{"id":191,"date":"2023-09-04T11:42:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T18:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/cwphd\/?page_id=191"},"modified":"2024-11-08T12:42:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T20:42:59","slug":"students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cwphd\/students\/","title":{"rendered":"Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\n \n \n Aria Aber\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aria Aber was born and raised in Germany and is currently based in Los Angeles, California. Her debut book Hard Damage<\/em> won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was published in September 2019. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, The Yale Review, Poem-A-Day, Narrative, POETRY, <\/em>and elsewhere. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, she holds awards and fellowships from Kundiman, the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She is the recipient of a 2020 Whiting Award in Poetry.<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Amelia Ada\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amelia Ada\u00a0is a trans poet and essayist. She holds an MFA in poetry from Vanderbilt University, and she graduated with honors from both the undergraduate journalism and creative writing programs at\u00a0Northwestern University. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including\u00a0ZYZZYVA,<\/i>\u00a0Denver\u00a0Quarterly, Boston Review, Southwest Review<\/i>, and\u00a0West Branch.\u00a0<\/i>Her first book manuscript was a finalist for the 2020\u00a0National\u00a0Poetry Series Open Competition. She lives in Los Angeles and co-hosts the podcast\u00a0You Shouldn\u2019t Let Poets Lie To You<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Genre: fiction
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Akhim Alexis is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago. He received his BA and MA from The University of the West Indies. He is the winner of the Brooklyn Caribbean Lit Fest Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean. He was also a finalist for the Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction, the Grist Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors Contest and the Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize for poetry. His writing has appeared in The Massachusetts Review<\/em>, Electric Literature<\/em>, The Rumpus<\/em>, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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Genre: poetry
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Taneum Bambrick is the author of Intimacies, Received<\/em> (Copper Canyon Press<\/em> 2022), and Vantage<\/em> (American Poetry Review<\/em>\/Honickman First Book Award 2019). A 2020 Stegner fellow, their work can be found in the New Yorker<\/em>, The Nation<\/em>, American Poetry Review, PEN,\u00a0<\/em>and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from\u00a0the\u00a0Vermont Studio Center, Sewanee Writers Conference, and a scholarship from Bread Loaf Writers Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Remy Barnes\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: fiction
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Remy Barnes’s fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, The Southampton Review, Southern Humanities Review <\/em>and elsewhere. He received his MFA from Cornell University where he taught courses on fiction, poetry and film. He is at work on a novel.<\/p>\n

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Mayookh Barua is a writer belonging to the Ahom community in Northeast India. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in nonfiction in the Creative Writing and Literature Department at USC and holds an MFA in Fiction from North Carolina State University. His work explores sexuality, art, mythology, education and family through a queer South-Asian voice. A 2023 Roots.Wounds.Words Non-Fiction fellow, MOZAIK Philanthropy’s 2023 Future Art Writers Award winner, and a Dorianne Laux Poetry Prize 2023 Finalist, his works appear in The Audacity<\/em> by Roxane Gay, The Gay & Lesbian Review<\/em>, Litro Magazine<\/em>, Espace Art Actuel<\/em>, The Third Eye<\/em>, Mezosfera Magazine<\/em> and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n \n \n Damien Belliveau\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: fiction
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Damien Belliveau is a\u00a0fiction fellow at the University of Southern California. As a creative writer, he has two dissertation projects: one creative, the other critical. The creative project is an autobiographical coming-of-age story inspired by his time serving as a medic in the U.S. Army during the mid-90s. The critical project examines book-to-film adaptations where he explores the editorial strategies employed to translate literature to cinema.\u00a0Damien’s been a reality television editor for nearly two decades; his credits range from “The Real World” to “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” to “Bill Nye Saves the World.” He’s directed episodes of reality TV, but in the non-scripted space, he prefers the power of the edit bay. A PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, his work has appeared in\u00a0The Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>,\u00a0Epiphany Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0The Spectacle<\/em>, and more.<\/p>\n

