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Season 21 Mentors and Mentees

AWP celebrates the mentors and mentees participating in Season 21 of the AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program. We are thrilled to introduce twenty-eight pairs this session, who were matched based on their experience, goals, and writing style. Thank you to our volunteer mentors, and congratulations to the mentees they selected!

Creative Nonfiction

Mentor: Amy Bernstein

Amy L. Bernstein is an award-winning novelist, a former journalist, and a certified nonfiction book coach helping authors find their best path to publishing. She teaches writing and creativity workshops and brings an empowering message to writers and multimedia artists around the world. Learn more at AmyWrites.live.

Mentee: Veronica Vo

Veronica Vo is a Vietnamese American writer from Southern California. She is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at UC Riverside. Her work can be found in The Offing and Tint Journal, and has most recently been supported by the Disquiet International Program.

Mentor: Eden Boudreau

Eden Boudreau is a queer, neurodivergent author from the east coast of Canada, currently residing just outside Toronto. Boudreau’s debut memoir, Crying Wolf (Book*hug Press), which was shortlisted for a Lamda Literary Award, follows her recovery after a violent sexual assault, navigating disbelievers at every turn due in part to her polyamorous relationships. As a writer, speaker, and mentor, Boudreau uses her own life experiences as a queer, neurodivergent parent and partner to spark conversations around traditionally taboo subjects and give platforms to those who are often silenced. You can follow her on social media at @edenboudreau.

Mentee: Meika Rouda

Meika Rouda is a writer and producer. Her essays have appeared in HuffPost, Fresh Yarn, The Next Family, and Underwired Magazine. She’s a prior resident filmmaker at the San Francisco Jewish Film Institute and program consultant for the Telluride Film Festival. Her memoir in progress explores identity and family ties through the lens of an adoptee with adopted kids. Her current side hustle, The Dear Amy Project, uses storytelling to support reproductive freedom. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Mentor: Anika Fajardo

Anika Fajardo is an award-winning writer born in Colombia and raised in Minnesota. She is the author of the memoir Magical Realism for Non-Believers, as well as the middle-grade books What If a Fish and Meet Me Halfway. Her debut novel, The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore, is forthcoming fall 2025. She teaches creative nonfiction at the MFA program at Augsburg University.

Mentee: Amy Rothschild

Amy Wise Rothschild is working on a memoir that examines the vexed intersection of mothering and teaching. She is an essayist and poet, and her writing has appeared in The Bellevue Literary Review, The Atlantic, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among others. She is the 2024 winner of the Bellevue Literary Review Prize for Poetry. Rothschild lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mentor: Amy Fish

Amy Fish is the author of One in Six Million: The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust Survivor’s Lost Identity (Goose Lane Editions, 2025), Honeymoon Sneakers: A Cautionary Tale (Cactus Press, 2024), I Wanted Fries with That: How to Ask for What You Want and Get What You Need (New World Library, 2019), and The Art of Complaining Effectively (Avmor, 2015). Fries was named by the CBC as one of “40 works of Creative Non-Fiction to Watch Out For,” and was a pick for “14 books for those that love to laugh,” both in 2019. Fish is a staff reviewer and interviewer for Hippocampus Magazine for creative nonfiction and the ombudsman at Concordia University in Montreal. Follow her Substack Persistence for Writers, which comes out every Monday, or find her on Instagram at @amyfishwrites.

Mentee: Kathy Merrifield

Kathy Merrifield has finally retired, and has all the time in the world to write. She is working on what she considers a lifetime project. It’s a memoir about her and her husband, and their unusual life together.

Mentor: Martha Gies

Martha Gies is the author of Up All Night (OSU Press, 2004) and Broken Open (Wandering Aengus, 2024), as well as many stories, essays, reviews, and features in magazines—both literary and slick—and newspapers. She taught creative writing for thirty-four years at Oregon universities and workshops abroad.

