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José Angel Araguz, PhD is the author most recently of Rotura (Black Lawrence Press, 2022). His poetry and prose have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poetry International, The Acentos Review, and Oxidant | Engine, among other places. He is an Assistant Professor at Suffolk University, where he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Salamander, and is also a faculty member of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program. He blogs and reviews books at The Friday Influence.
Leticia Priebe Rocha is a poet, visual artist, and editor. She is the author of In Lieu of Heartbreak, This is Like (Bottlecap Press, 2024). Leticia earned her bachelor’s from Tufts University, where she was awarded the 2020 Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, she immigrated to Miami, FL at the age of 9 and currently resides in the Greater Boston area. Her work has been published in Salamander, Rattle, Pigeon Pages, and elsewhere. Leticia is a Reader for Yellow Arrow Journal and served as Guest Editor for their EMBLAZON issue. Find her on Instagram (@letiprieberochapoems), Twitter (@LetiPriebeRocha), or her website: leticiaprieberocha.com.
Thuy Phan is a Vietnamese American writer. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and published in Pangyrus, Solstice Literary Magazine, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, and DVAN’S diaCRITICS. She is an alumna of GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator and Essay Incubator Programs, and a recipient of the Pauline Scheer Fellowship. She is currently at work on a memoir-in-essays on time travel, identity, and estrangement. When she’s not writing, Thuy creates literary-themed cocktails on her Instagram @mixaphoria. Thuy currently resides in Somerville, MA.
Jason Prokowiew received the 2023 PEN America/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for my memoir War Boys. His essay “The Demulcent of Shame” appeared in Roxane Gay’s Emerging Writer Series, “The Audacity” and won the 2023 Lascaux Prize for Nonfiction. He has also written for Salon, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, and Brevity, and has work forthcoming in The Guardian and North American Review. He has received support from Bread Loaf, Ragdale, Ucross, and the Mass Cultural Council. He is a lawyer dedicated to disability advocacy and lives on a lake in Massachusetts with his husband Dave and their greyhound Champ.
Maxine West is a union carpenter who grew up in Boston. She writes about what it’s like to be a woman in the trades in these times of MAGA, BLM, and Covid. In her free time she hangs out with house plants and dogs.
This event we are grateful to welcome Grub Street Essay Incubator Instructor Ethan Gilsdorf as our host. Ethan is the author of the Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks. Ethan’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Esquire, Wired, Salon, O the Oprah Magazine, Brevity, Electric Literature, Poetry, The Southern Review, among other publications, and named “Notable” by The Best American Essays. He is also on the faculty of the Solstice MFA Program at Lasell University. More info: ethangilsdorf.com.
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