, most recently A Cage To Welcome.

Twitter Username: shanayoungdahl

Website: www.shanayoungdahl.com

Jennifer Moffett writes fiction and poetry for adults and is the author of the YA novel Those Who Prey and a forthcoming YA thriller with Atheneum/Simon & Schuster. She teaches creative writing and screenwriting at Southern New Hampshire University.

Patricia Park is the author of the adult novel, Re Jane and the YA novels Imposter Syndrome & Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim and the forthcoming What's Eating Jackie Oh? (2024). She is an associate professor of creative writing at American University.

Twitter Username: patriciapark718

Website: www.patriciapark.com

A two-time National Book Award finalist, Laura Ruby writes poetry and fiction for adults, teens, and children, including the novels Bone Gap and Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All. She is on the faculty of Hamline University's MFAC program and Queens University's MFA program.

Twitter Username: thatlauraruby

Website: www.lauraruby.com

Linda Urban's award-winning picture books, chapter books, and novels for middle grade and YA readers include Mouse Was Mad, A Crooked Kind of Perfect, and Talk Santa to Me. She is currently cochair of the Vermont College of Fine Arts Writing for Children and Young Adults program.

Dr. Brandon Hobson is the author of five books. His novel Where the Dead Sit Talking was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and UCROSS. Hobson is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation and teaches at New Mexico State and IAIA.

Diana Khoi Nguyen is a poet, multimedia artist, and author of Ghost Of (Omnidawn 2018), as well as a recipient of a 2021 NEA fellowship. A Kundiman fellow, she is core faculty in the Randolph College low-residency MFA and an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Marie-Helene Bertino's new novel Beautyland is available now! She is the author of Parakeet, Safe as Houses, and 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas. Honors include the O. Henry Award, Pushcart Prize, and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellowship in Ireland. She teaches at Yale University.

Twitter Username: mhbertino

Website: www.mariehelenebertino.com

Kristin Keane is the author of An Encyclopedia of Bending Time and Luminaries. Her writing has appeared in/at the Washington Post, Ploughshares, New England Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Handbook of Educational Thinkers, and elsewhere. She earned a PhD from Stanford University.

Twitter Username: kitenearsink

Rebecca Pelky is an assistant professor at Clarkson University and a member of the Brothertown Indian Nation. Her awards include a 2023 creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Perugia Press Prize for her second collection of poetry, Through a Red Place (2021).

Twitter Username: RebeccaPelky

Allison Adair is author of The Clearing, winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. Her work appears in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, and Threepenny. She has received a Pushcart Prize, the Orlando Prize, and the Florida Review Editors' Award.

Twitter Username: fascicles

Jordi Alonso holds an MA in classical studies from Columbia University and a PhD in Victorian literature and creative writing from the University of Missouri. He is working on a project involving the early-modern Jesuit Latin poet Ubertino Carrara.

Twitter Username: nymphscholar

Kate McIntyre is the author of the story collection Mad Prairie, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award. Two stories from the collection received Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize. She is an assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where she edits the journal hex literary.

Twitter Username: _katemcintyre

Christopher Salerno is a professor of English at William Paterson University and associate editor at Tupelo Quarterly. He is the author of five full-length poetry collections, including The Man Grave, Sun & Urn, Minimum Heroic, Whirligig, and ATM. He is a New Jersey Council for the Arts Fellow.

Glenn Shaheen is the author of four books, most recently the fiction collection Carnivalia. He teaches at Prairie View A&M University and is the executive director of the Radius of Arab American Writers.

Twitter Username: glennshaheen

Sara Eliza Johnson is the recipient of an NEA fellowship in poetry, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and Winter Fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, among other honors. Her first book, Bone Map, won the 2013 National Poetry Series. Her second book, Vapor, will be published in 2022.

Twitter Username: saraelizaj

Website: saraelizajohnson.com

Christopher Munde is the author of the poetry collection Slippage, and his poems have also appeared in Blackbird, The Literary Review, Massachusetts Review, Third Coast, West Branch, and elsewhere. A graduate of the University of Houston’s MFA program, he currently teaches in western New York.

Christian J. Collier is a Black Southern writer, arts organizer, and teaching artist who resides in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is the author of Greater Ghost (Four Way Books, 2024), and the chapbook The Gleaming of the Blade, the 2021 Editors’ Selection from Bull City Press.

Twitter Username: ichristian3030

Melanie Jordan is a Tennessee writer and editor currently in Newnan, Georgia. Hallelujah for the Ghosties is her first book. She holds degrees from University of Tennessee Chattanooga, Southern Illinois University, and the University of Houston. She teaches creative writing and tech writing.

Lori Lynne Armstrong writes poetry and prose about mental health, addiction, and living with disabilities. She is influenced by her background as scientist, counselor, and patient, having earned bachelor's and master's degrees in molecular biology as well as a master's in counseling psychology.

Twitter Username: LLArmstrong

Website: www.lorilynnearmstrong.com

Vayl Larkin is a trans, wheelchair-modded writer and performer living in Pittsburgh. They've published work from poetry to theater, and they are a frequent feature at accessible literary events. Their focus on access and inclusion includes a position on an advisory board for Allegheny Health Network.

Mira Hadlow is a deaf Canadian author, thought leader, and advocate for personal power. Since the publication of her first book, she has amassed a cult following on social media, and drawing on her experience with domestic violence, Mira uses her platform to empower survivors.

Twitter Username: Mirahadlow

Website: Https://www.mirahadlow.com

Using her poetry collection, Stop Hurting and Dance, and her performance art workshop, “From a Victim to a Thriving Survivor: Learning How to Revive the Soul,” award-winning poet, author, and journalist Aqueila M. Lewis-Ross honors what it means to live with resilience, love, and prosperity.

Twitter Username: aqueilamlewisross

Anita Cameron has addressed disability rights for outlets including Yahoo! Voices, The Mobility Resource, and Huffington Post. She’s included in Zinn's Voices of a People's History of the United States, cited in a 2019 National Council on Disability report, and has an upcoming disability-themed kids’ book.

Andy is an award-winning, SAG-AFTRA audiobook narrator of both fiction and nonfiction books, narrating for traditional and indie publishers. Andy has presented at thirty plus conferences and is a former graduate-level adjunct professor. Andy also writes YA and children's books and serves on DEI committees.

Twitter Username: otherandygarcia

André Santana is an award-winning and Audie-finalist narrator of dozens of titles from contemporary YA to adult science fiction. He's worked with major audiobook publishers including Penguin Random House Audio and Dreamscape Media, and serves as a mentor through the Audio Publishers Association.

Twitter Username: andreonthemic

Sarah Nessel is an audiobook narrator whose career has also included three decades of copyediting for newspapers, magazines, and independent fiction authors, and a stint as a newspaper columnist. She earned a BA from Drury University and an MS in journalism from the University of Kansas.

Kashiana Singh calls herself a work practitioner and embodies the essence of her TEDx talk, "Work as Worship," into her everyday. She has served as a managing editor for Poets Reading the News. Her newest full-length collection, Woman by the Door, was released in 2022 with Apprentice House Press.

Twitter Username: Kashianasingh

Amy Baskin's first collection NIGHT HAG (Unsolicited Press, 2023) explores Lilith, the mythic "first woman." She helps run the Visiting Writers Series and Fir Acres Writing Workshop at Lewis & Clark College. Timberline Review nominated Amy's poem "Self-Portrait as Comfort Food" for the Pushcart.

Twitter Username: AmyBaskin

Jen Karetnick is the author of eleven poetry collections, including Inheritance with a High Error Rate, winner of the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award (January 2024). She is also the cofounder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day. She works as a food writer, dining critic, and cookbook author.

Twitter Username: Kavetchnik

Website: https://jkaretnick.com/

Zeina Azzam, a Palestinian American, is the poet laureate of Alexandria, Virginia, for 2022–25. Her poems about food, identity, and culture appear in her two books of poetry Some Things Never Leave You (Tiger Bark Press, 2023) and Bayna Bayna, In-Between (The Poetry Box, 2021). www.zeinaazzam.com

Twitter Username: zeina3azzam

Tresha Faye Haefner is the founder of The Poetry Salon, an organization that provides both beginning and advanced writing classes to those who want to deepen their understanding of the craft. She holds an MA in humanistic psychology/creativity studies and is author of Take This Longing.

Twitter Username: Tresha

Mila Jaroniec is the author of Plastic Vodka Bottle Sleepover and the editor of Black Lipstick. She teaches at Writing Co-Lab and GrubStreet.

Anurag Andra is a writer based in Arlington, Virginia. He is the author of Submarine (Split/Lip Press, 2022). His short fiction has been featured in Ninth Letter, Necessary Fiction, Atticus Review, and elsewhere. His work explores themes of family, identity, coming-of-age, mental health, and loss.

Twitter Username: AnuragAndra

Website: https://anuragandra.com/

Devon Capizzi is a writer from Pennsylvania. Their debut collection of stories My Share of the Body was published by Split/Lip Press (December 2021). Their work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, the Tin House Workshop, and a fellowship from Emerson College.

Twitter Username: devoncapizzi

Jillian Danback-McGhan is an author, Navy veteran, former child actor, and the winner of the 2020 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Awards. Midwatch, her debut collection of short fiction, will be published in spring 2024. She lives in Annapolis, Maryland with her family.

Twitter Username: JDanbackMcGhan

Jared Yates Sexton is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, New Republic, and elsewhere. His most recent book is The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis from Dutton / Penguin Random House.

Twitter Username: jysexton

Website: http://www.jysexton.com

Saúl Hernández is a queer writer from San Antonio, Texas who was raised by undocumented parents. He's the winner of the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize 2021 chosen by Victoria Chang. His poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of The Net.

Twitter Username: el_saulhdez

Aldo Amparán is the author of Brother Sleep (Alice James Books, 2022), winner of the 2020 Alice James Award and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry. A 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, their work appears in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Ploughshares, and POETRY.

Twitter Username: skygoneout

jj peña (pronouns he/they) is a queer, burrito-blooded writer. jj's a 2023 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize winner, a 2022 Woody & Gayle Hunt Fellow, & a 2021 Periplus fellow. jj's won serval flash contests and has been anthologized in Best Microfictions (2020) & Best Small Fictions (2023).

Gustavo Hernandez is a Queer Mexican immigrant poet. His poems have been published in several literary journals in the United States and abroad. His first full-length poetry collection Flower Grand First is forthcoming.

Khem K. Aryal is the author of a short story collection The In-Betweeners (Braddock Ave Books, 2023) and editor of an anthology South to South (Texas Review Press, 2023). He teaches creative writing at Arkansas State University, where he also serves as creative materials editor of Arkansas Review.

Twitter Username: khemaryal

Website: www.khemaryal.com

Rohan Chhetri is the author of Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful (Tupelo Press/HarperCollins). A recipient of a 2021 PEN/Heim Grant for translation, his poems have appeared in the Paris Review, AGNI, Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, and Revue Europe, among others.

Twitter Username: rohancht

Pushparaj Acharya has published poetry collections in Nepali and English: Chāyākāla (FinePrint, 2006) and Dream Catcher (Vajra, 2012). Acharya collaborated with an artist and other poets in Somnio: The Way We See It (TiPSY Press, 2015). He has written screenplays and documentary scripts.

Samyak Shertok's poems appear in Blackbird, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, Waxwing, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from Aspen Words, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Saraswoti Lamichhane is a coauthor of Six String: A Joint Anthology of Poems and her work appears in various anthologies and journals. She has lived in Nepal, Toronto, and now lives and writes in Alberta, Canada.

Darien Hsu Gee is the author of five novels published in eleven countries. Her collection of micro essays won a bronze IPPY award, and her craft book on writing memoir won the Hawaiʻi Book Publishers award. Darien is a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellow.

CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems (Floodgate 2020) and coeditor of Native Voices (Tupelo 2019). CMarie is director of Elk River Writers Workshop and faculty in the graduate program in creative writing at Western Colorado University.

Anastacia-Reneé (She/They) is a writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, TEDx Speaker and podcaster. Reneé is the author of (v.) (Black Ocean) and Forget It (Black Radish). Side Notes from the Archivist forthcoming from Amistad (an imprint of HarperCollins) March 2023.

Preeti Parikh is an Indian American poet and essayist based in Ohio. A Kundiman Fellow, Preeti is the recipient of a 2023 Sustainable Arts Foundation grant award and has received support for her work from Millay Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the AWP Writer to Writer program.

Twitter Username: poetpreeti

Karina L. Agbisit is a Latina writer and editor. Her writing has been published by Woodhall Press, Cleis Press, Haunted Waters Press, Ruminate Magazine, and Oregon Humanities. She holds an MFA in creative writing and MA in book publishing from Portland State University. She is working on a memoir.

Kathy Fish is featured in the newest edition of the Norton Reader. Her fiction has appeared in Washington Square Review, Electric Literature, and is forthcoming in Ploughshares. She's the recipient of a Ragdale Foundation Fellowship, the Copper Nickel Editors' Prize, and has authored five collections.

Twitter Username: kathyfish

Website: http://kathy-fish.com/

L. Novak is a writer and PhD candidate who teaches composition at ASU with work in The Rumpus, Atticus Review, Puerto del Sol, Chattahoochee Review, BOMB, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and others. A winner of the Swarthout award, she has won grants from the Academy of American Poets and her chapbook Echolalia is available.

Twitter Username: anxiety_turnt

Avitus B. Carle (she/her) lives and writes outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formerly known as K.B. Carle, her flash has been published in a variety of places including Five South, JMWW, The Rumpus, Jellyfish Review, The Offing, and elsewhere. She can be found on Twitter @avitusbcarle.

Twitter Username: avitusbcarle

Website: avitusbcarle.com

Ruth Joffre is the author of the story collection Night Beast. She is a graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop and now teaches at Hugo House in Seattle.

Twitter Username: Ruth_Joffre

Gemini Wahhaj is the author of the novel The Children of This Madness (7.13 Books, fall 2023) and the short story collection Katy Family (Jackleg Press, spring 2025). Her fiction is in or forthcoming in Granta, Third Coast, Chicago Quarterly Review, and other magazines. PhD, fiction, U Houston.

Twitter Username: wahhajgemini

Sehba Sarwar is a novelist (Black Wings, Veliz Books 2019) whose writings tackle gender and displacement issues. Her short stories have been anthologized by Feminist Press, Akashic Books, and Harper Collins India, and her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Callaloo, LA Times, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: sehbasarwar

Oindrila Mukherjee is the author of the novel The Dream Builders. She is an associate professor of writing at Grand Valley State University. The recipient of fellowships from Emory University and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, she is a contributing editor for the literary magazine Aster(Ix).

