Alice Elliott Dark is a writer of short stories, novels and essays. She is the author of the story collections Naked to the Waist and In the Gloaming and the novels Think of England and Fellowship Point, published by Scribner/Marysue Rucci Books in July 2022.
Melanie Rae Thon is an American fiction writer known for work that moves beyond and between genres, erasing the boundaries between them as it explores diversity, permeability, and interdependence from a multitude of human and more-than-human perspectives.
Antonya Nelson is an American author and teacher of creative writing who writes primarily short stories.
Nell Freudenberger is an American novelist, essayist, and short-story writer.
Jean Valentine was an American poet and the New York State Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010. Her poetry collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003, was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry.
Laura Furman is an American author whose work has appeared in The New Yorker,Mirabella,Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere'.
Yiyun Li is a Chinese-born writer and professor in the United States. Her short stories and novels have won several awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award and Guardian First Book Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, and the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for Where Reasons End. She is an editor of the Brooklyn-based literary magazine A Public Space.
Tracy Price-Thompson is an American speaker, novelist, editor, and retired United States Army Engineer Officer. She is a decorated veteran of the Gulf War.
Susan Hubbard is an American fiction writer and professor emerita at the University of Central Florida. She has written seven books of fiction, and is a winner of the Associated Writing Program Prize for Short Fiction and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for best prose book of the year by an American woman.
Lucy Corin is an American novelist and short story writer. The winner of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters John Guare Writer's Fund Rome Prize, Corin was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023 and a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in 2015.
Phillis Levin is an American poet.
Joy Katz is an American poet who was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.
Victoria Chang is an American poet, writer, editor, and critic.
Adrian Matejka is an American poet. He was the poet laureate of Indiana for the 2018–2019 term. Since May 2022, he has been the editor of Poetry magazine.
Bruce Smith is an American poet.
Colleen J. McElroy is an American poet, short story writer, editor, memoirist.
Anthony V. Ardizzone is an American novelist, short story writer, and editor.
Jessica Treadway is an American short story writer.
Aryn Kyle is an American novelist and short story writer. She is a 2008 recipient of the Alex Awards.
Traci Brimhall is a poet and professor in the United States. She teaches creative writing at Kansas State University.
