These are the writers Epiphany has published over the years. We pride ourselves on publishing diverse contemporary voices that reflect the changing world around us. Here you will see both emerging and established writers. Browse the writers to get a sense of who we are and what kind or writers we publish. In short we love writing that moves us, keep us awake and wondering, and challenges us to look at the world anew.
Jennifer
Adcock
is a Mexican-born, Scotland-based poet and translator working in English and Spanish. Her work has appeared in publications such as Words Without Borders, Asymptote, and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection was named by Reforma as one of the best poetry books published in 2014. In 2016 she was named one of the ‘Ten New Voices from Europe’ by Literature Across Frontiers.
Jennifer
Ahlquist
is an East Coast transplant to California, currently writing her MFA thesis at UC Davis. Her fiction has appeared in issue 4.2 of The Maine Review, and online in The Eunoia Review and Storychord. She has supported her writing by serving sushi, tweeting about designer furniture, booking events in a basement bowling alley, and copy writing Dutch press releases.
Sara
Ahmed
is a writer and scholar working at the intersections of feminist, queer, and race studies. She is the author of Living a Feminist Life, The Promise of Happiness, and others. Her articles have appeared in New Formations, Lamda Nortica, and Borderlands. She now lives on the outskirts of Cambridgeshire with her partner and dog.
David
Albahari
has published nine collections of short stories and eleven novels in Serbian, including Leeches (novel, 2005) and Shadows (short stories, 2006). He won the Ivo Andrić award for the best book of short stories published in Yugoslavia in 1982 , and the NIN award for the best novel published in Yugoslavia in 1996, as well as the Balcanica Award and Berlin Bridge Prize.
Kelli
Allen
has served as Poetry Editor for The Lindenwood Review and she directed River Styx’s Hungry Young Poets Series. She is the recipient of the 2018 Magpie Award for Poetry, the Etchings Press Prize, the Damfino Press award, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Alison Anderson
has published three novels, Hidden Latitudes, Darwin’s Wink, and The Summer Guest. In addition, since 2008 she has been working as a full-time literary translator. She has translated over ninety novels from French, including Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog and works by Nobel laureate JMG Le Clézio. She is currently living in a village in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.
E. Kristin Anderson
is a poet living in Austin, Texas. She is the editor of Come as You Are, an anthology of writing on ’90s pop culture (Anomalous Press), and Hysteria: Writing the female body (Sable Books, forthcoming). She is the author of nine chapbooks of poetry, and an assistant poetry editor at The Boiler and an editorial assistant at Sugared Water. Once upon a time she worked nights at The New Yorker.
Karen Leona
Anderson
is the author of the poetry collections Receipt (Milkweed Editions) and Punish honey (Carolina Wren). Her work has most recently appeared in Pleiades, Little Star, Alaska Quarterly Review, ZYZZYVA, The Best American Poetry, and other journals and anthologies; her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and she is the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Grant.
Sarah Anderson
was born and raised outside Philadelphia and completed her B.A. in Biology and Creative Writing at Colgate University in 2018. She is currently a Global Health Corps fellow living in Lusaka, Zambia, where she works in malaria elimination and writes a travel blog.
Shuang Ang
Shuang Ang (双), is currently attending the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. She interned at Epiphany magazine and was reader for Palette Poetry. She has work featured in The Margins and The Rumpus.
Derek Annis
Derek Annis is the author of Neighborhood of Gray Houses, which will be released by Lost Horse Press in March, 2020. Derek lives in Spokane, Washington, and holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University. Their poems have appeared in The Account, Colorado Review, Epiphany, The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review Online, Spillway, Third Coast, and many other journals.
Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout, earned her BA at the University of California, Berkeley—where she studied with Denise Levertov—and she earned her MA at San Francisco State University. She won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and a 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award. She has received fellowships and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the California Arts Council, the Rockefeller Center, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
MC Armstrong
was awarded a Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in part in Esquire, Epiphany, and The Gettysburg Review. Fiction and nonfiction works of his have appeared in Esquire, The Mantle, The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, Mayday, Monkeybicycle, Epiphany, The Literary Review, and other journals and anthologies. Currently pioneering Global War on Terror Studies as a PhD candidate at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, M. C. lives in Greensboro, NC with Yorick the Corgi.
angel ash
also known as Ashante J. Ford (they/she) is a queer multidisciplinary artist residing in Oakland, California. Her artistic expression becomes a spiritual odyssey, each poem a metaphysical dance with the surreal as she focuses on themes of healing, growth, and community. She creates offerings for the powers that be. The expansiveness of their poetry has led them to two galleries so far. Two of her poems, “The Navigator” and “Furiously shaking my hips,” were displayed in the Multi-Cultural Center in Berkeley, California and a piece titled “Obatala offers peace” was displayed in San Francisco at the Drawing Room Annex. Aside from that, they have been published in SKEW Magazine, the 1619 Speaks Anthology, Anti Fragile Magazine, Pensive Magazine, Petrichor Magazine, and more. You can visit her writing on her website ashanteswrite.blog.
Hannah Lillith Assadi
received her MFA in fiction from the Columbia University School of the Arts. She was raised in Arizona by her Jewish mother and Palestinian father. Sonora is her debut novel, and won the 2018 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Awards and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. She lives in Brooklyn.
Ruth Awad
is an award-winning Lebanese-American poet whose debut poetry collection Set to Music a Wildfire won the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She is the recipient of a 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Poem-a-Day, The New Republic, Pleiades, The Rumpus, The Missouri Review Poem of the Week, Epiphany, BOAAT Journal, and elsewhere.
Amber Wheeler Bacon
has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and is on the board of directors of the South Carolina Writers Association. Her work has appeared in Epiphany, Post Road, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2018 Breakout 8 Writers Prize sponsored by The Author’s Guild and a Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Scott Bailey
is the author of Thus Spake Gigolo published by New York Quarterly Books. He holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Florida State University. A former writer-in-residence for the Mississippi Arts Commission and the Valparaiso Foundation in Spain, Bailey has taught writing courses at Brown University, New York University, and elsewhere.
Sophie Barbasch
is a New York based photographer. She earned her MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and her BA in Art and Art History from Brown University. Selected grants and residencies include the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the NARS Foundation, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil.
Corey Baron
is a poet and photographer from New Rochelle, New York. He currently attends New York University where he studies Media, Culture, and Communication with a focus on visual cultures, along with creative writing. His work can be found in Muzzle, SHŌ, Chronic, and elsewhere. Keep up with him @thecoreybaron and at coreyqbaron.com.
Shayne Barr
is a software engineer who lives in New York City. He earned his BA and MFA in Fiction from Columbia and writes every day. He is the co-founder of the Webby-nominated video reading series The HENRY Review.
Chris Barton
is the author of the chapbook A Finely Calibrated Apocalypse (Bottlecap Press, 2024). His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in places like Peach Magazine, The Plenitudes, Hotel, Vlad Mag, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Knoxville, TN.
Helen Benedict
is a British-American professor at Columbia University and is the author of seven previous novels, six books of nonfiction, and a play. Her newest novel, The Good Deed, came out in April 2024 from Red Hen Press. The Good Deed, set in a refugee camp in Greece, comes out of the research Helen conducted for her 2022 nonfiction book, Map of Hope and Sorrow, co-authored with Syrian writer and refugee, Eyad Awwadawn and endorsed by Jessica Bruder (Nomadland), Dina Nayari (The Ungrateful Refugee) and Christy Lefteri (The Beekeeper of Aleppo), among others. That book earned PEN’s Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History in 2021 and praise from The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, and elsewhere.
Karen E. Bender
is the author of a number of novels and story collections. She was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction; and her work was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize, and longlisted for the Story Prize. She has won two pushcart prizes. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.
Sallie Bingham
has also published six additional novels, three collections of poetry, numerous plays (produced off-Broadway and regionally), and the well-known family memoir, Passion and Prejudice (Knopf, 1989). Her short stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, New Letters, Plainswoman, Plainsong, Greensboro Review, Negative Capability, The Connecticut Review, and Southwest Review, among others, and have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Forty Best Stories from Mademoiselle, Prize Stories and others.
Jennifer Blackman
has published fiction with McSweeney’s, Tin House, and Epiphany. Her poems, creative nonfiction essays, and stories have appeared in Denver Quarterly, BOMBlog, The Laurel Review, and other literary journals. Her critical articles have been published in The Emily Dickinson Journal, The Henry James Review, Studies in the Literary Imagination, and Women’s Studies, and in the book Insane Devotion. She currently lives in Washington Heights with her husband and her bloodthirsty cat.
Josephine Blair
is a writer and activist in Miami. Her work has been published in Epiphany Magazine, Meniscus Literary Journal, Soliloquies Anthology, and elsewhere.
Thomas Bolt
has had poems have appear The Paris Review, BOMB, and Southwest Review (where his long poem, "Wedgwood," won an award for the best poem the quarterly published in 1994). Thomas Bolt's awards and fellowships include the Rome Prize for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, The Peter I. B. Lavin Younger Poet Award of the American Academy of Poets, an Ingram Merrill Fellowship. He lives in New York City.
