I am a Romanian American playwright, actor, administrator, and educator based in Brooklyn. I’m interested in working within surrealism, interrogating and playing with masculinity, and the ~theater magic~ that happens when an actor transitions from one character to another. I have an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College, graduated from Wellesley College with a BA in Theatre Studies and Psychology, and am an alum of the National Theatre Institute at the O'Neill. In addition, I am an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College in the English department. Recent writing includes My Cousin Nelu Is Not Gay (The Brick Theater 2023,  Ars Nova’s ANT Fest 2022), Rentabutch (Bushwick Starr Reading Series Finalist), and The Cover Band (in development). Acting credits include Nelu in My Cousin Nelu Is Not Gay (Ars Nova’s ANT Fest 2022), all characters in #RomeoJuliet (New Repertory Theatre), Laertes in Hamlet (Praxis Stage), and Joy/Dottie/Myself in WELL (Wellesley Repertory Theatre). I have performed my solo show Sfânta: Hell Bent on Heaven, about a teenage wannabe Russian Orthodox saint, at the Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Kalamazoo, Oregon, and Orlando Fringe Festivals.

Nat is a writer and game designer based in New York City. They teach interactive fiction and game making at Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, and Catapult, and co-host the podcast Queers at the End of the World. Nat did their MFA in Fiction and taught Creative Writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Catapult, Cartridge Lit, Autostraddle, Bodega, Blackbird, Kenyon Review Online, The Gettysburg Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. Two perfect-bound print tabletop roleplaying games, “Business Wizards” and “Horseshoe Academy,” are out now with 9th Level Games. Nat lives with their partner in the East Village, where they can be often found doing pull ups on the monkey bars at Tompkins Square Park.

Alex is a writer living in New York.  He is currently working on a short story collection and a novel. He is also currently foster-failing a cat, a grey-orange tabby lovingly renamed Gatorade (neé El Gato). He graduated from the University of Chicago and has additionally studied with GrubStreet and the Gotham Writers Workshop.

Alex is a New York native with roots from the Philippines. After earning his undergraduate degree from Sarah Lawrence College, he taught English in a fishing village in northwestern France. His work has received scholarship support from the Southampton Writers’ Conference and the Unterberg Poetry Center. In 2022, he was awarded the Matt Leone Fellowship from Colgate University. He has been featured on Literary Hub and The Coachella Review, among others. A current MFA candidate at Columbia University, he lives and works in Manhattan. He is at work on a collection of stories.

Lilly Camp is a queer writer originally from Los Angeles. Plays include ALL EIGHT (Normal Ave NAPSeries, O’Neill semifinalist, and Bechdel Group finalist 2019, Blue Ink semifinalist 2020, Lanford Wilson New Play Festival 2021), BEST FRIENDS (Goldberg Play Prize winner, Relentless Award Special Consideration 2018, Theatre [Untitled] 2021), WHY TAYLOR SWIFT IS GAY, and DEGENERATION. Lilly’s also co-written and produced a fictional scripted satire podcast, HAIRY LEGS HANNAH’S FEMINIST QUARTER HOUR, (Austin Film Festival semifinalist 2017), and written several pilots ALL EIGHT (Sundance Episodic Lab Semifinalist 2021), HEATHENS (Fusion, LA Indie, and LA Femme Film Festival finalists 2017) and THE LESBIAN SPIRIT GUIDE (Screencraft Pilot Launch quarterfinalist 2017). MFA: NYU, Tisch Future Screenwriter's Scholarship, Outstanding Writing in Play and TV Award. A member of PlayGround’s 2021 inaugural New York group. Lilly currently resides in Brooklyn with a roommate and a disease-ridden street cat, and is training for the 2022 NYC Marathon. lillycamp.com

Temim Fruchter (2020) is a queer nonbinary Jewish femme prose writer, who, after a sizeable hiatus, is thrilled to be back in Brooklyn. Her writing is deeply rooted in both her Orthodox Jewish upbringing and her insistent belief in queer possibility. Temim's fiction has been featured on NPR, and her stories and essays have appeared in Brevity, Foglifter, American Literary Review, The Account, Tupelo Quarterly, and [PANK], among others. She has work forthcoming in New South and Texas Review Press, and is the recipient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and Vermont Studio Center. She's working on both her first novel - a multi-generational intertextual Eastern European Jewish family story that imagines a queer ancestry - and a collection of short stories that trace the shape of the Jewish calendar year. temimfruchter.com/

