Alexander Weinstein

Director / All Genres (All Weeks)

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Alexander Weinstein is the founder and Director of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and the author of the short story collections, Universal Love and Children of the New World, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a best book of the year by NPR and Electric Literature. His fiction has appeared in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy and Best American Experimental Writing. His short story, "Saying Goodbye to Yang," was adapted as the film After Yang by A24 Films, and was the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at Sundance, the Boston Society of Film Critics Award, and Barack Obama's Best Films of 2022.

Vogue M. Robinson

Poetry (Week One & Three)

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Vogue M. Robinson – author, poet, educator, & creativity enabler – appreciates human beings who put truth and heart into words. She served as Clark County, Nevada's Poet Laureate (2017-2019) and is the first Black woman to receive the Silver Pen award from the Nevada Writers' Hall of Fame. Robinson is the author of Vogue 3:16, Selected Poems Vol. 1. Her work has been anthologized in The Beautiful,  Legs of Tumbleweeds, Wings of Lace, Sandstone and Silver, and A Change is Gonna Come. Vogue’s writing and performances are humorous, vulnerable, and empowering. When she’s not writing, she’s spending time with her family or experimenting with fluid art techniques at home in Las Vegas.

Pablo Piñero Stillmann

Fiction (Week One)

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A graduate of Indiana University's MFA in creative writing program,  Pablo Piñero Stillmann has been the recipient of Mexico's two top grants  for young writers: The Foundation for Mexican Literature (f,l,m) and  The National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA). His fiction, nonfiction  and poetry have appeared in, among other journals, Ninth Letter, Bennington Review, The Normal School, Notre Dame Review, The Rumpus, and Moon City Review. His debut novel, Temblador, was published in 2014 by Conaculta. His book of short stories Our Brains and the Brains of Miniature Sharks won the Moon City Short Fiction Award and was published in 2020 by Moon City Press. 

Hannah Bae

Creative Nonfiction & Fiction (Week One)

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Hannah Bae is a Korean American freelance journalist, nonfiction writer and illustrator who is at work on a memoir. She is a 2024 grantee in literature for the New York State Council on the Arts, a 2024 juror in nonfiction for The Kirkus Prize, and a 2021 and 2022 Peter Taylor Fellow for The Kenyon Review Writers Workshops.

 

Christopher Citro

Poetry, Creative Nonfiction & Publishing (Week One & Two)

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Christopher Citro is the author of If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun (elixir press, 2020), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His honors include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for poetry, a fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation, and writing awards from Columbia Journal (poetry) and The Florida Review (creative nonfiction). Christopher's writing appears in anthologies such as the Best New Poets, New Poetry from the Midwest, and Best Microfictions 2020. His poetry appears in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Conduit, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Christopher has taught at the University of Kansas, Indiana University, SUNY Oswego, and the Downtown Writers Center. He is an Editorial Assistant for the Seneca Review and lives and teaches in sunny Syracuse, New York.

 

T Clark

Fiction (Week Two)

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T Clark's debut story collection All This Want (and I Can't Get None) was released from One World Books in June 2026. Their fiction has appeared in Joyland, The Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, The Offing, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. They have received funding and fellowships from The Elizabeth George Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Lambda Literary Foundation, and the Art OMI in Ghent, NY. A native New Yorker, they teach in the graduate Creative Writing Workshop at LSU New Orleans.

 

Anthony Correale

Fiction (Week Two)

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Anthony Correale is a fiction writer living in Nashville, Tennessee. His fiction has appeared in The Georgia Review, Redivider, The Journal and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from Indiana University and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has taught at several institutions, most recently Clemson University and has held editorial positions at Indiana Review and Cream City Review. 

Su Cho

Poetry & Publishing (Week Two)

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Su Cho is the author of The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin 2022) which was selected for the 2021 National Poetry Series by Paige Lewis and featured in places like the New York Times Book Review and NPR’s “Books We Love.” Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets, and her essay “Of Sesame Leaves and Sunflowers” was a Notable Essay in Best American Essays. Born in South Korea and raised in Indiana, a recipient of the 2025 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, she currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee where she is an assistant professor of creative writing at Vanderbilt University. 

Cassandra Whitaker

Poetry & Prose (Week Three)

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Cassandra Whitaker (she/they) is a trans writer living in rural Virginia.  Whit's work has been published in Michigan Quarterly Review,  Conjunctions, The Mississippi Review, Foglifter, Lambda Literary Review, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Cincinnati Review, and other places. Winner of the Pink Poetry Prize and the Dogfish Head Poetry Prize,  they are the recipient of grant fellowships from The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, Maryland Humanities, Maryland State Arts Council, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts, among others. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and an educator.  Her work in rural theater arts education and LGBTQ+ education has been recognized by the Maryland State Arts Commission and the Maryland LGBTQ+ Commission for excellence. Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf, her first full-length collection, is available from Jackleg Press.

Kathleen Rooney

Fiction & Publishing (Week Three)

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Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a collective of typewriter poets who do commissioned poetry on demand. Her fifth novel Man Overboard! was published by Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster in July of 2026 and her debut picture book Leaf Town Forever, co-written with her sister Beth and illustrated by Betsy Bowen, was released by University of Minnesota Press in 2025. Her newest poetry collection, O Western Wind, won the New Measures Poetry Prize and will be published by Parlor Press / Free Verse Editions in 2027. She lives in Chicago with her spouse, the writer Martin Seay, and teaches at DePaul University. (Photo Credit: Beth Rooney)

Martin Seay

Fiction (Week Three)

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Martin Seay’s debut novel The Mirror Thief was published by Melville House in 2016. He has been awarded a fiction fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and his short stories and essays have appeared in Joyland, MAKE, Gargoyle, the Believer, and the Gettysburg Review. Originally from Texas, he lives in Chicago with his spouse, the writer Kathleen Rooney.