Paula Bomer
is the author of the collection Inside Medeleine, and Nine Months which received exuberant reviews in The Atlantic, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Minneapolis Star Tribune and elsewhere. Her collection, Baby and Other Stories (Word Riot Press, December 2010), received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. She also is the publisher of Sententia Books and edits Sententia: The Literary Journal.
Jamel Brinkley
is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories, a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he was also the Carol Houck Smith Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University.
Kate Brittain
has written fiction and essays for The Paris Review Daily, The Last Magazine, The Morning News, and Volume 1 Brooklyn, among others, and has taught creative writing at NYC and The New School. She lives in a yellow house on the bank of the Hudson.
Lucie
Britsch
debuted in Barrelhouse in 2016, and her work has been published in Vol 1 Brooklyn, The Millions, and Tincture Journal, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her debut novel, Sad Janet, is forthcoming from Riverhead Books in 2020. She lives in Higham Ferrers, England.
Benjamin Busch
is a United States Marine Corps infantry officer, photographer, film director, and actor. His writing has been featured in Harper's and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His memoir, Dust to Dust, published to critical acclaim in 2012. He has also appeared as a guest commentator on NPR's All Things Considered. He lives on a farm in Michigan with his wife and two daughters.
Mary Byrne
has published nonfiction in The Rumpus, The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and elsewhere. As a musician, she has released albums with the acoustic duo Mark Rogers & Mary Byrne (Important Records) and the rock trio Hot Young Priest (Two Sheds Music). She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College and teaches writing and reading at Hostos Community College’s CUNY Start program.
Gökçenur
Ç.
is a poet, translator, and editor based in Istanbul. He has seven poetry books in Turkish, eleven in translation, and his poems have been translated into 30 languages. He is the editor of the Turkish magazine Çevrimdışı İstanbul (İstanbul Offline) and co-editor of the Turkish domain of Poetry International.
Marci Calabretta
Cancio-Bello
is the author of Hour of the Ox which won the 2015 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and the 2016 Florida Book Awards bronze medal. She currently serves as poetry editor for Hyphen Magazine. Cancio-Bello is the recipient of a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship, and two Academy of American Poets Prizes. Her writing and translations have appeared in The New York Times, the Best American Poetry blog, The Georgia Review, and more.
Luisa Castro
Luisa Castro is the award-winning author, with most works written in Spanish and some in Galician. She has published five novels, coming in as a finalist for the Premio Herralde for her first novel. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study film at NYU and Columbia, has served for many years as a director of the Instituto Cervantes in Naples and Bordeaux, and has been a frequent contributor to major Spanish and Galician newspapers.
Anne Champion
is the author of a number of works. She was a 2009 Academy of American Poet’s Prize recipient, a Barbara Deming Memorial grant recipient, a 2015 Best of the Net winner, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She holds degrees in Behavioral Psychology and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University and an MFA in Poetry from Emerson College. She currently teaches writing and literature in Boston, MA.
Steve Chang
is from the San Gabriel Valley, California. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica, North American Review, The Southampton Review, Okay Donkey, and elsewhere.
Allison M.
Charette
has received an NEA Fellowship in Literary Translation. She founded the Emerging Literary Translators’ Network in America and has served on the board of the American Literary Translators Association. Her translations have been published by Restless Books, the New York Times, Words Without Borders, and others. She currently resides in New York with her husband, son, and two cats.
Cortney Lamar Charleston
is a Cave Canem fellow from the Chicago suburbs. His debut collection, Telepathologies, won the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by D.A. Powell. His poetry is a marriage between art and activism. In 2017, Charleston was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He currently serves as poetry editor at The Rumpus.
Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud
has received the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Giono, and the Bourse Goncourt de la nouvelle, as well as the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire for his latest novel. His stories have appeared in Words Without Borders, AGNI Online, Epiphany, and The Café Irreal, and elsewhere. He is a founding member of the movement La Nouvelle Fiction [The New Fiction].
Lisa Chen
is the author of Mouth and received a 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. She was recently a resident with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Program, and an Emerging Writing Fellow at the Center for Fiction. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Brick, The Common and AGNI. She was born in Taipei and now lives in Brooklyn.
Bill Cheng
received a BA in creative writing from Baruch College and is a graduate of Hunter College's MFA program. Born and raised in Queens, New York, he currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife. SOUTHERN CROSS THE DOG is his first novel.
K Chiucarello’s
work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Epiphany, them., Condé Nast Traveler, Longleaf Review, LitHub, and Shenandoah where their essay examining violence and labor was named a notable Best American Essay in 2023. In summer 2021 they were named a Tin House scholar.
Jon Chopan
is an associate professor of creative writing at Eckerd College. He received his BA and MA in American History from SUNY Oswego and his MFA from The Ohio State University. His work has appeared in Glimmer Train, Hotel Amerika, Post Road, Epiphany, The Southampton Review, and elsewhere. He is the winner of the 2017 Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction for his collection Veterans Crisis Hotline, It also won the Foreward Indie Silver Medal for Adult Fiction in Military and War.
Malia Chung
is the daughter of two English teachers and the eldest of three sisters. Often reading, Malia studies English and Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she is the lucky beneficiary of amazing teaching. Malia first discovered poetry in high school, and she has spent much of her time since then in the world of writing, revising, and reading.
Marisa P. Clark
earned a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Georgia State University. Winner of the Agnes Scott College Prize in both fiction and nonfiction, Marisa has also served as assistant fiction editor of Five Points and an editorial board member for Blue Mesa Review and Amethyst. In addition to teaching creative writing, she directs UNM's ESL Writing Program.
Bryna Cofrin-Shaw
is a Brooklyn-based writer and a 2019 Emerging Writers Fellow at the Center for Fiction. Her work has appeared in The Colorado Review, Epiphany, and The American Literary Review, among others. She is a recipient of the Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction, and has been awarded residencies with the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts; Good Hart Artist Residency; and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Jessica Cohen
is a literary translator born in England, raised in Israel, and living in Denver. She translates contemporary Israeli prose, poetry, and other creative work. She shared the 2017 Man Booker International Prize with David Grossman. Her translations include works by major Israeli writers including Amos Oz, Etgar Keret, Dorit Rabinyan, Ronit Matalon and Nir Baram, as well as Golden Globe-winning director Ari Folman.
Miles Coleman
is a fiction writer whose work has previously appeared in The Literary Review. He holds an MFA from Colombia University, where he received the Felipe P. De Alba Fellowship. He lives in Deep Cove, BC, with his wife and daughter.
Lydia Conklin
is a 2018-2019 Creative & Performing Arts Fulbright Scholar in Poland, and in the fall she will be a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. She has received a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and two Pushcart Prizes. Her fiction has appeared in a compilation of the best of the last twenty-five years of the Pushcart Prize and in Tin House, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Narrative Magazine and elsewhere.
Peter Constantine
is a mixed media artist based in New York City. He works with stories, images, Greek Bronze Age logograms and languages thought to be lost to time. His visual art has been part of recent exhibits in New York, Berlin, London, and Paris. A series of six works based on the Finnish epic, Kalevala, is part of the permanent collection at the State Museum of Urban Sculpture in St. Petersburg. A prolific translator from several modern and classical languages, Constantine is a Guggenheim Fellow and was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann, and the National Translation Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov. He is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Connecticut and the publisher of World Poetry Books.
Ani Sison Cooney
is a writer based in Los Angeles. A VONA / Voices alum, he is a recipient of a 2020 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and a Manuel G. Flores Prize from the Philippine American Writers and Artists (PAWA). His work has appeared in Epiphany Magazine, LikeWise Fiction, and is forthcoming in the annual anthology The PEN America Best Debut Short Stories. He is currently working on a collection of short stories.
Andres Cordoba
is a Massachusetts-born writer and graduate of SUNY Purchase’s creative writing and literature programs. He has received honors such as the Ginny Wray Poetry prize, Thayer Fellowship For the Arts, and Patricia Kerr Ross Award. His work has appeared in Italics Mine, The Gandy Dancer, and Gravitas. Never been the type of guy to ruin a sleek futon, he’s your dad’s problematic fav.
Tess Crain
is a graduate of the NYU Creative Writing Program, where she served as a Goldwater Fellow. Her writing has appeared in the New Republic. She lives in New York City.
Brian
Crawford
lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was named a 2019 Breakout 8 Writer by Epiphany and The Authors Guild. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Brian’s work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Arts & Letters, Epiphany, Carve, New South, and elsewhere.
Lydia Davis
is a short story writer, novelist, and translator. Her collection Varieties of Disturbance (2007) was nominated for the National Book Award. She has translated novels and works of philosophy from French. Her honors and awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation, as well as the Man Booker International Prize. She is professor of English and writer-in-residence at SUNY, Albany.
Christine Degenaars
has work published or forthcoming in Rattle, Tar River Poetry, Epiphany, Nimrod International Journal, Cider Press Review, & elsewhere. She was nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize and in 2022 was selected as a semi-finalist in the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest. She is the recipient of the 2021 Colie Hoffman Prize in Poetry and the Bishop Kelleher Award. She graduated from Hunter College with a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry. She lives in New York. You can find more of her work at christinedegenaars.com.
