Featured Writer Lalita Noronha is a research scientist, writer, teacher and editor from India. Recipient of a Fulbright travel grant to the U.S., she has a Ph.D. in Microbiology (St. Louis University School of Medicine). She has worked at the National Institutes of Health and in the biopharmaceutical industry, overseeing programs in areas of cardiovascular, […]

Featured Writer Mary Jo Salter is the author of seven collections of poetry, all published by Alfred A. Knopf, including the 2013 volume Nothing By Design.  She is also a lyricist and playwright, and the author of a children’s book, The Moon Comes Home.  A former poetry editor of The New Republic, she is a […]

Jessica Anya Blau is the author of the highly praised novel, Drinking Closer to Home.  Target stores featured Drinking Closer to Home in their Breakout Author series. Blau’s first novel, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, was selected as a Best Summer Book by the Today Show, The New York Post and New York Magazine. […]