Twitter Username: oinkness

Namrata Poddar is the author of the award-winning debut novel Border Less, an essayist, interviews editor for Kweli, and faculty of writing & literature at UCLA. Her work has appeared in Longreads, Literary Hub, Kenyon Review, Poets & Writers, L.A. Times, The Best Asian Short Stories, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: poddar_namrata

Website: www.namratapoddar.com

Parisa Saranj is a writer, translator, and editor at Consequence Forum. Her writings on contemporary Iranian politics and translations from Persian have been published in several publications, including Ms. Magazine, Your Impossible Voice, Two Lines, and Defunct Magazine.

Twitter Username: PSaranj

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

Matthew Krajniak earned his PhD from the University of Houston. He was hired as the executive Editor of Consequence Forum in 2020, and has helped grow the staff from six to fifty people, the readership to nearly 5K unique online visitors a month, and the programming to include workshops and panels.

Twitter Username: ConsequenceF

Timothy J. Hillegonds is the author of the memoir The Distance Between (Nebraska, 2019). He has published work in The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Salon, Brevity, and other publications. He serves as a contributing editor for Slag Glass City, a digital journal of the urban essay arts.

Joanna Penn Cooper is the author of The Itinerant Girl's Guide to Self-Hypnosis and What Is a Domicile. Her current project is When We Were Fearsome, lyrical prose about motherhood, origins, and power. Joanna holds a PhD from Temple University and teaches at musewriting.com.

Twitter Username: jp_cooper

Website: joannapenncooper.net

Kiki Petrosino is professor of poetry at the University of Virginia. She is the author of four books of poetry, including White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia and Witch Wife. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Literature.

James Allen Hall is the author of two books of poems, Romantic Comedy (Four Way Books, 2023) and Now You’re the Enemy (2008). They also authored a book of lyric essays, I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well. They teach at Washington College and direct the Rose O'Neill Literary House.

Twitter Username: jamesallenhall

Website: notbeauty.blogspot.com

Rajiv Mohabir is the author of three collections of poetry including Cultish (Four Way Books, Finalist for the NBCC), a memoir, Antiman (finalist for the PEN Open Book Award), and a collection of translations, I Even Regret Night (Kaya Press, winner of the HMLTA from the Academy of American Poets).

Twitter Username: rajivmohabir

Website: rajivmohabir.com

Wesley Rothman, author of Subwoofer, has published work in Bennington Review, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and Prairie Schooner. Recipient of fellowships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Vermont Studio Center, he teaches at Howard University.

Ed Pavlić is author of thirteen books written across and between genres: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, scholarship. His most recent works are Call It in the Air (2022), Outward: Adrienne Rich's Expanding Solitudes (2021), and Let It Be Broke (2020). He lives in Athens, Georgia.

Twitter Username: edpavlic

Website: https://www.english.uga.edu/directory/572/detail

Airea D. Matthews’s first collection of poems, Simulacra, received the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. She is a recipient of a 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and an assistant professor of creative writing at Bryn Mawr College.

Twitter Username: @aireadee

Khadijah Queen is the author of six books of poetry and hybrid prose, including Anodyne, Conduit, and I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On. Her verse play Non-Sequitur won the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. She teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech.

Twitter Username: Authorkq

Website: http://khadijahqueen.com

Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi.

Margot Atwell (she/her) is a writer, editor, publisher, and community funding expert. She is the executive director and publisher at Feminist Press. She's the author of Derby Life, coauthor of The Insider's Guide to Book Publishing Success, and writes the On the Books newsletter about money and arts.

Twitter Username: MargotAtwell

Ryo Yamaguchi is the publicist at Copper Canyon Press. He is the author of The Refusal of Suitors (Noemi Press), and has been a book critic for Harriet Books at the Poetry Foundation and Michigan Quarterly Review, among others. His poems have appeared widely, including The Best American Poetry 2020.

Twitter Username: ryo964

Kate Arden McMullen is the managing editor of Hub City Press, a nonprofit independent publisher of extraordinary writers from the American South. She is on the lookout for voice-driven literary works from the margins of Southern experience. Kate received her MFA in fiction from UNC-Wilmington.

Twitter Username: KateAMcMullen

Cat Fitzpatrick is the editrix at LittlePuss Press, and the director of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University Newark. Her novel in rhyme, The Call-Out (Seven Stories) won the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction.

Twitter Username: Intermittentcat

Lorena is a Latina immigrant writer, storyteller, and editor-in-chief at Solstice Literary Magazine. Her work appears in KHÔRA, Tasteful Rude, Cognoscenti, Pathfinders Collective, and on WORLDChannel/PBS’s TV program Stories From the Stage. She’s a 2023 PEN America Emerging Writer Fellowship finalist.

Twitter Username: LorenaLeonard

Robbie Gamble is the poetry editor of Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices. He has been a recipient of a Peter Taylor Fellowship for the Kenyon Writers Workshop, and the Carve Poetry Prize. He worked for many years as a nurse practitioner caring for homeless people in Boston.

Anri Wheeler is an alumna of Tin House, VONA, and GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator, and is reviews editor for Pangyrus. She teaches at GrubStreet and facilitates DEI workshops as cofounder of Beyond Binaries Consulting. Her writing has appeared in Lit Hub, Boston Globe, Hippocampus, and others.

Twitter Username: anrielizabeth

Website: anriwheeler.com

Shuchi Saraswat's prose has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, AGNI, Ecotone, Tin House, and elsewhere. She founded and directed the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith until 2021. She's now senior editor at AGNI.

Artress Bethany White is associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University. She is the author of the Trio Award-winning poetry collection My Afmerica: Poems. Her book Survivor's Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity received a 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award.

Twitter Username: Artresswhite

Website: artressbethanywhite.com

Andrew Altschul is the author of the novels The Gringa, Deus Ex Machina, and Lady Lazarus, as well as short fiction that has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best New American Voices, O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado and teaches at Colorado State University.

Ellen Meeropol is the author of the novels The Lost Women of Azalea Court, Her Sister's Tattoo, Kinship of Clover, On Hurricane Island, and House Arrest, and guest editor of the anthology Dreams for a Broken World. Recent essay publications include Lilith, Writer Magazine, and Lit Hub.

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/

Charmaine Craig is the author of the novels My Nemesis and Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her writing has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Narrative magazine, Afar, and Dissent. She teaches at UC Riverside.

Justin Torres is the author of the novels Blackouts and We the Animals. He has published short fiction in the New Yorker, Harper's, Tin House, and other publications. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is associate professor of English at UCLA.

Umair Kazi is the director of policy and advocacy at the Authors Guild. He studied law at the University of Iowa, and creative writing at Columbia University.

Hannah Pittard is the author of five books, including the memoir We Are Too Many (Henry Holt) and the novels The Fates Will Find Their Way (Ecco) and Listen to Me (Houghton Mifflin). She is a professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

Twitter Username: hannahpittard

Website: hannahpittard.com

Maya Shanbhag Lang is the author of What We Carry (Penguin Random House) and The Sixteenth of June (Simon & Schuster). Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Times of India. She holds a PhD in comparative literature and lives in New York.

Twitter Username: mayaslang

Website: www.mayalang.com

Nancy E. Wolff is a partner of the law firm of Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard. A frequent speaker on copyright, she is president of the Copyright Society of the USA, chair of the ABA IP Section Committee and ranked by Super Lawyers as one of the top fifty female lawyers in New York City.

Taylor Brorby is the author of Crude: Poems, Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience, and the forthcoming Boys and Oil. His work has been supported by fellowships and residencies from the NBCC, the MacDowell Colony, and Mesa Refuge. He is a contributing editor at North American Review.

Camille T. Dungy's books include Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, four books of poetry, most recently, Trophic Cascade, and the essays Guidebook to Relative Strangers. She edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, and coedited two other anthologies.

Toni Jensen is the author of the memoir Carry, a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist, and the story collection From the Hilltop. An NEA fellowship recipient in nonfiction, she teaches at the University of Arkansas and in the low-residency MFA at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is Métis.

Twitter Username: ToniJens

Gabe Montesanti is the author of the roller derby memoir, Brace For Impact (2022). Her work has been published in HuffPost, Lit Hub, Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Electric Literature, and Brevity. Gabe is currently at work on an illustrated memoir about performing drag.

Twitter Username: gabemontesanti

Brooke Palmer is a career language arts assessment writer, currently for GED, and freelance writer/journalist. She has written weekly music, nightlife, and culture columns for the Kansas City Star and San Antonio Current, and experiments in podcasts and memoirs.

Carmen Cantu is an undergraduate student at the Kansas City Art Institute. She was awarded a scholarship for the major/minor program with her major focus in the creative writing department. Carmen competed in a slam poetry group at her high school, further solidifying her pursuit in writing and poetry.

John "Br. John" Anderson—author, storyteller, motivational minister, five-time Best of KC Fringe Fest winner—entertains audiences with his brand of interactive storytelling. Former early childhood educator, Br. John has written, produced, and recorded albums of historical storytelling in prose and music.

Barbara Shelly is a journalist, writer, and editor based in Kansas City. She has worked for newspapers in three cities and now contributes to multiple publications as a freelance journalist. Barbara also works as a contract editor for independent and public media sites.

Twitter Username: bshelly

Lewis W. Diuguid is the political action chair for the National Association for Multicultural Education. He was a journalist for more than thirty-nine years for the Kansas City Star. He is the author of A Teacher’s Cry, Discovering the Real America; Our Fathers: Making Black Men; and Exploring Cuba.

Twitter Username: DiuguidLewis

Rachel Kowalsky, MD is a first-generation Guatemalan American, a pediatric emergency physician, and two-time Pushcart nominee. Her short stories are in the Missouri Review, Atticus Review, Orca, Best of jmww, Intima, and elsewhere. She teaches health humanities at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Twitter Username: rachel_kowalsky

Beth Hahn (she/her) is the author of the novel The Singing Bone (Regan Arts, 2016) and The City Beneath Her (Regal House, 2025). Her writing has been published in the Chestnut Review, DMQ Review, Ran Off with the Star Bassoon, The Common, and CRAFT, among others. She is the editor of -ette review.

David Byron Queen has an MFA from the University of Montana, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow. His work has appeared in VICE, Paste, Split Lip Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. He lives in New York and runs the publishing company word west.

Twitter Username: byron_queen

Jay Baruch, MD, is a writer, ER doctor, educator, and professor of emergency medicine at Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He's the author of two books of short fiction. His latest book of nonfiction essays is Tornado of Life: A Doctors Journey Through Constraints and Creativity in the ER.

Twitter Username: JBaruchMD

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/

Jimin Seo is the author of Ossia, a winner of The Changes Book Prize. He earned his MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. His most recent project, Poems of Consumption, is a collaboration with artist Hamed Sinno premiering at the Barbican Centre in London.

Twitter Username: jimseoni

Emily Lee Luan is the author of 回 / Return, a winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize, and the PSA chapbook I Watch the Boughs. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2021, American Poetry Review, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Rutgers–Newark. 

Saretta Morgan is author of the poetry collection Alt-Nature and the chapbooks Feeling Upon Arrival and room for a counter interior. Her work engages ecologies and forms of connectivity that manifest in the shadows of militarism, incarceration, and ecological trauma.

Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, author of Imperfect Tense (poems), four education books, and numerous articles and essays, was awarded 2015–2023 NEA Big Read grants, a Fulbright (2014), and artist residency (2017) in Mexico. She is a professor of language and literacy education at the University of Georgia.

Twitter Username: cahnmann

Website: www.melisacahnmanntaylor.com

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of six books, most recently the novel Barn 8. A Guggenheim fellow and finalist for the National Book Critics Award, she has published in the Paris Review, Granta, Harpers, and elsewhere. A professor at UT Austin, she also directs a prison creative writing program.

Elline Lipkin's book The Errant Thread was chosen by Eavan Boland for the Kore Press Book Award. Also the author of Girls' Studies (Seal Press), Lipkin is a research scholar with UCLA's Center for the Study of Women and teaches for Writing Workshops Los Angeles.

Twitter Username: Elline_Lipkin

Website: www.EllineLipkin.com

Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of Cemetery Ink, Immigrant Model, and Father Dirt, translator of Liliana Ursu's Clay and Star and Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper, and coeditor of Border Lines: Poems of Migration. She is associate professor of English at Monmouth University (NJ).

Emily Hizny is a senior creative writing and publishing & editing double major at Susquehanna University. She is the managing editor of SU's literary magazine The Sanctuary, the president of SU Slam Poetry Club, and the director of SU's FUSE chapter (Forum for Undergraduate Student Editors).

Twitter Username: OctoEmily

Ellie Pasquale is an undergraduate at Susquehanna University, where she serves as the managing editor of RiverCraft literary magazine and the conference coordinator for FUSE. She formerly managed the TikTok account of a best-selling author and currently works as a library research assistant.

Twitter Username: words_of_whimsy

Amber Watkin is an undergraduate student at Susquehanna University studying creative writing, publishing & editing, and art. She is the editor-in-chief of Susquehanna’s The Squirrel. She is also the PR chair for SU’s chapter of FUSE and is responsible for running the organization’s social media.

Twitter Username: julysmourning

Sarah Ledet is an undergraduate student at Susquehanna University studying creative writing and publishing and editing. They are the junior managing editor of The Sanctuary Magazine and the junior director of FUSE (Forum for Undergraduate Student Editors).

Twitter Username: sledet02

Kate Gaskin is the author of the poetry collection Forever War (YesYes Books). Recently her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and New Letters, among others. She edits poetry for The Adroit Journal and is a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Twitter Username: katebgaskin

Joanna Solfrian’s first book, Visible Heavens, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye for the 2009 Wick Poetry Prize. She is also the author of The Mud Room, The Second Perfect Number, and the upcoming Temporary Beast. An educator in NYC, Solfrian is also a MacDowell fellow and six-time Pushcart nominee.

Leila Chatti is the author of Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) and multiple chapbooks. She teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University and is a provost fellow at the University of Cincinnati.

Twitter Username: laypay

Niina Pollari is a poet and the author of the books Path of Totality (listed by the New York Times as one of the best poetry collections of 2022) and Dead Horse. She is also the translator, from the Finnish, of Tytti Heikkinen's collection The Warmth of the Taxidermied Animal.

Twitter Username: heartbarf

Kwoya Fagin Maples is the author of Mend (University Press of Kentucky, 2018). A collection of historical persona poetry, Mend tells the story of the birth of obstetrics and gynecology in America and the role enslaved black women played in that process.

