The Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series

Chaitali Sen is the author of the novel 无路的天空 (Europa Editions 2015) and the story collection A New Race of Men from Heaven 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 American Short Fiction, Boulevard, Catapult, 科罗拉多州的审查, Ecotone, 电子文献, LitHub, Los Angeles Review of Books, 新英格兰评论, Shenandoah, and many other publications. Born in India and raised in New York and Pennsylvania, she currently lives in Austin, Texas. 

阿曼达·约翰斯顿 is the author of two chapbooks, GUAP and Lock & Key, and the full-length collection Another Way to Say Enter. Her work has been published in Callaloo, 诗歌杂志, 太阳港, Muzzle和选集， Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry and Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. She has received fellowships, grants, and awards from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, Tasajillo, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, 水磨中心, and the Austin International Poetry Festival. She is a former Board President of Cave Canem Foundation, a member of the Affrilachian Poets, cofounder of Black Poets Speak Out, and founder of Torch Literary Arts. She is the 2024 Texas Poet Laureate.

Funded in part by the Texas Commission on the Arts.

贾斯汀托雷斯 is the author of 我们动物, which won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, was translated into fifteen languages, and was adapted into a feature film. 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 公共图书馆. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Tin House, 华盛顿邮报, LA Times Image Magazine, and 最佳美国散文. He lives in Los Angeles, and teaches at UCLA.

Jaymes桑切斯 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, 莱德农场的太空, Company One, Teatro Vivo, 圣地亚哥REP, and Artists' Theatre of Boston. 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, 莱德农场的太空, 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.

Sasha West is the author of Failure and I Bury the Body and 如何弃船. Her first book won the National Poetry Series, a Texas Institute of Letters First Book of Poetry Award, and a Bread Loaf Fellowship. 最近的诗歌出现在 American Poetry Review, Agni, Georgia Review, 选集 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 Gallery, and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at St. 365比分网电竞 in Austin, TX.