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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…
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Jacob Kahn

Jacob Kahn is a librarian, poet, editor, and curator living in Oakland, CA. He is the author of the book Mine Eclogue (Roof Books, 2022) and several chapbooks, most recently A Is For Aegis (DoubleCross Press, 2021). With Sophia Dahlin, he…
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Anna Gabriella Casalme

Anna Gabriella Casalme is the proud daughter of Filipino immigrants and a kid-lit writer based in San Francisco. She is the founder of Novelly, which is on a mission to publish literature by diverse youth authors and get youth authors taught…
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Yesica Hurd

Yesica Hurd is a Mexican-American children’s librarian and author. She was born and raised in Fort Bragg, California. She earned a BA in English from Reed College and an MLIS from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Currently, she…
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Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and numerous other awards. His most recent publication is A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial. He is a University Professor, the Aerol Arnold Chair…
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Alka Joshi

Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times Bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Pick and was LongListed for the Center for Fiction First Novel…