Brendan Slocumb

Brendan Nicholaus Slocumb was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and holds a degree in music education (with concentrations in violin and viola) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. For more than twenty years he has been…

K.M. Soehnlein

K. M. Soehnlein is the author of the novels Army of Lovers, The World of Normal Boys, You Can Say You Knew Me When, and Robin and Ruby, along with essays and journalism in numerous publications. He is the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award,…

Aliza Sokolow

Aliza J. Sokolow is a private chef, food stylist, and photographer for both digital and print. She attended the University of California Berkeley and got her start in the culinary world working for Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution project. Her…

Amy Spalding

Amy Spalding is the author of several novels, including the bestselling We Used to Be Friends and The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles), which was named a best book of 2018 by NPR, the Boston Globe, Kirkus, and more.…

Victoria Ying

Victoria Ying is an author and artist living in Los Angeles. She started her career in the arts by falling in love with comic books, which eventually turned into a career working in animation and graphic novels. She loves Japanese curry, putting…

Ilyon Woo

Ilyon Woo is the New York Times bestselling author of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom and The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times.…

Ali Winston

Ali Winston is an independent reporter covering criminal justice, privacy, and surveillance. His work has been rewarded with several awards, including the George Polk Award for local reporting in 2017. Winston is a graduate of the University…

Colin Winnette

Colin Winnette's books include Coyote, Haints Stay, and The Job of the Wasp, which was an American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next Pick. Winnette’s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Playboy, McSweeney’s, The…

Brian Young

Author and filmmaker Brian Young is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. He grew up on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. Young earned his BA in film studies at Yale University and his MFA in creative writing at Columbia University. He is…

Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon

Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon is a 2022-2023 Emerging Critics Fellow with the National Book Critics Circle. She is also a fourth-year PhD candidate in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, studying the relationship between ethics and literary form in twentieth-century…