Archive for: VIDA Count

Jessica Guzman is the author of Adelante (Switchback Books, forthcoming), selected by Patricia Smith as winner of the 2019 Gatewood...

Dee Loeffler is a California-born Midwestern transplant to the East Coast, where there is more sunshine but less snow. They...

Emma Lo is a poet and music maker based in Berlin. She is working toward a masters in modern South...

Julia Calagiovanni is an East Coast expat living in Austin, Texas. This year is her third with the Count. She...

Jess grew up in Virginia and now writes and teaches in New York City. Previously, she worked in public radio...

Katharine Perko is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at a CUNY college. She researches gossip culture and the early...

Emmalie Dropkin is a writer, teacher, and activist currently lecturing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she earned an...

Tess Wilson is a librarian in the hills of Pennsylvania, but she hails from the Kansas prairie. Her poetry has...

Kelly Lynn Thomas reads, writes, and sometimes sews in Pittsburgh, PA. Her creative work has appeared in Permafrost, Sou’wester, The...