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Genre: fiction
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Ben Bush is a graduate of the Iowa Writers\u2019 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\u00a0The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Yeti, The Fanzine<\/i>, and\u00a0Vol. 1 Brooklyn<\/i>. His non-fiction and interviews have appeared in\u00a0Bookforum, The Believer, Poets & Writers, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Bitch<\/i>, and the\u00a0Los Angeles Review of Books<\/i>. 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<\/em> podcast from McSweeney’s<\/em> and KCRW and has taught creative writing in Morocco, Bulgaria, and at the University of Iowa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Bryan Byrdlong\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: poetry
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Bryan Byrdlong is a Black poet from Chicago, Illinois. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the Helen Zell Writers Program. He has been published in Guernica Magazine<\/em>, The Kenyon Review<\/em>, and Poetry Magazine<\/em>, among others. Bryan received a 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at USC in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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Amanda Choo Quan is a Trinidadian\/Jamaican writer. Though she writes in all genres, her concentration at USC is in nonfiction. Previously, she attended the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica, where she was a valedictorian nominee, and CalArts, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. She\u2019s former UN staff as well as a journalist who has published in Harper\u2019s<\/em>, Teen Vogue<\/em>, NYLON<\/em>, and Caribbean Beat<\/em>. Most recently, she was a correspondent for NY, London, Paris and Milan Fashion Weeks. Her interests are eclectic: race, culture, aesthetics, humour, and the psychologies of the above. She\u2019s always rooting for everybody Black. She tweets at @amandachooquan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n \n \n Ariel Chu\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: fiction
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Ariel Chu is a PhD student in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, where she was awarded the Shirley Jackson Prize in Fiction. Ariel\u2019s work has been published by The Rumpus<\/em>, Black Warrior Review<\/em>, and The Common<\/em>, among others. Her writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Award, and Best Short Fictions Anthology, and she has received support from Kundiman, the Steinbeck Fellowship, the Luce Scholars Program, and the P.D. Soros Fellowship for New Americans.<\/p>\n

Ariel is currently writing a collection of short stories about queer suburban hauntings. She also serves as the fiction editor of Nat. Brut<\/em> and translates contemporary queer Taiwanese fiction into English. Her research interests include queer Taiwanese and Taiwanese American literature, hybrid Asian American writing, and experimental fiction.<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n James Ciano\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: poetry
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James Ciano holds an MFA from New York University. Recent poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, <\/em>and Bennington Review. <\/em>His reviews of contemporary poetry have recently appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books. <\/em>Originally from New York, he lives in Los Angeles, California where he is currently a Provost Fellow and PhD Candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. His debut collection The Committee of Men<\/em> is forthcoming from BOA Editions in May 2026.<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Marcus Clayton\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: nonfiction
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Marcus Clayton is a multigenre Afrolatino writer from South Gate, CA, with an M.F.A. in Poetry from CSU Long Beach. Currently, he pursues a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California, focusing his creative work on genre-bent nonfiction, and his critical work on the intersections between Latinx literature, Black literature, Decolonization, and Punk Rock. He has a poetry chapbook,\u00a0Nurture the Open Wounds<\/em>, through Glass Poetry Press, and will be releasing a full-length book of mixed-genre prose titled\u00a0\u00a1P\u00d3NK!<\/em> with Nightboat Books.\u00a0A few other publications include the Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>, Joyland Magazine<\/em>, Indiana Review<\/em>, Apogee Journal<\/em>, Passages North<\/em>, Black Punk Now!<\/em>, and\u00a0The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock. <\/em>In his free time, he also screams and plays guitar for local LA punk band, tudors.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Antonia Crane\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Antonia Crane is a queer sex worker, activist, and filmmaker. She\u2019s the author of the memoir, Spent<\/em> (Rare Bird Lit\/Barnacle Books). She was awarded the\u00a0Outstanding Community Service & Activism Award from Antioch University Alumni Association in 2018. PRISM International<\/em> magazine named Antonia the grand prize winner of their 2019 creative nonfiction contest. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Quartz:\u00a0 Atlantic Media, CNN.com, Buzzfeed, N+1<\/em>, Playboy, Los Angeleno, Cosmopolitan, Salon.com, The Huffington Post, DAME, The Los Angeles Review, Bustle<\/em>, and lots of other places. Most recently, her work has appeared in the anthologies: Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work and Life<\/em>, edited by Lizzie Borden, and Voices of a People\u2019s History of the United States in the 21st<\/sup> Century: Documents of Hope and Resistance,<\/em> edited by Anthony Arnove & Haley Pessin. She lives in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Website: <\/strong>https:\/\/www.antoniacrane.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Ashley Dailey\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Ashley Dailey (she\/her) is a writer and multimedia artist from Sargent, Georgia. She mostly writes about family and the cultural legacies of the American South. <\/span>Her work has received support from the Academy of American Poets and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and is published or forthcoming in Sonora Review<\/em>,\u00a0Tupelo Quarterly<\/em>,\u00a0Waxwing<\/em>, Breakwater Review<\/em>, New Delta Review<\/em>, Plume Poetry<\/em>, The Florida Review<\/em>, and elsewhere. She was a 2021 Best of the Net nominee and a finalist for the 2021 Peseroff Poetry Prize. Her work has also been featured on Ada Lim\u00f3n’s podcast The Slowdown<\/em>. She received her MFA from the University of Tennessee, where she served as the Poetry Editor for Grist<\/em>, volume 14, and hosted the interdisciplinary reading series Chiasmus. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n \n \n Michael Deagler\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: fiction
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Michael Deagler is the author of the novel Early Sobrieties<\/em> (Astra House, 2024). His short fiction has appeared Harper\u2019s<\/em>, McSweeney\u2019s Quarterly Concern<\/em>, and Electric Literature\u2019s Recommended Reading<\/em>. Originally from Bucks County, PA, he received his BA from Temple University and an MFA from Rutgers University-Camden.<\/p>\n

