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…
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.
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…