Yefe Nof offers thinkers, artists, and design-makers opportunities for establishing new connections. It is targeted at authors unknown to the general public considering problems which anyone on earth can apply themselves to…

The ideal candidate is self-motivated, outgoing, interested in interdisciplinary work, not inhibited by group think or standards of their field, not afraid to fail, and has a desire to engage…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Writer Based in: Paris, France About: Gil Soltz grew up in San Bernardino, California, went to college at Brandeis University, and later earned his MPA from NYU’s Wagner…

Discipline/Field: Writer / Filmmaker Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: Ryan Connolly is a new writer and filmmaker who recently left behind a successful two-decade national security career to pursue the…

Discipline/Field: Photography Based in: Paris, France About: Laura Stevens (b. 1977 England, UK) holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Arts and Design from Leeds Metropolitan University, and a Master…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Writer Based in: Mesa, AZ About: Meredith Martinez is a brave new voice in fiction and an accomplished dancer. Since earning her MFA from Warren Wilson she has been…

Discipline/Field: Creative Nonfiction Based in: Palm Desert, CA About: Ruth Nolan is author, former seasonal wildland firefighter, and professor of American Indian Literature and creative writing at College of the Desert….

Discipline/Field: Fiction Writer Based in: Pasadena, CA About: William Deverell has been Professor of History at the University of Southern California since 2004. He founded and directs the Huntington-USC Institute on…

Discipline/Field: Poet Based in: Altadena, CA About: Elline Lipkin is the current Poet Laureate of Altadena and a Research Scholar with UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. She is actively engaged in…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Writer Based in: Orange, CA About: Jonelle Strickland is a determined talent and mother of two toddlers with ferocious commitment to craft and philosophical issues that cover a…

Discipline/Field: Memoir Based in: Oakland, CA About: Yodassa Williams is a writer/performer and business owner who has a rare talent for presenting stories that evoke the human potential to transcend…

Discipline/Field: Poetry Based in: The Bay Area (CA) About: Originally from Seattle, WA, Amber is a poet with magical reach, impressive accolades and a full-length collection of poetry to her…

Discipline/Field: Experimental Fiction Based in: San Francisco Bay Area About: Amanda Kim is a fourth-generation Californian whose literary transgressions are dedicated to telling truthful, complex stories that inspire different ways of…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Los Angeles About: James Sie is the author of Still Life Las Vegas (St. Martin’s Press, 2015), his debut novel about a boy growing behind the…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Los Angeles About: Chris Daley is the Director of Writing Workshops Los Angeles and she also teaches at the California Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in English…

Discipline/Field: Prison Reform Research Based in: Los Angeles About: Kenneth E. Hartman is author of the memoir, Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars (Atlas & Co. 2009), and numerous thought provoking…

Discipline/Field: Creative Nonfiction Based in: New York, NY About: Recent UC Riverside MFA graduate, Natassja Schiel, completed her thesis work under the close tutelage of Emily Rapp Black. As a Redesign…

Discipline/Field: Poetry & Creative Nonfiction Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: Amy Davis is a New Yorker who has lived in Southern California for forty years. She holds a doctorate…

Discipline/Field: Playwright & Performance Artist Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: Linda Ravenswood is a prolific poet scholar who over the past decade has accumulated impressive commissions, publications, and accolades…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Seattle, WA About: Ari McKenna grew up in Jamaica Plain, Boston and went to The New School University where he began a manuscript with the working title, Solace and…

Discipline/Field: Poet / Comic Book Writer Based in: San Jose, CA About: Julia Tranchina is a municipal employee, a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow, and a seventh generation Californian who can…

Discipline/Field: Nonfiction Journalism Based in: Pasadena, CA About: Christopher DeWan is a prolific storyteller and screen writer, an avid hiker, and has taught at Idyllwild Arts. His most recent work…

Discipline/Field: Short Story Fiction Based in: Los Angeles, CA About:  Kamala Puligandla attended the MFA program at UC Riverside and writes autobiographical fiction and essays about her radical, queer, multi-ethnic…

Discipline/Field: Creative Nonfiction Based in: Riverside, CA About: UC Riverside MFA candidate, Amanda Oliver, has a keen interest in using research to identify and help solve social problems. Originally from…

Discipline/Field: Poetry Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: After living in South Korea for 20 years, Kim Stoker returned to the U.S. in 2017. During her time in Seoul she…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: Born in Taiwan, raised in Southern California, Jean is a doctoral candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Oakland, CA About: Rona Fernandez is a writer, activist, dancer, wife and #stillmother. She has returned to writing after enduring tragic loss. Project Title: The Marsh…

Discipline/Field: Nonfiction Based in: Claremont, CA About: Andrea Bennett holds a BA in Art History from Wellesley College and is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of…

Discipline/Field: Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Based in: Long Beach, CA About: Madeline is a veteran journalist who grew up in Kansas, lived in Switzerland, Japan, and Spain, and has called…

Discipline/Field: Mental Health Research Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: Omid Naim is an Integrative Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist. He is the founder of a nonprofit called the La Maida…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: Dawn Dorland is an alumna of Harvard Divinity School and the MFA program at the University of Maryland. Her writing is concerned…

Discipline/Field: Creative Nonfiction Based in: Los Angeles About: Joseph Cardenas is a musician/writer and the owner of Radio Tirado. The son of migrants, he has lived all over the U.S….