Roger Desy
taught literature and creative writing at Duquesne University, edited technical manuals at Westinghouse, helped revive and repurpose a neglected one-room schoolhouse as a venue for readings/music/community programs, raised a family that now raises itself, and writes poems. His work has appeared in Cider Press Review, Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, Midwest Quarterly, New American Writing, Poet Lore, and South Carolina Review.
Nandini Dhar
is the author of the poetry collection Historians of Redundant Moments (Agape Editions, 2016). She is an associate professor of literary studies at OP Jindal University in India.
Lisa Dierbeck
is the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel One Pill Makes You Smaller, a New York Times Notable Book. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she has contributed to publications including The Boston Globe, Glamour, The New York Observer, The New York Times Book Review, People, O, and Time Out New York. Her fiction has appeared in The Baffler, Black Book, Cimarron Review, and New Letters, among others.
Sharon Dilworth
is the author of three collections of short stories—The Long White, Women Drinking Benedictine, and Two Sides, Three Rivers—as well as two novels, Year of The Ginkgo and My Riviera. Sharon has won a National Endowment for Fiction grant, a Pushcart Prize in Fiction and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant. Her new novel, To Be Marquette takes place in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and will be published in Spring of 2024. She is a professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University.
Kristin Dombek
is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her first book, The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism, was published in 2016. Her essays can be found in n+1, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Harper’s, the London Review of Books, and The Painted Bride Quarterly. At MacDowell, she worked on a draft of a nonfiction book titled How to Quit, an expansion of an essay that first appeared in n+1.
Sergei Dovlatov
was born in Ufa, Bashkiria (U.S.S.R.), in 1941. He dropped out of the University of Leningrad after two years and was drafted into the army, serving as a guard in high-security prison camps. In 1965 he began to work as a journalist, first in Leningrad and then in Tallinn, Estonia. After a period of intense harassment by the authorities, he emigrated to the United States in 1978. He lived in New York until his death in 1990.
Pune
Dracker
edits, runs, and dances in New York City, and is a 2020 MFA candidate studying Nonfiction/Poetry at The New School. She is the first writer in residency at The Phaistos Project. She believes all art is collaboration, and is honored to interact with the work of designers from all over the world.
Rebecca A.
Durham
holds a B.A. in Biology from Colby College, a M.S. in Botany from Oregon State University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Montana. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Rebecca’s writing has appeared in Orion Magazine, Epiphany Magazine, Pilgrimage Magazine, and elsewhere.
Johnnie Each
is a born and raised Iowan from a long line of preachers, teachers, farmers, and engineers. She’s in her first year of studying Journalism & Mass Communication and English & Creative Writing at the University of Iowa and has been scribbling poems in her notebooks since she could hold a pencil. Her senior year of high school she had the honor to serve as the Iowa Student Poetry Ambassador and received gold and silver national medals in poetry from the Scholastic Art and Writing competition. On any occasion that she isn’t putting pen to paper, she’s reading, hammocking or serving at her local church in Iowa City. “Where I Learned the Word Woman” is a true story, every word lovingly dedicated to Johnnie’s grandmother.
Jill
Eisenstadt
is the author of the novels From Rockaway, Kiss Out, and Swell. Other work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Vogue. Jill has taught at the Bennington College and at The New School. She is the recipient of a Columbia University Writing Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Grant, and others. She lives in Brooklyn.
Angie Ellis
lives on Vancouver Island, where most of her short stories are set. You can find her work in Narrative, Grain, The Lascaux Review, Juked, and others. Two of her stories were listed in the CBC Short Story Prize and she is very grateful to have been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council. angieelliswriter.com
Bernard
Ferguson
is the winner of the 2019 Hurston/Wright College Writers Award, the 2019 92Y Discover Contest, and other prizes. He has received fellowships from the Atlantic Center for the Arts, NYU’s Global Research Initiative, and New York City’s Writers in the Public Schools. He has writing in The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, among others.
Elena Ferrante
is the author of a number of fiction works which have been made into films. The four volumes known as the “Neapolitan quartet” (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) were published in America by Europa between 2012 and 2015. The first season of the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in 2018.
Sidik Fofana
has published music writing in The Source, Centric TV, Vibe, allhiphop.com, okayplayer.com, and has been mentioned in the Best Music Writing 2011. His short story “Dangerous Deliveries” was published in Epiphany. He received a B.A. In English from Columbia University and recently completed an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. Stories From Our Tenants Downstairs (Scribner) will appear in 2021. He lives in New York City where he teaches high school English.
Edwin Frank
was born in Boulder, Colorado, and educated at Harvard College and Columbia University. He is the author of Snake Train: Poems 1984–2013 and the editorial director of the NYRB Classics series.
Collin
Frazier
has an MFA in creative writing from The New School. A former modern dancer, he lives in Brooklyn and was born in Detroit.
Rico Frederick
is an award-winning performance poet, graphic designer, and the author of the book Broken Calypsonian (2014). He was the first poet to represent all four New York City poetry venues at the National Poetry Slam, of which he was Grand Slam Champion in 2010 and 2012. His poems, artistic work, and films have been featured in the New York Times, Muzzle, No Dear Magazine, The Big Apple Film Festival, and elsewhere. He is a Trinidadian transplant living in New York City.
Elizabeth Gaffney
won the 2019 Lawrence Prize for Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in many literary magazines, and she has translated four books from German. Gaffney graduated with honors from Vassar College and holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Brooklyn College; she also studied philosophy and German at Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich. She has been a resident artist at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and the Blue Mountain Center. She also teaches fiction and serves as the editor at large of the literary magazine A Public Space.
Vishwas R..
Gaitonde
spent his formative years in India, has lived in Britain, & now resides in the United States. His writings have been published in Iowa Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Mid-American Review and Santa Monica Review. He was a fellow at the Hawthornden International Writers Retreat, Scotland, in 2017.
Amy Gall
is the recipient of a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony and earned her MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her fiction, essays and interviews have appeared in, among others,Tin House, Vice, Poets & Writers, and Brooklyn Magazine. Recycle, a book of her collages and text co-authored by Sarah Gerard is out now from Pacific Press.
Matt Gallagher
is the author of the novel Youngblood, published in February 2016 by Atria/Simon & Schuster and a finalist for the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, and Wired, among other places. A graduate of Wake Forest University, Matt also holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. He lives with his wife in Brooklyn and works as a writing instructor at Words After War, a literary nonprofit devoted to bringing veterans and civilians together to study conflict literature.
Christian Anton Gerard
is the author of Holdfast (C&R Press, 2017) and Wilmot Here, Collect For Stella (WordTech, 2014). Gerard has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Prague Summer Program, Pushcart Prize nominations, an Academy of American Poets Award, and the 2013 Iron Horse Literary Review Discovered Voices Award. He holds an M.F.A from Old Dominion University and a Ph.D in English from the University of Tennessee.
Sarah Gerard
has had work appear in, among others, The New York Times, T Magazine, Granta, The Baffler, The Believer, and Vice. Her essay collection Sunshine State (Harper Perennial, 2017) was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her novel True Love is forthcoming from Harper Books in 2020.
Madeline Gilmore
moved to Brooklyn after graduating from Williams College in 2015, when she was awarded the Hubbard Hutchinson Memorial Fellowship for writing. She interned at Poets & Writers, and received a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship this year for a summer workshop with Patricia Spears Jones. She currently works in the New York office of arts publisher Artbook | D.A.P.
Samuel Gilpin
is a poet living in Portland, OR, who holds a Ph.D. in English Lit. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, which explains why he works as a door to door salesman. A Prism Review Poetry Contest winner, he has served as the Poetry Editor of Witness Magazine and Book Review Editor of Interim. A Cleveland State University First Book Award finalist, his work has appeared in various journals and magazines, most recently in The Bombay Gin, Omniverse, and Colorado Review.
Ann Goldstein
is an editor at The New Yorker. She has translated works by, among others, Elena Ferrante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Alessandro Baricco, and is the editor of The Complete Works of Primo Levi in English. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, the PEN Renato Poggioli prize, and awards from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Elisa
Gonzalez
is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Harvard Review, Hyperallergic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. A graduate of Yale University and the New York University M.F.A. program, she has received fellowships from the Kingsley Trust Association, the Norman Mailer Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Fulbright Program.
Nick Fuller Googins
has had fiction read on NPR's All Things Considered, and has appeared in The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA program and recipient of a fellowship at the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers. He is a proud member of the Sunrise Movement. He lives some of the time in LA and some of the time in Maine.
Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
was born and raised in Moscow, and graduated from Moscow State Linguistic University. She received an M.A. in English from Radford University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins University. Her work appeared in Prairie Schooner, Bayou, The Southern Review, Rosebud, and elsewhere. Her short fiction was selected as a finalist for multiple awards, including five Pushcart Prizes.
