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Christopher J. Adamson is a poet, critic, and essayist. Born and raised near the red-rock deserts of Utah, he holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Vanderbilt University, and he graduated with honors from both the creative writing and journalism programs at Northwestern University. His writing has appeared in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and publications including ZYZZYVA, Boston Review, Southwest Review, The Seattle Review, Tammy, West Branch, and The Iowa Review. In 2017 he was a semifinalist for the Discovery/Boston Review prize. He splits his time between Los Angeles and Oakland, where he lives with his partner, the visual artist John Sexton Cornejo.

Dexter L. Booth is the author of one poetry collection, Scratching the Ghost (Graywolf Press, 2013), which won the 2012 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was selected by Major Jackson. His poems have been published in Blackbird, Grist, Willow Springs, Virginia Quarterly, Ectone, and the anthology The Burden of Light: Poems on Illness and Loss, as well other publications.

Nicholas Bredie is the author the novel Not Constantinople, forthcoming from Dzanc Books. With Joanna Howard, he is the co-translator of Frédéric Boyer’s novella Cows, published by Noemi Press, Summer 2014. His writing has appeared in The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, The Fairy Tale Review, Opium, Puerto del Sol and elsewhere. After living and working in Istanbul, Turkey, he is now in Los Angeles with his wife, Nora Lange.

Alfred Eugene Joseph Brown IV is a short story writer originated in the April showers of Los Angeles County's hazy South Bay shores. He received a bachelor's from Princeton University where he studied English literature, creative writing, photography, and played rugby. He received a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from Columbia University, where he also served as the fiction editor of the Columbia Journal and was awarded a University Fellowship. Alfred is currently a PhD candidate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. His has recently been published in Fence.

Ben Bush is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a 2017-2018 Fulbright Fellow to Bulgaria, and a Dornsife Fellow at the University of Southern California creative writing PhD program. His fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Yeti, The Fanzine, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. His non-fiction and interviews have appeared in Bookforum, The Believer, Poets & Writers, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Bitch, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He has received fellowships and scholarships from the Truman Capote Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Wesleyan Writers Conference, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Sozopol Fiction Seminars, and Key West Literary Seminars. He is a former managing editor of the Organist podcast from McSweeney's and KCRW and has taught creative writing in Morocco, Bulgaria, and at the University of Iowa.

Melissa Chadburn’s work has appeared in The LA Times, NYT Book Review, NYRB, Longreads, and dozens other places. She’s received notable mention in Best American Essays, and her essay on food insecurity was selected for Best American Food Writing 2019. Her debut novel, A Tiny Upward Shove, is forthcoming with Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.

Marcus Clayton is an Afro-Latino writer who grew up in South Gate, CA, and holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from CSU Long Beach—where he was awarded the Beatrice and John Janosco Memorial Scholarship in poetry. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California on the nonfiction track, focusing his studies on the intersections between Latinx literature, Black literature, and Punk Rock. He is an executive editor for Indicia Literary Journal, and has previously taught English Composition at Fullerton College, Long Beach City College, and LA Southwest College—the latter where he also co-managed the English Writing Center. Some published can be seen in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Adroit Journal, Spry Literary Journal, Tahoma Literary Journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and DUM DUM Zine among many others. In his free time, he can also be found screaming and playing loud guitar in local LA punk band, tudors.

Sam Cohen's fiction appears or is forthcoming in BOMB Magazine, Fence, Diagram, and many other journals. She is founding editor of the lit journal and reading series YES FEMMES and fiction editor of the Gold Line Press. She is finishing her first book The Sarah Machine, a connected series of stories interested in formal innovation and queer failure to come of age.

Petrina Crockford was born in Del Rio, Texas and raised in California's Central Valley. She has received honors from the Rolex Foundation, the Virginia Center for the cReative Arts, and she was the 2015-2016 Gerald Freund Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. She studied English Literature and photography at Yale. She enters the Creative Writing and Literature program as a Provost's Fellow.

