Jasmine Reid

Jasmine Reid is a twice trans poet-child of flowers. She is the author of the forthcoming chapbook Deus Ex Nigrum, winner of the 2018 Honeysuckle Press Chapbook Contest, selected by Danez Smith. A 2018 Poets House Fellow and MFA candidate at Cornell University, her work has been published or is forthcoming in Muzzle Magazine, Apogee, Poetry Daily, Paper Darts, among others. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated poet, Jasmine was born and raised in Baltimore, MD, and is currently based…

Yessica Martinez

Yessica Martinez is a poet and educator originally from Medellin, Colombia. She graduated from Princeton University with degrees in Comparative Literature and Latin American studies and has worked as a literature promoter, teaching artist and writer in residence in her community of Corona, Queens. Yessica is currently interested in the history of modern social movements in Latin America with attention to popular education and artistic practices that contributed to their flourishing. She has…

Ashley Hand

Ashley is a service academy graduate and spent her career as a military officer deploying all over the world. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, West Branch, and many other magazines. She is currently at work on her first novel.

Chi Le

I studied philosophy and literature at the University of Chicago. My thesis considered the (non-)interventions of literature and literariness, as shown in J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello, in ethics and particularly animal rights adjudication. I remain drawn to philosophical literature as well as literary philosophy. I am also interested in depictions of strangeness in the quotidian, of intimacy and estrangement intertwined, in a broader attempt to study the evolution of the family, work, and…

Carlos Rafael Gomez

Carlos Rafael Gomez grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia and received his bachelor's degree in English from Yale University. For the past several years, he has worked as a television writer in Los Angeles. His writing focuses on the intersection of mental illness and ethnic, gender and sexual identity. He is currently working on his first novel.

Kathryn Diaz

Kathryn Diaz is from Houston, Texas. She is an alum of Writespace. Her work has appeared at Glass Mountain and Anathema: Spec from the Margins. 

Kathryn Harlan-Gran

Kathryn Harlan-Gran is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literatures in English. Her research focuses on contemporary American literature and culture with a focus on ways that popular culture, new media, and genre fiction intersect with studies of race, gender, and sexuality. Her dissertation, Pop Potentiality: Renegotiating Networks of Power and Relation through Contemporary Speculative Fiction, turns a critical eye to various popular media forms and speculative genres to examine how new and rapidly evolving narrative modes circulate concepts about power and relationality in the American cultural consciousness. She argues that the creators she studies present alternate networks of relation in order to denaturalize and refigure oppressive hierarchies rooted in white supremacy and heteropatriarchy. Kathryn’s research is also forthcoming as a chapter in The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison.

Sophia Veltfort

Sophia Veltfort’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Writer’s Digest (89th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition first place winner), Santa Monica Review, Meridian, Narrative (30 Below Contest finalist), Chicago Tribune (Nelson Algren finalist), Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere, and it has been selected for the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her nonfiction has appeared in Harvard Review and…

Anum Asi

Anum Asi is a writer and teacher from Karachi, Pakistan. Her fiction has been published in Virginia Quarterly Review, Necessary Fiction, Cherry Tree, Litro Online, Indiana Review and elsewhere. After graduating from Lahore University of Management Sciences, she studied Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University as a Fulbright Scholar. She is currently at work on a novel.

Rebecca Macklin

Rebecca Macklin is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Leeds and 2017-18 Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher at Cornell University. Situated within the English Department, she is supervised by Professor Eric Cheyfitz and is affiliated with the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program. Her research draws together Indigenous, postcolonial and world literature discourses, to comparatively explore transnational engagements with globalization and literary articulations of decolonial resistance.  Rebecca's PhD thesis focuses on contemporary Native American and South African fiction, including texts by Louise Erdrich, Thomas King, Leslie Marmon Silko, Zakes Mda, and K Sello Duiker. An alumnus from the universities of Leeds and Lancaster, her writing has appeared in publications including the journal Native American and Indigenous Studies and Wasafiri. She is currently guest editing a special issue of Transmotion on 'Native American Narratives in a Global Context: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives', due for publication in 2019.
 
