nonfiction

Cindy Lee is a graduate student at Arizona State University (ASU) in the Master of Liberal Studies program. Her focus is personal essay and narrative nonfiction writing. Her first published essay, “Am I a Conditional American?” appears in Transformations, a magazine project of the Narrative Storytelling Initiative at ASU and a publishing channel of the LA Review of Books. The essay won the 2021 Excellence in Creative Writing Award from the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, republished in the Fall 2021 issue of the national journal, Confluence. Cindy’s essay was featured on KJZZ, the NPR member station in Phoenix.

Haolun Xu is a poet and filmmaker born in Nanning, China and raised in New Jersey. His writing has appeared in Electric Literature, Narrative, Gulf Coast, jubilat, and more. His upcoming short film, Long Beach, will be made on the Jersey Shore.

Laurie Blauner is the author of five novels, eight books of poetry, and a forthcoming creative non-fiction book. She won PANK’s 2020 Creative Non-fiction Book Contest and her book, called I Was One of My Memories, will be available in 2022. A new novel called Out of Which Came Nothing is currently available from Spuyten Duyvil Press. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, The Georgia Review, American Poetry Review, Mississippi Review, Field, Caketrain, Denver Quarterly, The Colorado Review, The Collagist, The Best Small Fictions 2016 and many other magazines.

Marcia Aldrich is the author of the free memoir Girl Rearing, published by W.W. Norton, and of Companion to an Untold Story, which won the AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction. She is the editor of Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women, published by the University of Georgia Press. Her chapbook EDGE from New Michigan Press is forthcoming. 

Formerly based in Hong Kong, Wendy Gan is a writer who has just returned to her native Singapore. Her writing has been featured in Longreads, Guernica, and The Willowherb Review.