Join us on Thursday, July 18 at 6pm Alaska time for Live from Storyknife featuring July’s writers in residence. The session will be live on Zoom and the recording will be posted on this page after the reading.
A Chicanx writer and educator, Dr. Victoria Bañales is the founder and editor of Journal X, a social justice literary arts magazine. Her writing has been published in various journals and anthologies. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Feminist Studies from the University of California-Santa Cruz. More at vickybanales.com.
Jan Beatty’s eighth book, Dragstripping, is forthcoming (University of Pittsburgh Press, September, 2024). Her memoir, American Bastard, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award. Recent books include The Body Wars and a chapbook, Skydog (Lefty Blondie Press, 2022). Beatty worked as a waitress, abortion counselor, and in maximum security prisons. www.janbeatty.com
Susan Nguyen’s debut poetry collection Dear Diaspora won the 2020 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Association of Asian American Studies, and a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. She likes nature, crafts, and starting a new hobby every other week. She lives in Arizona.
Dominica Phetteplace is a writer and math tutor from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her honors include two Pushcart Prizes, a Rona Jaffe Award and fellowships from MacDowell, Djerassi and Tin House.
Sierra Rosetta (she/her) is an Indigenous playwright and theatre artist currently based in Chicago, Illinois. Her first full-length play, FROM THE OLD WOOD FOREST, was selected by Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program as the Young Native Playwright winner in 2024.
Philadelphia native, victoria stitt is currently thinking about palimpsests, journeys home, and, most recently, lupines. Their poems have been nominated for Best New Poetry, Best of the Net, and have appeared in Poetry Daily, the Michigan Quarterly Review, and others. victoria received their MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College and teaches English in New Jersey.
Storyknife Writers Retreat 