WRITERS
BASMA ABDELAZIZ is an award-
winning writer, sculptor, and psychia-
trist. A long-standing vocal critic of
government oppression in Egypt, she is
the author of several works of nonfic-
tion. In 2016 she was named one of
Foreign Policy’s Global Thinkers for
her debut novel The Queue, which was
longlisted for the Best Translated Book
Award. She lives in Cairo.
KATIE HENDERSON ADAMS is
an editor at Liveright, a division of
W. W. Norton & Company, acquir-
ing literary fiction and nonfiction. She
has previously worked at Other Press,
Doubleday, Bloomsbury Press, and
Oxford University Press. She lives in
Manhattan with her husband and two
young sons.
HEDIA ANVAR is a New Yorker
transplanted to Los Angeles by way of
Iran. In between, she lived in France
and Italy, which either expanded her
worldview or culturally befuddled her.
She is currently working on a novel and
writes about her severe case of “chronic
dichotomy” at gunmetalgeisha.com.
JULIE BARER is a partner at The
Book Group, where she represents
a variety of writers across a literary
spectrum, with a special emphasis on
fiction. Her clients include Celeste Ng,
Joshua Ferris, Madeline Miller, Paula
McLain, Kevin Wilson, Bret Anthony
Johnston, and many others. Julie is
particularly interested in representing
a diversity of voices from around the
world.
JOSH BETTINGER is a poet and
editor whose work has appeared in, or
is forthcoming from, journals in the
United States, England, Ireland, and
Canada, including Oxford Poetry, Salt
Hill Journal, Handsome Poetry, the Los
Angeles Review, Crazyhorse, and Boston
Review, among others. He lives in San
Francisco with his wife and children.
MARIA CABRERA CALLÍS
is a
Catalan poet born in Girona in 1983.
She teaches Catalan Linguistics at the
University of Barcelona and works as a
proofreader for many publishing houses.
As a poet, she has published three
books: Jonàs ( Jonah), La matinada clara
(Bright Morning), and La ciutat cansada
(Tired City).
KARISSA MORTON CARTER
is
originally from Iowa and currently lives
in Texas. Her work appears in Cream
City Review, Indiana Review, Crab
Orchard Review, Guernica, the Paris-
American, and Sonora Review, among
others.
DAVID A LLAN CATES is the
author of five novels and a chapbook
of poetry, The Mysterious Location of
Kyrgyzstan. His novels include Hunger
in America, a New York Times Notable
Book. Until February of 2017, Cates
was the executive director of Missoula
Medical Aid and led forty teams
of medical professionals to provide
public health and surgery services in
Honduras. He is a faculty member at
Pacific Lutheran University.
NICOLE DENNIS-BENN is the
MARIANNE CHAN ’s work has ap-
peared or is forthcoming in Denver
Quarterly, BOAAT, Day One, Indiana
Review, and the Journal, among others.
She holds an MFA in creative writing
from the University of Nevada, Las
Vegas. In 2015, she was the first runner-
up for the Poets & Writers Maureen
Egen Writer’s Exchange Award for
Poetry. She is currently the poetry edi-
tor for Split Lip magazine.
GARRARD CONLEY is the author of
Boy Erased, soon to be a major motion
picture. He is at work on his forthcom-
ing second book, a historical fiction
novel. His work can be found in TIME,
VICE, CNN, and Virginia Quarterly
Review, among others.
MELODIE CORRIGALL is an
eclectic Canadian writer whose work
has appeared in Litro UK, Foliate Oak,
Emerald Bolts, Earthen Lamp Journal,
Six Minute Magazine, Halfway Down
the Stairs, Corner Bar, Persimmon Tree,
Literally Stories, and the Write Place at
the Write Time. Find more at
melodiecorrigall.com.
CAROLINE CREW is the author of
PINK MUSEUM (Big Lucks, 2015)
and several chapbooks. Her poetry and
essays appear in the Kenyon Review,
DIAGRAM, and Gulf Coast, among
others. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD
at Georgia State University after earn-
ing an MA at the University of Oxford
and an MFA at UMass-Amherst. She’s
online at caroline-crew.com.
author of Here Comes the Sun, a New
York Times Notable Book of the year.