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\n \n Joseph De La Torre\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Joseph is a fiction writer from Los Angeles and Las Vegas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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Darren Donate is a Mexican American writer. He previously received an MFA in poetry at the University of New Mexico where he taught courses in creative writing and technical communication. He is interested in the intersections of race and labor. You can find his work in Berkeley Poetry Review, the minnesota\u00a0review, ANMLY<\/em>\u00a0and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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Cyrus Dunham is the author of\u00a0A Year Without a Name<\/em>\u00a0(2020), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. His writing on grassroots anti-prison organizing and trans politics has appeared in\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>, Granta<\/em>, and The Intercept<\/em>, among other publications and anthologies. He is a co-founder and editor of Deluge Books.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Kyle Edwards\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: fiction
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Kyle Edwards grew up on the Lake Manitoba First Nation in Manitoba. A graduate of Ryerson University, he has worked as a journalist for Native News Online<\/em>, ProPublica<\/em> and Maclean\u2019s<\/em>, and has been a Nieman Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He is a Provost Fellow at the University of Southern California, where he is pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature. His debut novel is forthcoming from Pantheon in spring 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Jonathan Escoffery\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Jonathan Escoffery is a Jamaican American writer from Miami. He is the recipient of the 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellowship, and the 2020 National Magazine Award for Fiction from the American Society of Magazine Editors. His writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Paris Review, American Short Fiction, Electric Literature, Prairie Schooner, Passages North, ZYZZYVA, AGNI, Pleiades, The Best American Magazine Writing 2020, Creative Nonfiction<\/em>,<\/em> and elsewhere. He has received fellowships and support from Aspen Words, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Kimbilio Fiction, the Anderson Center, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and elsewhere. Jonathan earned his MFA in Fiction from the University of Minnesota, and attends the University of Southern California\u2019s Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature Program as a Provost Fellow.<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Lessa Fenderson\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Leesa Fenderson’s work has appeared in Callaloo Journal<\/i>, Uptown Magazine<\/i>, Moko Magazine<\/i>, 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.<\/p>\n

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Seth Fischer is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor.\u00a0His work\u00a0has twice been listed as notable in\u00a0The Best American Essays<\/em>,\u00a0and his publications have appeared in Guernica, Zocalo Public Square, Slate, Buzzfeed, and elsewhere. He\u2019s been an editor at The Rumpus, Gold Line Press, Air\/Light, and The Nervous Breakdown, and he\u2019s been awarded fellowships and residencies by, among others, Ucross, Disquiet, the Jean Piaget Archives, Lambda Literary, Jentel, and Ragdale. Prior to starting the PhD program in Creative Writing and Literature at USC, he taught at UCLA-Extension Writer\u2019s Program and Antioch University Los Angeles, where he also received his MFA.<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Emily Geminder\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Emily Geminder\u00a0is the author of\u00a0Dead Girls and Other Stories<\/em>, winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize. Her work has appeared in\u00a0AGNI, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner,\u00a0Tin House,<\/em>\u00a0and elsewhere. She is currently a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University.<\/p>\n