Twitter Username: kwoya_f_maples

Piper Abernathy is the English Department Chair at Pembroke Hill, a KCMO independent school. Abernathy has an MEd in literacy studies and an MFA in poetry from UMKC. Her poems have been published in Mid-American Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She has presented for the International Reading Association.

Ben Christian is in his twenty-fourth year of teaching secondary English at Pembroke Hill. In that time, he has witnessed many educational trends, fads, and buzzwords. The constant, however, is students' need to find theirselves in writing. Christian's project is to create a consistent place for that to happen.

Nathan Gehoski holds a PhD in English from the University of Georgia, an MA in creative writing from Eastern Michigan University, and a BS in microbiology from the University of Michigan. An eclectic writer and educator, he pursues an experimental approach to trauma and its affect.

Luisa Muradyan is originally from Odesa, Ukraine and holds a PhD in poetry from the University of Houston. She won the 2017 Prairie Schooner Book Prize and is the author of American Radiance. She is a member of the Cheburashka Collective and additional work can be found at Best American Poetry.

Jim Young has an MA in Greek and Classicals from the University of Kansas and currently teaches ninth and twelfth grade English at Pembroke Hill, an independent school in Kansas City, Missouri. His teaching interests include comics, graphic literature, and literature by and about neurodivergent authors.

Hayan Charara is the author of four poetry books, including These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit. He edited Inclined to Speak, an anthology of contemporary Arab American poetry, and edited the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize with Fady Joudah. He teaches at the University of Houston.

Matthew Olzmann is the author of three collections of poems including Constellation Route, Mezzanines, and Contradictions in the Design. He teaches at Dartmouth College and in the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College.

Taylor Johnson is from Washington, DC. He is the author of Inheritance (Alice James Books, 2020), winner of the 2021 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Taylor was the inaugural 2022 poet-in-residence at the Guggenheim Museum. He is the poet laureate of Takoma Park, Maryland.

Ross Gay is the author of the poetry collections Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude; and the essay collection The Book of Delights. He teaches at Indiana University.

Issam Zineh is a Palestinian-American poet and clinician-scientist. He is author of Unceded Land (Trio House Press, 2022), Editors’ Selection and finalist for the Trio Award, and Medal Provocateur. His writing appears in AGNI, Guernica, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. He lives on Paskestikweya land.

Twitter Username: izineh

Aruni Kashyap writes in Assamese and English. He is the author of two books of fiction, including His Father’s Disease (Gaudy Boy Books NY), and a poetry collection. Winner of fellowships from NEA and the Charles Wallace Trust, he is the director of the CWP at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Twitter Username: arunikashyap

Website: http://www.arunikashyap.com/

Suchitra Vijayan is a New York-based author of the critically acclaimed Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India (2021) and How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners (2023). She is a lawyer, researcher, and teaches at NYU Gallatin and Columbia University.

Twitter Username: suchitrav

Shastri Akella's debut novel is The Sea Elephants (Flatiron (US-Canada), Penguin (India)). His writing has appeared in Guernica, Fairy Tale Review, Masters Review, The Rumpus, World Literature Today, CRAFT, etc. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Michigan State University.

Torsa Ghosal is the author of an experimental novella, Open Couplets, and a book of literary criticism, Out of Mind. Her work has appeared in Berkeley Fiction Review, Catapult, Lit Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is a professor of English at California State University and is at work on a novel.

Twitter Username: TorsaG

Theodore Wheeler is the author of four books, most recently The War Begins in Paris (Little, Brown & Co., 2023). He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Nebraska Arts Council, and Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany, and teaches creative writing at Creighton University.

Twitter Username: theodorewheeler

Website: theodore-wheeler.com

Chris Harding Thornton is a seventh-generation Nebraskan and holds an MFA from the University of Washington and a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her first novel, Pickard County Atlas, was a PBS Masterpiece Best Mystery. It was also featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and the New Yorker. Her second novel, Little Underworld, is forthcoming.

Twitter Username: chrishardingth1

Website: www.chrishardingthornton.com

James Han Mattson is the author of two novels, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves and Reprieve. His third novel, The Grand Impostors, is forthcoming. He currently lives in Austin, Texas.

Twitter Username: jhmattson

Moisés R. Delgado is a Latinx writer from the Midwest. He holds an MFA from the University of Arizona. His prose appears in Gulf Coast, SmokeLong Quarterly, Passages North, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere. Moisés is currently working on a memoir/game about home, anxiety, self-acceptance, and chance.

Twitter Username: MoisesTheHuman

Julie Iromuanya is the author of Mr. and Mrs. Doctor, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Debut Fiction. She teaches at the University of Chicago.

Twitter Username: Julie_Iro

Website: http://julieiromuanya.com

Sebastian Merrill is the author of GHOST :: SEEDS, the winner of the 2022 Levis Prize for Poetry from Friends of Writers, a member of the inaugural Get the Word Out poetry cohort from Poets & Writers, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Staff Scholar, and a Warren Wilson MFA Alumni Residency Fellow.

Jennifer Conlon is from North Carolina and teaches at Arizona State University. Their poems have been published by Bayou Magazine, Juked, Bennington Review, DIALOGIST, Threadcount, and elsewhere. They won the 2022 Autumn House Poetry Prize, selected by Carl Phillips. Taking to Water is their first book.

Tennison S. Black is the author of Survival Strategies (UGA Press, 2023), selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series. They are the managing editor at Sundress Publications and also at Best of the Net.

Twitter Username: Tennison_Black

Website: tennisonblack.com

jason b. crawford (They/Them) was born in Washington DC and raised in Lansing, Michigan. Their full-length debut Year of the Unicorn Kidz is out from Sundress Publications. They are currently an MFA Candidate at New School in Poetry.

Twitter Username: jasonbcrawford

Mark Galarrita is a graduate of the 2017 Clarion West Writers Workshop and the University of Alabama MFA program. His writing can be found in McSweeney’s, Electric Literature, Nightmare magazine, Split Lip, and elsewhere. Currently, he works at Scribner.

Twitter Username: Markgalarrita

Gene Kwak is the author of Go Home, Ricky!, which received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly and was a Rumpus book club selection. He is also the winner of the 2022 Poets & Writers Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award. He is an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University.

Twitter Username: genekwak3

Jean Kyoung Frazier is a writer living in Los Angeles. Pizza Girl is her debut novel. She also writes for television shows such as A24's Beef.

Jenn Alandy Trahan is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, where she teaches fiction, creative nonfiction, creative expression, and contemporary American short stories. Her work (featuring APIA slackers and screw-ups) has been published in Harper's, One Story, and Best American Short Stories.

Khem K. Aryal is the author of a short story collection The In-Betweeners (Braddock Ave Books, 2023) and editor of an anthology South to South (Texas Review Press, 2023). He teaches creative writing at Arkansas State University, where he also serves as creative materials editor of Arkansas Review.

Twitter Username: khemaryal

Website: www.khemaryal.com

Casie Dodd lives in Arkansas with her husband and two children. Her work has appeared in Oxford American, Image, Front Porch Republic, Arkansas Review, and other journals. Based in Fort Smith, she is the founder and publisher of Belle Point Press.

Twitter Username: CasieDodd

Hannah Grieco is the editor of two anthologies, Already Gone (Alan Squire Publishing, 2023) and And If That Mockingbird Don't Sing (Alternating Current, 2022). Her writing can be found in the Fairy Tale Review, The Rumpus, Brevity, Poet Lore, and more. She teaches at American University.

Twitter Username: writesloud

Emily Jalloul is a Lebanese-American poet from South Florida. She earned a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Tennessee. Her previous work has been published or is forthcoming in Oxford American, What Things Cost: an anthology for the people, and Arkansas International.

Twitter Username: ejjalloul

Remi Recchia, PhD, is a trans writer and editor from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Works include Quicksand/Stargazing; Sober; From Gold, Ghosts: Alchemy Erasures; and Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature & the Silences Around Us. He holds an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University.

Twitter Username: steambbcrywolf

Chelsea Biondolillo is the author of The Skinned Bird: Essays and two prose chapbooks, #Lovesong and Ologies. Her work has appeared in Best American Science & Nature Essays, Orion, Brevity, Diagram, River Teeth, Passages North, and others. She is a former Colgate O'Connor and Oregon Literary Fellow.

Twitter Username: c_biondolillo

Website: http://roamingcowgirl.com

Silas Hansen teaches creative writing at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, and is the nonfiction editor for Waxwing. His essays have appeared in Slate, Colorado Review, The Normal School, Hayden's Ferry Review, Redivider, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: silas_hansen

Website: www.silashansen.net

Lisa Nikolidakis's fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Best American Essays 2016, Los Angeles Review, Brevity, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Passages North, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor at the University of Evansville.

Twitter Username: lisanikol

Helena Rho, a former assistant professor of pediatrics, earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Pittsburgh. Her memoir, American Seoul, was an Amazon Book Editors' Best Books of May 2022 and included in BuzzFeed's "16 Memoirs by AAPI Authors to Add to Your Reading List."

Twitter Username: helena_rho

Rajpreet Heir is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at Ithaca College. She has published nonfiction in both commercial and literary venues including The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Teen Vogue, Brevity, and others. She writes about being Indian in Indiana.

Twitter Username: rajtweet_edu

Conor Bracken's poetry books include Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour and The Enemy of My Enemy Is Me. He is also the translator of Scorpionic Sun by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, and No Way in the Skin Without This Bloody Embrace, by Jean D'Amérique, a finalist for the 2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.

Nancy Naomi Carlson has authored thirteen titles (nine translations) and won the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. A BTBA and CLMP finalist, she received two NEA translation grants and was decorated with the French Academic Palms. An Infusion of Violets was named "New & Noteworthy" by the New York Times.

Hélène Cardona has authored three bilingual collections and five translations. A Goethe-Institut and Andalucía International University Fellow, she is the recipient of an Albertine and FACE Foundation Grant for The Abduction by Maram Al-Masri and a Hemingway Grant for Beyond Elsewhere by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac. 

Twitter Username: helenecardona

Website: http://helenecardona.com

Todd Fredson is the author of the poetry collections Century Worm and The Crucifix-Blocks, and the translator of Tanella Boni's The future has an appointment with the dawn, as well as Josué Guébo’s My country, tonight and Think of Lampedusa. He is a 2018 NEA Translation Fellow.

Kareem James Abu-Zeid, PhD, is an award-winning translator of poets and novelists from across the Arab world and the recipient of the 2022 Sarah Maguire Prize for poetry in translation. He is the author of the book The Poetics of Adonis and Yves Bonnefoy: Poetry as Spiritual Practice.

Michele Battiste is author of three poetry collections, most recently Waiting for the Wreck to Burn, which won the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press. She has taught workshops for Gotham Writers Workshops, Teen Ink, and Wichita State University. She currently raises funds to protect nature.

Twitter Username: michelebattiste

Website: http://www.michelebattiste.com

Kristen E. Nelson is the author of In the Away Time (2024) and the length of this gap; and two chapbooks: sometimes I gets lost and is grateful for noises in the dark and Write, Dad. She is the cofounder of Four Queens with Selah Saterstrom and a literature PhD student at UCSC.

Hoa Nguyen is an educator and author of several books, including Red Juice: Poems 1998–2008, the Griffin Prize-nominated Violet Energy Ingots, and A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, winner of the Canada Book Award and finalist for a 2021 National Book Award and the General Governor’s Award.

Twitter Username: peacehearty

Website: http://www.hoa-nguyen.com/

Megan Kaminski is a poet and essayist—and the author of three books of poetry, most recently Gentlewomen, and Prairie Divination, a collection of essays and oracle deck (with artist L. Ann Wheeler). She is professor of creative writing and environmental studies at the University of Kansas.

Twitter Username: megan_kaminski

Website: http://www.megankaminski.com/

Teresa Carmody's books include The Reconception of Marie, Maison Femme: a fiction, and A Healthy Interest in the Lives of Others, forthcoming in 2024. Her essays have appeared in Michigan Quarterly, Waterstone Review, LitHub, and more. She teaches at University of Nebraska Omaha.

Margo Steines holds an MFA in CNF from the University of Arizona. Her work was named Notable in Best American Essays and has appeared in The Sun, Brevity, Off Assignment, "Modern Love," the anthology Letter to a Stranger, and elsewhere. She is the author of the memoir-in-essays Brutalities.

Twitter Username: margosteines

Maddie Norris is the author of The Wet Wound: An Elegy in Essays. She earned her MFA at the University of Arizona and before that was the Thomas Wolfe scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her work can be found in Guernica, Fourth Genre, and Territory, among others.

Twitter Username: madnor94

Natalie Lima is a Cuban-Puerto Rican writer, with work published in Longreads, Guernica, Brevity, the Offing, Catapult, Sex & the Single Woman (Harper Perennial, 2022), Body Language (Catapult, 2022), and elsewhere. She recently joined the faculty at Butler MFA as assistant professor of English.

Twitter Username: natalielima09

Krys Malcolm Belc is the author of the memoir The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood (Counterpoint) and the flash nonfiction chapbook In Transit (The Cupboard Pamphlet). He is the Edelstein-Keller Writer in Residence Fellow at the University of Minnesota.

Twitter Username: krysmalcolmbelc

Kevin Prufer's ninth book of poetry is The Fears (Copper Canyon, 2023). His first novel, Sleepaway, will be published by Acre Books in 2024. He is professor of English in the creative writing program at the University of Houston and also teaches in the Lesley University low-residency MFA program.

Twitter Username: Prufer_Kevin

Website: www.kevinprufer.com

Niki Herd is the author of the chapbook don't you weep, and two poetry collections: The Language of Shedding Skin and The Stuff of Hollywood, which is forthcoming. Herd coedited Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master. She lives in St. Louis and teaches at Washington University.

Michael C. Peterson serves as curator of the Elliston Poetry Room and archive at the University of Cincinnati. He's a poet, the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center, and is an editor of Tom Postell: On the Life and Work of an Unsung Master (Pleiades, 2024).

Twitter Username: ellistonpoetryroom

Kazim Ali's most recent books are Sukun: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan) and the novel Indian Winter (Coach House). He is a professor of literary arts and chair of the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the founding editor of Nightboat Books.

Twitter Username: kazimalipoet

Website: www.kazimali.com

Dana Levin's fifth book is Now Do You Know Where You Are, a 2022 NYT Notable Book. She is coeditor of a book on poet Bert Meyers for the Unsung Masters Series (Pleiades 2023). A Whiting and Guggenheim Fellow, Levin serves as Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Maryville University in Saint Louis.

