Sarah Stonich’s first novel, These Granite Islands was a Barnes & Noble Great New Writers pick, translated to a dozen languages and awarded numerous prizes. Her second, The Ice Chorus was also a critical success, though she is best known for the Northern trilogy, beginning with Vacationland, continuing with Laurentian Divide, winner of the ’19 Minnesota Book Award.

Kate Eberstadt is a composer, singer-songwriter, writer, and performing artist, born in Washington D.C. and currently based in Brooklyn. Her work has been shown internationally, most recently at National Sawdust (Brooklyn), The Connelly Theater (NYC), and The Nemetski National Theater (Kazakhstan.) 
She was selected as a Creator for the inaugural Toulmin Partnership by National Sawdust and The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU.

In residence: February 4 - 18, 2022

Tochukwu Okafor is a Nigerian writer whose work has appeared in the 2019 Best Small Fictions, the 2018 Best of the Net, The Guardian, Harvard’s Transition Magazine, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. He is a 2021 Wellstone Center in the Redwoods (WCR) Writing Fellow, a 2021 Grub Street Emerging Writer Fellow, a 2021 Jack Straw Writing Fellow, a 2021 Frank Conley Memorial Scholar, a 2021 Albertina Tholakele Dube Scholar for Young Writers, a 2021 Longleaf Writers Conference BIPOC Scholar, and an alumnus of the 2021 Tin House Workshop. He is also a 2018 Rhodes Scholar finalist, a 2018 Kathy Fish Fellow, and winner of the 2017 Short Story Day Africa Prize for Short Fiction.

In residence: March 16 - 30, 2022

Joumana Altallalis an Iraqi-Lebanese writer who was born in Baghdad, and grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia. She received her MFA in poetry at the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. Her recent work has appeared in The Rumpus, Muzzle Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Glass: A Journal of Poetry.