Hayden May Knight grew up deaf and gay in the middle of nowhere (Indiana). His writing has appeared in The Coil, Passengers Journal, Sensitive Content Magazine, and elsewhere, and won the 2018 Luminaire Award for Best Prose from Alternating Current Press. He works in disability rights advocacy and public policy, and lives with his scientist husband, Daniel. Hayden writes to reckon with the dignity, fury, and joy of queer disabled life. He is currently writing his first novel, a science-fiction love story about a deaf boy and a blind boy in a world spun out of time.

Keith Hood  is a former janitor and window cleaner living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He retired from a job as a field technician for a Michigan electric utility after 32 years avoiding electrocution. Despite Google search results that might indicate otherwise, Keith Hood is not a Compliance Director, Senior Military Advisor, or plastic surgeon, and did not write “Hematomas in Aesthetic Surgery.” His work has appeared in Callaloo, Blue Mesa Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, Your Impossible Voice, The Forge Literary Journal, Vestal Review and Best Microfiction 2024.

Nathan Xie is the author of The Consummation of an Ordinary Person, his debut novel forthcoming from W.W. Norton. His writing, which appears in the New England Review, the Southern Review, The Rumpus, and more, can be found at nathan-xie.com.

Ani Cooney is the winner of a PEN / Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. His work can be found in The Georgia Review, Epiphany Magazine, Best Debut Short Stories and elsewhere. In his time as the 2022 Adina Talve-Goodman Fellow, he completed his short story collection titled The Gentlest: Stories. He is now at work on a novel.

Diana Veiga is a Spelman woman, a DC resident, and a DC Public Library employee. Her short stories have been published in Barrelhouse, The Northern Virginia Review, The Rumpus, and Apogee. She is an inaugural member of Kimbilio, a Fellowship dedicated to developing, empowering and sustaining fiction writers from the African diaspora. She was the 2021 One Story Adina Talve-Goodman Fellow. A comedienne and storyteller, her one-woman show, I’m Just Doing My Job, premiered at the 2022 Capital Fringe Festival. Learn more at dianaveiga.com

Arvin Ramgoolam is the co-owner of Townie Books and Rumors Coffee and Tea House in Crested Butte, CO. His words can be found in the Asian American Writers Workshop, Y2K Quarterly, The Normal School, Jellyfish Review, and ANMLY.

Read an essay Arvin wrote about Adina Talve-Goodman’s essay collection and his fellowship experience here.

Nay Saysourinho is a writer and visual artist living in New England. She has been the recipient of several fellowships, including Baldwin for the Arts, MacDowell, and Tin House, among others. She is the eldest daughter of Lao refugees.