Teresa's award-winning wok is published widely in US and international literary journals and anthologies. Her collection Hold Off The Night, a finalist for two book prizes, was published June 2023. Recent awards include the 2023 Gemini Story Award and the NMW story award in 2022. She is the founder of Lakeshore Writers Workshop.

Twitter Username: TBurnsGunther

Website: https://www.teresaburnsgunther.com

Charmaine Wilkerson is the author of Black Cake, a multigenerational novel with elements of historical fiction. A former journalist, she is a graduate of Barnard College and Stanford University, and has written at Bread Loaf in Sicily, the Vermont Studio Center, and Hedgebrook.

Jody Hobbs Hesler’s debut story collection What Makes You Think You're Supposed to Feel Better is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press, October 2023. A novel is forthcoming from Flexible Press November 2024. Her work also appears in Arts & Letters, CRAFT, Atticus Review, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: jhhesler

Viet Dinh teaches at the University of Delaware. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as two O. Henry Prizes and the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction. His debut novel After Disasters, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize, was released in 2016.

Twitter Username: vietpdinh

Susan Baller-Shepard is a poet, author, and ordained Presbyterian minister. Her essays, poetry, photography, and sermons have appeared in newspapers and various literary publications. She is the author of the poetry collection Doe, as well as a recently completed historical fiction novel and new poetry collection.

Twitter Username: yoursbc

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, PhD, writes poetry and nonfiction. She is the author of The Many Names for Mother (Wick Poetry Prize, KSU Press, 2019), Don't Touch the Bones (Lost Horse Press, 2020), and 40 WEEKS (YesYes Books, 2023). She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Denison University.

Twitter Username: jkdpoetry

Oliver de la Paz is the author of six books of poetry and the poet laureate of Worcester, Massachusetts. His most recent book The Diaspora Sonnets was published in 2023 with Liveright Press. He is a founding member of Kundiman and teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in theLow Res MFA Program at PLU.

Twitter Username: @Oliver_delaPaz

Website: http://www.oliverdelapaz.com

Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American author of two books of poetry. Poems from her new collection, Bianca, were awarded Poetry's Bess Hokin Prize and have appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. A Kundiman fellow, Eugenia serves as a poetry editor at Adroit Journal.

Twitter Username: EugeniaLeigh

Website: http://www.eugenialeigh.com

Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection Ugly Music was the winner of the Pamet River Prize and a 2020 Whiting Award. Her second collection Good Monster is forthcoming from Copper Canyon. She received her MFA from NYU.

Twitter Username: nellfell13

Allison Blevins, a queer disabled writer, is the author of Cataloguing Pain, Handbook for the Newly Disabled, Slowly/Suddenly, and five chapbooks. Her next collection is forthcoming from Persea Books. She is the director of Small Harbor Publishing and the executive editor at the museum of americana.

Sarah Bowlin joined Aevitas Creative Management as an agent in early 2017 after about a decade as an editor of bold new voices in literary fiction and nonfiction at Riverhead Books and most recently at Henry Holt & Co.

Twitter Username: svbowlin

Annie Hwang is a literary agent at Ayesha Pande Literary where she represents literary fiction with teeth and select nonfiction. Her authors include John Paul Brammer, Franny Choi, Lilly Dancyger, Carson Faust, Faylita Hicks, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Cleo Qian, and Alison C. Rollins.

Twitter Username: AnnieAHwang

Lucy Carson has been with The Friedrich Agency since 2008, where she works with Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling authors including Elizabeth Strout, Ruth Ozeki, Leila Mottley, and Karen Joy Fowler. Lucy also manages the book-to-film rights for the entire Friedrich Agency roster.

Twitter Username: LucyACarson

Mariah Stovall is an agent at Trellis Literary Management, where she represents adult fiction and nonfiction. She previously worked at Howland Literary, Writers House, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and Gallery Books. She's also the author of the novel I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both.

Twitter Username: retiredpunk

Mina Hamedi represents adult literary fiction and nonfiction. She is interested in stories from around the world, particularly her native Turkey and Iran. She is an associate agent at Janklow & Nesbit where she works with cofounder Lynn Nesbit. She lives in New York City with her Turkish street cats, Saffron and Lemon.

Twitter Username: mina_hamedi

Susan Choi is the author of five novels, including Trust Exercise, which received the 2019 National Book Award for fiction. She has also been recipient of the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award, a Lambda Literary award, the 2021 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She serves as a trustee of PEN America and teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Sarah Thankam Mathews is the author of All This Could Be Different, which was shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Award in Fiction. It was also a New York Times Editor's Choice and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, Los Angeles Times, TIME, Slate, and Buzzfeed. Mathews grew up between Oman and India, immigrating to the United States at seventeen.

Twitter Username: smathewss

Ruth Dickey has spent over twenty-five years working at the intersection of community building, writing, and art, now as executive director of the National Book Foundation. Ruth previously had the pleasure of leading organizations in Washington, D.C.; New Orleans, Los Angeles; Cincinnati, Ohio; and, most recently, in Seattle, Washington as executive director of Seattle Arts & Lectures. An ardent fan of dogs and coffee, she served as a fiction judge for the 2019 National Book Awards and holds an MFA in poetry from UNC-Greensboro, a BS in Foreign Service, and an MA in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University.

Ed Southern is the executive director of the North Carolina Writers' Network and the author of Fight Songs: A Story of Love and Sports in a Complicated South. His stories and essays have appeared in The Bitter Southerner, the North Carolina Literary Review, Asheville Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: EdSouthern

Meg Reid is the publisher of Hub City Press and executive director of the Hub City Writers Project, a literary nonprofit that cultivates readers and nurtures writers throughout the South to foster an inclusive literary arts culture.

Twitter Username: megireid

Ashley M. Jones is the poet laureate of Alabama and the author of three award-winning poetry collections, most recently Reparations Now! (Hub City Press, 2021).

Twitter Username: ashberry813

Website: ashleymichellejones.wordpress.com

Ricardo Ruiz is a multidimensional writer of poetry and prose. His work draws from his experience as a first-generation Mexican-American and his military service. He is passionate about elevating marginalized voices from rural communities and takes pride in being a conduit for cultural connection.

Twitter Username: PoetRuiz

José Olivarez is from Calumet City, Illinois. He has published two books of poems: Promises of Gold and Citizen Illegal.

Paul Hlava Ceballos is the author of banana [ ], a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. His collaborative chaplet banana/we pilot the blood is with Quenton Baker and Christina Sharpe. He lives in Seattle and practices echocardiography.

Twitter Username: paulhlava

Website: www.paulhlava.com

Salaam Green is an award-winning Certified Listener Poet and Alabama’s Poet Laureate of Innovation & Creativity. Salaam’s poetry collection, to be published in 2024 (Pulley Press), will be on the descendants of the Wallace House in rural south. She is the 2018 Allied Media Black Women's Writing Recipient.

Twitter Username: Salaam1

David Mura. Memoirs: Turning Japanese; Where the Body Meets Memory, novel, four poetry books including The Last Incantations. Essay collections: A Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity & Narrative Craft in Writing; The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths & Our American Narratives. Teaches at VONA.

Twitter Username: MuraDavid

Website: davidmura.com

Jubi Arriola-Headley (he/him) is a Blacqueer poet and the author of original kink (Sibling Rivalry Press), winner of the 2021 Housatonic Book Award; his second collection, Bound, will be published by Persea Books in 2024. Find Jubi at www.justjubi.com.

Lisa Fay Coutley is the author of HOST, tether, Errata, In the Carnival of Breathing, and Small Girl. She is editor of the anthology In the Tempered Dark. She's received an NEA fellowship and is an associate professor of poetry and CNF in the Writer's Workshop at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Twitter Username: LFCoutley

Prageeta Sharma's recent book is Grief Sequence (Wave Books). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence; a finalist of the 2020 Four Quartets Prize; and a recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award. Sharma is the Henry G. Lee '37 professor of English at Pomona College.

Twitter Username: prapra

torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk and essayist. She is the author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, winner of the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, as well as the forthcoming DEED. She teaches at Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA at Pacific Lutheran University

Twitter Username: tagreathouse

Muriel Leung is the author of How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnamable Disaster, forthcoming from W.W. Norton & Company, and three poetry books. She received her PhD in creative writing and literature from University of Southern California and is faculty at California Institute of the Arts.

Twitter Username: murmurshewrote

Website: http://www.murielleung.weebly.com

Chloe Honum is the author of the poetry collections The Lantern Room, Then Winter, and The Tulip-Flame, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award. Raised in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, she is an associate professor of creative writing at Baylor University.

Lori Desrosiers's poetry books include typing with e.e. cummings and Keeping Planes in the Air. They teach poetry in the Lesley University MFA program. They are the editor of two journals, Naugatuck River Review and Wordpeace.

Twitter Username: lorides

Website: http://loridesrosierspoetry.com

Subhaga Crystal Bacon is a Queer poet living in rural north central Washington on unceded Methow land. She is the author of four collections of poetry, Transitory from BOA Editions, 2023; Surrender of Water in Hidden Places, 2022; Blue Hunger, 2020; Elegy with a Glass of Whiskey, BOA Editions, 2004.

Sarah Browning teaches workshops with Writers in Progress. She is cofounder and for ten years was executive director of Split This Rock. Author of Killing Summer and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden, she received an MFA in poetry and creative nonfiction from Rutgers University Camden.

David W. Janey is a Boston-based, African-American poet and essayist. He writes about racial justice, social change, personal memory/growth, and lessons learned from nature. David is a university administrator by day and his writing has appeared in Solstice Magazine, Wordpeace, and WBUR's Cognoscenti.

Robin Michel has worked in nonprofits and education for most of her career, including as a grant writer, teacher, pre-K–12 administrator, and a community organizer at the grassroots level. Her poetry and prose have appeared in many print and online journals. She lives in Northern California.

Twitter Username: RLMichelwriter

Sarah Minor is the author of Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi 2021), Bright Archive (Rescue 2020), and The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated, a digital chapbook from Essay Press. She teaches in the University of Iowa's nonfiction writing program.

Twitter Username: sarahceniaminor

Diana Khoi Nguyen is a poet, multimedia artist, and author of Ghost Of (Omnidawn 2018), as well as a recipient of a 2021 NEA fellowship. A Kundiman fellow, she is core faculty in the Randolph College low-residency MFA and an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Sarah Rose Nordgren is an American writer, teacher, and activist. She is author of two poetry collections, a hybrid-genre chapbook, and the nonfiction book, The Bird Hat Wearer’s Journal. She holds a PhD in poetry from University of Cincinnati and serves as director of the School for Living Futures.

Douglas Kearney has published eight books of poetry, essays, and libretti. He teaches creative writing at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His honors include a Griffin Poetry Prize, a Campbell Opera Librettist prize, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award.

Tisa Bryant is the author of Unexplained Presence, cocreator of The Black Book visual mixtape series, cofounder of The Encyclopedia Project as well as new forthcoming works. Focused on radical Black women's writing, she teaches in the MFA Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Twitter Username: misstisab

Catherine Black is an associate professor and chair of the BFA creative writing program at OCAD University in Toronto. Catherine has published three books with Guernica Editions, and her work has been nominated for the ReLit Award and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.

Twitter Username: writercatblack

Professor Lillian Allen is an acclaimed foremother of Canadian Poetry and poet laureate of Toronto. She is a renowned international exponent of dub poetry with politically charged, community-engaged poetics. She initiated and led the development of the BFA in Creative Writing Program at OCAD University.

Twitter Username: lillianallendubpoet

Ian Keteku is an internationally-acclaimed writer/performer and the 2010 World Poetry Slam champion. He uses his voice to inspire messages of action and critical thought. Ian’s work is strongly influenced by journeys throughout Africa. He teaches creative writing at OCAD University.

Twitter Username: ianketeku

Jada White is an interdisciplinary student in her third year of the OCAD creative writing BFA. She uses creative writing, photography, illustration, mixed media, and printmaking to explore her interest in what draws strangers to one another, despite all the reasons we could stay apart.

Jen Soriano (she/they) is a Filipinx writer who has received Artist Trust, Jack Jones, Hugo House, and Vermont Studio Center fellowships. Her debut essay collection Nervous, named one of the best nonfiction debuts of 2023 by Poets & Writers, is now available from Amistad/HarperCollins.

Twitter Username: lionswrite

Website: jensoriano.net

Julie Marie Wade's most recent collections are Otherwise: Essays (Autumn House 2023), Fugue: An Aural History (Diagram/ New Michigan Press, 2023), and Skirted: Poems (The Word Works, 2021). She is a professor of English and creative writing at Florida International University in Miami.

Twitter Username: manyplums

Website: www.juliemariewade.com

Constance Collier-Mercado is an experimental writer and artist whose work explores dialectical, multilingual, and equivocal spaces. A MacDowell, Hambidge Center, and Jack Jones Fellow based in Atlanta, she is influenced by the Black Arts Movement, cycles of repetition and revision, and the Afrosurreal.

Twitter Username: WriterChicLady

Website: www.ConstanceSherese.com

Barrie Jean Borich is the author of the lyric memoir Apocalypse, Darling. Her hybrid essay Body Geographic won a Lambda Literary Award, and her memoir My Lesbian Husband won a Stonewall Book Award. A professor at DePaul in Chicago, Borich edits Slag Glass City, a journal of the urban essay arts.

Twitter Username: BOOKofBJB

Website: barriejeanborich.com

Marco Wilkinson is an assistant professor of literary arts and cultural studies in the literature department at UC San Diego. His focus is on creative nonfiction and eco-writing. He is the author of Madder: A Memoir in Weeds and his work has appeared in Ecotone, Kenyon Review, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere.

Brian Teare is the author of seven critically acclaimed books of poetry, most recently The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven and Poem Bitten by a Man. An associate professor at the University of Virginia, he lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

Jenny Johnson is the author of In Full Velvet. She received a 2016–17 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University and a 2015 Whiting Writer's Award in Poetry. She teaches at West Virginia University and in the Rainier Writing Workshop's MFA program.

torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk and essayist. She is the author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, winner of the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, as well as the forthcoming DEED. She teaches at Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA at Pacific Lutheran University

Twitter Username: tagreathouse

Oliver de la Paz is the author of six books of poetry and the poet laureate of Worcester, Massachusetts. His most recent book The Diaspora Sonnets was published in 2023 with Liveright Press. He is a founding member of Kundiman and teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in theLow Res MFA Program at PLU.

Twitter Username: @Oliver_delaPaz

Website: http://www.oliverdelapaz.com

Jason Koo is a Korean American poet and the author most recently of More Than Mere Light and coeditor of the Brooklyn Poets Anthology. He is the founder and executive director of Brooklyn Poets and an associate teaching professor of English at Quinnipiac University.