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Carrie Guss is a Canadian writer and artist. She has worked with clients including Dzanc Books, The Baltimore Review<\/i>, CBC shortDOCS, the Florida Writers Festival, Persea Books, Quarter After Eight<\/i>, Lucky Peach<\/i>, and AOL News, and held editorial positions at Subtropics<\/i> 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<\/i>, NANO Fiction<\/i>, and The Collagist<\/i>. She has been awarded two Writers\u2019 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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Alexandria Hall is the author of Field Music<\/em> (Ecco, 2020), a National Poetry Series winner. She holds an MFA from NYU and is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at USC. She is a founding editor of Tele-<\/em> and co-host of You Shouldn\u2019t Let Poets Lie to You<\/em>. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The Yale Review<\/em>, Bennington Review<\/em>, LARB Quarterly Journal<\/em>, No Tokens<\/em>, and other publications.<\/p>\n

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David Haydon (they\/them) is essayist and poet originally from Springfield, KY. They are a student in the Creative Writing and Literature PhD program at the University of Southern California and completed an MFA in Creative Writing at Western Kentucky University. Their writing has appeared in Taunt<\/em> magazine and is anthologized in Once a City Said: An Anthology of Louisville Poets<\/em> (Sarabande). They are the nonfiction editor for Gold Line Press.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n \n Stephanie Horvath\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: poetry
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Stephanie Horvath\u2019s poems have appeared in Gulf Coast<\/em>, Poetry Northwest<\/em>, Bennington Review<\/em>, and Denver Quarterly<\/em>, among other journals. She completed her MFA at Indiana University, where she was awarded the Yusef Komunyakaa Fellowship in poetry. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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Lucas Iberico Lozada is a PhD candidate (ABD) in nonfiction writing. He is working on a book about the many tombs of Christopher Columbus. His reporting\u2014from Brazil, Peru, and across the US\u2014and essays have appeared in magazines and newspapers including the\u00a0Virginia Quarterly Review, <\/em>the New York Times<\/em>, The<\/em> Nation<\/em>, and Dissent.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Victor Imko is an essayist from Charleston, SC. They studied queer theory and literature as a Mellon Fellow at Northwestern University. They\u2019ve taught classes in composition and creative writing at the University of Florida and Trident Technical College. Today they live in LA, writing as a Dornsife Fellow at the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Mitchell Jacobs\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Mitchell Jacobs is a poet and fiction writer from Minnesota. He earned an MFA from Purdue University, where he served as managing editor of Sycamore Review<\/em>. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California, where he serves on the editorial board of Ricochet Editions. His work has appeared in journals such as the Cincinnati Review<\/em>, Massachusetts Review<\/em>, Ploughshares<\/em>, and Southern Review<\/em>, as well as the Best New Poets<\/em> anthology and The Slowdown<\/em> podcast through American Public Media.<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Jane Kalu\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Jane Kalu’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in American Short Fiction<\/em>, Boston Review<\/em>, The Hopkins Review<\/em>, Isele Magazine<\/em>, Munyori Journal<\/em>, and elsewhere. She’s a graduate of the MFA program at the University of New Mexico, where she was the recipient of the Joseph Badal Prize and the Hillerman\/McGarrity Prize. Other awards include residencies and fellowships from StoryKnife and American short fiction. She is at work on a novel and a collection of short stories.<\/p>\n

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\n \n Rebecca Kantor\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Rebecca Kantor is a writer from Plano, Texas. She taught English in Madrid, Spain, for two years, then received her MFA in fiction from Vanderbilt University. Her fiction often deals with themes of girlhood and hauntings. She is currently at work on a novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Matt Kessler\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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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\u00a0The Guardian,\u00a0The Atlantic, MTV News,\u00a0Dazed and Confused,\u00a0Pitchfork,\u00a0Candy,\u00a0Vice<\/i>\u00a0&\u00a0The Rumpus<\/i>. His radio work has been broadcast on\u00a0Mississippi Public Broadcasting<\/i>\u00a0&\u00a0Illinois Public Media<\/i>. 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.<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Victoria Kornick\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Victoria Kornick is a writer from Virginia. Her creative nonfiction and poetry appear in\u00a0American Chordata<\/em>,\u00a0Copper Nickel<\/em>,\u00a0The Greensboro Review<\/em>,\u00a0No Tokens Journal<\/em>, and\u00a0The Yale Review<\/em>, among other publications. She holds an MFA from New York University, where she was a Rona Jaffe and Goldwater Hospital fellow. She has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, the Community of Writers, and the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Victoria lives in Los Angeles, where she is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n

