Becky Mandelbaum is the author of The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals (Simon & Schuster, 2020) and Bad Kansas, which received the 2016 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the
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Kevin Emerson
Kevin Emerson is the author of twenty-two middle grade and YA novels. He has been published by HarperCollins, Random House, Little Brown, Scholastic, and internationally. His most well-known novel, LAST
Ingrid Ricks
Ingrid Ricks is an NYT-bestselling author, memoir coach, and inspirational speaker who is passionate about leveraging personal storytelling to foster healing, awareness, empathy, and change. Over the past decade, she has
Karen Finneyfrock
Karen Finneyfrock is the author of two young adult novels, The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door and Starbird Murphy and the World Outside, both published by Viking Children’s Books. She
Gail Folkins
Gail Folkins often writes about her deep roots in the American West. She has worked as a journalist, a writer and editor for companies and nonprofits, and as a college
Jenny Bartoy
I am a professionally trained editor with two decades of experience in literary editing, magazine publishing, digital content creation, and marketing. I specialize in developmental and line editing of fiction
Sara Freeman
I am a Montreal-born, US-based fiction writer. My debut novel Tides was published in January 2022 with Grove Press. My writing has appeared in The Sewanee Review, Literary Hub, Granta,
Kary Wayson
I’m a poet and poetry teacher with two books and twenty-plus years of experience editing creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid forms. I'm particularly interested in work that pushes against traditions
Jarret Middleton
Jarret Middleton is not taking new clients at this time. Jarret Middleton is the author of Darkansas and the novella, An Dantomine Eerly. He was the founding editor of Dark Coast Press and the
Tess Taylor
Tess Taylor is the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry. The San Francisco Chronicle hailed Taylor’s first book, The Forage House, as “stunning.” Critic Stephanie Burt called Work & Days, her second book “our moment’s