Tin House Scholars

Azadeh Hashemian is a writer and translator based in Norwich, UK, has had her work featured in both Persian and English in the other side of hope and Silk Route Project at the University of Iowa among other places. Currently she is working on two projects. Firstly, her memoir, which explores the complexities of growing up as a woman in post-revolution Iran, exploring various paradoxes inherent in that experience. Secondly, a collective narrative that traces the evolution of Iranian women's clothing under two contrasting sets of dress codes: forced unveiling and forced veiling, all within the span of a single century.

Bex Frankeberger is a writer and musician based in Brooklyn. Their writing has been featured here and there but most recently in Mizna. Raised somewhere between the Pacific Ocean and Mojave Desert, they abstain from almonds in solidarity with the drought.

Marcus Ong Kah Ho is a Singaporean writer and literary arts teacher. His work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Chicago Quarterly Review, Granta, and more. He is working on a novel and short story collection. Find him at www.marcusongkh.com

Meredith L. King (she/her) is a creative nonfiction writer, playwright, and poet. Her work engages Black kinship, uncomfortable truths, and the collision of place with identity. Meredith holds a B.A. from Stanford University with honors, and an M.B.A. from Yale University. She is a 2024 Anaphora Arts Fellow, received a 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Playwriting, and was named Best Local Playwright of 2020 by Cleveland Scene Magazine. Additionally, her creative work has been supported by the Midwives Artist Collective, at Louis Place, Dobama Theatre Playwrights Gym, Cleveland Public Theatre, Nolose, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, HBMG Foundation, and featured on NPR’s Here and Now. Find her at www.meredithlking.com

Mrityunjay Mohan is a queer, trans, disabled writer of color. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, The Indianapolis Review, and Fourteen Hills. He’s a Brooklyn Poets fellow. He's been awarded scholarships by Sundance Institute, The Common, Frontier Poetry, Black Lawrence Press, and elsewhere. He’s an editor for ANMLY magazine, and a reader for Split/Lip Press, Harvard Review, and The Masters Review.

Nathan Xie (he/they) is a writer. He is a recipient of One Story's Adina Talve-Goodman fellowship and support from Lambda Literary, Tin House, and the Periplus Collective. His writing can be found at nathan-xie.com.

Nicasio Andres Reed is an editor, writer, and poet whose work has appeared in venues such as Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Reckoning, and Fireside. He lives in Tagaytay, in the Philippines, with four dogs, some family, and the occasional uninvited monitor lizard. He currently serves as the poetry editor for The Deadlands, and is working on a speculative historical novella about the lives of Filipino migrant workers in California and Alaska in the 1930s. Find out more at https://www.nicasioreed.com/.

Oso Guardiola received his first M.F.A. in Creative Writing - Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was the recipient of the Maytag Scholarship and the Arthur James Pflughaupt Prize in Fiction. His short stories have been awarded the 2023 Gulf Coast Prize for Fiction, the 2022 runner-up for the J.F. Powers Prize in Fiction, and the 2021 Honorable Mention for the San Miguel Writers' Contest in Fiction. He was the 2024 Winter Workshop Scholar for Tin House. His fiction has appeared in Latino Book Review Magazine, La Piccioletta Barca, Dappled Things Literary Magazine, and is forthcoming in Gulf Coast Magazine. Today, Oso pursues a second M.F.A. in Creative Writing - Spanish with a poetry thesis at the University of Iowa Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled bakla poet and playwright from Evanston, IL. He is the author of the debut poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025). His work appears or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Sewanee Review, Gulf Coast, and New England Review, among others, and has received support from MacDowell, Fulbright, Kenyon Review, and the Canada Council for the Arts. He received an MFA in poetry and critical disability studies from the New Writers Project at UT Austin and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, poet-in-residence at Tangled Art + Disability, and assistant poetry editor at Foglifter Journal.

