Farrah Fray is a writer and activist living in London. Growing up between London and Libya, she navigates in her work explorations of culture, displacement, feminism and identity with a focus on Libya and London. Although her poetry and prose has constantly moved between public and private spaces, she has written for various different platforms such as Letters Ly Libya and Khabar Keslan. Through her poetry she hopes to expand the understanding and representation of Middle Eastern women in modern literature.
Reyna Marder Gentin is an attorney and writer and studied writing at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. Unreasonable Doubts is her first novel.
Chris Pellizzari is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including most recently Good Works Review and Counterclock. He…
The cast of characters in Unreasonable Doubts by Reyna Marder Gentin could have stepped out of a Shakespearean play. Consider the lovers Liana Cohen and Jakob Weiss, the counselor Rabbi…
White Dancing Elephants was a finalist for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards. Women take center stage in Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut short story collection, White Dancing Elephants. As characters, these…
“There are memories for which we can live more than a life time.” —Brother of Rana Abdulfattah Photographs over the past several years have shown migrants and refugees crossing the…
Leilani Squire is a published poet and author, CCA Certified Creativity Coach, and Associate Member of The Dramatist Guild. For the past seven years she has facilitated creative writing workshops…
Messy “Messy” by Robert Hilles is a love story that captures the complexities of love: the difficulties, paradoxes, ambiguities, passions, and truths. It aches, struggles, retrieves, and falls back upon…
Leilani Squire is home when she is swimming in the waters of the island of her birth, O`ahu. She is a writer, poet, award-winning playwright, and Associate Member of The Dramatist Guild. She is a CCA Certified Creativity Coach and facilitates creative writing workshops for veterans and military families. She produces Returning Soldiers Speak, an annual event where active duty and veterans tell their stories through prose and poetry to the community; and is senior editor of the anthology The Storytellers: Veterans and Family Members Write About Military Life.
There is a short poem of seven lines in The Scent Of My Skin: From Libya, London and every world I live in that embodies the metaphorical and literal edifice…