SUMMER 2020 WRITERS

James Steck

James lives in Washington DC and teaches high school English in Virginia. He sketches frequently and enjoys performing at open mics around the city. His poetry and artwork have appeared with small press print and online journals such as Beautiful Cadaver Project, Pittsburgh, Better Than Starbucks, Wordpeace, Tiny Spoon Literary Magazine, Goat's Milk Magazine, The Wild Word and others.

Link to James’s work from his residency with us here

Julia Tagliere

Julia Tagliere’s work has appeared in The Writer, Potomac Review, Gargoyle Magazine, Washington Independent Review of Books, SmokeLong Quarterly, WritersResist, various anthologies, and the juried photography and prose collection Love + Lust. Winner of the 2015 William Faulkner Literary Competition for Best Short Story and the 2017 Writer's Center Undiscovered Voices Fellowship, Julia resides in Maryland with her family, where she completed her M.A. in Writing at Johns Hopkins University. She serves as an editor with The Baltimore Review and is currently working on her next novel.

Follow Julia at justscribbling.com

Link to Julia’s work from her residency with us here

Thuy Dinh

Thúy Đinh is a writer, critic, literary translator, and co-editor of the online Vietnamese literary magazine Da Màu (Multitude). Her fiction, essays, and translations have appeared in Unbroken Journal, NBCThink, NPR Books, Rain Taxi, Shelf-Awareness, Prairie Schooner, Asymptote, among others. She was a finalist for The Asia Literary Review’s 2018 Essay Competition, and non-fiction scholar at the 2017 Virginia Quarterly Review Writers’ Conference.

Thúy has lived in the Washington D.C. Metro Area since 1975, shortly after her family fled Saigon, South Vietnam, near the end of the Vietnam War. Informed by her refugee experience, she has engaged in media, literary, and translation projects related to historical preservation, education and community outreach.

Link to Thuy’s work from her residency from us here

Kristen Zory King

Kristen Zory King is a writer and artist facilitator based in Washington, DC. A passionate advocate for the arts and community, Kris is the founder of MoonLit, an organization that creatively connects community through accessible literary workshops and programming. Recent work can be found or is forthcoming in Electric Lit, Past-Ten, mac(ro)mic, District Lit, and SWWIM among others.

Follow Kristen at KristenZoryKing.com.

Link to Kristen’s work from her residency with us here.