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Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado’s writing defies and blends genres such as surrealism, fantasy, and horror to create writing that is so palpable it seems alive. Her work has been compared to that of Shirley Jackson, Kelly Link and Angela Carter, but with a voice that is uniquely her own.
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Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer is a writer gifted with blending critical analysis with his own personal experiences. He is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books, including Out of Sheer Rage. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages.
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Erica Berry
Erica Berry is a writer and teacher based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Her essays, which are often about the intersection of inner worlds and outer environments, appear or are forthcoming in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Emergence, Orion, The Yale Review, and other publications. She is the author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear (Flatiron/Macmillan, 2023), which won the 2024 Oregon Book Award, and Bodies In Heat: Love in a Changing Climate, forthcoming from Flatiron (US) and Faber (UK). Winner of a 2025 Oregon Career Fellowship, she is a contributing editor at Orion magazine and a 2025 Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington.
Felicia Zamora
Felicia Zamora is the author of eight books of poetry including, Murmuration Archives, Akrilica Series, Noemi Press (2026), Interstitial Archaeology, Wisconsin Poetry Series (2025), I Always Carry My Bones, winner of the 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize (2021) and the 2022 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, Body of Render, Benjamin Saltman Award winner (2020), and Of Form & Gather, Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize winner (2017). She’s won the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, C.P. Cavafy Prize, Wabash Prize, Tomaž Šalamun Prize, and two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards (2024 & 2022).
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Gloria Muñoz
Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate.
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David Gessner
Gessner is a professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine, Ecotone. His own magazine publications include pieces in the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Sierra, Audubon, Orion, and many other magazines, and his prizes include a Pushcart Prize and the John Burroughs Award for Best Nature Essay for his essay “Learning to Surf.” He has also won the Association for Study of Literature and the Environment’s award for best book of creative writing, and the Reed Award for Best Book on the Southern Environment. In 2017 he hosted the National Geographic Explorer show, “The Call of the Wild.”
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Bernardo Wade
Born and raised in New Orleans, Bernardo Wade received the Academy of American Poets Vera Meyer Strube Poetry Prize, the Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize, and the Third Coast Poetry Prize. A Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, he has published in The Nation, Ecotone, Guernica, and The Southern Review, among other places. He is the poetry editor for Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. A Love Tap (Lookout Books) is his debut collection.