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...

Justin Allard

Justin Allard graduated from Centre College and currently lives in Louisville, KY. Their work has appeared in Entropy Magazine, The Aquifer, and Gertrude Press,...

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...

Jerakah Greene

Jerakah Greene is a nonbinary lesbian from Tulsa, Oklahoma. They are soon to graduate from the Creative Writing program at Columbia College Chicago, where they ...

Kimberley Jessen

Kimberley Jessen lives and writes in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She works as an Academic Literacy Professor at Northampton Community College.

E. C. Kelly

E. C. Kelly has an M.A. in Liberal Arts, which is a fancy way of saying she's studied teaching, acting, and creative writing a lot. What motivates her writing i...

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...

Trisha Ridinger McKee

Trisha Ridinger McKee resides on land with her master fisherman hubby, hippie daughter, and hyper bulldogs. She blissfully works the day away at Penn State Univ...

Emerson Henry

Emerson Henry studied writing at Sarah Lawrence College and was a recipient of the Nancy Lynn Schwartz Prize for Fiction there. Henry’s debut story was nominate...