Ann Dee Ellis is the author of three young adult titles including This is What I Did:, Everything is Fine, and The End or Something Like That. Her middle grade debut, You May Already Be a Winner, was released July 2017. Her books have received starred reviews and been featured on multiple lists. […]
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Meg Day is the 2015-2016 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street 2014), winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Prize and the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award, and a finalist for […]
Francisco Stork was born in Monterrey, Mexico and came to El Paso, Texas with his mother and adoptive father when he was nine-years old. He has an M.A from Harvard University and a J.D from Columbia University. He worked as an attorney until his retirement in 2015. Francisco is the […]
David Wanczyk grew up a Red Sox fan and once gave up twenty-seven runs in an inning before realizing he’d never make it to Fenway Park—or varsity. He’s coped with that by writing on novel sports for Slate, Boston Globe Magazine, Texas Monthly, and other venues. His book, Beep: Inside […]
José Orduña was born in Córdoba, Veracruz and immigrated to Chicago when he was two years old. His work explores the ways power has determined his and others’ existence as racialized subjects of the United States. His first book, The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration and Displacement was published in […]
David Lazar was a Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction for 2015-16. His most recent books are I’ll Be Your Mirror: Essays and Aphorisms from the University of Nebraska Press, Who’s Afraid of Helen of Troy, After Montaigne, Occasional Desire: Essays, The Body of Brooklyn, Truth in Nonfiction, and Essaying the Essay. Eight of his […]
Steven L. Peck (BYU Biology) is the two-time winner of the Association of Mormon Letters Novel Award (The Scholar of Moab, 2011; Gilda Trillim, 2017), and once for short story (Two-Dog Dose, 2014). His upcoming novel (2019) King Leere: Goatherd of the La Sals was a semi-finalist in Black Lawrence […]
Brock Jones is an assistant professor of English at Utah Valley University and the author of Cenotaph (University of Arkansas Press, 2016), a finalist in the 2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in the Iowa Review, Lunch Ticket, Ninth Letter online, Poetry Daily, Raleigh Review, Sugar House […]
Three student readers will share their own creative work–one in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Students may be graduate or undergraduate.