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2025 Festival
This year, the New Voices Festival will host writers Jamaica Baldwin, Jake Brasch, Jinwoo Chong, Puloma Ghosh, Ananda Lima, Hannah Louise Poston, and Anna Shechtman. Read more about these incredible artists and their work below!
Jamaica Baldwin

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"Jamaica (she/her) is a poet and educator originally from Santa Cruz, CA. Her first book, Bone Language , was published by YesYes Books in June 2023. Her work has appeared in Guernica, World Literature Today, The Adroit Journal, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest , and The Missouri Review, among others. Her accolades include a 2023 Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a RHINO Poetry editor's prize, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, as well as the San Miguel de Allende Writer's Conference Contest Poetry Award.
Jamaica has also served as a community based teaching artist with Writers in the Schools - Seattle, Louder Than a Bomb - Great Plains (an affiliate of Nebraska Writers Collective), and taught a generative writing workshop for women in Guatemala. Her writing has been supported by Aspen Words, Storyknife, Hedgebrook, Furious Flower, and the Jack Straw Writers program. Jamaica has a PhD from the University of Nebraska -Lincoln in English with a focus on poetry and Women's and Gender Studies and she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College in New York."
Jake Brasch

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"Jake Brasch (he/they) is a queer, sober, Jewish clown from Colorado and a recent graduate from the playwriting program at The Juilliard School. The World Premiere of their play The Reservoir will be presented in 2025 as a co-production between the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Alliance Theatre, and Geffen Playhouse."
Jinwoo Chong

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"Jinwoo Chong is the author of the novel Flux , a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and named a best book of 2023 by Apple Books, Amazon Books, Esquire , HuffPost , GQ , Cosmopolitan , and Goodreads.
His work has appeared in Guernica, The Southern Review , The Rumpus , LitHub , Chicago Quarterly Review, and Electric Literature .
His second novel, I Leave It Up to You , will be published 3.4.25 in the US by Ballantine and the UK & Commonwealth by Scribe.
He lives in New York with his husband and cat."
Puloma Ghosh

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"Puloma Ghosh is a fiction writer based in Chicago whose work has appeared in One Story , CRAFT Literary, Cutleaf , and other publications. Mouth is her first book."
Ananda Lima

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"Ananda Lima is the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books, 2024) and Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in Ghosts of Where We Are From , an anthology of dark fiction by Latin American authors, edited by Cynthia Pelayo (Primer Sueño/Atria Books). She is a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers and Program Curator at StoryStudio, Chicago. Lima was a mentor at the NYFA Immigrant Artist Program and the inaugural Latinx-in-Publishing WIP Fellow, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers. She has an MA in Linguistics (UCLA) and an MFA in Creative Writing (Rutgers-Newark). Craft , her fiction debut, was longlisted for the ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and received starred reviews from Kirkus , Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal. The New York Times describes it as “a remarkable debut that announces the arrival of a towering talent in speculative fiction.” Originally from Brazil, she lives in Chicago and New York."
Hannah Louise Poston

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"Hannah Louise Poston is a poet, essayist, and online content creator. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writer's Program and a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which she attended as the Thomas Wolfe Scholar in Creative Writing. Hannah has taught poetry and writing as the Writer-in-Residence at St. Albans School, at The Pennsylvania Governor's School of the Arts, and at the University of Michigan; she has also received residencies and fellowships from MacDowell, The Ucross Foundation, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Wildacres, and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. Hannah's work has won Hopwood awards in both the nonfiction and poetry genres, and she was the recipient of the Helen Zell Writer's Program 2016 MFA thesis prize for poetry. Her work has been featured on Poetry Daily and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several literary journals, including Ploughshares, The Yale Review , and Poetry Northwest . Her nonfiction has been featured on Longreads and has appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review and The New York Times .
Adjacent to her work in poetry, Hannah has worked as a tango dancer, a clothing designer, a scriptwriter for Sharna Fabiano Tango Company, the production designer for Tango Silent Films, and an actor in the Brooklyn-based avant-garde theatre troupe Sponsored By Nobody. She is well known in the North American Argentine tango community for her work as a teacher and performer of tango , and for her handmade tango clothing . She now reviews makeup on YouTube and writes grants for climate activists.
Originally from North Carolina, Hannah also spent significant portions of her childhood living in Pennsylvania and in a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem. She currently lives in Maryland."
Anna Shechtman

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"Anna Shechtman is an Assistant Professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University, specializing in media studies and American literature. She is writing a two-volume history of the “media” and “data” concepts in the United States. The first examines the social formations and technologies of production that have allowed "media" to incorporate—and even supersede—the categories of "art," "literature," "communication," and "culture" in the second half of the 20th century. The second challenges the notion that “data” has always been the proprietary domain of social scientists, improperly imported into the study of literature by digital humanists.
Her research has been published in Critical Inquiry, Representations, and nonsite.org, among other journals. Her freelance essays and reviews have appeared in many outlets, including ArtForum, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the Yale Review , and the Los Angeles Review of Books , where she is an editor-at-large.
She writes monthly crossword puzzles for the New Yorker , and her first book, The Riddles of the Sphinx, was published by HarperOne in 2024."