AWP Offsite Reading w/ Epiphany, Cream City Review & Baltimore Review

Lineup

• More details about Daniel Uncapher

  Daniel Uncapher

  Daniel Uncapher is the author of American Pomology (CutBank Books, 2025). He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Utah and an MFA from Notre Dame, where he was a Nicholas Sparks Fellow. His work has been supported by Bread Loaf, Tin House, the Kenyon Review, and the NYS Summer Writers Institute. He is currently based in Salt Lake City with his dog, Arthur, where he is working on a novel, an essay collection, and ongoing experiments in collage.

• More details about M Lin

  M Lin

  M Lin is a Chinese writer living in the US. Born and raised in Beijing, she writes in English as her second language; her mother tongue is Mandarin, which she favors in speech. Her short story collection, The Memory Museum, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in April 2026. Her work has been published in Ploughshares, swamp pink, Joyland, Epiphany, Fence, and Best Debut Short Stories 2023 (Catapult). Her nonfiction can be read in The New York Times, Guernica, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her translation appears in Harper’s Bazaar China, Words Without Borders, and Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins. M holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College and a BFA in Film from New York University. An amateur pianist and a certified yoga teacher, she lives in New York with her partner and two furry children, Lisbon and Rothko.

• More details about Ivan Suazo

  Ivan Suazo

  Ivan Suazo received his BFA in Dramatic Writing from SUNY Purchase and is now working toward an MFA in Creative Writing at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. He was recently named a finalist for the 2025 Swamp Pink Prize in Fiction. His work has been supported by the Kenyon Writers Workshop, and has appeared in The Pinch, Salamander, and elsewhere.

• More details about Audrey Obuobisa-Darko

  Audrey Obuobisa-Darko

  Audrey Obuobisa-Darko is a Ghanaian writer and graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

• More details about Kyoko Mori

  Kyoko Mori

  Kyoko Mori’s award-winning first novel, Shizuko’s Daughter, was hailed by The New York Times as “a jewel of a book, one of those rarities that shine out only a few times in a generation.” Her many critically acclaimed books include Yarn, Polite Lies, The Dream of Water, and Stone Field True Arrow and One Bird. Her essays and short stories have appeared in The American Scholar, the Harvard Review, the Kenyon Review, and Best American Essays, among other publications. She has taught at Harvard University and Goucher College and is currently on the faculty of George Mason University and Lesley University’s Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. She lives in Washington, DC.

• More details about Caroline Barnes

  Caroline Barnes

  Caroline Barnes is a writer and editor in Silver Spring, Maryland. She is especially interested in reading and writing poems that explore the ways humans and animals intersect. Caroline has published in Rattle, American Journal of Poetry, Dappled Things, and Rhino, where she was named a finalist in their 2024 Founders’ Contest. She is grateful to the Maryland State Arts Council for an Independent Artists Award in 2022 and she is currently at work on her first poetry collection.

• More details about D.E. Hardy

  D.E. Hardy

  D.E. Hardy's work has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and anthologized in Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and the Fractured Lit Anthology Series, vol. 3. She is the founder and EIC of Claudine and on staff at Chestnut Review and The Offing. D.E. earned a dual MFA in fiction and nonfiction from Antioch University. Originally from the midwest, D.E. lives in the SF Bay Area with her spouse, two daughters, two cats, and her dog. Her works in progress include a novel and a memoir.

• More details about Bari Lynn Hein

  Bari Lynn Hein

  Bari Lynn Hein was the winner of the 2024 Bethesda Short Story Contest, a finalist in the 2018 Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest, and a semifinalist in contests sponsored by CutBank and Phoebe. Her stories are published or forthcoming in dozens of journals across twelve countries, among them Prime Number and The Baltimore Review, as well as four anthologies. A novel set in Baltimore in the 1970s will soon go on submission, and she’s now at work on a multi-generational novella.

• More details about Mali Collins

  Mali Collins

  Mali Collins is a doula, writer, and assistant professor of African American Studies living in Baltimore. Her creative work has been published in A Gathering Together, SALT., the Haunt Journal of Art, Lampblack Magazine, and in anthologies from the University of Mississippi Press and Demeter Press. She was a 2024 Writer-in-Residence at Yellow Arrow Publishing.

• More details about Christine Sneed

  Christine Sneed

  Christine Sneed is the author of three novels, Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos, Little Known Facts, and Paris, He Said, as well as the story collections Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry, The Virginity of Famous Men, and Direct Sunlight (publication on June 15, 2023). She is the editor of the short fiction anthology, Love in the Time of Time’s Up, and is the recipient of the Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award, the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award, and Ploughshares’ Zacharis Prize, among other honors. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, New England Review, and numerous other publications. She lives in Pasadena, California.