Stephen Kuusisto (2015)

Stephen Kuusisto (2015)

Stephen Kuusisto is the author of the memoirs Planet of the Blind(a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year”) andEavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening and of the poetry collections Only Bread, Only Light, and Letters to Borges.   A graduate of the...
Heidi Diehl (2015)

Heidi Diehl (2015)

Fiction writer Heidi Diehl is based in Brooklyn. She earned her BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA in Creative Writing—Fiction from Brooklyn College where she has worked as an adjunct lecturer in the Department of English since 2010.   Her...
Joanne Pottlitzer (2015)

Joanne Pottlitzer (2015)

Joanne Pottlitzer, a writer, theatre director, and translator, has produced many Latin American plays in New York and is the winner of two Obies, two Senior Fulbright Awards, three NEA grants, and many producing and writing awards.   Joanne’s history with Latin...
George Wen (2015)

George Wen (2015)

George Wen was born in Seattle, Washington. A graduate of Dartmouth, Cambridge University, Harvard, the University of Paris, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he was a university lecturer in Paris for thirteen years before coming to New York...
Lauren Yee (2014)

Lauren Yee (2014)

Lauren Yee is a playwright who earned her BA at Yale and her MFA at the University of California at San Diego. Her plays include: Ching Chong Chinaman (Pan Asian Rep, Mu Performing Arts), Crevice (Impact Theatre), The Hatmaker’s Wife (Playwrights Realm, Moxie,...