Artist Discipline: Non-Fiction

Adrian Shirk is the author of Heaven is a Place on Earth (Counterpoint, 2022), a personal odyssey of American utopian experiments, and And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy (Counterpoint, 2017), a hybrid-memoir exploring American women prophets and mystics, named an NPR Best Book of 2017. She publishes a monthly artist opportunities list called The Whole Utopianotes…

Brian Truong is a Vietnamese-American writer with work published in The Rumpus, Chicago Review of Books, Ecotone, and The Georgia Review, where he won the magazine’s 2023 Prose Prize. He has also received fellowships and support from Periplus, Yaddo, Ucross, Tin House, and Bread Loaf. He is currently at work on a memoir and an essay collection.…

A former refugee from Iran, Dina is the author of two critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books Who Gets Believed (2023) and the ground-breaking and much praised The Ungrateful Refugee (2019), as well as two previous novels. The Ungrateful Refugee (2019), won Germany’s prestigious Geschwister Scholl Preis, and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Los…