Kyra G.
Kyra attended Brown University, where she studied English and Nonfiction Writing and graduated with honors, magna cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Nonfiction Writing at the University of Iowa.
Victor W.
Victor holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University, where he was awarded the John Hawkes Prize for fiction. He also earned an MA in philosophy from the University of Miami where he was awarded an Outstanding Teaching Award, along with the Martha S. Weeks Graduate Excellence Award, and the Gerrit and Edith Schipper Award in philosophy.
Clara B.
Clara holds a BA in English from Harvard and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia. She is now an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School.
Sarah Ha.
Sarah graduated from Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design with a dual degree in Comparative Literature and Painting. After earning her MFA in Painting at Yale, she went on to teach first grade at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn.
Jesse
Jesse holds a BA in History from Columbia, where he was a Navab Fellow, Solomon & Seymour Fisher Civil Liberties Fellow, and Benjamin F. and Bernice Block Scholar. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Theatre Acting at Columbia.
Morgan
Morgan holds a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School and a BA in American Studies from Wesleyan University. She is a former lawyer admitted to practice in the State of New York (having worked in both government and BigLaw), and most recently was the Script Coordinator on a Netflix TV show.
Rob F.
Rob holds an MFA in Fiction from New York University. Previously, he worked for Bain & Company and graduated from Stanford with a major in Political Science. He currently writes poetry, fiction, and art criticism.
Amy T.
Amy attended Stanford University, where she majored in Urban Sustainability and minored in Italian, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. Amy went on to receive her MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University, where she was a Dillard Fellow and received the Andrew James Purdy Prize in Short Fiction.
Emmett K.
Emmett attended Amherst College, where he majored in English. After college, Emmett spent five years working as a journalist and television producer. Next, he received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana.
Andrew S.
Andrew holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA in English from Calvin University. He has taught English and Creative Writing classes at the University of Iowa and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, as well as tutored at Iowa’s Tippie College of Business.
Sean B.
Sean graduated from Yale University with a degree in American Studies. After teaching in Oklahoma City at Odyssey Leadership Academy, he went on to earn his MFA in Poetry at Boston University.
Matthew S.
Matthew attended Emory University, where he majored in English and Creative Writing and won several student film awards. He currently works in the film industry.
Nathan B.
Nathan is a lecturer in The Writing Seminars, the creative writing program at Johns Hopkins University. He earned his MFA at Hopkins, and also attended Emory University in Atlanta, majoring in English literature and creative writing and graduating summa cum laude.
Bex
Bex majored in theatre and minored in creative writing at Northwestern University, graduating summa cum laude. After settling in Chicago, Bex won a prestigious Luminarts Cultural Foundation fellowship in creative writing. They are now an MFA candidate at Hamline University, where they study writing for children and young adults.
Sara Deniz
Sara is a poet, educator, and scholar. She holds a BA in English (Wesleyan) and an MFA in Poetry (Iowa Writers' Workshop). She is currently working on her PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Kannan
Kannan holds a BA in the History of Science (University of Chicago, Phi Beta Kappa) and an MFA in Fiction (Iowa Writers' Workshop). His stories have been published in the LA Times, the LA Review of Books, and Racquet.
Emma
Emma earned her BA in English from Sarah Lawrence and her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has worked as a writing teacher, editor, and agent, and is now a freelance editor based in California.
Shelby
Shelby holds a Master's in American Studies (Oxford) and an MFA in Fiction (UC Irvine). His stories have been published in places such as Vice News and GOOD Magazine, primarily about climate change and the environment.
Mallory
Mallory earned her BA in English from Harvard University, where she was awarded a creative thesis in Playwriting. She went on to earn her MFA in Playwriting from the New School. She is a teacher in Salisbury School's summer program.
Claire
Claire holds a BA in English Literature (Brown) and an MFA in Painting (New York Academy of Art). Since 2016, she has been teaching high school English Literature at BASIS Independent in Brooklyn.