Dana Levinâs fifth book is Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon Press, 2022), a Lannan Literary Selection. Recent books include Banana Palace (2016) and Sky Burial (2011), which The New Yorker called âutterly her
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Aisha Sloan
Aisha is the author of The Fluency of Light (University of Iowa Press 2013) and Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit (1913 Press 2017), Borealis (Coffee House 2021) and a collaborative book written with her father, Captioning
Lilly Dancyger
Lilly Dancyger is the author of Negative Space (2021), a reported and illustrated memoir selected by Carmen Maria Machado as a winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards; and the editor of Burn
Zan Fiskum
Maple Valley-raised singer/songwriter Zan Fiskum uses her haunting and beautifully controlled singing to craft ethereal and brooding folk/pop songs. Being raised in a family that is deeply connected to music
Phuong Nguyen
Phong Nguyen is the author of three novels (Bronze Drum, Roundabout, and The Adventures of Joe Harper) and two short fiction collections (Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History, and
Denise Duhamel
Denise Duhamel’s most recent book of poetry is Second Story (Pittsburgh, 2021). Her other titles from the U of Pittsburgh Press include Scald (2017); Blowout (2013, a finalist for the National Book
Laura Warrell
LAURA WARRELLÂ is a contributor to the Bread Loaf Writersâ Conference and the Tin House Writersâ Workshop, and is a graduate of the creative writing program at Vermont College of Fine
Monica West
Monica West is the author of Revival Season, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Barnes and Noble Discover selection, and short listed for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She
Kate Pyontek
Kate Pyontek holds an MFA from Ohio State University. Kateâs poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Ecotone, the lickety~split, Four Way Review, and New Ohio Review. Kate
Janae Johnson
Janae Johnson is an award-winning poet, performer, and educator. Her writing celebrates and centers on Black queer masculinity, kinship, and belonging. She is a former National Poetry Slam Champion, Women