María José Candela
María José Candela is a writer from Colombia. Selected as the runner-up for the 2022 Sewanee Review Fiction Prize and the winner of the 2020 Indiana Review Fiction Prize, her fiction has also appeared in the Kenyon Review. Her nonfiction has been published by Roxane Gay. She holds a B.A. from Vassar College, an M.F.A. from Florida State University, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Spanish Literature at Georgetown University. She is working on her first book.
Amanda Mei Kim
Dominica Phetteplace
Cassandra Quayson
Katana Smith
Hanif Abdurraqib
Maya Binyam
Shane McCrae
Roland Jackson
Roland Jackson received his MFA from the University of Montana and is a 2023 fellow with the Periplus Collective. His short stories, “Martial Artists” and “Hunting, Late Season, Bow” can be found in Passages North and Wisconsin People & Ideas, respectively. An arborist by trade, he lives and writes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife and kiddo. He is writing his first novel.
Anthony Hudson
Erica Frederick
Sarina Romero
Bradley Trumpfheller
R. O. Kwon
Maureen McLane
Justin Torres
Addie E. Citchens
Addie E. Citchens was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and lives in New Orleans. A graduate of Jackson State University, she studied in the Florida State University Creative Writing Program and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the Oxford American’s “Best of the South,” Midnight & Indigo’s speculative fiction anthology, and other publications. Her blues history work features prominently in Mississippi Folklife, and she has been heard on The Mississippi Arts Hour on Mississippi Public Broadcasting. Her short story “That Girl” won the O. Henry Prize. Her first novel, Dominion, will be published by FSG in August 2025.
Bianca Asare
Min Li Chan
Peter Zaragoza Mayshle
Dominica Phetteplace
Sheila Heti
Katie Kitamura
Rowan Ricardo Phillips