Wancy Young Cho has appeared in Salon, The Windy City Times, Ghost Factory, No Touching Magazine, and Hair Trigger. He was the recipient of the 2008 Gold Circle Award for Traditional Fiction by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, and took First Place in the 2005 Written Image Screenwriting Competition. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia […]
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Ellie Belew lives in the world of stories we tell ourselves and each other. She writes them down as novels, short prose pieces, and community histories. Belew has published one novel, Run, Plant, Fly (with audio CD produced through Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program); two labor histories, Fully Involved, Bringing Power to the People; and […]
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Calvin Gimpelevich is a fiction writer whose work appears in Electric Literature, Plentitude, Glitterwolf, cream city, THEM, and other publications. He is the recipient of awards from Artist Trust, Jack Straw Cultural Center, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. 2017 Writers Program
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Phoebe Tsang is a British-Canadian poet, librettist, short story writer and violinist. Her multidisciplinary performance practice integrates composed and improvised music with original poetry. Tsang employs the ancient, divinatory system of the Marseille Tarot to structure her performances, much as John Cage employed the I Ching. The resulting work is a product of chance – […]
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Anca L. Szilágyi’s fiction has appeared in Gastronomica, Fairy Tale Review, Cicada, Monkeybicycle, and The Massachusetts Review, among others. Her nonfiction appears on the Ploughshares blog. She was awarded an inaugural Made at Hugo House fellowship for her story collection More Like Home Than Home and a 4Culture grant for her novel-in-progress, Paralegal. The Stranger recognized Anca […]
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Ross McMeekin’s stories appear or are forthcoming in Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Redivider, PANK, and Tin House online. His nonfiction has appeared in Hunger Mountain, Green Mountains Review, and The Rumpus. He is a weekly columnist for the Ploughshares blog, where he reviews short stories. McMeekin holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of […]
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Bernard Grant is a recent winner of the 2015 Paper Nautilus Press Chapbook Debut Series Chapbook contest. His stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Stirring, Fiction Southeast, Compose, and other journals. He is the Associate Essays Editor for The Nervous Breakdown and is currently enrolled in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program. 2015 […]
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Ruby Hansen Murray is a citizen of the Osage Nation living in the lower Columbia River estuary. She is a writer and photographer, whose prose appears on Oregon Public Radio and in Wild in the Willamette, Oregon Humanities Magazine, Yellow Medicine Review, American Ghost: Poets on Life after Industry, Tribal College Journal, Salal, and North […]
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Anis Gisele lives in Seattle, by way of Manila, Philippines. She is a queer immigrant writer of color whose work is celebrated as much as it is minimized and/or blindly consumed. Her writing draws together personal narrative, intergenerational pain, and identity politics. She has decided to stop writing her bios like resumes. 2016 Writers Program
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Corinne Manning is the founding editor of The James Franco Review, an online journal dedicated to the visibility of underrepresented artists. Her short fiction has appeared in Story Quarterly, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Moss, The Bellingham Review, The Southern Humanities Review, and as a chapbook through alice blue review’s Shotgun Wedding Series. Corinne has received grants […]
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