Dantiel W. Moniz is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, and has been named a “Writer to Watch” by
Publishers Weekly and Apple Books. (Photo credit: Jason D. Moniz)
Dantiel W. Moniz is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, and has been named a “Writer to Watch” by Publishers Weekly and Apple Books. Her debut collection, Milk Blood Heat, is an Indie Next Pick, an inaugural Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club pick, and has been hailed as “must-read” by TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Elle, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s Bazaar, Tin House, One Story, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Moniz is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(Photo credit: Jason D. Moniz)
Claire Luchette has published work in
Virginia Quarterly Review,
Kenyon Review,
Ploughshares, and
Granta. A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Luchette graduated from the University of Oregon MFA program. (Photo credit: Dotun Akintoye)
Claire Luchette has published work in Virginia Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Granta. A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Luchette graduated from the University of Oregon MFA program and has received grants and scholarships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Millay Arts, Lighthouse Works, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the James Merrill House.
(Photo credit: Dotun Akintoye)
Lee Lai was born in 1993 in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Currently, Lai makes comics and illustrations in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal), Quebec. Her short story comics have been featured in
The New Yorker,
The Lifted Brow,
Room Magazine, and
Everyday Feminism. (Photo credit: Leah Jing)
Lee Lai was born in 1993 in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Currently, Lai makes comics and illustrations in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal), Quebec. Her short story comics have been featured in The New Yorker, The Lifted Brow, Room Magazine, and Everyday Feminism.
(Photo credit: Leah Jing)
Nathan Harris holds an MFA from the Michener Center at the University of Texas. He is a recipient of the University of Oregon’s Kidd Prize and was a finalist for the Tennessee Williams Fiction Prize. He lives in Austin, Texas. (Photo credit: Laurel Sager)
Nathan Harris holds an MFA from the Michener Center at the University of Texas. He is a recipient of the University of Oregon’s Kidd Prize and was a finalist for the Tennessee Williams Fiction Prize. He lives in Austin, Texas.
(Photo credit: Laurel Sager)
Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British-Ghanaian writer and photographer, living in South East London. His writing is forthcoming or has been published in the
White Review and
Litro. (Photo credit: Stuart Ruel)
Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British-Ghanaian writer and photographer, living in South East London. His writing is forthcoming or has been published in the White Review and Litro. He was recently shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, the Palm* Photo Prize, and won the Palm* People’s Choice award.
(Photo credit: Stuart Ruel)
Robert Jones, Jr. is the
New York Times-bestselling author of
The Prophets, was a Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. He has written for numerous publications, including the
New York Times,
Essence, and
The Paris Review. (Photo credit: Alberto Vargas)
Robert Jones, Jr. is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Prophets, was a Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. He has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, Essence, and The Paris Review. He is the creator and curator of the social-justice, social-media community Son of Baldwin, which has over 288,000 followers across platforms.
(Photo credit: Alberto Vargas)
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels including
Orfeo;
Plowing the Dark;
Operation Wandering Soul, a National Book Award Finalist;
The Echo Maker, winner of the National Book Award; and
The Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. (Photo credit: Dean D. Dixon)
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels including Orfeo; Plowing the Dark; Operation Wandering Soul, a National Book Award Finalist; The Echo Maker, a National Book Award Winner; and The Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is a MacArthur Fellow and lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.
(Photo credit: Dean D. Dixon)
Jakob Guanzon was born in New York and raised in Minnesota. He holds an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts and lives in New York City. (Photo credit: Iqra Shahbaz)
Jakob Guanzon was born in New York and raised in Minnesota. He holds an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts and lives in New York City.
(Photo credit: Iqra Shahbaz)
Jason Mott has published four novels. His first novel,
The Returned, was a
New York Times bestseller and was turned into a TV series that ran for two seasons. He has a BFA in Fiction and an MFA in Poetry, both from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. (Photo credit: Michael Becker Photography)
Jason Mott has published four novels. His first novel, The Returned, was a New York Times bestseller and was turned into a TV series that ran for two seasons. He has a BFA in Fiction and an MFA in Poetry, both from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His poetry and fiction have appeared in various literary journals, and his most recent novel, Hell of a Book, was named the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2021.
(Photo credit: Michael Becker Photography)
