Krystina Alabado was last seen starring in Regency Girls at The Old Globe, in Mystic Pizza with McCoy Rigby Entertainment, in tick, tick…BOOM! at the Cape Playhouse, and as Dot in Sunday in the Park with George at the Pasadena Playhouse. Her Broadway credits include the role of Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls, as well as roles in American Psycho and Green Day’s American Idiot. She has performed in the national tours of Evita, American Idiot, and Spring Awakening, and off-Broadway in The Mad Ones, This Ain’t No Disco, David Bowie's Lazarus, and Camp Wanatachi. Her film and television credits include If You See Something, Disney’s Better Nate Than Ever, A Killer Party, Sunny Day, God Friended Me, First Reformed, FX’s Tyrant, Mecha Builders on Max, and Voltron Legendary Defender on Netflix. Alabado can be heard on the cast albums of The Mad Ones, A Killer Party, Goosebumps The Musical, Star Crossed, and more.
Grace Stone Coates (1881 – 1976) wrote short stories, poetry, and news articles. She published well over a hundred poems and short stories. Her work included the short story collection Black Cherries as well as the poetry collections Mead & Mangel-Wurzel and Portulacas in the Wheat. Coates co-edited and wrote for the literary magazine Frontier.
Yohanca Delgado was raised in New York City by parents from the Dominican Republic and Cuba. She is a graduate of American University’s MFA program and a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts fellow. She lives in California, where she is a 2021–2023 Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University. Her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories2022, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021, One Story, A Public Space, and The Paris Review, among others.
Mia Dillon is a Tony-nominated stage actress whose Broadway credits include Our Town, The Miser, The Corn Is Green, Hay Fever, Agnes of God, Crimes of the Heart, and Da. She has worked extensively off-Broadway and regionally from San Diego to Dublin, and her work has been honored with the Connecticut Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk nomination, the Clarence Derwent Award, and a Dramalogue Award, among others. Her film and television appearances include all three Law & Orders; Brain Dead; The Jury; Mary; Rhoda; Gods and Generals; The Money Pit; Ordinary World; All Good Things; Never Rarely Sometimes Always; and Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Andrew Sean Greer is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of seven works of fiction, including the bestsellers The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Less, and Less Is Lost. Greer has taught at a number of universities, including the Iowa Writers Workshop, and has been a TODAY show pick, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, a judge for the National Book Award, and a winner of the California Book Award and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. He is the recipient of a NEA grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, and The Wife. She is a faculty member in the Creative Writing and Literature Program at The Lichtenstein Center at Stony Brook University, where she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a one-year, non-credit intensive for emerging novelists. Wolitzer, who was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017, is the radio and podcast host of Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts.
CREDITS
“The Little Widow from the Capital” by Yohanca Delgado, first published in Paris Review (Spring 2021). Copyright © 2021 by Yohanca Delgado. Used by permission of Neon Literary.
"Wild Plums" by Grace Stone Coates. Copyright © 1928 by H.G. Merriam.
