Authors

Allison Leigh DeFrees is a poet and an immigration attorney living in New York City and Austin, Texas. Her past includes stints as a playwright, actor, and punk rock singer. Former jobs include bread delivery woman, horse stall cleaner, waitress, wooden boat renovator, medical malpractice lawyer, Calculus tutor, journalist, and speech writer. She...

Andi Grene is a sophomore at Princeton University, where she studies English and violin performance, and works as an opinion columnist for the Daily Princetonian. She has had four of her plays workshopped and read by MCC's Playwriting Lab in Manhattan and has participated in Lincoln Center and Princeton University creative writing forums for her...

Anna K. Andrade, translator and fiction writer, was born in Brazil and moved to New York City in 2000 to attend City College in order to obtain a master's degree in creative writing. She has had short stories published both in Portuguese and English, the most recent being "A Daughter's Secret" in the fiction anthology Coloring Book . She currently...

Anne K. Yoder is the author of the novel, The Enhancers, forthcoming from Meekling Press in fall 2022. She’s published two poetry chapbooks, and her stories and essays have appeared in Fence, New York Tyrant, Tin House, and Make Lit, among other publications.

Annie Rachele Lanzillotto’s present memoir essay, “The Wallmakers / I Muratori” is a chapter in her current book manuscript, “Whaddyacall the Wind? / Comesichiama il Vento?” Lanzillotto’s books include the double flip book: Hard Candy: Caregiving, Mourning, and Stage Light; and Pitch Roll Yaw, (2013 Guernica World Editions), L is for Lion: an...

Anthony Haden-Guest is a poet, journalist, critic and cartoonist who has been published in The New Yorker, Paris Review and Rolling Stone. He has lately been a contributor to Whitehot Magazine.

Ari Lisner is a poet, journalist and researcher. Ari’s poems have been published widely and the chapbook “One Schtick Pony” was released this spring.

Aristilde Kirby is a poet from the Bronx. She has been featured by Best Experimental American Writing and has published chapbooks with Belladonna and Black Warrior Review.

Arthur Phillips was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His first novel, Prague, was a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, recipient of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and has been translated into seven languages. The Egyptologist was published in 2004 and was on not eleven but twelve 2004 Best Fiction...

Audrey Schomer is a freelance reader, writer and lover of the arts living in New York City. A New England native, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Film Studies from Mount Holyoke College in 2007. Contact her at audrey.alschome@gmail.com

Augustine Blaisdell is the author of WOMEN À LA MODE: A Memoir of Writing a Book about Feminists in Paris. Originally from Los Angeles, California, she earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and her BFA in Writing, Literature and Publishing from Emerson College. She leads an online International Literary Salon as well as...

Austin Moran is a writer living in Connecticut. For whatever reason, he hasn't moved to Brooklyn

Ava Robinson is an emerging writer who has been published in Soundings East, Little Patuxent Review, Santa Fe Writers Project, and elsewhere. She is currently an MFA candidate in Fiction at The New School and the co-host and producer of the Parsons Healthy Materials Lab's podcast, Trace Material. Read more of her work at avarobinson.net