Fiction/Nonfiction Writing

Meredith is an artist who works at the intersection of writing, visual art, and performance. Her work has spanned multiple mediums and genres, though they are best-known to the public as a book author and journalist. Meredith is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Fairest from Viking/Penguin Random House, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist…

Swati Sudarsan (she/they) is working on her first novel, titled This Mirror is a Knife, which was longlisted for the 2024 Granum Prize. She is a 2025 AAWW Margins Fellow and a 2025 Periplus Fellow. Swati has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Kweli…

Sharon Guskin is the author of the novel, The Forgetting Time (Flatiron Books/ MacMillan), an international bestseller which has been published in over 20 countries. In addition to writing fiction, Guskin has worked as a writer and producer of award-winning documentary films, including STOLEN, a documentary film about the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist in Boston,…

Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey, the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick and the 2018 International Booker Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is also the translator of Federico Falco’s A Perfect…

Vanessa Walters joined Millay in 2016 to work on her novel, The Nigerwife and was named the Leo Maitland Fellow at the end of her residency. The Nigerwife (title changed to The Lagos Wife), was published in 2023 by Atria Books and has been optioned by HBO. She is now working on another novel due…

Lincoln Michel’s debut novel, The Body Scout (Orbit), was named one of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021 by The New York Times and one of the Fifty Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time by Esquire. He is also the author of the story collection Upright Beasts (Coffee House Press) and co-editor…

Bonnie Chau is from Southern California, where she studied Art History and English Literature at UCLA and ran writing programs for young students at the nonprofit 826LA. She received her MFA in Fiction and Literary Translation from Columbia University, and has worked at Poets & Writers, a lot of restaurants, a few bookstores, and a…

Amanda Ajamfar is a writer currently living on Lenapehoking. Her work has been published in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, and the Colorado Review. She has been generously supported by awards and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, the New York Foundation for the Arts/the New…