Mary-Alice Daniel was born in Nigeria and raised in Reading, England, and Nashville, Tennessee. She has also lived in suburban Maryland, New York City, and Detroit. She attended Yale University, where she was selected by Louise Glück to receive the Frederick M. Clapp Fellowship. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she was a Zell Fellow and a Rackham Merit Fellow. She was selected by W.S. Di Piero to receive the Pablo Neruda Prize for Nimrod Journal's 2014 Poetry Contest. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Mid-American Review, PANK, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and other journals. She is currently working to finish her first full-length poetry collection as well as a non-fiction collection of essays about her unusual work history and tri-continental background. She enters USC’s PhD Program in Literature and Creative Writing as an Annenberg Fellow and is excited to make Los Angeles her home for the second time.

Nikki Darling is a writer, artist and performer. She is the author of the novel Fade Into You on Feminist Press and Funeral Carwash, a hybrid work of essays and poetry forthcoming on Hesse Press. She's had solo shows at Human Resources and Five Car Garage and performed at LACE, Redcat and Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, among others.

Zachary Doss (1984-2018) was born in California and lived in Hawaii, Washington, Texas, and Alabama. He was heavily involved in Houston’s theater scene before becoming a writer. He received his BA in theater arts and English from the University of Houston and his MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama.  He was a PhD fellow in creative writing and literature at the University of Southern California. He served as editor-in-chief of Gold Line Press and editor of the literary journal Black Warrior Review. He was also a fiction reader at Ploughshares literary journal and a fiction editor at Banango Street. His work is widely published in journals and magazines. His novel Boy Oh Boy won the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and is forthcoming from Red Hen Press. He was an ardent supporter of feminist and anti-racist causes as well as gay rights.

Jonathan Escoffery is a Jamaican American writer from Miami. His prose has appeared most recently in The Paris Review, AGNI, Pleiades, Salt Hill, Creative Nonfiction, The Caribbean Writer, and elsewhere. His most recent honors include a Distinguished Story citation in Best American Short Stories 2018, Prairie Schooner's Glenna Luschei Award, and Passages North's Waasnode Fiction Prize. He has received fellowships and support from Aspen Words, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Somerville Arts Council, The Writers' Room of Boston, Kimbilio Fiction, the Anderson Center, and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He holds a MFA from the University of Minnesota, where he was a DOVE fellow, and is currently a Provost fellow in the University of Southern California’s PhD in Creative Writing and Literature Program.

Sara Fetherolf’s poems and essays have recently appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, Muzzle, and Iron Horse, and Plath Profiles, among others. She holds an MFA degree from Hunter College, and is currently a Dornsife Fellow in the PhD for Literature and Creative Writing at University of Southern California.

Leesa Fenderson's work has appeared in Callaloo Journal, Uptown Magazine, Moko Magazine, and she was a Finalist in Paper Darts' Short Fiction contest. Leesa completed her MFA at Columbia University. She is an attorney, a teacher, and a Jamaican immigrant who hails from New York. She currently writes in Los Angeles where she is a PhD fellow in USC's Writing and Literature Program.

Piotr Florczyk is a poet, essayist, and translator. He was born and raised in Kraków, Poland, and moved to the United States at the age of sixteen.

In addition to his books, he has published poems, translations, essays, and reviews in many journals, including The American Scholar, Boston Review, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The New Yorker, Notre Dame Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Pleiades, Poetry International, Slate, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, Times Literary Supplement, West Branch, and World Literature Today. He is one of the founders of Calypso Editions, a cooperative press.

After earning his M.F.A. from San Diego State University in 2006, he taught poetry and literature undergraduate and graduate courses at Antioch University Los Angeles, Cecil College, Claremont McKenna College, University of California-Riverside, University of Delaware, University of San Diego, and San Diego State University.

Piotr and his wife Dena, who met as competitive swimmers, live in Mar Vista.

Emily Geminder is the author of Dead Girls and Other Stories, winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Tin House, and elsewhere. She has received an AWP Intro Journals Award, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and a Pushcart Special Mention.

Carrie Guss is a Canadian writer and artist. She has worked with clients including Dzanc Books, The Baltimore Review, CBC shortDOCS, the Florida Writers Festival, Persea Books, Quarter After Eight, Lucky Peach, and AOL News, and held editorial positions at Subtropics and Ricochet Editions. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the MASH Stories Prize, longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize, and has appeared most recently in Nat. Brut, NANO Fiction, and The Collagist. She has been awarded two Writers’ Reserve Grants by the Ontario Arts Council, and was honored on the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Top Prospects List. She holds a BA in Politics from Pomona College, an MFA in Fiction from the University of Florida, and is currently a doctoral candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California.

