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Anonymous

The “Anonymous” byline is used when mentors wish to keep their name offline for reasons of personal security.
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Taher Adel

Taher Adel is a British-Bahraini poet, novelist, and spoken word artist. He holds an MA in creative writing and poetry from the University of East Anglia and a BEng in…
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James Attlee

James Attlee is a nonfiction writer and editor, based in Oxford, UK. He’s worked in publishing for 30 years, teaches creative writing in both university and community settings and from…
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Rukman Ragas

Rukman Ragas is Tamil writer of speculative fiction from Sri Lanka. Their work, exploring language, colonialism, and narratives, have appeared in venues such as khoreo, Apex, and The Baltimore Review.…
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Patricia Kaishian

Patricia Kaishian holds a Ph.D. in mycology from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science & Forestry. In addition to numerous scientific publications, she’s published nonfiction essays…
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Cindy Ellen Hill

Cindy Ellen Hill is the author of “Mosaic: Poems from Travels in Italy” (Wild Dog Press 2024), “Elegy for the Trees” (Kelsay Books 2022), and “Wild Earth and Other Sonnets” (Antrim Press 2021). Her collection “Love in…
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Anya Achtenberg

Anya Achtenberg Sefara-Rabi is a fiction writer and poet whose publications include the novel “Blue Earth,” the novella “The Stories of Devil-Girl,” poetry collections “The Stone of Language” and “I…
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Charles Ellenbogen

Charles Ellenbogen has been teaching English for more than 30 years. He has taught in Chicago, Nashville, London, Baltimore, and the Twin Cities, and is now teaching in Cleveland. In…
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Rakgadi-Prisca Mohlahlane

Rakgadi-Prisca Mohlahlane says, “Being part of We Are not Numbers as a mentor is like an extension of my people’s struggle. We lived under an occupation called apartheid, which was…
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Laura Albast

Laura Albast is a Palestinian journalist, photographer, translator, and media analyst. She served as the senior editor of digital strategy and communications at the Institute for Palestine Studies–USA in Washington,…
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Anita Barrows

Anita Barrows is a poet, novelist, and translator from French, Italian, and German. She has had many volumes of poetry published, the four most recent (and a fifth to appear…
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Marcus Sanigar

Based in Berkshire, UK, Marcus Sanigar has worked as a freelance copywriter, copyeditor, and ghostwriter for over 10 years. As well as creating all manner of digital content, he works…
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