Daniella Toosie-Watson (she/they) is a poet, visual artist and educator from New York. She has received fellowships and awards from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, VONA, the InsideOut Detroit Literary Arts Project, and the University of Michigan Hopwood Program. Winner of the 92Y 2020 Discovery Award Contest, her poetry has appeared in Callaloo, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Paris Review, Poet Lore, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. Daniella received her MFA from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program and currently works as Program Coordinator for the Writers-in-Schools Program at Lambda Literary. www.toosie.art

Mai Tran is a genderqueer Vietnamese American writer based in New York. She was a winner of Epiphany Zine's 2020 Breakout 8 Writers Prize and her work has appeared in Apogee, Vox, i-D, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She currently serves as a nonfiction coordinator for MFA App Review and is a 2021 Poetry Coalition Fellow with Lambda Literary. In her free time, she can be found mailing postcards, taking walks, and playing with her foster cats. maistran.com

Yilong Liu is a New York-based playwright. He grew up in China and received his MFA from University of Hawai‘i. His play The Book of Mountains and Seas recently won the LAMBDA Literary Award for Drama. Yilong is a Core Writer at Playwrights’ Center and has developed work with Ojai Playwrights Conference, EST/Youngblood, Space on Ryder Farm, among others. Currently he's under commissions from Audible’s Emerging Playwrights Fund and the EST/ Sloan Project. Plays include June is The First Fall (Original Works Publishing), Joker (Po’okela Award, Kumu Kahua Theatre, National Queer Theatre), and PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute (upcoming rolling premieres at NCTC). YilongLiu.com

Richard Scott Larson is a queer writer and critic. Born and raised in the suburbs of St. Louis, he studied literature and film at Hunter College in Manhattan and earned his MFA from New York University. He has recently received fellowships from MacDowell and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and he has been awarded residencies from Millay Arts, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. He's also an active member of the National Book Critics Circle. His creative and critical work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Review of Books, Harvard Review, Colorado Review, Electric Literature, Joyland, Slant Magazine, Hobart, and other venues, including the forthcoming anthology It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror Film (Feminist Press). His writing has also been listed as notable in The Best American Essays. Richard works for the Expository Writing Program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn. richardscottlarson.com

C. Quintana (CQ) (2020) is a writer with Cuban and Louisiana roots. She is the author of Scissoring (Dramatists Play Service) and The Heart Wants, a chapbook of poetry (Finishing Line Press). Most recently, CQ joined the third class of the Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund. The recipient of residencies and fellowships from WP Theater, MacDowell, Van Lier New Voices at the Lark, Queer/Art, Lambda Literary, and beyond, she also served as staff writer on ABC's The Baker and the Beauty. cquintana.com | Twitter | Instagram

Wendy Lu (2020) is a news editor and reporter at HuffPost covering the intersection of disability, politics and culture. She is also a global speaker on disability representation in the media. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Refinery29, Bustle, Quartz and more. Wendy is a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow with the Nieman Foundation, and she was named one of 30 global disability leaders on Diversability's D-30 Disability Impact List of 2020. She is based in Brooklyn, NY. wendyluwrites.com/ | Twitter | Instagram

Angela Chen (2019) is a senior editor at MIT Technology Review. Her reporting and criticism have already appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Paris Review, Lapham's Quarterly, and more. Her first book, ACE: How Misunderstanding Asexuality Shapes Our Culture, is forthcoming from Beacon.

Andrew Rincón (2019) is Queer Colombian playwright based in NYC. His plays have been developed with the Amoralists Theatre Company, Amios, Austin Latino New Play Festival, Out Front Productions (Atlanta) and PFP Productions (Seattle). He was a member of INKtank for Playwrights of Color (2017) and the 2017 Fornés Playwriting Workshop. He is the winner of the 2018 Chesley/Bumbalo Grant for writers of Gay and Lesbian Theatre. He is a Dramatist Guild Fellow 2019-2020 and a company member of Unit 52 at INTAR.