Mentee: Joann Plockova

Joann Plockova is a literary personal essay writer and a journalist focused on architecture and design. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Dwell, Architectural Digest, and DIRT. She lives between Prague, Czech Republic, and Hobe Sound, Florida. Her essays often straddle the line between these two worlds and the liminal spaces in between them.

Mentor: Patrice Gopo

Patrice Gopo is an award-winning essayist and the author of multiple books. Her most recent titles include the essay collection Autumn Song and the picture book Ripening Time. Gopo lives with her family in North Carolina, where she enjoys walks just after dawn and thinks a perfect day ends with ice cream. Please visit PatriceGopo.com to learn more.

Mentee: Audrey Shipp

Audrey Shipp writes creative nonfiction. She is a PEN Emerging Voices Workshop LA honoree who is working on a memoir about writing and (un)writing in Los Angeles. She has English degrees from both UCLA and Cal State LA.

Mentor: Jean Guerrero

Jean Guerrero is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and a senior journalism fellow at the UCLA Latina Futures 2050 Lab. An award-winning investigative journalist, essayist, and speaker, Guerrero is the author of Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda. Her first book, Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir, won a PEN Literary Award and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice of 2023 and one of NPR’s best books of 2018. A former opinion columnist at the Los Angeles Times, she has been published in Vanity Fair, Politico, The Nation, Wired, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Best American Essays 2019 (edited by Rebecca Solnit), and more. She is regularly invited to speak on MSNBC, Democracy Now!, and other national radio and TV shows. Months before Trump’s family separations captured national attention, her PBS reporting on the practice was cited by members of Congress. She started her career at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires as a foreign correspondent in Mexico and Central America. She was named one of the California Chicano News Media Association’s most influential Latina journalists.

Mentee: Ching Ching Tan

Born and raised in Southern China, Ching Ching Tan began her American journey studying ESL at community colleges. She is now a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at San José State University, where she teaches public speaking for English learners and interpersonal communication. Tan holds an MFA in creative nonfiction. Her essays and op-eds have appeared in New England Review, CNN, HuffPost, SFWP, Visible Magazine, Canyon Voices Magazine, and elsewhere, exploring themes of cultural identity, language, and the immigrant experience in America. In 2023, her essay “How Do I Explain Myself,” published in New England Review, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her debut memoir, An Extra, is currently in progress and was the first runner-up for the 2024 Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Prize.

Mentor: Eli Hastings

Eli Hastings is a privileged cisgender white American male, as well as an author, psychotherapist, seeker, and complex trauma survivor. He published his first book, Falling Room (University of Nebraska Press), in 2006. His memoir, Clearly Now, the Rain: A Memoir of Love & Other Trips, came out from ECW Press in 2013. He has published widely in journals, anthologies, and magazines, and has won some awards, etc.!

Mentee: Rebecca Cybulski

Rebecca Cybulski is a Midwesterner, through and through. She received her BA in English literature from Kent State University and works as a copywriter for a company that supports libraries. She enjoys playing tennis, giving her dog belly rubs, and spending time on Lake Erie with her family.

Fiction

Mentor: Maryka Biaggio

Maryka Biaggio is an award-winning novelist specializing in historical fiction based on real people. Her published novels include Parlor Games (Doubleday, 2013), Eden Waits (Milford House Press, 2019), The Point of Vanishing (Milford House Press, 2021), and The Model Spy (Milford House Press, 2022).

Mentee: Tannis Kobrinsky

A theater major in the 1970s at California State Northridge and UCLA, Tannis Kobrinsky returned to UCLA for writing courses in the 1980s. Soon after, she wrote scripts for the Lorimar/Bellevue Productions romance series Shades of Love and worked as a reader/story analyst for producer/director Norman Lear and independent film companies. She is also a movement educator/expert, and her articles have been published in American Fitness and Pilates Style magazines. From 2011 to 2024 she owned and managed Pilates & Arts Studio/Art Gallery in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California. She sold the studios in 2023 and is currently writing FROM THE WILD FIELDS, a historic novel inspired by the lives of her Ukrainian Jewish grandparents. A next-generation WWII era sequel, based on her parents’ interfaith marriage, is in the planning stages.

