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Jemimah Wei was born and raised in Singapore. A 2022-2024 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is the recipient of fellowships, scholarships, and awards from Columbia University, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Singapore’s National Arts Council, and more. Learn more >

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Morgan Talty is an assistant professor of English at the University of Maine, Orono. An enrolled member of the Penobscot Nation, he is also a devoted husband and father. He is the author of two works: the bestselling and critically acclaimed debut short story collection, Night of the Living Rez, which received the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, and his debut novel Fire Exit. Morgan is the founder of the soon-to-launch Talty Literary Solutions, Inc., as well as a forthcoming nonprofit dedicated to film and amplifying the voices of Indigenous peoples.
Jemimah Wei was born and raised in Singapore. A 2022-2024 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is the recipient of fellowships, scholarships, and awards from Columbia University, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Singapore’s National Arts Council, and more. Her fiction has won the William Van Dyke Short Story Prize, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has been published in Guernica, Narrative, and Nimrod, among other publications. Prior to moving to the US to earn an MFA at Columbia University where she was a Felipe P. De Alba Fellow, she worked as a host for various broadcast and digital channels.
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