JENNIFER BAKER is a contributing editor to Electric Literature and creator/host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast. In 2017, she was awarded a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship and a Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant (as well as their award for Artistic Excellence) for Nonfiction Literature. Her writing has appeared in Newtown Literary (for which her short story “The Pursuit of Happiness” was nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize), Boston Literary Magazine, Eclectic Flash, The Offing, Poets & Writers, the Other Stories podcast, Kweli Journal, and The Female Complaint anthology from Shade Mountain Press. She has also contributed to Forbes.com, Literary Hub, The Billfold, School Library Journal, and Bustle, among other online publications. Her website is jennifernbaker.com.
MIA ALVAR’s collection of short stories, In the Country, won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the University of Rochester’s Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.
CARLEIGH BAKER is a Canadian writer whose debut short story collection, Bad Endings, was a shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and won the City of Vancouver Book Award. Her work has also appeared in subTerrain, PRISM International, Joyland, and This Magazine.
NANA EKUA BREW-HAMMOND is the author of Powder Necklace (Washington Square Press, 2010), which Publishers Weekly called “a winning debut.” Named among thirty-nine of the most promising African writers under thirty-nine, her short fiction was included in the anthology Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of Sahara (Bloomsbury, 2014). She was shortlisted for a Miles Morland Writing Scholarship in 2014 and 2015, and has contributed fiction to African Writing, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sunday Salon, and the short story collection Woman’s Work. Her think pieces have appeared at online destinations including Ebony.com and TheGrio.com; and she has contributed commentary on everything from Michelle Obama’s role in the US presidential campaign to Nelson Mandela’s legacy on MSNBC, NY1, SaharaTV, and Arise TV. In April 2015, she was the opening speaker at TEDxAccra. Brew-Hammond coleads a monthly writing fellowship at the Center for Faith & Work. Also noted for her personal style, Brew-Hammond’s fashion looks have appeared in the street style slideshows and print editions of outlets including New York magazine, Essence magazine, Fashionista.com, TheSartorialist.com, and the New York Times. Recently, she cofounded the made-in-Ghana outerwear line Exit 14. She is currently at work on a new novel. Learn more at nanabrewhammond.com.
GLENDALIZ CAMACHO is a 2013 Pushcart Prize nominee and 2015 Write a House finalist. She has been an Artist in Residence at Jentel, Caldera, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Hedgebrook, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Lanesboro Arts, the Anderson Center, and Kerouac House. An alum of the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) 2010 and 2013 Fiction Workshops and the 2016 Tin House Summer Workshop, her work appears in The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women (Shade Mountain Press), All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press), the Brooklyn Rail, the Butter, and Kweli Journal, among others.
ALEXANDER CHEE is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night and the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, coming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2018. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic and an editor at large at VQR. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, T Magazine, Tin House, Slate, Guernica, and Out, among others. He is the winner of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in prose, and a 2010 MCCA Fellowship, and of residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Civitella Ranieri, and Amtrak. He is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College.
MITCHELL S. JACKSON’s debut novel The Residue Years won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Jackson is the winner of a Whiting Award in fiction. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Salon, and Tin House, as well as in the bestselling essay anthology The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race (edited by Jesmyn Ward). His new book Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family will be published by Scribner in 2019.
YIYUN LI’s most recent book is Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, the Guardian First Book Award, and the California Book Award for first fiction. Her novel The Vagrants won the gold-medal California Book Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Award. Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, her second collection, was a finalist for the Story Prize and shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Kinder than Solitude, her latest novel, was published to critical acclaim.
ALLISON MILLS is a Cree and settler writer, archivist, and librarian with a thing about ghosts. She was featured in Apex Magazine’s Indigenous American fantasists special issue, and her critical work has appeared in the Looking Glass and Archivaria, where it won the 2016 Dodds Prize. She currently lives and works on unceded Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish land in Vancouver, British Columbia.
COURTTIA NEWLAND’s first novel, The Scholar, was published in 1997. Further critically acclaimed work includes Society Within (1999), Snakeskin (2002), The Dying Wish (2006), Music for the Off-Key (2006), and A Book of Blues (2011). He is coeditor of IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (2000) and coedited with Monique Roffey the collection Tell Tales 4: The Global Village (2009). Courttia’s short stories have been featured in many anthologies. His career has encompassed both screen- and playwriting; plays include B Is for Black and an adaptation of Euripides’s Women of Troy. His novel The Gospel According to Cane was published by Akashic Books (US) and Telegram (UK) in February 2013. A collection of speculative fiction, Cosmogramma, will be published in 2019.
DENNIS NORRIS II is a 2017 MacDowell Colony Fellow, a 2016 Tin House Scholar, and a 2015 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow. They are the author of AWST Collection—Dennis Norris II, published by AWST Press, and other writing appears in Apogee Journal and SmokeLong Quarterly. Their story “Where Every Boy Is Known and Loved” was recently named a finalist for the 2018 Best Small Fictions Anthology, forthcoming from Braddock Avenue Books, and they currently serve as fiction editor at Apogee Journal, assistant fiction editor at The Rumpus, and cohost of the popular podcast Food 4 Thot. You can find more information at their website, www.dennisnorrisii.com.
JASON REYNOLDS is crazy. About stories. He is a New York Times bestselling author, a National Book Award Finalist, a Kirkus Prize winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award winner and honoree, a Newbery Honoree, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. His debut novel, When I Was the Greatest, was followed by Boy in the Black Suit and All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely), and then As Brave as You, Miles Morales, Long Way Down, For Every One, and the Track series. You can find his ramblings at www.jasonwritesbooks.com.
NELLY ROSARIO was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BA in engineering from MIT and an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. She was named a “Writer on the Verge” by the Village Voice Literary Supplement in 2001. Her first novel, Song of the Water Saints, won the 2002 PEN Open Book Award.
HASANTHIKA SIRISENA is the winner of the University of Massachusetts Press’s Juniper Prize for Fiction. Her debut collection, The Other One, was released in 2016.
BRANDON TAYLOR is the associate editor of Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Literary Hub. His writing has received fellowships from Lambda Literary, Kimbilio Fiction, and the Tin House Summer Workshop. His stories and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from Literary Hub, Catapult, Gulf Coast, Little Fiction, Amazon’s Day One, Out online, Necessary Fiction, Joyland, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Iowa City, where he is a student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in fiction.
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