Joanna Englert is the marketing and publicity director at Sarabande Books, where she has represented writers like Sandra Cisneros and Rosellen Brown. Joanna's poems have appeared in The Pinch, Miracle Monocle, and elsewhere, and have been performed by Louisville Ballet.

Twitter Username: joannaenglert

Adam O. Davis is the author of Index of Haunted Houses (Sarabande, 2020) & cohost of the Poetry Goes to the Movies podcast. The recipient of the Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Award, his work has appeared widely, including in The Believer, The Best American Poetry, and The Paris Review.

Twitter Username: cubist_octopus

Website: www.adamodavis.com

Karyna McGlynn is a writer, professor, and collagist. Her most recent books include the poetry collections 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me about the Multiverse and Hothouse, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice. Karyna is the director of creative writing at Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Twitter Username: karynamcglynn

Website: www.karyna.io

Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower, winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology (Spring 2023). She is the recipient of a 2021 NEA fellowship and the winner of the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review.

Twitter Username: Dalai_Mama_

Karisma Price is the author of the poetry collection I'm Always So Serious (Sarabande Books, 2023). She hails from New Orleans, Louisiana, and holds an MFA in poetry from NYU. She's received fellowships from Cave Canem and NYU and is currently an assistant professor of Poetry at Tulane University.

Twitter Username: itsKayPrice

Mary Pan is a writer and physician with a background in global health and narrative medicine. Her work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, McSweeney’s, Intima, and elsewhere. An alum of Tin House and Kenyon Review workshops, she was runner-up for AWP’s 2020 Kurt Brown Prize for Creative Nonfiction.

Twitter Username: marypanwriter

Website: www.marypanwriter.com

Emily Maloney’s collection of essays, Cost of Living, about the American healthcare system, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, Glamour, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is also a MacDowell Fellow.

Twitter Username: emilyfmaloney

Dr. Rana Awdish is a critical care physician and author of critically acclaimed memoir, In Shock. Her essays and editorials have been published in HBR, NEJM, Washington Post, and Intima. Her essay "The Shape of the Shore" was awarded a Sydney by the New York Times, and it was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Twitter Username: RanaAwdish

Emily Silverman, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine at UCSF and creator and host of The Nocturnists, an independent medical storytelling organization. Her writing has been supported by MacDowell and published in the New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, JAMA, CHEST, McSweeney’s, and more.

Twitter Username: ESilvermanMD

Suzanne Koven is a primary care physician and the inaugural writer in residence at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her book, Letter to a Young Female Physician, explores imposter syndrome, sexism in traditionally male-dominated fields, ambition, and work-life balance. Follow her @SuzanneKovenMD.

Twitter Username: suzannekovenmd

Website: www.suzannekovenmd.com

Jamie Danielle Logan is pursuing a PhD at the University of Southern Mississippi. She has worked for the Mississippi Book Festival and edited the Mississippi Review, The Pinch, BreakBread, and Product magazines. You can find her writing in the New Ohio Review, VIDA Review, Okay Donkey, and more.

Twitter Username: jamiedlogan

W. David Hall is CEO and president of The BreakBread Literacy Project. He has directed the Kenyon Young Writers Program for 21 years. He teaches high school English in Los Angeles and co-coaches his school's slam poetry team. He has also published Culture and Context, a writing guide.

Jamie Lyn Smith is a writer and editor. The recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, she is also fiction editor at BreakBread magazine and a consulting editor at the Kenyon Review. Her short story collection, Township, was published by Cornerstone Press in January 2022.

Twitter Username: jamielynwrites

Website: http://jamielyn-smith.squarespace.com/

Crystal AC Salas is a Xicanx poet, educator, and community organizer. She serves as poetry editor for BreakBread magazine. Her chapbook Grief Logic is co-winner of the inaugural Alta California Prize, and she is a 2021–2022 California Arts Council Established Individual Artist Grant recipient.

Twitter Username: littlebirdsalas

Cara Echols is an artist and writer serving as art and social media director and leadership member for BreadBread Literacy Project. She enjoys writing experimental and speculative literature focusing on the human mind and condition and is currently working on a short story collection.

Cynthia Guardado /Gwarr-Dah-Doe/ (she/her/hers) is a Salvadoran-American poet and tenured Professor of English at Fullerton College. She is the editor in chief of LiveWire, an online magazine. She has two poetry collections Endeavor (World Stage Press) and Cenizas (University of Arizona Press).

Twitter Username: theguardedpoet

Website: https://cynthiaguardado.wordpress.com

Meliza Bañales was a 2016 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Best LGBT Debut Fiction for their novel Life Is Wonderful, People Are Terrific. She served as lecturer in creative writing at UC San Diego from 2015–2020. Their third book, Root for the Underdog, arrived in 2022. They live in Los Angeles.

Twitter Username: iammissyfuego

Reyes Ramirez (he/him) is a Houstonian of Mexican and Salvadoran descent. He’s a 2020 CantoMundo Fellow, 2022 Crosstown Arts Resident, and received grants from Houston Arts Alliance, Poets & Writers, and The Warhol Foundation’s Idea Fund. His debut short story collection The Book of Wanderers is out now.

Twitter Username: y_si_rey_quiere

Website: reyesvramirez.com

David Campos, a CantoMundo fellow, is the author of the poetry collections Furious Dusk and American Quasar. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Boxcar Review, and LunaLuna, among many others. He teaches English for the Puente Program at Fresno City College.

Twitter Username: camposwriter

Website: www.davidcampos.co

bridgette bianca is a poet and professor from South Central Los Angeles. Her first book of poetry, be/trouble, was released in 2020. When she is not sharing her poetry, she hosts the series Young, Black, and Tenure-Track where she documents her experiences in higher education.

Twitter Username: thebridgebianca

Website: www.bridgettebianca.com

Kimberly Grey is the author of Systems for the Future of Feeling (2020) and The Opposite of Light (2016). She's the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. She received a PhD from the University of Cincinnati and lives and teaches in St. Louis.

Twitter Username: kimmygrey

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 assistant professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati and associate poetry editor for CO Review.

Phillip B. Williams is the author of the poetry collections Mutiny (Penguin, 2021) and Thief in the Interior (Alice James Books). A recipient of a Whiting Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Lambda Literary Award, he currently teaches at Randolph College low-res MFA.

Twitter Username: pbw_poet

Julie Carr is the author of five books of poetry, most recently, 100 Notes on Violence, Sarah–Of Fragments and Lines, RAG, and Think Tank. Prose books include Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry and Objects from a Borrowed Confession. She lives in Denver.

Twitter Username: carrcarrjuli

Website: juliealicecarr.com

Jehanne Dubrow is the author of nine poetry collections, including most recently Wild Kingdom, and two books of creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Colorado Review, and Southern Review. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of North Texas.

Twitter Username: JehanneIDubrow

Website: www.jehannedubrow.com

Jason Magabo Perez is the author of This Is for the Mostless (WordTech Editions, 2017) and I Ask about What Falls Away (1913 Press, forthcoming). Perez is an associate professor of ethnic studies at California State University San Marcos.

Twitter Username: jsnmgbprz

Website: jasonmagaboperez.art

Rachelle Cruz is the author of God's Will for Monsters, which won an American Book Award in 2018 and the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Regional Poetry Prize. She is the director of genre fiction at the low-residency MFA program at Western Colorado University.

Twitter Username: rawqeli

Website: www.rachellecruz.com

Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) is author of The Flayed City and chapbooks The Promise of Rust and Our Echo of Sudden Mercy. Recipient of grants, awards, and fellowships, coeditor of We Were Not Alone, and cofounding editor at Locked Horn Press, siya is published in Best of the Net 2022 and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: harialluri

Luya is a Chicago poetry organization that uplifts the voices and experiences of people of color. Luya (Tagalog for “ginger”) is used as both a spice and a remedy across many cultures, and we bring this spirit of nourishment and healing to every workshop, performance, and open mic space we create.

Twitter Username: luyapoetry

Julia Fierro is the author of the novels The Gypsy Moth Summer & Cutting Teeth, and Santa Monica & The Last Party (as Cassidy Lucas). She founded Sackett St. Writers Workshop in 2002 (10,000+ writers worldwide) and has published essays on writing with mental illness in New York Times and Poets & Writers.

Twitter Username: juliafierro

Website: http://www.juliafierro.com/

Rebecca Makkai's fifth book, I Have Some Questions for You, is out in early 2023. Her novel The Great Believers was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it won the LA Times Book Prize, the Carnegie Medal, and the Stonewall Award. She is artistic director of StoryStudio Chicago.

Twitter Username: rebeccamakkai

Website: www.rebeccamakkai.com

Marie Myung-Ok Lee is the author of the novel The Evening Hero, Finding My Voice (YA). Fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review, FiveChapters, TriQuarterly, Witness, Joyland, and Guernica. Nonfiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Paris Review, and New York Times. She teaches fiction at Columbia.

Twitter Username: MarieMyungOkLee

Website: https://www.facebook.com/MarieLeeWriter

Hannah Bae is the 2020 nonfiction winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, which is supporting her memoir-in-progress about family estrangement, mental illness, and Korean American culture. She is a 2021 and 2022 Peter Taylor Fellow for the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops.

Twitter Username: hanbae

Krys Lee is the author of Drifting House and How I Became a North Korean. She is the recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature and the Story Prize Spotlight Award, a Granta New Voices pick, and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She teaches at Yonsei University, Underwood International College.

Jung Yun is the author of O Beautiful (St. Martin's) and Shelter (Picador). She's an associate professor of creative writing at the George Washington University, and her work has appeared in Tin House, The Massachusetts Review, The Atlantic, the New York Times, the Washington Post, among others.

Michael Lukas is the author of The Oracle of Stamboul and The Last Watchman of Old Cairo. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, the Sophie Brody Medal, and the Sami Rohr Prize, he has received fellowships from the NEA and Bread Loaf. He lives in Oakland and teaches at San Francisco State University.

Laura Spence-Ash’s debut novel, Beyond That, the Sea, is forthcoming from Celadon Books in March 2023. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, New England Review, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere; her critical essays and book reviews appear regularly in the Ploughshares blog.

Twitter Username: LauraSpenceAsh

Vanessa Chan is the Malaysian author of The Storm We Made, a novel, and The Ugliest Babies in the World, a story collection—both forthcoming from Marysue Rucci Books / Scribner. Her novel will be published in eighteen languages worldwide. She lives in Brooklyn.

Twitter Username: vanjchan

Jinwoo Chong is the author of the novel Flux, coming March 2023 from Melville House. His work has appeared in The Southern Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Florida Review, and Salamander. He is an editorial assistant at One Story.

Twitter Username: jinwoochong

Jamila Minnicks won the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction for her novel Moonrise over New Jessup, which was published Algonquin Books. Her work is also found, or forthcoming, in Catapult, CRAFT, Blackbird, The Write Launch, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: lionesstales

John Manuel Arias is a queer, Costa Rican-American writer. He is a Canto Mundo fellow and alumnus of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. His work has been published in PANK, The Rumpus, and F(r)iction. He has lived in Washington, DC, Brooklyn, and in San José, Costa Rica, with his grandmother and four ghosts.

Zoë Bossiere is a doctoral candidate at Ohio University, where she studies creative nonfiction and rhetoric & composition. She serves as the managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, and is a podcast host for the New Books Network. Find her at zoebossiere.com

Twitter Username: zoebossiere

Website: zoebossiere.com

Erica Trabold is the author of Five Plots, selected by John D'Agata as the winner of the inaugural Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize, and coeditor of The Lyric Essay as Resistance anthology. She writes and teaches in central Virginia, where she is an assistant professor at Sweet Briar College.

Twitter Username: ericatrabold

Website: ericatrabold.com

Jennifer S. Cheng writes in poetic, essayistic, and visual-textu(r)al modes. She is the author of Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems (Publishers Weekly 2018 Best Book), House A, and Invocation: An Essay. She has received fellowships from the NEA, the US Fulbright Program, Kundiman, Bread Loaf, and MacDowell.

Twitter Username: mooncake

Website: www.jenniferscheng.com

Jenny Boully is the author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life, The Book of Beginnings and Endings, The Body: An Essay, and other books. She teaches at Columbia College Chicago and the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Twitter Username: jennyboully

Website: www.jennyboully.com

Krys Malcolm Belc is the author of the memoir The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood and the flash nonfiction chapbook In Transit. He lives in Philadelphia with his partner and their three young children.

Twitter Username: krysmalcolmbelc

Cecilia Martinez-Gil has published two full-length poetry collections, a fix of ink, the multi-award-winning Psaltery and Serpentines, and she co-wrote the award-winning experimental video “Itinerarios.” She publishes poetry and journalism, teaches English and literature, and has four masters.

Twitter Username: cezmartinezgil

Website: www.ceciliamartinezgil.com

Wendy Call coedited the craft anthology Telling True Stories and wrote No Word for Welcome, winner of the Grub Street National Book Prize for nonfiction. Her translations (from Spanish and Zapotec) include two books of poetry by Irma Pineda, published by Song Bridge and Deep Vellum.

Twitter Username: wendycallwrites

Website: http://www.wendycall.com

Marco Antonio Huerta is a Mexican poet and translator. He holds an MFA from UC San Diego and is a PhD student at UC Irvine. The author of four books of poetry​, his work has been published in anthologies and journals in Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Canada, and the United States.

Twitter Username: moteltampico

Samina Najmi, professor of English at CSU Fresno, writes essays centered on her life in Pakistan, UK, and the US. Her work has appeared in World Literature Today, Massachusetts Review, Entropy, The Rumpus, Asian American Literature, and The Progressive, among others.

Alison Mandaville has received two UNESCO cultural heritage grants for her work supporting women writers and artists in Azerbaijan. A poet, scholar, and translator, she teaches at Fresno State. Her creative and scholarly work has appeared in US and international journals and books.

Kristen Millares Young is a prizewinning journalist, essayist, and author of the novel Subduction (Red Hen Press). Named a Paris Review staff pick, Subduction won Nautilus and IPPY awards. The editor of Seismic, a Washington State Book Award finalist, Kristen reviews books for the Washington Post.

Twitter Username: kristenmillares

Website: www.kristenmyoung.com

Putsata Reang is a journalist and author of the debut memoir, Ma and Me. She is an alum of Hedgebrook, Kimmel Harding Nelson, and Mineral School residencies. Ma and Me released in May 2022 to multiple "Must Read" lists as well as earning starred reviews in major trade journals.

Twitter Username: putsata

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

Michelle Bowdler is the author of Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation and a Manifesto, which was longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Bowdler has been published in two anthologies, Literary Hub, New York Times, Ms. Magazine, Psychology Today, and other literary journals.

Twitter Username: michellebowdler

Destiny O. Birdsong is a Louisiana-born poet, fiction writer, and essayist. Her debut poetry collection, Negotiations, was published by Tin House Books in 2020, and her debut novel, Nobody's Magic, was published by Grand Central in 2022. She earned both her MFA and PhD from Vanderbilt University.

