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 […]

Kumkum Amin

Kumkum Amin worked in international public health for 18 years during which time she lived in Ramallah and East Jerusalem for almost four years, working with Palestinian women and their families in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In addition to a graduate degree in business she has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative […]

Benjamin Canyon Gass

Benjamin Canyon is an artist and entrepreneur dedicated to helping people connect with hope, possibility, and human potential. He believes the story of humanity is still being written, and that art and creativity have an essential role to play in shaping our future for the better. His writing explores the beauty and contradictions of human […]