Patricia Grinager
American anthropologist
American anthropologist
American deaf-mute poet
Co-founder of CantoMundo, the US’s first organization of its kind to specifically cater to Latinx poets
1800s Irish novelist
Irish writer and activist
Anjali Sachdeva’s short story collection, All the Names They Used for God, was the winner of the 2019 Chautauqua Prize.
Amanda Ajamfar is a fiction writer based in New York.
American poet, fiction writer, essayist, teacher, editor, and designer
Cambodian-American poet
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.