Maureen Boyd is a Thai-Scottish American writer, born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She is an activist and former...
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Jessica Guzman
Jessica Guzman is the author of Adelante (Switchback Books, forthcoming), selected by Patricia Smith as winner of the 2019 Gatewood...

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

Quinn Carver Johnson
Quinn Carver Johnson was born and raised on the Kansas-Oklahoma border, but currently attends Hendrix College, pursuing degrees in Creative...

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

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

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

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

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