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\n \n Cameron Lange\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Cameron Lange is a British-Iranian writer from London. His work has appeared in Roads & Kingdoms, Z\u00f3calo Public Square, and <\/em>Lodestars Anthology<\/em>. He holds an MSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics. He currently lives in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Brian Lin\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: fiction
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Brian Lin is a doctoral candidate in Creative Writing and Literature. He has attended the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Napa Valley Writers\u2019 Conference, and the VONA Summer Workshop. He was a resident at Ragdale and The Cabins and a fellow at the Community of Writers Workshop and the Writing by Writers Workshop. His stories and essays can be found in\u00a0Electric Literature<\/em>,\u00a0The Rumpus<\/em>,\u00a0The Margins<\/em>,\u00a0Lambda Literary<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>Hyphen Magazine<\/em>, and the\u00a0Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>. Brian is working on a novel and other books of prose.<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Erin Lynch\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: poetry
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Erin Marie Lynch is the author of Removal Acts<\/em> (Graywolf Press, 2023). Her writing appears in POETRY, New England Review, DIAGRAM, Narrative<\/em>, Best New Poets<\/em>, and other publications. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Indigenous Nations Poets, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. She lives in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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\n \n Stephanie Mullings\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: fiction
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Stephanie Mullings is a fiction writer from Chicago and a graduate of Boston University’s MFA program. She is a 2021 First Pages Prize winner and a finalist of the 2021 Arkansas International Emerging Writer’s Prize and CRAFT’s 2022 Short Fiction Prize. A PEN\/O. Henry Prize nominee, her stories have appeared in Boulevard<\/em>, Catapult<\/em>, the Los Angeles Review<\/em>, Ninth Letter<\/em>, The Rumpus<\/em>, Swamp Pink<\/em>, Wigleaf<\/em>, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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Charlie Napolitano was raised in Florida and received their MFA from the University of Central Florida. Their short story “Cobra” won the 2016 AWP Intro Journal Awards. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus,\u00a0Quarterly West<\/em>,\u00a0The Florida Review<\/em>, and elsewhere. Currently, they are a\u00a0Ph.D. student in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Rose Nguy\u1ec5n\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Rose Nguy\u1ec5n is a writer from Honolulu, HI. She holds a BA from Princeton University and an MA in Literature from UC Berkeley. Her criticism has appeared in The Drift<\/em>, and her essay in the Indiana Review, <\/em>which won their\u00a02021 Creative Nonfiction Prize, is a notable\u00a0essay in Best American Essays 2023<\/em>. She is currently based in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n JoAnna Novak\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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JoAnna Novak\u2019s debut memoir\u00a0Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood<\/em>\u00a0was published in July. Her fourth book of poetry,\u00a0Domestirexia<\/em>, will be published by Soft Skull in 2024. She is the author of the novel\u00a0I Must Have You<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Meaningful Work: Stories. <\/em>Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review<\/em>, and other publications.<\/p>\n

