Seth Fischer
Seth Fischer's work has appeared in Guernica, The Master's Review, Zocalo Public Square, Ninth Letter, Slate, and elsewhere, and was twice listed as notable in The Best American Essays. He’s currently senior editor at Air/Light Literary Magazine, and he has edited at The Rumpus, Gold Line Press, and The Nervous Breakdown. Currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California, he previously taught at UCLA-Extension Writer’s Program and Antioch University Los Angeles, where he also received his MFA.
Visit his site at www.seth-fischer.com
Pedro Mantecon
Pedro Mantecon (Mexico City, 1983). He studied Visual Arts at the Centro Morelense de las Artes (CMA) in 2011, where he focused on sound art. In 2010, he was selected to participate in Composing Interactive Multimedia at the Mexican Center for Music and Sound Arts. In 2013, he took the workshop Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics at Berklee College of Music. He earned a Master's Degree in Editorial Production at the UAEM (Mexico City University of Mexico), focusing his research on the relationship between publishing and sound. Throughout his career as a composer, he has composed original music for documentaries and short films such as the series Impunidad Mata (Impunity Kills) by Article 19, La Voz Del Silencio (The Voice of Silence), a documentary about the 2017 earthquake produced by Cultura Colectiva (broadcast by National Geographic), and the installation Cotidiano de un Trabajador Petrolero (Daily Life of an Oil Worker) by Pemex. Recipient of the Program for the Promotion of Artistic Creation and Development (Morelos) in 2020 as a creator with a track record in the music category. He was selected for the Ragdale Foundation residency in 2023.
His recent discography, under the name Capital Sur, includes Plano circular (2014), Meridiano (2016), Laberintos invisibles (2018), and Estrategias poéticas (2022). With this project, he has performed at El Lunario, the Cervantino Festival, the Teopanzolco Auditorium, the Oriente Festival, and the Jardín Borda Cultural Center, among others.
He has taught workshops at the Eduardo Mata Sound Library (Oaxaca), the Center for the Execution of Deprivation of Liberty Measures (CEMPLA in Morelos), and various cultural venues. He served as Education Director at Proyecto Siqueiros La Tallera from 2012 to 2014, where he coordinated workshops and events related to soundscapes. Later in 2016, he was invited to direct the School of Visual Arts at the CMA, where he created the Bachelor's Degree in Art and Tradition. He currently heads the Arts Promotion for the Ministry of Culture of the State of Morelos.
Visit his site at www.pedromantecon.com
Ananda Lima
Ananda Lima is the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil and Mother/land, winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers and Program Curator and Core Faculty at StoryStudio, Chicago. Lima was a mentor at the NYFA Immigrant Artist Program and the inaugural Latinx-in-Publishing WIP Fellow, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers. She has an MA in Linguistics (UCLA) and an MFA in Creative Writing (Rutgers University, Newark). Craft, her fiction debut, was longlisted for the Story Prize, the ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal. The New York Times describes it as “a remarkable debut that announces the arrival of a towering talent in speculative fiction.” Lima is also a translator and a photographer. Originally from Brazil, she lives in Chicago and New York.
Visit her site at www.anandalima.com
Robin Ha
Robin Ha (she/her) is the award-winning author/illustrator of the graphic novel memoir Almost American Girl. At fourteen she moved to the United States from Seoul, Korea. Her comics and illustrations have appeared in various publications, including the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, as well as in anthologies highlighting Asian American culture, including Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now, New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei, and Shattered: The Asian American Comics Anthology (Secret Identities). She is also the author of the best-selling comic recipe book Cook Korean!: A Comic Book With Recipes. Her new graphic novel, The Fox Maidens is published by Balzer and Bray in February 2024. Robin is currently working on a graphic novel cookbook, Souped-up Ramyeon and Beyond, scheduled to be published in 2026 by Harvest.
Visit her site at robinha81.wixsite.com/robinha
Katie Jean Shinkle
Katie Jean Shinkle’s books and chapbooks include Tannery Bay (FC2/University of Alabama Press, coauthored with Steven Dunn, 2024), Transference (Gasher Press 2024 Chapbook Prize Winner, forthcoming), and The Only Way Out is Through (YesYes Books, forthcoming). She holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Arts from the University of Denver, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama. Awarded fellowships and residencies from Lambda Literary and Ragdale, she serves as co-poetry editor of DIAGRAM.
Visit her site at katiejeanshinkle.com