Serkan Görkemli’s
short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Foglifter, and Chelsea Station. His nonfiction on media and Turkish queer activism has been published in the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Enculturation, Reflections, and Computers and Composition Online. His book Grassroots Literacies: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet in Turkey (SUNY Press, 2014) won the 2015 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Book Award. Originally from Turkey, he is an associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut in Stamford.
Zack Graham’s
writing has appeared in The Nation, Rolling Stone, GQ, The Believer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Newsday, Jewish Currents, and Fantastic Man, among other publications. He served as a monthly columnist for Epiphany in 2019. A native of Chicago, Zack currently lives in New York, where he is at work on a collection of short stories and a novel.
Lucy
Greaves
is a literary translator and bike mechanic who lives in Bristol, UK. She enjoys the poetry of bicycles and the mechanics of language equally.
Tyler Green
is a poet, translator, and educator, living in New York City. In addition to the poems of Varlam Shalamov, he is working on an anthology of visual translations of Dmitri Prigov, known as a central figure in the Moscow Conceptualist art movement, as well as working on a manuscript of his own.
Irving Greenfield
was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was a youthful runaway, a merchant seaman, and a soldier during the Korean War, after which his writing talent burst into print. His novel, The Ancient of Days, was a best-seller for six weeks and Tagget was made into a film for TV. his work has appeared in a variety of media, but, of all his works, Only the Dead Speak Russian is his masterpiece.
Susannah Greenblatt
is a writer, filmmaker, and translator from Spanish based in Brooklyn. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2016 with a BA and high honors in history. She works at Words Without Borders, and she is a contributing writer to the magazine’s blog, WWB Daily. Her writing and translations have also appeared in Literary Hub, Ramona: revista de artes visuales, and Epiphany Magazine.
Paulette
Guerin
holds an MFA at the University of Florida. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany, Best New Poets 2018, Concho River Review, Summerset Review, October Hill, The Tishman Review, and elsewhere. She has a chapbook, Polishing Silver, and is now teaching English at Harding University.
Roy G.
Guzmán
was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and grew up in Miami, Florida. They are currently pursuing a PhD in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, where they also received an MFA in creative writing. Their work has appeared in Best New Poets 2017, and elsewhere.
Kimiko
Hahn
is the author of ten books of poetry. She is the winner of the and the Shelley Memorial Award, and others. She has been award fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Iris Hanika
was a staff writer for the Berlin section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and contributed a chronicle to Merkur Magazine (summer 2000 – summer 2008). In 2006, She was awarded the Hans Fallada Prize, and in 2008 she was named to the the shortlist of the German Book Prize. In 2010 she won the European Union Prize for Literature and in 2011 the prize of LiteraTourNord.
János Háy
is a short-story writer, poet, essayist, and playwright. He is the illustrator of his own books. He is also one of the founders of Palatinus Books, Budapest. The short piece “Lou’s Last Letter to Feri’s Wife” is taken from the short story anthology Házasságon innen és túl (Marriage Seen Inside and Out, Magvető, 2007).
Shen
Haobo
graduated from Beijing Normal University and became known as a proponent of the “Bottom-Half Body” movement that sought to do-away with many of the taboos regarding explicit content in poetry, instead embracing an animalistic approach to forbidden subject areas. His most recent collection of poetry Command Me to be Silent and many of his recent work has received critical acclaim. He lives in Beijing and runs the Motie Group.
Marcy Rae Henry
is a Latina born and raised in Mexican-America/The Borderlands. She has lived in Spain, India and Nepal and once rode a motorcycle through the Middle East. Her writing has received a Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. Ms. M.R. Henry is a digital minimalist with no social media accounts. She is working on a collection of poems and two novellas.
Aimee Herman
(they/them) is the author of fiction works and poetry, in addition to being widely published in journals and anthologies including BOMB, cream city review, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books). Aimee is a queer writer and educator and a founding member alongside David Lawton in the poetry band, Hydrogen Junkbox.
Suzanne
Highland
is a queer poet, and has a BA in English from Florida State University and an MFA in Poetry from Hunter College. She was one of the recipients of the 2016 Miriam Weinberg Richter Award for Conspicuous Ability in English, and has also received support from the 92nd Street Y, Vermont Studio Center, and Brooklyn Poets. She teaches writing to public high school students and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Amanda Hiland
is a northwest writer who grew up hiking through old-growth conifer forests. She teaches Special Education by day and is a major astronomy enthusiast at night. Her poems have appeared in New Plains Review, Avocet, Camas, Topology Magazine, Timberline Review, and various others. She currently lives in Sherwood, Oregon.
Joel Hinman
teaches at the Writers Studio and his fiction has appeared in Epiphany, Fiction Now, The Brooklyn Review, The Writers Studio 30th Anniversary Anthology, and is forthcoming in the North Atlantic Review.
Edward Hirsch
was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2008. He has received the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from NYU, and a National Book Critics Award. Hirsch is also the author of five prose books, including A Poet’s Glossary (2014), Poet’s Choice (2006) and the national bestseller How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999). He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Katherine Huang
is a graduate student in genomics and computational biology at UPenn. Her work has appeared in various journals in print and online—most recently phoebe and Longleaf Review. When not sciencing, writing, or editing poetry for West Trestle Review, she enjoys dancing and taking naps. You can find her on ex-Twitter @Katabolical and on Instagram @kata_bolical.
Gabe Hudson
has published 2 books from Knopf, and was named a Best Young American Novelist by Granta. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, McSweeney’s, BuzzFeed, and others. His honors include PEN/Hemingway Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship, and the Sue Kaufman Prize. He has taught at Princeton University, Yonsei University, and Columbia University.
Heikki
Huotari
is a retired professor of mathematics. In a past century, he attended a one-room country school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. His poems appear in numerous journals, recently in The Journal and The Penn Review, and he is the winner of the 2016 Gambling the Aisle chapbook contest. His forthcoming books will be published by Lynx House, Willow Springs, and After The Pause.
H.L. Humes
(1926–1992) was one of the originators of The Paris Review and the author of two novels, The Underground City and Men Die. His third novel, The Memoirs of Dorsey Slade, was never completed. He lived in Paris and Greenwich Village.
Vida James
is from Brooklyn, NY, where she was a social worker with immigrant and homeless youth. She is currently a Delaney Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA for Poets & Writers. A VONA/Voices alumna, she is currently working on a novel about the AIDS crisis in New York City.
Jamie Kahn
is a Brooklyn-based writer whose work has been featured in Glamour, Brooklyn Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, Epiphany, and others. She serves as the contributing features editor for Epiphany.
Anu
Kandikuppa
has work in Calyx, Epiphany, Juked, Salt Hill, The Florida Review, The Normal School, and other journals. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice, and the Best of the Net Anthology, and has been awarded the Gish Jen Emerging Writer’s fellowship by the Writers’ Room of Boston. She grew up in south India and live in Boston.
Christopher Kang
Christopher Kang earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD in English from the University of California-Irvine. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in LitHub, jubilat, Massachusetts Review, Gulf Coast, The L Magazine, Verse Daily, Cimarron Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Epiphany, Open City, and Faultline. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the College of Wooster.
Mehdi M.
Kashani
lives and writes in Toronto, Canada. His fiction and nonfiction can be found in Passages North, The Rumpus, Catapult, The Malahat Review, Wigleaf, The Walrus, Bellevue Literary Review, Four Way Review, The Minnesota Review, Emrys Journal (for which he won 2019 Sue Lile Inman Fiction Award), and The Fiddlehead. To learn more about him, visit his website.
Etgar Keret
is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television.
Roy Kesey
was born and raised in northern California, and currently lives in Maryland. His work has appeared in several anthologies including Best American Short Stories, New Sudden Fiction, The Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology, and The Future Dictionary of America, and in more than eighty magazines including McSweeney's, Subtropics, The Georgia Review, American Short Fiction, The Iowa Review, and Ninth Letter.
Kevin Killian
earned a BA at Fordham University and an MA at SUNY-Stony Brook. Killian’s poetry collections include Argento Series (2001), Action Kylie (2008), Tweaky Village (2014). He was also the author of Selected Amazon Reviews (2006); the novels Shy (1989), Arctic Summer (1997), and Spreadeagle(2012); the short-story collections Little Men (1996), which won the PEN Oakland award.
Michelle Har Kim
is an instructor, writer, and editor based in the San Gabriel Valley. Michelle has taught most recently at California State University, Los Angeles. Her first Watanabe manuscript is now complete, a Spanish-to-English translation of the poet’s only illustrated book of poetry, Historia Natural (1996). Natural History is a collaboration with Eduardo Tokeshi.
Yasha
Klots
is a specialist on contemporary Russian prose, women's literature and Chekhov. She is the author of a number of works, both original and translations. She is on the faculty of the Doctoral Program in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center and has served as the Head of the Russian and Slavic Studies Program at Hunter since 2010.
Meiko Ko
has been accepted by The Blue Lyra Review, The Hayden’s Ferry Review, The AAWW, The Margins, The Literary Review, Columbia Journal, Epiphany, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities, Litro Magazine, and elsewhere. She was long listed for the Home is Elsewhere Anthology 2017 Berlin Writing Prize. She lives with her husband and child in New York.