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Katharine Ogle is 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\u00a0Poetry Northwest<\/em>, as a writer-in-residence for Seattle Arts & Lectures, and as a lecturer for the University of Washington’s creative writing programs at Friday\u00a0Harbor Laboratories and at the UW Rome Center. Her work has been published in Pleiades, Five Points, Poetry Northwest, by The Broad Museum in Los Angeles, and at a public bus stop in Seattle, among other places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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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. <\/i>She was recently awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Argentina in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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Catherine Pond is the author of Fieldglass<\/em><\/a> (Southern Illinois University Press 2021), winner of the Crab Orchard First Book Prize and a finalist for the National Poetry Series.\u00a0Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Best American Nonrequired Reading, AGNI, Salmagundi, The Adroit Journal, Narrative<\/em>, and other publications. Pond is a PhD candidate (ABD) in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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Before devoting her time to writing, Crystal Powell was the VP of Production & Development for Electric City Entertainment and Silverwood Films, where she developed, co-produced, and associate-produced several features, including Matt Ross\u2019s Captain Fantastic<\/em> starring Viggo Mortensen and Derek Cianfrance\u2019s The Place Beyond The Pines<\/em>, starring Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling, and Eva Mendes. Crystal was also a production executive on Tim Burton\u2019s Big Eyes. <\/em>She went on to study creative writing as a Lillian Vernon MFA Fellow at New York University. After graduating, she was a Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writers Fellow, a Jack Jones Literary Arts Fellow, and a fiction finalist for both the Disquiet Prize and a New York Foundation For The Arts Fellowship. She\u2019s working on her first novel while pursuing a PhD in creative writing and literature at the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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Jianan Qian writes in both Chinese and English. In her native language Chinese, she has published a story collection, a novel, an essay collection, and a letter collection. In English, she is a staff writer at The Millions<\/em> and her works have appeared in The New York Times<\/em>, Granta<\/em>, Guernica Magazine<\/em>, Gulf Coast<\/em>, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in fiction from The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student in English Literature and Creative Writing at The University of Southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Thomas Renjilian\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Thomas Renjilian is a fiction writer and poet originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He received his BA from Vassar College and MFA from Oregon State University. His stories and poems appear in\u00a0The Missouri Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM,<\/em>\u00a0and other publications. He is the editor-in-chief of Gold Line Press and a fiction editor for\u00a0Joyland Magazine<\/em>. He previously served as managing editor of Ricochet Editions. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is a PhD candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Laura Roque\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Laura Roque is the daughter of Cuban exiles and was raised in Hialeah, Florida. In 2018, she won Kenyon Review\u2019s<\/em> Short Fiction Contest and Glimmer Train\u2019s<\/em> Fiction Open Contest. She is currently a Wallis Annenberg fellow at the University of Southern California and a PhD candidate in their creative writing program. Her novel-in-progress, Aguanta, Diana,<\/em> has received support from the American Association of University Women and was awarded a dissertation fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year, as a project important to advances in equity for women and girls.<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Austen Leah Rose\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Austen Leah Rose’s debut book of poems Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm<\/em> was the 2022 winner of the Juniper Prize and published by the University of Massachusetts Press.\u00a0Her poetry has appeared in Zyzzyva, AGNI, The Southern Review,<\/em> Narrative, The Adroit Journal,\u00a0<\/em>and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf, and Djerassi. In 2018, she was awarded the Walter Sullivan Award from The Sewanee Review. <\/em>She\u00a0holds an MFA from Columbia University.<\/p>\n

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Lindsey Skillen\u00a0is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing (Fiction) & Literature at the University of Southern California, where she has taught in the honors writing program, directed the Association of English Graduate Students, and served on the editorial board of\u00a0Ricochet Editions.<\/em>\u00a0Her most recent publications can be found in -tele <\/em>and\u00a0Cosmonauts Avenue,\u00a0<\/em>where she was long-listed for a prize judged by Ottessa Moshfegh. She was the recipient of the Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation\u00a0Scholarship for the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley workshop, and the Vaclav Havel Scholarship for the Prague Summer Program for writers, and had also\u00a0received support from Tin House Summer and Winter workshops and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. She\u00a0received an MFA in Fiction from New York University, where she was a Goldwater Fellow, Managing Editor of\u00a0Washington Square Review<\/em>, and a Provost Visiting Graduate Student Fellow at the NYU Global Research Institutes in London and Prague. She\u2019s read at the LA Times Book Festival, 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\u00a0Prairie,\u00a0<\/em>The Fine Print<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Tea Literary Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>where it was awarded the Palmetto Prize for Fiction. Her story\u00a0\u201cA Sunny Place for Shady People\u201d\u00a0was selected for publication in\u00a0plain china<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>a national anthology of the best undergraduate writing. She was hand-selected by Joyce Carol Oates for participation in her Master Class and spent a summer reading for The Book Group Literary Agency. She has volunteered her time with Still Waters in a Storm, Women Who Submit, and as a mentor with WriteGirl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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Sophia Stid is a poet from California. She is the author of the chapbooks But For I Am a Woman<\/em><\/a>, winner of the 2022 Host Publications Chapbook Prize, and Whistler\u2019s Mother<\/em><\/a>, published by Bull City Press in 2021. A graduate of the MFA program at Vanderbilt University, Sophia has also received fellowships and support from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, the Sewanee Writers\u2019 Conference, the Collegeville Institute, and Georgetown University\u2019s Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. She is the winner of the 2021 Barthelme Prize from Gulf Coast<\/em>; recent poems and essays can be found in Best New Poets<\/em>, Poetry Daily, <\/em>and the Kenyon Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Genre: poetry
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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<\/em>, 32 Poems<\/em>, and Prairie Schooner<\/em>. Her first book, What It Done to Us<\/em>, was awarded the Idaho Prize in Poetry and was published by Lost Horse Press in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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Genre: poetry
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A recipient of support from the Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Leah Tieger is a doctoral candidate in the University of Southern California\u2019s Literature and Creative Writing program. As a 2023 Wrigley Institute fellow, her ecopoetic practice led to a qualitative study of communities surrounding the Santa Susana Field Lab. Recent related work appears in Poetry Northwest, Waxwing, Blackbird, <\/em>and Tupelo Quarterly<\/em>. Her manuscript, Disaster Tourist, <\/em>is a 2023 National Poetry Series finalist.<\/p>\n

