Fiction
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Joan Winter
Joan is currently working on a novel and pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College. She has a Masters in Information Science from UT Austin. By day, she works as a designer and strategist in tech and finance.
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Allie Tova Hirsch
Allie is a genderless Jewish writer and teacher originally from Virginia, as well as a graduate of the Oberlin College Creative Writing Program and the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. Allie was the recipient of a Hopwood Prize in Fiction as well as a Zell Fellowship from the University of Michigan.…
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Nate Brown
Nate is a fiction writer and editor who teaches in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in journals and periodicals including One Story, the Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Publisher’s Weekly, LitHub, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. He is the…
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Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Mecca is a fiction writer and scholar born and raised in Harlem, New York. She is the author of three books: the short story collection, Blue Talk and Love (2015), winner of the Judith Markowitz Award for Fiction from Lambda Literary; a scholarly book, The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora…
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Mindy Uhrlaub
Mindy has traveled twice with Human Rights Watch and Eve Ensler’s V-Day to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has taken testimony of rape survivors and child soldiers. Her interest in preventing the pillage of resources in Congo has also led her to visit Virunga National Park and to sit on the committee for…
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Beth Weeks
Beth received her MFA from Miami University in Ohio. Her fiction has appeared in The Write Launch, Barren Magazine, Rivet Journal, and others. She is a recipient of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant, and was a finalist for the Hudson Prize and Launch Pad Prose Competition. Her work has most recently been supported by…
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Vivian Pham
Vivian is a novelist, essayist, poet, and aspiring folklorist from southwestern Sydney. In high school, she wrote a novel called The Coconut Children, which was published in March 2020 by Penguin Random House. She is currently writing the film and stage adaptations of The Coconut Children, and teaching workshops with Story Factory, a not-for-profit creative…
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Edmondson Cole
Edmondson is a fiction writer and occasional cartoonist from Portland, Maine. Graduate of Pacific University’s MFA in Writing, his work has been published by Portland Monthly Magazine, Drizzle Review, and WryTimes. In 2022, he was a finalist in the Maine Literary Awards’ Short Works in Fiction category. His earliest pieces appeared in I Could Be…
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Lissette Norman
Lissette is a poet and author of the picture books My Feet Are Laughing and Plátanos Go with Everything. She is also co-author of the picture books, Until Someone Listens (w/ Estela Juarez) and On the Line: The First African-American Rockette (w/ Jennifer Jones). Lissette received her BA in English at SUNY- Binghamton and currently lives in…