Mentor: Nan Cuba

Nan Cuba is the author of Body and Bread, winner of the PEN/Southwest Award and one of “Ten Titles to Pick Up Now” in O, The Oprah Magazine. Other work has appeared in Antioch Review, Harvard Review, and Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row. Cuba has received a Dobie Paisano Fellowship and a residency at Fundación Valparaíso in Spain. She is the founder of Gemini Ink, a nonprofit literary center.

Mentee: Danielle Sherman

Danielle Sherman is from Phoenix, Arizona, and is an incoming creative writing MFA candidate at the University of British Columbia. Her work has been published in or recognized by the North American Review, The Los Angeles Review, After Happy Hour, and Stanford University’s Caesura, among others. She serves as a prose reader for the Adroit Journal and recently received the 2025 Sudler Prize from Emory University.

Mentor: Elyse Durham

Elyse Durham is the author of the novel Maya & Natasha (Mariner). She is an Elizabeth George grantee, and her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Cimarron Review, The Cincinnati Review, IMAGE, and Wigleaf. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her husband, who is a Greek Orthodox priest.

Mentee: Elena Brunn

Once an actor, a writer-producer for public radio, and an adjunct associate professor of writing, Elena Brunn is currently revising her novel, a coming-of-age story of a ballet teacher in ’70s New York, as well as her play, a genial satire of academia. Her essays have appeared in the The Village Voice, Dramatists Quarterly, Screen Actor, BMCC Inquirer, and Comic Relief. She lives in Manhattan with her actor wife.

Mentor: Shay Galloway

Shay Galloway is the author of the Depression Era novel The Valley of Sage and Juniper. She received an MFA from Roosevelt University and now teaches English composition in Washington State, where she resides with her husband and son.

Mentee: Grayson Uckele

Grayson Uckele is a writer based in the Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania and is a recent alumna of the creative writing graduate program at Emerson College. She has been writing fiction stories since before she could spell, and she has an unhealthy obsession with her Jack Russell named Barbara.

Mentor: Bruce Holsinger

Bruce Holsinger is the bestselling author of four novels, including The Displacements and The Gifted School, and several works of nonfiction. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Colorado Book Award, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and many other publications. He teaches at the University of Virginia.

Mentee: Samantha Sapp

Samantha Sapp is a writer and former middle school teacher. Though she is originally from the Florida Panhandle, she now lives in the icy Midwest. Her prose has appeared in journals like Screen Door Review, Mount Hope Magazine, and Sinister Wisdom. You can find her on Bluesky or lost in the woods.

Mentor: Linda Masi

Linda N. Masi is the author of the novel Fine Dreams, winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction. Her other works appear in Tupelo Quarterly, BlackBerry: A Magazine, and elsewhere. Masi has experience in developmental editing. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Mississippi and is completing a PhD in English at Texas Tech University.

Mentee: Nkechi Okpara

Nkechi (Kay-She) Okpara is a postdoctoral research fellow specializing in nutrition education and body image. Recently, she’s been exploring the creative side of her brain, diving into fiction writing as a new way to help people connect and reflect through storytelling. Her ultimate goal is to traditionally publish a novel. In her free time, she’s listening to YouTube videos and podcasts on the craft of writing and the publishing industry.

Mentor: Ciera McElroy

Ciera McElroy is the author of Atomic Family (2023), the Southern Literary Book of the Year. She is also the founder and CEO of Clover and Bee Communications, a boutique agency specializing in film marketing, serving clients like Lionsgate and Sony Pictures. Atomic Family was released to critical acclaim, named a 2023 Great Group Read by the Women’s National Book Association, and shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.

Mentee: Elizabeth Luciano

Elizabeth Luciano began her career as a journalist and public relations specialist. She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is now a writing professor at Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania, where she founded and directs the Bucks County Short Fiction Contest. Her short fiction and essays have been published in Seventeen, The Boston Globe, Mademoiselle, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Brides. She is at work on her second novel and a short story collection. Luciano is a member of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.

