Join us on Thursday, May 22 at 6pm Alaska time for Live from Storyknife featuring May’s writers in residence. The session will be live on Zoom and the recording will be posted on this page after the reading.
Bella Bravo is a fiction writer living in Seattle. Their stories have appeared in NY Tyrant and Driftless Magazine. In 2022, they earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Their work has been supported by Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Storyknife.
Shannon Kelly Donahue lives on Jilkáat Aani, Haines, Alaska, where she works to protect bears, rivers, and salmon. Her heart’s other home is West Kerry, Ireland. Shannon’s memoir-in-progress explores ecological grief, remembering lost language, and her family’s banshees. Her lyric essay, “Salt Cures,” appears in the spring issue of Catamaran.
Asa Drake is a Filipina/white poet in Central Florida. She is the author of Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026) and Beauty Talk (Noemi Press, 2026), winner of the 2024 Noemi Press Book Award. Her poems can be found on The Slowdown Podcast, The American Poetry Review, and Poetry Daily. She is the inaugural Rona Jaffe Fellow for Storyknife.
ire’ne lara silva, 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate, is the author of five poetry collections, most recently, the eaters of flowers, a comic book, VENDAVAL, and a short story collection, flesh to bone, which won the Premio Aztlán. Her second short story collection, the light of your body, will be published by Arte Publico Press in Spring 2026.
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