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Andrew Bertaina

Andrew Bertaina

Andrew Bertaina's short story collection One Person Away From You (2021) won the Moon City Press Fiction Award (2020). His work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, Witness Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Orion, and The Best American Poetry. He has an MFA from American University in Washington, DC.

Andrew Bertaina

Andrew Bertaina

Andrew Bertaina's short story collection One Person Away From You (2021) won the Moon City Press Fiction Award (2020). His work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, Witness Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Orion, and The Best American Poetry. He has an MFA from American University in Washington, DC.

Andrew
Bertaina

Catherine Kyle

Catherine Kyle

Catherine Kyle is the author of Fulgurite (Cornerstone Press, 2023), Shelter in Place (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), and other collections. Her writing has appeared in Bellingham Review, Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. She was the winner of the 2019-2020 COG Poetry Award and a finalist for the 2021 Mississippi Review Prize in poetry. She is an assistant professor at DigiPen Institute of Technology, where she teaches creative writing and literature.

Catherine Kyle

Catherine Kyle

Catherine Kyle is the author of Fulgurite (Cornerstone Press, 2023), Shelter in Place (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), and other collections. Her writing has appeared in Bellingham Review, Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. She was the winner of the 2019-2020 COG Poetry Award and a finalist for the 2021 Mississippi Review Prize in poetry. She is an assistant professor at DigiPen Institute of Technology, where she teaches creative writing and literature.

Catherine
Kyle

Claire Polders

Claire Polders

Claire Polders grew up in the Netherlands and now roams the world. She’s the author of four novels in Dutch, one novel for younger readers (A Whale in Paris, Simon & Schuster), and many short stories and essays. Recurrent themes in her writing are identity, feminism, social justice, traveling, and death. She works on a memoir about elder abuse, a speculative novel, and a short prose collection.

Claire Polders

Claire Polders

Claire Polders grew up in the Netherlands and now roams the world. She’s the author of four novels in Dutch, one novel for younger readers (A Whale in Paris, Simon & Schuster), and many short stories and essays. Recurrent themes in her writing are identity, feminism, social justice, traveling, and death. She works on a memoir about elder abuse, a speculative novel, and a short prose collection.

Claire
Polders

Maggie Boyd Hare

Maggie Boyd Hare

Maggie Boyd Hare is an MFA candidate at UNCW where she works as a teaching assistant and as poetry editor for Ecotone. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, the Shore, and the Arkansas International.

Maggie Boyd Hare

Maggie Boyd Hare

Maggie Boyd Hare is an MFA candidate at UNCW where she works as a teaching assistant and as poetry editor for Ecotone. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, the Shore, and the Arkansas International.

Maggie Boyd
Hare

Stanley Stocker

Stanley Stocker

Stanley Stocker is an African-American/Mexican writer and the winner of a 2021 PEN America/Dau Prize, a Creative Power Award 2023, and a finalist for The 2022 Best Spiritual Literature Award - Fiction. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Transition, Brittle Paper, Kestrel, Susurrus, Middle House Review, and on the Short Story Today podcast.

Stanley Stocker

Stanley Stocker

Stanley Stocker is an African-American/Mexican writer and the winner of a 2021 PEN America/Dau Prize, a Creative Power Award 2023, and a finalist for The 2022 Best Spiritual Literature Award - Fiction. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Transition, Brittle Paper, Kestrel, Susurrus, Middle House Review, and on the Short Story Today podcast.

Stanley
Stocker

Vanessa Lopez Aziz

Vanessa Lopez Aziz

Vanessa spent the first decade of her adulthood adventuring. She’s lived along California’s coast, Nevada, the Alaskan frontier, England, and Eastern Europe. She’s jumped off mountains, excavated ancient archaeological sites, and lived out of a backpack for years at a time. She is more often found writing than living adventures these days. She is first-generation half-Filipino and half-Pakistani. She felt a lack of representation in media growing up, so now she writes stories she wishes to see more of, populated with quirky protagonists finding their way when traditional labels don’t fit. Her first YA novel comes out early next year.

Vanessa Lopez Aziz

Vanessa Lopez Aziz

Vanessa spent the first decade of her adulthood adventuring. She’s lived along California’s coast, Nevada, the Alaskan frontier, England, and Eastern Europe. She’s jumped off mountains, excavated ancient archaeological sites, and lived out of a backpack for years at a time. She is more often found writing than living adventures these days. She is first-generation half-Filipino and half-Pakistani. She felt a lack of representation in media growing up, so now she writes stories she wishes to see more of, populated with quirky protagonists finding their way when traditional labels don’t fit. Her first YA novel comes out early next year.

Vanessa
Lopez Aziz