Joy Jones
Joy Jones is a native of Washington, DC, and a playwright, actress and instructor. As a playwright, Joy has been mentored by Mark Perry (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Gary Garrison and Gregg Henry (Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive). As an actress, Joy has performed in theaters across the United States and in Great Britain, including The Royal Shakespeare Company, PlayMakers Repertory Company and many others. Her...
Deonne Kahler
Deonne Kahler received her MFA in creative writing from Queens College, City University of New York, where she also taught creative writing and was editor-in-chief of literary journal Ozone Park. Her work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and online, and most recently in WSQ. Before she turned to prose she was a singer-songwriter, with songs featured in movies and television. She loves to hit the road with Sadie, her...
Mary Kancewick
Mary Kancewick has degrees in journalism (Medill) and law (University of Chicago) and has written about and worked on Alaska Native issues for thirty years, as well as teaching as an adjunct for the University of Alaska at its Fairbanks, Anchorage, and Dillingham campuses, and raising two sons and a daughter. She has co-authored two still-cited law review articles on Alaska Native sovereignty and subsistence, and has published poetry...
Bhanu Kapil
Bhanu Kapil is a multi-genre and multi-talented writer writing at the intersection of poetry, prose, and non-fiction. As a teacher, Bhanu focuses on generative, experimental writing practice, with a focus on returning to works or parts of works that were discarded, inert, or tossed aside. Bhanu has written The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: A Space for Monsters (Leon Works, 2006/Kelsey...
Susan Kelly
Susan Kelly currently teaches English in Asia and writes fiction and screenplays focusing on the ups and downs cross-cultural living. She has lived and taught in California, Texas, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and China. She’s honed her writing at the Breadloaf Writers’ Workshop, Clothesline Workshop and Act One Writing for Hollywood. She’s currently working on a series of Young Adult fiction entitled Maiden...
Does the sea remember everything? I wonder.
Does she absorb everything? Does she keep it safe?
Virginia Woolf
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The Q: Can you fathom the spectacle that would be created if we moved together, arms outstretched, close enough to touch?
The Q: What echoes through you that longs to take form—a poem, an image, a mark, a whisper of becoming?
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