Prior to her PhD, Rebecca worked in academic publishing, working with branches of the United Nations as an editor of sustainable development publications. She is a Board Trustee for the Bishop Simeon Trust and has a pervading interest in the role of participatory arts in international development contexts, having led youth empowerment workshops in South Africa.

Jennifer Rabedeau

Jennifer Rabedeau

Joseph Miranda

Joseph Isaac Miranda is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University and a Ford Dissertation Fellow. His teaching and research interests converge around post-1960s Latinx literature and culture, queer of color critique, and performance and media studies. His dissertation, “Browning Out: Suspended Relations in Latinx Aesthetics,” uses contemporary Latinx literature and visual media to look at the underexamined aesthetic stakes and political implications of the Insular Cases on the management of US difference over the 20th century (Spanish-American War, mid-century Liberation Movements, end of the Bracero Program, the AIDS crisis). He connects these seemingly disparate state relations to highlight the abeyed forms of belonging (withheld sovereignty, limited mobility, and suspended self-possession) that concepts of the nation and citizenship offer Latinx. He argues contemporary Latinx creatives (Manuel Muñoz, Tanya Saracho, Justin Torres) experiment with a set of genres (bildungsroman, televisual realism, linked stories) and aesthetic practices (montage, collage, fragmentation, ensemble) to depict the alternative structures of obligation that flourish without state recognition and outside categories of citizen, nation, or heteronormative family.

Christina Fogarasi

Breanna Leslie-Skye

Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire

Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. His research and teaching interests range from African (Indigenous) studies, through Black (Diaspora) studies, Cultural studies, literary activism, political economy, to law and literature. His work cuts across various literary forms, from fiction, through drama, memoir, poetry, and other media like film and popular culture generally. His dissertation, tentatively titled: “The Transcontinental Poetics of Ugandan Women’s Fiction” focuses on the ways Ugandan women-authored short stories and novels published in the post-2000 period contribute to a Black Radical Tradition, through a practice of Afro-feminism, African colonial and indigenous nationalisms.

Jessica Rodriguez

Nathaniel Likert

Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu

Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu is a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. Her research, broadly speaking, is concerned with the interrelation of poetry and politics, post-1960s literary history, theories of world literature, the digital humanities, and comparative Black studies. She draws upon close readings, archival materials, and digital network modeling and mapping to enthuse her research. Ama Bemma is…

Maggie O’Leary

Maggie O'Leary is a doctoral candidate at Cornell University. Her work is in global/postcolonial literature and theory (most frequently in 20th and 21st century Irish literature and poetry), body and disability studies, fat studies, and literature’s role in the development of contemporary human rights discourse.

Her dissertation is titled “Disorder, Digestion, and Metabolic Futures: Disabled Bellies in Contemporary Global Fiction.” Relying on Ann Laura Stoler’s theorization of “duress”and…

Greg Brazeal

Alice Turski

Sasha Smith

Frances Revel

Frances Revel was raised in Southern Delaware. She is the winner of the 2017 Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award for her poem “Hymn for the End of Drought," which can be found on poets.org. Frances' poetry frequently explores vulnerability of voice and form, fragmentation, and tension, with a special focus on sound. Of late, her interests lean towards ekphrasis, erasure, and mixed media work.

Charlotte Pattison

Charlotte Pattison spent most of her life overseas as the daughter of U.S. diplomats.  She likes tales of the supernatural, Internet culture, and trying to figure out what we talk about when we talk about American literature. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Passages North, Smokelong Quarterly and The Yalobusha Review. She's currently at work on a novel.

Christopher Hewitt

Christopher Hewitt’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Able Muse, The Adroit Journal, Ecotone, Meridian, The Southampton Review, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a manuscript of poems that celebrates the uplifting power of curiosity by examining everything that fascinates him, including but not limited to water, wind, physics, history, asteroids, birds, fish, plants, and artistic objects, especially those made of glass.