Mentor: Makena Metz

Makena Metz is a writer and songwriter for the page, screen, and stage. Her prose and poetry have been published with The Literary Hatchet, For Page and Screen, The Fantastic Other, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Arkana, Strange Horizons, and many more. Find her work at @makenametz and check out MakenaMetz.com.

Mentee: Elise LeSage

Elise LeSage is a writer, educator, and marketing specialist based out of North Carolina, where she earned her fiction MFA from UNC Greensboro. Her stories have appeared in the horror anthology podcast Pseudopod, Buckman Journal, Westwind, Mollusk Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a contemporary fantasy novel.

Mentor: Yvonne Ventresca

Yvonne Ventresca is an award-winning author with an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her published work includes the YA novels Pandemic and Black Flowers, White Lies, as well as two nonfiction books and several short stories for tween, teen, and adult readers. She serves as the communications manager for Rebecca Dykes Writers and mentors other writers through AWP and Mystery Writers of America. You can learn more at her website YvonneVentresca.com, where she blogs about writing productivity and features writing resources.

Mentee: Toni Guy

Originally from New Zealand, Toni Guy comes from a long line of storytellers who could tell a wicked and often true tale. Her manuscript RUINED won Most Promising MG/YA Manuscript at the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators CenCal Writers’ Day in September 2024. She also wrote, produced, and narrated The Legends of Hobson Heights: The Untold Tales of 100 Years of Architecture, Triumphs, and Tragedies (2024), a fifty-minute historical documentary that was named a semifinalist in the 2025 Hollywood Storytellers Film Festival. She’s an active regional board member of Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI) and a member of A Room of Her Own (AROHO), the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), and Women Who Write (WOWW). She lives in Ventura, California.

Mentor: Kristen Witucki

Kristen Witucki is the author of two books: The Transcriber, a Gemma Open Door Book for Young People, and Outside Myself, her first novel. Her shorter fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Brain, Child; Literary Mama; Exceptions: The Art and Literary Journal for Students with Disabilities; Wordgathering; and LightHouse Interpoint, the literary blog of LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in San Francisco. She works as the curriculum and content editor for Learning Ally’s College Success Program for students who are blind or visually impaired, as a teacher for VISTAS Education Partners, and as a mentor for New Jersey’s EDGE Program, and, during the pandemic, she worked as a homeschooling mother. She lives with her husband and three children in Highland Park, New Jersey, and is beginning to dabble in poetry.

Mentee: Kendall Bousquet

Kendall Bousquet is a Rhode Island–based writer whose work explores girlhood, rage, and how these things manifest within patriarchal societies. She holds dual degrees in creative writing and graphic design from the University of Rhode Island, where she received several awards for her fiction. She is currently at work on her debut novel, a coming-of-rage YA story, and shares her creative process with nearly thirty thousand followers across social media at @Kendall_Bousquet.

Poetry

Mentor: Neil Aitken

Neil Aitken is the author of two books of poetry—Babbage’s Dream (Sundress Publications, 2017) and The Lost Country of Sight (Anhinga Press, 2008)—and a poetry chapbook, Leviathan (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2016). Of Chinese, Scottish, and English descent, he grew up in Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and various parts of western Canada. He is a past Kundiman fellow and holds both an MFA and PhD in creative writing. In addition to writing and teaching, he also serves as the editor of Boxcar Poetry Review, the codirector of De-Canon: A Literary Project, and the curator of Have Book Will Travel.

Mentee: Sui Wang

Sui Wang is a writer of poetry and prose, and a social science researcher living bicoastally. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Southern California. Her literary work has appeared or is forthcoming in HAD, wildscape lit, Meniscus Literary Journal, and The Inflectionist Review. She has studied with Sackett Street Writers Workshop and the Non-School in New York.