Twitter Username: jasonykoo

Website: http://jasonykoo.com

Nicole Callihan's books include This Strange Garment and SLIP (forthcoming). She is also the founder of the Braving the Body project which includes workshops, ekphrastic experiences, and an anthology. A teaching artist in hospitals and schools, she taught expository writing at NYU for two decades.

Twitter Username: thebluepitcher

Brenda Cárdenas, former Milwaukee poet laureate, has authored Trace: Poems, Boomerang: Poems, and From the Tongues of Brick and Stone. She coauthored two chapbooks and coedited Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance and Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest.

Twitter Username: CardenasBrendaE

Javan Howard is a poet and writer from Bronx, New York. He truly believes that the lived experience is the ultimate teaching tool and uses poetry as a social forum to foster discourse about love, culture, and identity. He is the TAP codirector for curriculum mentorship & facilitation.

Twitter Username: Righteoustpoet

Website: www.javanjhoward.com

Wendy J. Fox is the author of four books, including the novel If the Ice Had Held and the linked short story collection What If We Were Somewhere Else. She has written for Electric Literature, Buzzfeed, Self, Business Insider, Ms., and others. Her fiction has appeared in many literary magazines.

Twitter Username: wendyjeanfox

Website: www.wendyjfox.com

Gregory Spatz has published three novels and three fiction collections, most recently Inukshuk, Half as Happy, and What Could Be Saved. Recipient of a 2012 NEA Literature Fellowship and a Washington State Book Award, he teaches in and directs the MFA program at Eastern Washington University.

Twitter Username: gregoryspatz

Website: www.gregoryspatz.com

Leland Cheuk is the author of three books of fiction, most recently No Good Very Bad Asian. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, and elsewhere. He runs the indie press 7.13 Books.

Twitter Username: lcheuk

Aisha Sharif is the author of To Keep from Undressing, a collection of poems addressing her life as an African American Muslim woman. Aisha's poetry has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and published in Crab Orchard Review and Rattle. She holds an MFA in poetry and is a Cave Canem fellow.

Twitter Username: sharifpoet

Morgan Christie is the author of Boolean Logic, the Howling Bird Press Nonfiction Prize winner; These Bodies (Tolsun Books, 2020), a Hurston Wright Legacy Award nominee; and four poetry chapbooks. She was awarded the 2022 Arc Poem of the Year prize and Digging Press's Chapbook Series Prize.

Emma Hudelson is a nonfiction writer living in Indiana. Her book Sky Watch will be out in 2024 with the University Press of Kentucky. Her work appears in the Cincinnati Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She writes about humans, animals, and finding wellness.

Twitter Username: efhudelson

Website: www.emmahudelson.com

Yalie Saweda Kamara, PhD, is a Sierra Leonean-American writer from Oakland, California. She is the 2022–23 Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate (two-year term). She is the author of Besaydoo (Milkweed Editions, 2024). She is an assistant professor of English at Xavier University.

Twitter Username: Yaliesaweda

Melissa Fraterrigo is the author of the novel Glory Days (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), as well as the short story collection The Longest Pregnancy (Livingston Press, 2006). She is the founder of the Lafayette Writers' Studio in Lafayette, Indiana and teaches creative writing at Purdue University.

Twitter Username: lafayettewrite

Website: www.melissafraterrigo.com

Lisa Low is the author of Crown for the Girl Inside (YesYes Books, 2023), winner of the 2020 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest. Her poems appear in Copper Nickel, Massachusetts Review, Poetry, Southern Review, and elsewhere, and her nonfiction won the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize.

Tara Propper has earned her MFA and PhD in English. She is currently an assistant professor of English and serves as the director of graduate studies in the department of literature and languages at the University of Texas at Tyler.

Twitter Username: tara198400

Matthew Kelly is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Tyler, whose research focuses on digital literacies, the use of new media technologies in the writing classroom, and the role of pedagogy in video games and gaming communities.

Michelle Whittaker is a Caribbean-American poet and author of Surge, awarded a Next Generation Indie Book Award for Poetry. She received a Pushcart Special Mention and NYFA Fellowship in Poetry. She has also served as poetry editor for the Southampton Review and teaches at Stony Brook University.

Morgan Graham is an English PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota, where she studies autobiography. Her work has been supported by the Women’s History Institute at Historic Hudson Valley. She is managing editor at Pleiades and has published work in Chicago Review of Books and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: morgraha

Iris Jamahl Dunkle was the poet laureate of Sonoma County, California. Her books include West : Fire : Archive (The Center for Literary Publishing 2021) and her biography Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer (UOP, 2020). She teaches at Napa Valley College and the Napa Valley Writers' Conference.

Twitter Username: irjohnso

Website: www.irisjamahldunkle.com

Janice N. Harrington’s latest books of poetry are Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin, and for children, Hurry, Kate, or You'll Be Late!. She teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois.

Eloisa Amezcua is from Arizona. Her debut collection From the Inside Quietly is the inaugural winner of the Shelterbelt Poetry Prize, selected by Ada Limón. A MacDowell Fellow, her second collection of poems Fighting Is Like a Wife was published by Coffee House Press (April, 2022).

Twitter Username: Eloisa_Amezcua

Courtney Faye Taylor is the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022), selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Concentrate was named a finalist for the NAACP Image Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, and the Society of Midland Authors Award.

Twitter Username: thecourtcase

Website: courtneyfayetaylor.com

Eddie Vega is a poet, spoken word artist, and career educator. He writes about food, Tejano culture, social justice, and the intersections thereof. He is the author of a full-length book of poetry, Chicharra Chorus. He can be found on social media—@eltacolico (Twitter and Instagram).

Twitter Username: eltacolico

Website: tacopoet.com

Adam Henze is a poet and educator living in Indianapolis. He earned a PhD in literacy, culture, and language education and a Master of Arts in teaching. Adam is the director of literacy programming at Flanner House and runs a prison literacy program. He was the Official Poet of the Indianapolis 500.

Twitter Username: henzbo

Dasan is an artist, educator, and cultural organizer. He has performed across the country, hosted or coordinated many cultural arts events, and has helped to establish and grow cultural and performing arts organizations. He is a scholar committed to examining Black popular culture and creativity.

Twitter Username: dasanahanu

Website: http://dasanahanu.com/

Boris "Bluz" Rogers: Emmy Award-winning poet, Slam Master/Coach of the three-time National Poetry slam Champs, Slam Charlotte. Bluz is also the 2023 Southern Fried Poetry Festival Haiku Champ and has written award-winning poetry for the Carolina Panthers, NBA, NASCAR, NAACP, AMAZON, CBS, and more.

Twitter Username: mrbluz

Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson has been a poet, rapper, and singer for over twenty years. Andrea serves as a writer in community for Gemini Ink. Her book entitled She Lives In Music, was published on Valentine's Day 2020 by Flower Song Press. She is the first black Poet Laureate of San Antonio, Texas, 2020–23.

Amy M. Alvarez is the author of Makeshift Altar and coeditor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology. A neurodivergent Jamaican and Puerto Rican Affrilachian poet, she has published in Ploughshares, The Acentos Review, and Obsidian. Alvarez currently teaches at West Virginia University.

Twitter Username: Amy__Writes

Website: https://amymalvarez.com

Kelly Norman Ellis is an associate professor of English at Chicago State University and poetry editor at Third World Press. She is a poet who is Cave Canem fellow and a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets. She has written two poetry collections, Offerings of Desire and Tougaloo Blues.

Twitter Username: conjwoman

Ricardo Nazario y Colón is a member of a new generation of Kentucky writers destined to forge a New Kentucky Home. He is a cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets and author of the books Of Jíbaros and Hillbillies and The Recital. His work has been anthologize and appeared in various publications.

Crystal Wilkinson, Kentucky’s Poet Laureate, is the award-winning author of Perfect Black: Poems, The Birds of Opulence (2016 Ernest J. Gaines Prize,) Water Street, and Blackberries, Blackberries. She is the recipient of a 2021 O. Henry Prize and a 2020 USA Artists Fellowship.

Twitter Username: crystalwilki

Marta Miranda-Straub is an Afro-Caribean Queer woman, poet, and storyteller who was inducted into the Afrilician Poets in 2009 by Frank X Walker. Her bilingual memoir, Cradled by Skeletons, was published in winter 2019 and her children's book, Lullaby for Maddie, was published in November 2022.

Cynthia Hogue has published ten poetry collections, most recently Instead, It Is Dark and In June the Labyrinth. Her cotranslation of Nicole Brossard's Lointaines is published as Distantly (Omnidawn). Hogue was the inaugural Marshall Chair in Poetry at Arizona State University. She lives in Tucson.

Twitter Username: cynthis66_hogue

Website: www.cynthiahogue.com

Dorothy Chan is the author of five poetry books, including Return of the Chinese Femme. They are an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the cofounder and editor in chief of Honey Literary Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization.

Twitter Username: dorothykchan

Dexter L. Booth is the author of Abracadabra, Sunshine ,and Scratching the Ghost. His poems have been included in numerous anthologies including The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry. Booth holds a PhD in poetry from the University of Southern California.

Twitter Username: DexterL.Booth

Website: www.dexterlbooth.com

Elizabyth A. Hiscox is a founding editor with Tram Editions, a poetry and hybrid chapbook press. Hiscox is the author of the collection Reassurance in Negative Space, and holds an MFA from Arizona State and Doctorate from Western Michigan. Currently she instructs with the Writers' Studio at ASU.

Hugh Martin, a veteran of the Iraq War, is the author of In Country (BOA Editions, 2018) and The Stick Soldiers (BOA Editions, 2013). He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Yaddo residency, an NEA Fellowship, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. He currently teaches at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Twitter Username: HughJMartin

Website: www.hugh-martin.com

Martha Kelly is an associate professor of Russian at the University of Missouri. She is author of Unorthodox Beauty: Russian Modernism & Its New Religious Aesthetic and coeditor of the anthology Russian Silver Age Poetry. She researches and translates Russian-language poetry of Russia and beyond.

Rachel Galvin’s poetry collections include Uterotopia, Elevated Threat Level, and Pulleys & Locomotion. She translated Raymond Queneau’s Hitting the Streets (Scott Moncrieff Prize) and Alejandro Albarrán's Cowboy, and cotranslated Oliverio Girondo's Decals (National Translation Award Finalist).

Twitter Username: RachelJGalvin

Aaron Coleman is the author of the poetry collection Threat Come Close, and the chapbook St. Trigger. He is an NEA Creative Writing Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, Cave Canem Fellow, and ALTA Jansen Fellow. Aaron is a postdoctoral fellow in Critical Translation Studies at the University of Michigan.

Twitter Username: AaronC_Poetry

Website: https://complit.artsci.wustl.edu/people/aaron-coleman

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

Grace Loh Prasad writes about belonging and diaspora. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Longreads, Catapult, KHÔRA, and elsewhere. Her memoir The Translator’s Daughter will be published in 2024 by Machete, an imprint of Mad Creek Books/The Ohio State University Press.

Twitter Username: GraceLP

Monica Macansantos is the author of the forthcoming essay collection, Returning to My Father’s Kitchen (Northwestern University Press, 2024) and the story collection, Love and Other Rituals (2022). Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, The Hopkins Review, Lit Hub, and Electric Lit, among others.

Twitter Username: missmacansantos

Website: www.monicamacansntos.com

Lisa Chiu is a writer whose work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, People magazine, and anthologies including Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women and Who’s Your Mama?: The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers. She is currently working on a memoir, HUNGRY GHOST.

Twitter Username: lisachiu

Lindsay Wong is the author of the critically-acclaimed, award-winning, and bestselling memoir, The Woo-Woo, a YA novel, My Summer of Love and Misfortune, and a recent short story collection, Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality. She teaches creative writing at The University of Winnipeg.

Twitter Username: LindsayMWong

Madhushree Ghosh is author of Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory and Family (University of Iowa Press, 2022), a gold medalist IPPY. Her work was Pushcart-nominated and named a Best American Essay in Food Writing. Her essays and OpEds have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Longreads, and others.

Twitter Username: writemadhushree

Kalehua Kim is a Native Hawaiian poet living in the Seattle area. Currently pursuing an MFA through the Rainier Writing Workshop, she is a 2023 winner of the James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, and Ōiwi, A Native Hawaiian Journal.

Samantha Chagollan centers much of her work around her mixed Mexican and American heritage. Her bachelor’s degree in literature comes from Cal Poly Humboldt, and her creative nonfiction work has appeared in Alebrijes Review, Latin@ Literatures, Lavender Bones, and the anthology Non-White and Woman.

Twitter Username: samchagollan

Website: https://samanthachagollan.com/

Devi S. Laskar has worked as a newspaper reporter covering crime and politics in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, and Hawaii. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and an MA in South Asian studies from UIUC, is a published poet, and her debut novel was published in 2019.

Twitter Username: devislaskar

Website: devislaskar.com

Shaina A. Nez is Táchii’nii born for Áshįįhi. She serves Diné College as a senior lecturer in creative writing and English. She is a doctoral scholar in justice studies with the School of Social Transformation and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University.

Twitter Username: just(us)_writer

Darien Hsu Gee is the author of five novels published in eleven countries. Her collection of micro essays won a bronze IPPY award, and her craft book on writing memoir won the Hawai'i Book Publishers award. Darien is a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellow.

Twitter Username: UCLibraries

Michael C. Peterson serves as curator of the Elliston Poetry Room and archive at the University of Cincinnati. He's a poet, the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center, and is an editor of Tom Postell: On the Life and Work of an Unsung Master (Pleiades, 2024).

Twitter Username: ellistonpoetryroom

Dior J. Stephens is a proud, Midwestern Pisces. He is the author of three chapbooks, and their debut full-length collection, Cruel/Cruel, is out now with Nightboat Books. Dior is pursuing a doctorate degree in philosophy at UCincinnati and serves as managing poetry editor for Foglifter Press.

Twitter Username: dolphinneptune

Ben Kline lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and works for the University of Cincinnati Libraries. Author of Sagittarius A*, Dead Uncles, and the forthcoming It Was Never Supposed to Be, Ben is a storyteller and poet whose work has appeared in Copper Nickel, Florida Review, Poetry, and other publications.

Cesar L. De Leon is the author of Speaking With Grackles by Soapbery Trees, winner of the John A. Robertson book award and the Best Book of Poetry award from the Philosophical Society of Texas. Cesar is a poet-organizer for Poets Against Walls, a Macondista, and an educator in South Texas.

