News & Events

Julia Kolchinsky (formerly Dasbach) emigrated from Dnipro, Ukraine, as when she was six years old. She is the author the poetry collections The Many Names for Mother, Don’t Touch the Bones, and 40 WEEKS. Her fourth poetry collection, Parallax, was just published in March by the Arkansas University Press. Her writing has appeared in POETRY, … Continued

Preston Lauterbach is author of the American music classic The Chitlin’ Circuit, as well as Beale Street Dynasty and Bluff City. His latest, Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King, was published in January of 2025. Lauterbach has coauthored three memoirs with significant figures in Black music, including Brother Robert with the … Continued

Rachel Lyon is the author of Self-Portrait with Boy, a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s 2018 First Novel Prize, and Fruit of the Dead, an Oprah Magazine best book of 2024 and which The New York Times called “superb” and “refreshing.” Lyon’s short stories have appeared in One Story, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, and … Continued

Bernice L. McFadden is an assistant professor of creative writing at Tulane University and the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including Sugar, The Warmest December, Loving Donovan, Nowhere Is a Place, Glorious, Gathering of Waters (a New York Times Editors’ Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012), The Book of Harlan (winner of a 2017 American … Continued

Michael McFee is the author or editor of seventeen books, most recently A Long Time to Be Gone: Poems and Appointed Rounds: Essays. A native of Asheville, North Carolina, he taught in the creative writing program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1990 to 2024.