Please register to join us on Zoom on Thursday, June 18 at 6pm Alaska Time for June’s Live from Storyknife event. Participants will read from their current work. A recording of the event will be available from this page afterwards.
Kai Coggin is the Inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Hot Springs, AR, and author of five collections, most recently Mother of Other Kingdoms (Harbor Editions, 2024). She is an arts educator, master naturalist, and host of the longest running consecutive weekly open mic series in the country—Wednesday Night Poetry.
Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam is a PhD candidate and Vice Presidential Fellow in the University of Utah’s dual English-Creative Writing program; she’s also the founder of Creative Writing News. A Cornell MFA alumna, her literary honors include recognitions from the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Storyknife, and Hedgebrook. Her work appears in Aster(ix) Journal, MTLS, Mukana Press Anthology, ANA Review, and elsewhere. She is currently completing her novel, which explores the intersection of immigration and disability. She is the Storyknife Kenai Lake Fellow for 2026.
Didi Jackson is the author of the poetry collections My Infinity (Winner of the 2025 Tennessee Book Prize) and Moon Jar. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Bomb, The New Yorker, and World Literature Today among other journals and magazines. She is the recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee and teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University. Most recently she completed her certification as a Tennessee Naturalist.
Carolyn Kremers writes poetry and literary nonfiction, is a lifelong musician, and lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. Her books include Upriver, The Alaska Reader, and Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup’ik Eskimo Village. She was a Fulbright Scholar twice at Buryat State University in Ulan Ude, Russia.
Angela Peñaredondo is an inter-transdisciplinary poet, artist and educator. They are the author of nature felt but never apprehended (Noemi Press) and All Things Lose Thousands of Times (Inlandia Institute, Hillary Gravendyke Book Prize). They live and create on unceded ancestral homeland of the Tongva people, Tovaangar in southern California.
Storyknife Writers Retreat 