Solmaz Sharif
Solmaz Sharif is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University where she is working on a poetic rewrite of the U.S. Department of Defense’s dictionary. A 2011 winner of the Boston Review/Discovery Poetry Prize, her work has…
Aisha Gawad
Aisha Gawad is a Master of Fine Arts candidate in Fiction at Cornell University. She is currently at work on her first novel about the Arab community in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Her story “Waking Luna” appeared in the Spring 2013…
Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo Okparanta is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in GRANTA, Iowa Review, Southern Review, Conjunctions, Subtropics, and elsewhere. Her collection of short stories will be published next year by Houghton Mifflin…
Clay Matthews
Clay Matthews has published poetry in journals such as American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. His most recent book, Pretty, Rooster (Cooper Dillon, 2010), is a collection of sonnets written in syllabics. His…
Carolina Ebeid
Carolina Ebeid, a CantoMundo Fellow, grew up in New Jersey. She holds a degree from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. Her work has appeared in Poetry, 32 Poems, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, Copper Nickel, and many…