Twitter Username: destinyoshay

Jan Beatty's sixth book, The Body Wars, was followed by her award-winning memoir, American Bastard. Beatty worked as a waitress, abortion counselor, and in maximum security prisons. For fifteen years, she directed the creative writing program at Carlow University and directed the Madwomen in the Attic Workshops.

Twitter Username: janbeatty27

Website: www.janbeatty.com

Asali Solomon is the author of two novels: The Days of Afrekete and Disgruntled, as well as the short story collection, Get Down. She teaches fiction writing and the literature of the African Diaspora at Haverford College.

Lesley Wheeler’s books include the hybrid memoir Poetry's Possible Worlds; The State She's In, her fifth poetry collection; and Unbecoming, a novel. She is poetry editor of Shenandoah. Her work appears in American Poetry Review, Ecotone, Poetry, Massachusetts Review, and other magazines.

Twitter Username: LesleyMWheeler

Website: http://lesleywheeler.org/

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

May-lee Chai (翟梅莉) is an American Book Award–winning author of eleven books, including the memoir Hapa Girl, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book, and Tomorrow in Shanghai. Her essays have won the Gulf Coast Prize and been cited as Notable in Best American Essays. She teaches at San Francisco State.

Twitter Username: mayleechai

Melody Moezzi is an Iranian-American Muslim author, attorney, activist, and visiting associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her latest book, The Rumi Prescription, won a 2021 Wilbur Award. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times and other outlets.

Twitter Username: MelodyMoezzi

Carolyn Desalu is an assistant professor of journalism at Elon University. Her editorial work appeared in Essence, Jet, Ebony, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Globe and Mail. An essay about academia and natural hair will be published in Being #BlackintheIvory: Contending with Racism in America.

Terese Mailhot is from Seabird Island Band. Her writing appears in West Branch, Guernica, Pacific Standard, Elle, and elsewhere. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Heart Berries: A Memoir. She is a Tecumseh Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue University.

Twitter Username: TereseMarieM

JD Scott is the author of Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day (&NOW Books, 2020) and Mask for Mask (New Rivers Press, 2021). Their work has appeared in Best American Experimental, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Sonora Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: jdsctt

Website: jdscott.com

Tenea D. Johnson is an award-winning creator of seven speculative fiction works, including her latest releases, Frequencies, a Fiction Album and Broken Fevers, of which Publishers Weekly wrote “the 14 hard-hitting, memorable short stories and prose vignettes in this powerhouse collection … are astounding in their originality” (starred).

Twitter Username: TeneaJohnson

Celeste Chan works across fiction, creative nonfiction, oral histories, and documentary filmmaking. A Hedgebrook, Lambda, and VONA fellow, she facilitates creative writing workshops for LGBTQ youth. She's published in AWAY, Cream City Review, The Rumpus, and beyond.

Twitter Username: celestechan2020

Website: www.celestechan.com

CD Eskilson is a trans poet, editor, and translator. They serve as poetry editor of Exposition Review and assistant poetry editor of Split Lip magazine, as well as run the Open Mouth Literary Center based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. They are an MFA candidate at the University of Arkansas.

Twitter Username: CdEskilson

Anya Maria Johnson serves as assistant book editor at [PANK] Books and fiction editor at Exposition Review. Anya is a multigenre writer and an MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College. In 2022, she won the John B. Santoianni Award for Excellence in poetry.

Twitter Username: anyamariajo

Viva Padilla is a poet and the founding editor of Dryland, an independent print literary journal founded in South Central Los Angeles and owner of the bookstore and cultural center Re/Arte Centro Literario. She is a first-generation Chicana, a daughter of immigrants who crossed the border.

Twitter Username: anotchka

Bryan Furuness is the coauthor (with Sarah Layden) of the forthcoming book, The Invisible Art of Literary Editing. He writes novels, edits anthologies, teaches at Butler University, lives in Indianapolis, and believes that breakfast burritos are the perfect food.

Twitter Username: furunati

Dionne Irving is originally from Toronto, Ontario. She is the author of Quint (7.13 Books) and The Islands (Catapult). Her work has appeared in Story, Boulevard, Lit Hub, Missouri Review, and New Delta Review. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Notre Dame.

Twitter Username: LadyDionne79

Matthew Pitt has published two fiction collections: Attention Please Now and These Are Our Demands. Matt is an associate professor and director of English Undergraduate Studies at TCU, where he has served as editor in chief for descant since 2014. He also is a contributing editor for West Branch.

Sarah Layden is an assistant professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and is coauthor (with Bryan Furuness) of The Invisible Art of Literary Editing. She is also the author of Imagine Your Life Like This, stories, and Trip through Your Wires, a novel.

Twitter Username: BySarahLayden

Website: www.sarahlayden.com

Khem K. Aryal is the author of a short story collection, The In-Betweeners (Braddock Ave Books, 2023) and th 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

Soniah Kamal's novel Unmarriageable received acclaim from Financial Times, NPR, NYPL, People, and more. Her debut, An Isolated Incident, was also shortlisted for literary prizes. She has bylines in the New York Times, Guardian, Catapult, Best Asian Short Stories Anthology 2017, and Pushcart Prize nominations.

Twitter Username: soniahkamal

Website: www.soniahkamal.com

Aruni Kashyap is an Assamese writer, and the author of the novel The House with a Thousand Stories (Penguin Random House, 2013) and a short story collection His Father’s Disease (Flipped Eye Books UK, 2020). He is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Georgia.

Twitter Username: arunikashyap

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

Chaitali Sen is the author of a novel, The Pathless Sky, and numerous short stories and essays. She has taught writing workshops to children, teens, and adults around the country and is the founder of an interview series with writers called Borderless: Conversations on Art, Action, and Justice.

Twitter Username: ChaitaliSen2020

Website: www.chaitalisen.com

Deema K. Shehabi is the author of Thirteen Departures from the Moon and coeditor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, for which she received the NCBR Recognition Award. She's also coauthor with Marilyn Hacker of Diaspo/Renga. She won the Nazim Hizkmet Poetry Prize in 2018.

Twitter Username: @DeemaShehabi

Shadab Zeest Hashmi, author of Ghazal Cosmopolitan, Comb, Kohl & Chalk and Baker of Tarifa, is the winner of the San Diego Book Award, Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize, and the Hybrid Book Prize from Sable Books. Her work has been published worldwide. She has an MFA from Warren Wilson.

Twitter Username: ShadabZeest

Website: http://shadabhashmi.com/

Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani American poet and translator. Her collection of poems, Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of The Beloved, is a winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and fellowships from Kundiman and Poets House.

Twitter Username: Adeebaloo

Persis Karim is a poet, editor, and professor of comparative and world literature at San Francisco State where she also directs the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies. She is the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diaspora literature and has published poetry in national literary magazines.

Twitter Username: PersisMK

Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet. Her books include O, Louder than Hearts, and To Live in Autumn. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times, Poetry, Ploughshares, and The Nation, among others. She's the cohost of Maqsouda, a podcast in Arabic about Arabic poetry.

Twitter Username: zeinabeck

Kathleen Alcalá is the author of six books with work in over thirty anthologies. Recipient of the Western States Book Award, two Washington State Book Awards, and two Artist Trust fellowships, she co-edited Weeping Women: La Llorona’s Presence in Modern Latinx and Chicanx Lore (Trinity University Press).

Teow Lim Goh is the author of two books of poetry, Islanders (2016) and Faraway Places (2021), and an essay collection Western Journeys (2022).

Nick Neely's most recent book is Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, a Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State. He is an assistant professor at Eastern Oregon University and a recipient of the John Burroughs Nature Essay Award and an AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award.

Twitter Username: nsneely

Chris Santiago is a poet and fiction writer and the author of Tula, winner of the Lindquist & Vennum Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. A Kundiman, Mellon/ACLS, and McKnight Writing Fellow, he is associate professor of English at the University of St. Thomas.

Twitter Username: santisugi

Sequoia Nagamatsu (@SequoiaN) is the author of the national bestselling novel, How High We Go in the Dark, and the story collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone. He teaches creative writing at St. Olaf College and in the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA program.

Twitter Username: sequoian

Website: http://sequoianagamatsu.com

Victoria Chang's latest poetry books are The Trees Witness Everything (Copper Canyon, 2022) and OBIT (Copper Canyon, 2020). Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief was published by Milkweed in 2001. She lives in L.A. and teaches within Antioch's MFA program.

Twitter Username: VChangPoet

Website: www.victoriachangpoet.com

Sejal Shah’s debut essay collection, This Is One Way to Dance (UGA Press), was named an NPR Best Book of 2020 and a finalist for the 2021 CLMP Firecracker Award in nonfiction. Her forthcoming short story collection, How to Make Your Mother Cry, will be published in 2024.

Twitter Username: SejalShahWrites

Website: www.sejal-shah.com

Laila Woozeer is an award-winning musician, poet, performer, author, and composer whose work often centres cross-disciplinary collaboration. Their debut book, a magical realism memoir entitled Not Quite White was released with Simon & Schuster in June 2022.

Twitter Username: lailawoozeer

Phil Saint Denis Sanchez is originally from New Orleans. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry International, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. His debut collection, self-portrait before & after my body, is forthcoming on Button Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn.

Yusra Amjad is a poet and standup comedian from Lahore, Pakistan, who managed to retain an authentic voice despite spending two years in an MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. She is also a graduate of Forman Christian College, a Pushcart nominee, and a Fulbright scholar.

Albert Abonado is the author of JAW (Sundress Publications). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Albert lives in Rochester, New York with his wife.

Twitter Username: albertabonado

Minyoung Lee writes fiction and essays in Oakland, California. Her work appears in TriQuarterly, Passages North, and Asian American Writers Workshop, among others. Her prose chapbook Claim Your Space was published by Fear No Lit. Born in Seoul, Minyoung has lived in fourteen cities across four countries.

Twitter Username: minyoungleeis

Tayyba Maya Kanwal is a Pakistani-American writer and fiction editor at Gulf Coast. Her work appears in Witness, Meridian, Quarterly West, and others. She is an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow at the UHCWP MFA program, completing a short story collection and a novel.

Twitter Username: mayakanwal

Website: http://mayakanwal.com

Keith Lesmeister is the author of the story collection We Could've Been Happy Here. He is a founding editor of Cutleaf (a literary journal) and EastOver Press. He received his MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches writing and literature at Northeast Iowa Community College.

Marybeth Holleman is author of the poetry collection tender gravity and nonfiction books including The Heart of the Sound and Among Wolves. Raised in the southern Appalachians, she transplanted to Alaska's Chugach after falling for Prince William Sound just two years before the oil spill.

Twitter Username: mbhalaska

Website: http://www.marybethholleman.com/

Gretchen Primack is the author of three poetry collections, Visiting Days, Kind, and Doris's Red Spaces, and a chapbook, and she is the coauthor of the memoir of Jenny Brown, The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals.

Mandy-Suzanne Wong is the author of Drafts of a Suicide Note (Regal House), a Foreword INDIES finalist; Listen, We All Bleed (New Rivers), an EcoLit Best Book of 2021; and Awabi, winner of the Digging Press Chapbook Award. Her novel The Box is forthcoming from Graywolf in 2023.

Twitter Username: MandySuzanneW

Website: www.mandysuzannewong.com

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

Twitter Username: megan_kaminski

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

Donald Vincent is a poet and author of Convenient American (Broadstone Books 2020). He currently teaches at Emerson College–Los Angeles and has previously taught at UCLA and University of La Verne. He received his BA in writing from Loyola University and MFA from Emerson College.

Twitter Username: Mr_Hip

Jeanne Thornton is the author of Summer Fun, The Dream of Doctor Bantam, and The Black Emerald, as well as the coeditor, with Tara Madison Avery, of We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology, and the copublisher of Instar Books (www.instarbooks.com). She lives in Brooklyn. jeannethornton.com.

Twitter Username: TruckLesbian

Website: http://fictioncircus.com/Jeanne

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

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

L.D. Lewis is an author and editor of speculative fiction. She also serves as a founding creator and project manager for the award-winning FIYAH iterary magazine, director of FIYAHCON and the Ignyte Awards, awards manager at Lambda Literary, and researcher for the LeVar Burton Reads podcast.

Twitter Username: ellethevillain

Melissa Faliveno is the author of the essay collection Tomboyland, named a best book of 2020 by NPR, New York Public Library, and Oprah magazine. She was the 2020–21 Kenan Visiting Writer at University of North Carolina and is currently a visiting assistant professor of English at Kenyon College.

Twitter Username: melissafaliveno

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

Danielle Geller's first book, Dog Flowers, was published in 2021. Her work has appeared in Guernica, The New Yorker, and Brevity. She teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria and is a faculty mentor at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Twitter Username: dellegeller

María Isabel Álvarez is a first-generation Guatemalan American writer. She received her BA in English literature and her MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University. Her writing has appeared in Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, Sonora Review, and Gulf Coast, among other venues.

Twitter Username: maria_i_alvarez

Dantiel W. Moniz is the recipient of a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Award and a Pushcart Prize. Her debut collection, Milk Blood Heat, is a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and she teaches fiction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Twitter Username: dantielwmoniz

Charlotte Wyatt serves as fiction director for the Napa Valley Writers' Conference.

Angela Pneuman, MFA, PhD, is the author of the novel Lay It on My Heart and the story collection Home Remedies. A former Stegner Fellow, she currently teaches creative writing in continuing studies at Stanford and directs the Napa Valley Writers Conference.

Twitter Username: angelapneuman

Website: angelapneuman.com

Lan Samantha Chang is the author of The Family Chao (2022), All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost (2010), Inheritance (2004), and Hunger: A Novella and Stories (1998). The recipient of a 2021 Berlin Prize Fellowship, she is director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Andrea Bewick is managing director of the Napa Valley Writer's Conference. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and she has received fellowships from MacDowell and Stanford. She teaches English and creative writing at Napa Valley College.

Peter Ho Davies is the author of the novels, A Lie Somone Told You About Yourself, The Fortunes, and The Welsh Girl, two story collections, plus The Art of Revision. His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's, Granta, The Paris Review, Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry Prize Stories.

Rachel King is the author of the novel People along the Sand and the linked short story collection Bratwurst Haven. Her short stories have appeared in One Story, North American Review, Green Mountains Review, Northwest Review, and elsewhere. She lives in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.

Twitter Username: rachelkingpdx

Emilly Prado is a writer and DJ based in Portland, Oregon. Her debut essay collection, Funeral for Flaca, is a winner of the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Award and has been called, “Utterly vulnerable, bold, and unique,” by Ms. magazine. She is a current Blackburn fellow at Randolph MFA.

Twitter Username: emillygprado

EJ Levy's Love, In Theory won a Flannery O'Connor Award. Her anthology, Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers, won a Lambda. Her essays on sex, gender, and motherhood are in Washington Post and Best American Essays. Her 2021 debut novel, The Cape Doctor, was a NYTBR Editor's Choice.

Twitter Username: EJLevy

Website: www.ejlevy.com

Cassandra Lane is author of We Are Bridges: A Memoir (Feminist Press) and winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. She received her MFA from Antioch University. Her stories have been appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and elsewhere. She is editor in chief of L.A. Parent magazine.

