Emily Helfgot
Emily Helfgot is a writer and performer with a professional background in elementary school teaching and literacy-based non-profit work. She is an alumni of Killing My Lobster, a sketch comedy group in San Francisco, and has facilitated workshops for teachers on how to teach writing to their students in New York, Minneapolis and the Bay Area. In May 2006 she was featured on an episode of NPR's This American Life (‘The Angels in the Centerfold'), which formed the basis for her one-woman show ('Play/date') that she wrote and performed in November 2006 at the Red Room in the East Village. In addition to writing and performing for fun, she also ...
LeAnne Howe
LeAnne Howe, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, was the screenwriter for Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire, a 90-minute PBS documentary released in November 2006. Howe's first novel, Shell Shaker (Aunt Lute Books, 2001), received an American Book Award in 2002. Howe is Associate Professor and Interim Director of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Dax-Devlon Ross
Dax-Devlon Ross, Esq. is a thoughtful commentator on popular culture and a student of African-American history. His interests also include music (particularly Jazz and Hip-Hop), sports (particularly as they relate to and impact culture), politics, economics, justice and education. Dax is the author of five books, including, most recently, The Nightmare and The Dream: Nas, Jay-Z and the History of Conflict in African-American Culture, which has been called a "brilliant textual achievement" and a "must read for anyone concerned with the future of hip-hop, African-Americans, and new directions in late modern America as a whole." He is the co-publisher of Outside the Box Publishing and the co-founder of Page-2-Print a ...
Tsipi Keller
Tsipi Keller was born in Prague, raised in Israel, and has been living in the United States since 1974. Her short fiction and her poetry translations have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and her novels include Jackpot; Retelling; and The Prophet of Tenth Street. Keller has also translated several poetry collections, including Dan Pagis's Last Poems and Irit Katzir's And I Wrote Poems. She lives in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Peter Chepkonga
Peter Chepkonga grew up in Eldoret and can run very fast. He writes for KASS magazine.
Al Kags
Al Kags is the publisher of The Quarterly Colour Series of Poetry, a poetry ebook series that is now distributed virally to over 160,000 people all over the world. He has been writing since he was twelve and has been a regular columnist and feature writer in various publications both in Kenya and Internationally.
Makena Ringera
Makena Ringera (formerly known to use 'Jackline' but discarded it after discovering herself to be African) took pen to paper at age 15. The result of that effort was 'The Mystery of the Twin Webs', a fantasy novel laced with thrilling adventures, a pinch of romance and some bad grammar. Good luck sent Makena across the Atlantic to Amherst College in 2006 where she is a devote Economics student. Having learned a thing or two in creative writing classes, she is working on a rewrite of 'Twin Webs'.
Gitura Kamau
Gitura Kamau is a young Nairobi theatre and film actor who has recently begun to direct his own movies. His first feature film, "Wangai's Cross," was shot in Nairobi and premiered June 18th, 2008. Kamau is currently involved in several film projects, including his second film, "Odohoz."
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