Alexandria Hall is a poet, writer, and musician from Vermont. Her debut collection of poems, Field Music (Ecco, 2020), was selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series. She holds an MFA from New York University, where she served as web editor of Washington Square Review, and is now a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. She is founder and editor-in-chief of tele- magazine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative, BOAAT, The Bennington Review, Foundry, Memorious, Prelude, and elsewhere.

Jean Ho is a writer in Los Angeles. She was born in Taiwan and grew up in southern California. Her work appears in Pank, The Offing, Apogee, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, NPR, Bitch, and elsewhere. Jean is a Kundiman fellow and a board member at Kaya Press, an independent publisher of experimental writing from the Asian Pacific Islander diaspora. She has been awarded scholarships and fellowships from VONA/Voices, the Napa Valley Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Vermont Studio Center, and The Mastheads. At work on stories and a novel, Jean is represented by Ayesha Pande Literary. Jean is a doctoral candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at USC, where she is a Dornsife fiction fellow. Her dissertation is on race, gender, and class stratification in 19th century Los Angeles, the formation of the city's first Chinatown, and how historic textual and visual representations of the first Chinese Americans in California persist in latter and present discourse on Asian American identity.

Stephanie Horvath is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Indiana University, where she served as Associate Poetry Editor of Indiana Review.

Bruce Johnson is a PhD candidate in the University of Southern California Creative Writing & Literature program, and holds an MFA in Fiction from University of Nevada-Las Vegas. His work has appeared in Joyland, The Cincinnati Review MiCRO Series, Midwestern Gothic, The Los Angeles Review, The Able Muse, and other journals. He lives with his wife and two cats in Quito, Ecuador, where he is working on his dissertation. For more information and a full list of his publications, visit brucejohnsonfiction.wordpress.com.

L. A. Johnson is from California. She is the author of the chapbook Little Climates, published by Bull City Press in 2017. She received her MFA from Columbia University and is currently pursuing her PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Southern California, where she is a Provost’s Fellow. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, the Antioch Review, The Iowa Review, Massachusetts Review, and other journals.

Matt Kessler grew up in Mobile, Alabama and has since called many places home, including Chicago, Oxford and the Hudson Valley. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic,MTV News, Dazed and Confused, Pitchfork, Candy, Vice & The Rumpus. His radio work has been broadcast on Mississippi Public Broadcasting & Illinois Public Media. He holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Mississippi, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.

Victoria Kornick is a writer from Virginia who lived most recently in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BA with distinction from the University of Virginia, and an MFA from New York University, where she was a Rona Jaffe fellow and a Goldwater fellow. Her essays and poetry appear in the Nashville Review, At Length Magazine, Rattle, Cosmonauts Avenue, No Tokens, and The Greensboro Review, among other publications. She has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. Victoria is currently a PhD candidate on the Nonfiction track in USC’s Creative Writing & Literature program.

Lisa Lee’s work has appeared in Ploughshares, VIDA, North American Review, Sycamore Review, Gulf Coast, the Bitch Media podcast, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2016 Pushcart Prize for her novel excerpt “Paradise Cove.” She has received fellowships and awards from the Inprint-Brown Foundation, Kundiman, Jentel Artist Residency, The Korea Foundation, the Korean Studies Institute, and the EASC Association for Japan–U.S. Community Exchange (ACE) Nikaido program, and was named a 2012 NYC Emerging Writers Fellow by The Center for Fiction. Lisa received an MFA from the University of Houston where she was a Nonfiction Editor of Gulf Coast, a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in English and Music, and a J.D. from Santa Clara University in Public Interest Social Justice Law. She is a Dornsife Doctoral Fellow and PhD candidate in the creative writing program.

Muriel Leung is the author of Bone Confetti (Noemi Press 2016). Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction can be found or is forthcoming in The Collagist, Fairy Tale Review, Ghost Proposal, Jellyfish Magazine, inter/rupture, and others. She is a recipient of a Kundiman fellowship and is a regular contributor to the Blood-Jet Writing Hour poetry podcast. She is also a Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. 

Born and raised in Newberg, Oregon, Erin Lynch is a poet and artist. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in journals such as New England Review, Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, and Bennington Review, while her performance and video work has been featured at a variety of exhibitions and festivals. A former Hugo House Fellow, she has been the recipient of support from the University of Washington, University of North Texas, and the Bill & Ruth True Foundation. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California.

