A New Kind of Literary Pulse

David Drury is a short fiction writer, writing coach and book editor whose stories have been published in more than 50 publications, including Best American Nonrequired Reading.
He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Zakiya Dalila Harris is the author of The Other Black Girl, which was an instant New York Times bestseller and is now a critically acclaimed Hulu Original Series.
Her essays and book reviews have appeared in Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.
She lives in Brooklyn.

Casey Parks is a Washington Post reporter who covers gender and family issues. She spent a decade at The Oregonian, where she wrote about race and LGBTQ+ issues and was a finalist for the Livingston Award. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Oxford American, ESPN, USA Today, and The Nation. Her memoir, Diary of a Misfit, was named one of the best books of 2022 by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews and New York Public Library, and it won the 2023 Oregon Book Award. A former Spencer Fellow at Columbia University, Casey lives in Portland, Oregon.

Joe Wilkins’ debut novel, Fall Back Down When I Die, garnered critical acclaim from many venues, including Kirkus, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Outside, Southern Living, and High Country News, and was praised as “remarkable and unforgettable” in a starred review at Booklist. A finalist for the First Novel Prize from The Center for Fiction and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, Fall Back Down When I Die won the High Plains Book Award. Wilkins is also the author of a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, and four collections of poetry, including Thieve and When We Were Birds, winner of the Oregon Book Award. His second novel, The Entire Sky, is slated for publication in July 2024 with Little, Brown. Wilkins was born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana and now lives with his family in the foothills of the Coast Range of Oregon, where he directs the creative writing program at Linfield University and is a member of the low-residency MFA faculty at Eastern Oregon University. 

Cecily Wong is the author of three books. Her debut novel, Diamond Head, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, recipient of an Elle Readers' Prize, and voted a best debut of the 2015 Brooklyn Book Festival. Her second novel, Kaleidoscope, was a best book of the month at Buzzfeed, Apple Books, and Today.com. Cecily is also the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Gastro Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to Food. 

Cecily’s work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The LA Review of Books, Self Magazine, Bustle, Atlas Obscura, and elsewhere. She is the 2023 recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship. A graduate of Barnard College, Cecily now lives with her family in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches at the MFA program at Pacific University.