Anna Cabe

Anna Cabe is a Pinay American writer. She hails from many places but calls Memphis, TN, home. She received a BA in English literature-creative writing from Agnes Scott College in 2013 and a Fulbright Fellowship in Indonesia from 2013 to 2014. Anna earned an MFA in fiction from Indiana University in 2018, where she taught creative writing and composition, served as a student representative for the MFA program, and worked as the web and nonfiction editor for Indiana Review. Upon graduating, she was a Fulbright Fellow in the Philippines for the 2018-2019 academic year. She was the guest-editor for The #Demands Issue of Killjoy and is Co-Fiction Editor for Split Lip Magazine with Janelle Bassett. Anna was a 2015 Kore Press Short Fiction Award semifinalist, a finalist for Midwestern Gothic's Summer 2016 Flash Fiction Series, a finalist for the 2015 Boulevard Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers, and the second runner-up in StoryQuarterly's Sixth Annual Fiction Prize in 2019. She attended the 2019 NVM & Narita Gonzalez Writers' Workshop at the University of the Philippines and has received support from The Millay Colony, The Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and the James T. and Ella Rather Kirk Fund of Agnes Scott College. She is completing a novel set during martial law. She is represented by Erin Harris of Folio Literary Management.

https://www.annacabe.com/

Waqas Khwaja

Professor Khwaja is the Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor of English at Agnes Scott College where he teaches courses in Postcolonial literature, 18th & 19th century British literature, and Creative Writing. He has published four collections of poetry, (Hold Your Breath, No One Waits for the Train, Mariam’s Lament, and Six Geese from a Tomb at Medum), and a literary travelogue (Writers and Landscapes), about his experiences as a fellow of the International Writers Program, University of Iowa, in addition to three edited anthologies of Pakistani literature (Cactus, Mornings in the Wilderness, and Short Stories from Pakistan). He served as translation editor (and contributor) for Modern Poetry of Pakistan (Dalkey, 2011), a project jointly sponsored by the National Endowment of the Arts and the Pakistan Academy of Letters, showcasing the work of 44 poets from Pakistan’s national and regional languages, and has guest-edited a special issue of scholarly articles on Pakistani Literature for the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. He has also guest edited a special issue on Pakistani poetry for Atlanta Review. His poems and translations have appeared in US, South Asian, European, African, Middle Eastern and Far Eastern publications, literary journals, and anthologies.

A practicing lawyer and visiting professor of law in Pakistan before migrating to the U.S. in 1994, Khwaja has published articles and essays on writers from many linguistic and cultural traditions and on subjects as wide-ranging as literature, economics, history, culture, and politics.

A recipient of special recognition for outstanding creative writing from the South Asian Literary Society (SALA), USA, (2017), and the Orient-Occident Arts Laureate award from the Funda?ia Academia Interna?ional? Orient–Occident, Romania (2021), among other honors, Khwaja regularly organizes poetry readings at Agnes Scott College, including an annual public celebration of poetry as part of the international “100 Thousand Poets for Change” project.

https://wkhwaja.agnesscott.org/

Alan Grostephan

Professor Grostephan teaches creative writing--fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and literary translation. His interests include literary modernism, 20th century American, post-colonial, and Latin American literatures. In 2001, he co-founded a nonprofit in a slum outside Bogotá, Colombia, where he taught creative writing and theater. He is the editor and translator of Stories of Life and Death, a collection writing by young Colombian writers, and the author of Bogotá, a novel, long-listed for the Pen/Robert W. Bingham Award and chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best ten books of fiction in 2013. He is currently finishing his second novel.

https://www.agnesscott.edu/directory/faculty/grostephan-alan.html

Courtney Faye Taylor

COURTNEY FAYE TAYLOR is a writer, visual artist, and the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022), selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Concentrate was awarded the T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America and was named a finalist for the NAACP Image Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, the Society of Midland Authors Award, and the Heartland Booksellers Award. The collection has been featured in Publishers Weekly, Essence Magazine, The Los Angeles Times and named among the “Best Poetry of the Last Year” by Ms. Magazine.

Courtney earned her BA from Agnes Scott College and her MFA from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program. She is the winner of the 92Y Discovery Prize and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her visual art has been exhibited at the Charlotte Street Foundation and The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art online. Her writing can be found in Poetry Magazine, The Nation, and elsewhere.

Courtney lives in Atlanta, GA where she is working on her debut novel.

https://courtneyfayetaylor.com/

Natalie Villacorta

Natalie Villacorta is a writer from McLean, Virginia. After studying biology and English at Brown University, she worked as a reporter for POLITICO. She left journalism to pursue her MFA in creative nonfiction at Oregon State University, graduating in June 2018. She is now a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati, where she is an Albert C. Yates Fellow. Her creative writing has appeared in Joyland, Hobart, Moss, DIAGRAM and The Offing.

http://www.natalievillacorta.com/