Douglas Manuel was born in Anderson, Indiana. He received a BA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University and a MFA from Butler University where he was the Managing Editor of Booth a Journal. He is currently a Middleton and Dornsife Fellow at the University of Southern California where he is pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing. He is one of the Managing Editors of Ricochet Editions, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Rhino, North American Review, The Chattahoochee Review, New Orleans Review, Crab Creek Review, Many Mountains Moving and elsewhere. His first full length collection of poems, Testify, will be released by Red Hen Press in the spring of 2017.

Sabrina Napolitano was born in New England but raised in Orlando, Florida, and received her MFA in fiction from the University of Central Florida. Her short story "Cobra" won the 2016 AWP Intro Journal Awards. Her work has appeared in Quarterly West, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. When she's not writing, she's on the lookout for dogs to pet.

A student of literature in its many forms and manifestations, Krishna Narayanamurti primarily writes creative nonfiction. He holds a bachelor of arts in film studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a master of professional writing from USC, and a master of arts in English from California State University, Northridge (CSUN). During his first stint as a Trojan, he served on the editorial staff of the Southern California Review and taught creative writing to high school students through a PEN USA residency. At CSUN, Krishna received the 2018 Mahlon Gaumer Award for a critical essay and won a research presentation competition for graduate humanities students. His writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the LA Weekly and The Northridge Review. He has presented his creative and scholarly work at various events, including the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and the Modern Languages Association conference.

Rachel Neve-Midbar is the author (under the name Heimowitz) of the chapbook, What the Light Reveals (Tebot Bach Press, 2014). Her work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Spillway, Prairie Schooner and Georgia Review. She was recently a finalist for the COR Richard Peterson Prize, winner of the Passenger Prize and she has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. After 35 years living in Israel, Rachel now calls Los Angeles her home.

Katharine Ogle is currently a Provost Fellow at the University of Southern California, where she is pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing. She holds a BA with distinction from the University of Virginia and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. She has worked as an Associate Editor of Poetry Northwest, as a writer-in-residence for Seattle Arts & Lectures, and as a lecturer for the University of Washington's creative writing programs at Friday Harbor Laboratories and at the UW Rome Center. Her poems and essays have been published in Meridian, Quarterly West, Mare Nostrum, Pleiades, and at a public bus stop in Seattle.        

Michelle Orsi is a writer from Spokane, Washington. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she is pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing & Literature at the University of Southern California. She received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Houston, where she was an Inprint Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Fellow and worked as Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. She was recently awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Argentina in 2020.

Kate Partridge is the author of the poetry collection Ends of the Earth (U. of Alaska Press, 2017) and two hybrid chapbooks. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Pleiades, FIELD, Yale Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, and other journals. She received her MFA from George Mason University, and is currently a Research Enhancement Fellow at the University of Southern California, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in creative writing and literature. She is an editor for Switchback Books and Ricochet Editions. 

Catherine Pond's poetry collection, Fieldglass, is forthcoming with Southern Illinois University Press in 2021. She is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Southern California, and holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize in 2013. Pond is co-founder of the online literary magazine Two Peach (with Julia Anna Morrison) and for several years served as the Assistant Director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute. She splits her time between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Michael Powers’ fiction has appeared in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018, The Threepenny Review, American Short Fiction, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Fiction and has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Inprint Foundation. Michael received his MFA from the University of Houston.

A Chicana Feminist and former Rodeo Queen, Tisha’s stories have appeared most recently in Voices de la Luna, The Acentos Review, Chaleur Magazine, The Lunch Ticket, and Ghost Town. She is an organizing member of Women Who Submit, an organization that empowers women writers. She is also a Macondista, a Bruja, an editor for Ricochet Editions and VIDA Review. She writes so the desert landscape of her childhood can be heard as loudly as the urban chaos of her adulthood. A former high school English teacher, she earned an MFA at Antioch University Los Angeles and is currently a Wallis Annenberg Fellow. 

Thomas Renjilian is a writer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Hobart, Thrush, SmokeLongQuarterly, DIALOGIST and elsewhere. He received his BA from Vassar College and MFA from Oregon State University. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California.

