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Marleah Makpiaq LaBelle is of Sugpiaq/Iñupiaq/Filipina descent and is a Tribal member of the Native Village of Port Graham. Marleah is a playwright, poet, and writer. Some of her previous involvement includes the Alaska Native Playwright Project, Dark Winter Productions, and the One Minute Play Festival.
Grace MacNair – A 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry, Grace has received fellowships and support from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Storyknife, Marble House Project, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Monson Arts, the Carolyn Moore Writers House, Bread Loaf Writers’ and Translators’ Conference. Grace was selected by Yona Harvey as the winner of Radar Poetry’s 2021 Coniston Prize and by Safia Elhillo as the winner of Palette Poetry’s 2022 Emerging Poet Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Poetry Northwest, The Missouri Review, Frontier Poetry, Best New Poets 2022, and elsewhere. Grace’s micro-chapbook, Even As They Curse Us, is available from Bull City Press.
Emi Macuaga Originally from Tokyo, M.E. Macuaga is a Japanese-Bolivian storyteller whose diverse work has been published by entities ranging from Marvel Comics to literary magazines. She loves writing both fiction and creative nonfiction, and is honored to be supported by organizations such as International Thriller Writers, Jentel Arts, Hedgebrook, and Storyknife. Emi is Storyknife’s 2024 Mary Ellen State fellowship recipient.
Lisa Page is co-editor of We Wear The Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America, (Beacon Press). Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, LitHub Weekly, The Crisis, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, and the Washington Post Book World. She is an assistant professor of English at the George Washington University.
Dawn Tasaka Steffler is a fiction writer from Hawaii who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a 2023 Smokelong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow and her stories were selected by Bath Flash Fiction Award and Welkin Mini Prize. Her work appears in Flash Frog, Pithead Chapel, Ghost Parachute & more. She is an associate fiction editor at Pithead Chapel. Find her online at dawntasakasteffler.com and on social media @dawnsteffler
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