Julie Marie Wade was born and raised in Seattle, Washington.
Michael Walsh is a quuer poet living in Minneapolis.
Michael X. Wang immigrated to the United States when he was six and has lived in ten states.
Nicholas Ward is a personal essayist, arts administrator, and company member with 2nd Story, a storytelling community.
Monica Wendel is a Brooklyn-based poet and educator.
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is a Liberian poet living in Pennsylvania.
Margaret Whitford served in leadership positions within the nonprofit world
Amie Whittemore is a poet and educator living in Tennessee.
Melissa Wiley grew up on a small farm in Indiana. Now she writes nonfiction.
Sunni Brown Wilkinson is a poet and essayist from Utah.
Lori Wilson is the author of the poetry collections House Where a Woman and The Dream Women Called.
Wendy Wimmer writes from Wisconsin, under the strict supervision of
Lauren D. Woods lives and writes in Washington, DC, where she was a 2024-25 Washington, DC Arts and Humanities Fellow for Fiction.
