Dominique Joe

Charity Young

Charity Young is a Chinese-American fiction writer and painter from Washington State. She completed her MFA in fiction at Cornell and now lectures.She is currently at work on a novel.

Imogen Osborne

Imogen Osborne is a recent MFA graduate of Cornell’s creative writing program, where she was an editor of EPOCH journal and recipient of the 2024 Robert Chasen Memorial Prize and the James McConkey Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Award. Her work was recently shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and has been anthologised by Fourteen Poems, published in Berlin Lit, And Other Poems, Anthropocene, Barren Magazine and elsewhere. She currently teaches creative and critical writing to college students and incarcerated adults. She was born and raised in Bristol (UK) and holds a degree in English Literature from the University of Cambridge.

Meredith Cottle

Meredith Cottle is a poet from New York with a BA in English and Creative Writing from Binghamton University, where she received both the Andrew Bergman '65 Award in Creative Writing and the Alfred Bendixen Prize for best creative honors thesis . Her work has appeared in the online magazines Ragazine, Shrew Literary Magazine, and Street Light Press, as well as the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay’s literary journal The Sheepshead Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly. In her spare time, she…

Colin Stragar-Rice

Colin Stragar-Rice is a PhD student with the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell. Their research lies at the intersection of early modern and Black studies, paying particular attention to the relationship between print culture, technologies of power and the emergence of concepts of raciality. Currently, their dissertation is a genealogy of the tabula rasa from before John Locke to after Frantz Fanon. By interrogating the production and dissemination of its concept, this study aims to trace the tabula rasa and its contrapuntal movement within formations and socialities thought under the rubrics of the Black radical tradition, decolonization, fugitivity, marronage and revolutionary struggle.

Joël Simeu

Joël is an ELSO graduate tutor in the Department of Literatures in English, where his research considers intersections of blackness and transness. He holds a B.A. in English from Washington and Lee University. Joël has experience in various forms of writing, including creative writing, research writing, legal writing, and grant writing. Having led workshops in personal statements, Joël is familiar with drafting and editing application materials including statements of purpose, personal statements, cover letters, and resumes. He is fluent in both English and French and has proficiency in Spanish.

Aditi Shenoy

Lauryn Jones

Bethstyline Chery

Maria Al-Raes

Aishvarya Arora

Aishvarya Arora (b. Hanumangarh, India) is a poet, educator, and cultural worker from Queens, New York. Aishvarya has received support from the Fulbright Program and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, where they were a Poetry Coalition Fellow. Currently, Aishvarya is an MFA candidate in Poetry at Cornell University. Their work is featured in, or forthcoming from, Poetry Northwest, The Margins, The Hopkins Review, Apogee, and others.