Ruben Reyes Jr.
Ruben Reyes Jr. is the son of two Salvadoran immigrants and the author of the story collection, There is a Rio Grande in Heaven, which was named a finalist for The Story Prize. He holds degrees from Harvard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop His writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, AGNI, BOMB Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, LitHub, and other publications. Originally from Southern California, he lives in Queens. Archive of Unknown Universes is his first novel.
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Lydia Millet
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Danzy Senna
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She attended Stanford University and received an MFA from the University of California at Irvine. There, she received several creative writing awards.
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Her latest novel, Trust Exercise, was the winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, and was a national bestseller. Trust Exercise was also named a best book of 2019 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Buzzfeed, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times, ELLE, Bustle, Town & Country, Publishers Weekly, The Millions, The Chicago Tribune, and TIME.
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Samuel Kolawole
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Other honors for his work include being a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing, the Graywolf Press Africa Prize, and the UK's The First Novel Prize.
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Dee Dee Chainey
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Kate Rhodes
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André Klein
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Now, Steven is an Associate Professor of English and Integrative Arts at Penn State University, Altoona, where he teaches, paints, and captains the Allegheny Bilge Rats Shanty Choir. He has three novels and a book of poems in the world. He has written several articles on contemporary artists for Modern Painters and for TATE Magazine. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fello -
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Santiago Jose Sanchez
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Bunny Michael is a multi-disciplinary queer Mexican/Samoan artist and influencer who has inspired an audience of 230k Instagram followers to discover their Higher Self. What began as a viral meme series on Instagram has now expanded to a multi-platform experience. Bunny’s new podcast, XO Higher Self, charted in the top 100 Apple Podcasts in Self Improvement, and they are currently producing, writing and starring in an upcoming web series, What Would Higher Self Do? Bunny has been a featured guest on popular podcasts including The Mind Rolling Podcast (part of Ram Dass’ Be Here Now Network) and The Spiritually Sassy Show (hosted by Sah D’Simone). Bunny was also chosen by Instagram to take part in their Creators Program and partnered with the
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Silvia Park
Silvia Park’s stories have been published in Black Warrior Review, Tor, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and elsewhere. She attended the Clarion Science and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop and Tin House Summer Workshop. They teach fiction at the University of Kansas and split their selves between Lawrence and Seoul.
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Kirstin Valdez Quade
Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of The Five Wounds and Night at the Fiestas, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. She is the recipient of a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation, the Rome Prize, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. Originally from New Mexico, she now lives in New Jersey and teaches at Princeton University.
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Christina Cooke
Fiction writer. Occasional poet. Loves dogs and sunshine and long walks to the local brewhouse.
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Jon Hickey
Jon Hickey is a writer from Minnesota. He earned an MFA from Cornell University and was a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. His short stories have appeared in numerous journals such as Virginia Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, and the Massachusetts Review, among other places.
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Kayum Tangrykuliev
Каюм Тангрыкулиев (Russian name) - Kaýum Taňrygulyýew (Turkmen name)
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Turkmen poet and prose writer, people's writer of Turkmenistan (1984).
He born into a peasant family.
In 1950 he graduated from high school, in 1955 - the Turkmen State University, Faculty of Philology. From 1953 he worked in the publishing house of the newspaper "Turkmenistan". Since 1960, he worked at the Institute of Language and Literature, at the Ministry of Education, taught at various universities and was the editor of the children's magazine "Korpe" ("Baby") in two languages.
In 1967 he joined the CPSU.
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Ivo Vojnović
Vojnović was born in Dubrovnik as the first son of Count Konstantin Vojnović (1832–1903) and María de Serraglí (1836–1922) on the 9th of October 1857 in Dubrovnik, the Habsburg Monarchy. He was a member of the Serbian noble House of Vojnović. The city of his birth and its history had an important influence on his later literary work. Most of his childhood however he spent in Split. He had a famous younger brother Lujo Vojnović, who would later play an important political and cultural role in the late 19th- and 20th-century Dalmatia and Montenegro. As a young man he moved to Zagreb with his family, where he graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law in 1879. Until 1884 he served as a trainee of the Royal Court Table in Zagreb. Af
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Su Vida
Su Vida, also known as Suprabha Irugalratne, is a digital artist, 2D animator and speculative fiction author from the central hills of Sri Lanka. She writes YA fiction—sci-fi, fantasy and horror. Her debut webnovel, Komoreby, was shortlisted for the Watty Awards 2022, which had over 40,000 entries—the same year Wattpad invited her to join its Creator Program.
