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Carlina Duan

July 31, 2024

Carlina Duan is a poet, educator, and scholar. She is the author of I Wore My Blackest Hair (Little A, 2017); and Alien Miss (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2021), a finalist for the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prize and the Midwest Book … Read more

Jared Lemus

July 31, 2024

Jared Lemus is the author of two works of fiction forthcoming with Ecco-HarperCollins. His story collection, Guatemalan Rhapsody, will be published 3/4/2025 and his novel will be published in 2027. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Story, The Pinch, … Read more

Julia Ridley Smith

August 31, 2021

Julia Ridley Smith is the author of The Sum of Trifles, a memoir in essays, and Sex Romp Gone Wrong, a short story collection. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Ecotone, Electric Literature, the New England Review, and The Southern Review, among other … Read more

Gabriel Bump

July 30, 2021

Gabriel Bump grew up in South Shore, Chicago. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His debut novel, Everywhere You Don’t Belong, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and has won the Ernest J. Gaines … Read more

Karen Tucker

July 8, 2020

Karen Tucker is the author of the novel BEWILDERNESS (Catapult 2021), which was longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, shortlisted for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize, and chosen as an Indie Next Pick. Tucker’s short fiction can be found … Read more

Matt Randal O’Wain

October 14, 2019

Matt Randal O’Wain teaches both fiction and creative nonfiction in the creative writing program at Carolina where his former students have gone on to enroll at prestigious MFA programs, such as UNC Wilmington, NC STATE, UNC Greensboro, George Mason University. … Read more

Tyree Daye

July 29, 2019

Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina. He is the author of two poetry collections River Hymns 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner and Cardinal forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press 2020. Daye is a 2017 Ruth Lilly Finalist and Cave … Read more

Adam O’Fallon Price

October 25, 2018

Adam O’Fallon Price is the author of two novels, The Grand Tour (Doubleday, 2016) and The Hotel Neversink (Tin House Books, 2019). His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, VICE, The Kenyon Review Online, Glimmer Train, Narrative, EPOCH, The Iowa Review, and … Read more

Stephanie Elizondo Griest

August 27, 2018

Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a creative nonfiction writer from the Texas-Mexico borderlands. Her six books document her travels to more than 50 countries and have won multiple awards, including a Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting. She has performed in … Read more

Ross White

August 27, 2018

Ross White is the author of Charm Offensive, winner of the 2019 Sexton Prize, and three chapbooks: How We Came Upon the Colony, The Polite Society, and Valley of Want. His manuscript in progress, Guilt Ledger, was selected by Edward Hirsch to receive the Larry Levis … Read more