Twitter Username: casslanewrites

Website: cassandralane.net

Rigoberto González is the author of twenty books. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English and director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. He is the series editor for Camino de Sol, a Latinx Literary Series.

Allison Benis White is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Wendys, and Please Bury Me in This, winner of the 2018 UNT Rilke Prize. She is an associate professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.

Victoria Redel is a first generation American author of five books of fiction and four books of poetry, most recently Paradise which draws on family histories of exile and expulsion. A recipient of numerous awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim and NEA, she teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

Twitter Username: victoria_redel

Website: victoriaredel.com

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

Krishna Narayanamurti is a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. His essays and poems have appeared in LAist, Killing the Buddha, and The Northridge Review. He is a former fiction editor at Gold Line Press and currently edits prose for Indicia.

Marcus Clayton is an Afro-Latino writer from South Gate, California. He holds an MFA in poetry from CSU Long Beach, and is currently earning a PhD from USC's literature and creative writing program. He is an executive editor for Indicia Literary Journal, and has had multiple genres of work published.

Twitter Username: marcussomething

Website: https://marcus-clayton.com/

Viva Padilla is a poet and the founding editor of Dryland, an independent print literary journal founded in South Central Los Angeles and owner of the bookstore and cultural center Re/Arte Centro Literario. She is a first-generation Chicana, a daughter of immigrants who crossed the border.

Twitter Username: anotchka

AJ Urquidi is a Southern California writer originally from Monterey whose work has been featured in Faultline, Posit, and Chiron Review, among others. Copydesk chief for LA Review of Books and a Gerald Locklin Prize winner, AJ is also the cofounder and editor of experimental online journal indicia.

Twitter Username: indicialit

Amanda Orozco is a literary agent based out of L.A. at Transatlantic Agency. She has worked in academic publishing, publicity, and subsidiary rights in New York, and currently serves as assistant editor for Dryland, where she aims to amplify marginalized voices from the literary underground.

Twitter Username: oczoroadnama

Evie Shockley’s poetry books include semiautomatic (Pulitzer Prize finalist), the new black (Hurston/Wright Legacy Award winner), and the forthcoming volume suddenly we. Her book of criticism is Renegade Poetics. She is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English at Rutgers University.

Twitter Username: seminewblack

Phillip B. Williams is the author of the poetry collections Mutiny (Penguin, 2021) and Thief in the Interior (Alice James Books). A recipient of a Whiting Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Lambda Literary Award, he currently teaches at Randolph College low-res MFA.

Twitter Username: pbw_poet

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.

Nathaniel Mackey is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and editor whose honors include the National Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Bollingen Prize, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing at Duke University.

Ed Roberson is the author of a dozen books of poetry, most recently MPH and Other Road Poems and Asked What Has Changed. The recipient of many honors, including the Jackson Poetry Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Roberson lives in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago.

Jonathan Penton edits the journal Unlikely Stories and its print arm, Unlikely Books. He is the technical director for the New Orleans Poetry Festival and Rigorous, and has worked in management and technical roles for a number of arts organizations. His most recent chapbook of poetry is Backstories.

Twitter Username: USDotOrg

Rosalyn Spencer, educator and advocate holds a BA in English, MLS in public library and MEd in educational leadership. She directs youth art programs and teaches ELA in Greater New Orleans. She is a grant writer, advocate, and supporter of the arts in education and equitable curriculum.

Rone Shavers is author of the experimental Afrofuturist novel Silverfish, recently shortlisted for a CLMP Firecracker Award. His writing has appeared in Big Other, Black Warrior Review, Bomb, and elsewhere. Shavers is also a fiction editor at Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora.

Twitter Username: roneshavers

Website: www.roneshavers.com

Tara Stillions Whitehead is a filmmaker and author of three books: Blood Histories, The Year of the Monster, and They More Than Burned. She has 8,000 hours of production and producing experience, and is assistant professor of film, vdeo, and digital media at Messiah University in Pennsylvania.

Twitter Username: MrsWhitehouse74

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

Rebecca Lehmann's poetry collections include Ringer (Pitt Poetry Series) and Between the Crackups (Salt). Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in Tin House, Copper Nickel, Ploughshares, and other venues. She is assistant professor at Saint Mary's College, and editor of the journal Couplet Poetry.

Twitter Username: rebeccalehmann

Website: www.rebecca-lehmann.com

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

Kai Coggin (she/her) has authored four poetry collections, is a Queer POC, and a K–12 Teaching Artist with the Arkansas Arts Council. Named “Best Poet in Arkansas” by the Arkansas Times, her fierce poetry has won Best of the Net 2022 and been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize, three time for Best of the Net, and Best American Poetry 2015.

Twitter Username: skailight

Khalisa Rae (she/her) is an author of three books, one debut forthcoming from Red Hen Press. Her recent work has been seen in Damaged Goods, Tishman, Sundog Lit, Crab Fat, and Glass Poetry. She is the managing equity and inclusion editor of Carve magazine and writing director at Shaw University.

Twitter Username: k_lisarae

Patricia Park is the author of the novel Re Jane and the forthcoming YA debut Imposter Syndrome & Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim. She was a Fulbright scholar, Jerome Hill fellow, and Center for Fiction fellow. She is assistant professor of creative writing at American University.

Twitter Username: patriciapark718

Website: www.patriciapark.com

Jennifer De Leon is the author of Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From (Simon & Schuster, 2020) and White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing (UMass Press, 2021). She is a creative writing and Latinx literature professor, editor, speaker, and consultant.

Twitter Username: jdeleonwriter

Marie Myung-Ok Lee is the author of the novel The Evening Hero, Finding My Voice (YA). Fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review, FiveChapters, TriQuarterly, Witness, Joyland, Guernica. Nonfiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Paris Review, and the New York Times. She teaches fiction at Columbia.

Twitter Username: MarieMyungOkLee

Website: https://www.facebook.com/MarieLeeWriter

Twitter Username: ErikaLSanchez

Website: erikalsanchez@gmail.com

Emily Alta Hockaday's first full-length collection, Naming the Ghost, touches on chronic illness, grief, and parenthood. It was published September 2022 by Cornerstone Press. Her second collection is forthcoming 2023, and she is the author of five chapbooks. www.emilyhockaday.com/@E_Hockaday

Twitter Username: E_Hockaday

Allison Blevins is a queer disabled writer. She is the author of the collections Handbook for the Newly Disabled, A Lyric Memoir and Slowly/Suddenly. She is also the author of four chapbooks. Allison is the director of Small Harbor Publishing and the executive editor at the museum of americana.

Tina Jenkins Bell is a published fiction writer, playwright, journalist, and literary activist. Her work has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies. She's worked with writing/arts organizations, authors, and bookstores to offer free literary programming on Chicago's south side.

Twitter Username: tinajbell

Eshani Surya's writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, DIAGRAM, [PANK], Catapult, and Joyland, among others. She was a 2021 Mae Fellow and Semi-Finalist for Key West Literary Seminar’s award for novel-in-progress. Eshani is a flash fiction editor at Split Lip magazine.

Twitter Username: __eshani

Melissa Crowe is the author of the poetry collection Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019). She's coordinator of the MFA program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she teaches poetry and publishing.

Twitter Username: melissamcrowe

Meg Day is the 2015–2016 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level. Day is an assistant professor of english and creative writing in the MFA program at NC State.

Twitter Username: themegdaystory

Website: www.megday.com

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

Twitter Username: paisleyrekdal

Sumita Chakraborty is a poet, essayist, and scholar, and the author of the poetry collection Arrow. Following three years as the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry at the University of Michigan, she is now assistant professor of English and creative writing at North Carolina State University.

Twitter Username: notsumatra

W. David Hall is CEO and president of The BreakBread Literacy Project. He has directed the Kenyon Young Writers Program for 21 years. He teaches high school English in Los Angeles and co-coaches his school's slam poetry team. He has also published Culture and Context, a writing guide.

Carter Sickels is the author of the novels The Prettiest Star and The Evening Hour. He is assistant professor of creating writing at Eastern Kentucky University.

Twitter Username: cartersickels

Website: cartersickels.com

Mesha Maren is the author of Sugar Run (Algonquin Books). She is the Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and her short stories and essays appear in Tin House, Oxford American, and Crazyhorse. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Ucross.

Twitter Username: meshamaren

Neema Avashia, the daughter of Indian immigrants, was born and raised in southern West Virginia. She has been an educator and activist in the Boston Public Schools since 2003. WVU Press published her first book, Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place, in March 2022.

Twitter Username: AvashiaNeema

Jamie Lyn Smith is a writer and editor. The recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, she is also fiction editor at BreakBread magazine and a consulting editor at the Kenyon Review. Her short story collection, Township, was published by Cornerstone Press in January 2022.

Twitter Username: jamielynwrites

Website: http://jamielyn-smith.squarespace.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

Lynn Emanuel is the author of five books of poetry, Hotel Fiesta, The Dig (National Poetry Series Award), Then, Suddenly- (Eric Matthieu King Award Academy of American Poets), Noose and Hook, and, in 2016, The Nerve of It: New and Selected Poems (Lenore Marshall Award, Academy of American Poets).

Nahal Suzanne Jamir’s writing has been recently published or is forthcoming in journals like Cincinnati Review and Crazyhorse. Her first fiction collection In the Middle of Many Mountains is available from Press 53. She currently teaches at Rollins College and Mississippi University for Women.

Twitter Username: nsjamir11

Carol Muske-Dukes is the author of 16 books (poems. novels, essays). Her most recent book of poems is Blue Rose. She was a 2019 long list Pulitzer Prize finalist and the former Poet Laureate of California. She is recently retired from USC where she founded the creative writing / literature PhD program. She has been awarded Guggenheim and NEA grants, and won Pushcart Prizes. She writes for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The New Yorker. She has been a National Book Award finalist.

Twitter Username: carolmuskedukes

Website: www.carolmuskedukes.com

Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, PhD, is founding director of the arts nonprofit The Asian American Literary Review and coeditor in chief of its critically acclaimed literary journal. He is also a curator for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.

Amy Stolls is the director of literary arts at the National Endowment for the Arts.

Twitter Username: amystolls

Fred Sasaki is the art director for Poetry magazine; a gallery curator for the Poetry Foundation; cohost of Homeroom's School Night info show; an organizer for Prison Neighborhood Arts Project (P+NAP), and writer of funny loving things.

Twitter Username: FredSasaki

Lisa C. Taylor, MFA, is the author of two collections of fiction, Impossibly Small Spaces and Growing a New Tail, and four poetry collections, most recently Interrogation of Morning. She received a Hugo House New Fiction Prize and the Elizabeth Shanley Gerson Lecture at UConn with Geraldine Mills.

Farukh Niaz is the founder and editor in chief of Style Files, a fashion blog highlighting independent designers and ethical fashion—stylefiles.us. Farukh is an avid reader and devoted admirer of Brown female writers. She hopes to emulate their bravery in her own work soon.

Maha Ahmed is an English literature and creative writing PhD candidate at the University of Houston specializing in poetry and empire studies. She is the poetry editor for the Beirut-based magazine Rusted Radishes. Her critical and creative work explores the Arab-American diaspora and global feminism.

Twitter Username: mahaahmed81

Zarlasht Niaz is an organizer, translator, and educator from Minneapolis. She is a founder of the nonprofit Afghan Refugee Aid as well as an MFA candidate at the University of Houston. Her writing is published in the anthology What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories on Food and Family.

Kartika Budhwar is a doctoral fellow in creative writing and literature at the University of Houston, and editor at Ripe Fiction and The South Asian Avante-Garde. She has received awards and publications in journals such as the Indiana Review, Arts and Letters, and Blue Mesa Review.

Twitter Username: Kartika_Budhwar

Kaitlin Rizzo is a writer, researcher, and translator working on a series of projects related to the life of Baroque painter, Artemisia Gentileschi. Her most recent writing can be found in the form of a retrospective essay in the anthology, Shreela Ray: On the Life and work of an American Master.

Shangyang Fang grew up in Chengdu, China, and writes both in English and Chinese. He is the author of the poetry collection, Burying the Mountain (Copper Canyon Press, 2021).

Twitter Username: shangyangfang

Amanda Gunn is a PhD candidate in English at Harvard where she works on Black pleasure and ephemerality. Her poems, whose subjects include women's labors, mental illness, addiction, and desire and the fat body, appear in Poetry, Poetry NW, and The Baffler. She is currently a Stegner Fellow.

Twitter Username: amandathegunn

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

Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist writer, poet, and performance artist. She is the author of Swallow the Fish, Experiments in Joy, (ghost gestures), the déjà vu, and In & Out of Place. She has premiered over fifty performances artworks worldwide. The aim of her work is to open up space.

Sawako Nakayasu works at the intersection of writing, translation, and performance. Publications include Pink Waves (Omnidawn), Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From (Wave Books), and Say Translation Is Art (Ugly Duckling). She is as assistant professor in literary arts at Brown University.

Twitter Username: sawakonakayasu

Website: http://sawakonakayasu.net/

Madhu H. Kaza is a writer, translator, and educator based in New York. She is the editor of Kitchen Table Translation, an anthology of writing by immigrant and diasporic translators. She directs the Bard Microcollege at Brooklyn Public Library and teaches in the MFA program at Columbia University.

Twitter Username: afmaeli

JD Pluecker is a writer, translator, artist. Their most recent translations are Writing with Caca, Gore Capitalism, and Antígona González, and they have published zines, chapbooks, and a book of poetry and image, Ford Over.

Twitter Username: JDPluecker

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 The Ocotillo Review. Currently, she teaches literature and writing in Houston.

Twitter Username: cobanionsmith

Website: www.cobanionsmith.com

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

Twitter Username: MsCerv

Maria Brandt teaches creative writing at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York, where she advises students from pre-entrance through the Capstone experience. She has published a novella, a short-play collection, and several short stories, along with materials supporting other program advocates.

James Ducat is a poet and associate professor of English at Riverside City College, where he is editorial advisor to the literary magazine, Muse, and teaches creative writing and composition. He holds an MFA from Antioch University, L.A., as well as an MA in composition/rhetoric.

Twitter Username: jamesducat

Victoria Moore is faculty adviser of Hive Avenue, NorthWest Arkansas Community College's student lit journal. She is also the coordinator of NWACC's AFA in creative writing.

Chiwan Choi is the author of three books—The Flood, Abductions, and The Yellow House. In 2015, he wrote, presented, and destroyed the novel Ghostmaker. Chiwan is also founding partner of Writ Large Press, a DTLA based indie publisher that uses books and publishing to resist, disrupt, and transgress.

Twitter Username: chiwanchoi

Website: http://chiwanchoi.com

Melanie Faranello is an award-winning fiction writer and founder of Poetry on the Streets. Recipient of an Artist Fellowship Award in Fiction, a Creative Community Fellow with National Arts Strategies, teaching artist certified in Kingian Nonviolence, she leads public art projects for social change.

Twitter Username: MelFaranello

Roya Marsh is a poet, performer, educator, and activist. She is the author of dayliGht, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry, and works feverishly toward Queer liberation and dismantling white supremacy.