Jenny
Kroik
is an NYC illustrator, painter and art instructor. She created 3 covers for The New Yorker Magazine, and currently has illustration clients including The Washington Post, The LA Times, Penguin Random House, Nob Hill Gazette, Athens Voice, The Highly and more.
Pingmei Lan
grew up in China where she developed a love-hate relationship with crowds, artificial lawn ornaments, and Chinese food for breakfast. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Pacific University. Her work has appeared in Epiphany, Tahoma Literary Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and others. She has been named a recipient of the 2019 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.
Eric
Laster
has published two kids' books: Welfy Q. Deederhoth: Meat Purveyor, World Savior, and The Adventures of Erasmus Twiddle: Grmkville's Famous & Talented Not-Detective, courtesy of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Welfy Q. won a 2014 Mom's Choice award. He lives in Los Angeles, where he pens fiction and provides writing and editing services to publishing and marketing clients.
Elidio La Torre Lagares
holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. He is the author of Wonderful Wasteland and other natural disasters, published by the University of Kentucky Press in 2019 and shortlisted for the Juan Felipe Herrera Poetry Prize. His poetry collection Aguacerando (Downpour) earned him a shortlist nomination for the 2022 Paz Prize for Poetry, sponsored by the National Poetry Series and the Miami Book Fair. Also, in 2022, he published his neo-noir novel Correr tras el viento (Chasing the Wind) with Editorial Verbum, Madrid.
Edith Lee
grew up in New Zealand and is now in her final year at Colorado College. She is pursuing a bachelor's degree in English with a concentration in creative writing.
Andrea Lewis
is the author of the linked story collection What My Last Man Did, published by Indiana University Press. Her stories, essays, and flash fiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Catamaran Literary Reader, Raleigh Review, Flash Frog, and many others. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
Amy Lee
Lillard
holds an MFA in fiction writing from the Pan-European program at Cedar Crest College, an MA in literature from Northwestern University, and a BA in English, journalism and psychology from the University of Iowa. She was named one of Epiphany’s Breakout 8 Writers in 2018. Her writing also appears in Foglifter, Off Assignment, Adroit, Gertrude, and other publications. She currently works as a Senior Communications Specialist at Aon.
Esther Lin
was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and lived in the US as an undocumented immigrant for 21 years. A 2020 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown, 2017–19 Wallace Stegner Fellow, author of The Ghost Wife (Poetry Society of America, 2017), and winner of the Crab Orchard Review’s 2018 Richard Peterson Prize, she organizes for Undocupoets, which promotes the work of and raises consciousness about undocumented poets.
Yuxi Lin
is a Chinese American writer, AAWW Margins Fellow, and winner of the Breakout 8 Writers Prize. Her writing has appeared in Poetry, The Washington Post, The Southern Review, Epiphany, and elsewhere. She graduated magna cum laude from Davidson College and received her MFA from New York University, where she was a Lillian Vernon Fellow. She lives and teaches in New York.
Christopher Linforth
has been awarded fellowships and scholarships to the Vermont Studio Center, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Ragdale Foundation, and elsewhere. Recently, he has published essays in The Millions on Best American Short Stories, literary podcasts, and contributors’ notes, and other subjects in The Good Men Project, and elsewhere. Recent fiction is in the Notre Dame Review, Fiction International, Grain, Hotel Amerika, and elsewhere.
Robert Lopez
is the author of four novels, and two story collections, one of which is forthcoming by Four Way Books in 2021. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in dozens of publications, including Bomb, The Mississippi Review, and the Norton Anthology of Sudden Fiction – Latino. He teaches at a number of programs including The New School, and Pratt Institute. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Emily Lee
Luan
is a Taiwanese-American poet and essayist. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets (2019), The Rumpus, Washington Square Review, The Offing, The Margins, and elsewhere. She is currently a Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and holds an MFA in Poetry from Rutgers University-Newark. She lives in Brooklyn.
Marc Castell
de Lucas
is a second-year undergraduate at the University of California-Berkeley studying literature in Spanish, English, and French. Prior to attending UC Berkeley, he studied at the University of Alabama, where he placed first in the University's Creative Writing Contest as a first-year.
Lisa Ludden
Lisa Ludden has poems in Interim, Common Ground Review, Permafrost, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Palebound, was published by Flutter Press, 2017. She holds an MFA from Saint Mary's College of California and a BA in English from San Francisco State University. In 2007-8 she was a member of Playground SF's Writers Pool. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ilya Lyashevsky
attended Stanford, where he majored in computer science and minored in creative writing, and went on to earn a master’s degree in computer science. Over time, he came to the realization that fiction is really about helping people “understand themselves and others, and hopefully building better relationships between people and ultimately a healthier, more equitable world.” Fiction does that, he says, through two key components: psychology and education.
Alexander Maksik
is the author of three novels, a New York Times Notable Book of 2013, as well as a finalist for the William Saroyan Prize and Le Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. Maksik’s writing has appeared in many publications including Best American Nonrequired Reading, Harper’s, Tin House, Harvard Review, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of A Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize and The Andrew Lytle Prize.
Francisco Mallmann
is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher who works in the intersection between poetry, dramaturgy, visual arts, performance, and criticism. Author of the award-winning poetry collection haverá festa com o que restar (Urutau, 2018) and the chapbook língua pele áspera (7Letras, 2019), he is artist-in-residence at Casa Selvática, editor of Bocas Malditas, member of the International Association of Theatre Critics, and coordinator of the Department of Temporary and Itinerary Exhibitions at the Curitiba Holocaust Museum.
sara joy márquez
is a Puerto Rican-American writer, worker, survivor, cultivator, educator, advocate, auntie, and occasional musician. Her poems have appeared in Impakter Magazine, The Grief Diaries, The Boston Review, Day One Journal, and The Mississippi Review. She holds degrees in writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Columbia University, and currently lives in Philadelphia.
Robyn Marsack
is an editor and translator, and former Director of the Scottish Poetry Library. She lives in Glasgow.
Domingo Martinez
is a Mexican-American author best known for his memoirs. The Boy Kings of Texas was a finalist in the non-fiction category in the 2012 National Book Award contest. Martinez found writing these books cathartic and used the writing as a healing process to deal with his feelings and emotions.
Becka
McKay
is a poet and translator. She directs the Creative Writing MFA at Florida Atlantic University. Recent work has appeared in Bennington Review, Copper Nickel, Forklift Ohio, Ninth Letter, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Post Road, and River Styx. Her newest book of poems, The Little Book of No Consolation, is forthcoming from Barrow Street Press.
Lynn Melnick
has had poetry appear in APR, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, and A Public Space, and her essays have appeared in LA Review of Books, ESPN, and the anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture. A former fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars, she currently teaches poetry at Columbia University and the 92Y, and works with saferLIT.
Lincoln Michel
has had fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, Pushcart Prize anthology, and elsewhere. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Buzzfeed, Vice, and elsewhere. He is the co-editor of Gigantic Worlds, an anthology of science flash fiction, and Tiny Crimes, an anthology of flash noir. He teaches fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn.
Dunya Mikhail
worked as a journalist and translator for the Baghdad Observer. She has won the Arab American Book Award. The Iraqi Nights (translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid) and 15 Iraqi Poets (editor). The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq (co-translated with Max Weiss), finalist for PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith award in non-fiction and long-listed for the National Book Award, selected by The New York Times as one of 8 recommended books of the week. She currently works as a special lecturer of Arabic at Oakland University in Michigan.
Lauren
Milici
is a Jersey-born, Florida-raised poet and writer currently based in West Virginia. She is the author of FINAL GIRL from Big Lucks Books. When she isn’t crafting sad poems about sex, she’s either writing or shouting into the void about film, TV, and all things pop culture.
Megan
Milks
(they/them) writes experimental prose and literary criticism. Milks is the recipient of the 2019 Lotos Foundation Prize for Excellence in Fiction Writing. Their stories and criticism have been published in three anthologies, as well as many journals including Fence, LIT, 4Columns, and Bookforum. They teach writing at The New School, and Pace University. They received their Ph.D. in English Studies from the University of Illinois and their M.A. from Temple.
Henry Mills
was born in Washington D.C. to a Salvadoran mother and a Jewish-American father. Various music and poetry festivals have featured his multi-disciplinary work including Different Kind of Dude Fest, Positive Youth Fest, and Split this Rock. His work has appeared in The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, Origins Journal, and Border Crossing. He holds an MFA in poetry from New York University.
Celeste Mohammed
Celeste is a lawyer, writer, and native of Trinidad and Tobago. In 2016 she graduated from Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction). Her work has appeared in The New England Review, Epiphany, The Rumpus, Kweli Journal, among other places. She is the recipient of a 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She was also awarded the 2019 Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction, and the 2017 John D Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction.
sarah mariah montijo
is a Tucson-born interdisciplinary scholar, facilitator, & emerging writer living in Lenapehoking with her two cats. Her writing approach grounds in liberation & honors the curious rhythms that shape disobedience & devotion to our shared humanity. She was a 2023 Periplus Fellow under the mentorship of Ingrid Rojas Contreras, and is working on her first book.