Mentor: Subhaga Crystal Bacon

Subhaga Crystal Bacon (they/them), a Queer elder, lives in rural Washington on unceded Methow land. They are the author of five collections of poetry, recently A Brief History of My Sex Life, forthcoming from Lily Poetry Review Books, and the Lambda Literary Award finalist Transitory (BOA Editions, 2023).

Mentee: Ashley Varela

Ashley Varela (they/them) is a queer writer and author based in Seattle, Washington.

Mentor: Millicent Borges Accardi

Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese American writer, is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Quarantine Highway (2022). Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright, CantoMundo, the California Arts Council, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (COVID grant), Yaddo, Fundação Luso-Americana (Portugal), and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She lives in Topanga Canyon, California, where she curates the popular Kale Soup for the Soul, a literary series.

Mentee: Alejandro Derieux-Cerezo

Alejandro Derieux-Cerezo (he/they) is a writer from Ann Arbor, Michigan. A graduate of the MFA Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine, he has received the Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan as well as an Academy of American Poets Prize. His work can be found in The Adroit Journal, on Poets.org, and in other assorted publications.

Mentor: Lauren Brazeal Garza

Lauren Brazeal Garza is the author of five books of poetry and fiction, including her memoir in verse, Gutter (YesYes Books, 2018), which chronicles her homelessness as a teenager, and The Devotee (forthcoming), a hybrid literary horror novel of poetry and prose. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Bennington College and her PhD in literature from the University of Texas at Dallas. She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Mentee: KM Kramer

KM Kramer is a writer, previously a First Amendment attorney, who feels most at home in California. She earned her undergraduate and law degrees at Stanford. Her creative works can be found in Action Spectacle, Rogue Agent, Free the Verse, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, and many other places. Her debut chapbook, Remaking: The Art of Resilience, longlisted by Frontier Poetry in 2025 under a different title, will be available in February 2026.

Mentor: Ann Huang

Ann Huang is a multilingual Chinese American poet, filmmaker, and visual artist based in Newport Beach, California. Her poetry has been featured in Denver Quarterly, Ruth Stone, CONFRONTATION, Poets Choice, and Contemporary Verse 2. She is Ephemera’s June 2023 Poet. Her latest manuscript, Garden by the Glass Door, is the Wisconsin Poetry Series’ 2024 Semi-Finalist. Her collection of poems, Saffron Splash, is forthcoming in 2025 from The Raw Art Review. Learn more at AnnHuangPoetry.com

Mentee: Adèle Jeanne-Rose

Adèle Jeanne-Rose is a Martinican Afro-Caribbean poet, scholar, and interdisciplinary artist completing an MFA in writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work explores queer Caribbean poetics, opacity, and ecological memory, blending multilingual verse, visual poetics, and archival fragments. She is a 2025 AWP Writer to Writer mentee, a 2025–2026 Scholar-in-Residence at the Newberry Library, and a former DuBois-Mandela-Rodney Fellow at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Her work has been published in Antennae and Social Science Information and will appear in the forthcoming volume A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery.

Mentor: Amy Lerman

Amy Lerman lives with her husband and cats in the Arizona desert, where she is English faculty at Mesa Community College. Her chapbook, Orbital Debris, won the 2022 Jonathan Holden Poetry Chapbook Contest, she has been a Pushcart nominee, and her poems have appeared in Box of Matches, The Madison Review, Midwest Review, Radar Poetry, Rattle, and other publications.

Mentee: Selena Kingsley

Selena Kingsley is a poet and essayist exploring themes of healing, memory, and self-discovery. Her writing draws from lived experience to make sense of the past and present, using language as a tool for reflection and transformation.

Mentor: Doug Ramspeck

Doug Ramspeck is the author of ten poetry collections, two collections of short stories, and a novella. His most recent book, Smoke Memories (2025), received the Lena Shull Book Award. Individual poems have appeared in journals that include The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Slate, The Sun, and The Georgia Review. He is a three-time recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. His author’s website can be found at DougRamspeck.com.