Felice Belle is a lecturer at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York, and director of communications for the global nonprofit Narrative 4. As a poet and playwright, she has performed at the Apollo Theater, Joe’s Pub, and TEDWomen. Her poetry collection, Viscera, is forthcoming from Etruscan Press.

Twitter Username: analogurl

Allen Gee is the DL Jordan Endowed Professor of creative writing and editor of CSU Press at Columbus State University. He is author of My Chinese-America (essays), and At Little Monticello (a forthcoming biography of James Alan McPherson).

Twitter Username: allenrgee

Website: www.allengee.com

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.

Renata Golden has published numerous essays online and in print about the natural world. She is working on an essay collection about the Chiricahua Mountains where the borders of two states and two countries meet. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston, and she lives in New Mexico.

Twitter Username: RenataMGolden

Website: renatagolden.com

Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist, a community performance artist, and a professor at the University of Michigan and in the MFA in interdisciplinary arts program at Goddard College. Her third poetry collection is Gut Botany (2020), and her first speculative fiction collection is Ice Bar (2018).

Twitter Username: OlimpiasDance

Website: www.olimpias.org

Sean Hill, the author of two books of poems, Dangerous Goods and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, directs the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference. His honors and awards include a fellowship from the NEA. His poems have appeared in journals and in anthologies including Black Nature and Villanelles.

Twitter Username: adamalzeal

Website: http://www.seanhillpoetry.com

Bronson Lemer (he/him) is the author of The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq. His work has appeared in Guernica, Creative Nonfiction, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at the University of Minnesota Rochester.

Twitter Username: lastdeployment

Katherine Schifani is an Air Force veteran who spent seven years on active duty as a maintenance officer and instructor of English. She currently spends the winters skiing and climbing in Colorado and the summers guiding in the Cascades.

Anthony Moll is the author of Out of Step: A Memoir, (winner of a Lambda Literary Award and the Non/Fiction Collection Prize) and You Cannot Save Here (Winner of the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize). They hold an MFA in creative nonfiction, and they are finishing their dissertation for a PhD in English.

Twitter Username: toneemoll

Máel Embser-Herbert, veteran and professor of social justice and social change at Hamline University, is coeditor of With Honor and Integrity: Transgender Troops in Their Own Words and author of "'Welcome! Oh, wait…’ Transgender Military Service in a Time of Uncertainty" in Sociological Inquiry.

Twitter Username: msheridaneh

Website: maelsheridan.com

Joshua Nguyen is the author of Come Clean (University of Wisconsin Press), winner of the 2021 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and winner of the 2022 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Poetry Award. He is also the author of the chapbook American Lục Bát for My Mother (Bull City Press, 2021).

Twitter Username: joshuanguyen03

Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, from Penguin in the US and the UK. They are an assistant professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Twitter Username: speakdeadly

Susan Nguyen is the author of the poetry collection Dear Diaspora (University of Nebraska Press), which won the 2020 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and a 2022 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. She is currently the Senior Editor for Hayden's Ferry Review.

Kimberly Nguyễn is a Vietnamese-American poet originally from Omaha, Nebraska and currently living in New York City. She was a 2021 Emerging Voices Fellow at PEN America, and she has a collection published in October 2022.

Twitter Username: knguyenpoetry

Sayantika Mandal (she/her) is an Indian writer. She completed her MFA from the University of San Francisco and is pursuing her PhD in English (creative writing) from the University of Georgia. Her writing has appeared in The Citron Review, Indian Literature, Cerebration, Times of India, and others.

Twitter Username: Sayantikatweets

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 founder of the creative writing program at Anoka-Ramsey Community College in Minneapolis.

Twitter Username: darklake

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

Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007–9, is author of The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival and Shadow Light (poems, a Red Mountain Press award). She is a Midwessay curator for Essay Daily. A former AWP board president, she is on the board of Indigenous Nations Poets.

Twitter Username: deniselow9

Website: www.deniselow.net

April Gibson is a Black poet, writer, and educator. Her work has been published in The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, Literary Mama, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in creative writing and currently teaches English at Malcolm X College in Chicago.

Twitter Username: aprilreenea

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

Katie Cortese is the author of Girl Power and Other Short-Short Stories and Make Way for Her and Other Stories. Her work has recently appeared in Redivider, Gargoyle, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at Texas Tech University and is the faculty director of Texas Tech University Press.

Twitter Username: KatieCortese

Website: www.katiecortese.com

Deborah Taffa is the director of the MFA creative writing program at IAIA in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Winner of the PEN Jean Stein Grant, her memoir Whiskey Tender is forthcoming from HarperCollins Harper in 2023. 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

V.V. Ganeshananthan's debut novel, Love Marriage, was long-listed for the Orange Prize and named one of Washington Post Book World's Best of 2008. Her work has appeared in Granta and the New York Times, among others. A 2014 NEA and Radcliffe Fellow, she teaches at the University of Minnesota.

Twitter Username: V_V_G

Website: www.vasugi.com

Melissa Duclos is the author of the novel Besotted. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Salon, and The Offing, among other venues. She is the cofounder of Amplify Writers and has an MFA from Columbia University.

Twitter Username: MelissaDuclos

Jai Chakrabarti is the author of the novel A Play for the End of the World (Knopf, 2021) and the forthcoming story collection, A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness (Knopf, 2023). His short fiction has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, the O.Henry Prize Stories, and awarded a Pushcart Prize.

Twitter Username: JaiChakrabarti

Leslie Kirk Campbell’s debut short story collection, The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs, won the 2020 Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction. Her award-winning stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Arts & Letters, Southern Indiana Review, and The Thomas Wolfe Review. She has received fellowships at Ucross and Playa.

Twitter Username: lesliekirkcamp

Daniel Olivas is the author of ten books including How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories (2022), and The King of Lighting Fixtures: Stories (2017). Olivas has also written for the New York Times, the Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, and La Bloga.

Twitter Username: olivasdan

Website: http://danielolivas.com

Sidik Fofana is a graduate of NYU’s MFA program and a public school teacher. His work has appeared in The Sewanee Review and Granta. Stories from the Tenants Downstairs, his debut short story collection, will be published by Scribner in August 2022.

Erica Plouffe Lazure's short story collection, Proof of Me and Other Stories, won the New American Press fiction award and was published in March 2022. She is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks, Sugar Mountain (2020) and Heard around Town (2015). She teaches and writes in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Twitter Username: ericaplouffelazure

Website: https://ericaplouffelazure.com/

Michael Kardos is the author of the novel Bluff, as well as two other novels, a story collection, and the textbook The Art and Craft of Fiction. He is a professor of English and codirector of the creative writing program at Mississippi State University.

Twitter Username: michael_kardos

Website: http://www.michaelkardos.com

Hadara Bar-Nadav is an NEA fellow and author of several poetry collections, most recently The New Nudity, Lullaby (with Exit Sign), The Frame Called Ruin, and Fountain and Furnace. She is also co-author of Writing Poems. Bar-Nadav is a professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Twitter Username: Hadarabar

Website: www.Hadarabar.com

Jennifer Pullen is an assistant professor of creative writing at Ohio Northern University (PhD Ohio University, MFA Eastern Washington University). She has a chapbook, A Bead of Amber on Her Tongue with Omnidawn Press. Her textbook, Writing Fantasy Fiction, is upcoming from Bloomsbury Academic.

Twitter Username: Jpullen19

Joe Wilkins is the author of a novel, Fall Back Down When I Die; a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers; and four collections of poetry, including When We Were Birds and Thieve. Wilkins lives with his family in Oregon, where he directs the creative writing program at Linfield University.

Gregory Howard's fiction and essays have appeared in WebConjunctions, The Collagist, Harp & Altar, and Tarpaulin Sky, among other places. He teaches fiction writing, contemporary literature, and film at University of Maine. His novel Hospice was published by FC2.

Lily Hoang is the author of six books, including Underneath (winner of the Red Hen Fiction Award), A Bestiary (finalist for the PEN USA Nonfiction Book Award) and Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award). She teaches in the MFA program at University of California San Diego.

Twitter Username: camerainsecura

Porochista Khakpour is the author of the forthcoming memoir Sick, and the novels Sons & Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion. She received fellowships from the NEA, Ucross, Yaddo, and more. She writes for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, WSJ, VQR, and more.

Twitter Username: Pkhakpour

Website: www.porochistakhakpour.com

Richard Mirabella is a writer and civil servant living in Upstate New York. His work has appeared in American Short Fiction online, Story, Split Lip, and elsewhere. HIs first novel, Brother & Sister Enter the Forest, will be published in March 2023 by Catapult.

Twitter Username: rpmirabella

Danielle Pafunda is author of nine books of poetry and prose including Spite, Beshrew, The Book of Scab, and The Dead Girls Speak in Unison. She teaches at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Sasha Vasilyuk is a Russian-Ukrainian-American journalist and author of the forthcoming novel Your Presence Is Mandatory, set between Hitler’s Germany and post-WWII Ukraine. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Time, NBC, Harper's Bazaar, Los Angeles Times, Narrative, and USA Today.

Twitter Username: SashaVasilyuk

Website: www.sashavasilyuk.com

Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, a Russian-Armenian, won 2020 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Prize for her first story collection, What Isn't Remembered, long-listed for the PEN/Bingham Prize and short-listed for W. Saroyan International Prize. Her debut novel, The Orchard, was published in March of 2022.

Twitter Username: kgnewberry

Anna Halberstadt is a poet and a translator, author of two poetry collections in English—Vilnius Diary and Green in a Landscape with Ashes—and two in Russian—Transit and Gloomy Sun—as well translations of American poetry—Selected Selected by Eileen Myles and Nocturnal Fire by Edward Hirsch.

Anna Fridlis is a US-based, Soviet-born immigrant writer. She graduated from The New School with a nonfiction MFA in 2014 and has been teaching first-year writing at her alma mater since. She's working on a memoir in essays about immigration, trauma, family, and identity. She edits for Seventh Wave magazine.

Zack Rogow is author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. His ninth book of poems, Irreverent Litanies, was published by Regal House. His play Colette Uncensored ran in London and San Francisco. He serves as a contributing editor for Catamaran Literary Reader. www.zackrogow.com

Twitter Username: @ZackRogow

Website: www.zackrogow.com

Dion O’Reilly is the author of Ghost Dogs and Sadness of the Apex Predator. Her poems appear in Rattle, Cincinnati Review, The Sun, and The Slowdown. She is a member of The Hive PoetryCollective, which produces podcasts and events. She leads workshops with poets from all over the United States.

Twitter Username: dionoreilly

Website: dionoreilly.wordpress.com

Richard Blanco is the youngest, first Latino, gay person to serve as Presidential Inaugural Poet. Author of two memoirs and five poetry books & awards from University of Pittsburgh, PEN, Paterson Prize, & Lambda Literary. He is Education Ambassador for the Academy of American Poets and Miami Poet Laureate.

Cornelius Eady was born in Rochester, New York, in 1954. He is the author of eight poetry collections including Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize, and Brutal Imagination. He holds the Miller Chair at the University of Missouri and is cofounder of Cave Canem.

Twitter Username: roughband

Website: http://blueflowerarts.com/artist/cornelius-eady/

Shankar Narayan explores identity, power, mythology, and technology in a world where the body is flung across borders yet can still transcend them. He awakens to the wonders of Cascadia every day, but his heart yearns east to his other home, Delhi. Connect with him at shankarnarayan.net.

Franny Choi is the author, most recently, of The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco). Honors include the Lilly/Rosenberg Fellowship, the Holmes Prize, and the Elgin Award. The founder of Brew & Forge, she is a poetry editor at Massachusetts Review, and she teaches at Bennington College.

Twitter Username: fannychoir

Website: www.frannychoi.com

Elizabeth (Betsy) Aoki is a videogame producer and National Poetry Series finalist. Her awards include: Artist Trust, City of Seattle, Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, Hedgebrook, Clarion West Writers Workshop. Her debut poetry collection about women in technology, Breakpoint, launched in 2022.

Twitter Username: baoki

Neil Aitken is the author of two books of poetry, Babbage's Dream and The Lost Country of Sight, winner of the 2007 Philip Levine Prize. A past Kundiman fellow, he is the editor in chief of Boxcar Poetry Review and co-director of De-Canon: A Visibility Project, and works as a creative writing coach.

Twitter Username: neil_aitken

Website: http://www.neil-aitken.com

Margaret Rhee is the author of chapbooks Yellow (Tinfish Press, 2011), Radio Heart; or, How Robots Fall Out of Love (Finishing Line Press, 2015), and full length collection Love, Robot (The Operating System, 2018). She is an assistant professor at The New School.

Twitter Username: mrheeloy

Hayley Mitchell Haugen is a poet and professor of English at Ohio University Southern. She is the editor and publisher of Sheila-Na-gig Editions. Her most recent collection, The Blue Wife Poems, is available from Kelsay Books.

Kari Gunter-Seymour is Ohio's Poet Laureate, a 9th generation Appalachian, the author of three books of poetry, editor of ten anthologies, an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, 2020 Ohio Poet of the year, and the founder/executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project.

Twitter Username: KGunterSeymour

Website: www.karigunterseymourpoet.com

Mark Youssef is a poet and physician practicing in the Cincinnati area. In addition to his MD, he has an MA in English and is working toward his MFA in poetry, joining an impressive lineage of physician poets. Mark was born and raised in Kentucky.

Barbara Marie Minney is a transgender woman, award-winning poet, retired attorney, and quiet activist. Her first collection of poetry, If There's No Heaven, was the winner of the 2020 Poetry Is Life Book Award and was selected by the Akron Beacon Journal as a Best Northeast Ohio Book in 2020.

Lynette Ford is a fourth-generation Affrilachian narrative artist with the Ohio Teaching Artists Roster and Creative Aging Project, an award-winning writer and anthologist, a storytelling and creative-writing coach, and a member of the National Association of Black Storytellers’ Circle of Elders.

Twitter Username: LynFord84

Lauren K. Alleyne is author of Difficult Fruit (2014) and Honeyfish (2019), and coeditor of Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (2020). She is assistant director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center and professor of English at James Madison University.

Twitter Username: poetlka

Shara McCallum is the author of six books published in the US and UK, most recently No Ruined Stone. Her work appears internationally and has been translated into multiple languages. She teaches at Penn State University and in the Pacific Low-Residency MFA and was the 2021–22 Penn State Laureate.

Vladimir Lucien is a poet, critic, and actor from St. Lucia. Lucien's work has been published widely, including in the PN Review, Poetry International, Washington Square Review, Wasafiri among others. He was the 2015 winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.

Twitter Username: vladimirlucien

Safiya Sinclair is the author of Cannibal, winner of a Whiting Writers' Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award in Literature, and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Her memoir, How to Say Babylon, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster (August 2023).

