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featuring poets Nancy Chen Long, JL Kato, Shreya Fadia, Silvia Medrano-Edelstein

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SHREYA FADIA is a Gujarati American writer and former lawyer originally from Mumbai, India. She will graduate this May from the MFA program at Indiana University Bloomington, where she served as editor in chief of the Indiana Review. Her recent work explores liminality, class, and adolescence, often through a speculative lens. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Cream City Review, Hobart, The Margins, and elsewhere.

JL KATO is a former newspaper copy editor whose poems have appeared in various publications. His book, Shadows Set in Concrete, was selected best volume of poetry in 2010 by the Indiana Center for the Book. He lives in Beech Grove, Indiana.

NANCY CHEN LONG is the author of Wider than the Sky (Diode Editions, 2020), which was selected for the Diode Editions Book Award, and Light into Bodies (University of Tampa Press, 2017), which won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. Her work has been supported by a National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry and the Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Award. You’ll find her recent work in Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She is a poetry reader for the literary journal Guesthouse and works at Indiana University in the Research Technologies division.

SILVIA MEDRANO-EPSTEIN is a ukulele musician, songwriter, and poet now living in Atlanta after moving from Hawaii. By night, she writes Blues ukulele songs that tell stories and performs her poetry on Tiktok. By day, she works as a chef but still prefers her mother’s home cooked Filipino pancit noodles.⁣