Yesenia Montilla
is an Afro-Latina poet & a daughter of immigrants. Her poetry has appeared in the Chapbook For the Crowns of Your Head, The Gulf Coast, and others. She received her MFA from Drew University in Poetry and Poetry in Translation & is a 2014 CantoMundo Fellow. Her first collection was Longlisted for a PEN award in 2016. She lives in Harlem NY.
Yukiko
Motoya
has had work in French, Norwegian, Spanish, and Chinese, and her stories have been published in English in Granta, Words Without Borders, Tender, and elsewhere. Motoya won the Noma Prize for New Writers for Warm Poison in 2011; the Kenzaburo Oe Prize for Picnic in the Storm in 2013; the Mishima Yukio Prize for How She Learned to Love Herself in 2014; and Japan’s most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize.
Naivo
Naivoharisoa Patrick Ramamonjisoa, who goes by Naivo, published his first novel, Beyond the Rice Fields, which is the first Malagasy novel ever translated into English. Naivo is also the author of several short stories, including “Dahalo,” which received the RFI/ACCT prize in 1996, and “Iarivomandroso,” which was adapted for a theatrical production in Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Kaitlin
Murphy-Knudsen
is a fiction writer, poet, ghostwriter, and writing coach whose work has been published in Newsweek, The Washington Post, Odet Journal, The Peauxdunque Review, and other publications. She has taught writing at American University, SUNY Buffalo, Union County College, and the University of Tampa.
Siena Oristaglio
is an artist and educator. She co-runs The Void Academy, an organization that helps independent artists thrive. She lives in New York City.
Robert Osborne
owns a consulting firm that helps nonprofit organizations. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Witness, Southeast Review, Obsidian, The Baltimore Review, and others. An avid squash player, Robert lives in New York City with his wife, son and three cats.
Jacqueline
Osherow
received her BA from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, and her PhD from Princeton University. She is the author of several collections of poetry, and has receveived a number of awards including the Witter Bynner Prize, several prizes from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Leah Poole
Osowski
is the author of poems which were chosen by Adrian Matejka for the 2015 Wick Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in the Southern Review, the Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, and Quarterly West. She is the poetry editor of Raleigh Review. Originally from Massachusetts, she holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Alicia
Ostriker
is the current New York State Poet Laureate and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Jewish Book Award, Paterson Poetry Prize, San Francisco State Poetry Center Award, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, William Carlos Williams Award, and fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations.
Pegah Ouji
is an Iranian-American writer with short stories and poems in Farsi and English. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Isele Magazine, Hamilton Stone Review, Fugue, and Joyland. She is an Emerging Writer Fellow at Smokelong Quarterly, as well as a writing and editorial fellow at Roots, Wounds, Words.
Nadia Owusu
is a Brooklyn-based writer and urban planner. She is the recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, and a winner of the TAR chapbook contest. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, LUMINA, Catapult, and other publications. Her writing is represented by Meredith Kaffel Simonoff of DeFiore & Company.
Dennis Pahl
is the author of a number of collections and has published numerous scholarly articles on American literature in such journals as Criticism, Studies in Short Fiction, Poe Studies, Literature Interpretation Theory (LIT), and elsewhere. Pahl received a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. He holds a Ph.D from the University at Buffalo.
Angela Palm
is the author of Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here (Graywolf Press 2016). Riverine is an Indie Next selection, winner of the 2014 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a Kirkus Best Book of 2016, and a Powerful Memoir by Powerful Women selected by Oprah. Her work has been published in Ecotone, Creative Nonfiction, At Length Magazine, Brevity, and elsewhere.
Sameer Pandya
is the author of the story collection The Blind Writer, which was longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. He is also the recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship. His work has appeared in, among others the Atlantic, Salon, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, and Narrative Magazine. He teaches creative writing and South Asian and Asian American literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Julia Phillips
is the bestselling author of the novel Disappearing Earth, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year. A 2024 Guggenheim fellow, she lives with her family in Brooklyn.
Sam Pink
has written books including Person, The No Hellos Diet, Hurt Others, Rontel, Witch Piss, and The Garbage Times/White Ibis. His writing has been published widely in print and on the Internet and translated into other languages. He currently lives in Michigan.
Anzhelina
Polonskaya
has had translations of her work published in many of the world’s leading poetry journals, such as World Literature Today and Poetry Review. The English translation of her work was shortlisted for the 2005 Corneliu Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation and 2014 Best Translated Book Award and for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
Jason Porter
writes fiction. He is a graduate of the Hunter College MFA program. He was shortlisted for the Paris Literary Prize and was published by Plume. He releases a weekly podcast, and is working on a new piece of fiction.
MM Porter
is attending Ohio University to pursue her PhD in English with an emphasis in Poetry. She is a graduate of the MFA poetry program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She has been published in The Shore and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Originally from Michigan, you can find her work at mm-porter.com.
Xosman
Qado
was born in Amuda, Rojava, and earned a degree in Philosophy. He writes in both Kurmanji and Arabic, and works as both a translator and journalist. He is the Kurmanji-language editor of the publications Şar and Rê Cultural Magazine. His Arabic-language collection Look at Her, How Exhausted You Are won the Prose Poem Forum Prize in Cairo in 2010.
Marilyn Ramirez
is a California-based writer. Her prose appears in ¡Pa’lante!, The Plentitudes, Press Pause Press, among other places, and she has been awarded the Harriet Williams Emerging Writer prize. She is fiction editor for The Plentitudes. An MFA candidate at UC Davis, Marilyn is currently at work on her first book.
Ayesha
Raees
identifies herself as a hybrid creating hybrid art through hybrid forms. Raees is the Assistant Poetry Editor of The Margins, she was the 2018-2019's Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and 2019's Brooklyn Poets Fall Fellow. She and her work has been endorsed by Millay Colony for the Arts, University of Findlay, Bennington College, Newburgh Community Photo Project, and elsewhere.
Martha Rhodes
Former director and faculty member of The Frost Place’s Conference on Poetry, Martha Rhodes is the author of five poetry collections: The Thin Wall (forthcoming in 2017). She has directed the Conference on Poetry since 2010 and is a former member of the board of trustees of The Frost Place. She teaches at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the director of Four Way Books in NYC.
Jacob Rogers
(Haifa, 1994) is a translator of Galician prose and poetry. His translations have appeared in PRISM International, Cagibi, Your Impossible Voice, Nashville Review, The Brooklyn Rail InTranslation, and the Portico of Galician Literature, and elsewhere. His translation of Carlos Casares' novel, His Excellency, came out from Small Stations Press in 2017.
Seth Rogoff
is the author of the novels First, The Raven: a Preface and Thin Rising Vapor. His shorter work has appeared in many journals, including BODY, Cagibi, and Epiphany. He has received grants from Duke University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the University of Amsterdam. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing in Berlin, Germany, and currently lives in Prague.
Nelly Rosario
was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives. She received a BA in engineering from MIT and an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. She was named a “Writer on the Verge” by The Village Voice Literary Supplement in 2001. Her novel Song of the Water Saints won the 2002 PEN Open Book Award.
Brynne
Rebele-Henry
has published fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in such journals as Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, The Volta, Rookie, Adroit, PANK, and Revolver. She has won numerous awards for her writing, including the 2016 Adroit Prize for Prose, the 2015 Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Award from the Poetry Society of America. She’s represented by Vicky Bijur Literary Agency.
Mira
Rosenthal
received the Wick Poetry Prize, the Northern California Book Award and was shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize, among others. A past fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University’s Stegner Program, Rosenthal publishes in such journals as Ploughshares, Harvard Review, PN Review, and A Public Space. She teaches in Cal Poly’s Creative Writing Program.
Tomasz
Rózycki
is the author of seven collections of poems and a long epic poem, Dwanaście stacji, for which he was awarded the Kościelski Prize. Różycki’s work has been translated into numerous languages. Among his awards are the Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński Prize, the Joseph Brodski Prize from Zeszyty Literackie, and two nominations for the Nike Prize. He teaches at Opole University.
Rasheeda Saka
is a forthcoming graduate of Princeton (Class of 2020). She is a Breakout 8 Writer with Epiphany. She is a fiction writer who has studied with Neel Mukherjee, Angela Flournoy, and Kirstin Valdez Quade. In addition to majoring in English she is pursuing certificates in Creative Writing and Spanish.
Omar Sakr
is an award-winning poet born and raised in Western Sydney to Lebanese Muslim and Turkish Muslim migrants. He is the author of These Wild Houses (Cordite Books, 2017) and The Lost Arabs (Andrews McMeel, 2020). In 2019, Omar was the recipient of the Edward Stanley Award for Poetry.
Curt Saltzman
was born and raised in Los Angeles. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gargoyle Magazine, Sou'wester, Atticus Review, Into the Void, Bending Genres, and elsewhere. His story "How My Brother and I Diverged," first published in the Atticus Review, has been nominated for the Best Small Fictions 2020 anthology.
