Featured Readers
Viola Lee graduated from NYU with an MFA in Poetry. Her book “Lightening After the Echo” was published by Another New Calligraphy. She has published poems in literary journals throughout the U.S., and recently published in Bellevue Literary Review, Literary Mama, Hong Kong Review, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, After Hours, and Another Chicago Magazine. She has poems forthcoming in Barrow Street, Crazyhorse, BOAAT PRESS, Lotus Magazine, New Plains Review and North Dakota Quarterly. She lives in Chicago with her husband, son and daughter. She teaches 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders at Near North Montessori School.
신 선 영 辛善英 Sun Yung Shin is a Korean-born writer based in Minneapolis whose fourth book of poems, The Wet Hex, will be published by Coffee House Press in 2022. She is also the editor/co-editor of three anthologies of essays, most recently What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family (2021), and the author/co-author of two illustrated books for children.