Her work has appeared in the New York
Times, Elle, Electric Literature, Ebony,
and the Feminist Wire. Dennis-Benn
holds an MFA in creative writing from
Sarah Lawrence College. She was born
and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and
lives with her wife in Brooklyn, New
York.
RYAN DZELZKALNS has work ap-
pearing in Assaracus, DIAGRAM, the
Offing, Tin House, and others. He works
for the Academy of American Poets and
is the tallest man in New York. Read
more at ryandz.com.
PETER GRIMES lives in Fayetteville,
BRIAN P. HALL ing editor of Tin House. Up Up, Down
Down is his first book.
AJA GABEL earned her MFA at the ELISABETH JAQUETTE ’s transla-
University of Virginia and her PhD
at the University of Houston, and she
was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work
Center in Provincetown. Her novel,
The Ensemble, will be published by
Riverhead in May 2018. She currently
lives in Los Angeles.
MAJDA GAMA is a Saudi-American
KATIE KITAMURA
is the author
of Gone to the Forest and The Longshot,
both finalists for the New York Public
Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award.
Her most recent novel, A Separation, was
a New York Times Notable Book of the
Year and will be translated into more
than fifteen languages.
is the author of five
previous books of fiction: A Visit from
the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer
Prize and the National Book Critics
Circle Award; The Keep; Emerald City;
Look at Me, a National Book Award
finalist; and The Invisible Circus.
JENNIFER EGAN
from the Bennington Writing Seminars.
She has written for the New Yorker, the
New York Times, the Atlantic, ELLE, the
New Republic, and BuzzFeed, among
others. She’s also an associate editor at
Catapult. She lives in New York.
North Carolina. He is an assistant
professor of English at UNC-Pembroke,
where he teaches fiction and creative
nonfiction writing and edits Pembroke
Magazine. His creative nonfiction has
recently appeared or is forthcoming
in Nashville Review and Alaska Quarterly
Review. Visit his website at
peterjgrimes.com. received his
MFA from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. His work has
appeared in Seneca Review, Blue Mesa
Review, Memoir, and others. He has
a poem in an upcoming issue of New
Ohio Review. He lives in Cleveland
and teaches writing at Cuyahoga
Community College.
tions from Arabic include The Queue
by Basma Abdelaziz (English PEN
Translates Award), The Apartment
in Bab el-Louk by Donia Maher, and
Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania
Mamoun (PEN/Heim Award). She also
teaches at Hunter College and is direc-
tor of the American Literary Translators
Association.
poet based in the Washington, DC,
area. Her poems have appeared or are
forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal,
Jahanamiya (the first Saudi feminist
literary journal), Duende, the Normal
School, and the South Dakota Review.
Majda reads and edits poetry submis-
sions for the literary journal Tinderbox. of The Doctor’s Wife, winner of the
Dzanc Books Short Story Collection
Contest, an Oprah Book of the Week,
and one of NPR’s Best Books of 2012.
He is the director of creative writing at
the New School.
BRIAN GRESKO is the editor of MORGAN JERKINS graduated from
When I First Held You: 22 Critically
Acclaimed Writers Talk About the
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Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative
Experience of Fatherhood. He co-hosts
Pete’s Reading Series in Brooklyn and
teaches creative nonfiction for Sackett
Street Writers’ Workshop.
LUIS JARAMILLO is the author
Princeton University with an AB in
comparative literature and has an MFA
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CHESTON KNAPP is the manag-
FOUAD LAROUI is a writer born
in 1958 in Oujda, Morocco. With ten
novels and five collections of short
stories written in French, plus two
collections of poems written in Dutch,
a play, many essays and scientific pa-
pers (written in French or English), his
ongoing, ambitious literary output has
been recognized with many awards.
DINA LEE
is a recent creative writing
MFA graduate of the New School. She
has a background in screenwriting and
advertising, and she is currently working
on her first novel. She has called New
York City home for nearly fifteen years.
RICARDO ALBERTO
MALDONADO was born
and raised in Puerto Rico. He is
the translator of Dinapiera Di
Donato’s Collateral (National Poetry
Series/Akashic Books) and the re-
cipient of fellowships from Queer/
Arts/Mentorship and the New York
Foundation for the Arts.
LIZ MATHEWS is a former publish-
ing veteran recovering from her years in