The Literary Saloon

Featuring

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  Tania Pabón Acosta

  Tania Pabón Acosta

  Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tania Pabón Acosta is a nonfiction writer based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Entropy, Medium, Catapult and The Rumpus, among others. Tania was chosen for AmpLit Fest’s Emerging Writer Showcase of 2018, and is a Virginia Center for Creative Arts 2024 fellow. By day, Tania works in higher education and bakes to procrastinate.

  
  

  Photo Credit: Tania Pabón Acosta

  
  
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  Chelsea Fonden

  Chelsea Fonden

  Chelsea Fonden is a queer poet, workshop facilitator, and community-based teaching artist with work featured in magazines such as No, Dear; Yes, Poetry; Adult Groceries; and Breadcrumbs. Chelsea co-founded and hosted the Eclipsed Reading Series in NYC for 3 years, and currently serves as a Poetry Reader for the Los Angeles Review. She has been awarded writing residencies at gardens, museums, and farms across the U.S., but lives in Brooklyn with her dog, Holiday.

  
  

  Photo Credit: Sarah Rosenthal

  
  
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  Kate Shannon Jenkins

  Kate Shannon Jenkins

  Kate Shannon Jenkins is an essayist and fiction writer. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the New Yorker online, the Believer, the Nation, Ninth Letter, and others. She has received support from Millay Arts, Bread Loaf, and Vermont Studio Center. She is a current student at Warren Wilson, where she is at work on her second novel. She hails from North Carolina but lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

  
  

  Photo Credit: Miguel Arzabe

  
  
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  Annell López

  Annell López

  Annell López is a Dominican immigrant. She is the winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the author of the short-story collection I’ll Give You a Reason from the Feminist Press. A Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops, her work has also received support from Tin House and has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, Brooklyn Rail, Refinery29 and elsewhere. López received her MFA from the University of New Orleans. She is working on a novel.

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  Kyle Lucia Wu

  Kyle Lucia Wu

  Kyle Lucia Wu is the author of the novel Win Me Something (Tin House Books), an NPR Best Book of the Year, and the co-author, with Cathy Linh Che, of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: A Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books 2023). Kyle is a former Asian American Writers’ Workshop Margins fellow and works as the Deputy Director at Kundiman.

  
  

  Photo Credit: Sylvie Rosokoff