Fiction/Nonfiction Writing

Jen Lue is a former Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow and a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Fiction finalist. She is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Kundiman, VONA/Voices, Tin House, Jerome Foundation, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, among others. Her work has been featured in The Margins, BOMB Magazine, and…

Best known for her award-winning documentary Our African Roots, Santilla Chingaipe is one of Australia’s leading filmmakers and historians. Chingaipe’s work explores settler colonialism, slavery, and postcolonial migration in Australia. Her debut work of non-fiction, Black Convicts: How slavery shaped Australia, was published in 2024. The recipient of several awards, she was also recognized at…

Sofi Stambo is the winner of the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for her collection of short stories A Bunch of Savages. The book will be published in the spring of 2026. Sofi was awarded the 2024 LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for short fiction, first prize in fiction in 2015 Dzanc Books/Disquiet International…

Sheila received her PhD at Carnegie Mellon University and is Associate Professor of Writing and Communication at Champlain College. Her published work includes Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time (2023), Office (2020), & What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books (2020) as well as many essays in…

Growing up as a working-class, first-generation immigrant, Yiming had a turbulent childhood. Attending eight schools before eighth grade as his family moved between China, America, and Canada, he often wished they had either stayed in Asia or committed to moving abroad. Since he was an only child, books soon became his most reliable companions, and…

Dominique C. Hill is a scholar, creative, and guide who examines Black girlhood, embodiment, and Blackqueer intimacies. Storied by elders as “dancing before she could walk,” and raised by three generations of women who know the power of prayer, girls’ night out, and a strong work ethic, Hill is inspired by Black social dance, everyday…

Ali Castleman is a writer, editor, and educator from New York City. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University–Newark, where she received an MFA in Fiction. Her work has been supported by Vermont Studio Center and Woodward Guest Residency.

Rachel Zimmerman, an award-winning journalist, has written about health and medicine for more than two decades. She currently contributes stories on mental health to The Washington Post and previously worked as a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and a health reporter for WBUR, Boston’s public radio station. Her essays and reporting have been…

I have two BA degrees in Theatre and Women’s Studies from the University of Washington and an MA in Performance Studies from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. At NYU, I had the privilege of being mentored by actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, who inspired and encouraged me to truly…