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Genre: nonfiction
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Clancy Tripp is a queer Midwestern writer, graphic artist, and humorist. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review<\/em>, Catapult<\/em>, december magazine<\/em>, Electric Literature<\/em>, The Florida Review<\/em>, The Greensboro Review<\/em>, Indiana Review<\/em>, Ninth Letter<\/em>, Slice<\/em>, The Rumpus<\/em>, McSweeney\u2019s Internet Tendency<\/em>, Reductress<\/em>, and elsewhere. She won the 2020 Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction (selected by Leslie Jamison), the 2021 Witness Literary Award in Nonfiction (selected by Cinelle Barnes), and the 2023 Spring Flash Fiction contest at F(r)iction. She has an MFA from the Ohio State University and an MA from Columbia University.<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Katrin Tschirgi\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: fiction
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Katrin Tschirgi is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in journals such as The Literary Review, Washington Square Review, \u00a0Quarterly West, <\/em>and The Normal School. <\/em>She is from Boise, Idaho.<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Vanessa Villarreal\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: poetry
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Vanessa Ang\u00e9lica Villarreal was born in the Rio Grande Valley to formerly undocumented Mexican immigrants. She is the author of the poetry collection Beast Meridian<\/em> (Noemi Press, Akrilica Series 2017), recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award nomination,\u00a0 and winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine\u2019s The Cut, Harper\u2019s Bazaar, Oxford American, Paris Review,<\/em> Poetry Magazine,<\/em> and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, and a doctoral candidate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she is working on a poetry and an essay collection while raising her son in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Jorrell Watkins\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Genre: poetry
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Jorrell Watkins is from Richmond, VA. He received fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution, Fulbright Japan, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His chapbook, If Only the Sharks Would Bite<\/em>, won the inaugural Desert Pavilion Chapbook Series in Poetry and his debut full-length collection, PlayHouse: poems,<\/em> is forthcoming in 2024 with Northwestern University Press.<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Thalia Williamson\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Thalia Williamson is an essayist, fiction writer, and poet. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland Magazine<\/em>, The Audacity<\/em>, Longreads<\/em>, BRINK<\/em>, The Masters Review<\/em>, and the Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She was a finalist for the 2023 BRINK<\/em> Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing and a semifinalist for the 2022 Sewanee Review Fiction Contest. Her work has received support from the Tin House Scholarship for Trans Writers, the Marius DeBrabant Fund, the Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 Conference, and the Sewanee Tennessee Williams Scholarship.<\/p>\n

She was born in London and now lives in Los Angeles, where she is completing a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside and a BA in Philosophy from King’s College London.<\/p>\n

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Joliange Wright’s short stories have appeared in Lunch Ticket<\/i>, Midwestern Gothic<\/i>, and\u00a0Consequence Magazine<\/i>. She has an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars, where she was editor of The End of the World<\/i>,\u00a0June 2017.\u00a0She 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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