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Riverside, CA About: Alicia Mosley is a community educator, adjunct professor, and a mother of four whose creative work explores the magical labor of mothering while…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: San Francisco, CA About: Alysia Gonzales attends the MFA program at San Francisco State in the city where she was born and raised. She is of…

Discipline/Field: Poetry Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed is a political strategist, storyteller, and poet who has devoted her professional career to empowering and mobilizing South Asian…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: Lina Abascal is a journalist whose writing has appeared in many of today’s edgiest publications, as well as in self-published zines/chapbooks. She…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: Stefani Cox is an MFA candidate at UC Riverside who originally hails from Northern California. Her work explores Black womanhood, environmental issues,…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Altadena, CA About: Geoffrey Sharp is a long time television writer and director. He has produced hundreds of hours of non-fiction television focusing mainly on religion,…

Discipline/Field: Poetry Based in: Los Angeles About: Amber West is the author of two books of poetry as well as a variety of “puppet poems.” A native of San Luis…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Los Angeles About: Neelanjana Banerjee is the Managing Editor of Kaya Press, an independent press dedicated to Asian Pacific American and Asian Diasporic literature. She is…

Discipline/Field: Historical Fiction Based in: London, England About: Katherine Lim is passionate about writing fiction that challenges how we view history. She holds a BA in English Literature from Brown…

Discipline/Field: Performance Poetry Based in: Phoenix, AZ About: Robert Farid Karimi designs games and interactive performance experiences to spark audiences/players, in all manner of civic spaces, to imagine worlds of…

Discipline/Field: Design – Podcast Based in: Los Angeles + Brooklyn About: April is an author, journalist and podcaster who has written a few books about digestive disorders. Catherine leads communications…

Discipline/Field: Poetry, modern drama, music Based in: Claremont, CA About: Hao Huang is the Frankel Endowed Chair in Music at Scripps College. He is a founding member of the Animas…

Discipline/Field: Nonfiction Essay Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: Vickie Vértiz is the Author of Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut, winner of the 2018 PEN America Poetry Prize. Twenty years ago,…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Atascadero, CA About: Tasia Trevino is a writer and musician who holds a BA in History from UCLA and an MFA in poetry from the Iowa…

Discipline/Field: Fiction, Playwriting, Performance Art Based in: Chicago + Los Angeles About: Sandra Jackson-Opoku is an award-winning author of a range of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and dramatic works, including the…

Discipline/Field: Literary Nonfiction and Poetry Based in: Riverside, CA About: Eileen Elizabeth Espinoza is a queer essayist and poet living in Southern California. She is co-founder of Boshemia Magazine, a…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: Ilana Masad is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and criticism whose work has appeared widely. She’s currently a doctoral student at the University…

Discipline/Field: Playwright  Based in: Sacramento, CA About: Joanna Glum has unequivocally devoted her career and writing to social justice issues with a local focus. She has a BA from the…

Discipline/Field: Prose Writer Based: Los Angeles, CA About: Suhasini Yeeda is a first-generation queer Indian American from Dallas, Texas. She is the owner of NITI Communications, an independent consultancy dedicated…

Discipline/Field: Translation Based in: Berkeley, CA About: Laila Riazi is an interdisciplinary writer, teacher, and translator, living in California. She earned her B.A. in Comparative Literature and French and Francophone…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: ​​Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and author of two poetry collections. She is the director of Women Who Submit…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Culver City, CA About: Sophie Newman was born in Berkeley, California and raised on the Monterey Peninsula. She holds a BA in English from Rice University…

Discipline/Field: Creative Non-Fiction Based in: Atlanta, GA About: Huck Reyes is a Filipino-American writer/photographer originally from Oakland, CA who holds no degrees or awards from any university or institution and…

Discipline/Field: Playwright Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: Aaron Higareda is a southern California playwright who earned his MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from the…

Discipline/Field: Nonfiction – Memoir Based in: Portland, OR About: Doreen Dodgen-McGee is a clinical psychologist, speaker, and author. Her prior books focus on the impact of technology and covid on…

Discipline/Field: Research  Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: Tahereh Aghdasifar is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills. She specializes in queer of color critique, performance…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Madison, WI About: Michael Kaplan is a lover of the Northern California landscape (hailing from the Bay Area) who is fascinated by internet culture, Silicon Valley,…

Discipline/Field: Translation Based in: Walnut Creek, CA About: Ena Selimović is a Yugoslav-born writer and translator. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and she has been awarded the ALTA…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: Katharine Coldiron is the author of five books (two forthcoming) from indie presses, in various genres.  She was born in the American…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Carlsbad, CA About: Kendall Berents grew up in Virginia as the middle of a set of triplets. Her writing journey that began at a young age…

Discipline/Field: Fiction Based in: Los Angeles, CA About: Born and raised in Southern California, Chelsea Sutton is a fiction writer and playwright who writes gothic whimsy – a mix of…

Discipline/Field: Literature Based in: Naarm/Melbourne, Australia About: Jennifer Down is an author, editor and translator. Her writing is concerned with the intersections of class, geography, gender, and memory. Her most…