DONNA KAZ is a multi-genre writer and the author of the award winning “UN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour,” and “PUSH/PUSHBACK, 9 Steps to Make a Difference with Activism and Art, because the world’s gone bananas. She has been published in Variety, Theatre Topics, Ms. Magazine, The Daily Mail, Bitch Media, Bust, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Little Patuxent Review, Alternet, Role Reboot, Stonecoast Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Dramatist, Ful Art magazine, Girl Drive Blog, Lilith, The Sun, Gagibi, Levitate, Gender Across Borders and Women in Hollywood. She is a 2023/24 research fellow at Winterthur.
MARDI JO LINK is the award-winning author of two memoirs and three true crime books including Bootstrapper, a memoir of single-motherhood, rural life, and badassery published by Knopf. It was named a Michigan Notable Book, won the Housatonic Book Award for non-fiction, and the Great Lakes Independent Bookseller’s Association’s Bookseller’s Choice Award. Academy-Award winning actress Rachel Weisz has optioned the book for film. Mardi has also written three true crime books about unsolved murders. Her second memoir, The Drummond Girls, was published by Grand Central Publishing. She lives in Traverse City, Michigan and writes a monthly column for her local newspaper, the Traverse City Record-Eagle. She studied journalism at Michigan State University and has her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte.
CHLOÉ CALDWELL is the author of the national bestseller, Women (Harper Perennial, 2024). Chloé’s latest book, Trying, waspublished by Graywolf, in August, 2025. She is also the author ofthe books I’ll Tell You In Person (2016), The Red Zone (2022), and Legs Get Led Astray (2012). Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, Bon Appétit, The Cut, Vice, Longreads, Nylon, The Rumpus, The Sun, and half a dozen anthologies including Goodbye To All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NYC and Without A Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, and Sluts. She has been on faculty at Writing Workshops Paris, Writing Workshops Iceland, Chautauqua Institute, Fine ArtsWork Center, Write or Die Tribe, Catapult, Litreactor, GothamWriters’ Workshop, and Corporeal Writing.
Chloé lives in Hudson, NY. She is the co-founder of Scrappy Literary where she runs writing retreats and offers personalized support for writers. www.chloesimonne.com and www.scrappyliterary.com
Jane Wong is the author of the debut memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, out now from Tin House (2023). She is also the author of two books of poetry: How to Not Be Afraid of Everything from Alice James (2021) and Overpour from Action Books (2016).
She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University. Her poems can be found in places such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, Best American Poetry 2015, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, POETRY, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, and others. Her essays have appeared in places such as McSweeney’s, Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, The Common, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and Want: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult).
She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Artist Trust, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, 4Culture, the Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf, Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay, the Jentel Foundation, Ucross, Mineral School, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Loghaven, and others.
The recipient of the James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award for Washington artists, her first solo art show “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly” was exhibited at the Frye Art Museum in 2019. Her performance and installation work has also been exhibited at the Richmond Art Gallery and the Asian Art Museum. A scholar of Asian American poetry and poetics as well, you can explore “The Poetics of Haunting” project here. She grew up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore and lives in Seattle.
Mathangi Subramanian, Ed.D., is an author, educator, and advocate. She has won numerous awards, including the South Asia Book Award and the Middle Grade Category of the Katherine Paterson Prize, and she’s been a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner and the Center for Fiction First Book Prize. The founder of Moon Rabbit Writing Studio, her next book, Our Periods, Ourselves, is available from Bloomsbury Academic on November 12.