Alexander Weinstein

Director / All Genres (Week One & Two)

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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)

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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.

Christopher Citro

Poetry, Creative Nonfiction & Publishing (Week One)

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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.

 

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.

 

Jackson Brown

Fiction (Week One)

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Jackson Brown is an Associate Editor for Callaloo, for which he previously served as Managing Editor and Director on the Board of the Callaloo Foundation, Inc. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared and are forthcoming in Callaloo, his op-eds in TRT World and New Black Man (In Exile), and his editorial cartoons and comics on Open Thought Vortex and in various print and digital publications. An OpEd Project Public Voices Fellow, he has served as a fiction workshop leader for the Eastern Caribbean Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados; an Associate Fiction Editor for Indiana Review; and an illustrator for USAID’s Textbooks for a Global Society project, on a team creating educational resources for grade schools in Benin, West Africa. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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Taneum Bambrick

Poetry & Creative Nonfiction (Week Two)

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T (Taneum) Bambrick is the author of Intimacies, Received (Copper Canyon Press 2022), and Vantage (American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Award 2019). Their work can be found in the New Yorker, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. A 2020 Wallace Stegner Fellow, they have received fellowships from the Sewanee Writer’s Conference, Community of Writers, Vermont Studio Center, and the Key West Literary Seminar, as well as scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writer’s Conference. She lives in Los Angeles and is a Dornsife Fellow in the creative writing PhD program at the University of Southern California.

Jennifer Maritza McCauley

Fiction & Poetry (Week Two)

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Jennifer Maritza McCauley, a multi-genre writer and poet, is the author of When Trying to Return Home (Counterpoint), SCAR ON/SCAR OFF (Stalking Horse Press), Kinds of Grace (Flower Song Press) and the forthcoming poetry collection VERSUS (Texas Review Press) and speculative book NEON STEEL (Cornerstone Press/University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.) She is an assistant professor in English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

 

Jenny Molberg

Poetry & Publishing (Week Two)

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Jenny Molberg is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently The Court of No Record (LSU Press, 2023), a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Missouri Review, Oprah Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and others. She is Professor of Writing, Literature, and Publishing and Editor-in-Chief of Ploughshares at Emerson College.

 

Phong Nguyen

Fiction (Week Two)

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Phong Nguyen is the author of six books, including the upcoming novel Daughters of Annam (forthcoming in 2026 from Grand Central Publishing). His most recent novel, Bronze Drum, was named one of NPR's Best Books of the Year for 2022, a Book of the Month Club selection for August 2022, and was featured or favorably reviewed in The New York Times, Washington Post, St Louis Post-Dispatch, NPR, and many more newspapers and magazines. His other books include Roundabout, part of the Missouri Authors Series; Adventures of Joe Harper, winner of the Prairie Heritage Award; Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History; and Memory Sickness and Other Stories, winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award. He is co-editor, with Dan Chaon, of Nancy Hale: On the Life and Work of a Lost American Master. He is co-editor, with Robert Olen Butler, of Best Peace Fiction: A Social Justice Anthology. He currently serves as the Miller Family Endowed Chair in Literature and Writing at the University of Missouri, where he teaches fiction.

 

Sarah Nguyen

Bookbinding (Week Two)

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Sarah Nguyen is a mixed media artist, working primarily with paper. Storytelling is central to her hand-cut fiber panels and paintings. Her work has appeared in numerous national and international solo and group exhibitions and publications. Her work has been part of exhibitions in museums and festivals including Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum of Asian Pacific Experience, the Daum Museum, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Grounds and Museum, the Truman Museum, Cheekwood Estates & Gardens, and Kansas City’s 2018 Open Spaces. She has been a visiting artist and teacher at residencies around the world as well as the U.S. Sarah works as the Book Designer for Pleiades Press and Magazine and as Freelance Illustrator where you can find her work on book covers and children’s books. She is currently the Art Installations Curator for the True/False Film Fest. Sarah received her BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in Painting from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

 

Alexandra Murphy

Fiction Manuscript Consultant (Week One & Two)

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Alexandra Murphy is an editor at Page Street Publishing where she works on nonfiction, young adult, and adult horror titles. Her first acquired title, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered, won the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in Long Nonfiction. Her latest passion project is launching Page Street’s brand-new horror imprint with the upcoming debut title The Faceless Thing We Adore, as featured on Publisher’s Lunch 2025 Buzz Books, and I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200 by former Cracked editor Robert Brockway. Alexandra is incredibly passionate about supporting other writers. You can find her wandering the many bookstores of Boston, looking for something weird, dark, and hilarious to read.