The Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series

Chaitali Sen is the author of the novel The Pathless Sky (Europa Editions 2015) and the story collection 来自天堂的新种族 萨拉班德出版社2023年出版), chosen by Danielle Evans as the winner of the 2021 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Her stories and essays have been published by 美国短篇小说, Boulevard, Catapult, Colorado Review, Ecotone, Electric Literature, LitHub, 《洛杉矶书评, New England Review, Shenandoah, 以及许多其他出版物. Born in India and raised in New York and Pennsylvania, she currently lives in Austin, Texas. 

Amanda Johnston is the author of two chapbooks, GUAP and Lock & Key，以及全长系列 另一种输入方式. 她的作品已在 Callaloo, Poetry Magazine, Puerto del Sol, Muzzle和选集， Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry and Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. 她获得了奖学金, grants, 以及凯夫·卡内姆的奖项, Hedgebrook, Tasajillo, 肯塔基妇女基金会, The Watermill Center, and the Austin International Poetry Festival. She is a former Board President of Cave Canem Foundation, 阿夫拉契亚诗人的成员, 黑人诗人发声组织的联合创始人, 火炬文艺创始人. 她是2024年德克萨斯州桂冠诗人.

Funded in part by the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Justin Torres是《 We the Animals, which won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, 被翻译成15种语言, 并被改编成故事片. He was named a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35,” a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Tin House, The Washington Post, 洛杉矶时代影像杂志, and Best American Essays. He lives in Los Angeles, and teaches at UCLA.

Jaymes Sanchez is a Texan playwright, actor, director, and educator living in Brooklyn. Sanchez's plays have been developed with The Lark, Broadway Podcast Network/Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Company One, Teatro Vivo, San Diego REP, 以及波士顿艺术家剧院. He was an Inaugural Fellow of the Latinx Playwrights Circle Summer Jam in 2023. Sanchez was also the recipient of the 2020 Keene Prize for Literature and the second place prize of Playing on Air's James Stevenson Award. Sanchez has been a finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, SPACE on Ryder Farm, the Latinx Theatre Commons Carnaval and the Kitchen Dog Theater New Works Festival, as well as a semifinalist for the Princess Grace Award. MFA: The Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.

萨沙·韦斯特是《 失败和我埋葬尸体 and How to Abandon Ship. Her first book won the National Poetry Series, a Texas Institute of Letters First Book of Poetry Award, 和面包团奖学金. 最近的诗歌出现在 American Poetry Review, Agni, Georgia Review, and the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. Her collaborative multi-media installations with visual artist Hollis Hammonds have been exhibited at the Columbus College of Art and Design Beeler Gallery, the Texas A&M Wright画廊和其他地方. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at St. 德克萨斯州奥斯汀的爱德华大学.