Twitter Username: SafiyaSinclair

Malika Booker's poetry collection Pepper Seed was longlisted for the OCM Bocas prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre prize. Winner of the Forward Poetry single poem prize and a Cholmondeley Award, she is currently a creative writing lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Twitter Username: malikabooker

Angie Trudell Vasquez is the Poet Laureate of Madison, Wisconsin ('20–'24). She holds a MFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her third collection of poetry, In Light, Always Light, was released by Finishing Line Press in 2019, and My People Redux, her fourth, in January 2022

Margaret Rozga hosted workshops and write-ins open to all as 2021 artist in residence at the UW Milwaukee at Waukesha Field Station and curated the campus exhibit, Our Field Station & the Earth. As 2019–20 Wisconsin Poet Laureate, she led statewide workshops on writing social justice themed poems.

Twitter Username: RozgaMargaret

Raúl Sanchez is the former City of Redmond Poet Laureate. He teaches poetry both in English and Spanish through the Seattle Arts and Lectures (WITS), and Jack Straw Cultural programs. He volunteered for PONGO Teen Writing at the Juvenile Detention Center. His second collection is When There Were No Borders.

Twitter Username: san96979803

Website: https://poetraulsanchez.com

Maiah A Merino, a Chicanx Poet, recently coedited The Yellow Medicine Review’s Spring 2022 Journal: Miracles & Defining Moments. Her work appears in The Yellow Medicine Review and The Raven Chronicles. She is a 2021/2022 Writing the Land Poet, and recipient of the 2021 Artist Gap Award.

Gregory Luce, author of five poetry collections, has organized community poetry events including Arlington Poets in Solidarity With Ukraine (May 2022). He serves as the board chair of Day Eight, a Washington, DC–based nonprofit founded to support local artists in writing about their work.

Twitter Username: dctexpoet

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection and Barnes and Noble's Book of the Year, World of Wonders—and four books of poetry. She serves as poetry editor for Sierra magazine and is professor of English in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.

Twitter Username: aimeenez

Website: www.aimeenez.net

Nathalie Handal's recent books include Life in a Country Album, which “illuminates the luxuriance and longing of deracination—a contemporary Orpheus,” and The Republics, lauded as “one of the most inventive books by one of today’s most diverse writers." She is a professor at Columbia University.

Twitter Username: TheCityWriter

Website: www.nathaliehandal.com

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 edits the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize with Fady Joudah. He teaches at the University of Houston.

Jenny Browne's most recent collection is Fellow Travelers: New and Selected Poems, volume 17 in the Texas Poet Laureate Series. She lives in San Antonio, Texas, teaches at Trinity University, and is the 2020 Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Center at Queens University Belfast.

Twitter Username: jennypoet

Website: www.jennybrowne.com

Twitter Username: Cenote7

Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's debut novel is forthcoming from Holt in 2024, repped by Victoria Sanders & Associates. She is founding editor of Subnivean, SUNY Oswego's undergraduate-staffed literary publication. Her work has appeared in or won nods from HBO, Zoetrope-All Story, ZYZZYVA, Hyphen, and Story.

Twitter Username: somameisheng

Website: http://enizagam.org

Tomas Monz’s debut novel, Big Familia, was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway, the Lambda, and the Foreword 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.

Twitter Username: tomas_moniz

Miah Jeffra is the author of four books, most recently The Violence Almanac and American Gospel, and coeditor of the anthology Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart. They are founding editor of queer and trans literary collaborative, Foglifter Press.

Twitter Username: JeffraMiah

Joseph Han is the author of Nuclear Family and a 2022 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. A recipient of a Kundiman fellowship, his work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Lit Hub, and Catapult.

Twitter Username: hanjoseph

Keenan Norris is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His books include the novel The Confession of Copeland Cane and the nonfiction work Chi Boy. His short work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, and Alta. He teaches at San Jose State University.

Zoe Zolbrod is the author of the memoir The Telling and the novel Currency. She is the coeditor of the Sunday Rumpus and her essays have appeared in The Rumpus, The Nervous Breakdown, Salon, Stir Journal, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: zoezolbrod

Website: zoezolbrod.com

Anne Liu Kellor is a Seattle-based author of Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging, which won an IPPY Award and was a Foreword Indies Book of the Year Finalist in Multicultural Nonfiction. Anne has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Seventh Wave, Jack Straw, 4Culture, and more.

Twitter Username: anneliukellor

Jane Hodges, of Seattle, is a prose writer and the founder of Mineral School, an artists' residency near Mt. Rainier in Washington state. The author of Rent Vs. Own (Chronicle Books, 2012), she holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and has published journalism widely in print and online media.

Claudia Castro Luna is an Academy of American Poets, 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

José L. Montero is a bilingual writer, editor, and advocate of Spanish-language literature in the United States. He holds MFAs in narrative and poetry and was part of the Jack Straw Writers Program. A former president of Seattle Escribe, he currently serves on the board of Seattle City of Literature.

Twitter Username: PepeEscribidor

Teresa Luengo Cid works for the King County Library System serving the Spanish-speaking population, creating reading clubs in Spanish and as a literacy workshop presenter for Latino parents. She coordinated an early literacy program in Spanish, worked as a parent educator and as a language teacher.

Maria de Lourdes Victoria is a bilingual, award-winning author. She is the author of Los Hijos del Mar (Ediciones B, 2006), Más Allá de la Justicia (Entre Líneas, Libros y Palabras, 20210), and La Casa de los Secretos (Planeta México, 2016). The founder of Seattle Escribe, she is a Hedgebrook alumna.

Twitter Username: MariaLVictoria

Website: www.mariadelourdesvictoria.com

Montana Agte-Studier is the director of membership and NYSCA NYTAP at CLMP. Montana holds a BFA in jazz flute and a BA in literature/arts in context from The New School University. She lives in New York City, is associate publisher at The Mantle, and is currently working on a novel.

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

Julayne Lee is the author of Not My White Savior, which has been taught in university freshman literature and race and ethnicity courses. She has spoken on adoption in the US and Korea and hosts writing workshops for adoptees and foster alumni. She has been a judge for national fellowships and residencies.@julayneelle.

Twitter Username: julayneelle

Website: http://www.julaynelee.com/

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is the author of Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications) and is a former Steinbeck Fellow and Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange winner. She is the creator of the quarterly reading series Hitched and a cofounder of Women Who Submit.

Twitter Username: xochitljulisa

Angela Franklin is a retired management analyst who is also a poet, essayist, and grant writer from Los Angeles, California. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction from Antioch University Los Angeles, and was a recent evaluator for the California Arts Council's annual grant program for two cycles.

Twitter Username: angelamfranklin

Janice Lobo Sapigao (she/her) is a poet from San José, California. 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 2020–2021 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate.

Twitter Username: janicesap

Amanda Galvan Huynh is the author of Songs of Brujería (Big Lucks) & coeditor of Of Color: Poets Ways of Making Anthology (Operating System). She has received support from The MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and Squaw Valley.

Twitter Username: amghuynh

Website: amandagalvanhuynh.com

Danez Smith is the author of three collections, most recently Homie and Don't Call Us Dead, a finalist for the National Book Award. They are the cohost of the podcast VS with poet Franny Choi.

Twitter Username: danez_smif

Donika Kelly is the author of The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf book award in poetry, and Bestiary, the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a founding member of the collective Poets at the End of the World. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Iowa, where she teaches creative writing.
Twitter Username: officialdonika

Ruth Dickey has spent over 25 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, DC; New Orleans, LA; Cincinnati, OH; and, most recently, in Seattle, WA, 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, and a BS in Foreign Service and an MA in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University.

Kimberly Blaeser, past Wisconsin Poet Laureate and founding director of Indigenous Nation Poets, has published five poetry collections including Copper Yearning. An emeritus professor at UW—Milwaukee and MFA faculty member for Institute of American Indian Arts, she is Anishinaabe from White Earth.

Twitter Username: kmblaeser

Heid E. Erdrich is a poet, writer, editor, and winner of a National Poetry Series Award for Little Big Bully. She teaches in the low residency MFA program of Augsburg University. Heid is Ojibwe, enrolled at Turtle Mountain.

Twitter Username: HeidErdrich

Website: heiderdrich.com

Christopher Kempf is the author of the poetry collections Late in the Empire of Men (Four Way, 2017) and What Though the Field Be Lost (LSU, 2021), as well as the scholarly book Craft Class: The Workshop in American Culture (Johns Hopkins, 2022). A former Stegner Fellow, he teaches at Illinois.

Amaud Jamaul Johnson is the author of three poetry collections, Imperial Liquor (Pitt Poetry Series 2020), National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Darktown Follies (Tupelo 2013), winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Red Summer (Tupelo 2006), winner of the Dorset Prize.

Esther Lin was born in Brazil and lived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant for 21 years. She was a 2022 artist in residence at Cité internationale, a 2020 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, a 2017–19 Wallace Stegner Fellow, and author of The Ghost Wife (PSA).

Twitter Username: Whalebaby

Bruce Snider is the author of three poetry collections—Fruit; Paradise, Indiana; and The Year We Studied Women. He is also coeditor of The Poem's Country: Place and Poetic Practice. He teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Twitter Username: BhsniderBruce

Website: www.brucesnider.com

Sasha Stiles is an acclaimed poet, artist, and AI researcher recognized as a pioneer of generative literature and blockchain poetics. She is cofounder of theVERSEverse, a literary NFT gallery, and author of Technelegy, a groundbreaking hybrid text that’s been hailed as an “instant techno-classic.”

Twitter Username: Sashastiles

Ana M Caballero is a first-gen Colombian-US poet whose work rips the veil off of romanticized motherhood and questions notions that present female sacrifice as a virtue. Her work has won the Beverly International Prize, Colombia's Jose Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Twitter Username: CaballeroAnaMa

Dr. Victoria Bañales is a member of the Hive Poetry Collective, Writers of Color-Santa Cruz County, and is founder and editor of Xinachtli Journal—Journal X. A Macondo and VONA fellow, she is the recipient of two poetry awards. She is a professor of English at Cabrillo College.

Twitter Username: BanalesVictoria

Catherine Segurson is the editor of Catamaran Literary Reader, and publishes environmental writing. She has worked at two major literary magazines, Zoetrope All-Story, and ZYZZVA. She has worked as a visual artist exhibiting and selling her paintings in galleries in San Francisco and Santa Cruz.

Farnaz Fatemi, an Iranian American poet, is a founding member of The Hive Poetry Collective, which produces podcasts and events in Santa Cruz. Her book Sister Tongue (Kent State UP, 2022) won the Wick First Book Prize. She taught writing at UC Santa Cruz for twenty-one years. Her poems are widely anthologized.

Twitter Username: sasqitoon

Website: www.farnazfatemi.com

Roxi Power has taught for 23 years at UC Santa Cruz where she edits Viz. Inter-Arts—a cross-genre anthology series. She has a new manuscript,The Songs that Objects Sing. She has many poems in journals and books and writes/performs live film narration widely, including the Tennessee Williams Festival.

Dion O’Reilly is the author of Ghost Dogs and Sadness of the Apex Predator. Her poems appear in Rattle, Cincinnati Review, The Sun, and The Slowdown. She is a member of The Hive PoetryCollective, which produces podcasts and events. She leads workshops with poets from all over the United States.

Twitter Username: dionoreilly

Website: dionoreilly.wordpress.com

Joanna Sit was born in China and grew up in New York City. She is the author of My Last Century (2012), In Thailand with the Apostles (2014), and most recently, Track Works. She teaches creative writing at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York.

Holnes is the author of Stepmotherland and Migrant Psalms; his poetry has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Callaloo, and elsewhere. He is the winner of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize and others. He is an assistant professor for CUNY and he teaches at NYU.

Donna Hill has more than seventy titles in print. She has won numerous awards for her body of work. Three of her novels were adapted for television. She holds an MFA in creative writing and is an assistant professor of professional writing at Medgar Evers College

Twitter Username: donnahill

Website: www.donnahill.com

Thaddeus Rutkowski is author of seven books, most recently Tricks of Light, a poetry collection. His novel Haywire won the Asian American Writers Workshop's members' choice award. He teaches at Medgar Evers College and received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Twitter Username: thadrutkowski

Website: www.thaddeusrutkowski.com

Shawn Wong is the author of two novels, Homebase and American Knees, and the editor or coeditor of six anthologies of Asian American and American multicultural literature. He is professor of English and the Byron and Alice Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington.

Twitter Username: shawnwongwrites

tammy lynne stoner is an award-winning screenwriter and author of the novel Sugar Land (Red Hen Press, 2018) who creates gritty, queer-centric stories. She is also the publisher of Gertrude journal, lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon, with her three kids, four pets, and one ladyfriend, and is most often found in the tub.

Twitter Username: TammyStoner

Website: www.TammyLynneStoner.com

Carter Sickels is the author of the novels The Prettiest Star and The Evening Hour. He is assistant professor of creating writing at Eastern Kentucky University.

Twitter Username: cartersickels

Website: cartersickels.com

Johanna Stoberock is the author of the novels Pigs and City of Ghosts. The 2019 recipient of the Artist Trust/Gar LaSalle Storyteller Award, 2016 Runner Up for the Italo Calvino Prize for Fiction, and a 2012 Jack Straw Fellow, her work has appeared in the Best of the Net anthology and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: JGSauthor

Rachel M. Hanson holds an MFA from the University of Utah and a PhD in literature and nonfiction from the University of Missouri. A former O'Connor Fellow in Nonfiction, she now teaches literature and creative writing at the University of North Carolina Asheville.

Eric Tran is a resident physician in psychiatry. He is the author of the forthcoming book of poetry, The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer, and the chapbooks Revisions and Affairs with Men in Suits.

Twitter Username: rebelinslacks

Ginger Ko is an assistant professor at Sam Houston State University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing. She is the author of Motherlover and Inherit, as well as several chapbooks. Her latest project is POWER ON, a book as interactive app.

He is currently vice president, editor in chief of Counterpoint Press, one of the largest independent publishers in the country. He acquires and edits both fiction and nonfiction.

Twitter Username: dansmetanka

Natashia Deón is a two-time NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literature, Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award Nominee in Fiction, a practicing criminal attorney, and author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Perishing and Grace, and is a professor at UCLA and Antioch University.

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Website: www.natashiadeon.com

Nawaaz Ahmed was born in Tamil Nadu, India. His debut novel, Radiant Fugitives, was a finalist for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and was longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Aspen Literary Prize. He currently lives in Brooklyn.

Twitter Username: nawaazonthenet

Tod Goldberg is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen books, including Gangster Nation, Gangsterland, and The Low Desert. He is a professor of creative writing at UC Riverside, where he founded and directs the low residency MFA in creative writing and writing for the performing arts programs.

Twitter Username: todgoldberg

Website: todgoldberg.com

Maria Hummel is the author of four novels, including Still Lives, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and BBC Culture Best Book of the Year. Her awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Bread Loaf Fellowship, and the APR/Honickman Poetry Prize. She teaches at the University of Vermont.

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Shelby Handler is a writer, organizer, and educator living in Seattle on Duwamish land. Recent work has appeared in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Pank, Sugar House Review, and The Journal, among others.

