T.D. Mitchell

Mitchell_QueensForAYear_Play_2016_HartfordStage

 photo artwork credit: Pictured: Vanessa Butler as Molly in Queens For a Year copyright Hartford Stage Company

T.D. is an award-winning dramatist, screenwriter and speechwriter primarily based in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, but who frequently works internationally. Her playwriting has been described as "provocative", "powerful and harrowing", "thoroughly riveting" and was featured at the Ojai Playwrights Conference, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Estrogenius Festival, the Wet Ink Festival, and EST's Octoberfest, among others. She was recruited to write for three seasons on the television series drama "Army Wives", and recently wrote a feature article on the history of gender inequity in employment and portrayal in Hollywood for Harpers Bazaar UK. 

www.byTDMitchell.com

Amanda Rea

"Faint of Heart," fiction published in One Story issue 237, January 2018

Amanda Rea's stories and essays are published or forthcoming in Harper's, One Story, American Short Fiction, Freeman’s, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Lit Hub, The Missouri Review, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, Indiana Review, Iowa Review, New South and elsewhere. Her work has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Peden Prize, and has been listed among distinguished works in Best American Short Stories. She has won fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Institute of Creative Writing in Wisconsin, Jentel Artist Residency, and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts.

Helen Betya Rubinstein

Helen Betya Rubinstein’s creative essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, Okey-Panky, The Paris Review Daily, and Witness, among others, and her opinions in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Forward, The LA Review of Books, and The New York Times. Her writing has been honored in the Best American Nonrequired Reading and Best Women’s Travel Writing series. She was the Provost’s Postgraduate Visiting Writer at the University of Iowa and the R.P. Dana Emerging Writer Fellow at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and is now institutionally and geographically untethered.

http://www.helenbetya.com

Art Seed at Marble House Project