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A. Kendra Greene
A. Kendra Greene is an essayist, printer, and maker of artist’s books. Her work as an essayist started during a Fulbright to teach English in South Korea, and she earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa and a Graduate Certificate from the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She is Associate Editor of prose at the Southwest Review and is a Fellow at Harvard University's Library Innovation Lab. Kendra's writing is more broadly available in print publications like The Normal School and The Common (out April 27th!).
A. Kendra Greene
A. Kendra Greene is an essayist, printer, and maker of artist’s books. Her work as an essayist started during a Fulbright to teach English in South Korea, and she earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa and a Graduate Certificate from the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She is Associate Editor of prose at the Southwest Review and is a Fellow at Harvard University's Library Innovation Lab. Kendra's writing is more broadly available in print publications like The Normal School and The Common (out April 27th!).
Ayşe Papatya Bucak
Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Bucak spent most of her childhood in Havertown, PA. After earning her BA from Princeton University and MFA from Arizona State University she published stories and essays in a variety of journals, including One Story, Guernica, Bomb, Creative Nonfiction, Witness, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The Pinch, The Iowa Review, and Brevity. In 2019, Norton published Bucak’s short story collection The Trojan War Museum. She now teaches in the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, and is a contributing editor for the journal Copper Nickel.
Ayşe Papatya Bucak
Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Bucak spent most of her childhood in Havertown, PA. After earning her BA from Princeton University and MFA from Arizona State University she published stories and essays in a variety of journals, including One Story, Guernica, Bomb, Creative Nonfiction, Witness, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The Pinch, The Iowa Review, and Brevity. In 2019, Norton published Bucak’s short story collection The Trojan War Museum. She now teaches in the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, and is a contributing editor for the journal Copper Nickel.
Patricia Preciado Martin
Patricia Preciado Martin, a native Arizonan and lifelong Tusconense, is the author of three collections of oral history and three collections of widely anthologized short stories. Martin is the recipient of the Arizona Humanities Council Distinguished Public Scholar Award of Excellence. She met Jim, her husband, while serving in the Peace Corps in Central America. They live in Tucson.
Patricia Preciado Martin
Patricia Preciado Martin, a native Arizonan and lifelong Tusconense, is the author of three collections of oral history and three collections of widely anthologized short stories. Martin is the recipient of the Arizona Humanities Council Distinguished Public Scholar Award of Excellence. She met Jim, her husband, while serving in the Peace Corps in Central America. They live in Tucson.
Roy Guzmán
Roy G. Guzmán is a Honduran poet whose first collection is coming out from Graywolf Press on May 5, 2020. Raised in Miami, Florida, Roy is the recipient of a 2019 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Their work has been included in the Best New Poets 2017 anthology and Best of the Net 2017. Roy holds degrees from the University of Minnesota, Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and the Honors College at Miami Dade College. They currently live in Minneapolis, where they are pursuing a PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Roy Guzmán
Roy G. Guzmán is a Honduran poet whose first collection is coming out from Graywolf Press on May 5, 2020. Raised in Miami, Florida, Roy is the recipient of a 2019 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Their work has been included in the Best New Poets 2017 anthology and Best of the Net 2017. Roy holds degrees from the University of Minnesota, Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and the Honors College at Miami Dade College. They currently live in Minneapolis, where they are pursuing a PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Zaina Arafat
Zaina Arafat is a Palestinian-American writer and teacher. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor, BuzzFeed, VICE, and NPR, among other publications. Her debut novel, YOU EXIST TOO MUCH, is forthcoming from Catapult, and she is also at work on a collection of essays.
Zaina Arafat
Zaina Arafat is a Palestinian-American writer and teacher. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor, BuzzFeed, VICE, and NPR, among other publications. Her debut novel, YOU EXIST TOO MUCH, is forthcoming from Catapult, and she is also at work on a collection of essays.