Joseph Salvatore
is the Books Editor at The Brooklyn Rail and a contributor to The New York Times Book Review. His fiction has appeared in The Collagist, Dossier Journal, Epiphany, H.O.W. Journal, New York Tyrant, Open City, and others. His criticism has appeared in The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture, Angels of the Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing, and The Believer Logger. He is an associate professor of writing and literature at The New School in New York City.
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
was born in Dakar in 1990. He studied literature and philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Brotherhood, his first novel, won the Grand Prix du Roman Métis, the Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, and the French Voices Grand Prize, in Alexia Trigo’s translation. He won the 2021 Prix Goncourt for his novel La plus secrète mémoire des hommes, becoming the first Sub-Saharan African to do so and was named Chevalier of the National Order of Merit by the president of Senegal.
Colin
Schmidt
grew up in New Jersey and Delaware. His poems can be found currently at RHINO, The Paris-American, The Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Birdfeast Magazine, Reservoir Journal and elsewhere.
Lore Segal
has received the Clifton Fadiman Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and a grant from the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities. Her short stories have been included in Best American Short Stories. Her reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review and her stories in the The New Yorker.
Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov
(1907-1982) was a Russian Soviet writer best know for his Kolyma Stories set in the labor camp of Kolyma, part of the GULAG prison system in which he was imprisoned three times throughout his life. The author’s extensive body of poetic works, while celebrated in Russia, have largely gone unnoticed by international audiences.
Elena
Sheppard
is a writer with a focus on literature, theater, and culture at large. She's pursuing an MFA in non-fiction writing at Columbia University and working on a manuscript about her family’s exile from Cuba during the Cuban Revolution. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Vogue among numerous other publications. She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English.
Lynn Shoemaker
has had work appear in the Beloit Poetry Journal, among other publications, and his third and latest collection of poems, HANDS, was published by Lynx House Press. In his living and in his writing, he is thankful for a mother who wrote sonnets and a daughter who danced.
David Shook
is a poet, translator, and editor who recently returned to California after spending a year and a half in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The most recent of their 14 book-length translations are Jorge Eduardo Eielson’s Room in Rome and Pablo d’Ors’ The Friend of the Desert.
Hasanthika Sirisena
has had work in the Michigan Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, Kenyon Review Online, The Color of Life, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Susquehanna University.
Duncan
Slagle
is a Queer poet and performer, and has won poetry prizes from the Crab Creek Review, Mikrokosmos Journal, and Epiphany. Duncan's poems are appearing or forthcoming in BOAAT Journal, Palette Poetry, among others. Duncan has performed at venues such as the Orpheum Theater, the Walker Art Center, Poets House NYC, & the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, among others.
Evan Gill Smith
is a poet, musician, video producer, and educator. He produces poetry videos for the series Poeta. His poetry has been recognized by grants and fellowships from Kettle Pond and Art Farm, and he’s worked as an associate editor for Alice James, Futurepoem, and Narrative. Evan received his MFA from Rutgers-Newark, and currently teaches writing and tutors in the CUNY system.
Patricia Smith
is the author of seven books of poetry, including Incendiary Art (2017), winner of an NAACP Image Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (2012), which won the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; She is a 2014 Guggenheim fellow, a 2012 fellow at both MacDowell and Yaddo, a two-time Pushcart Prize winner, recipient of a Lannan fellowship and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam.
Robert Smith
is a translator whose work has appeared in Anomaly, Asymptote, InTranslation, Journal of Italian Translation, New Poetry in Translation, and Two Lines.
Mary South
is the author of the collection You Will Never Be Forgotten (FSG). A graduate of Northwestern and Columbia University’s MFA program, and an editor at NOON, her writing has appeared in The Believer, BOMB, The Collagist, Conjunctions, Electric Literature, Words Without Borders, and The New Yorker. Maile Meloy awarded her story "Not Setsuko" an honorable mention in the Zoetrope: All Story fiction contest. She lives in NYC.
Mary Austin Speaker
is the art director of Milkweed Editions. She co-founded and curated the Triptych Poetry Series in the East Village, and while studying for her MFA in poetry at Indiana University, she taught creative writing and edited the Indiana Review. She has published two collections of poetry and edits a chapbook review column for Rain Taxi as well as a series on poetry and power called Society Editions. She has been designing books for Milkweed in a freelance capacity since 2013.
Dorothy Spears
Dorothy Spears’s features and profiles appear frequently in the New York Times. A contributor to Art In America, she is a member of the International Association of Art Critics. Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories About Flying (Open City/Grove Atlantic 2009), an anthology of short fiction and personal essays, attests to Dorothy’s lifelong love of literature. Her personal essays have been published in the New York Times, and on mrbellersneighborhood.com. She lives and works in New York.
Kaleigh Spollen
is a writer currently based in Oakland, CA. Her work has been published in Hobart, FORTH, Potluck Mag, Ghost City Press, and elsewhere.
Seema Srivastava
earned her PhD in Modern Art from New York University and was the recipient of the NYU Excellence in Teaching Award and the Outstanding Graduate in Fiction at Johns Hopkins University. She will complete her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University in May 2019. She lives in New York City with her husband and their two boys.
M Sullivan
was born in Western Mass and grew up on Cape Cod. After living in Boston for three years he traveled all over the States. He settled in NYC for eight years before taking to the road again, driving across the country to his current home on the steps of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. His work has appeared in The Fictional Café, Joyland, The New School Blog, and PANK.
Terese Svoboda
is the author of the short story collection Great American Desert (Mad Creek Books, 2019) and the biography Anything that Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet (Schaffner Books, 2018). Svoboda's poetry collections include When the Next Big War Blows Down the Valley: Selected & New (Anhinga Press, 2015) and Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship (Eyewear, 2016).
Kate Sweeney
is a Best of the Net Finalist and Pushcart Prize Nominee. She has poems most recently appearing or forthcoming from Poet Lore, The Boiler, Northwest Review, The Salthill Journal, and other places, and has a chapbook, The Oranges Will Still Grow Without Us (Ethel).
Grace Talusan
is a writer and teacher. She has been published in Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Boston Magazine, Boston Globe, The Rumpus, and others. She is the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines and an Artist Fellowship Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is a graduate of Tufts University and the MFA Program in Writing at the University of California, Irvine.
Jiaming Tang
is a Brooklyn-based writer of queer immigrant fiction. His interests lie in representing marginalized experience through allegory and unconventional storytelling. He studies creative writing at Purchase College, SUNY.
Greg Tebbano’s
fiction has appeared in Witness, Southern Humanities Review, Meridian, Post Road, Zone 3 and is forthcoming in NOON. Greg received support fromVermont Studio Center, the First Pages Prize and has been a finalist for the Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose and the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition.
Kailey Tedesco
(she/her) is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, including Lizzie, Speak (winner of White Stag Publishing’s 2018 manuscript contest). Her newest collection, Motherdevil, is coming soon from White Stag Publishing. She currently teaches courses on horror and Gothic literature at Moravian University. You can find her work featured in Black Warrior Review, Gigantic Sequins, Passages North, Fairy Tale Review, and more. For further information, please visit kaileytedesco.com or follow @kaileytedesco on Instagram.
Susan Terris
is the author of 7 books of poetry, 16 chapbooks, 3 artists books, and one play. Journals include The Southern Review, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, and Ploughshares. One of her poems appeared in Pushcart Prize XXXI and one in Best American Poetry 2015. She is the winner of the 2019 Swan Scythe Chapbook Award, editor emerita of Spillway Magazine, and poetry editor at Pedestal.
Jeanne
Thornton
Jeanne Thornton is the author of a number of works. She is one of the recipients of the Judith A Markowitz Emerging Writers Award, as well as a Lambda Literary Fellow and a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist. She is one of the publishers of Instar Books.
Ryan Teitman
is the author of the poetry collection Litany for the City (BOA Editions, 2012). His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review, and The Yale Review, and his awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
Tamara Tenenbaum
has a BA in philosophy and works as a journalist for La Nación, La Agenda, Infobae, and other media. She teaches at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Universidad Nacional de las Artes. Her first book of short stories, Nadie vive tan cerca de nadie, was awarded the Concurso Ficciones and will be published by Emecé in October 2019.
Rachel L’Abri Tipton
is a writer, poet, and printmaker who co-runs De Wilgen Farm Stay, a small residency space open in the summer months. Her work has appeared in print and online in Dispatches, Descant, Luna Luna Magazine, Conséquences, Lute & Drum, Magma, and Tripwire. She’s currently writing a non-fiction book about having a body in the world. You can follow her on Instagram @thequietfight.
Nick Thran
is the author of two poetry collections, one of which was a finalist for The Gerald. He holds an MFA at New York University, where he taught creative writing in the undergraduate program and at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island. His poems have appeared in publications across Canada, including the most recent edition of The Best Canadian Poetry, as well as in American publications such as Epiphany and Storyscape. He currently lives in Toronto.
Robb Todd
is a journalist and author in New York City. He has lived all over the country and was lucky enough to live in Hawaii twice. He also lived in Texas twice. And North Carolina twice. Actually, this is his second stop in New York City, too. He doesn’t do things right the first time.
