Kelly Duarte

The Ghosts in Our Hair | Fiction The outlets don’t work. When they do, a hissing comes out like a cartoonish stick of dynamite. The lock catches, forcibly keepi...

Alyssa Zaczek

Alyssa Zaczek is a fiction author. Her Kirkus-starred debut novel for middle grade readers, MARTIN MCLEAN, MIDDLE SCHOOL QUEEN will be published Jan. 7, 2020 by...

Janine Blue

Janine Blue is an MFA candidate studying at Western Washington University. She currently resides in Bellingham, Washington and her writing interests include Bla...

Sam Smith

Sam Smith received her MFA from Chatham University, where she acted as Managing Editor Fellow for The Fourth River. She is currently a reader for IDK Magazine a...

Rebecca Beardsall

Rebecca Beardsall works at Western Washington University. She received her MA in English from Lehigh University and her MFA from Western Washington University. ...

Melanie Thorne

Melanie Thorne is the award-winning author of the novel Hand Me Down (Penguin), which was critically acclaimed by People, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the A...

Jennifer Ansley

Jennifer Ansley (they/ them) is faculty in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University. Their creative non-fiction and scholarly work has appeared in Scalaw...

Taylor Paris

Taylor Paris is a student at Missouri State University in Springfield, MO. As a queer person, she hopes that telling her story will help those who are strugglin...

Paige M. Ferro

Paige M. Ferro is a writer, chef, and art admirer living in Bend, Oregon. By day, and sometimes night, she is the Adult Programs Coordinator with Deschutes Publ...

Jhanvi Ramaiya

Jhanvi Ramaiya is a nonfiction MFA candidate at George Mason University and holds a degree in Sociology from Gettysburg College. Originally from Kutch, a t...