Twitter Username: shelbeleh

Sara Brickman is a queer Jewish writer and performer from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Their poems and essays appear in Narrative, Indiana Review, Adroit, and Ghosts of Seattle Past. Their work investigates trauma, mental illness, and alternate realities. They live in Seattle, where they teach writing to youth.

sam sax is a queer, jewish, writer, and 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

Tom Haviv is a Brooklyn-based, Israeli-born writer, multimedia artist, and organizer. His debut book of poetry, A Flag of No Nation, was by Jewish Currents Press in 2019. He is the founder of the Hamsa Flag Project, which intends to stimulate conversation about the future of Israel / Palestine.

Twitter Username: tmhaviv

Mónica Gomery is the author of Might Kindred, winner of the 2021 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize. A Venezuelan American Ashkenazi poet, her work appears recently in The Iowa Review, Adroit, and Poet Lore. She is a rabbi at Kol Tzedek Synagogue, on unceded Lenni Lenape land in Philadelphia.

Ramona Reeves won the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for her linked story collection, It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories. Her work has appeared in The Southampton Review, Bayou magazine, New South, Texas Highways, and others. She lives with her wife in Texas.

Twitter Username: ramona_reeeves

Leslie Pietrzyk is the author of Admit This to No One, Silver Girl, and This Angel on My Chest, a collection of short stories that won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. She teaches fiction at the Converse College low-residency MFA program.

Twitter Username: lesliepwriter

Website: www.workinprogressinprogress.com

Camille Acker grew up in Washington, DC. She holds a BA in English from Howard University and an MFA in creative writing from New Mexico State University. She is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collection, Training School for Negro Girls.

Rion Amilcar Scott is the author of story collections, The World Doesn't Require You and Insurrections, which won the 2017 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. He earned an MFA from George Mason University and teaches English at the University of Maryland.

Twitter Username: reeamilcarscott

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

Mallory Hellman is director of the the Iowa Youth Writing Project, a K–12 outreach organization based at the University of Iowa. Her work focuses on empowering marginalized communities through creativity and mutual aid. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a Capricorn, and a gardener.

Alyesha Wise is a writer and poet from Camden, New Jersey. Currently residing in L.A., she is the cofounder of Spoken Literature Art Movement and the director of program development for Street Poets Inc. Alyesha is also the cofounder of The Philly Pigeon and has been seen on platforms such as OWN, BET, and PBS.

Twitter Username: mswise

Suma Karaman Rosen has nearly 30 years’ experience in corporate, nonprofit, and educational settings. She joined InsideOut Literary Arts in January 2017, and is inspired daily by the students the organization serves. She is dedicated to amplifying youth voice, from the classroom to the community.

Dominic Lim's debut novel All the Right Notes, an LGBTQIA+ Asian rom-com, will be released in June 2023 by Forever (GCP/Hachette). He is a member of Actors' Equity, the Writers Grotto, and is one of the cohosts of Babylon Salon, the long-running reading and performance series in San Francisco.

Twitter Username: J_Dominic_Lim

Preeti Vangani is the author of Mother Tongue Apologize, winner of the RL Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Threepenny Review and Gulf Coast, among others. She is the winner of the 2022 Pen/Dau Emerging Writers Prize and has been a resident at UCross & Djerassi. She holds an MFA from USF.

Twitter Username: Pscripturient

A.H. Kim is an immigrant, graduate of Harvard College and Berkeley Law School, retired attorney, and author of A Good Family and an upcoming novel to be published in 2023. Her nonfiction writings on cancer have appeared in Zocalo Public Square, Saturday Evening Post, and several anthologies.

Twitter Username: AHKimAuthor

Rita Chang-Eppig received her MFA from NYU. Her debut novel about the infamous Chinese pirate queen is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2023. Her stories have appeared/are forthcoming in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, The Best American Short Stories 2021, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: rche_types

Website: rchetypes.com

Vanessa Hua is the author of national bestsellers Forbidden City and A River of Stars, and Deceit and Other Possibilities, winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. A NEA Literature Fellow, she has received a Rona Jaffe Writers' Award and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing.

Twitter Username: vanessa_hua

Website: www.vanessahua.com

Barney T. Haney teaches English at the University of Indianapolis where he is chair of the Kellogg Writers Series. Winner of the Chris O'Malley Fiction Prize, his work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Mid-American Review, Marathon Literary Review, and Barely South Review, among others.

Jameelah Lang is an assistant professor at Rockhurst University. Her work appears in the Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, and more. She has received awards from Bread Loaf, Sewanee Writers Conference, VCCA, and HUB-BUB. She's a board member for Radius of Arab American Writers.

Christopher Coake is the author of the novel You Came Back and the story collection We're in Trouble, for which he won the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship. In 2006 he was named a Best Young American Novelist by Granta. He teaches and directs the MFA program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Alexandra Kleeman is the author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, Intimations, and the novel Something New under the Sun, and an assistant professor at the New School. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, n+1, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, and Conjunctions.

Twitter Username: alexkleeman

Website: http://www.alexandrakleeman.com

Author of Black Indian, and a journalist for over twenty-five years, Shonda Buchanan is an award-winning poet and educator teaching at Loyola Marymount University. She's working on a second memoir, two novels, and a fourth book of poetry: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Indian-Made-Michigan-Writers/dp/0814345808.

Twitter Username: shondabuchanan

Website: shondabuchanan.com

Chloe Garcia Roberts is a poet and translator from the Spanish and Chinese. She is the author of a book of poetry, The Reveal, and the translator of two books of poetry by the poet Li Shangyin. She works as the deputy editor of Harvard Review and is a freelance translator of children's literature.

Twitter Username: @CGarciaRoberts

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

Molly McCully Brown is the author of the essay collection Places I've Taken My Body and the poetry collection The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded. With Susannah Nevison, she coauthored the poetry collection In the Field Between Us. She teaches at Old Dominion University.

Twitter Username: mmccullybrown

Website: http://mollymccullybrown.com

Hea-Ream Lee is a writer and teacher. She received an MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of Arizona, where she edited fiction for Sonora Review and currently teaches undergraduate writing. Hea-Ream’s work appears in Shenandoah, Terrain.org, Popula, Hobart, and others.

Twitter Username: heareamlee

Michael Torres was born and bought up in Pomona, California, where he spent his adolescence as a graffiti artist. His debut collection, An Incomplete List of Names, was a National Poetry Series selection. Currently, he teaches creative writing in Minnesota.

Mimi Wong is editor in chief of The Offing, which was awarded a Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in The Believer, Catapult, Electric Literature, Hyperallergic, Joyland, Literary Hub, The Margins, and Refinery29. She teaches writing at The New School.

Twitter Username: whoismims

Alexandra Watson is a biracial writer living in Harlem. She is executive editor of Apogee Journal, a publication dedicated to highlighting underrepresented voices. She teaches writing at Columbia University, Baruch College, and at the Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America.

Twitter Username: watsonlexis

Jyothi Natarajan is editor in chief of The Margins, the digital literary magazine published out of the Asian American Writers' Workshop. Jyothi has worked as an editor in book publishing, journalism, and community arts nonprofits for over fifteen years.

Twitter Username: cupofjyo

Angie Cruz is the author of the novels, Dominicana and How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water. She teaches at University of Pittsburgh and is the editor of asterixjournal.com. For more info: angiecruz.com.

Twitter Username: acruzwriter

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán is author of Archipiélagos; Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking; and South Bronx Breathing Lessons. A CantoMundo, Macondo, RAWI, and Lambda Fellow, he is editor of Yellow Medicine Review's global queer Indigenous and Movement Research Performance Journal's Native issues.

K. Ka'imilani Leota Sellers received her MFA from Eastern Kentucky University. A queer Samoan multigenre writer, her writing appears in Yellow Medicine Review and Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color. She teaches in Hawai'i and serves on the LGBTQ Writers Caucus leadership team.

Twitter Username: KKaimilaniLS

Website: http://www.hinarising.com/

Amy M. Alvarez is a Puerto Rican / Jamaican Affrilachian poet published in Ploughshares, PRISM International, The Acentos Review, and Obsidian. She is coeditor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology. A CantoMundo, Macondo, VCCA, and VONA fellow, she teaches at West Virginia University.

Twitter Username: Amy__Writes

Website: https://amymalvarez.com

D. Keali'i MacKenzie is a queer Kanaka Maoli writer and Pacific Tongues Poet-Facilitator. He is the author of From Hunger to Prayer and coeditor of Bamboo Ridge's speculative issue. His work is in 'Ōiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal; Foglifter; and Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English.

MK Chavez is an Afro-Latinx writer and educator. She is the author of Mothermorphosis and Dear Animal. A Hedgebrook, VONA, and CantoMundo fellow, she received an Alameda County Arts Leadership Award, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and San Francisco Foundation / Nomadic Press literary award.

Twitter Username: mkchavez

Polly Stewart is the author of The Good Ones. Her nonfiction is forthcoming on Crime Reads. She runs The Craft of Crime Fiction interview series, usually on Instagram but sometimes on Twitter.

Twitter Username: pollystew

T Kira Mahealani Madden is a lesbian, APIA author of New York Times Editors' Choice memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, and founding editor in chief of No Tokens. Winner of the 2021 LAMBDA Judith A. Markowitz Award, she is an assistant professor at College of Charleston.

Twitter Username: tkiramadden

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

Twitter Username: katie_gutz

Danya Kukafka is the author of the nationally bestselling novels Notes on an Execution and Girl in Snow. She works as a literary agent with Trellis Literary Management.

Twitter Username: danyakukafka

Kirstin Chen is the New York Times bestselling 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

Michele Battiste is the 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

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

Twitter Username: megan_kaminski

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

Selah Saterstrom is the author of the novels Slab, The Meat and Spirit Plan, and The Pink Institution. Her book of essays, Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, was awarded the Essay Press Book Prize. She is the director of the creative writing program at the University of Denver.

Michael Khandelwal writes and publishes fiction and poetry and teaches workshops for The Muse Writers Center in Norfolk, Virginia, for which he is the executive director (and co-founder). He is a columnist for Coastal Virginia magazine and a former webmaster for The American Council on Education.

Rob Arnold (he/him) is a Chamoru poet, editor, and Interim Executive Director of Hugo House, Seattle's independent writing center. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Hyphen, Gettysburg Review, Poetry Northwest, RED INK, Yes Poetry, The Ocean State Review, and The Volta, among others.

Twitter Username: _robarnold

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

Erika Krouse is the author of Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation (memoir), Contenders (novel), and Come Up and See Me Sometime (short stories). Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, and One Story. She teaches at Lighthouse and the Regis MFA.

Twitter Username: ErikaKrouse

Website: www.erikakrouse.com

Jake Friedman is a poet, editor, and culture worker. Past affiliations / employments include the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU, the City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, and Four Chambers Press. He is currently an MFA candidate at Colorado State University.

Twitter Username: friedmanandeggs

Katie Cortese is the author of Girl Power and Other Short-Short Stories and Make Way for Her and Other Stories. Her work has recently appeared in Redivider, Gargoyle, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at Texas Tech University and is the faculty director of Texas Tech University Press.

Twitter Username: KatieCortese

Website: www.katiecortese.com

Jonathan Johnson's most recent book of poetry is May Is an Island. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry and numerous other anthologies and magazines. He migrates between Scotland, Upper Michigan, and Eastern Washington University where he is a poetry professor in the MFA program.

Kristen Renee Miller is the incoming executive director and editor in chief for Sarabande Books. A poet and translator, she is the 2020 winner of the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation and the translator of two books from the French by poet Marie-Andrée Gill. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

Twitter Username: kristenmill

Website: kristenreneemiller.com

Bethany Snead is an acquisitions editor at the University of Georgia Press, where she acquires trade creative works, literary studies, and environmental studies, and oversees their series-based literary competitions. She has worked in scholarly publishing since 2008.

Whitney Koo is a PhD candidate in English- creative writing at Oklahoma State University and the founder and editor in chief of Gasher Press, a nonprofit literary press focused on representing emerging voices.

Twitter Username: Whitney_Koo

Sarah Blake is the author of three books of poetry: In Springtime, Let's Not Live on Earth, and Mr. West. She was awarded an NEA fellowship for poetry in 2013. She is also the author of two novels, Clean Air and Naamah, winner of a National Jewish Book Award. She lives outside of London.

Twitter Username: blakesarah

Rachel Mennies is the author of The Naomi Letters and The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. She works as an adjunct professor and freelance writer, and serves as a member of AGNI's editorial staff.

Twitter Username: rmennies

Website: http://www.rachelmennies.com

Arisa White is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and author of Who's Your Daddy and Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart. She collaborates with other artists to expand readership for poetry and to center the narratives of queer IBPOC. White is an assistant professor of creative writing at Colby College.

Twitter Username: arisaw

Website: arisawhite.com

C. Russell Price lives in Chicago and is the author of Tonight, We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other (SRP) and oh, you thought this was a date?!: Apocalypse Poems (Northwestern University Press). They currently serve on boards with the Ragdale Foundation and The Anarchist Review of Books.

Twitter Username: C_Russell_Price

Wo Chan is a poet and drag performer. They are a winner of the 2020 Nightboat Poetry Prize and the author of Togetherness (2022). Wo has received fellowships from MacDowell, New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, The Asian American Writers Workshop, and elsewhere. Find them @theillustriouspearl

Twitter Username: wochanofficial

Minna Dubin (she/her) is a writer and mother in Berkeley, California. She writes about identity and motherhood. Minna has been published in major news and literary outlets. She is the author of MOM RAGE: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood.

Twitter Username: minnadubin

Website: www.minnadubin.com

Adiba Nelson is an author, TEDx speaker, and subject of the Emmy Award winning documentary, The Full Nelson. She wrote and self-published her first children’s book, Meet ClaraBelle Blue, in 2013, and her memoir, Ain’t That a Mother (Blackstone, 2022) is currently available in all formats.

Twitter Username: adibanelson

Angela Garbes is the author of Like a Mother and Essential Labor, called “a landmark and a lightning storm” by The New Yorker. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and featured on NPR's Fresh Air. Garbes, who lives in Seattle, is also a community advocate for working families.

Twitter Username: agarbes

Sarah W. Jaffe is the author of Wanting What's Best: Parenting, Privilege, and Building a Just World. Her writing, which focuses on the child care and foster care systems, has appeared in The Rumpus, Slate, and Romper. She is an MFA student in creative nonfiction at The New School.

Twitter Username: sarahwinifred

Wendy Barnes currently serves as Artist in Residence at the University of Central Oklahoma. She is the author of Landscape with Bloodfeud (2022), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry from UMass Press. She received a 2022 fellowship in prose from the New Jersey Council on the Arts.

Twitter Username: @barnes_wendy

Website: https://wendybarnes.net/

Xavier Cavazos is the author of Barbarian at the Gate, selected as part of the PSA's New American Poets Chapbook Series. A senior poetry editor for Poetry Northwest, Cavazos' third collection of poetry, The Devil's Workshop, is forthcoming from Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2023.

Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, 2022), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman and MacDowell. She is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center of the Arts and lives in San Francisco.

