Felicia González
Felicia Gonzalez was born in Cuba. She believes that language and the act of speaking are not only physical, but also have a geographic presence. An alumna of the Hedgebrook Writers Retreat and the curator for the 2014 Jack Straw Writers Program, her writing has received numerous awards including an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship. A poet and short fiction writer, she was awarded an individual artists grant...
Vero González
Vero González was a Dean’s Graduate Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she earned an MFA in Poetry. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Vero received a BFA from Pratt Institute, where she earned the Thesis Prize in Fiction. Vero teaches English Language Arts and Humanities to amazing high school students in Holyoke, MA, and is currently working on a novel-in-verse. Touching Lives Fellow
Leah Greenbaum
Leah Greenbaum is one of those millennial writers trying to find poetry, truth, and humor somewhere at the intersection of Twitter, Joan Didion, and heart-aching wanderlust. On top of her day job in the world of progressive Jewish activism, she is a freelance journalist and short story writer. Her work has appeared in The National Journal, RollingStone.com, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and The Village Voice. Like Grace Paley, she...
Dipika Guha
Dipika Guha’s plays include I ENTER the VALLEY (Weissberger nom ’14), THE BETROTHED (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, Chester Theatre), THE RULES (Superlab Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights Horizons) and BLOWN YOUTH (New Georges/Barnard commission). Her work has been developed by Old Vic New Voices in London, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, WordBRIDGE, Cutting Ball Theatre, the Playwrights Foundation, the Flea, INTAR, the Culture Project, One...
Toni Guy
Toni Guy writes middle grade and young adult fiction. She is an active member of SCBWI, AROHO, AWP, and WOWW Women Who Write. For ten years she wrote copy for Caboodles, a multimillion-dollar tween and teen brand of mass-market products sold worldwide. An excerpt of her midgrade manuscript, Jello Jamieson and the Sister Recycling Machine, won the 2013 SCBWI Summer Grant and was drafted in the #Pitchwars Feb 2015 online contest. She...