John Van Kirk’s (Pileated in Humboldt Country) short stories have earned him the O. Henry Award (1993) and The Iowa Review Fiction Prize (2011). His work has been published in numerous journals, as well as several anthologies. His novel, Song for Chance, was published in 2013 by Red Hen Press.
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Charlie J. Stephens (Kaleb Blackgoat) is a queer fiction writer living in Northern California. Charlie has lived all over the U.S. as a bike messenger, wilderness guide, bookseller, and seasonal shark diver (for educational purposes). Charlie’s work has appeared in Original Plumbing (Feminist Press), The Flexible Persona, The Forge Literary Magazine, Gravel Literary Magazine, Rappahannock Review, Not Your Mother’s Breast Milk, and Nothing Short of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. Charlie is currently working on a collection of short stories, as well as their first novel. charliejstephenswriting.com
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Gerard Sarnat, MD, (Apocalypse Then and Now) has won the Poetry in Arts First Place Award and Dorfman Prizes, been nominated for a handful of recent Pushcarts/ Best of Net Awards and authored Homeless Chronicles, Disputes, 17s, and Melting The Ice King. Recent work has appeared in academic journals from Stanford, Oberlin, Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Pomona, Brown, Columbia, Sichuan, Canberra, University of Chicago; also Ulster, Gargoyle, Main Street Rag, American Journal Poetry, Poetry Quarterly, New Delta Review, Brooklyn Review, LA Review, San Francisco Magazine and The New York Times. gerardsarnat.com
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Priya Rajan (A Week in Churu and Bikaner) lives in Bangalore, India. She worked in the software industry for more than a decade and quit for personal priorities. Currently, she is striving to be a writer. Her work has been published in NatureWriting, Snapdragon, Flock and Orion magazines. Her family is passionate about travelling and they explore the incredible landscapes of India along with their young and adept traveler daughter.
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Rod Panos (Chest Wound) lives in California. A previous life writing reports in pursuit of technical development and corporate goals failed to satisfy his creative urges. The joys of writing now encourage him to write more personal stories hoping to reach a broader audience and of one day pressing the ‘submit’ button with a bit of confidence.
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Tessa McWatt (In Conversation With…) is the author of six novels and two books for young people. Her fiction has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the City of Toronto Book Awards, and the OCM Bocas Prize. She is one of the winners of the Eccles British Library Award 2018 for her first non-fiction book, Shame On Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging. She coedited, with Dionne Brand and Rabindranath Maharaj, Luminous Ink: Writers on Writing in Canada. She is also a librettist, Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and is on the Board of Trustees at Wasafiri.
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B. W. Jackson (The Paris Pageant) is a native of Upstate New York. His fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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Molly McCarron (My Pets) is a former bookstore clerk, English conversation teacher, equity research analyst and television producer who lives and writes in Toronto. She has written about travel, music, and business in Canadian newspapers and magazines. This is her first published piece of creative non-fiction.
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Mia Hague (Coming Through) is a full-time illustrator who works from Norwich Artist Studios. Specialising in the medium of collage, she mainly works by hand with paint, found objects, books, maps, and photographs. Her work features original characters and intricate landscapes, with the odd shipping forecast thrown in for good measure. She proudly shows her workings and leaves mistakes in. Mia is open to new collaborations and commissions in 2020 having just launched her new venture, a greetings card business with a difference: www.greylingpost.com.
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Cynthia Lewis (Who Will Believe Thee?) is Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Davidson College in North Carolina and has published widely on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, most recently The game’s afoot: A Sports Lover’s Introduction to Shakespeare. Her creative nonfiction has been published in The Hudson Review, New Letters, The Antioch Review, Southern Cultures, The Massachusetts Review and Charlotte Magazine. Four essays have been cited a ‘Notable Essay’ in the Best American Essays series; Return Engagement: The Haunting of Hamlet and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. won Shenandoah’s Thomas Carter Essay Prize for 2016; and Body Doubles won the Merringoff Prize for nonfiction.
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Stacy E. Holden (Ah Ya Ween [Oh, Where Am I?]) is an Associate Professor of History at Purdue University, where her research focuses on the modern Middle East and North Africa. She has published scholarly articles on milling in Fez, historic preservation as a colonial policy, the politics of colonial monuments, and a variety of other topics that illuminate everyday life in the Arab world. She is currently writing a travel memoir tracing Edith Wharton’s 1917 trip to Morocco as a means of assessing midlife nostalgia. Learn more about her at stacyeholden.com
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Melissa Holbrook Pierson (Memory City) is the author of five books, including The Place You Love Is Gone and The Perfect Vehicle. She also co-edited and contributed to the anthology O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors. She writes from, and sometimes about, the Catskill Mountains of New York, which is where she moved when New York City would no longer have her, or vice versa.
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Bairbre Flood (The Better Life) is an Irish writer and journalist. Her story Fejira // to cross (also set in the Jungle camp in Calais) won first prize in the Fish Memoir Competition 2019. Judge Chrissie Gittins described it as ‘a vivid, clear-eyed account which witnesses the facts of these precarious ‘blown-apart lives struggling to start again’ and makes them plain to see.’ @bairbreflood
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Ingrid Fagundez (I Believe) is a Brazilian writer. She studied Journalism and has worked as a reporter at Folha de S.Paulo, the biggest Brazilian newspaper, and for the BBC. She has a MA in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction from the University of East Anglia and currently teaches at Instituto Vera Cruz, a creative writing institute in São Paulo. Her writing focuses on aspects of faith, nature, race and class. Ingrid is working on her first non-fiction book, about the changes within Amazon mythology in light of the rainforest’s destruction.
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Mark Cocker (Dark Sunlight, or My Favourite Predator) is a naturalist and author of creative non-fiction, who has written for The Guardian newspaper for more than 30 years. His 12 books include works of biography, history, literary criticism and memoir. They include Our Place (2018) about the fate of British nature in the twentieth century, which was shortlisted for the Thwaites- Wainwright and the Richard Jefferies Prizes. Between them his last four books have been shortlisted for 9 awards. Crow Country won the New Angle Prize in 2009 and A Claxton Diary won the East Anglian Book Award in 2019.
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Laura Carroll (The Riddle of the Sphinx) is a writer/artist/international development wonk based in the Washington, DC area. She has lived/worked/ traveled in 20+ countries and counting. Nearly everything she writes relates to fairy tales in some manner, and she enjoys subtly queering everything she touches. Her previous (non-fiction) work has appeared in Global Impressions and Renaissance Magazine, as well as various travel writing websites. Most of her fiction and poetry still lives in a drawer.
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Lily Bungay (Deeper than Blue) is a London-based documentary photographer inspired by nature, close-knit communities and those who live in harmony with the land. Her gentle approach towards her subjects allows stories beneath the surface to arise. With all that she does, Lily aims to shine a light on the beauty that exists within our world. Lily was awarded ‘Rising Star of the Year’ by Amateur Photographer in 2019. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post online and BBC News. Lily recently completed an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography. lilybungay.com
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Colwill Brown (Twin Wrecks) is an instructor and consultant at GrubStreet in Boston and an MFA candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the recipient of the Wellspring House Emerging Writer Fellowship and the Henry Blackwell Essay Prize, and has received fellowships and support from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Boston College, Kansas State University, the Anderson Center for Disciplinary Studies, and GrubStreet. Colwill’s work is forthcoming in Granta magazine.
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