Liara Tamani
Liara Tamani lives in Houston, Texas. She holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College. She is the author of the acclaimed Calling My Name, which was a 2018 PEN America Literary…
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Sheri J. Booker
Sheri J. Booker is an award-winning author, educator, and poet. She is the author of Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner City Funeral Home, winner of the NAACP Image Award…
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Yahdon Israel
Yahdon Israel is the editor of Brooklyn Magazine. He has also written for Avidly, The New Inquiry, LitHub, and Poets & Writers.
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Victor LaValle
Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus; two novellas, Lucretia and the Kroons and The Ballad of Black Tom; and four novels, including his…
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Tracy O’Neill
Tracy O'Neill is the author of The Hopeful, one of Electric Literature's Best Novels of 2015, and Quotients, which was published in 2020.
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T Kira Madden
T Kira Madden is a lesbian APIA writer, photographer, and amateur magician living in New York City. She holds an M.F.A.
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Scott Cheshire
Scott Chesire is the author of the novel High as the Horses' Bridles, a Best Book of 2014 pick at The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Salon, and…
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Rob Spillman
Rob Spillman co-founded and edited the seminal literary magazine Tin House, which was the recipient of the inaugural CLMP Firecracker Award for Magazine of the Year in 2015.
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Nadxieli Nieto
Nadxieli Nieto is former Senior Manager of Literary Awards at PEN America. She is on the steering committee of Latinx in Publishing (LxP) and the faculty in the Publishing…
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Monica Ferrell
Monica Ferrell is a poet and novelist. Ferrell’s debut poetry collection, Beasts for the Chase, was chosen by Jane Hirshfield for the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize.
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