Patricia Sarrafian Ward

Patricia Sarrafian Ward was born and raised during the civil war in Beirut, Lebanon, and moved to the U.S. when she was 18. Much of her work explores themes of civilian wartime suffering, emigration, and tensions around nationality and identity. Her father was American and her mother is Lebanese of Armenian/Danish heritage. Having grown up surrounded […]

David Neel

David Neel teaches mathematics at Seattle University, including history of mathematics and quantitative reasoning for non-math majors. He is also a published writer of creative nonfiction and mathematical research. He has mentored students writing for his courses and is excited to help writers continue to find their own voice and build and strengthen their ideas. […]

Ramón J. Stern

Ramón J. Stern is a professional translator and interpreter specializing in Brazil and Latin America. He recently completed a Fulbright in Brazil on Moroccan Jewish migration to the Amazon, and is an independent scholar of Mizrahi Jewish communities from the Middle East and North Africa. He has served as a medical interpreter, translation project specialist […]

Claire Ruppert

Claire Ruppert is a seasoned educator who dedicated her early career to nurturing young minds as an English teacher at esteemed institutions in Washington, D.C., including Emerson Preparatory, Elizabeth Seton, and Duke Ellington School for the Arts. Her passion for literature and editing extends beyond the classroom, as she also tutored English as a Foreign […]

Liz Holzman

Liz Holzman has a lifelong interest in leftwing politics and social justice and spent her first 10 professional years working as a social worker in the Detroit area.  For many years, she worked as a research administrator at the University of Michigan, managing programs and research projects in academic medicine. Liz also spent 6 years as […]

Shoshana Olidort

Shoshana Olidort is a writer, editor, and translator. Her work has appeared in Asymptote, the Columbia Journal, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and World Literature Today, among other outlets. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University and is a prose editor for the Poetry Foundation. See Shoshana’s Linktree and website. Current as of December […]

Chase Berggrun

Chase Berggrun is a poet and educator and the author of R E D (Birds LLC, 2018), and the chapbook Somewhere a seagull (After Hours Editions, 2023). Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She received an MFA in poetry from New York University in 2015. She teaches at Hunter College and in the MFA program at […]

Pichchenda Bao 

Pichchenda Bao is a Cambodian American poet and writer, infant survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide, daughter of refugees, and stay-at-home feminist mother. Her work has been widely published, featured in international art exhibitions, made into limited-edition broadsides by the Center for Book Arts, been part of numerous audio poetry projects, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize […]

Natalie Jabbar

Natalie Jabbar is a California-born writer of Palestinian, Syrian, and Iraqi heritage. She is the associate director of Stanford University’s Public Humanities Initiative, which helps faculty and students engage with audiences beyond the university. Her writing has appeared in Salon, Serious Eats, JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association), the New York Times, Well+Good, […]

Candida Lacey

Candida Lacey has worked in publishing since completing her Ph.D. in 1985. As an editor and publisher, and now as a literary agent, she has spent many years mentoring and working closely with new and experienced authors, and commissioning books that highlight marginalized lives and perspectives. She has published books on some of the most pressing […]

Saria Rosenhaj

Saria Rosenhaj (she/they) is a Philadelphia-based writer, educator, and multidisciplinary artist. Saria graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a bachelors in Literatures in English and a minor in creative writing. Since then, they have worked for local theaters as a stage props fabricator, volunteered with community arts organizations, and taught children aged three to twelve […]

Chana Basha Helfand

Chana Basha Helfand is an author/illustrator originally from Turtle Island (U.S.A.). She started drawing and writing in her childhood and they both proved to be a salvation. She’s been an ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) teacher for the past 20 years. She started off teaching immigrants and refugees in Philadelphia, and from there […]