Melissa Faliveno

Sep 1, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Carter Sickels |Gabrielle Calvocoressi |Melissa Faliveno |Katie Winkelstein-Duveneck

Carter Sickels is the author of the novels The Prettiest Star (Hub City Press, 2021) and The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury USA, 2012). His writing appears in various outlets, including The Atlantic, Oxford American, Poets & Writers, BuzzFeed, Guernica, and Joyland. Sickels is an assistant professor of creative writing at North Carolina State University.

Sep 1, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Krys Malcolm Belc |Gabrielle Calvocoressi |Melissa Faliveno |Elinam Agbo

Krys Malcolm Belc is the author of the memoir The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood (Counterpoint Press, 2021) and the flash nonfiction chapbook In Transit (The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2018). His essays about queer and trans family life have been featured in Granta, Guernica, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Belc is the memoir editor of Split Lip Magazine. He is the 2023–25 Edelstein-Keller Writer in Residence at the University of Minnesota.

Aug 31, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Donika Kelly |Gabrielle Calvocoressi |Melissa Faliveno |Rickey Fayne

Donika Kelly is the author of The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and Bestiary, the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Kelly is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a founding member of the collective Poets at the End of the World. She currently lives in Iowa City, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa.

Aug 31, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Zoe Bossiere |Gabrielle Calvocoressi |Melissa Faliveno |Rickey Fayne

Zoë Bossiere (she/they) is a nonfiction writer and the managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. She is the coeditor of The Best of Brevity (Rose Metal Press, 2020) and The Lyric Essay As Resistance: Truth from the Margins (Wayne State University Press, 2023). Bossiere’s debut memoir, Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir, is forthcoming from Abrams Books.

Aug 31, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Gabrielle Calvocoressi |Melissa Faliveno |Lionel Trilling |Martina Botti

You tore up my note, your morning opened with Nora’s voice like a play that again you won’t be directing, and outside the light was blank and coloring the insistent […]