nonfiction

Audacia Ray

Audacia Ray

Audacia Ray (they/she) is a queer nonbinary femme whose stories have been published in Necessary Fiction, Litro Magazine, NonBinary Review, and Stone Canoe. Their nonfiction work has been widely anthologized, most recently in We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival. She was an editor of $pread magazine and its respective best-of anthology published by Feminist Press. They spend their time in Brooklyn and also live part time in the Catskill Mountains in a cabin that has a labyrinth in the front yard. Photo By Anna Carson Dewitt.

Audacia Ray

Audacia Ray

Audacia Ray (they/she) is a queer nonbinary femme whose stories have been published in Necessary Fiction, Litro Magazine, NonBinary Review, and Stone Canoe. Their nonfiction work has been widely anthologized, most recently in We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival. She was an editor of $pread magazine and its respective best-of anthology published by Feminist Press. They spend their time in Brooklyn and also live part time in the Catskill Mountains in a cabin that has a labyrinth in the front yard. Photo By Anna Carson Dewitt.

Audacia
Ray

Brooke White

Brooke White

Brooke White is a Michigander with a penchant for prose and long conversations. Winner of the Hopwood Committee’s Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship for nonfiction, her work has appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Entropy, Iron Horse Literary Review, March Xness, and Honey Lit among others. She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota. She’s currently at work on a book of literary nonfiction about desire, transformations, and fairy tales. Her latest ponderings and delights can be found on Instagram and Twitter @brkthewriter.

Brooke White

Brooke White

Brooke White is a Michigander with a penchant for prose and long conversations. Winner of the Hopwood Committee’s Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship for nonfiction, her work has appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Entropy, Iron Horse Literary Review, March Xness, and Honey Lit among others. She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota. She’s currently at work on a book of literary nonfiction about desire, transformations, and fairy tales. Her latest ponderings and delights can be found on Instagram and Twitter @brkthewriter.

Brooke
White

Carlo Rey Lacsamana

Carlo Rey Lacsamana

Carlo Rey Lacsamana is a Filipino writer, poet, and artist born and raised in Manila, Philippines. Since 2005, he has been living and working in the Tuscan town of Lucca, Italy. He regularly contributes to journals in the Philippines, writing politics, culture, and art. His works have appeared in Esquire, Colossus Magazine, Drunkmonkeysweb, Lumpen Journal (London), Amsterdam Quarterly, Literary Shanghai and in other numerous magazines. One of his stories has been recorded as a podcast story in the narrative podcast Pillow Talking (Australia).

Carlo Rey Lacsamana

Carlo Rey Lacsamana

Carlo Rey Lacsamana is a Filipino writer, poet, and artist born and raised in Manila, Philippines. Since 2005, he has been living and working in the Tuscan town of Lucca, Italy. He regularly contributes to journals in the Philippines, writing politics, culture, and art. His works have appeared in Esquire, Colossus Magazine, Drunkmonkeysweb, Lumpen Journal (London), Amsterdam Quarterly, Literary Shanghai and in other numerous magazines. One of his stories has been recorded as a podcast story in the narrative podcast Pillow Talking (Australia).

Carlo Rey
Lacsamana

Cassandra Whitaker

Cassandra Whitaker

Cassandra Whitaker (they/them) is a trans writer from Virginia whose work has been published, or is forthcoming, in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Mississippi Review, Foglifter, Whale Road Review, Conjunctions, Evergreen Review, and other places. They are a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

Cassandra Whitaker

Cassandra Whitaker

Cassandra Whitaker (they/them) is a trans writer from Virginia whose work has been published, or is forthcoming, in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Mississippi Review, Foglifter, Whale Road Review, Conjunctions, Evergreen Review, and other places. They are a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

Cassandra
Whitaker

Kaia Preus

Kaia Preus

Kaia Preus received her MFA from Hollins University and was a 2019 Author Fellow through the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Her first book, The War Requiem (Essay Press), was a finalist for the 2021 Minnesota Book Award and won the 2018 Essay Press and University of Washington Bothell MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics Book Contest. Her work has appeared in The Drum, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She teaches and coaches writing at Augsburg University, St. Olaf College, and the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Kaia is currently at work on a collection of essays about Halloween.

Kaia Preus

Kaia Preus

Kaia Preus received her MFA from Hollins University and was a 2019 Author Fellow through the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Her first book, The War Requiem (Essay Press), was a finalist for the 2021 Minnesota Book Award and won the 2018 Essay Press and University of Washington Bothell MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics Book Contest. Her work has appeared in The Drum, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She teaches and coaches writing at Augsburg University, St. Olaf College, and the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Kaia is currently at work on a collection of essays about Halloween.

Kaia
Preus