Rona Luo is a queer, neurodivergent poet and acupuncturist working at the intersection of decolonial healing and writing as somatic practice. She is a Kundiman fellow and member of Southbank Centre's New Poets Collective 22/23. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review, ANMLY, Honey Literary, Mom Egg Review, fourteen poems, Suspect Journal, and Bi+ Lines anthology.  Her speculative visual poetry has been exhibited at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

Sneha Subramanian Kanta is an academician and multi-genre writer currently residing in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of five chapbooks including Ancestral-Wing (Porkbelly Press, 2024), Every Elegy Is A Love Poem (Variant Lit, forthcoming), and Ghost Tracks (Louisiana Literature, 2020). An award-winning writer, her work has been anthologized widely, including in The Penguin Book of Indian Poets (ed. Jeet Thayil) published by the Penguin Random House imprint Hamish Hamilton. Her work has been published in Shenandoah, the minnesota review, West Branch, and elsewhere. Her work has been recognized and supported by several institutions including Ontario Arts Council, The Charles Wallace Trust, The Vijay Nambisan Foundation, and British Council. She is one of the founding editors of Parentheses Journal. Website: snehasubramaniankanta.com

Somto Ihezue is a speculative fiction writer, an acquiring editor, and a filmmaker. He is a recipient of the Mandela Institute’s African Youth Network Movement Fiction Prize, the Horror Writers Association Grant, and the EbonyLife Academy Alumni Film Grant. His work was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award (Sydney J. Bounds) for Best New Writer, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Afritondo Short Story Prize, the British Science Fiction Award, the Utopia Awards, and the Nommo Awards. His works have found homes in venues like Tor: Africa Risen, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, POETRY Magazine, Strange Horizons, Podcastle, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Escape Pod, Omenana Magazine, Africa In Dialogue, The Sauútiverse Anthology, and others. Somto is an Alumni of the Tin House Workshop, Milford Writers Workshop, and scheduled to attend the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Somto is Original Fiction Manager at Escape Artists, an acquiring Editor with Android Press, and an intern for the Publishing Taught Me Project, an SFWA [Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Association] and NEA [National Endowment for the Arts] sponsored program. He tweets at somto_Ihezue.

aureleo sans is a flamingo. She is also a Colombian-American, formerly unhoused queer poet and writer with a disability. 
She has been named a prior Tin House Scholar, a Periplus fellow, a Sewanee Writers Conference scholar, and a Lambda Literary fellow. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Shenandoah, Salamander, the 2023 Best Microfiction Anthology, the Wigleaf Top 50, and elsewhere.

Avery Robinson is a trans poet and punk from Orlando, Florida. Their work centers the trans body as a haunted monument, tracing the pulse of its specters across multiple iterations of a buried self, a living name, and the music and media they first learned to disappear inside of. Along with being Watering Hole Tribe, they were a 2024 Lambda Emerging Voices Fellow. Currently an MFA candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, they have also been the recipient of Pushcart nominations and the 2023 Porter House Review Editor’s Prize. Their poems can be found in Black Warrior Review, Obsidian, Hunger Mountain, Beloit Poetry Journal, and others. You can personally find them wherever the music is loudest

Canela is a 2-Spirit Indigenous artist who grew up in the heart of Oaxacalifornia. They are currently working on a memoir-in-essays, and they recently completed their first collection of poetry, titled Red Skin, White Designer Bag. They were selected as a 2024 Periplus Fellow by the PERIPLUS Collective, a mentorship collective serving U.S. writers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color, and as a 2024 Tin House Scholar for the 2024 Tin House Summer Workshop. Their writing has also received support from the Hudson Valley Writers Center and Abode Press.

Catalina Bode is a writer and educator mostly from Illinois and now lives in Ohio. Her work has been supported by a Fulbright, the Vermont Studio Center, the Hopwood Program, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and as a Ricardo Salinas Scholar. She earned her MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan and her writing can be found in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Pinch, and Salt Hill Journal.