Twitter Username: CesarPoet

Website: https://cesarldeleon.com/

Sehba Sarwar is a novelist (Black Wings, Veliz Books 2019) whose writings tackle gender and displacement issues. Her short stories have been anthologized by Feminist Press, Akashic Books, and Harper Collins India, and her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Callaloo, LA Times, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: sehbasarwar

Emmy Pérez, USA Fellow 2022, is the author of With the River on Our Face, Solstice, and a forthcoming volume of new & selected poetry. A past recipient of a Poets Laureate Fellowship & an NEA Fellowship, she cofounded Poets Against Walls and is a professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Twitter Username: emmyemmaperez

Website: www.emmyperez.com

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

Celina A. Gómez is a performance poet and educator who coaches performance poetry to high school students. She has her MFA in creative writing and graduate certificate in Mexican American Studies. She is the reigning ultimate poetry boxing champion and published in various anthologies and journals.

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the 2009–13 Kansas Poet Laureate, and founder of Transformative Language Arts at Goddard College. Author of twenty-four books, including a memoir on cancer and community, and other prose, she leads community writing workshops for people living with serious illness and teaches widely.

Twitter Username: CarynMirriamGoldberg

Website: www.CarynMirriamGoldberg.com

Kansas Poet Laureate Emeritus and Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, Huascar Medina is a father and arts administrator. He’s an op-ed writer at Kansas Reflector, an editor for seveneightfive magazine, Southbroadway Press, and latinidad.us. Medina also sits on the National Council on the Arts.

Kevin Rabas leads the poetry and scriptwriting tracks at Emporia State. His short films have shown across Kansas, Missouri, and beyond, including Strawberry Hill Fight Club, a selection for the IFC KC film festival, KIFF, and No Coast Film Festival. Rabas served as Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2017–19.

Twitter Username: KevinRabas

Website: kevinjamesrabas.com

Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007–09, authored Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival (University of Nebraska Press) and Shadow Light (Red Mountain Press Award). House of Grace, House of Blood (University of Arizona Press) is forthcoming. She is past AWP board president and board member of Indigenous Nations Poets.

Twitter Username: kansaspoetry

Website: www.deniselow.net

Wyatt Townley is Poet Laureate of Kansas Emerita and the author of six books. Her work has been published in journals ranging from Newsweek to Paris Review, Yoga Journal to Scientific American. Commissioned poems hang in libraries including the Space Telescope Science Institute, home of the Hubble.

Chloe Chun Seim's work has appeared in LitMag, Split Lip Magazine, Free State Review, and others. She earned her MFA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her novel, Churn, won the George Garrett Fiction Prize and is due out from Texas Review Press in November 2023. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

Twitter Username: chloe_chun

Website: chloechunseim.com

Farooq Ahmed is the author of the novel Kansastan. He primarily writes about Muslims and the Midwest. His work has been recognized by the South Asian Journalists Association, and he is a recipient of a Caldera Arts Center residency. He graduated from the Columbia University Creative Writing Program.

Twitter Username: farooqtheahmed

Website: https://www.kansastan.com/

Becky Mandelbaum is the author of the novel The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals and the story collection Bad Kansas. She received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and a High Plains Book Award for First Book. Born and raised in Kansas, she now lives in Bellingham, Washington.

Twitter Username: b_mandelbaum

Website: www.beckymandelbaum.com

Daniel A. Hoyt's novel This Book Is Not For You won the inaugural Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction. His first story collection, Then We Saw the Flames, won the Juniper Prize for Fiction. Dan teaches at Kansas State University, where he is the founding editor of American Buffalo Books.

Twitter Username: dan_hoyt

Crystal Odelle is a queer trans writer, chapbooks editor at Newfound, and author of the novel Goodnight. Their stories have appeared in Split Lip Magazine, Gulf Coast, bedfellows, beestung, and elsewhere. Crystal was a Tin House scholar, Lambda Literary fellow, and nominated for Best of the Net.

Twitter Username: crystal_ography

Website: https://crystalkeltner.com

Nico Amador’s poetry has been featured in Poetry Unbound, Bettering American Poetry, Poem-a-Day, PANK, Pleiades, The Cortland Review, Hypertext Review, The Visible Poetry Project, and elsewhere. His chapbook Flower Wars was selected as the winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize.

Twitter Username: njamador1

K. Angel has been published by the Tin House Open Bar, PANK, and the New Flash Fiction Review. Their projects across genres are curious about consent, chosen community, and metamorphosis interruptus. They live in Austin and London, where they occasionally perform as the singing drag king TrucK.

Safa Khatib is a poet and translator living in St. Louis. Her work has appeared in The White Review, Words Without Borders, The Baffler, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her first book, Silhouette, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury.

Maurice Tracy is a transfemme writer and social worker in St. Louis, Missouri. They received their doctorate degree in American Studies in 2017 from Saint Louis University. Their work has been featured on Formal Invitation, The Tenth, and Huffington Post.

Twitter Username: Blaqueer

Jenna Miller (she/her) writes young adult contemporary romance books about fat, queer, nerdy girls who deserve to be seen and have their voices heard. Her first novel, Out of Character, released February 2023 from Quill Tree Books (HarperCollins), and her second YA novel will release February 2024.

Twitter Username: jmillwrites

Edward Underhill (he/him) is the author of Always the Almost and This Day Changes Everything, both from Wednesday Books. A queer trans man, he grew up in the suburbs of Wisconsin, where he could not walk to anything, so he had to make up his own adventures. He now lives in California.

Trang Thanh Tran is the author of the New York Times and national indie bestselling novel, She Is a Haunting.

Twitter Username: nvtran

Montana Agte-Studier, the director of membership and NYSCA NYTAP at CLMP, is a writer, musician, sculptor, painter, photographer, aviatrix, and amateur arborist living in Washington Heights, New York City. Her work is published in/forthcoming from Epiphany, The Ocotillo Review, New South, and The New Guard.

Carmen Giménez is the author of Be Recorder (Graywolf Press, 2019), a finalist for the National Book Award. A 2019 Guggenheim fellow, she was publisher of Noemi Press for twenty years. She now serves as the publisher and director of Graywolf Press.

Adam Levy is the copublisher of Transit Books.

Kaveh Akbar is the author of the novel Martyr! (Knopf) and two books of poetry, Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf) and Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James).

Twitter Username: kavehakbar

Website: kavehakbar.com

Paige Lewis is author of the poetry collection Space Struck (Sarabande Books, 2019) and co-editor of Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Recovery (Sarabande Books, 2023). Lewis co-created and curated the YouTube channel Ours Poetica with author John Green. Lewis’s poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. They teach at the University of Iowa and in the low-residency program at Randolph College.

Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology (Sarabande, 2023). Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review. She is an Assistant Professor of African American / African Diasporic Poetry in the MFA Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh and the Curator of Community Programs & Praxis at the Center for African American Poetry & Poetics.

Twitter Username: Dalai_Mama_

Richie Narvaez is the author of two novels and two short story collections. He teaches crime fiction writing at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan and received SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching in 2022.

Twitter Username: richie_narvaez

Website: www.richienarvaez.com

Edwin Hill teaches creative writing and literature at Emerson College. He also served as the vice president and editorial director of Bedford/St. Martin's. He is the critically-acclaimed author of five novels and numerus short stories.

Twitter Username: edwinhillauthor

Art Taylor is the Edgar Award-winning author of The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions. His fiction has also won the Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Awards. He is an associate professor and assistant director of the creative writing program at George Mason University.

Twitter Username: ArtTaylorWriter

Website: www.arttaylorwriter.com

David Heska Wanbli Weiden is author of the novel Winter Counts (Ecco; S&S UK), winner of twelve awards and named a New York Times Editors' Choice, Indie Next Pick, and Book of the Month Club main selection. He is a MacDowell, Ucross, Ragdale, Sewanee, and Tin House fellow. davidweiden.com

Twitter Username: WanbliWeiden

Website: www.DavidWeiden.com

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs is the author of Paper Pavilion, Interrogation Room, and the chapbooks Notes from a Missing Person and Necro Citizens (German, English). A cotranslator of Sami poetry, she is also senior poetry editor at AGNI and professor of English at St. Olaf College.

Twitter Username: jkwondobbs

Website: www.jkwondobbs.com

Lisa Lewis's books of poetry include The Unbeliever, Silent Treatment, Vivisect, Burned House with Swimming Pool, The Body Double, and Taxonomy of the Missing. She teaches in the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University and serves as editor of the Cimarron Review.

Twitter Username: aliswisel

Ralph Burns has published seven books, most recently But Not Yet, winner of the Blue Lynx Poetry Award; Ghost Notes, winner of the Field Poetry Prize; and Swamp Candles, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Burns edited Crazyhorse periodically from 1985 to 2000. He lives in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.

Twitter Username: Ralph Burns@yorick005

Laura Minor won the 2020 John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her critically acclaimed debut book of poems, Flowers as Mind Control, is on BkMk Press/University of Arkansas Press, 2021. She was also a finalist for the 2019 National Poetry Series and the winner of the 2019 ILA's Rita Dove Poetry Award.

Clemonce Heard's poetry collection Tragic City explores his relationship to Oklahoma and the Tulsa Race Massacre. Heard has been awarded time and space from the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Sala Diaz, MacDowell, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation.

Lydia Y. Kang is an author of the young adult science fiction novels Control and Cataylst, as well as poetry and creative nonfiction. She is a practicing internal medicine physician who helps other novelists with their medical accuracy.

Twitter Username: LydiaYKang

Website: http://lydiakang.com

Jean Alicia Elster is a 2017 Kresge Artist Fellow in Literary Arts and a former attorney. She is the multiple award-winning author of several books for youth and young adults including How It Happens, Who’s Jim Hines?, The Colored Car, and the Joe Joe in the City series.

Twitter Username: j_a_elster

A.H. Kim is a Korean-American immigrant, graduate of Harvard College and Berkeley Law School, and author of the novels A Good Family and Relative Strangers. Her nonfiction writings on cancer have appeared in Zocalo Public Square, Saturday Evening Post, and several anthologies.

Arleta Little is a writer and culture worker. Her recent literary work has appeared in multiple journals and publications including We Are Meant to Rise; Calyx; Blues Vision; and Water-Stone Review. She currently serves as the executive & artistic director for the Loft Literary Center.

Twitter Username: littlearleta

Tish Jones is a poet, emcee, and hip hop theater artist from Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her work explores themes of Black love, liberation, politics, and Afro-Futurism. Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and an Arts Matters Artist2Artist Fellow, Tish also serves as the founder and executive director of TruArtSpeaks.

Twitter Username: thetishjones

Kimberly A.C. Wilson, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the explanatory journalism and breaking news categories, is the executive director at Hedgebrook. An avid reader, she is currently writing a work of speculative fiction.

Twitter Username: kacw

Carla Du Pree's work appears in the literary journals Callaloo, The Pierian Literary Journal, and others. She is CityLit Project's executive director and a recipient of fiction fellowships from Hedgebrook, Baldwin for the Arts, VCCA, Rhode Island Writers Colony for Writers of Color, and Deutsch Foundation.

Twitter Username: darkndifferent

Website: citylitproject.org

Angie Trudell Vasquez is the current Poet Laureate of Madison, Wisconsin. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her third collection of poetry, In Light, Always Light, and her fourth collection of poetry, My People Redux, were both published by Finishing Line Press.

Aliki Barnstone is a poet, essayist, translator, critic, editor, and visual artist. Her most recent books are Dwelling and her translation of Liana Sakelliou's Portrait Before Dark. Among her awards are two Fulbright Fellowships in Greece and serving as poet laureate of Missouri from 2016–2019.

Twitter Username: AlikiBee

Website: www.alikibarnstone.com

Anum Sattar is a poet with a BA in English from College of Wooster in Ohio. Her work appears in American Journal of Poetry (Margie), Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Decadent Review, Uppagus, The Rush, Florida Review, Xavier Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Lullwater Review, and others.

Jenny Molberg is the author of the poetry collections Marvels of the Invisible, Refusal, and The Court of No Record. An NEA fellow, she is associate professor at the University of Central Missouri, where she edits Pleiades: Literature in Context and directs Pleiades Press.

Twitter Username: jennymolberg

Liana Sakelliou is a poet, translator, critic, editor, professor at the University of Athens, Greece, and author of twenty-six books. She wrote monographs on Emerson, Dickinson, H.D., Levertov, Snyder. Her poems have been widely anthologized and translated into eleven languages. She is a member of Hellenic Authors' Society.

Aliah Lavonne Tigh is the author of Weren’t We Natural Swimmers, a 2022 Tram Editions chapbook. Their poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day, Mizna, Guernica, The Rupture, and others. Tigh lives in Houston, Texas.

Twitter Username: Alovetigh

Website: AliahLavonneTigh.com

Randall James Tyrone holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming. He is a poet and community organizer in Houston, Texas.

Twitter Username: RJamesTyrone

Glenn Shaheen is the author of four books, most recently the fiction collection Carnivalia. He teaches at Prairie View A&M University and is the executive director of the Radius of Arab American Writers.

Twitter Username: glennshaheen

Dr. Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal is a poet, translator, and essayist whose book Watcha is forthcoming in 2024. She has published translations of poetry by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Minerva Reynosa, Maricela Guerrero, and Sergio Pérez Torres.

Twitter Username: profstalina

Website: https://www.stalinavillarreal.com/

Clara Burghelea is a Romanian-born poet, editor, and translator. Winner of the Robert Muroff Prize in Poetry, she received her MFA in poetry from Adelphi University in 2018. Her second collection Praise the Unburied was published in 2021 with Chaffinch Press.

Twitter Username: ioanaclara

Felicia Zamora is the author of six poetry collections including I Always Carry My Bones (Iowa Poetry Prize). Her poems appear in Boston Review, Guernica, Orion, The Nation, and others. She is an associate professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati and associate poetry editor for Colorado Review.

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 Militello is the author of the memoir in essays, Knock Wood, as well as five collections of poetry: The Pact; A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments; Body Thesaurus; Flinch of Song; and Anchor Chain, Open Sail. She teaches in the MFA program at New England College.

Twitter Username: JenifrMilitello

Website: www.jennifermilitello.com

Sam Moe (she/her) is a queer writer of multiple genres with three poetry books published or forthcoming. She received her PhD in creative writing from Illinois State University and her MFA in creative writing from Converse College. Sam currently teaches at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Twitter Username: SamAnneMoe

Nora Carr is a lecturer in European languages and literatures at Queens College, CUNY. A translator from Spanish, her work has appeared in Asymptote, Latin American Literature Today, and Nashville Review. Her own creative nonfiction debuted in Lunch Ticket, summer 2023.

