Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Root Fractures and Ghost Of, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and her video work has been exhibited at ICA Pittsburgh. A Kundiman and MacDowell fellow, and member of […]

Kevin Moffett is the author of two story collections, as well as The Silent History, a narrative app for mobile devices. Only Son, a novel, is forthcoming from McSweeney’s Books in 2025. His work has been awarded the National Magazine Award, the Nelson Algren Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a literature fellowship from the National Endowment […]

As a writer and educator of East African descent based in New York, my writing and teaching revolves around stories of and connections between places and people. I collaborated with underground fashion icon Daniel R. Day on Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem, a 2019 New York Times bestseller. My fiction has appeared in Callaloo, Witness, […]

Timothy Liu is the author of numerous books of poems, including Luminous Debris: New & Selected Legerdemain (1992-2017) and Down Low and Lowdown: Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues, both out from Barrow Street. His poems have been translated into a dozen languages, and his journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. […]

Lili Loofbourow is a staff writer at Slate. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays 2019, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The New York Times Magazine, among many others, and she is a two-time recipient of the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Staige D. Blackford Prize for Creative Nonfiction. She is working on a book of creative […]

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black. Originally from Spring Valley, New York, he graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Literary Hub, the Paris […]

Jessica Anthony is the author of three books of fiction, most recently the novel ENTER THE AARDVARK (Little, Brown & Co. 2020). Anthony’s novels have been published in over a dozen countries, and are featured in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times Book Review as an Editors’ Choice. Her short stories have […]

Abigail Chabitnoy is a Koniag descendant and member of the Tangirnaq Native Village in Kodiak. She is the author of In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful (Wesleyan 2022) and How to Dress a Fish (Wesleyan 2019), shortlisted for the 2020 International Griffin Prize for Poetry and winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award, and […]

Juan Martinez is the author of Best Worst American, a story collection published by Small Beer Press and the winner of the Neukom Institute Award for Debut Speculative Fiction. His novel Extended Stay was published by University of Arizona Press’s Camino del Sol series in January 2023. He lives near Chicago and is an associate […]

Danielle Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. Her first collection won the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Hurston-Wright award for fiction, and the Paterson Prize for fiction; her second was a finalist for The Aspen Prize, The Story Prize, The Chautauqua […]