Austen Leah Rose received a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Zyzzyva, The Iowa Review, The Sewanee Review, Salmagundi, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, The Carolina Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Narrative, The Los Angeles Review, among other journals. She has taught writing at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, Columbia University, and the College of Staten Island. She lives in Los Angeles and is a PhD candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.

Amy Silverberg has grown up in Southern California. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, the Tin House blog, and elsewhere. She likes animals doing people things.

Callie Siskel grew up in Chicago and moved to Los Angeles from Baltimore. She holds a BA in English from Yale University and an MFA in poetry from Johns Hopkins University, where she was a lecturer in the Writing Seminars. She is the author of Arctic Revival, selected by Elizabeth Alexander for a 2014 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poems appear in the Yale Review, Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, Passages North, The Hopkins Review, and other journals.

Lindsey Skillen is currently on the editorial board of Ricochet Editions. Her most recent publication can be found in Cosmonauts Avenue. She received an MFA in Fiction from New York University, where she was a Goldwater Fellow and the Managing Editor of Washington Square Review. She's read at the NYU Emerging Writers reading series at KGB Bar in NYC, and The Wooly and Broken Shelves in Gainesville, FL. As an undergraduate at the University of Florida her work was featured in Prairie, The Fine Print, and Tea Literary Magazine, where it was awarded the Palmetto Prize for Fiction. Her story “A Sunny Place for Shady People” was selected for publication in plain china, a national anthology of the best undergraduate writing.

Essy Stone is a PhD student in poetry at the University of Southern California. She holds an MFA from the University of Miami, and recently completed a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Her work has been published in the New Yorker, 32 Poems, and Prairie Schooner. Her first book, What It Done to Us, was awarded the Idaho Prize in Poetry and was published by Lost Horse Press in 2017.

Joselyn Takacs grew up in Virginia Beach and holds a BA in creative writing, French, and film studies from Virginia Tech, and an MFA in fiction from Johns Hopkins University, where she taught creative writing and literature. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House’s Flash Fridays, Narrative Magazine a Story of the Week and Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art as their 50^th Issue Fiction Winner, judged by Dinaw Mengestu. She enters USC’s PhD in Literature and Creative Writing as a Provost's Doctoral Fellow.

Catherine Theis’ latest book, MEDEA (Plays Inverse, 2017) is an adaptation of the Euripides story set in the mountains of Montana. Her first book of poems is The Fraud of Good Sleep (Salt Modern Poets, 2011). She holds a Russell Endowed Fellowship. Theis also translates contemporary Italian poetry into English. Her scholarly interests primarily focus on the intersection between translation, poetics, and performance studies. She can be found at www.catherinetheis.com

Katrin Tschirgi received her BA in English from Boston College where she was a Denver fellow and the recipient of the McCarthy and Kelleher Awards. She subsequently earned her MFA from Bowling Green State University, where she served as the managing editor for Mid-American Review. Her prose and poetry have appeared in Washington Square Review, The Literary Review, The Normal School, Passenges North, and elsewhere. She is originally from Boise, Idaho.

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal is a poet, essayist, and artist born in the borderlands in McAllen, Texas. Her poems have appeared in PBS Newshour, Waxwing, Caketrain, DIAGRAM, The Feminist Wire, The Western Humanities Review, The Poetry Foundation Harriet Blog, and elsewhere. Most recently, she has served as an editor for the Bettering American Poetry project. She is a CantoMundo Fellow and her book, BEAST MERIDIAN, was a finalist at Nightboat, FuturePoem, Saturnalia, and Willow Books, and is forthcoming from Noemi Press in early 2017. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, and her hometown is Houston, Texas. She can be found at vanessaangelicavillarreal.com

Brandi Wells is the author of This Boring Apocalypse (Civil Coping Mechanisms), Please Don’t Be Upset (Tiny Hardcore Press), and Poisonhorse (Dzanc Books). Her writing appears in Denver Quarterly, Sycamore Review, Paper Darts, Folio, Chicago Review and other journals. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama, where she served as editor of the Black Warrior Review. 

Joliange Wright's short stories have appeared in Lunch Ticket, Midwestern Gothic, and Consequence Magazine. She has an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars, where she was editor of The End of the World, June 2017. She is currently a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California, where she holds a Wallis Annenberg Fellowship. She volunteers for 826LA and InsideOut Writers.