Heather Buchanan

Heather Buchanan is an award-winning publisher and producer. She is the publisher of the Black Fire This Time anthology and director of its national tour. Buchanan is the owner of Aquarius Press/Willow Books.

Katya Cengel

Katya Cengel is a freelance journalist and author based in California. Her work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, Marie Claire, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. She is the author of From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting…

Olga Zilberbourg

Olga Zilberbourg is the author of Like Water and Other Stories and four Russian-language story collections. She has published fiction and essays in Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Narrative, Alaska Quarterly Review, Confrontation, Scoundrel Time,…

Sasha Vasilyuk

Sasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author based in San Francisco. Her debut novel Your Presence Is Mandatory, set between Nazi Germany and Ukraine in the decades since WWII, will be published in the United States in April 2024 as well as in…

Barbara Tomash

Barbara Tomash is the author of four books of poetry, PRE-, Arboreal, Flying in Water, which won the 2005 Winnow First Poetry Award, and The Secret of White. An earlier version of PRE- was a finalist for the Colorado Prize and the Rescue Press…

Karen Zukor

Karen Zukor has been a professional paper conservator for over forty years and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation. She has been responsible for many collections—including fine art, archival material, maps, documents, and…

Keith Hansen

Keith Hansen illustrated and coauthored Hansen’s Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada (Heyday, 2021), a field guide companion to Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution. He is a professional bird…

Juliayn Coleman

Juliayn Coleman received a diploma in bookbinding and book conservation from the North Bennet Street School in Boston, Massachusetts in 2003, and has been a professional bookbinder/book conservator and teacher ever since. Her books have been…

Maggie Levantovskaya

Maggie Levantovskaya is a writer and lecturer in the English department at Santa Clara University. She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and grew up in San Francisco. She has a PhD in comparative literature from UC San Diego. Her writing has appeared…

Michael David Lukas

Michael David Lukas has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv, a student at the American University of Cairo, and a waiter at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont. Translated into more than a dozen…