Aminah Mae Safi


Aminah Mae Safi is a Muslim-American writer. She is the author of Not the Girls You're Looking For, Tell Me How You Really Feel and This Is All Your Fault, forthcoming from Feiwel & Friends in October 2020. She has taught...

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Cai Emmons


Cai Emmons is the author of five books of fiction: the novels His Mother’s Son, The Stylist, Weather Woman and the forthcoming Sinking Islands, and a collection of short stories called Vanishing. She has taught at various universities, most recently the...

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Gina Fattore


Gina Fattore is a television writer whose credits include Dare Me, Better Things, Parenthood, Californication, Gilmore Girls, and Dawson’s Creek. Her other writing has appeared in Salon, Lit Hub, Entertainment Weekly, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and her TEDx talk “Become What...

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Nate Ragolia


Nate Ragolia is an author, publisher and podcaster living in Denver, CO. He recently edited Respirator by Addison Herron-Wheeler and Stolen Futures: Present Danger by M. Drewery. Listen to his podcast, A Vague Idea, via your favorite podcast app. RespiratorStolen Futures: Present...

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Steve Denehan


Steve Denehan lives in Ireland with his wife Eimear and daughter Robin. He is a widely published, award-winning poet and the author of two chapbooks and two collections (one forthcoming from Salmon Press). He has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize,...

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Jeff Garvin


Garvin’s debut novel, Symptoms of Being Human, is an ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and garnered starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly. His sophomore book, The Lightness of Hands, received a starred...

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