Rebecca Suzuki is a writer, translator, and educator. She is interested in multilingual writing and pedagogy and teaches writing at Queens College, CUNY where she also earned her MFA. Her book, When My Mother is Most Beautiful, was published by Hanging Loose Press in 2023.

Francesca Hyatt is a writer, translator, and professor of English at CUNY-Queens College. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction and her chapbook Forestwish won the Birdhouse Prize in 2022 (Ghostbird Press). She is an editor at Killing the Buddha magazine and founding coeditor of the literary journal Clotheslines.

L Torres is an NYC writer, artivist, and educator. L's writing and pedagogy zeroes in on gender/racial/(dis)ability/class/age/body size equitability and justice, while dismantling social conventions. A proud alum of the City University of NY (CUNY), she is honored to call herself a CUNY educator.

Jacqui Cornetta is an interdisciplinary artist working with text and sound. Their poetry, translations, essays, and music projects have appeared in publications like The Offing, Words Without Borders, Lost & Found, LARB, and on stages nationwide. She teaches writing at Queens College CUNY.

Colette Freedman is is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter whose work has been published/ produced all over the world. Her film 7000 Miles starring Wendie Malick is currently on the festival circuit and she recently was the dramaturg at Carnegie Hall with Mozart Her Story, the new musical.

Twitter Username: colettefreedman

Guadalupe García McCall is the author of four award-winning YA novels. She is the recipient of the prestigious Pura Belpré Author Award, a Westchester Young Adult Fiction Award, and the Tomás Rivera Mexican-American Children’s Book Award. She is a full-time writer and lives in South Texas.

Twitter Username: ggmccall

Dan Wells is a bookseller and publisher, both at Biblioasis, an independent publishing house and bookshop in Windsor, Ontario. He is also the publisher and editor at CNQ: Canadian Notes & Queries, Canada's longest-running independent critical journal.

Josh Cook is a bookseller and coowner at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has worked since 2004. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed postmodern detective novel An Exaggerated Murder. His fiction, criticism, and poetry have appeared in numerous literary publications.

Twitter Username: inorderofimport

Casey Plett is the author of A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish, and A Safe Girl to Love. She coedited Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers and has written for the New York Times and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She is the publisher at LittlePuss Press.

Twitter Username: caseyplett

Danny Caine is the author of the poetry collections Continental Breakfast and El Dorado Freddy's, plus the chapbook Uncle Harold's Maxwell House Haggadah. His poetry has appeared in Diagram, Hobart, Barrelhouse, Mid-American Review, and other places. He owns the Raven Book Store.

Twitter Username: mistercaine

Meg Reid is the publisher of Hub City Press and executive director of the Hub City Writers Project, a literary nonprofit that cultivates readers and nurtures writers throughout the South to foster an inclusive literary arts culture.

Twitter Username: megireid

Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of The American Daughters (forthcoming), The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and We Cast a Shadow: A Novel, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the PEN America Open Book Prize.

Twitter Username: mauriceruffin

Mina Hamedi represents adult literary fiction and nonfiction. She is interested in stories from around the world, particularly her native Turkey and Iran. She is an associate agent at Janklow & Nesbit where she works with cofounder Lynn Nesbit. She lives in New York City with her Turkish street cats, Saffron and Lemon.

Twitter Username: mina_hamedi

Josh Riedel is the author of Please Report Your Bug Here. He worked at tech startups for several years before earning his MFA from the University of Arizona. His short stories have appeared in One Story, Joyland, and Passages North, among others. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Twitter Username: joshriedel

Mark Galarrita is a graduate of the 2017 Clarion West Writers Workshop and the University of Alabama MFA program. His writing can be found in McSweeney’s, Electric Literature, Nightmare magazine, Split Lip, and elsewhere. Currently, he works at Scribner.

Twitter Username: Markgalarrita

Marina Budhos is the author of several award-winning novels and nonfiction books. Her novels include We Are All We Have, Watched, The Professor of Light, and House of Waiting. She has been an LA Times Book Finalist and is a professor emerita at William Paterson University.

Tanuja Desai Hidier is an author/singer-songwriter whose pioneering debut Born Confused is widely considered the first South Asian American YA novel. Its sequel Bombay Blues received the South Asia Book Award. She makes albums/videos and serves on the board of Maine youth literary nonprofit The Telling Room.

Twitter Username: ThisIsTanuja

Christina Chiu is the winner of the 2040 Books' James Alan McPherson Award and the Kirkus Best Books of 2020. She is the author of Beauty and Troublemaker and Other Saints. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Publisher's Weekly, Electric Literature, and NextTribe. She is a founder of AAWW.

Twitter Username: chrischiu13

Website: www.christinachiu.org

Sarah A. Chavez is the author of the poetry collections Hands That Break & Scar, like everything else we loved, Halfbeed Helene Navigates the Whole, and All Day, Talking. She teaches creative writing and Latino studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma and serves as poetry coordinator for BoTN.

Twitter Username: sa_chavez7

Website: www.sarahachavez.com

Ching-In Chen is author of The Heart's Traffic, recombinant, to make black paper sing, and Kundiman for Kin. A Kundiman and Lambda Fellow, they teach at the University of Washington Bothell and are coeditor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence within Activist Communities.

Twitter Username: chinginchen

Website: www.chinginchen.com

Rochelle Hurt is the author of three books of poetry: The J Girls: A Reality Show; In Which I Play the Runaway; and The Rusted City: A Novel in Poems. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida.

Twitter Username: rochellehurt

Jacqui Morton's work has appeared in places such as the Guardian, The Rumpus, and Salon. She has published a chapbook of poems, Turning Cozy Dark, and is a graduate of the MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. She teaches in a community education program and is a consultant to nonprofits.

Twitter Username: morton919

Website: jacquimorton.com

Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Useful Junk (BOA Editions in 2022), and Holy Moly Carry Me, which won the 2018 National Jewish Book Award and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award. She is an English professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Twitter Username: rikam99

Website: erikameitner.com

Carla Sameth, MFA in creative writing (Lat Am) Queens University, Altadena Poet Laureate, a PEN Teaching Artist, teaches at the LA Writing Project and SNHU. She published the memoir One Day on the Gold Line and writes about pregnancy loss, nontrad parenting, identity, addiction, and LGBTQ+ issues.

Twitter Username: carlasameth

Maria Novotny is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She writes about reproductive advocacy, in particular infertility and recurrent reproductive loss. Her coedited collection Infertilities, A Curation portrays experiences of infertility in art and writing.

Robin Silbergleid is a poet and nonfiction writer. Her books include The Baby Book: Poems and the memoir Texas Girl. Her coedited anthology Infertilities, A Curation is forthcoming from Wayne State University Press in 2023. She is professor of English at Michigan State University.

Twitter Username: RSilbergleid

An emerging Black writer, and art collector, NaBeela Washington holds a Master's in creative writing and English from Southern New Hampshire University and Bachelor's in visual advertising from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the founder of Lucky Jefferson.

Twitter Username: _simplybee

Dorian H Nash—Writer, director, playwright, and internet TV Host. A lover of art, connection, and community involvement. Dorian leads the Public Practice department at the Smart Museum of Art. She believes in the transformational power of creativity and art on the lives of everyday people.

Twitter Username: dhnash321

Mel Sherrer (She/Her) is a poet and performer. She received her BFA from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, and her MFA from Converse University in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Mel teaches and conducts creative writing and performance literature workshops.

Twitter Username: Heda_Mel

Morgan Christie is the author of Boolean Logic, the Howling Bird Press Nonfiction Prize winner; These Bodies (Tolsun Books, 2020), a Hurston Wright Legacy Award nominee; and four poetry chapbooks. She was awarded the 2022 Arc Poem of the Year prize and Digging Press's Chapbook Series Prize.

Elizabeth Poliner is the author of As Close to Us as Breathing (novel, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize), Mutual Life & Casualty (linked stories), and What You Know In Your Hands (poems). She's published in Story, Kenyon Review, and The Sun, among others, and has taught at Hollins University.

Margot Singer is the author of a novel, Underground Fugue, and a short story collection, The Pale of Settlement, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award. She is also the coeditor of Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction. She is a professor at Denison University.

Twitter Username: MargotSinger

Website: www.margot-singer.com

Rachel Kadish is the author of the novels The Weight of Ink, From a Sealed Room, and Tolstoy Lied: a Love Story, and the novella I Was Here. Her work has appeared in the New York Times and on NPR, has won a National Jewish Book Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Twitter Username: RachelSKadish

Website: www.rachelkadish.com

Sarah Seltzer is the executive editor at Lilith Magazine, a forty-five-year-old journal of Jewish feminist journalism, fiction, poetry, and art. She is a journalist, critic, and novelist: her debut novel, The Singer Sisters (Flatiron), the story of two generations of female folk singers, is forthcoming.

Twitter Username: sarahmseltzer

Website: sarahmseltzer.com

Lauren Grodstein is the author of six books, including We Must Not Think of Ourselves, Our Short History, and A Friend of the Family. She directs the MFA Program at Rutgers University, Camden.

Twitter Username: laurengrodstein

Susan Page Deutsch is the events and community program manager, as well as a youth teacher at the Muse Writers Center. She is the winner of the 2022 Anne Meek Prize for Poetry and was formerly an intern and fiction submission reader at New England Review.

Twitter Username: suze_paged

Jessica Grace Kelley is a novelist and the youth program manager at The Muse Writers Center in Norfolk, Virginia. Her novels have won several awards including the YA Molly Award, the Emma Merritt Award, and the YA Authors.me Contest. Jessica is currently represented by Christa Heschke at McIntosh & Otis.

Twitter Username: JessicaGraceLit

Travon earned an MFA in poetry and an MA in literature from McNeese State University, while also holding a BA in English with a focus on secondary education and ethnic and gender studies. He currently serves as the manger of youth programs at GrubStreet.

J. Joseph Kane is the director of youth programs for The Porch, a Nashville-based creative writing nonprofit. Before moving to Tennessee, Joe taught poetry in Detroit Public Schools through the Inside Out Literary Arts Project. He has an MA in poetry from Central Michigan University.

Anna V. Q. Ross’s latest book, Flutter, Kick, won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and the Julia Ward Howe Award. She is a Fulbright Scholar, a Mass Cultural Council fellow, and poetry editor for Salamander. She teaches at Tufts University and through the Emerson Prison Initiative.

Twitter Username: annavqross

Website: annavqross.com

Molly Sutton Kiefer is the author of the lyric essay Nestuary, as well as three poetry chapbooks. She is founding editor of Tinderbox Poetry Journal and runs Tinderbox Editions, a nonprofit press. Molly lives and teaches in Minnesota.

Nadia Colburn is an independent scholar with the Ronin Institute and has published in the New Yorker, APR, Slate, Literary Imagination, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She leads creative writing workshops and is a founding editor at Anchor Magazine: where spirituality and social justice meet.

Twitter Username: NadiaColburn

Website: www.nadiacolburn.com

Hyejung Kook’s poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Other works include essays in Poetry as Spellcasting and The Critical Flame, and a chamber opera libretto. She is a Fulbright grantee and Kundiman fellow.

Twitter Username: hyejungkook

Website: hyejungkook.tumblr.com

Julie Choffel’s poems have appeared in Orion, Denver Quarterly, Posit, Interim, the tiny, and RHINO. She is the author of The Hello Delay, winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize. Choffel is Poet Laureate Emeritus of West Hartford, Connecticut, and professor of creative writing at the University of Connecticut Hartford.

Melissa Hart's writing has appeared in Smithsonian, Slate, CNN, Orion, The Advocate, the New York Times, and many other publications. She's the author of seven books including the forthcoming Down Syndrome Out Loud. She teaches for the MFA program in creative writing at Southern New Hampshire University and lives in Oregon. melissahart.com

Twitter Username: WildMelissaHart

Website: www.melissahart.com

Rudri Bhatt Patel is a writer, editor, educator, and attorney. She is the cofounder of the literary journal, The Sunlight Press, and is on staff at Literary Mama. Her bylines appear in the Washington Post, Business Insider, Saveur, Civil Eats and elsewhere. She is a two-time Small Fictions nominee.

Twitter Username: rudribpatel

Estelle Erasmus is an adjunct writing professor at New York University. She has bylines in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Salon, Vox, Brevity, and more. She is the author of Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published (June 2023). estelleserasmus.com

Twitter Username: EstelleSErasmus

Website: http://EstelleSErasmus.com

Andrea Ross's first book is Unnatural Selection: A Memoir of Adoption and Wilderness. Her work has also appeared in Ploughshares, Huffington Post, Terrain, The Conversation, Mountain Gazette, and many other outlets.

Twitter Username: Andrea_M_Ross

Twitter Username: DHess0822

Eric Freeze teaches at Wabash College. He has published fiction and essays in periodicals including The Southern Review, Harvard Review, and Boston Review. He is author of Dominant Traits, Hemingway on a Bike, Invisible Men, and French Dive. He lives in Indiana and Nice, France.

Julialicia Case is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, where she teaches creative writing and literature, with a particular emphasis on game studies and interactive storytelling. She writes fiction, creative nonfiction, and digital work.

Salvatore Pane is the author of three books and a forthcoming story collection, The Neorealist in Winter. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Short Fiction, Indiana Review, and Prairie Schooner. He is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of St. Thomas.

Twitter Username: salpane

Julian Whitney is Byron K. Trippet assistant professor of English at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana.

Twitter Username: JulianSWhitney

Jessica E. Johnson (she/they) writes poetry and nonfiction. She is the author of Metabolics, a book-length poem, and In Absolutes We Seek Each Other, an Oregon Book Award finalist. They teach poetry, creative nonfiction, composition, and environmental literature at Portland Community College.

Twitter Username: jjopdx

Janice Lobo Sapigao (she/her) is a poet from San José, CA. She is the author of two books of poetry, microchips for millions (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2016) and like a solid to a shadow (Nightboat Books, 2022). She was the 2020–21 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate.

Twitter Username: janicesap

Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, activist, and the author of Dream Country (Dutton, 2018), and See No Color (Carolrhoda Lab, 2015), young adult novels that won the 2016 and 2019 Minnesota Book Awards in Young Peoples' Literature, respectively. Gibney is faculty at Minneapolis College.

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Tomas Moniz’s debut novel, Big Familia, was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway, the LAMBDA, and the Foreward Indies Awards. He edited the popular Rad Dad zine for over a decade and the book Rad Families. He’s a 2020 Artist Affiliate for Headlands Center for Arts and 2022 UCross Resident.

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Megan Savage is a widely published multi-genre writer and instructor at Portland Community College, where she teaches editing and publishing and cocoordinates the Carolyn Moore Writing Residency. She holds an MFA in fiction from Indiana University where she was fiction editor of Indiana Review.

