Kate Raphael is a Lambda-nominated novelist, journalist, anarchafeminist and queer activist based in Seattle. Her prescient novel, The Midwife’s In Town, imagining a feminist underground in the South after Roe
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Melanie Figg
Melanie Figg is a poet and essayist, currently working on a hybrid memoir. Her award-winning poetry collection, Trace, was named one of the year’s "Best Indie Books" by Kirkus Reviews.
Rick Kenney
RICK KENNEY teaches at the MFA program at University of Washington. .
Margarita Borrero
Doctora en literatura europea, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain Margarita Borrero es novelista, premiada y publicada en España, y escritora de relatos, género en el que ha ganado media docena de
Matthew Salesses
MATTHEW SALESSES is the author of the bestsellers The Hundred-Year Flood, an Adoptive Families Best Book of 2015 and Amazon.com Best Book of September, and Craft in the Real World,
Maged Zaher
Marissa Flaxbart
Marissa Flaxbart is a writer, filmmaker, and podcaster based in Los Angeles. She holds a BA in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Chicago and an MFA in
Becky Mandelbaum
Becky Mandelbaum is the author of The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals (Simon & Schuster, 2020), an Indie Next Pick, and Bad Kansas (UGA Press, 2017), which received the 2016 Flannery O’Connor Award for
Andrew Bell
Andrew Bell is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and educator from the Pacific Northwest. His short film work has played at festivals worldwide and is broadcast internationally on ShortsTV, BloodydisgustingTV, and
Melanie Márquez Adams
Melanie Márquez Adams is the author of Querencia: crónicas de una latinoamericana en USA, Mariposas Negras, and El PaÃs de las Maravillas: crónicas de mi sueño americano. An advocate of