Twitter Username: shhelleywong

Website: shelley-wong.com

Joel Dias-Porter was the 1998 and 1999 Heads Up Haiku Slam Champ, he has been published in; Time, Poetry, Mead, The Offending Adam, Best American Poetry 2014, Callalloo, Ploughshares, Antioch Review, and Red Brick Review. His first book is Ideas of Improvisation. He lives in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Twitter Username: Diasporter

Sarah Browning 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 Camden in 2021 and is a recipient of the Lillian E. Smith Writer-in-Service Award.

Joan Kwon Glass is the author of Night Swim, winner of the 2021 Diode Editions Book Contest. She has chapbooks with Small Harbor Publishing and Milk & Cake Press. She has been a social studies educator in the Connecticut public schools for the past twenty years.

Twitter Username: joanpglass

Website: www.joankwonglass.com

Jessica Q. Stark is the author of Buffalo Girl and Savage Pageant, which was named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2020 in the Boston Globe and in Hyperallergic. Her poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry and others. She is a poetry editor for AGNI and the comics editor for Honey Literary.

Twitter Username: jezzbah

Patty Paine's most recent book of poems is Grief & Other Animals. She has published four collections of poetry, edited two anthologies, and is editor of Diode Poetry Journal and Diode Editions. She is director of liberal arts & sciences at VCUQ, in Doha, Qatar.

Twitter Username: pattypaine

William Nuʻutupu Giles is an afakasi Samoan writer and arts educator from Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. They have performed poetry on stages across North America including the San Francisco Opera House, John F. Kennedy Center, and Broadway’s New Amsterdam Theatre. Will has facilitated poetry workshops across Oceania in Papua New Guinea, Guåhan, and Aotearoa. They were featured in the HBO documentary Russell Simmons Presents: Brave New Voices, where they helped the Hawaiʻi team win its first International Poetry Slam Championship. Will is also the first Pacific Islander to win the National Underground Poetry Individual Competition. Will’s work has been featured by NBC News, The National Parks Service, HBO, Bustle, LitHub, and Button Poetry. At home they have spent the last ten years working with Youth Speaks Hawaiʻi, giving back to the organization and community that helped them develop a voice.

Kristiana Kahakauwila is a hapa writer of kanaka maoli (Native Hawaiian), German and Norwegian descent. Her first book, This is Paradise: Stories (Hogarth 2013), takes as its heart the people and landscapes of contemporary Hawai'i and was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Her middle-grade novel Clairboyance is due out from HarperCollins in 2024 and she is at work on a historical novel set on the island of Maui. A former magazine editor with Highlights for Children and Wine Spectator, Kristiana has more recently published essays and short fiction in Red Ink, Hunger Mountain, and GEO International, among others. Kristiana earned a BA in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. She was a 2015–16 Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study and is an associate professor in the department of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She also teaches in the low-residency MFA at the Institute of American Indian Art (IAIA) in Santa Fe.

Craig Santos Perez is a Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guam. He is the co-editor of six anthologies and the author of five books of poetry and a scholarly monograph. He is a professor in the English department at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa.

Twitter Username: craigsperez

Website: www.craigsantosperez.wordpress.com

Quinn Rennerfeldt Fairchild is a queer poet, parent, and partner earning her MFA at SFSU. Their work can be found in Cleaver, SAND, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in A Velvet Giant and Salamander. Her chapbook Sea Glass Catastrophe was released in 2020. They are the editor in chief of Fourteen Hills.

Twitter Username: quinnfairchild

Michaela Chairez is a poet from the Inland Empire. She holds a BA in English from Cal State Fullerton. Currently she's pursuing an MA in creative writing at San Francisco State University, where she's the lead poetry editor of Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review.

Rebecca Evans is a decorated Gulf War veteran. Her work has appeared in Gravel Literary magazine, Scribes Weekly Anthology, and is forthcoming in Fiction Southeast and War, Literature & The Arts. She’s pursuing an MFA in creative writing and is on the editorial staff of the Sierra Nevada Review.

Twitter Username: RebeccaWrites

Website: www.rebeccaevanswriter.com

Abby E. Murray (MFA & PhD) is the editor of Collateral, a literary journal concerned with the impact of violent conflict and military service beyond the combat zone. Her first book of poetry, Hail and Farewell, examines the conflict between civilian and military life from a feminist perspective.

Mariette Katharine Kalinowski is a former sergeant in the US Marine Corps. She deployed to Iraq in 2005 and 2008. She earned her MFA in fiction from Hunter College in 2014. Her story "The Train" appears in Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. She is still working on her first novel.

Twitter Username: Skiattq

Jan LaPerle’s new book of poetry, Maybe the Land Sings Back, was published in spring 2022 from Galileo Books. She completed her MFA from Southern Illinois University. She now lives in Kentucky with her husband and daughter where she serves on active duty at Fort Knox as an Army master sergeant.

Twitter Username: jannasperle

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

Amie Whittemore is the author of Glass Harvest and an educator. She was an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow and her work has appeared in Queer Nature, Cold Mountain Review, Terrain: a Journal of Built & Natural Environments, Gettysburg Review, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: amiewhittemore

Melissa Matthewson is the author of a memoir-in-essays, Tracing the Desire Line, from Split/Lip Press. Her essays have appeared in Literary Hub, Guernica, Oregon Humanities, and Catapult, among others. She teaches in the Eastern Oregon University low residency MFA program.

Twitter Username: melmatthewson

Alicia Mountain is the author of High Ground Coward, which won the Iowa Poetry Prize, and Four in Hand (BOA Editions, 2023). She holds a MFA from the University of Montana and a PhD from the University of Denver. Dr. Mountain teaches in the Writer's Foundry MFA at St. Joseph's University in Brooklyn.

Twitter Username: HiGroundCoward

Kemi Alabi is a Chicago-based poet and culture worker. They're author of Against Heaven, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, and coeditor of The Echoing Ida Collection.

Twitter Username: kemiaalabi

Susan Ito coedited the anthology A Ghost at Heart's Edge: Stories and Poems of Adoption. She is author of the memoir The Mouse Room. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, and on faculty at Mills College and BayPath University's MFA programs.

Twitter Username: thesusanito

Website: http://www.susanito.com

Abby Minor lives in central Pennsylvania, where she works on poems, essays, drawings, and projects exploring reproductive politics. Her first book, As I Said: A Dissent (Ricochet Editions, 2022), is a collection of long documentary poems concerning abortion, justice, and citizenship in US history.

Kwoya Fagin Maples is a writer from Charleston, South Carolina. She is the author of Mend (University Press of Kentucky, 2018) which was named a 2019 Finalist for the Hurston-Wright Award for Poetry and a 2019 Finalist for the Housatonic Book Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of Alabama.

Twitter Username: kwoya_maples

Website: kwoyafaginmaples.com

Amanda Uhle is publisher of McSweeney’s, known for its award-winning quarterly literary journal, humor website, magazines, and eclectic book publishing program. Uhle's writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Newsweek, ThinkProgress, the Boston Globe, Delacorte Review, and elsewhere.

Deema K. Shehabi is the author of Thirteen Departures from the Moon and coeditor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, for which she received the NCBR Recognition Award. She's also coauthor with Marilyn Hacker of Diaspo/Renga. She won the Nazim Hizkmet Poetry Prize in 2018.

Twitter Username: @DeemaShehabi

Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet. Her books include O, Louder than Hearts, and To Live in Autumn. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times, Poetry, Ploughshares, and The Nation, among others. She's the cohost of Maqsouda, a podcast in Arabic about Arabic poetry.

Twitter Username: zeinabeck

Lubna Safi is a poet, writer, and graduate student living in California. Her poems and essays have been published in Guernica, The Journal, MIZNA, and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection, Your Blue and the Quiet Lament won the 2022 Walt McDonald First Book Prize in Poetry.

Twitter Username: lubna_saf

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's book of poetry, Water and Salt, is published by Red Hen Press. Her chapbook, Arab in Newsland, won the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Prize. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of the Net, and the Rita Dove Prize. She holds an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at PLU.

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Website: www.lenakhalaftuffaha.com

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.

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, Blink Ink Print, and Best of Small Fictions 2018. He is currently an MFA candidate at Goddard College.

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Natasha Marin is a conceptual artist whose people-centered projects have circled the globe and have been recognized by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, and others. She is the curator of Black Imagination (McSweeney’s 2020) and Black Powerful (2022). www.black-imagination.com.

Twitter Username: melaninabundan1

Website: www.natasha-marin.com

Amber Flame is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, activist, and educator. In her writing, Flame explores spirituality and sexuality, cross-woven with themes of grief and loss, motherhood and magic, and the interstitial joy in it all.

Twitter Username: blkunic0rn

Website: www.theamberflame.com

Lyn Miller-Lachmann is the author of the YA novels Gringolandia, Rogue, and Torch and the coauthor (with Zetta Elliott) of the MG verse novel Moowalking. She translates picture books and graphic novels from Portuguese to English. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from VCFA.

Twitter Username: LMillerLachmann

Website: www.lynmillerlachmann.com

Diana Ma is a Chinese American author of the Daughters of the Dynasty series. Her debut novel was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in YA. She is a 2019 We Need Diverse Books mentee and has an MA in creative writing from UIC and is English faculty at North Seattle College.

Twitter Username: DianaJunYiMa

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Website: https://davidkrausman.com/

Anna Leahy is a poet, nonfiction writer, pedagogy scholar, and medical humanities facilitator. Her books include What Happened Was:, Aperture, Tumor, and Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom. She directs the MFA in creative writing program at Chapman University and edits Tab Journal.

Twitter Username: AMLeahy

Terry Ann Thaxton has published three books of poetry: Getaway Girl, The Terrible Wife, and Mud Song, as well as Creative Writing in the Community: A Guide. She is professor of English at the University of Central Florida where she directs the MFA program.

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Website: www.terryannthaxton.com

Ashley Mack-Jackson is a writer, teacher, and native Hoosier. She cofounded Word As Bond, Inc., an organization that provides free literary arts education to youth and historically marginalized communities across central Indiana. She also teaches in the College of Education at Butler University.

Twitter Username: ashmackjack

David Groff’s poetry collection Clay was chosen by Michael Waters for the Louise Bogan Award. An independent book editor specializing in fiction and narrative nonfiction, he teaches poetry, publishing, and literary citizenship in the MFA program of the City College of New York.

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Website: www.davidgroff.com

L.M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas has creative nonfiction and a literary translation MFAs from the University of Iowa. She is the author of Drown Sever Sing and Don’t Come Back from Mad Creek Books. She is a Rona Jaffe fellow and works as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.

Inara Verzemnieks is the author the critically acclaimed memoir Among the Living and the Dead. A member of the faculty of the University of Iowa's nonfiction writing program, she has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing and the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award.

Twitter Username: inaraverz

Website: inaraverzemnieks.com

Sarah Viren is the author of the essay collection Mine, winner of the River Teeth Book Prize and the GLCA New Writers Award. A contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, she is also an assistant professor at Arizona State University.

Twitter Username: sarahviren

Website: sarahviren@wordpress.com

Angela Pelster's essay collection Limber won the GLCA Nonfiction Award for new writers and was a finalist for the PEN Art of the Essay award. She's published in Ploughshares, Lit Hub, The Kenyon Review, and Granta, among others. She teaches in the MFA/BFA at Hamline University in St Paul.

Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel is the author of the essay collection Fear Icons, winner of the inaugural Gournay Prize. A graduate of the University of Montana's Environmental Studies Program and the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, she teaches creative writing at Whitman College.

Twitter Username: KishaSchlegel

Stephanie Heit is a queer disabled poet, dancer, teacher, Zoeglossia Fellow, and member of Olimpias, a disability performance collective. She codirects Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and is the author of Psych Murders and The Color She Gave Gravity.

Twitter Username: stephanie_heit

Website: https://stephanie-heit.com/

Nazifa Islam is the author of the poetry collections Searching for a Pulse and Forlorn Light: Virginia Woolf Found Poems. Her poems have appeared in publications including Gulf Coast, Tupelo Quarterly, The Missouri Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal. She earned her MFA at Oregon State University.

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Maya Beck is a broke blipster, lapsed Muslim, pan demigirl, socially anxious social justice bard, and speculative fiction writer pursuing an MFA at UCSD. Alum of programs at VONA, Kimbilio, and Tin House, her writing can be found at Strange Horizons, Mizna, PANK, NAT BRUT, and more.

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Addie Tsai (any/all) has an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in dance from Texas Woman's University. Addie teaches creative writing at William & Mary. They are the author of Dear Twin and Unwieldy Creatures.

Twitter Username: addiebrook

Subhaga Crystal Bacon’s new book, Transitory, is forthcoming in the fall of 2023 from BOA Editions. She’s the author of two other collections, Blue Hunger (Methow Press, 2020) and Elegy with a Glass of Whiskey (BOA Editions, 2004). A Queer Elder, she lives, writes, and teaches rural north-central Washington.

Nickole Brown’s books include Sister: A Novel-in-Poems, Fanny Says: A Biography-in-Poems, and two chapbooks—To Those Who Were Our First Gods and The Donkey Elegies. Currently, she teaches at the Sewanee School of Letters and is president of The Hellbender Gathering of Poets. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

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Website: www.nickolebrown.com

Dustin Pearson is the author of A Season in Hell with Rimbaud, Millennial Roost, and A Family Is a House. He is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Toledo.

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Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Children of the Land: A Memoir (Harper Collins), Cenzontle, (BOA editions), and Dulce (Northwestern University Press). He is a founding member of the Undocupoets. He teaches at the St. Mary’s College MFA program Ashland University.

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Danya Kukafka is the author of the nationally bestselling novels Notes on an Execution and Girl in Snow. She works as a literary agent with Trellis Literary Management.

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Iwalani Kim is an associate literary agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. She represents adult upmarket and literary fiction and select narrative nonfiction. Her clients include Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, Patricia Patterson, Reena Shah, and Tina Vasquez.

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Annie Hwang is a literary agent at Ayesha Pande Literary where she represents literary fiction with teeth and mission-driven nonfiction. Her authors include John Paul Brammer, Franny Choi, Lilly Dancyger, and Sequoia Nagamatsu.

Twitter Username: AnnieAHwang

Stephanie Delman spent ten years building her list at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates before cofounding Trellis Literary Management in the fall of 2021. She represents literary, upmarket, and genre-bending adult fiction, including Zakiya Dalila Harris, Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Julia Fine, and more.

Twitter Username: imaginarysmd

Daryl Farmer's first book, Bicycling beyond the Divide, received a Barnes and Noble Discover Award. His recent work has appeared in many journals including The Whitefish Review, The Potomac Review, Hayden's Ferry, and Fourth River. He is an assistant professor at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.

Nancy Lord is the author of environmental- and science-related books including the nonfiction Early Warming and Beluga Days and the novel pH. She teaches science writing for Johns Hopkins University and is a former Alaska Writer Laureate.

Annie Wenstrup received her MFA in creative writing from Stonecoast (Summer 2022). She's a Smithsonian Arctic Studies Fellow and an Indigenous Nations Poetry Fellow. She serves on the Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference Advisory Committee.

