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Mohammed Naseeu Ali is the author of The Prophet of Zongo Street, a dazzling collection of stories that mixes myth with modernity. O Magazine described the stories as "rich and resonant…haunting and ultimately hopeful in their commitment to the truth." The New York Times Book Review hailed the collection as "moving, subtle and ingeniously constructed." Ali's fiction and essays have been published in the New Yorker, The New York Times, Mississippi Review, Bomb, Gathering of the Tribes, and Essence. He is also a well-known musician recently featured on NPR. Take a listen.

Wyn Cooper has published three books of poems, The Country of Here Below, The Way Back, and Postcards from the Interior, as well as a chapbook entitled Secret Address. According to poet Jane Hirschfield, "Wyn Cooper's superb postcard poems, deft and exemplary, say just enough, and never too much." His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, Agni, Verse, Fence, and more than 60 other magazines. His poems are included in 20 anthologies of contemporary poetry, including The Mercury Reader, Outsiders, Ecstatic Occasions, and Expedient Forms. His poem "Fun" was turned into Sheryl Crow’s Grammy-winning song "All I Wanna Do." Novelist Madison Smartt Bell's CD Forty Words for Fear is also based on Cooper's poetry, and according to Esquire, it's "sonic moonshine." Check it out.