Featured Writers

TAYMOUR SOOMRO

Taymour Soomro

Taymour Soomro is a British Pakistani writer. He read law at Cambridge University and Stanford Law School and has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times. He is the author of Other Names for Love, short listed for the McKitterick Prize and a Malala Book Club pick.


EMILY MALONEY

Emily Maloney

Emily Maloney is a ceramist and the author of Cost of Living: Essays, a USA Today Best Book of 2022. Her work has been featured in the Atlantic, Virginia Quarterly Review, Best American Essays, and other publications. Her next book, Burn This House Down, is forthcoming in 2025.


CYNTHIA PELAYO

Cynthia Pelayo

Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award winning and International Latino Book Award winning author and poet. She is the author of Loteria, Santa Muerte, The Missing, Poems of My Night, Into the Forest and All the Way Through, Children of Chicago, Crime Scene, The Shoemaker's Magician, and dozens of standalone short stories and poems.