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Marina Budhos

Marina Budhos is an author of award-winning fiction and nonfiction. Marina is the author of the young adult novels Tell Us We’re Home, which was a 2017 Essex County YA Pick, and…

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Mahogany L. Browne

Mahogany L. Browne is a Brooklyn-based writer, educator, activist, mentor, and curator. Her sophomore young adult novel, Chlorine Sky, was published in January 2021.

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Jessie Chaffee

Jessie Chaffee's debut novel, Florence in Ecstasy, was published in May 2017, and has been published or is forthcoming in Italy, the Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, and Turkey.

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James Yeh

James Yeh is a writer, editor, and journalist. A founding editor of Gigantic and former culture editor at VICE, he currently works as a features editor at The Believer.

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David Tomas Martinez

David Tomas Martinez is a CantoMundo fellow and recipient of a 2017 NEA Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the Verlaine Poetry Prize, and the Stanley P.

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Daniel José Older

Daniel José Older is The New York Times bestselling author of Salsa Nocturna, the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series, and the Young Adult novel Shadowshaper, a New York Times…

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Aimé Donna Kelly

Aime Donna Kelly is a playwright and actress known for her work on stage and on television in the Netflix show Iron Fist and the Golden Globe Award–winning The Marvelous Mrs.

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Youmna Chlala

Youmna Chlala is an artist and writer born in Beirut based in New York. She is the author of the poetry collection, The Paper Camera. She is the recipient of a 2018 O.

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Iris Martin Cohen

Iris Martin Cohen grew up in the French Quarter of New Orleans. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and studied Creative Nonfiction at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

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James Hannaham

James Hannaham is the award-winning author of Delicious Foods (Little, Brown 2015), winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.

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