Genre-Specific Summer Online Adult Workshops

Rajiv Mohabir is an Indo-Caribbean American author of six acclaimed poetry collections, most recently, the forthcoming book Banbas/Exile; a book of translation, I Even Regret Night; and his hybrid memoir, Antiman. He is winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize, a 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, finalists for the 2017 and 2022 Lambda Literary Awards, finalist for the 2022 PEN Open Book Award, the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award in Poetry. Mohabir has received fellowships from Voices of Our Nationʻs Artist foundation, Kundiman, The Home School, and the American Institute of Indian Studies language program. He received his MFA in Poetry and Translation from Queens College, CUNY, and his PhD in English from the University of Hawai`i. Rajiv is currently a professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Nita Noveno is the recipient of the 2024 Women’s Prose Prize from Red Hen Press for her hybrid memoir Mud on the Moon, forthcoming in August 2026. A graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program at The New School, her creative nonfiction and hybrid work has appeared in MĀNOA, Identity Theory, Brink, Hippocampus, The Seventh Wave, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s Open City and The Margins, among other publications. She teaches creative nonfiction, composition, and literature at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and is the founder and host emeritus of Sunday Salon, a long-running reading series in New York City. The child of immigrant parents from the Philippines, she grew up in the temperate rainforest of Southeast Alaska and now lives in Queens, NY.

Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Bucknell University. Formerly the editor in chief of The Rumpus, she has received fellowships from The Kenyon Review and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Their first essay collection, A Fish Growing Lungs, was a finalist for The Believer Book Awards.

Shastri Akella’s second book, A Queer Shade of Saffron (HarperCollins India 2026) is a story collection that includes works of literary fantasy (“The Magic Bangle”, selected for the 2024 Best American Short Fiction) and literary horror (“The Border Ghosts”, winner of the 2025 Desperate Literature Short Fiction contest). His debut novel, The Sea Elephants (Flatiron Books USA, Penguin India 2023), was named a most anticipated debut by LGBTQ Reads, Good Morning America, and others. He was a finalist for the 2025 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize and the 2024 William Faulkner Short Story Award. His fiction is available in Black Warrior Review, Guernica, Fairy Tale Review, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere, and his creative non-fiction in World Literature Today, LitHub, and Coonor & Co, amongst others. He is presently finishing his third book, Stag of the Seven Antlers, a literary fantasy novel rooted in Irish mythology.

Yohanca Delgado was a 2021-2023 Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts fellow. Her fiction appears in The Best American Short Stories 2022, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2022, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021, The Paris Review, One Story, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. She is a co-writer of Janelle Monae’s New York Times bestseller, The Memory Librarian. Her essays appear in TIME, The Believer, and New York Times Magazine. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from American University and is a graduate of the 2019 Clarion workshop.

Libby Flores‘ writing has appeared in One Story, The Kenyon Review, Gagosian Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, McSweeney’s, Tin House, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She has taught creative writing workshops for the Sackett Writing Workshop, Tin House, One Story, Hub City Writers Project, Bennington College, and PEN America. She is the former Director of Literary Programs at PEN and the former Associate Publisher at BOMB Magazine. In 2024, she was a visiting faculty member at Bennington College, where she guest edited The Bennington Review. She is represented by Sarah Bowlin at Aevitas Creative Management. Libby lives in Brooklyn, but will always be a Tex-Mexican. Her book All Good Men is forthcoming from Unnamed Press in 2027. Find her at libbyflores.com.

Robert Lopez is the author of eight books, the most recent of which are The Best People and Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere. His fiction and essays have appeared in dozens of journals and anthologies, including BOMB, Vice, The Sun, Fence, The Threepenny Review, and two Norton anthologies of flash fiction. He teaches at Stony Brook University and has previously taught at The New School, Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and Syracuse University. Part of the World, his first novel, will be republished by Dzanc Books in fall 2026 as a special 20th anniversary revised and updated edition.

Rebecca Makkai is the author of the New York Times bestselling I Have Some Questions For You as well as four other works of fiction. Her last novel, The Great Believers, one of the New York Times’ Best Books of the 21st Century, was a finalist for both the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and the 2018 National Book Award, and was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal and the LA Times Book Prize among other honors. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca teaches graduate fiction writing at Middlebury College, Northwestern University, and the Bennington Writing Seminars, and she is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.

Avigayl Sharp is the author of the novel Offseason (Astra House), published in May 2026, and the story collection Sickness, Health, forthcoming in 2027. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Originally from Chicago, she lives in Brooklyn.

