Authors

Savannah Johnston is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Her work has appeared in Gulf Coast, HTMLgiant, and Gravel, among others. She lives in New York City. Johnston is the author of Rites: Stories

Donna Miscolta, who grew up in California and now lives in Seattle, has a bachelor’s degree in zoology from San Diego State University and a master’s degree in education and public administration from the University of Washington. Through the years, she took classes and workshops in fiction writing and published two novels: When the de la

Sion Dayson grew up in North Carolina and earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Utne Reader, and many other venues, and her writings often focus on travel, living abroad, and her literary hero, James Baldwin. Her popular blog paris (im)perfect explored the City of Light’s less glamorous side. After a

Fayeza Hasanat, a Bangladeshi-American writer, teaches at the English Department of the University of Central Florida. Born and raised in Bangladesh, Hasanat completed her MA from the English Department of Dhaka University, Bangladesh before coming to the US. A Fulbright scholar, she then earned an MA and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida.

Kim Dana Kupperman a critically acclaimed, award-winning essay collection, I Just Lately Started Buying Wings. Missives from the Other Side of Silence(Graywolf Press, 2010).  She is the lead editor ofYou: An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Person (2013) and publisher of the anthologyEssaying the Essay (2014). Ms. Kupperman is the founding editor of Welcome Table Press, an independent

Rosalie Morales Kearns, a writer of Puerto Rican and Pennsylvania Dutch descent, is the founder of Shade Mountain Press, the author of the magic-realist story collection Virgins and Tricksters, and the editor of the short story anthology The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women. A product of Catholic schooling from kindergarten through college, Kearns has a B.A. in

A. Rafael Johnson is a Kimbilio Fellow. He earned his BA in Drama from the University of Texas, and his MFA in Fiction from the University of Alabama. Andy has spent time working in post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Liberia and directed the UA in Zanzibar Study Abroad Program. His work has been seen in African American Review, Kweli, and

Alexandra Chasin received a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University in 1993, and an MFA in Fiction Writing at Vermont College in 2002. She is the author of Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market, a study of the relation between the LGBT “market” and the LGBT social movement.

Amanda Montei holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and is a Ph.D. candidate and Presidential Fellow in the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo. Critical writing has appeared in Gurlesque: A Critical Anthology (Saturnalia, 2016), Performing Ethos: An International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and

Anna Joy Springer a prose writer and visual artist who makes grotesques – creating hybrid texts that combine sacred and profane elements to evoke intensely embodied conceptual-emotional experiences in readers. Formerly a singer in the Bay Area bands, Blatz, The Gr’ups, and Cypher in the Snow, Anna Joy has toured the United States and Europe