{"id":19638,"date":"2026-01-02T18:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=19638"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:01:30","slug":"nr-45-contributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/19638","title":{"rendered":"NR 45 Contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Born and raised in M\u00e9xico, Sandra Dolores G\u00f3mez Amador<\/strong> is a poet, editor, and scholar. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Tennessee. Her work has been supported by Community of Writers, Tin House, and Letras Latinas, among others. Sandra is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing, a reader for ONLY POEMS<\/i>, and a Tin House 25-26 Reading Fellow. Learn more about her writing on sandradolores.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Debangana Banerjee<\/strong> was born and raised in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India and lived there until she came to Baton Rouge, LA in 2006. Debangana received her master\u2019s degree in fine arts from Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan in 2005. She received her second Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge in August 2010 and published the chapbook, come back river (Finishing Line Press) in 2014. She currently lives in San Marcos, TX.<\/p>\n

Vera Blossom<\/strong> is a proud Filipina American and transfemme monster. Her work explores desire, pleasure, gender, and death. In 2024, DOPAMINE\/Semiotext(e) published How to Fuck Like a Girl; part memoir, part pillow book, part manifesto. She writes the steamy, confessional newsletter of the same name.<\/p>\n

Vincent A. Cellucci<\/strong> wrote Absence Like Sun (Lavender Ink, 2019) and An Easy Place \/ To Die (CityLit Press, 2011). He edited Fuck Poems an exceptional anthology (Lavender Ink, 2012). He also has three collaborative titles: come back river (Finishing Line Press, 2014);_a ship on the line (Unlikely Books, 2014), which was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award; and the recently released ~getting away with everything (Unlikely Books, 2021). Vincent performed Diamonds in Dystopia, an interactive poetry web app at SXSW in 2017, and the poem was anthologized in Best American Experimental Writing 2018. He works at the TU Delft Library.<\/p>\n

Lydi Conklin<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Vanderbilt University. Previously they were the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Fiction at the University of Michigan. Their fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, One Story, American Short Fiction, VQR, <\/em> and elsewhere. They have drawn graphic fiction for Lenny Letter, Drunken Boat,<\/em> and the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago and cartoons for The New Yorker <\/em>and Narrative Magazine<\/em>. Their story collection, Rainbow Rainbow<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>was longlisted for the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Award and The Story Prize. Their novel, Songs of No Provenance<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.<\/p>\n

Lauren Hruska<\/strong>\u2019s fiction has appeared in Not One Of Us and The Noyo Review. She was a fellow with MVICW and holds a MA in Depth Psychology and Creativity from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is writing a novel about wine and murder and she lives in Central California with her tolerant family.<\/p>\n

Diego Medina<\/strong> is an artist and educator from Las Cruces, New Mexico. His family is one of the original families from the historic Mesquite district, the old Pueblo for the Piro-Manso-Tiwa tribe.<\/p>\n

Yasmine Roukiaya<\/strong> is an all-from-somewhere-else American by way of Lebanon, Appalachia, whatsapp and dried out pens, her work examines the nexus of being in-between: the hyphens, genres, political streams of consciousness, the thrive and jive of cultures past & future. Her work can be found in Gulf Coast, AAWW: The Margins, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Black Warrior Review, Mizna, Tinderbox Poetry, PAPERMAG, internationally and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Paul Sullivan<\/strong> is a writer based in Provincetown, MA. They graduated from Harvard University in 2023 and are a recipient of a 2024-2025 Harvardwood Artist Launch Fellowship.<\/p>\n

Angela Tharpe<\/strong> is a writer and teacher living in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her BA in English from Baylor University, her MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop, and her PhD in English at Emory University. You can find her culture blog and other work at angelatharpe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Daniella Toosie-Watson<\/strong> (she\/they) is a writer, visual artist, and the author of What We Do with God<\/i>\u00a0(Haymarket Books, 2025). She has been published in The Atlantic<\/i>, The Paris Review<\/i>, Oxford Poetry<\/i>, Callaloo<\/i>, Virginia Quarterly Review<\/i>, and elsewhere. Her honors include the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize Shortlist, the 2020 Discovery Poetry Contest, and a Graduate Hopwood Award & Zell Fellowship from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers\u2019 Program where she received her MFA in poetry. Daniella lives in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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