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Grace Loh Prasad is the author of the memoir The Translator's Daughter, about living between languages, navigating loss and the search for belonging.
Author of The Charm Buyers (University of Hawai'i Press), recipient of the biennial Ka Palapala Po'okela Award for Excellence, and The Spellbound, forthcoming from WTAW Press.
short story writer
I'm the author of the short story collections Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila, Mayor of the Roses, and The Lost Language. My novella, Jenalyn, was a finalist for the UK's Saboteur Award. I'm currently working on my first novel.
Jay is a writer who lives in San Francisco. His focus is short stories and maybe a screenplay or two.
Brian Komei Dempster is the author of the poetry collections, Topaz and Seize, published by Four Way Books.