Non-Fiction

Olivia has written political campaigns and as a political advocate.  She is working on a memoir based on Barack Obama’s 2008 primary and presidential campaigns. Olivia is Co-Founder and Chair of Board for California Partners Program as well as Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board for New York City’s National Student Poets Program and has served…

Amey’s work combines text, image and design elements with a dedication to book arts. Her publications include short fiction, translation, and a text & image novel Snakes, the first volume of a four-part series Songs of All Other Birds. In 2016 Amey and composer Christopher Preissing received a Chicago Artist Residency production grant at the…

Vanessa is a queer Franco-Asian American writer and artist based in Los Angeles. Their writing practice—spanning lyrical nonfiction, art criticism, and hybrid fiction—explores the fluid dimensions of identity through intimate engagements with memory, loss, and opacity. Their visual art practice bridges intermedial installation and photo poetics to take up questions of diasporic and ecological disappearance. Holyoak’s first…

Ani is an Albanian-born writer, literary translator and author of Bread on Running Waters (Fenway Press, 2013) a finalist for the 2011 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and the 2011 May Sarton New Hampshire Book Prize. Her translation from the Albanian of Luljeta Lleshanaku’s Negative Space (New Directions, 2018) was a finalist for a PEN Award, a Best Translated Book…

“I am a culture writer, musician, theatre-maker, and composer based in Brooklyn, New York. As a contributing writer to The New Yorker, my reporting on film, theatre, music, and cultural trends won the 2019 First Place award for “Arts & Entertainment Portfolio” from the Society for Features Journalism. I’ve also written for The Washington Post…

“I’m a retired Registered Nurse. I received my Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from The City University of New York in January 1978. I served 34 years of dedicated service to the Harlem Community as a Registered Nurse at Harlem Hospital Medical Center. The Hospital where I was born. I began my writing journey…

Journalist, writer and teacher Jennifer Mattson has taught essay writing at New York University’s School of Professional Studies since 2014. Jennifer graduated with a B.A. in English, with Honors, from the University of Michigan inAnn Arbor, with an undergraduate thesis on the non-linear writing techniques of Virginia Woolf. After college graduation, she moved to Budapest,…

Jennifer has been writing about nature and science for more than three decades. Her latest book, What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds (Penguin Press, June 2023), was an instant New York Times bestseller and has been described in reviews as “eloquent and engaging”, “revelatory”, a “fascinating read”, “a masterful survey”, and an…

Tewari’s short stories and poetry have been published in literary magazines such as Epiphany Magazine, Granta, New England Review, The Southern Review, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her writing captures identity conflicts along with a myriad of life issues such as professionalism, gender equality, and domestic violence. Tewari teaches law at Widener University Delaware…