Jona Colson is the author of Said Through Glass, and the translator of Aguas/Waters by Miguel Avero. His poems, translations, and interviews have appeared in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, LitHub, and elsewhere. He is co-president of Washington Writers’ Publishing House and edits the bi-weekly journal, WWPH Writes. He is a professor of ESL at Montgomery […]

K. Avvirin Berlin is a poet and painter who has recently begun writing prose. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with her husband and two cats. Birdie’s Flight is her first published short story.

Kathleen Wheaton lived in Bethesda, Maryland for twenty-five years working as a journalist and as a Spanish and Portuguese interpreter. Her collection, Aliens and Other Stories, received the 2013 WWPH Fiction Prize; she was president of the press for eight years. She is a 2024-2026 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Len Kruger’s debut novel, Bad Questions, was the winner of the 2023 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Award and a 2023 Foreword INDIES finalist. His short fiction has appeared in Zoetrope-All Story, The Barcelona Review, The Potomac Review, Gargoyle, Splonk, and elsewhere. He lives in Washington, DC.

Megan earned an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University, and is a professor of English at New River Community College, where she teaches creative writing, composition, and literature. She was a 2007 Fulbright-Hays fellow to South Africa, and returned to that country in 2015-2016 as a research fellow at the University of the Free […]

Melanie S. Hatter is the author of Malawi’s Sisters, which was selected by Edwidge Danticat as the winner of the inaugural Kimbilio National Fiction Prize and published by Four Way Books in 2019. Her debut novel, The Color of My Soul, won the 2011 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Prize, and Let No One Weep […]

Nathan Leslie won the 2019 Washington Writers’ Publishing House prize for fiction for his satirical collection of short stories, Hurry Up and Relax. He is also the series editor for Best Small Fictions. He is the author of thirteen books including Invisible Hand, A Fly in the Ointment, Sibs, and The Tall Tale of Tommy […]

Nicole Tong is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Fairfax County, Virginia. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sundress Academy at Firefly Farms, George Mason University where she received her MFA. In 2016, she served as a Writer-in-Residence at Pope-Leighey House, a Frank Lloyd […]

Patricia Schultheis, a Baltimore-based writer, won the 2015 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Award for her short story collection St. Bart’s Way. Her fiction explores the complexities of upper-middle-class life in Baltimore, while her nonfiction includes Baltimore’s Lexington Market and the memoir A Balanced Life. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Schultheis continues to write […]