Writer of the Week: Jinwoo Chong

Benjamin LeeMay 11, 2021

Jinwoo Chong twitter: @jinwoochong Jinwoo Chong's short fiction has appeared in The Southern Review, The Florida Review, CRAFT, and Salamander, and has rece...

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Writer of the Week: Despy Boutris

Benjamin LeeApril 24, 2021

Despy Boutris twitter: @itsdbouts Despy Boutris is a California poet with work in Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, The Gettysburg R...

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Writer of the Week: Maya C. Popa

Benjamin LeeMarch 20, 2021

Maya C. Popa twitter: @Maya Popa Maya C. Popa is a Romanian-American writer and editor based in NYC. She is the author of American Faith (Sarabande, 2...

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Writer of the Week: Maria Isabelle Carlos

Benjamin LeeFebruary 28, 2021

Maria Isabelle Carlos twitter: @mariacarlospoet Maria Isabelle Carlos is a writer from Missouri, a daughter of Filipino immigrants, a sister, a proud auntie, ...

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Writer of the Week: Aldo Amparán

Benjamin LeeFebruary 13, 2021

Aldo Amparán twitter: @skygoneout  Aldo Amparán is a poet, writer, & translator born & raised in the sister cities of El Paso, TX, USA, & Ciudad J...

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Writer of the Week: Melissa Wiley

Benjamin LeeJanuary 31, 2021

Melissa Wiley twitter: @HeyMelissaWiley I’m mostly an essayist who has to build a house—an essay, a book—for the sake of tearing it down again. In other words...

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Writer of the Week: Leonora Desar

Benjamin LeeJanuary 23, 2021

Leonora Desar twitter: @LeonoraDesar   Leonora Desar feels odd writing this in third person (but is secretly enjoying it). Normally, she’s a first-per...

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Writer of the Week: Miah Jeffra

Benjamin LeeJanuary 17, 2021

Miah Jeffra twitter: @JeffraMiah Miah Jeffra is a writer, curator, educator and culture jammer from Baltimore, currently living in San Francisco. They a...

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Writer of the Week

Benjamin LeeJanuary 10, 2021

Marianne Chan twitter: @marianneLchan   Marianne Chan is the author of All Heathens from Sarabande Books. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming i...

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Benjamin LeeNovember 14, 2020

Gabrielle Drolet twitter: @gabrielledrolet Gabrielle Drolet is a writer and a dog person. She lives in small town Nova Scotia, Canada, with her girlfriend and...

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Benjamin LeeOctober 25, 2020

Jessie Janeshek twitter: @BlondeBitters Jessie Janeshek lives in the woods of West Virginia. Her full-length poetry collections are MADCAP (Stalking Horse Pre...

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Benjamin LeeOctober 10, 2020

Tolu Agbelusi twitter: @toluagbelusi   Tolu Agbelusi is a Nigerian British poet, playwright, educator and Lawyer who is based in London, UK. A 2016 Ca...

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Writer of the Week

Benjamin LeeSeptember 25, 2020

Shazia Hafiz Ramji twitter: @Shazia_R Shazia Hafiz Ramji is a Kenyan Canadian writer of South Asian, Persian, and Irish descent. She lives on the unceded terr...

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Benjamin LeeSeptember 13, 2020

Gabrielle Grace Hogan twitter: @gabrielleghogan Gabrielle Grace Hogan is a poet from St. Louis, Missouri. Currently she lives in Austin, Texas as she purs...

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Benjamin LeeAugust 5, 2020

Lynn Melnick twitter: @LynnMelnick   Lynn Melnick is the author of the poetry collections Refusenik (forthcoming 2022), Landscape with Sex and Violenc...

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Writer of the Week

Benjamin LeeJuly 24, 2020

Esteban Rodríguez twitter: @estebanjrod11 Esteban Rodríguez is the author of the poetry collections Dusk & Dust, Crash Course, In Bloom, (Dis)placement,...

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Benjamin LeeJune 27, 2020

Joy Priest twitter: @dalai_mama_ Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, Sept. 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Her poem...

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Benjamin LeeJune 19, 2020

Nicholas Russell twitter: @o_rinocoflow Nicholas Russell is an emerging Black and Filipino writer based in Las Vegas. Currently an undergrad in the jo...

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Benjamin LeeMay 23, 2020

Michael Akuchie twitter: @Michael_Akuchie  Michael Akuchie is an emerging interviewer/poet of Igbo-Esan descent who lives and studies in Lagos and Benin-City,...

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Writer of the Week

Benjamin LeeMay 9, 2020

Arielle Tipa twitter: @sadflowerpoems Arielle Tipa is a writer/poet based in Long Island, New York. Arielle’s poems, herself defining some as “bioerotic”, are...

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Benjamin LeeApril 25, 2020

Satya Dash twitter: @satya043 Satya Dash's poems have been published or are forthcoming in Wildness, Redivider, Passages North, Cosmonauts Avenue, The Florida...

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Benjamin LeeApril 18, 2020

Micaela Walley twitter: @micaela_poetry Micaela Walley is an MFA candidate at the University of Baltimore. She is a poet and essayist who has published person...

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Benjamin LeeMarch 21, 2020

Jeremiah Moriarty twitter: @miahmoriarty Jeremiah Moriarty is a writer from Minnesota. A queer farm kid, he received his B.A. in English from Carleton College...

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Benjamin LeeMarch 6, 2020

Tanaya Winder twitter: @tanayawinder   Tanaya Winder is an author, singer / songwriter, poet, motivational speaker and educator who comes from an inte...

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Benjamin LeeFebruary 29, 2020

K.B. Carle twitter: @kbcarle K.B. Carle is an editor for FlashBack Fiction who lives and writes outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned her MFA from...

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Benjamin LeeFebruary 15, 2020

Bailey Cohen-Vera twitter: @BaileyC213 Bailey Cohen-Vera is an Ecuadorian-American poet, essayist, and book reviewer studying English Literature and Political...

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Benjamin LeeFebruary 7, 2020

Eva Griffin twitter: @evagriff Eva Griffin is a poet living in Dublin and a UCD graduate with an MA in Gender, Sexuality & Culture. She is a founding memb...

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Benjamin LeeJanuary 4, 2020

Corey Farrenkopf twitter: @CoreyFarrenkopf Corey Farrenkopf is a writer living on Cape Cod with his wife, Gabrielle. He is also the assistant director of Stur...

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Writer of the Week

Benjamin LeeDecember 21, 2019

Domenica Martinello twitter: @domenicahope   Domenica Martinello is a writer born and raised in Montreal, QC, where she is currently based. She's also...

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Writer of the Week

Benjamin LeeNovember 30, 2019

Marisa Silva-Dunbar twitter: @theSweetMaris Marisa is a latina poet, born and raised in New Mexico. She attended the University of New Mexico as an undergrad ...

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