authors

Abby Seethoff

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Al King

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Al King is a formerly incarcerated writer in the Bay Area. He is creating a transitional housing program in Oakland for people leaving long-term incarceration. You can reach him at kingzworld2017@gmail.com

Alisdair Hodgson

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Alisdair Hodgson lives and writes in Scotland.

Andrew Schwartz

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Andrew Schwartz co-edits Mangoprism. He is also a freelance journalist who writes about labor and political movements.

Ben Zelic

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Ben Zelic is an English composition instructor and MFA candidate in fiction at Colorado State University. His work can be found in the Denver Post and Moon City Review.

Betsy Robinson

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Betsy Robinson is a journalist, book editor, and novelist. Her latest novel is The Last Will & Testament of Zelda McFigg, a rollicking celebration of all of humanity's worst qualities.

Brenton Washington, under the pen name Taylor Dye, is the author of four novels, including the most recent in The Intermediaries series, The Intermediaries: Saint Nicholas. He is also the creator of the Trustice Jeffries superhero series, with the first book, Fear Into Darkness, available now.

Briana Una McGuckin has cerebral palsy, a concerningly large collection of perfume oils, and an MFA from Western Connecticut State University. Her debut novel, On Good Authority, is a kink-positive, below-stairs Victorian Gothic, released on October 11th , 2022.

Brock Stuessi

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Brock Stuessi studies ethnomusicology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Celia Gurney

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Celia Gurney is a writer finishing up the UCLA Professional Program in Writing for Television. If your TV show needs an assistant of any kind, please contact her immediately at celiagurney.com.

Cheyann Harris

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Cheyann Harris is a journalist from Brooklyn, New York that writes about pop culture and entertainment news.

Claire McNerney

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Claire McNerney writes, creates, and performs in her home state of California, where she currently attends UCSD. She enjoys, among other things, the post-sunset glow. Her writing appears in Los Suelos, Proton Reader, and Cossmass Infinities. 

Corey Devon Arthur is an incarcerated writer and artist who is part of the Empowerment Avenue collective, with his work published in venues including the Marshall Project and Writing Class Radio. He will exhibit his art at a New York City gallery in early 2023. You can check out more of his work on Instagram and Medium.

Corinne Engber

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Corinne Engber is a genre fiction writer and professional working stiff. She lives in Boston with her wife and cat. Find her on Tumblr @synonymsfordismember.

D.A. Cairns

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Heavy metal lover and cricket tragic, D.A. Cairns lives on the south coast of News South Wales. He works as a freelance writer, has had over 100 short stories published, and has authored seven novels, and a superficial and unscientific memoir, I Used to be an Animal Lover.

Dabin Han

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Dabin Han is a barista and illustrator and thinks she may live in Seattle for at least another year. She hopes to make a living by drawing pictures.

Danny Schwartz

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Danny Schwartz is the editor-emeritus of Mangoprism. He was a music and culture writer and has contributed to Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, GQ, and The Ringer.

Dominique Cherie

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Dominique Cherie is the author of the series  I Never Saw My Dog Again. Dominique has taken to writing children's books, working as a Doula and Birth Educator, while developing a small hobby farm.

E.R. Zarevich

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E.R. Zarevich is an English teacher and writer from Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Her literary criticism has appeared in a number of journals, including (but not limited to) Shrapnel Magazine, The Monitor, and Hamilton Review of Books. She is also a writer of articles and fiction.

Edward A. Dougherty lives and works in upstate New York and is the author of 11 collections of poetry, the most recent of which is 10048, about the World Trade Center and Grace Street, a suite of 12 sequences. His latest book is Journey Work: Crafting a Life of Poetry & Spirit, essays that trace his travels including his years as a peace volunteer in Hiroshima, his development as a writer, and his spiritual seeking.

Eli Sugerman

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Eli Sugerman is a writer living in Chicago.

Emma Baker

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Emma Baker is a freelance writer and a graduate of NYU’s Cultural Reporting and Criticism program. She writes about consumer culture and self-image, and lives in Brooklyn.

Eric Farwell

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Eric Farwell has written for Gulf Coast, GQ, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney's, Vulture, and others.

Fouad Mami

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Fouad Mami is a literature and history scholar from the University of Adrar, Algeria. His work has been featured in academic and other outlets.

Frankie Gerraty

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Frankie Gerraty is a writer and biologist based in Santa Cruz, California.

Grace Little

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Grace Little is a Seattle-based writer who is thinking about what it means to be a person and the joys, devastations and obligations that accompany it.

Grace O'Neill

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Grace O'Neill is a freelance writer based in London.

Heather Motro

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Heather Motro studies environmental science at Clemson University.

Hunter Liguore

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Hunter Liguore is the award-winning author of Whole World Inside Nan’s Soup. She teaches writing at Lesley University’s MFA program.

Jack Noland

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Jack Noland is a writer who lives in New York.

James Gold

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James Gold is from the culturally agnostic New Jersey suburbs. He apologizes for this and hopes you won’t hold it against him.

Jamie Li

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Jamie Li is a writer, marketer, and narrative strategist based in Oakland, CA. Her writing has also appeared in Slant’d Magazine and Ramen Forever.  

Jayson Buford

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Jayson Buford is a New York-based lifelong rap fan and music journalist for Passion of the Weiss, Consequence of Sound, and other publications. He hosts New Music Tuesdays every Tuesday night on the Spotify room app. He misses the time when Jay-Z wasn’t a billionaire.

Jennifer Beebe

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Jennifer Sullivan Beebe is a writer in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She is currently at work on her first memoir.

Jeudiel Martinez

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Jeudiel Martinez is a Venezuelan writer and researcher currently expatriated in Brazil. Most of his work involves Venezuelan and Latin American history, politics, and pop culture.

Jillian B. Briglia is a Portland, Oregon-born writer living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in the Blue Monday Review, Hooligan Magazine, Driftwood Press, Eunoia Review, and elsewhere.

John Rhoades

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John Rhoades is a writer who thinks 'alright' is the proper spelling. He might never be published. So it goes.

Joshua N. Miller

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Joshua N. Miller is a cultural critic aiming to dissect prevalent social issues through his analysis of comic books and pop culture. He’s been published in Longreads and the Daily Beast, and his work is available at his website.

Julia Mason

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Julia Mason is an artist and writer living in Seattle.

Julius Koch

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Julius Koch is a graduate student in economics and political philosophy based in Hamburg, Germany.

Kameron Dunn

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Kameron Dunn (he/him) is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and a freelance journalist writing on small-town culture in Texas and adjacent regions. His work has been featured in Texas Highways and Slate among other publications.

Kasimma

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Kasimma is from Igboland (obodo ndị dike). She’s the author of All Shades of Iberibe (Croatian: Portret Za Dar-Mar), the 2022 Nikky Finney Fellow, and the Humanities Graduate Fellow at the University of Utah. Her writings appear in Solarpunk, LitHubMeet Cute, and many others. She’s been awarded writers’ residencies across Africa, Asia, and Europe, including the prestigious Wole Soyinka Foundation Writers’ Residency. Kasimma is an alumnus of Chimamanda Adichie’s creative writing workshop and a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Kentucky.

Katie Darrow

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Katie Darrow is an outdoor educator and dedicated coffee drinker based in Bozeman, Montana.

Kwaneta Harris

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Kwaneta Harris is an incarcerated writer in solitary confinement in Texas focusing on the intersection of race, gender and place. She focuses on illuminating how different incarceration is for women. She is working on a book about youth transferred to adult solitary confinement.

Likam Ky

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Likam Ky is a writer and non-profit worker based in Montreal, with a love for media, economics, and history.

Lizzie Wheeler

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Lizzie Wheeler works in fashion in New York.

Lukas Becker

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Lukas Becker is a German screenwriter, currently living and working in Munich.

Mackenzie Scibetta is a lot of things: writer, English teacher, marketing assistant, language learner. For the time being she is based in Ontario.

Marie Dohrs

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Marie Dohrs is an obsessive home cook in Seattle, regularly overexerting herself and her micro-studio kitchen and posting the results on Instagram. Find her elaborate toasts, and her rambling captions there.

Martina Pansze

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Martina Pansze is basking in the glow of her Happy Lamp in Seattle, WA.

Meech Buckley

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Demetrius “Meech” Buckley is a writer from Detroit who has been published in Michigan Quarterly Review, RHINO, and PCAP. Currently he is part of the Empowerment Avenue program and is very grateful for writing.

Nadir Ovcina

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Nadir Ovcina is a Muslim Croat who lives in Walla Walla, WA. He works for Whitman College, and is editing his book on humor. 

Naomi Blausapp

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Naomi Blausapp is an artist based out of New Orleans. She specializes in illustration, graphic design, and makeup artistry.

Nick Gallagher

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Nick Gallagher is a Brooklyn-based art and culture reporter from North Carolina. He is a graduate of the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

Nidhi Achanta

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Nidhi Achanta is a high school freshman and three-year national level speller in Renton, Washington.

Pacia Linde

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Pacia Linde is a writer living in Gresham, Oregon.

Paul Schorin

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Paul Schorin is a Brooklyn-based writer with no jump shot.

Peggy Li

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Peggy Li is a tetris fan and succulent mother who lives in New York

Prashantha Lachanna is a South African chef and writer, residing in Taiwan.

Rachel Gallagher

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Rachel Gallagher is an aspiring writer by night and English teacher by day based in Valencia, Spain.

Rachel Glover

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Rachel Glover is a writer living in Portland, Maine.

Rhône Grajcar

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Rhône Grajcar is an outdoorsman and Orientalist-in-denial. He is based in Idaho.

Sam Dunnington

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Sam Dunnington is an MFA student in Missoula, Montana.

Sam Fisher

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Sam Fisher lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He loves living alone and only occasionally thinks about what would happen if he were to choke on his food or slip in the shower.

Sandra Stevens

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Sandra Stevens is a first-generation college student pursuing a BFA in Creative Writing. In her spare time, she dispenses treats to the neighborhood canines and raises money for animal rescues.

Skyler R. Marshall is a writer and book collector from the Bay Area, currently working in Alaska.

Sophia Li

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Sophia Li is an American-based freelance writer. Raised in a fully immigrant household, she writes about our society’s cultural problems. She has previously written for many international magazines, such as LAPP and Broadview.

Tavish Fenbert

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Tavish Fenbert is based in Seattle, WA and likes biking to work and urban fruit gleaning.

Tywen Kelly

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Tywen Kelly is a student of media ecology. He is currently self-teaching himself for a year, after which he will award himself an MFA.

Wendy Gerlach

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Wendy Gerlach is a fledgling writer currently studying fiction with the Stanford online certificate program.

Zary Fekete

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Zary Fekete has worked as a teacher in Hungary, Moldova, Romania, China, and Cambodia. They currently live and work as a writer in Minnesota. They have previously been published in Goats Milk Mag, Shady Grove Literary, Journal of Expressive Writing, Ginosko Literary Journal, SIC Journal, Reflex Fiction, Potato Soup Journal, Cholla Needles, Rabid Oak, Every Day Fiction, and WINK. They enjoy reading, podcasts, and long, slow films.