Jeffrey Overstreet is the author of the film-focused memoirs Through a Screen Darkly and the upcoming Lost and Found in the Cathedral of Cinema, as well as the fantasy series The Auralia Thread. In
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Lauren Wainwright
Thea Matthews
Prachi Gupta
Nick Thompson
Jon Lanthier
Samina Najmi
Samina Najmi is a professor of English at California State University, Fresno. Her memoir-in-essays, Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss, and a Home in Time, won the Aurora Polaris Award in
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist and translator. Her most recent book, Something About Living (UAkron, 2024), was listed as a 2025 notable book by the American Library Association, and was winner of
Kalehua Kim
Kalehua Kim is a poet living in the Pacific Northwest. Born of Hawaiian, Chinese, Filipino and Portuguese descent, her multicultural background informs much of her work. A 2023 winner of the
Seth Paxton
Paxton is an artist, writer and game designer who has worked at the technical intersection of story and play both professionally and independently. Their interactive audio dramas have been published
