Dawn Angelicca Barcelona

Dawn Angelicca Barcelona

Dawn Angelicca Barcelona (she/her) is a candidate in the Litowitz MFA+MA program at Northwestern University. Her chapbook, Roundtrip, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2025.
Laiba Niaz Paracha

Laiba Niaz Paracha

Laiba Niaz Paracha is a PhD student in the Comparative Literary Studies Program, and her home Department is Asian Languages and Cultures. Her comparative work attempts to demonstrate the relevance of lyric interiority in unsettling neo-colonial territorialities and...
Yẹmí Ajíṣebútú

Yẹmí Ajíṣebútú

Yẹmí Ajíṣebútú (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in the Comparative Literary Studies Program. Her research focuses on the Being of the Diasporic self in the United States in contemporary narratives of African (Nigerian) descent writers, Art, Enslavement, and...
Isaac Ginsberg Miller

Isaac Ginsberg Miller

Isaac Ginsberg Miller (he/they) is a PhD candidate in African American Studies at Northwestern University. Isaac’s chapbook Stopgap won The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Chapbook Contest, and was published in 2019.
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.