Chibuike Ogbonnaya’s writing has been published in Green Mountains Review, The Forge Literary Magazine, Black Femme Collective, Lambda's Emerge Anthology, and elsewhere. They were a 2023 Lambda Fellow, and a 2024 Anaphora Writing Resident. Their writing has received support from Pen America and the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts. Chibuike is currently the Nicholas Sparks Writer-in-Residence at the University of Notre Dame, where they earned their MFA in Creative Writing.

Chris Hoshnic is a Navajo Poet and Filmmaker. A recipient of the 2023 Indigenous Prize Poet for Hayden’s Ferry Review and a James Welch Finalist, Hoshnic is also an advocate for Diné Bizaad, or the Navajo Language and has translated work for Thousand Languages Project, a Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing initiative. His fellowships include the Native American Media Alliance’s Writers Seminar, UC-Berkeley Arts Research Center Poetry & the Senses and Diné Artisan and Authors Capacity Building Institute. He is currently an MFA Candidate at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

dion banville is a queer border poet, comic book fiend, and amateur historian based in El Paso, Texas. He attended the New York State Summer Writers Institute in 2023, and his work is forthcoming in the Rio Grande Review, where he won an Emerging Voices prize in poetry in 2023 and 2024. dion recently graduated from The University of Texas at El Paso with a BA in Creative Writing focusing on the Latin American diaspora. He is currently working on a collection of poetry revolving around the Farah Factory plants in El Paso, Texas, that left the city broken, as well as a graphic novel about Mexican braceros and American myth.

Elena Dudum is a Palestinian-Syrian writer whose work explores the boundaries of generational trauma and what it means to have an identity shaped by political narratives and agendas. As a grandchild of Palestinian refugees, her writing untangles the notion of a “homeland” and how she can connect to this amorphous place — two generations removed. Most recently, Elena graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Nonfiction Writing where she also taught freshman composition. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, TIME Magazine, Bon Appétit, Cosmopolitan Magazine, and other outlets.

irene hsu is a writer and researcher based in Brooklyn and the Bay Area. They are working on a chapbook about sand, soil, and islands—a poetics that dismembers the u.s. war machine. At CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, they scheme to fight real estate propaganda and grow the narrative power of immigrant and working class tenant movements. Their writings and conversations are homed in the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Wendy's Subway, Brooklyn Rail, among others—more at irnhs.tumblr.com. Illustration by Ziyi Li.

Kani is an MFA student at the University of New Mexico, a 2022 Tin House summer workshop participant, and the non-fiction editor of Blue Mesa Review. His essay has been published in The ASP Bulletin. He is currently working on his memoir which tackles the social and cultural issues raised by patriarchy in the Igbo culture.

leena aboutaleb is an Egyptian and Palestinian writer who asks you to commit to the Palestinian liberation struggle. Read her work at www.leenaboutaleb.onl.

Maura Finkelstein is a writer, ethnographer, and former associate professor of anthropology. She is the author of The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai, published by Duke University Press in 2019. Her writing has also been published in Anthological Quarterly, City and Society, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology Now, Post45, Electric Literature, Allegra Lab, Red Pepper Magazine, The Markaz Review, and the Scottish Left Review.

Mohamad Saleh is a Palestinian writer and film director from Amman and Brooklyn. He was a fellow at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in 2019, and his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Animated Film Festival, the Big Apple Film Festival, and The Margins. He is currently working on his first short story collection.

Persimmon Tobing is an Indonesian-American trans woman—raised in New Jersey, but a California girl. She is a Kundiman fellow and the recipient of a scholarship to the Tin House Summer Workshop. She is currently at work on a manuscript called “What Makes Us Girls”, a novel-in-stories centering a trans woman’s misbehavior. When she isn’t writing, you can find her hitting winners on the tennis court, talking trash, or yearning relentlessly under the half-full moon.

