Author Profiles

Authors

Carmelinda Scian

Carmelinda Scian is an award winning author who has been published in the Malahat Review, Litro, Belletrist, UofT magazine, Prairie Fire, Accenti Magazine, the Fiddlehead, the SanAntonio Review, Magnolia, the Antigonish Review, and the Hong Kong Review. “Yellow Watch” was nominated for the 2018 Journey Prize. She was judge for Malahat’s Open Season contest in 2018 and is presentlya reader for the Fiddlehead Review. She emigrated from Portugal to Toronto where she lives with her husband.

B .Tyler Lee

B. Tyler Lee is the author of one poetry collection, With Our Lungs in Our Hands (Redbird Chapbooks, 2016), and her essay “A large volume of small nonsenses” won the 2020 Talking Writing Contest. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in 32 Poems, Crab Orchard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Puerto del Sol, Qwerty Literary Journal, Acting Up: Queer in the New Century (Jacar Press), and elsewhere. She teaches in the Midwest.

Emma Wu

Emma Wu is a queer writer of color, environmental activist, and crossword enthusiast living in Philadelphia, PA with her partner and cat. She is currently attending Rutgers-Camden University’s MFA program in fiction writing and holds a BA in Geology from Bryn Mawr College. Born into a bi-racial Asian American family in Texas, Emma’s literary practice is steeped in the dissonance between cultural reverence and dissent. She writes to understand how we pass on and reshape memory, how it affects desire, and if we can ever really let it go. Emma was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and received the Katherine Fullerton Gerould Excellence in Writing Award in 2018. 68 | Issue 43

Authors

Clare Banks

Clare Banks is associate editor for Smartish Pace. A recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Hopkins Review, Mississippi Review, and Boulevard, among others. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and lives in Baltimore City.

Natali Petricic

Natali Petricic’s stories have appeared in Joyland, CALYX, Santa Monica Review, The Fem, The Common, and others. Recently, her linked short story collection was a finalist for the Restless Books 2020 Prize for New Immigrant Writing. Her novella, Leaf Boats, is part of the Running Wild Novel Anthology. She is a former PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow and PEN America Mark program participant. When she isn’t writing, Natali enjoys long walks, baking, and spending time with her husband and son.

Eliya Smith

Eliya O. Smith is a writer from Ohio.