Mentee: Amy Leigh Davis

Amy Leigh Davis was born near Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where her family lived while her father served in the US military. Most of her early years were spent between Arlington, Virginia; Nashville, Tennessee; and Kansas City, Missouri. She now considers Missouri home. She is the author of The Alter Ego of the Universe, a chapbook published by Finishing Line Press. Poems have recently appeared in Across the Margin, Wildroof, SLANT, Right Hand Pointing, Dream Pop, and elsewhere. She attended the Kenyon Review Summer Writers Residency in Gambier, Ohio. Learn more at AmyLeighDavis.com.

Mentor: Karen Rigby

Karen Rigby is the author of Chinoiserie (Ahsahta Press) and Fabulosa (JackLeg Press, 2024). A National Endowment for the Arts literature fellow, she has poems published in Poetry Northwest, The London Magazine, and other journals. She is a freelance book reviewer.

Mentee: Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose

Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose’s writing appears in The Atlantic, McSweeney’s, Room, Rattle, Women Studies Quarterly, and Feminist Formations, among others. The author of two chapbooks, Wild Things (Main Street Rag, 2021) and Imago, Dei (Rattle Chapbook Poetry Prize, 2022), Johnston Ambrose also coordinates the Creative Writing Program at Monroe Community College and leads trauma-writing workshops for the Breast Cancer Coalition of Rochester. Johnston Ambrose lives in Rochester, New York, with her partner, two daughters, and four rescue animals.

Mentor: Dana Teen Lomax

Dana Teen Lomax is a poet, filmmaker, and activist. She is the author and editor of several poetry books and director of several short films and two documentaries in progress. Lomax served as the Human Rights and Equity Chair for her teachers’ union and lives near Los Angeles. Lomax’s cross-genre work can be found at DanaTeenLomax.com.

Mentee: Daryna Gladun

Daryna Gladun is an award-winning Ukrainian poet, translator, artist, and researcher from Bucha (born in Khmelnytskyi). She is the author of five poetry collections (in Ukrainian), that were awarded the Smoloskyp Literary Award, Word Coronation, Oles Honchar Ukrainian-German Literary Award, the President of Ukraine Scholarship for Emerging Writers, etc. Gladun’s third poetry collection, The Ambassadors of War, was translated into Polish, Montenegrin, and German, and is currently being translated into Czech. Her poems and short stories have been translated into twenty-eight world languages and published in numerous Ukrainian and international magazines and anthologies. She was the writer in residence at the International Writers’ and Translators’ House (Latvia), Staromiejski Dom Kultury (Poland), Potsdam University (Germany), Lyrik Kabinett (Germany), Arstad Air (Norway), and IWM (Austria). Gladun translated into Ukrainian the poetry collections Epidemics of Roses by Valzhyna Mort and Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky. Gladun’s multimedia poems were featured in group exhibitions and dance performances in Ukraine, Poland, Austria, Moldova, and Romania. In 2024, Gladun’s refugee story became a part of the Vojna Jedna Báseň series of documentaries produced in the Czech Republic.

Mentor: Anne Marie Wells

Anne Marie Wells (she/they) is an award-winning and Pushcart-nominated poet as well as a playwright, memoirist, and oral storyteller. She is the founder of the weekly Zoom show The Joy of Poeting and the author of two collections of poetry: Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems (Curious Corvid Publishing, 2023) and Mother, (v), which won the 2023 Cinnamon Press Chapbook Contest. She is a certified Listener Poet, freelance copy and content editor, writing coach, and creative writing instructor.

Mentee: M. S. Marquart

M. S. Marquart (she/her) is an emerging disabled, mixed-race Asian American, diasporic Korean American, and German American poet. Her writing explores the impacts of chronic illness, disability, and the issues that intersect with them, and seeks to shed light on the hidden daily lives of people living with long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME or ME/CFS), many of whom are primarily homebound like her and therefore missing from society, invisible, and forgotten. You can find her at MSMarquart.com, on Instagram at @m_s_marquart, or starting to try out Bluesky at @msmarquartpoetry.bsky.social.