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Francesca Padilla

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Francesca Padilla is a Dominican-American fiction writer born and raised in New York City. She is the recipient of a Walter Dean Myers Grant from We Need Diverse Books and holds a BA in Creative Writing from the State University of New York at Purchase College. She lives with her family in Rochester, New York. You can usually find her tweeting about books, astrology, health & human services, New York State things, and occasional dumb sh*t @frannypadilla

Ellen Hagan

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Ellen Hagan is a writer, performer, and educator. Her latest collection of poetry Hemisphere is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press, Spring 2015.Ellen's poems and essays can be found in the pages of Creative Nonfiction, Underwired Magazine, She Walks in Beauty (edited by Caroline Kennedy) , Huizache, Small Batch, and Southern Sin. Her first collection of poetry, Crowned was published by Sawyer House Press in 2010.Ellen's performance work has been showcased at The New York International Fringe and Los Angeles Women's Theater Festival. She is the recipient of the 2013 NoMAA Creative Arts Grant...