Makayla Danielle Gay

March 17, 2025

Makayla Danielle Gay hails from Southeastern Kentucky. Her work has appeared in Adroit, Prairie Schooner, and American Literary Review, among others. Her debut collection, Hackles (Girl Noise Press 2025) is available now. 2025 Writers Program

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Monique Ouk

March 17, 2025

Monique Ouk is a Cambodian-American writer. Her poetry appears in Diode Poetry Journal, The Margins, and The Seventh Wave. 2025 Writers Program

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Nhatt Nichols

March 14, 2025

Nhatt Nichols (she/her) is a multidisciplinary journalist, poet, and artist whose work focuses on the intersections of humans, animals, and their environment. A graduate of The Royal Drawing School in London, she uses words and images to cover food and environmental issues using solutions journalism practices for High Country News, Edible Magazine, Civil Eats, Modern Farmer, […]

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Asha Dore

March 14, 2025

Asha Dore is a writer and illustrator working on a book about fawning. Bylines include The New York Times, The Cut, and Slate. She hosts “Totally Biased Reviews,” a literary interview podcast. Her work can be found at www.AshaDore.net or on Instagram @adjsbb 2025 Writers Program

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Connor Watkins-Xu

March 13, 2025

Connor Watkins-Xu holds a BA in Professional Writing from Baylor University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland, where he taught creative and academic writing. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, North American Review, Redivider, Columbia Journal, Gargoyle, The Hong Kong Review, Salvation South, and elsewhere. His manuscript […]

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Jenny Harrington Lill

March 13, 2025

Jenny Harrington Lill is a writer, researcher, and advocate living on Mercer Island. She is an MFA candidate in nonfiction and literature at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Jenny is currently working on her debut collection of essays on love, loss, and mothering. 2025 Writers Program

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Jason Prokowiew

March 13, 2025

Jason Prokowiew received the PEN America/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for War Boys, a braided memoir about his Russian father’s adoption by Nazis during World War II and the trauma he carried into parenthood. He earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from George Mason University. His writing has appeared in The North American […]

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Hillary Behrman

March 13, 2025

Hillary Behrman’s award winning short stories have been described as deeply humane and unsettling and have been published in journals, magazines, short story dispensers and an anthology. Lake Effect, her debut collection of stories was chosen by Lauren Groff as the winner of the 2024 Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction and will be published […]

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Mia Tong

March 12, 2025

Mia Tong is a writer of YA, AAPI, and immigrant fiction. Her debut novel is part of a duology that is inspired by her East Asian heritage, her interests in pan-Asian philosophies and mythologies, and the visual and cultural art of Asia. Her stories appear in The South Shore Review, Bright Flash Literary Review, The Weather Where You […]

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Bill Hollands

March 12, 2025

Bill Hollands was born and raised in Miami, Florida, graduated from Williams College, and received his MA in English as a Dr. Herchel Smith Fellow at Cambridge University. He worked for the New York Public Library and Microsoft before becoming a high school English teacher. He lives in Seattle with his husband and their son. […]

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