Writer of the Week

Benjamin LeeApril 13, 2018

Angie Sijun Lou twitter: @kuntalope Angie Sijun Lou is a Chinese American writer from Seattle. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Ninth Lett...

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Benjamin LeeApril 5, 2018

Jose Hernandez Diaz twitter: @JoseHernandezDz Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He holds degrees in English and creative writing from the Unive...

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Benjamin LeeMarch 30, 2018

Amy Saul-Zerby twitter: @amyszzz Amy Saul-Zerby is editor in chief of Voicemail Poems, an online spoken word based literary magazine founded some years ago by...

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Benjamin LeeMarch 23, 2018

Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice twitter: @thelegitKAR Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice is the editor of Split Lip Magazine, a literary journal publishing online monthly and in pri...

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Benjamin LeeMarch 15, 2018

Phillip B. Williams twitter: @PBW_Poet Phillip B. Williams is a Chicago, Illinois native. He is the author of the book of poems Thief in the Interior (Alice J...

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Benjamin LeeMarch 9, 2018

C Pam Zhang twitter: cpamzhang C Pam Zhang writes about women: angry, ostracized, searching, strange, and beastly. (She's not very interested in writing about...

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Benjamin LeeMarch 1, 2018

Analicia Sotelo twitter: @AnaliciaSotelo Analicia Sotelo is a Houston-based Latinx poet who loves a good thrift shop. Her newly released c...

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Benjamin LeeFebruary 16, 2018

Jessica Morey-Collins twitter: @cautiousmonster Jessica Morey-Collins is a type-2 bipolar poet, educator, and planning student living in the Pacific Northwest...

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Benjamin LeeFebruary 9, 2018

Alyssa Jordan twitter: @ajordan901 Alyssa Jordan is a freelance writer in California. She loves genre-bending work, and characters that do terrible, relatable...

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Benjamin LeeFebruary 2, 2018

Kate Folk twitter: @katefolk Originally from Iowa and without siblings, Kate Folk once lived in NYC and has now lived in San Francisco for a decade, wow. She ha...

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Benjamin LeeJanuary 26, 2018

Ana Hurtado twitter: @ponciovicario Ana Hurtado writes stories and poems about Quito, her hometown, and the city’s colonial aftermath. She earned an MFA in Cr...

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Benjamin LeeJanuary 19, 2018

Lizzie Harris  twitter: @HeyLizzieHarris  Lizzie Harris is a poet living in Brooklyn, New York. Her first collection, Stop Wanting (CSU Poetry, 2014), was sel...

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Benjamin LeeJanuary 12, 2018

Emily Hockaday twitter: @E_Hockaday Emily Alta Hockaday is a poet and editor living in Queens. Her forthcoming chapbook, Beach Vocabulary, will be out with Re...

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Benjamin LeeJanuary 5, 2018

Jenessa Abrams  twitter: @JenessaAbrams  Jenessa Abrams is a Norman Mailer Fiction Fellow and Researcher in Residence at the New York Public Library. She is a...

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Benjamin LeeDecember 29, 2017

Nadia Gerassimenko twitter: @tepidautumn Nadia Gerassimenko is Founding Editor at Moonchild Magazine and Managing Editor at Luna Luna Magazine by day. She mus...

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Benjamin LeeDecember 22, 2017

Derrick Austin twitter: @ParadiseLaust   Derrick Austin is the author of Trouble the Water (BOA Editions, 2016) selected by Mary Syzbist for the A. Po...

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Benjamin LeeDecember 15, 2017

Janice Lee twitter: @diddioz Janice Lee writes about the filmic long take, slowness, interspecies communication, the apocalypse, architectural spaces, and the...

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Benjamin LeeDecember 10, 2017

Trevor Kaiser Allred twitter: @TrevKAllred   Trevor Kaiser Allred is a writer, arts advocate, and community builder. He writes with the belief that li...

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Benjamin LeeDecember 1, 2017

Nina Li Coomes  twitter: @nlcoomes    Nina Li Coomes is a Japanese and American writer born in Nagoya, raised in Chicago, and currently resides in Bos...

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Benjamin LeeNovember 24, 2017

Kailey Tedesco twitter:  @kaileytedesco Kailey Tedesco lives with her fiancé and two cats (Coraline & Marzipan) right next door to at least one hundred tr...

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Benjamin LeeNovember 16, 2017

Hazem Fahmy  twitter: @haz_fahmy  Hazem Fahmy is a poet and critic from Cairo. He is an Honors graduate of Wesleyan University’s College of Letters where he s...

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Benjamin LeeNovember 9, 2017

Tasha Coryell twitter: @tashaaaaaaa Tasha Coryell writes and teaches in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She is working on a novel about murderous sorority girls, a young...

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Benjamin LeeNovember 3, 2017

Emily Vizzo twitter: @EmilyVizzo Emily Vizzo is a writer and educator. She previously covered Congress for the Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C....

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Benjamin LeeOctober 26, 2017

Cynthia Manick twitter: @cmanick   Brooklyn born and raised, Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). With a graduate de...

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Benjamin LeeOctober 20, 2017

Ashley Harris  twitter: @Alchemistnegra Ashley Harris is a poet and aspiring doctor who graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She stu...

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Benjamin LeeOctober 12, 2017

Rohan Chhetri twitter: @rohancht Rohan Chhetri is a Nepali-Indian poet from the Dooars region of Bengal that borders Bhutan. He currently lives and writes in ...

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Benjamin LeeOctober 6, 2017

Jenny Sadre-Orafai   twitter: jennys_o  She is the author of five chapbooks, Paper, Cotton, Leather, and Malak. She is co-founding editor of Josephine Quarterly...

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Benjamin LeeSeptember 29, 2017

Terry Abrahams  twitter: @trabrahams  Terry Abrahams really likes deer. Last time he went to the woods, he saw seven of them. When not in the woods, he’s in Tor...

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Benjamin LeeSeptember 23, 2017

Muriel Leung twitter: @murmurshewrote Born and raised in Queens, New York, Muriel Leung now currently lives and writes in Los Angeles where she’s a Dornsife Fel...

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Benjamin LeeSeptember 14, 2017

Alex Wennerberg  twitter: @alexwennerberg  He is a writer living in Chicago, IL. He currently works as a software developer and his interests outside of writi...

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