Desiree C. Bailey is from Trinidad and Tobago, and Queens, NY. She is the author of What Noise Against the Cane which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. What Noise Against the Cane was also a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery […]

Anelise Chen is the author of SO MANY OLYMPIC EXERTIONS (Kaya Press), a novel about a former swimmer grappling with failure and why to keep going. It was a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her new memoir, CLAM DOWN, about a woman who turns into a clam, was published in June 2025 […]

Chet‘la Sebree is the author of the poetry collections Blue Opening; Field Study, winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and Mistress, nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Her debut essay collection TURN (W)HERE: A Geography of Home is forthcoming in 2026. She has received fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo and has been published […]

John Keene is the author, co-author, co-editor, and translator of a handful of books including the forthcoming Love Is a Dangerous Word: The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill, co-edited with Robert F. Reid-Pharr; Counternarratives: Stories and Novellas (2015), which received an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, and Punks: New & Selected […]

Emma Copley Eisenberg is the author of the novel Housemates, which was a national bestseller, named a best book of the year by The Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, People, NBC, Electric Literature, Them.Us, and Autostraddle, and won the Dorothy Allison / Felice Picano Emerging Writer Award from the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival and the 2024 Athenaeum of […]

Bruna Dantas Lobato is a writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, and The Common, and has been recognized with fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Jentel, and DISQUIET, where she was a Luso-American Fellow in 2018. Her translation of The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel received the […]

Jonathan Escoffery is the author of If I Survive You (MCD/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a New York Times and Booklist Editor’s Choice, an IndieNext Pick, and an International Bestseller. If I Survive You was nominated for more than a dozen prizes and awards internationally, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize, the […]

Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif is the author of Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) and Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award. She holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The […]

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s first novel, House of Stone (W. W. Norton 2019), won the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award and the Bulawayo Arts Award for Outstanding Fiction, and was listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Balcones Fiction Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. Tshuma has lectured on House of Stone at […]