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coley mixan

coley mixan is an artist, musician, public library/prairie enthusiast and collaborative learning dreamer. they currently live, play, work and listen in Oakland, CA and would love to be friends with you.
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Nick Taylor

Nick Taylor is the author of the novels The Disagreement and Father Junípero's Confessor. Under the pseudonym T.T. Monday, he has also published two thrillers, The Setup Man and Double Switch, featuring the relief pitcher and detective Johnny…
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Matthew Spangler

Matthew Spangler is Professor of Performance Studies and Chair of the Department of Film, Theatre, and Dance at San José State. He is also an award-winning playwright. His plays have been produced on Broadway, in London’s West End, off-Broadway,…
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J. Michael Martinez

Longlisted for the National Book Award, winner of the National Poetry Series, and a recipient of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, J. Michael Martinez is the author of four collections of poetry, including Heredities…
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Brook McClurg

Brook McClurg is assistant professor of nonfiction in the English and Comparative Literature Department at San José State University. A Fulbright research fellow, his nonfiction, fiction, poetry and translation work has appeared in several…
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Selena Anderson

Selena Anderson's stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, The Baffler, Fence, BOMB, The Oxford American, and The Best American Short Stories. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, The Henfield/TransAtlantic Prize, and…
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Cinnamongirl Symone

My name is Symone and I am currently in my junior year of high school. I enjoy reading, sketching, traveling, and spending time with my friends and family.
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Anita Amirrezvani

Anita Amirrezvani was born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in San Francisco. Her first novel, The Blood of Flowers, has appeared in 34 languages and was long-listed for the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, Equal of the Sun, has…
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Nayomi Munaweera

Nayomi Munaweera is an award-winning novelist. Her debut, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, won the Commonwealth Book Prize for the Asian Region and was short-listed for the DSC Prize and Man Asia Prizes. It was chosen as a Target Book Club book.…
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David Roderick

David Roderick is the author of two poetry collections, Blue Colonial and The Americans. His awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, and an NEA Fellowship in Poetry. David directs Left…