Inas Omar, from Cairo, Egypt, is an architect by profession who has found her true calling in helping those who want to help themselves. She does that through the NGO she co-founded, Nahdet...

In addition to A Different Sun, Elaine Neil Orr has published a memoir, Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life; co-edited a collection of essays on international childhoods, Writing...

Erik Niel was raised in Mandeville, Louisiana, a community on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain and an hour away from the Gulf, where he spent afternoons fishing and duck hunting with...

Craig Nova has published 14 novels, which have been widely translated, and he has received an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a grant from...

Graduate of the UNC-Greensboro MFA program, editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review, vice president of the Poetry Council of North Carolina and the North Carolina Poetry Society, and author of...

David Owings serves as university archivist for Columbus State University in the Simon Schwob Library.

María (Maritere to family and Spanish-speaking friends) came to the US as an exchange student in 1978. She fell in love, married and eventually became a US citizen, despite her...

Artist/author Jan B. Parker lives and works in Fuquay-Varina, NC. Her publishing credits include the 2009 Press 53 Open Awards Anthology, Main Street Rag Quarterly Journal, MoonShine...

James T. Parrish, Jr. is a fundraiser, artist, and leader in the Richmond, Virginia, arts community with more than twenty-four years of fundraising experience in higher education and the...

Tyler D. Parry is an Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, he received a B.A....

Ash Parsons is a graduate of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Clown College as well as other, more traditional schools. She is a PEN America Literary Award Winner for the Phyllis...

Travel writer and TV reporter turned novelist, Peggy Payne is author of three novels. Her first, Revelation, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice with screen rights sold to...

James L. Peacock is the Kenan Professor of Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill. His most recent book is Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World.

Jardana Peacock is director of Liberation School. She is a spiritual teacher and healer who has been working in southern social movements for over a decade.

Bernadette Pelissier was born in Senegal, Africa of French parents. She came to the U.S. as an infant and spent most of her childhood in New Jersey.

Dina Perrine was born on Mexico's Independence Day, September 16th, which she has always found perfect as she is a proud Mexican American. Both of her parents are from Mexico and...

Mario Petrirena is a Cuban-born artist living and working in Atlanta and the recipient of several awards including an NEA individual artist grant and the Pollock-Krasner award.

I grew up in West Virginia until I left for high school in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. I graduated from Hollins College – now University, an all female liberal arts school tucked into the...

Maegan Poland’s debut short story collection What Makes You Think You’re Awake? was selected by Carmen Maria Machado to win the Bakwin Award and was published in 2021 by Blair.

John Pope, a New Orleans reporter since 1973, was a member of The Times-Picayune’s team that won two Pulitzer Prizes in 2006 for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

Barbara Presnell lives in Lexington, North Carolina, and teaches at UNC-Charlotte.

Ebeth Watkins Price is a writer and artist working in higher education and living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Carmine Prioli is a Professor Emeritus of English at North Carolina State University, where he taught American literature and folklore for 36 years.

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is an award-winning author in Vietnamese and English, author of twelve books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She has received top literary prizes in Vietnam,...

Kathy Randels, born and raised in Bulbancha | New Orleans, founded ArtSpot Productions in 1995.  She has written, performed in, and directed numerous original solo and collaborative group...

Tom Rankin is Professor of the Practice of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University where he directs the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts.

Ramesh Rao flew into Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on September 5, 1985 to begin work on his MS in Mass Communication.

Shannon Ravenel, who graduated from Hollins in 1960 with a BA in English Literature, has worked in publishing for fifty years: in Houghton Mifflin’s trade editorial department from...

Writer, naturalist, and activist Janisse Ray is the author of five books of literary nonfiction and a collection of eco-poetry.

John Shelton Reed is William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he was director of the Howard Odum Institute for...