Season 18 Mentors and Mentees

AWP celebrates the mentors and mentees participating in Season 18 of the Writer to Writer Mentorship Program. We are thrilled to introduce twenty-four pairs for this session, who were matched based on their experience, goals, and writing style. Thank you to our volunteer mentors, and congratulations to the mentees they selected!

Genre Mentor Mentee

Creative Nonfiction

SayantaniDasgupta

Sayantani Dasgupta

NandiniSikand

Nandini Sikand

Sophia Kouidou-Giles

Sophia Kouidou-Giles

Lea Page

Lea Page

Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Marisa Russello

Marisa Russello

Bronson Lemer

Bronson Lemer

Hernan Jourdan

Hernan Jourdan

Lara Lillibridge

Lara Lillibridge

Robin Pickering

Robin Pickering

Anika Fajardo

Anika Fajardo

Caitlyn Zawideh

Caitlyn Zawideh

Dawn Raffel

Dawn Raffel

Sarah Renee Beach

Sarah Renee Beach

Poetry

Athena Kildegaard

Athena Kildegaard

Kathryn Temple

Kathryn Temple

Derek Otsuji

Derek Otsuji

Willard Ramsey

Willard Ramsey

Karen Rigby

Karen Rigby

Genevieve DeGuzman

Genevieve DeGuzman

Neil Aitken

Neil Aitken

Yibing Du

Yibing Du

J. Kates

J. Kates

Timothy Furgal

Timothy Furgal

Jehanne Dubrow

Jehanne Dubrow

Rebekah Wolman

Rebekah Wolman

Patricia Clark

Patricia Clark

Pamela Manasco

Pamela Manasco

Tony Keith

Tony Keith Jr.

Jessica Ram

Jessica Ram

Fiction

Evan Morgan Williams

Evan Morgan Williams

Jeffrey Heid

Jeffrey Heid

Yvonne Ventresca

Yvonne Ventresca

Emma Sunog

Emma Sunog

Paul Pedroza

Paul Pedroza

Margaret Besser

Margaret Besser

Kristen Witucki

Kristen Witucki

Sadia Kalam

Sadia Kalam

Jennifer Steil

Jennifer Steil

Sunny Rosen

Sunny Rosen

Maryka Biaggio

Maryka Biaggio

Shannon St. Hilaire

Shannon St. Hilaire

Jessica Payne

Jessica Payne

Don Rath

Don J. Rath

Keenan Norris

Keenan Norris

Emma Akpan

Emma Akpan

Moazzam Sheikh

Moazzam Sheikh

Janice Sapigao

Janice Lobo Sapigao