Nonfiction

Alissa McElreath

Alissa McElreath

Alissa (Aliki) McElreath teaches English composition at Saint Augustine's University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her fiction and non-fiction has been published at Literary Mama, in the anthology Mama, Ph.D., on the websites Love Isn't Enough, and And I Ran, and at the Family Education Network. She recently completed her second novel, Ficus Way.

Alissa McElreath

Alissa McElreath

Alissa (Aliki) McElreath teaches English composition at Saint Augustine's University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her fiction and non-fiction has been published at Literary Mama, in the anthology Mama, Ph.D., on the websites Love Isn't Enough, and And I Ran, and at the Family Education Network. She recently completed her second novel, Ficus Way.

Alissa
McElreath

Candace Black

Candace Black

Candace Black lives in Mankato, MN. Her book of poems,The Volunteer, was published by New Rivers Press in 2003. A chapbook, Casa Marina, was published by RopeWalk Press in 2010. “The Chapel” is part of a memoir-in-progress about growing up the daughter of a U.S. Marine Corps officer. Other nonfiction has been published in War, Literature and the Arts, turnrow, and The Blueroad Reader: Stardust and Fate.

Candace Black

Candace Black

Candace Black lives in Mankato, MN. Her book of poems,The Volunteer, was published by New Rivers Press in 2003. A chapbook, Casa Marina, was published by RopeWalk Press in 2010. “The Chapel” is part of a memoir-in-progress about growing up the daughter of a U.S. Marine Corps officer. Other nonfiction has been published in War, Literature and the Arts, turnrow, and The Blueroad Reader: Stardust and Fate.

Candace
Black

Caralyn Davis

Caralyn Davis

Caralyn Davis is a freelance writer for trade publications in the healthcare and technology transfer industries. This is her first creative nonfiction publication. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg ReviewEckleburg AnthologyMonkeybicycleRelief JournalDeep South, and The Drum and Side B Literary Magazine (2011 Dual Publication Award winner). She lives in Asheville, N.C., and is a former student in the Great Smokies Writing Program at the University of North Carolina-Asheville.

Caralyn Davis

Caralyn Davis

Caralyn Davis is a freelance writer for trade publications in the healthcare and technology transfer industries. This is her first creative nonfiction publication. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg ReviewEckleburg AnthologyMonkeybicycleRelief JournalDeep South, and The Drum and Side B Literary Magazine (2011 Dual Publication Award winner). She lives in Asheville, N.C., and is a former student in the Great Smokies Writing Program at the University of North Carolina-Asheville.

Caralyn
Davis

Cindy Clem

Cindy Clem

Cindy Clem teaches writing at The Pennsylvania State University, where she received her MFA. Her work has appeared in Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Normal School, Memoir (and), and The Interrobang

 

Cindy Clem

Cindy Clem

Cindy Clem teaches writing at The Pennsylvania State University, where she received her MFA. Her work has appeared in Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Normal School, Memoir (and), and The Interrobang

 

Cindy
Clem

Clio Contogenis

Clio Contogenis

Clio Contogenis was born and raised in New York City. She attended Stuyvesant High School, and is now a junior at Yale University, studying English and Theater Studies with such teachers as Cynthia Zarin and Donald Margulies. She has appeared in a number of Yale productions, including Shakespeare's Richard III and Noel Coward's Private Lives. Her writing has been published in Stuyvesant Literary MagazineYale Daily News Magazine,Vita Bella Magazine, Bluestem Online Quarterly, and several anthologies. She has also won multiple Gold and Silver Key Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

Clio Contogenis

Clio Contogenis

Clio Contogenis was born and raised in New York City. She attended Stuyvesant High School, and is now a junior at Yale University, studying English and Theater Studies with such teachers as Cynthia Zarin and Donald Margulies. She has appeared in a number of Yale productions, including Shakespeare's Richard III and Noel Coward's Private Lives. Her writing has been published in Stuyvesant Literary MagazineYale Daily News Magazine,Vita Bella Magazine, Bluestem Online Quarterly, and several anthologies. She has also won multiple Gold and Silver Key Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

Clio
Contogenis

Geeta Kothari

Geeta Kothari

Geeta Kothari is the editor of Did My Mama Like to Dance?: And Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various journals including the Massachusetts ReviewFourth Genre, and Best American Essays. She is the nonfiction editor at The Kenyon Review and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.

