Live from Storyknife May 2026

Please register to join us on Zoom on Thursday, May 21 at 6pm Alaska Time for May’s Live from Storyknife event. Participants will read from their current work. A recording of the event will be available from this page afterwards.

Marianne Manzler is a Filipina-American writer, educator, and editor from Cincinnati. Her memoir explores beginnings and endings, identity and illness, home and the beyond. Recognized by Best American Essays 2022, her work appears in Fourth Genre, Seventh Wave, and others. She holds an MFA from the University of Washington and is the Director of Education at The Porch in Nashville.

K’Ehleyr McNulty (they/them/elle) is a descendant of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation. They live and work in creative writing on the lands of the Akimel O’odham, and Piipaash Nations. Their work can be found in ni’hikeyah tʼáá jííkʼe, all free nations, todas las naciones libres: migratory in verse, I Sing the Salmon Home, edited by Rena Priest, and The Madrona Project, Keep a Green Bough: Voices from the Heart of Cascadia, edited by Holly J Hughes.

Jodi Paloni is the author of They Could Live with Themselves, runner-up for the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, an Indie Publishers Award Silver Medalist, and a finalist for the Maine Book Award. Her short works appear in literary journals and anthologies. She has an MFA from Vermont College. She lives in Maine.

Jeneé Skinner’s work has appeared in One Story, Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Missouri Review, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Tin House Summer Workshop, Vermont Studio Center, and Hedgebrook. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is an assistant memoir editor at Split Lip Magazine. 

Ariadne Will was born and raised in Sitka, Alaska, and now works in city government. A granddaughter to newspaper publishers, Ariadne writes about home and the people who live there. She holds a BA in English and an MFA in creative writing.

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