Youmna Chlala is an artist and writer. Her debut poetry collection, The Paper Camera, was published in 2019. She is the recipient of an O. Henry Award and a Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and her writing has been featured in BOMB, Guernica, Prairie Schooner, Bespoke, Aster(ix), CURA, MIT Journal for Middle Eastern Studies, Bahithat: Journal of Lebanese Women Researchers, and XCP: Journal of Cross Cultural Poetics, among other publications. Chlala is the co-founder of the literary journal Eleven Eleven. Her art has been exhibited worldwide, most recently at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. Chlala currently serves as a Professor in the Humanities & Media Studies and Writing Departments at the Pratt Institute.
Hope Davis has appeared in the films About Schmidt; American Splendor; Synecdoche, New York; Captain America: Civil War; and Rebel in the Rye, among others. On television, Davis’s credits include In Treatment, The Newsroom, The Special Relationship, Allegiance, American Crime, Wayward Pines, with recent recurring roles in the series For the People, Strange Angel, and Love Life. Her theater credits include Ivanov, Two Shakespearean Actors, Spinning Into Butter, Food Chain, Measure for Measure, God of Carnage, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award, and The Red Barn. She can currently be seen in the miniseries Your Honor. Upcoming projects include Asteroid City, Cat Person, and Minx.
Susan Perabo is the author of the short story collections Who I Was Supposed to Be and Why They Run the Way They Do and the novels The Broken Places and The Fall of Lisa Bellow. Her fiction has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, and New Stories from the South, and has appeared in numerous magazines, including One Story, Glimmer Train, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, and The Sun. She is Writer in Residence and Professor of English at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, and on the faculty of the low-residency MFA Program at Queens University.
Rita Wolf most recently appeared in What Happened? The Michaels Abroad, the final installment of Richard Nelson’s family saga, at the Frederick Loewe Theater at Hunter College.
Previously, she appeared in The Michaels off-Broadway at the Public Theater. She has also been featured in the premiere of Hammaad Chaudhury's debut play An Ordinary Muslim at The New York Theatre Workshop and Emma and Max at The Flea Theatre, written and directed by Todd Solondz. Additional New York theater credits include David Greig’s The American Pilot at the Manhattan Theatre Club, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, and the premiere of Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul at New York Theatre Workshop and later at BAM. Her film credits include Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Laundrette, Spike Lee's Girl 6, Coronation Street, Wing and a Prayer, and The Good Wife. Wolf is featured in the Audible recording of Evil Eye, a noir drama written by Madhuri Shekar.
CREDITS
“Life Off My E," by Susan Perabo, from Why They Run the Way They Do (Simon & Schuster, 2016). Copyright © 2016 by Susan Perabo. Used by permission of the Friedrich Agency.
“Nayla” by Youmna Chlala, from The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 (Anchor, 2018). First appeared in Prairie Schooner (Volume 90, Number 4, Winter 2016). Copyright © 2016 by Youmna Chlala. Used by permission of the author.
