Rhonda Zimlich is the author of Raising Panic, winner of the Steel Toe Books 2023 Award for prose. She teaches writing at American University in Washington, DC. She writes about intergenerational trau…
Andrew Bertaina is the author of the essay collection, The Body Is A Temporary Gathering Place (Autofocus 2024), the book length essay, Ethan Hawke & Me (Barrelhouse, 2025), and the short-story collec…
Kyle Dargan is currently an Associate Professor of literature and Asst. Director of creative writing at American University, as well as the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine. He also works a…
Stephanie Grant writes fiction and nonfiction. Her books include the novels The Passion of Alice and Map of Irelandand the nonfiction hybrid Disgust: A Memoir. Her work has …
A professor of Literature at AU since 2007, David Keplinger is the recipient of the 2025 American Academy in Rome Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize for Literature. He will be in residence at the Academy until…
Patricia Park is the author of award-winning adult literary and YA novels. Re Jane(Viking/Penguin Random House 2015), a modern retelling of Brontë’s Jane Eyre set in New York and Seo…
Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench, Balm, Take MyHand, and, most recently, Happy Land. Take My Hand was awarded the 202…
Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade, the novel What We’ve Lost is Nothing…