Nicole Treska
is a writer and professor in New York City. Her fiction has been published in New York Tyrant Magazine, Epiphany Magazine, Egress: New Openings in Literary Arts, and Tweed’s Magazine, among others. Her interviews and reviews are up at Guernica, The Millions, The Rumpus, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Common.
Ross
Ufberg
is a writer and translator. A graduate of Hamilton College, he is a PhD Candidate at Columbia University in the Slavic Department. His fiction, translations and journalism have appeared in The Forward, Heeb, Harlequin Creature, and other places. Ross is a co-founder of New Vessel Press.
Lena Valencia’s
work has appeared or is forthcoming in CRAFT, Joyland, BOMB, and the Tiny Nightmares Anthology (Catapult, October 2020), and elsewhere. Her fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and in 2019 she was awarded an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant. She received her MFA in fiction from The New School.
Judith
Vollmer
is the author of five books of poetry, including most recently The Apollonia Poems (University of Wisconsin Press Four Lakes Prize 2017) and the limited edition volume Black Butterfly (Center for Book Arts). Recent poems and criticism appear in Italian Americana, The Georgia Review, Reading in Translation, and elsewhere.
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
is the author of the collection Beast Meridian, a 2019 Whiting Award recipient, Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist, and 2019 Friends of Literature Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and has also appeared in the New York Times, Boston Review, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere. She is a CantoMundo Fellow and is pursuing her doctorate in English Literature.
Leah
Umansky
is the author of a number of collections of poetry. She is the host and curator of the COUPLET Reading Series in NYC. She is a graduate of the MFA Program in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College, and a graduate of the MA in English Education - Secondary Education from CUNY- Hunter College. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A Day, USA Today's Pop Candy, and elsewhere.
Alberto Vourvoulias
was born in Mexico and grew up in Guatemala. He’s worked as a journalist in both Spanish and English-language media, including Time Magazine and El Diario-La Prensa. He’s taught in the Master’s Program in Bilingual Journalism at CUNY. He’s also taught courses in politics at Yale University and in the New Jersey prison system. An emerging writer when it comes to fiction, he’s published stories in The North American Review, Arcturus, and Fractured Lit, where his story was anthologized in Fractured Lit Vol. 3. He posts on Instagram @albertovourvoulias and on X @avourvoulias.
Andrew Wachtel
is the Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the Humanities, director of the Center for International and Comparative Studies, and dean of the Graduate School at Northwestern University. He is the author or editor of numerous works, including Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia, which has been translated into Serbian, Romanian, and Slovene.
Derek Walcott
has self-published two volumes of poetry, and has written many plays. His play Dream on Monkey Mountain won the Obie Award for distinguished foreign play of 1971. He founded Boston Playwrights' Theatre at Boston University in 1981. Walcott's honors include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Montale Prize, a Royal Society of Literature Award, and, in 1988, the Queen's Medal for Poetry. In 1992, Walcott became the first Caribbean writer to receive the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Casey Walker
is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and has a PhD in English Literature from Princeton University. His writing has appeared in The Believer, Boston Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, novelist Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles.
Matthew Ward
is a translator, editor, and musician based in New York City and Berlin. He translates from French, German, Spanish, and Italian. He was educated at Harvard College and Princeton University. His translation of Viktor Mazin's Freuds Gespenster will be published by MIT Press in the summer.
José
Watanabe
shared first prize with Antonio Cillóniz in the young poets contest organized by Cuadernos trimestrales de Poesía in 1970, and won the award Young Poet of Peru in 1971 with his first book, Album de Familia. In 2000, he published in Colombia an anthology entitled El Guardián del Hielo and in 2004 he published in Spain Elogio del Refrenamiento, a comprehensive anthology that won numerous accolades. Watanabe died in April 2007.
Nicholas Weaver
is a teaching artist and spoken-word performer, with work appearing in This Land Press, Columbia Poetry Review, and others. He lives in Oklahoma, where he enjoys daydreaming about ocean trenches and post-apocalyptic wastelands.
Cynthia Weiner
has had a long career writing and teaching fiction. Her short stories have been published in Ploughshares, The Sun, and Epiphany, and her story, “Boyfriends,” was awarded a Pushcart Prize. She is also the assistant director of The Writers Studio in New York City. A Gorgeous Excitement, her first novel, was inspired by her upbringing on New York’s Upper East Side in the 1980s, and particularly by the notorious “Preppy Murder” of 1986. Weiner now lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.
Jillian Weise
is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. She is the receipient of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and the Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions. Weise’s essays have appeared in A Public Space, Granta, The New York Times and Tin House. She’s been awarded residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Fulbright Program and the Lannan Foundation. She worked in editorial at The Paris Review and The Iowa Review.
Rachel X. Weissman
believes in enlightened sublimation and its power to save us. Ergo, she’s writing a memoir of her father, a bohemian artist from New York City, who had gender reassignment surgery in 1979. Last year Rachel published “I Want You,” a Pushcart-nominated essay on her father in Epiphany Magazine. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, Audubon, OnEarth, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Observer, and The Phoenicia Times.
Abigail Wender
has had poems published in Bodega, The Cortland Review, Epiphany, and elsewhere. She is the president of Friends of Writers, is on the board of the Poetry Society of America, and a trustee emerita of the Kenyon Review. She holds degrees from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and the Seminar College at New School for Social Research, and lives in New York City.
Carol White
a Boca Raton, Florida resident, is a novelist, playwright and freelance writer. Her essays, fiction, and columns have been published by The Sun Sentinel, Writers Journal, Insight for Playwrights, Working Writers, Woman’s World, The Florida Writer, and Senior Scene. She is a frequent fiction contributor to the East Hampton Star. She is also a published poet. She volunteers for the Boca Raton Branch, National League of American Pen Women, a group of professional writers, artists and musicians, and is also their Publicity Chair, and Letters Chair. Carol belongs to the Florida Writers Association.
Gabriela
Wiener
is from Lima. She writes regularly for the newspapers El País (Spain) and La República (Peru). She also writes for several American and European magazines, such as Etiqueta Negra (Peru), Anfibia (Argentina), Corriere della Sera (Italy), XXI (France), and Virginia Quarterly Review (United States). In Madrid, she worked as editor of the Spanish edition of Marie Claire.
Avra Wing
is the author of the novels Angie, I Says. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Hanging Loose, Dunes Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Silk Road, among other places. For the last ten years, she has led a NY Writerws Coalition workshop at the Center for Independance of the Disabled, New York.
Alisson Wood
is a graduate of New York University. She teaches creative writing for undergraduates at her alma mater. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the NYC literary reading series and online journal, Pigeon Pages. Her writing has been published in places such as The New York Times, Catapult, and Epiphany. She won the inaugural Breakout 8 Writers Prize. Her memoir, Being Lolita, is forthcoming.
John Wray
is the author of critically acclaimed novels including Lowboy, The Right Hand of Sleep and Canaan’s Tongue. He was named one of Granta magazine’s Best of Young American Novelists in 2007. The recipient of a Whiting Award, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Candace Wuehle
holds an MA in literature from the University of Minnesota as well as an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She recently earned a doctorate in Creative Writing at The University of Kansas, where she was the recipient of a Chancellor's Fellowship. Her work can be found in Black Warrior Review, Tarpaulin Sky, The Volta, The Colorado Review, SPORK, and The New Orleans Review.
Zêdan
Xelef
has current projects include translating Whitman’s Song of Myself into Kurmanji and poets from Rojava into English. He works for Kashkul, the center for art and culture at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. His poems have appeared in World Literature Today and on the Poetry Foundation website.
Katie Yee
is the Book Marks assistant editor at Literary Hub. She holds a BA from Bennington College and lives with her rescue dog in Brooklyn.
Asa
Yoneda
was born in Osaka, Japan, and lives in Bristol, U.K. She specializes in Japanese Fiction. In addition to Yukiko Motoya, she has translated works by Banana Yoshimoto, Aoko Matsuda, and Natsuko Kuroda.
Liang
Yujing
completed an MA at Wuhan University before going to New Zealand in 2014 as a PhD candidate at Victoria University of Wellington. As a bilingual poet and translator, he has published work in over 60 journals and magazines across the world, including Modern Poetry in Translation, Boston Review, and Westerly. He is the Chinese translator of Best New Zealand Poems 2014.
Ghassan Zeineddine
lives with his wife in Dearborn, Michigan, where he teaches Arab American literature and creative writing at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. His fiction has appeared in The Georgia Review, Witness, Fiction International, Iron Horse Literary Review, and The Common, among other places. He is currently co-editing the creative nonfiction anthology Uncertain Refuge: Voices of Arab Detroit (Wayne State University Press, 2021).
Unica Zürn
was a writer and visual artist born in Berlin in 1916. Following her stint as a dramaturge during the First World War, her first writings began to appear in German newspapers and magazines. After meeting the German surrealist Hans Bellmer in 1953, she moved with him to Paris, where her writings and illustrations shortly thereafter appeared in the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme. After a crisis in 1957, she spent the rest of her life in and out of mental institutions in Paris and Berlin. In 1970, following Bellmer's paralyzing stroke, which rendered him incapable of caring for her, she committed suicide by jumping from the window of the Paris apartment they shared.
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