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HANNAH DELA CRUZ ABRAMS received the 2013 Whiting Writers Award for her novella The Man Who Danced with Dolls and her memoir-in-progress The Following Sea. She has been further supported by a Rona Jaffe National Literary Award and a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Oxford American,StoryQuarterly, Orion, and the Southern Humanities Review, among others. Abrams currently teaches in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
SAMIYA BASHIR, called a “dynamic, shape-shifting machine of perpetual motion,” by Diego Báez, is a poet, writer, librettist, performer, and multi-media poet whose solo and collaborative work has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, screened, experienced, and Oxford comma’d from Berlin to Düsseldorf, Amsterdam to Accra, Florence to Rome, and across the United States.
Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. Bashir is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Field Theories, winner of the Oregon Book Award.
Bashir’s honors include the Rome Prize in Literature, the Pushcart Prize, New York Council for the Arts and Oregon’s Regional Arts & Culture Council fellowships, among numerous other awards, grants, and residencies. A sought-after editor, Bashir most recently served as Associate Professor at Reed College, and executive director of Lambda Literary. Currently the June Jordan Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, Bashir lives in Harlem, NYC.
SIENNA GONZALES is known most prominently by her online pseudonym, Somewhere in June. She is a queer artist, writer, and arts educator of mixed Mexican and Chitimachan heritage. She earned her bachelor’s degree through UCLA’s Fine Arts program and received additional training in Social Emotional Arts facilitation through the Arts & Healing Initiative. Sienna’s work merges surrealism, metaphor, and bold illustration to explore the bittersweet, lovely ache of being alive. She creates emotionally resonant, symbolic worlds inhabited by recurring animal figures to convey complex emotions that are difficult to distill into words.
She has illustrated projects for companies like Nike, Xbox, and Google, and nonprofits such as Brightline Defense, Evergreen Action, and The Giving List. Her paintings have also been featured at prominent Los Angeles-based galleries such as Giant Robot in Sawtelle and Godspeed Labs in Echo Park.
LINDA HOGAN, Chickasaw, is an international public speaker and writer of many award- winning books, including Mean Spirit (published by Pantheon, winner of the Oklahoma Book Award and The Mountains and Plains Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize); Solar Storms, (published by Scribner, finalist for the International Impact Award and New York Times Notable Book of Year); and Power, (published by Norton, finalist for the International Impact Award). Her poetry books include DARK. SWEET. New and Selected Poems (published by Coffee House Press), Rounding the Human Corners (published by Coffee House Press, nominated for the 2008 Pulitzer); and A History of Kindness (published by Torrey House, winner of Colorado and Oklahoma book awards). Hogan’s nonfiction includes titles such as Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World (Norton); The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir (Norton); and The Radiant Lives of Animals (Beacon Press, winner of the National Book Foundation Award for Science Literature). Her next book of poetry, Where Rivers Meet, is forthcoming from Scribner.
Hogan’s writing contains environmental and indigenous knowledge and science, and illuminates enduring Native spirituality. Throughout her career, she has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, The Wordcraft Circle, and The Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association. Other awards include the 2016 THOREAU PRIZE from PEN, a 2018 Native Arts and Culture Award, and the 2022 Riverside University of California Lifetime and Achievement Award. Hogan was inducted into the Chickasaw Nation Hall of Fame in 2007 for her contributions to indigenous literature. In 2023 she received an Honorary PhD from the University of Colorado for Humane Letters.
Her next collection of poetry, Where Rivers Meet, is forthcoming from Scribner in 2027.
MARGARET KILLJOY is a transfeminine author, podcaster, and musician. Her fiction works include The Sapling Cage, Escape From Incel Island, and the Danielle Cain series among others. She is the host of the radical history podcast Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff and co-host of the individual and community preparedness podcast Live Like the World is Dying. She lives in central Appalachia on a mountain with her dog.
EDDY KOSIK received his MFA in Creative Writing from New York University where he was a Whitehill Fellow. Born and raised in central Pennsylvania, Eddy’s first novel is in progress. He lives in Philadelphia.
JOYELLE MCSWEENEY is the author of ten books of poetry, drama and prose, a well-known critic, and a vital publisher of international literature in translation. A Guggenheim Fellow, McSweeney’s recent book, Toxicon and Arachne (Nightboat Books, 2020), was called “frightening and brilliant” by Dan Chiasson in the New Yorker and earned her the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her 2014 essay collection, The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, is widely regarded as a visionary work of eco-criticism. Her debut poetry volume, The Red Bird, inaugurated the Fence Modern Poets Series in 2001, while her verse play, Dead Youth, or the Leaks, inaugurated the Leslie Scalapino Prize for Innovative Women Performance Artists in 2014. She lives in South Bend, Indiana and teaches at Notre Dame.
SARA MICHAS-MARTIN is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and teaches creative writing at Stanford in collaboration with the Doerr School of Sustainability. She is the author of Gray Matter, winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize and nominated for a Colorado Book Award. Her work has been supported by fellowships and grants from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Arts, and the Marble House Project. Her work was selected as a notable essay in the 2023 editions of Best American Essays and Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies, and has recently appeared in the American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the New England Review, Conduit and Terrain.org.
DAVID NAIMON is the host of the literary podcast Between the Covers and co-author with Ursula K. Le Guin of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, a finalist for the Hugo Award and winner of the 2019 Locus Award in nonfiction. His writing can be found in Orion, AGNI, Boulevard, and Black Warrior Review, has received a Pushcart prize, been reprinted in Best Spiritual Literature and The Best Small Fictions and been cited in Best American Mystery & Suspense, Best American Travel Writing and Best American Essays.
MARIA ZOCCOLA is a queer Southern writer with deep roots in the Mississippi Delta. She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Helen of Troy, 1993 was published in 2025 with Scribner, and was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, recommended in The New Yorker’s Best New Books column, and described by Publisher’s Weekly in their starred review as “by turns hilarious and provocative, an affecting character study and modern mythic retelling.”