Fiction

Evander is a writer from Long Beach, CA. He is working on his first novel. Evander was born in Long Beach, California, and studied Semiotics at Brown University. In 2025, he was the recipient of a scholarship to attend the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and was also a fellow with Periplus Collective. Evander works as…

Patty Nasey is an essayist, humorist, memoirist, and emerging novelist based in New York City. Originally from California, she moved to Manhattan in 1989 to work for Spy Magazine, the iconic satirical publication founded by Kurt Andersen and Graydon Carter. While at SPY, Patty moonlighted as a freelance contributor to New York and PAPER Magazines,…

Emily was born and raised in a Seattle suburb and moved to New York City to attend NYU’s Experimental Humanities in 2019. She is a 2025 graduate of NYU’s Low Residency MFA program, spending part of each year in Paris, and in July 2026, she attended the One Story Workshop and Conference. Emily writes literary…

Maddie is a writer, editor, and teacher living in New York. Her writing appears in The Baffler, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Joyland, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College, and she teaches at Sackett Street.

Susan holds an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Buffalo and currently serves as a writing professor at Niagara University, where her courses explore the intersections of literature, myth, and the environment. Most recently, Susan has been developing coursework on women’s voices in myth, spirituality, and ecology. Her teaching and research…

Rebecca is the author of the novel Fingerprints of Previous Owners; stories and essays in such journals as Guernica and Literary Hub; and flash in Copper Nickel, Hobart, and elsewhere. At Cornell College, she teaches creative writing; U.S. and Caribbean literature; and the literature of social justice and directs the Center for the Literary Arts.…

Rachel is the author of two novels, most recently The Great Reclamation (Riverhead, 2023), which won the New American Voices Award and the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the Dublin Literary Award, as well as being named a New York Times Editors’ Choice…

Key is a Syrian Mvskoke gender plural writer. They have had short stories and essays published in Diagram, Mizna, and The Rumpus, among others, and have won awards or honors for her fiction from The Cincinnati Review, Fourteen Hills, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Creative Writing fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2024,…