Geeta Kothari

Geeta Kothari

Geeta Kothari is the editor of Did My Mama Like to Dance?: And Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various journals including the Massachusetts ReviewFourth Genre, and Best American Essays. She is the nonfiction editor at The Kenyon Review and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.

Geeta
Kothari

Jessica McCaughey

Jessica McCaughey

Jessica McCaughey is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Arlington, Virginia. She earned her BA in English from the University of Mary Washington and both an MA (English) and an MFA (Creative Writing) from George Mason University. She currently teaches writing and English as a Second Language courses at The George Washington University and George Mason University, respectively. Jessica's work has appeared in The Colorado Review, The Best American Travel Writing (2011), The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Phoebe, among other publications.

Jessica McCaughey

Jessica McCaughey

Jessica McCaughey is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Arlington, Virginia. She earned her BA in English from the University of Mary Washington and both an MA (English) and an MFA (Creative Writing) from George Mason University. She currently teaches writing and English as a Second Language courses at The George Washington University and George Mason University, respectively. Jessica's work has appeared in The Colorado Review, The Best American Travel Writing (2011), The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Phoebe, among other publications.

Jessica
McCaughey

Randon Billings Noble

Randon Billings Noble

Randon Billings Noble is an essayist. Her work has appeared in the Modern Love column of The New York Times; The Massachusetts Review; Passages North; Propeller Quarterly; HER KIND, a blog powered by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts; Brain, Child and elsewhere.  

Randon Billings Noble

Randon Billings Noble

Randon Billings Noble is an essayist. Her work has appeared in the Modern Love column of The New York Times; The Massachusetts Review; Passages North; Propeller Quarterly; HER KIND, a blog powered by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts; Brain, Child and elsewhere.  

Randon
Billings Noble

Toke Hoppenbrouwers

Toke Hoppenbrouwers

Toke Hoppenbrouwers was born before WWII in the Netherlands. In the 1960's she began her studies of Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.  She continues research on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) at the University of Southern California where over a forty-year career she published more scientific articles than her age and completed the book SIDS with her colleague, Joan Hodgman, M.D. During the past years, she has traveled to Indonesia to study SIDS. Her novel Autumn Sea received a Small Press Award in 1996 and her nonfiction pieces have appeared in various literary magazines.  

Toke Hoppenbrouwers

Toke Hoppenbrouwers

Toke Hoppenbrouwers was born before WWII in the Netherlands. In the 1960's she began her studies of Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.  She continues research on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) at the University of Southern California where over a forty-year career she published more scientific articles than her age and completed the book SIDS with her colleague, Joan Hodgman, M.D. During the past years, she has traveled to Indonesia to study SIDS. Her novel Autumn Sea received a Small Press Award in 1996 and her nonfiction pieces have appeared in various literary magazines.  

Toke
Hoppenbrouwers

Yasmin Tong

Yasmin Tong

Influenced by her African American and Asian heritage, Yasmin Tong's writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Mary: A Journal of New Writing, and was anthologized in the New Asian Immigration. She attended Squaw Valley Writer's Community in 2009. Ms. Tong lives and works in Los Angeles.

 

Yasmin Tong

Yasmin Tong

Influenced by her African American and Asian heritage, Yasmin Tong's writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Mary: A Journal of New Writing, and was anthologized in the New Asian Immigration. She attended Squaw Valley Writer's Community in 2009. Ms. Tong lives and works in Los Angeles.

 

Yasmin
Tong