Benjamin Garcia is a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in poetry. His first collection, THROWN IN THE THROAT, was selected for the National Poetry Series and the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He worked for ten years as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in New York’s Finger Lakes region, where he received the Jill Gonzalez Health Educator Award recognizing contributions to HIV treatment and prevention. A CantoMundo and Lambda Literary fellow, he serves as core faculty at Alma College’s low-residency MFA program. His poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in: AGNI, the American Poetry Review, Indiana Review, The Kenyon Review, and New England Review.

He is currently at work on a multimedia project exploring autism and ADHD. His video poem “Ode to the Peacock” is available for viewing at the Broad Museum’s website as part of El Poder de la Poesia: Latinx Voices in Response to HIV/ AIDS.

Amanda Gunn is the author of Things I Didn’t Do with This Body (Copper Canyon Press). Raised in Connecticut, she worked as a medical copyeditor for 13 years before earning an MFA in poetry from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She is the recipient of the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize, the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize, and has received fellowships from the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. She is a PhD candidate in English at Harvard; her dissertation project examines formal experimentation, aesthetic disruption, and political consciousness in the work of Gwendolyn Brooks.

Lisa Low is the author of Crown for the Girl Inside (2023), winner of the Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest from YesYes Books. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Ecotone, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and elsewhere, and her essay “How to Apologize” won the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize. She is the recipient of a 2023 Pushcart Prize and has an MFA from Indiana University and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati, where she served as associate editor at The Cincinnati Review. Her debut full-length poetry collection Replica is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press in 2026. Originally from Maryland, she lives in Chicago.

Jesse Nathan was raised in northern California and rural Kansas. His first book of poems, Eggtooth, was published by Unbound Edition Press in 2023. The collection won the 2024 New Writers Award in Poetry. It also won the 2024 Housatonic Book Award and the 2025 Kansas Book Award. The book was also a finalist for the Golden Poppy Award, the Northern California Book Award, the Medal Provocateur/Eric Hoffer Award, and the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize. 
 
Nathan’s poetry has appeared in the New York Review of Books, the Paris Review, Poetry, the American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, BOMB, The Nation, The Believer, Zyzzyva, and the inaugural issue of Revel, among other magazines. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Stanford University, the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley, Bread Loaf, the Community of Writers, the Ashbery Home School, and the Kansas Arts Commission. He was a 2024 LABA Bay Area Fellow, and the 2024 Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry at Bread Loaf.
  
Nathan’s translations from the Popol Vuh have appeared in Poetry, and he’s made translations of Alfonsina Storni and Brenda Solís-Fong, and these have appeared in Mantis and Poetry International. Nathan was a founding editor of the McSweeney’s Poetry Series. He contributes occasional prose to the New York Times. With Ilya Kaminsky and Dominic Luxford, he edited In the Shape of a Human Body I Am Visiting on Earth: Poems from Far and Wide. Nathan’s reviews and interviews appear in the series “Short Conversations with Poets,” published online by McSweeney’s.

He’s taught poetry in the Kenyon Review Online Workshops, at Bread Loaf, and online at the 92Y. Nathan teaches in the English Department at UC Berkeley.

Brad Richard’s most recent full-length collection is Parasite Kingdom (The Word Works, 2018— winner of the Tenth Gate Prize). His most recent chapbook is In Place, winner of the 2021 Robin Becker Series Prize from Seven Kitchens Press. He has taught creative writing at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, The Willow School (whose creative writing program he founded and directed), Louisiana State University, and Tulane University, and for New Orleans Writers Workshop. Series editor of the Hilary Tham Capital Collection from The Word Works, he lives, writes, and gardens in New Orleans.

EMILY JUNGMIN YOON is a poet, translator, editor, and scholar. She is the author of the full-length poetry collections Find Me as the Creature I Am (Knopf, 2024) and A Cruelty Special to Our Species  (Ecco | HarperCollins, 2018), winner of the 2019 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award and finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The book was released in Korean as 우리 종족의 특별한 잔인함 (trans. Han Yujoo, Yolimwon 2020). She is also the author of Ordinary Misfortunes, the 2017 winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize by Tupelo Press (selected by Maggie Smith), and the translator and editor of Against Healing: Nine Korean Poets (Tilted Axis, 2019), a chapbook anthology of poems by Korean women writers. Yoon is currently working on a critical manuscript, Enclosed Reading: A Feminist Method for Contemporary Korean and Korean American Women’s Poetry, 1987-2019.

Yoon has accepted awards and fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Individual works have appeared in The New Yorker, POETRY, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. 

She currently serves as the Poetry Editor for The Margins, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and was the 2022-2023 Abigail Rebecca Cohen Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago. She is an Assistant Professor of Korean literature in the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Yoon splits her time between Honolulu and South Korea.