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Aya de León

Aya de León is a Black/Puerto Rican author who teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley. She is the current poet laureate of the City of Berkeley. Aya's novels have won the Northern California Book Award, the Jane Addams prize for social justice…

Keli Dailey

Keli Dailey has been a journalist for twenty-one years, a comedian for eight years, a professor for six. And she's a lifelong cautionary tale.

Kim Culbertson

Kim Culbertson holds an M.S. in Education, an MFA in Fiction, and has been teaching high school creative writing and English since 1997. She is the award-winning author of five YA novels. Her titles Catch a Falling Star, The Possibility of Now,…
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor's choice. Her essays and short…
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Ying Chang Compestine

Ying Chang Compestine is an award-winning author, speaker, and television host. She has written twenty-five books for adults and children, including the acclaimed novel Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party, which chronicles her experience of growing…

Tom Comitta

Tom Comitta is the author of 〇, Airport Novella, and First Thought Worst Thought: Collected Books 2011–2014, a print and digital archive of forty “night novels,” art books, and poetry collections. Comitta’s fiction and essays have…

Jennieke Cohen

Jennieke Cohen is a Filipina American author of young adult historical fiction. Her debut novel, Dangerous Alliance, was a Junior Library Guild selection and has been translated into multiple languages. Her second novel, My Fine Fellow, is a…

Anthony Cody

Anthony Cody is the author of The Rendering and Borderland Apocrypha, winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize. His debut has been recognized as a winner of the 2022 Whiting Award, 2021 American Book Award and a 2020 Southwest Book Award,…
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Jane Ciabattari

Jane Ciabattari, author of the short story collection Stealing the Fire, is a former National Book Critics Circle president (and current NBCC vice president/events), a Lit Hub columnist, BBC Culture contributor, on the advisory boards of the…

Mark Ciabattari

Mark Ciabattari is a cultural historian and author. His grandparents left Lucca in Tuscany in the 1890s and settled in a sizable Italian community in Butte, Montana, where he was born. He studied at Stanford (on a football scholarship; he was…