Winter Online Adult Writers Workshops

Khadijah Queen is the author of eight books of poetry and prose, most recently Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea: A Veteran’s Memoir (Hachette Books/Legacy Lit 2025). Other books include I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (YesYes Books 2017), praised in O Magazine, The New Yorker, Rain Taxi, and elsewhere as “quietly devastating” and “a portrait of defiance that turns the male gaze inside out.”  In 2025 the Foundation for Contemporary Arts recognized Queen’s work with the Cy Twombly Award in Poetry. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Denver and an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. Visit her website: khadijahqueen.com.

Angelique Stevens teaches creative writing, literature of genocide, and race literatures at a community college in Upstate New York. Her nonfiction has been published in Best American Essays in both 2022 and 2023, Granta, LitHub, The New England Review, and others. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Bennington College and an MA from SUNY Brockport in Literature. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Sewanee, and the Periplus Mentorship Collective (where she is now a mentor), and a teaching fellowship to the Lighthouse Book Project (where she now teaches writing classes). She is working on a collection of essays about poverty and the myth of the American Dream due out from Simon & Schuster.

Grace Talusan is the author of The Body Papers, which won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction. She teaches writing at Brown University and is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle. 

Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, essayist, and translator. He is the author of many poetry collections including, most recently, Arrows (Tupelo 2020). His critical work includes How to Draw A Circle: On Reading and Writing (Michigan UP, Poets on Poetry Series, 2024), Of Silence & Song (Milkweed Editions, 2017), and literary reveries on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and John Keats. Translation work includes pre-Socratic philosophy, The Thinking Root, a collection of early lyric poetry, Stone-Garland (Milkweed Editions), and Wind—Mountain—Oak, a translation of Sappho. A book-length conversation with Kylan Rice, Primer, is available from Free Poetry. Collaborators include the ceramicist Del Harrow, performance artist Matthew Goulish, and poets Srikanth Reddy and Bruce Bond. His work has been supported by the Monfort, Lannan, and Guggenheim Foundations, and by the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University. He teaches at Colorado State University, where he is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar, and currently serves as Interim Chair of the English Department.

Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. After she earned her B.A. in English from Michigan State University, she went on to study poetry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she earned her MFA. She earned her Ph.D. in Creative Writing & Literature from the University of Cincinnati in 2023.

Marianne is the author of All Heathens (Sarabande Books 2020), which was the winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award in Poetry, the 2021 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, and the 2022 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding Achievement. In 2024, she published her second collection Leaving Biddle City (Sarabande Books), which was the winner of a 2025 ALA Notable Book Award and was a 2024 Poetry Foundation Staff Pick. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, New England Review, The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Between 2017-2019, she served as poetry editor for Split Lip Magazine.

She lives in Norfolk, VA, where she teaches creative writing at Old Dominion University. She teaches poetry for the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

Tyree Daye is the author of the poetry collections a little bump in the earth (Copper Canyon Press, 2024), Cardinal (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), and River Hymns (American Poetry Review, 2017), and winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize.

Philip Metres is a poet and the author of thirteen books, most recently the essay collection Dispatches from the Land of Erasure (University of Michigan Press, 2025). His books of poetry include Fugitive/Refuge (Copper Canyon 2024), Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (University of Michigan, 2018), Sand Opera (Alice James, 2015), and I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (Cleveland State, 2015). His work—poetry, translation, essays, fiction, criticism, and scholarship—has garnered fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Watson Foundation. He is the recipient of the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Lyric Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. Metres has been called “one of the essential poets of our time,” whose work is “beautiful, powerful, magnetically original.”  

He is a professor of English and the director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University. He lives with his family in Cleveland, Ohio.

Anna V. Q. Ross is a poet and critic and the author of the poetry collections Flutter, Kick (Red Hen Press), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award and Julia Ward Howe Award in Poetry, and named a 2023 Best New Poetry Book by the New York Public Library; If a Storm (Anhinga Press), winner of the Robert Dana-Anhinga Award; and the chapbook Figuring (Bull City Press). She holds an MFA from Columbia University, and her work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Community of Writers. Her poems have appeared in journals including American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, The Nation, The Paris Review, and on The Slowdown. She teaches creative writing and literature at Tufts University and through the Emerson Prison Initiative and is a board member for Words as Worlds, a nonprofit bookstore and community literary gathering space in her neighborhood of Dorchester in Boston, MA, where she lives with her family and raises chickens.

Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, published by Penguin. Their work appears in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. They earned their BA in History from Brown University and MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. Winner of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Stanford University, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Paul is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Farah Ali is the writer of the novels Telegraphy (CB editions, 2026) and The River, The Town, and the short-story collection People Want to Live. Her work has been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize and The Best Small Fictions, and has appeared in Shenandoah, The Kenyon Review, Ecotone, Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere. She is the cofounder of Lakeer. She lives in London.

Matt Bell is the author most recently of the novel Appleseed (a New York Times Notable Book) and the craft book Refuse to Be Done, a guide to novel writing, rewriting, and revision. He is also the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur’s Gate II, and several other titles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Tin House, Fairy Tale Review, American Short Fiction, Orion, and many other publications. A native of Michigan, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.

Gina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey currently living in New York City. She is the author of the novel Sea Change, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and a B&N Discover Pick, and the short story collection Green Frog, which was a Good Morning America Book Buzz Pick, an NPR Best Book of the Year, and longlisted for the New American Voices Award. She has received the O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, two APALA Adult Fiction Honors, and a Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowship. She is a faculty member of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program at Lasell University.

Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the linked story collection, If I Survive You, a New York Times and Booklist Editor’s Choice, an IndieNext Pick, and an International Bestseller. If I Survive You was nominated for more than a dozen prizes and awards internationally, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and was a finalist for the Booker Prize, the Dublin Literary Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, and others. If I Survive You received American Short Fiction’s 2023 Constellation Award for a Story Collection and was named Miami New Times’ 2023 Best Book by a Local Author.

In 2023, Jonathan was named among the 36 Forces Shaping the Cultural Conversation by Harper’s Bazaar. He was a 2021-2023 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and received The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2020. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Observer, The Paris Review, Oprah Daily, Electric Literature, Zyzzyva, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere.

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Hanna Pylväinen is the author of the novels We Sinners, which received the Whiting Award and the Balcones Fiction Prize, and The End of Drum-Time, a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award in fiction, both from Henry Holt & Co. She graduated summa cum laude from Mount Holyoke College and received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she was also a Zell Fellow. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal; she is the recipient of residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Lásságámmi Foundation, as well as fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, two fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, a Princeton Arts Fellowship at Princeton University, and a Cullman Fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library. She has taught at the University of Michigan, Princeton University, and Virginia Commonwealth University; currently, she teaches at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She lives in Philadelphia.

Jiaming Tang is the author of Cinema Love, a Dakota Johnson x Teatime Book Club Pick. He holds an MFA from the University of Alabama, and his writing has appeared in AGNI, Lit Hub, Joyland Magazine, and elsewhere. He was a 2022-23 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow and lives in Brooklyn, New York.