Roy Perez Roy Pérez is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego. His scholarly writing appears in Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulatio... Writer Oct 27, 2025
Jennifer Irani Jennifer Irani is finishing a memoir about her experience in Phoenix House while publishing short stories, essays, poetry, and op/eds. She is a member of environmental groups, racial justice organizat... Writer Oct 26, 2025
Elliot Kukla Elliot Kukla is a rabbi, author, and activist. In 2006 he was the first openly transgender rabbi to be ordained by a denomination in Judaism. He has worked at the intersection of justice and spiritual... Writer Oct 26, 2025
Anna Leahy Anna Leahy ’s books include poetry collections If in Some Cataclysm, What Happened Was:, and Aperture and the nonfiction book Tumor. Her work has won awards from Mississippi Review, Los Angeles Review... Writer Oct 25, 2025
Debra Cross Debra Cross is a writer and teacher living in Southern California. She is currently working on a novel.... Writer Oct 19, 2025
Rina Palumbo Rina Palumbo (she/her) is working on a novel and two nonfiction long-form writing projects alongside short fiction, creative nonfiction, and prose poetry. Her work appears in The Hopkins Review, Ghost... Writer Oct 19, 2025
Mark Lee Webb Mark Lee Webb makes his home in Louisville, Kentucky, but he grew up in Southern California. He’s a writer & photographer. His photography has been selected for the covers of journals and included in ... Photographer Oct 18, 2025
Rita Kasperek Rita Kasperek is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in The Portland Review, Terrain, River Styx, Amarillo Bay, and other publications. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Univers... Writer Oct 12, 2025
Ismet Prcic Ismet Prcic was born in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1977 and immigrated to America in 1996. His first novel, Shards, was a New York Times Notable Book, a Chicago Sun-Times Best Book of the Year, as w... Writer Oct 8, 2025
Julia Gibson Julia Mary Gibson writes fiction and nonfiction about times gone by and the ineffable. She lives in sight of the Hollywood sign in unceded Tongva territory. Her book The Copper Stone: A Glimpse of Blo... Writer Oct 8, 2025
Jen Wyrauch Edson Jen Wyrauch Edson is a writer and teacher who lives between northern and Southern California. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, and her work can be found in FlashFlood and ... Writer Oct 6, 2025
Rebecca Brams Rebecca Brams is a fiction and essay writer. She grew up in California’s Mojave Desert and has traveled extensively in Latin America. Rebecca has a B.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University and an... Writer Sep 30, 2025