Spring 2019

Fabiola Ferrero is a photographer and journalist based in Caracas, Venezuela. She is part of the VII Mentor Program and a Magnum Foundation Fellow. Her work has been featured in TIME, the Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Bloomberg Businessweek, and elsewhere. Her many honors include the Documentary Project Fund’s 2017 Emerging Vision Award.

Kaitlyn Greenidge is the author of We Love You Charlie Freeman (Algonquin, 2016) and the forthcoming LIBERTIE (Algonquin, 2021). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Believer, American Short Fiction, and other publications. 

Valeria Luiselli is the author of the novels Lost Children Archive (Knopf, 2019), The Story of My Teeth (Coffee House, 2015), and Faces in the Crowd (Coffee House, 2014), and the books of essays Sidewalks (Coffee House, 2014) and Tell Me How It Ends (Coffee House, 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 2017.

Wendy MacNaughton is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling artist-journalist and illustrator whose books include Salt Fat Acid Heat (Simon & Schuster, 2017), The Gutsy Girl (Bloomsbury, 2016), and Meanwhile in San Francisco, The City in Its Own Words (Chronicle, 2014). Her drawn journalism series “Meanwhile” appears every Sunday in the New York Times, and on the back page of California Sunday Magazine. She is the cofounder of Women Who Draw.

Laura van den Berg is the author of five works of fiction, including The Third Hotel (FSG, 2018), a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears (FSG, 2020). She is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Livings Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.