Ruby Hansen Murray is a columnist for the Osage News. She’s the winner of The Iowa Review and Montana Nonfiction Prizes, and a MacDowell, Ragdale, and Hedgebrook fellow. Her poetry appears in The Hopkins Review, Ecotone, Beloit Poetry Journal, Prism, and South Florida Poetry Journal. Find her prose in Cutbank, Pleiades, Under the Sun, the Massachusetts Review, High Desert Journal, and The Rumpus. Her work is included in Cascadia: A Field Guide (Tupelo Press), Allotment Stories (Univ of Minnesota Press), and Shapes of Native Nonfiction (Univ of Washington Press). She’s a citizen of the Osage and Cherokee Nations with West Indian roots, living in the lower Columbia River estuary.

Shipra Agarwal is a doctor-turned-writer from India, pursuing an MFA in fiction from Arizona State University. Her work is published/forthcoming in Witness Magazine and The Rumpus, nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize and the Pushcart Prize, shortlisted for the First Pages Prize, and supported by Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Anaphora Arts, GrubStreet, and Women’s National Book Association. Shipra is working on a novel-in-stories.

Rumor has it, Sydney Fowler is multiple fairies in a human suit. They are a white, queer, nonbinary writer living in Denver, CO. In 2015, they founded their sensitivity and developmental editing company, Inqueery, LLC., to help create more authentic and respectful portrayals of marginalized identities, communities, and experiences in literature and other media. Sydney facilitates writing and publishing workshops for youth and adults through The Loft Literary Center and Lighthouse Writers Workshop. They are published in the Snarktastic Guide to College Success (Pearson), New Directions in Folklore, and Handbook of Sexuality Leadership (Routledge).

Tashina Emery is known as the Clearing of the Sky Cloud woman, Misanaquadikwe. The one who can clear a cloudy day. Tashina is from the small reservation, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community of Michigan. She teaches during the day as an Adjunct Professor at my Tribal Community College, taking a few classes my self learning about my people, from my people. She runs a jewelry business during the evening. She writes into the night, after earning her MFA in Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She recently was the Associate Judge for her Tribe's Judicial Branch, appointed by the Tribal Council after the passing of our Chief Judge, my appointment ended in January. Doing it all while being a mother; worrying and caring for my little brown baby and all future brown babies. My movement on and off the reservation has led to my passion as a lifelong learner, adding to her life bundle and superpowers of legacy.

Tega Oghenechovwen’s work exploring social justice, displacement and communal grief has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Joyland, The Rumpus, Ruminate Magazine and elsewhere. Originally from Jos, Nigeria, Tega lives in Maryland where he is in the MFA program at the University of Maryland, studying fiction.

Tracy Abeyta is a third grade dropout who didn’t get a GED but snagged a few Master’s degrees, including an MFA from the Institute for American Indian Arts. She’s published in Hobart Pulp, the Brooklyn Review, Diagram, Boston Review, and is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner and Epoch.

Tylea Richard is an essayist who writes about identity, pop culture, the supernatural, and technology, among other things. She is especially interested in the ways that Blackness, queerness, femaleness, and class are in conversation. Tylea graduated with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Institute for American Indian Arts in 2024. She lives in Miami with her dog Nosferatu.

Uyen Phuong Dang is a Vietnamese American writer from Saigon, Vietnam. Her stories have appeared in CRAFT, The Cincinnati Review, Fugue, Passages North, and more. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology at Yale University, and also working on a story collection centered on reclaiming the myths and memories of Vietnamese daughters. More of her work can be found at www.uyenpdang.com.

Yasmin Adele Majeed is a writer living in New York. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the recipient of residencies from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Kimmel-Harding Nelson Center. Her fiction appears and is forthcoming in Narrative, Joyland, American Short Fiction, The Asian American Literary Review, and Best Debut Short Stories 2022. She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa and is currently at work on a novel and a story collection.