David Ebenbach is the author of ten books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, winners of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the Juniper Prize, and the WWPH Fiction Prize, among others. He lives with his family in Washington, DC. He can be found at davidebenbach.com.

Chanlee Luu is a writer from Southern Virginia. She received her MFA in creative writing from Hollins University and her BS in chemical engineering from UVA. She won the 2024 Jean Feldman Poetry Award from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, which published her debut collection, The Machine Autocorrects Code to I. One of her poems […]

Caroline Bock is the author of Carry Her Home (winner of the Fiction Award from WWPH), as well as the young adult novels Before My Eyes, and LIE (St. Martin’s Press). The Other Beautiful People, her first novel for adults—a workplace love story— will be published in June of 2026 by Regal House Publishing. She […]

Adam Schwartz’s debut collection of stories, The Rest of the World, won the Washington Writers’ Publishing House 2020 prize for fiction. His non-fiction has appeared in Newsweek, Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Banner, and elsewhere. He has taught high school in Baltimore for twenty-seven years.

Holly Karapetkova is Poet Laureate Emerita of Arlington, Virginia, and recipient of a 2022 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship for her work with young poets. Her most recent book of poetry is Dear Empire (Gunpowder Press), winner of the 2025 William Meredith Prize and the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize.

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 […]