“I grew up in and around Manhattan—a wonderful island for gathering material and starting to write. In New York, there are so many places to study writing; I received my education from Columbia University, Poets and Writers, New Dramatists, as well as countless writing workshops. “By working in book publishing—as a manuscript reader, editor, and… Read more

Cora Frazier is a writer of fiction and humor. Her flash fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. She also writes fiction podcasts, the first season of which is forthcoming. Her humor has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, n+1 and Saturday Night Live, and… Read more

Harry Segal earned a PhD in English Literature from Yale University and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan. He is a Senior Lecturer at Cornell University and a Stephen H. Weiss Provost’s Teaching Fellow. Harry is also a Senior Lecturer at Weill Cornell Medical College’s Department of Psychiatry.

Andrew Porter is the author of the story collections The Disappeared (forthcoming from Knopf in April 2023)  and The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage/Penguin Random House) and the novel In Between Days (Knopf). A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has received a Pushcart Prize, a James Michener/Copernicus Fellowship, and the Flannery O’Connor… Read more

Poet: My work has been published in The Columbia Review, The Westchester Review, & Crack the Spine, among other journals. Writer: My poetry book reviews have appeared on The Rumpus, for example, and I’m the interviewer of record for the Katonah Poetry Series, under the direction of Billy Collins. I have done extensive arts reporting, including feature articles… Read more

Marissa Higgins is a journalist living in the United States. She is a D.C. Arts & Humanities fellow, a Tin House scholar in nonfiction, and a Provincetown Fine Arts Center Workshop summer fellow in memoir. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Best American Food Writing 2018 (originally in Captault), Glamour, Salon, NPR, the Washington Post,… Read more

Rishi Dastidar’s poetry has been published by the Financial Times and BBC amongst many others. He is a fellow of The Complete Works, a consulting editor at The Rialto magazine, a member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen, and chair of writer development organization Spread The Word. A poem from his debut collection Ticker-tape was included in… Read more

Pete Jordan’s work has appeared on the American Public Radio program This American Life as well as in the New York Times. Pete wrote the memoirs Dishwasher: One Man’s Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (Harper Perennial, 2007) and In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist (Harper Perennial, 2013),… Read more