Katana Smith

Katana Smith

Katana Smith (she/her) is a poet from Aurora, Colorado, a McNair Scholar, and a candidate in the MFA+MA program at Northwestern University.
Irene Kim

Irene Kim

Irene Kim is a PhD candidate in the English department. Her research focuses on the aesthetics of ambience in experimental Asian American film, art, literature, and performance from 1980 to the present.
Kira Tucker

Kira Tucker

Kira Tucker (she/they) is an artist from Memphis and a current MFA+MA candidate in poetry at Northwestern University. Kira’s latest creative project is all about dreams and dreaming—a poetic investigation spanning the mythos of the American Dream and the...
George Abraham

George Abraham

George Abraham (they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet in the Litowitz MFA+MA program. Their debut poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist.