Congrats, Kelly! So excited for you!!

So excited for this!! Congrats!!

Our pleasure! Grateful to get to read it!

BIO: Veronica Marshall received her master of fine arts from Otis College of Art and Design. She has been published in Blood Orange Review, @redogrereview.bsky.social , and StreetLit. … Marshall is inspired by the use of perspective and texture.

…and while you wait for it to ship, read Rocio’s poem A 6 MONTH FOLLOW UP VISIT OPENS MY MOUTH IN ANGUISH in our “Hunger” issue: tinyurl.com/Expo6Month.

#poetry #ExpoRecommends #ExpoFam

…In 2025, Simi became a Playwrights Horizons Ambassador. When not writing, they enjoy playing overpowered CRPG characters with questionable morals.

with Third Avenue receiving professional readings at La MaMa and National Queer Theater, and publication in @penamerica.bsky.social’s 2024 DREAMing Out Loud: An Anthology of Migrant Writers. …

BIO: Simi Modupeore Raji (she/they) is an award-winning Nigerian American writer from New York City whose work blends myth, memory, and magic at the margins. Their plays Third Avenue and Prometheus were produced in @lehmancollege.bsky.social’s New Voices Festival...

…nonbinary writers in literary spaces and holds a leadership role in Women Who Submit. Her work is featured in HarperVia’s Somewhere We Are Human, The Latinx Project at NYU, and @lesbrains.bsky.social’s @tastefulrude.bsky.social among others. www.lucyrodriguezhanley.com

BIO: Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley is a nonfiction writer, filmmaker, and mother of two. A Dominicana via Washington Heights residing in Long Beach, California. She is a @penamerica.bsky.social, @tinhouse.bsky.social, Macondo, and VONA fellow. She advocates for representation of BIPOC women and