Featured Readers
WILLIE LIN was born in Beijing, China and lives and works in Chicago. She’s a Kundiman fellow and the author of Conversation Among Stones (BOA Editions, forthcoming 2023) as well as the chapbooks Instructions for Folding and Lesser Birds of Paradise.
DIPIKA MUKHERJEE‘s (she/her) latest poetry collection, Dialect of Distant Harbors, will be published by CavanKerry Press in October 2022. She is the author of the poetry collections The Palimpsest of Exile (2009) and The Third Glass of Wine (2015). Her poetry appears in publications around the world, including RHINO, PostColonial Text, World Literature Today, Asia Literary Review, Del Sol Review and Chicago Quarterly Review, and she won the Liakoura Prize for Poetry (USA, 2016). She is the recipient of a 2022 Esteemed Artist Award (DCASE) from the City of Chicago. She teaches at the Graham School at University of Chicago as well as at StoryStudio Chicago.