Twitter Username: akwenstrup

Laureli Ivanoff, an award-winning journalist and columnist, writes from her hometown in Unalakleet. Published in the New York Times with a current High Country News column, she is writing a memoir sharing history of settler colonialism in Alaska and how it ripples into her life as an Inupiaq woman today.

Twitter Username: laureliivanoff

Tom Kizzia is author of three nonfiction books set in Alaska: Cold Mountain Path, Pilgrim's Wilderness, and The Wake of the Unseen Object. He has written for The New Yorker and the Columbia Journalism Review, and was an Anchorage Daily News reporter for twenty-five years. He lives in Homer, Alaska.

Alexandra Villasante's debut, The Grief Keeper, was an Indies Next, Indies Introduce, Junior Library Guild Selection and winner of the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ YA Fiction. Her short stories will appear in the upcoming YA anthologies Our Shadows Have Claws and All Signs Point to Yes.

Twitter Username: magpiewrites

Daria Peoples holds a BA in English and a MA in education. She is an elementary school art teacher and an author and illustrator of many picture books. She was an inaugural Diversity Fellow for the Highlights Foundation.

Linda Epstein is a senior literary agent at Emerald City Literary Agency and author of the middle grade novel, Repairing the World (Aladdin, 2022). She teaches at The Highlights Foundation and elsewhere, has an MFA in writing for children and young adults from The New School, and lives in Woodstock, New York.

Twitter Username: lindaepstein

Website: lindaepsteinauthor.com

Alison Green Myers is a writer, poet, and teacher. She's the program director for the Highlights Foundation and a National Writing Fellow. Her novel A Bird Will Soar won the Schneider Family Book Award from the American Library Association, and was named the best book of the year for kids from PaLA.

Twitter Username: alisongmyers

Debbi Michiko Florence, a third-generation Japanese American and former educator, is the author of middle grade novels Keep It Together Keiko Carter, Just Be Cool Jenna Sakai, Sweet and Sour, and This Is How I Roll. She is also the author the chapter books series Jasmine Toguchi.

Twitter Username: DebbiMichiko

Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Pushcart Prize–winning Taiwanese American writer from California. A Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at NYU and a NYFA Fellow, her debut novel, Disorientation, was published by Penguin Press, and her speculative short story collection, Where Are You Really From?, is forthcoming in 2024.

Twitter Username: elainehsiehchou

K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice novel Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020) and the forthcoming short story collection Gods of Want.

Isabel Yap is a Filipino author of fiction and poetry. Born and raised in Manila, she is currently based in the US. Her work was nominated for a Locus award and has appeared in venues including Tor.com, Lit Hub, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction. Her debut short story collection is Never Have I Ever.

Twitter Username: visyap

Silvia Park is a Korean/American writer and visiting assistant professor at Oberlin College. Their work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Tor.com, and The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, among others. Their debut novel is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in 2024.

Twitter Username: silviajpark

Ploi Pirapokin is a Thai-born, Hong Kong-raised extraordinary alien. She is the nonfiction editor at Newfound Journal, and is featured in Tor.com, Pleiades, Ninth Letter, Sycamore Review, Gulf Stream magazine, and more. She's a 2018 Clarion Writers Workshop graduate, and holds an MFA from SFSU.

Twitter Username: ppirapokin

Aditi Natasha Kini writes creative nonfiction, screenplays, and other text objects. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Rumpus, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is a 2021 Jerome Award Alternate and an MFA candidate in cross-genre writing at UCSD. She is at work on her first book.

Twitter Username: nansequiturs

Sarah Madges is a Brooklyn-based writer and literary organizer whose work explores gender, sexuality, and trauma. They hold an MFA from the New School, copy edit for Guernica, and have words in The Rumpus, the Village Voice, A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault, and elsewhere.

Neon Mashurov (NM Esc) is a writer from Brooklyn and the post-Soviet diaspora, and an MFA candidate at UCSD. Their writing appears in We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, Black Warrior Review, Peach magazine, Hobart Pulp, and The Recluse. They edit Alchemy, UCSD’s translation journal.

Shin Yu Pai is the author of many books including Virga (Empty Bowl, 2021), ENSO (Entre Rios, 2020), and AUX ARCS (La Alameda, 2013). She has taught at Vermont College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Dallas, Southern Methodist University, and was a Peter Taylor Fellow at Kenyon College.

Twitter Username: shinyupai

Website: www.shinyupai.com

Serena Chopra (assistant professor, Seattle University) is a writer, dancer, filmmaker, soundscape designer, and visual and performance artist. She has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Denver, and she is a Fulbright Scholar, Kundiman Fellow, and MacDowell Fellow. She has two books and two films.

Amaranth Borsuk's most recent book is The Book (MIT Press, 2018). Previous books include Pomegranate Eater; Handiwork; and the collaborations ABRA, As We Know, and Between Page & Screen. She is associate director of the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program at the University of Washington Bothell.

Twitter Username: amaranthborsuk

Website: www.amaranthborsuk.com

Elisheba Johnson is a curator, poet, public artist, and consultant that lives in Seattle, Washington. She currently co-manages Wa Na Wari, a Black art center in Seattle’s Central Area that uses the arts to build community and resist displacement.

Sunyoung Lee is the publisher of award-winning literary nonprofit Kaya Press, where she has worked for the past 22 years.

Truong Tran is a poet, artist, and teacher living and practicing in San Francisco. His most recent works include 100 Words coauthored with poet Damon Potter (Omnidawn 2021) and the much anticipated Book of the Other (Kaya Press 2021).

Allison Cobb is the author of After We All Died, Plastic: An Autobiography, Green-Wood, and Born Two. She was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and Oregon Book Award, and her work has appeared in Best American Poetry and many other journals. She co-curates the Switch series in Portland.

Twitter Username: allisoncobb

Website: allisoncobb.net

Jung Yun is the author of O Beautiful (St. Martin's) and Shelter (Picador). She's an associate professor of creative writing at the George Washington University, and her work has appeared in Tin House, The Massachusetts Review, The Atlantic, the New York Times, the Washington Post, among others.

Joseph J. Capista is the author of Intrusive Beauty, selected for Ohio University Press’s 2018 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. He has received awards from the NEH, the Maryland State Arts Council, Sewanee, and Bread Loaf. He teaches at Towson University and lives with his family in Baltimore.

Lisa Page is coeditor of We Wear The Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing (Beacon Press) Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, LitHub, Playboy, The Crisis, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and in anthologies. She directs the creative writing program at George Washington University.

Twitter Username: LisaPag39212124

Emily Benson is an associate editor for the magazine High Country News, which covers the landscapes, communities, and people of the Western US. She edits and writes features, essays, and more from her home in North Idaho, and is a graduate of the UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Program.

Twitter Username: erbenson1

Jane C. Hu is an award-winning journalist living in Seattle. Her work has appeared in publications like Slate, High Country News, National Geographic, and The Atlantic, and in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022. She teaches science writing at the University of Washington.

Twitter Username: jane_c_hu

Michelle Nijhuis is the author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, a history of the modern conservation movement. She is a project editor for The Atlantic and a longtime contributing editor of High Country News.

Twitter Username: nijhuism

Website: www.michellenijhuis.com

Roberta Kwok is an award-winning freelance science journalist who has written for publications such as NewYorker.com, NYTimes.com, The Southern Review, Nature, New Scientist, Audubon, and U.S. News & World Report. From 2020–21, she was a Project Fellow at MIT's Knight Science Journalism Program.

Twitter Username: robertakwok

Ferris Jabr is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. Some of his work is anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. He has received fellowships from UC Berkeley, MIT, and The Whiting Foundation. He is currently writing a book for Random House about Earth history.

Twitter Username: ferrisjabr

Munyao Kilolo is a writer and translator. He is the founder and editor in chief of Ituĩka - A Literary platform devoted to African languages and translation and is director of the Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature. He previously served as the managing editor of Jalada Africa.

Twitter Username: MosesKilolo

Jay Boss Rubin is a writer and translator from Portland, Oregon. He's an MFA student at Queens College, concentrating in literary translation, and a recipient of a 2022 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant. He's currently revising his translation of the Swahili novel ROSA MISTIKA, by Euphrase Kezilahabi.

Twitter Username: gone2bongo

Richard Prins has lived, worked, studied, and recorded music in Dar es Salaam. His poems, essays, and translations of Swahili poetry have appeared in publications such as Gulf Coast, jubilat, and Ploughshares, and received “Notable” mentions in Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing.

Kelsey McFaul is a member of the editorial staff at Two Lines Press and a PhD candidate in literature at UC Santa Cruz, where she studies African literature. As a Humanities Institute Public Fellow in 2020–21, she worked with Two Lines to support and publish Swahili writers and translators.

Twitter Username: kelseymcfaul

Margo Perin is the author of Plexiglass; The Opposite of Hollywood; Only the Dead Can Kill: Stories from Jail, and How I Learned to Cook, specializing in incarcerated and school to prison pipeline youth and adult writing programs. 

Twitter Username: margoperin

Susan Terence has won several awards for her writing, including a DeWar’s Young Writer’s Award for Calif. She has been a writer / performer in residence for arts councils in California, Montana, Atlanta, North Carolina, and through California Poets in the Schools. Her poetry has been published widely, nationally.

Twitter Username: Righteoustpoet

Website: www.javanjhoward.com

Artivist Raie Crawford is ranked within the top 20 among the Women of the World Poetry Slam and top 25 within the rankings of the Individual World Poetry Slam. In 2018 she released her first book In Between |Space| which captures the journey and movement of black bodies in today’s society.

Kimberly Blaeser, past Wisconsin Poet Laureate and founding director of Indigenous Nation Poets, has published five poetry collections including Copper Yearning. An emeritus professor at UW—Milwaukee and MFA faculty member for Institute of American Indian Arts, she is Anishinaabe from White Earth.

Twitter Username: kmblaeser

Elise Paschen, a founding member of In-Na-Po, is an enrolled member of the Osage Nation. The author of four books of poetry, most recently, The Nightlife, her poems have appeared in A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, Best American Poetry, and Poetry, among other anthologies and magazines.

Twitter Username: ElisePaschen

Crisosto Apache is an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe with descent from Mescalero, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné (Salt Clan born for Towering House Clan). He has an MFA from IAIA. He teaches and pursues the advocacy of Native American / Indigenous LGBTQ social injustice.

Twitter Username: Crisosto_Apache

Website: http://crisostoapache.com

Kenzie Allen is a poet and multimodal artist, and a descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. The recipient of a 92Y Discovery Prize and a James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets, her poems can be found in Narrative, Boston Review, and other venues. She teaches at York University in Toronto.

Twitter Username: cerena

Website: http://kenzieallen.co

Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, Whiting Award, and Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He is from the Navajo Nation.

Twitter Username: JakeSkeets

Kerri Webster is the author of Lapis (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), The Trailhead (Wesleyan, 2018), Grand & Arsenal (University of Iowa, 2012), and We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone (University of Georgia, 2005). She teaches at Boise State University.

Brenda Hillman has written eleven books of poetry, including Extra Hidden Life, among the Days and In a Few Minutes Before Later (2022). She is a Chancellor Emerita at the Academy of American Poets, teaches at St. Mary’s College of California and directs Poetry Week at Community of Writers.

Twitter Username: brendalhillman

Website: brendahillman.net

Abigail Chabitnoy is the author of How to Dress a Fish, winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 2020 Griffin Prize for Poetry. She is a mentor at the Institute of American Indian Arts and assistant professor at UMass Amherst.

Twitter Username: achabitnoy

Stephanie Elliott Prieto is the publicist / web manager at Wesleyan UP. She served on the Equity, Justice, and Inclusion Committee of AUPresses (2020–2022).

Twitter Username: weslpress

Michelle Cruz Gonzales is the author of The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band. She has published in LA Review of Books, Longreads, Razorcake, Mitu Fierce, Latino Rebels, and Hip Mama magazine. Michelle teaches English and creative writing at Las Positas Community College.

Twitter Username: xicanabrava

Sean Chambers teaches American literature, creative writing, and journalistic ethics at Valley Forge Military College (PA). He has a BA in English from UVA, and an MAW and MFA in creative writing from Manhattanville College. He is a Governor's Council on the Arts grant-winner (oral history) with reviews in Booklist and a residency in '23-Door County, Wisconsin.

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

Twitter Username: MsCerv

Cade Leebron writes nonfiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, American Literary Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere.

Twitter Username: CadeyLadey

Website: www.mslifeisbestlife.com

Jess Silfa is an Afro-Latinx, disabled, and queer writer, and poet. They graduated from Columbia University and are currently in the MFA program at Vanderbilt. They are currently working on their first novel about a tight-knit immigrant community as well as a chapbook of poems about the body.

Twitter Username: jesilfa

Molly McCully Brown is the author of the essay collection Places I've Taken My Body and the poetry collection The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded. With Susannah Nevison, she coauthored the poetry collection In the Field Between Us. She teaches at Old Dominion University.

Twitter Username: mmccullybrown

Website: http://mollymccullybrown.com

Emily Rose Cole is the author of the full-length poetry collection Thunderhead and the chapbook Love & A Loaded Gun, collection of persona poems in women's voices. She holds an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is a PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati.

Twitter Username: EmilyColeWrites

Website: www.emilyrosecolepoetry.com

Catherine Zobal Dent is the author of Unfinished Stories of Girls. She won a 2015 French Voices Award for her translation of Cyrille Fleischman. She teaches undergraduate writers and editors at Susquehanna University and serves on the faculty board of FUSE (Forum of Undergraduate Student Editors).

Michael Cocchiarale is associate professor of English and creative writing at Widener University, where he teaches courses in American literature, fiction writing, and composition. He is the author of Here Is Ware (short stories) and None of the Above (a novel).

Rachel Hall is the author of Heirlooms, a collection of linked stories, which was selected by Marge Piercy for the BkMk Press 2015 G.S. Sharat Chandra book prize. She is professor of English at SUNY Geneseo, where she holds two Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence.

Twitter Username: Rach_H_writer

Website: rachelhall.org

Reed Wilson is the author of Orpheum, and his poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, The Cortland Review, The Chattahoochee Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles, and teaches in the English department at UCLA.

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

Twitter Username: OctoEmily

Derek Scheips is a multigenre writer and instructor who has taught and coached writing students at a variety of institutions, including University of Washington and University of Pennsylvania. He also has significance experience as a communications consultant for global advertising agencies.

Twitter Username: derekscheips

Website: https://www.derekscheips.com

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán is author of Archipiélagos; Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking; and South Bronx Breathing Lessons. A CantoMundo, Macondo, RAWI, and Lambda Fellow, he is editor of Yellow Medicine Review's global queer Indigenous and Movement Research Performance Journal's Native issues.

Belinda Kremer, a poet and the poetry editor of Confrontation, holds an MFA in poetry from the Univ. of Michigan. 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.

K. Ka'imilani Leota Sellers received her MFA from Eastern Kentucky University. A queer Samoan multigenre writer, her writing appears in Yellow Medicine Review and Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color. She teaches in Hawai'i and serves on the LGBTQ Writers Caucus leadership team.

Twitter Username: KKaimilaniLS

Website: http://www.hinarising.com/

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