is the author of the novel And Then Things Fall Apart (Simon & Schuster). Her short stories and nonfiction have appeared in One Story, SmokeLong Quarterly, Reckon Review, The Dodge Magazine, Stanchion, Thimble Lit, @TheKeepThings, The Razor, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Madison Review, The Dinner Party Download, and New Stories from the Midwest, 2018. She has received "The Best of the Net," "Best Small Fictions," and Pushcart nominations for her flash fiction. She holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University.

is the author of the science fiction novel Full-Blood Half-Breed (Penguin Random House), and he is a contributing writer to Suvudu.com, a science fiction and fantasy blog at Random House. He is consulting producer of the short film Superman Doesn't Steal, which won Best Film at the Diversity In Cannes Short Film Showcase and the A Day In the Sun Film Festival, and was selected by the Cleveland International Film Festival, among many others. He was a staff writer for the television show Craig Ross Jr.’s Monogamy (Urban Movie Channel), and he wrote and directed the feature film Following Bliss, which won Best Feature Film at the Global Arts International Film Festival. His short film "The Story" won the Denver World Film Festival, and his short film "Jack for President" was a runner-up in the New York 24-Hour Filmmaking Contest. He was the artistic director of the BlackBird Theatre Company in NYC; created, wrote, and drew the cartoon strip Rick the Roach for the Richmond News Leader; and is a veteran of the U.S. Army Reserves. He holds a BA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

is Gotham’s Director of Communications & Events, the editor of Gotham’s literary magazine The Razor, and a co-creator of The Writer’s Mind course. She has published prose poems in Bullshit Lit’s 2nd Anthology, Masks Literary Magazine, and Passing Through. Her flash fiction was shortlisted for Fractured Lit's 2025 Elsewhere Prize. She has also served as education coordinator for Symphony Space’s Thalia Kids Book Club Camp. Emma holds a BA from Emerson College.

has published nonfiction in Yalabusha Review, Willow Review, Forge, and the Sanskrit Literary-Arts Magazine. Her short stories have appeared in New Orleans Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Portland Review, and Hawaii Pacific Review. She has taught at NYU and the School of Visual Arts. She holds a BA from City University, Richmond College, and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The New School.

is the author of the novel Quizzleboon (Perpetual Motion Machine Press); the short story collections Luv Slaps (Broken Tribe Press), and The Love Box (Livingston Press); and the novella War of the Crazies (Main Street Rag). His short stories have appeared in appeared in Southern Cultures Magazine, American Short Fiction, New World Writing, and Texas Review. He has taught at Florida State University, the University of Mississippi, and the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference. He holds a BA and an MA in Creative Writing from Florida State University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi.

is the author of the poetry collections make it to the end (of the movie) (BOA Editions, forthcoming), when the signals come home (Switchback Books) and the chapbook boys in the electric age (Tolson Books). Her poetry and essays have appeared in Frontier Poetry Journal, the Southampton Review, FENCE, Cagibi, Obsidian, the North American Review, the Eastern Iowa Review, and Memoir Mixtapes, among others. She has worked as a poetry editor for Harpur Palate literary magazine, and co-edited the Women of Color Writers’ Boundaries and Borders Anthology. She has taught for Binghamton University, Stony Brook University, Writopia, the Women of Color Writers, and the Young Artists and Writers Program. She holds a BFA from Brooklyn College, an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Stony Brook University, an MS.Ed from Brooklyn College, and a Ph.D in English from Binghamton University.

is the author of the picture books Faith Takes the Train (HarperCollins), Hope for the Honeybees and Whales of Wonder. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts, Crawl Space Journal, Winter Tangerine, TulipTree Review, and For Harriet, among others. Her essays have appeared in USA Today and Connected Academics, the blog of the Modern Language Association. When she was 14, she won the New York MTA’s Poetry in Motion contest, and her poem “Sleepless” was featured on subway trains throughout the city for a year. She teaches K-12 Language Arts in a Florida special education program, and formerly taught at the Bard High School Early College Program, New York University, and as a writing assistant for Williams College. She holds a BA from Williams College, and an MA and a Ph.D in English (Children’s Literature) from New York University.

is the author of nine novels including the Partition Trilogy series, the Radiance of a Thousand Suns, Girls and the City, and the Long Walk Home (all HarperCollins); the Mehrunisa thriller series (Westland Books), and Earning the Laundry Stripes (Rupa & Co). Her articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, and the South China Morning Post, among others. She has taught for the New York Public Library and the City College of New York. She holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and an MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York.

was a writer for the series Speechless (ABC Television) and a writers' assistant for The Carrie Diaries (The CW). She developed the original pilot Hacked for Bluegrass FanFare at ABC Studios, and worked as a development associate for Silver and Gold Productions. Her pilot Missed Connections made Amazon's Consider List, and other original pilots have been finalists for the Creative World Awards and the Screencraft Pilot Launch awards. Her journalism and essays have appeared in Los Angeles magazine, New York magazine, Condé Nast Portfolio, Brides, and Ravishly. She has taught at the Posse Foundation and volunteered with WriteGirl. She holds a BA from Columbia University. 

is the executive editor and founder of Social Media News NY. He was a founding producer for the New York Times website, senior editor of GenomeWeb, executive producer of Nassau News Live, and New York editor for TechWeb. He has written for United Press International, the New York Times, the Danbury News-Times, the Wilson Daily Times, and the Washington Daily News. He is the vice president of the New York City chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. He has facilitated professional communication training at the Courts of the United States, the US Patent and Technology Office, and Health Security Partners in Washington, DC. He has taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hofstra University, Quinnipiac University, and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. He holds a BA from North Carolina State University and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.

has published short fiction and poetry in SmokeLong Quarterly, Waxwing, Passages North, the Blood Pudding, Pidgeonholes, and Hobart After Dark, among others. Her play Red Handed was performed off-Broadway at the SoHo Playhouse, and her play Rose of the World was read at the Elif Collective. She is a past reader and editor at West 10th and X-RAY literary magazines. She holds a BA from New York University.

has published fiction in Lit Hub, Five Points, Epiphany, the Palisades Review, the Berkeley Fiction Review, december, the Southampton Review, Shenandoah, and other journals. He taught for Stony Brook Southampton, where he also earned an MFA in Creative Writing. 

is the author of the novel Mangoes for Monkeys and the short story collection Parikrama, (both Frog Books/Leadstart Publishing). Her short fiction has appeared in the Santa Clara Review and The Fanzine, and her essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Times of India, the Economic Times, Pacific Time, Perspectives, In the Fray, and the Forum on KQED FM, among many others. She is a former assistant fiction editor for 14Hills literary magazine, and she has taught for San Francisco State University, Milipitas Adult Education, and the Learning Bee. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.

has published short stories in Sinister Wisdom, the North Dakota Quarterly, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Red Noise Collective, Big Bend Literary Magazine, Silver Rose Magazine, and Prometheus Dreaming. She is the author of the illustrated book Fatty Fatty No Friends (Mind the Art Entertainment), adapted from her operetta of the same name, which was winner of the Best of Fest prize at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Her plays have been workshopped or appeared at the New York International Fringe Festival, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre, the National Opera Center, the Frigid NY theatre festival, the HERE Arts Center, and Feinstein’s 54 Below. She has taught at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute. She holds a BFA from Ithaca College and an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College.