THINKING ITS PRESENCE: THE RACIAL IMAGINARY

Second-year MFA student in poetry at UM, graduating this May.

As a third generation Indo, born and raised in Hawai`i, my maternal ancestors and I have learned to navigate colonized spaces. My poetry aspires to study the tools and effects of colonialism in Indonesia and Hawai`i, by specifically looking at how we exotify people and place.

Tamara Love hails from Flint Michigan. After living and working in New York City for nearly ten years, she stumbled upon Debra Magpie Earling's book, Perma Red and managed to earn a spot in the University of Montana's Creative Writing Program. She has taught writing for University... Read More →

I'm a grad student in the creative writing program at the University of Montana. Memoir is my thing and currently writing an essay about the MFA experience from the perspective of someone not exactly in the age demographic: "Grandma Goes to Grad School."

Asta So was born in Hong Kong and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she studied English literature and creative writing at Stanford University. She writes both fiction and nonfiction and received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana.

Lehua M. Taitano, a native Chamoru from Yigo, Guåhan (Guam), is a queer writer and interdisciplinary artist. She is the author of A Bell Made of Stones (poems, TinFish Press) a chapbook of short fiction, appalachiapacific, winner of the 2010 Merriam-Frontier Award, and a chapbook... Read More →

I completed my MFA in fiction at the University of Montana in 2014. My work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Masters Review, American Chordata and Gulf Coast. I am interested in strategies for talking meaningfully about race in diverse urban settings... Read More →