Aisha Sabatini Sloan
American essayist and multimedia artist.
American essayist and multimedia artist.
American journalist
Co-founder of CantoMundo, the US’s first organization of its kind to specifically cater to Latinx poets
Joy Ladin’s return to Yeshiva University as a woman after receiving tenure as a man made her the first openly transgender employee of an Orthodox Jewish institution. Her memoir of gender transition, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders, was a finalist for a 2012 National Jewish Book Award, and winner of a Forward Fives award.
Courtney Angela Brkic is the author of Stillness: and Other Stories and The Stone Fields, and has worked as a creative writing teacher, a translator and as a forensic archeologist in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Prolific author best known for her critically acclaimed memoir, Mama’s Girl, which has been course adopted by hundreds of high schools and colleges throughout the U.S.
Abeer Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi-American writer and photographer
Annabelle Tometich spent 18 years as a food writer and restaurant critic for The News-Press in her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida.
Annalee Newitz is a journalist and the author of several science fiction and nonfiction books, including the national bestseller “Four Lost Cities.”
American poet and essayist