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Tiana Nobile is the author of Cleave (Hub City Press, 2021). She is a Korean American adoptee, Kundiman fellow, recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, and a finalist of the National Poetry Series and Kundiman Poetry Prize. She lives in New Orleans.

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Website: tiananobile.com

Sarah Audsley, author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press, 2023) is a Korean American adoptee, a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective. Audsley lives in northern Vermont and is the writing program manager at Vermont Studio Center.

Twitter Username: saudsleypoet

Website: sarahaudsley.com

Tamiko Beyer is the coeditor of Poetry as Spellcasting and author of Last Days and We Come Elemental. She is a Kundiman and VONA fellow and a Hedgebrook alum. A social justice communications writer and strategist, she spends her days writing truth to power.

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Dharani Persaud is a queer Indo-Guyanese-American writer, organizer, and archival enthusiast. She is currently a grad student at University of British Columbia pursuing a dual degree in archival studies and library & information sciences.

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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body, which received a Lambda Award and was translated into eleven languages, and the forthcoming Both and Neither. A 2023 United States Artists fellow, they live in Vancouver, Canada, where they are the Rogers Chair in creative nonfiction at UBC.

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Website: http://www.alexandria-marzano-lesnevich.com/

Kai Cheng Thom is the author of six books in multiple genres and a winner of the ALA Stonewall Honor Book and Publishing Triangle Awards. Her work on trans liberation and transformative justice has been widely cited and reviewed in publications including Teen Vogue and the New York Times.

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KJ Cerankowski is the author of the award-winning book Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming. His current book project Roar of Wanting: Touching Trans History has received support from the Newberry Library, Yale’s Beinecke Library, and Harvard-Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library. He teaches at Oberlin College.

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Clare Sears is author of the award-winning book Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Duke UP). Their writing on queer history also appears in Jacobin, GLQ, WSQ, Routledge History of Queer America, and the SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies.

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Raquel Gutiérrez is a writer, critic, and educator. Her/Their first book Brown Neon was just published by Coffee House Press. She/They are a 2021 recipient of the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism. Gutiérrez teaches in the Oregon State University-Cascades low-residency creative writing MFA Program.

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Website: www.raquelgutierrez.net

Steven Dunn is the author of the novels Potted Meat and Water & Power from Tarpaulin Sky Press. Some of his work can be found in Granta magazine, Blink Ink Print, and Best of Small Fictions 2018. He is currently an MFA candidate at Goddard College.

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Katie Jean Shinkle's books include Tannery Bay (with Steven Dunn); None of This is an Invitation (with Jessica Alexander); Ruination, and others. She is an assistant professor in the MFA in creative writing, editing, and publishing program at Sam Houston State University.

Suzi Q. Smith is an award-winning artist, organizer, and educator who lives in Denver, Colorado. The author of poetry collections Poems for the End of the World, A Gospel of Bones, and Thirteen Descansos, Suzi is also a singer-songwriter, playwright, and multidisciplinary creative.

Twitter Username: suziqpoet

Website: www.suziqsmith.com

Joanna Ruocco is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Week, Field Glass, written with Joanna Howard, and Dan. She also writes romance novels as Joanna Lowell. She is an associate professor at Wake Forest University. With Brian Conn, she edited the fiction journal Birkensnake.

Jubi Arriola-Headley (he/him) is a Blacqueer poet and the author of original kink (Sibling Rivalry Press), winner of the 2021 Housatonic Book Award; his second collection, Bound, will be published by Persea Books in 2024. Find Jubi at www.justjubi.com.

John Copenhaver’s historical crime novel Dodging and Burning won the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery, and his second novel The Savage Kind won the Lammy for Best LGBTQ Mystery. He teaches creative writing and literature at VCU and the low-residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska.

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Website: www.jcopenhaver.com

David Heska Wanbli Weiden is author of the novel Winter Counts (Ecco; S&S UK), winner of twelve awards and named a New York Times Editors' Choice, Indie Next Pick, and Book of the Month Club main selection. He is a MacDowell, Ucross, Ragdale, Sewanee, and Tin House fellow. davidweiden.com

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Website: www.DavidWeiden.com

Mindy Mejia’s thrillers have been translated into over twenty languages. Her books have been picked for People's Best New Books and listed in the Wall Street Journal’s Best New Mysteries. A CPA and graduate of the Hamline University MFA program, she serves on the board of Mystery Writers of America.

James Han Mattson is the author of two novels, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves and Reprieve. His third novel, The Grand Impostors, is forthcoming. He currently lives in Austin, Texas.

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Lauren K. Alleyne is the author of two collections of poetry, Difficult Fruit (2014), and Honeyfish (2019); two chapbooks, Dawn in the Kaatskills (2008) and (Un)Becoming Gretel (2022); as well as co-editor of Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (2020). Her work has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, The Atlantic, Ms. Muse, Tin House, and The Caribbean Writer, among others. Her poetry was selected for the 2021 Best American Poetry anthology, the Academy of American Poets Poem a Day (2018, 2020, 2021, 2022), and was a finalist for 2019 Best of the Net. Her most recent honors include a nomination for the 2020 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry, the longlist for the 2020 Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the shortlist for the 2020 Library of Virginia Literary Awards. She serves as a professor of English and executive director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University.

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Nikky Finney is the author of On Wings Made of Gauze; Rice; The World Is Round; and Head Off & Split, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2011. Her new collection of poems, Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry, was released in 2020. Finney is Carolina Distinguished Professor at USC in Columbia where she is also Director of the Ernest A. Finney Jr. Cultural Arts Center.

Malika Booker is a British-Caribbean poet, and co-founder of the poetry collective, Malika’s Poetry Kitchen. She was the inaugural Poet in Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company and was elected a Royal Society of Literature Fellow (2022). Booker received the Cholmondeley Award (2019) for outstanding contribution to poetry, and her poems The Little Miracles won (2020) and Libation (2023) was shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Her poetry collection Pepper Seed (2013) was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre prize for first full collection.

Twitter Username: malikabooker

Anastacia-Reneé is an award-winning writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, TEDx Speaker and podcaster. She is the author of Side Notes from the Archivist (HarperCollins/Amistad), (v.) (Black Ocean), Forget It (Black Radish) and Here In The (Middle) of Nowhere, forthcoming from HarperCollins/Amistad March 2024. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Hobart, Foglifter, Auburn Avenue, Catapult, Alta, Torch, Poetry Northwest, Cascadia Magazine, The Fight and Fiddle, Ms. Magazine and others. Renée has received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem and Hedgebrook.

Clare Beams is the author of the story collection We Show What We Have Learned, the novel The Illness Lesson, and the forthcoming novel The Garden. A winner of the Bard Fiction Prize and a finalist for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates prize, she lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Randolph MFA program.

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Caroline Kim is the author of a collection of short stories, The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories, which won the 2020 Drue Heinz Prize in Literature. Her work can be found in New England Review, Story, TriQuarterly, Best of Korea, Lit Hub, and elsewhere.

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu is the author of Drinking from Graveyard Wells (University Press of Kentucky, Spring 2023). She earned her BA at Cornell University. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Tin House Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers' Workshop, and George R. R. Martin.

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Courtney Sender's debut book, In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me (2023, WVU Press), was called "a deep and howling portrait of longing and loneliness" in the Boston Globe. A Yaddo and MacDowell fellow, she has written for the New York Times "Modern Love" column, The Atlantic, Slate, and Ploughshares.

Twitter Username: CourtneySender

Website: www.courtneysender.com

Laura Chow Reeve is a writer and illustrator. Her fiction has been published in The Rumpus, Catapult, Joyland, and elsewhere. Her debut short story collection, A Small Apocalypse, is forthcoming in 2024 with TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.

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Elizabeth Kleinfeld writes about grief and trauma on her blog and in academic and memoir essays. She directs the writing center at Metropolitan State University of Denver and is a trustee of the University Press of Colorado. She is writing a memoir about being her husband’s caregiver.

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Lisa Cooper Ellison is a trauma-informed writing coach, author, and speaker with an EdS in clinical mental health counseling and a background in mindfulness. She is represented by The Bindery. Her essays have appeared in HuffPost, Kenyon Review, and Hippocampus Magazine among others.

Twitter Username: LisaEllisonspen

Website: https://lisacooperellison.com/

Athena Dixon is the author of the essay collections The Loneliness Files and The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Her poetry appears in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic and her craft work in Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction. She lives in Philadelphia.

Twitter Username: AthenaDDixon

Website: http://www.athenadixon.com

Margo Steines holds an MFA in CNF from the University of Arizona. Her work was named Notable in Best American Essays and has appeared in The Sun, Brevity, Off Assignment, "Modern Love," the anthology Letter to a Stranger, and elsewhere. She is the author of the memoir-in-essays Brutalities.

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Libby Kurz is a writer, nurse, and USAF veteran. Her poetry chapbook, The Heart Room, was published in 2019 by Finishing Line Press, and she won second place in the Iowa Review's 2023 Jeff Sharlet Memorial Contest. She teaches memoir and trauma writing workshops to veteran communities in Norfolk, Virgina.

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Sarah Levitt is a literary agent at Aevitas Creative Management who specializes in narrative nonfiction and literary fiction. Her list includes journalists, academics, historians, scientists, and musicians, among others.

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Website: http://aevitascreative.com

Sebastian Stockman is a lecturer in English at Northeastern University. His work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, among other places. His essays have been listed as Notable in The Best American Essays and The Best American Sportswriting

Twitter Username: substockman

Emily Cook was named one of Publishers Weekly's Top 40 Under 40. Former marketing and publicity director at Milkweed Editions and program director at the Chicago Tribune Lit Fest, she also worked for Granta and helped launch Figment, a social networking site. She just completed her first book.

Twitter Username: emsaerily

Marc Fitten is an author and editor. He has written two novels, Valeria's Last Stand and Elza's Kitchen, and has completed a third, AMERICAN ENTROPY. He also contributes essays to various anthologies and periodicals.

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Juania Sueños a Chicanx writer. She holds an MFA from Texas State. She cofounded and is an editor at the publication and nonprofit, Infrarrealista Review. Her work can be found in: Acentos Review, Sybil Journal, The Skinkbeat Review, Porter House Review, New York Quarterly, and Nat. Brut.

Twitter Username: vata_lorca

Diamond Braxton is a queer, mixed-race Black-Chicana writer, editor, educator, and community organizer. She is the founder and director of Abode Press, an intersectional, anti-racist 501(c)(3) press based in Central Texas dedicated to uplifting underrepresented voices.

Twitter Username: DiamondGBraxton

Murphy Anne Carter is a writer, teacher, and public programs director for the Texas After Violence Project. Since 2016, she has taught poetry and creative writing courses in Texas jails and prisons, and has worked on dynamic, thoughtful, and ethical frameworks to bring stories from the "inside" out.

Claire Bowman is the author of the chapbook Dear Creatures and a recipient of a fellowship from the Michener Center for Writers. She is the senior editor at Host Publications and produces the literary podcast The Host Dispatch. She moonlights as a tarot reader and teacher for Typewriter Tarot.

Cyrus Gray was arrested at the age of twenty-three for a capital murder charge he never committed; he is a wrongfully accused young black man, born in Liberia, who served nearly four years in Hays County jail without ever being convicted. Now he advocates for the rights of the accused.

Stephanie M. Lindberg is a 2011 graduate of Antioch University LA’s MFA program. She has taught for various writing and high school equivalency programs in the Denver, Colorado area for the past eight years. She currently teaches at Pikes Peak Community College and Arapahoe Community College.

Twitter Username: smlindbe

Marlys Cervantes serves as department chair of humanities and communication and director of the creative writing program at Cowley College in Arkansas City, Kansas. She teaches literature and writing courses and serves as an academic advisor and codirector of the Multi-Cultural Scholars Program.

Twitter Username: MsCerv

Sean Chambers is an ASPECT PhD candidate at Virginia Tech and holds an MFA from Manhattanville College and a BA from the University of Virginia. Chambers is the former dean of faculty and associate professor of English at Valley Forge Military College in Wayne, Pennsylvania. He is the Write On 2023 Poet-in-Residence and treasurer for AWP's Two-year College Creative Writing Caucus.

Courtney O’Banion Smith has a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing–poetry from Texas State University-San Marcos. Her work has appeared in various publications including Relief, Barren Magazine, and Ocotillo Review. Currently, she teaches literature and writing in Houston.

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Website: www.cobanionsmith.com

Joe Baumann teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at St. Charles Community College, where he leads the creative writing program. He possesses a PhD in creative writing from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Belinda Kremer, a poet and the poetry editor of Confrontation, holds an MFA in Poetry from U of Michigan, Ann Arbor. A lecturer in UC Berkeley’s college writing programs, Belinda teaches composition and creative writing, and serves on the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on LGBTQ+ communities at Cal.

Erin Sharkey is a cultural producer and the editor of A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars. She is cofounder of Free Black Dirt, an experimental production collective, and steward of The Fields at Rootsprings, a retreat centering BIPOC and LGBTQ+ folks in central Minnesota.

Twitter Username: erinjaws

Derek Scheips is a multigenre writer and instructor who has taught and coached writing students at a variety of institutions, currently with University of Washington and Tacoma Community College. He also has significant experience as a communications consultant for global advertising agencies.

Twitter Username: derekscheips

Website: https://www.derekscheips.com

Casey Ramos is a narrative designer at Xbox Game Studios Publishing and game designer behind Unfolding, award-winner at Latinx in Gaming's UNIDOS game jam. Casey also works as lead narrative designer at Gameheads, a tech mentorship program for low-income youth of color in the Bay Area and beyond.

Twitter Username: keetkabu

Shauna Osborn is executive director of Puha Hubiya, a nonprofit literary arts organization, and author of Arachnid Verve (a poetry collection) which was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Awards. They have won awards from the New York Public Library, AROHO, TSWC, and a Crescendo Literary Fellowship.

Twitter Username: tenaciousoz

Website: http://shaunamosborn.wordpress.com/

Deborah Taffa is the director of the MFA CW at IAIA in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Winner of the PEN Jean Stein Grant, her memoir Whiskey Tender is forthcoming from HarperCollins, February 20, 2024. A Public Space, MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Tin House, and Kranzberg fellow, she's from the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo.

Twitter Username: deborahtaffa

Website: www.deborahtaffa.com

Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Award in Poetry and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please (2008), won the 2009 American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (2014), won the 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition (2019), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Buzzfeed, The Nation, the New York Times, the New Yorker, The New Republic, Time, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry anthologies.

Twitter Username: jerichobrown

Website: jerichobrown.com