Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon

Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon is a 2022-2023 Emerging Critics Fellow with the National Book Critics Circle. She is also a fourth-year PhD candidate in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, studying the relationship between ethics and literary form in twentieth-century…

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, born and raised in New Orleans, studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her most recent novel, On the Rooftop was a Reese’s Book Club pick in September 2022. Her novel The Revisioners…
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Taleen Voskuni

Taleen Voskuni is an Armenian-American writer who grew up in the Bay Area diaspora surrounded by a rich Armenian community and her ebullient family. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in English and currently lives in San Francisco, working…

Kara Vernor

Kara Vernor’s fiction and essays have appeared in Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, Wigleaf, The Normal School, and elsewhere. She has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and her writing has been selected for Best Small Fictions,…

Margaret Verble

Margaret Verble is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She is the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud’s Line, New York Times Notable Book of the Year Cherokee America, and When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky, one of Booklist’s…

V

V (formerly Eve Ensler) is a Tony Award–winning playwright, author, performer, and activist. Her international phenomenon The Vagina Monologues has been published in 48 languages and performed in more than 140 countries. She is the author…

Amerie

Amerie is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, producer, and writer. The daughter of a Korean artist and an African American military officer, Amerie was born in Massachusetts, raised all over the world, and graduated from Georgetown University…

Alice Wong

Alice Wong is a disabled activist, media maker, and research consultant based in San Francisco. She is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project—an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability…
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Andrea L. Rogers

Andrea L. Rogers is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She graduated with an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. Her stories have appeared in several literary journals. In 2020, Capstone…

Marie Lu

Marie Lu is the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Legend series, The Young Elites trilogy, the Warcross series. the Skyhunter series, Batman: Nightwalker, and The Kingdom of Back. Lu's newest novel, Stars and Smoke, is a romantic…