Featured Writers

MINDA HONEY

Minda Honey's (she/her) essays on politics and relationships have appeared in Harper's Bazaar, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Oxford American, Teen Vogue, and Longreads. She is the editor of Black Joy at Reckon - the newsletter has more than 30,000 subscribers. Her debut memoir, THE HEARTBREAK YEARS, is a hilarious and intimate portrait of a Black woman finding who she is and who she wants to be, one bad date at a time.

JACQUI GERMAIN

Jacqui Germain is a poet, journalist, and former student and labor organizer living and working in St. Louis. She served as the 2021-2022 Economic Security Project Fellow with Teen Vogue, reporting on issues of economic inequality of the intersections of race and gender. Winner of the 2021 Center for African American Poetry & Poetics Book Prize and the 2024 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, her debut collection of poetry is BITTERING THE WOUND.

JULIA FINE

Julia Fine is the author of THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE, winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction, and WHAT SHOULD BE WILD, which was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior First Novel. Her third novel, MADDALENA AND THE DARK, came out from Flatiron in June 2023. She teaches writing in Chicago, where she lives with her family.