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Her stories come with whimsical heroines, big worlds, Asian-ness, slowburn romance, ace rep, real science, eco themes, veganism and anime/gaming/fairytale elements.
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Viorica Marian
Toni Morrison once said "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
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The Power of Language is the book I’ve always wanted to read. I live my life in more than one language, as do many people around the world, but most popular science books about language are centered on monolingualism.
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Manuel Muñoz
Manuel Munoz's dazzling collection is set in a Mexican-American neighborhood in central California-a place where misunderstandings and secrets shape people's lives. From a set of triplets with three distinct fates to a father who places his hope-and life savings-in the hands of a faith healer, the characters in these stories cross paths in unexpected ways. As they do, they reveal a community that is both embracing and unforgiving, and they discover a truth about the nature of home: you always live with its history. Munoz is an explosive new talent who joins the ranks of such acclaimed authors as Junot Diaz and Daniel Alarcon.Manuel Muoz is the author of one previous story collection, Zigzagger. Originally from California, he now lives in Ne
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Nishant Batsha
Nishant Batsha is a writer of fiction and history. A Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, he received his doctorate in history from Columbia University.
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Harry Truman
Harry S. Truman was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953). As vice president, he succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died less than three months after he began his fourth term.
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During World War I Truman served as an artillery officer. After the war he became part of the political machine of Tom Pendergast and was elected a county judge in Missouri and eventually a United States Senator. After he gained national prominence as head of the wartime Truman Committee, Truman replaced vice president Henry A. Wallace as Roosevelt's running mate in 1944.
As president, Truman faced challenge after challenge in domestic affairs. The disorderly reconversion of the economy of the United States was marked by severe shortages, numerou -
Renee Branum
Renée Branum graduated with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Montana in 2017. She received an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2013 where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and a recipient of the Prairie Lights Jack Leggett Fiction Prize. Renée’s fiction has appeared in Blackbird, Tampa Review, The Georgia Review, and Narrative Magazine. Her nonfiction essays have been published in Fields Magazine, Texas Review, True Story, Chicago Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Hobart, and The Gettysburg Review. Her essay “Certainty” was awarded first prize in The Los Angeles Review’s Fall 2016 Nonfiction Contest. Her essay “Bolt” received first place recognition in The Florida Review’s 2017 Editors’ Awards. She receiv
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Maureen Lindley
Maureen Lindley was born in Berkshire and grew up in Scotland. She was trained as a psychotherapist and also worked as a photographer, antique dealer and a dress designer before writing her first book, The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel. Maureen lives in the Wye valley on the Welsh borders with her husband.
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Nigel Poor
Nigel Poor is the co-creator, co-host, and co-producer of Ear Hustle (PRX & Radiotopia). A visual artist and photography professor at California State University, Sacramento, Nigel's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the SFMOMA and de Young Museum in San Francisco and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. In 2011, Nigel got involved with San Quentin State Prison as a volunteer teacher for the Prison University Project. Nigel lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Richard Kelly Kemick
Richard Kelly Kemick’s poetry, prose, and criticism have been published in magazines and journals across Canada and the United States, including the Fiddlehead, the New Quarterly, and Tin House (Open Bar).
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He has won the poetry prizes of both Grain magazine and Echolocation. He lives in Calgary. -
Kimberly Garza
Kimberly Garza is a native Texan, born in Galveston, raised in Uvalde. She earned a PhD in creative writing and Chicanx literature from the University of North Texas and is a tenure track assistant professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Half Mexican-American, half Filipina-American, Kimberly has had work published in TriQuarterly, Creative Nonfiction, Bennington Review, and others; and has been the recipient of scholarships from Breadloaf and The Michener Center for Writers. The Last Karankawas is her first book.
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