Alvin Eng is a native NYC playwright/memoirist, performer and educator. His memoir, OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN (My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond), was published by Fordham University Press in May 2022. The memoir was covered by The New York Times and NPR/WNYC among others. THREE TREES, the first of Eng’s Portrait Plays series, was recently published by No Passport Press. This work dramatizes the haunting relationship between sculptor Alberto Giacometti and his primary 1950s muse/model, Japanese philosopher, Isaku Yanaihara. Both books were acquired for The New York Public Library’s collection. On October 14 at the Church Street School of Music and Art, he will perform from his acoustic punk raconteur work, HERE COMES JOHNNY YEN AGAIN (or How I Kicked Punk), as part of “Hong Kong Handover: 25 Years Later: NYC Chinese American Artists Respond” for which he was awarded an LMCC Creative Engagement grant. He is a three-time recipient of NYSCA/NYFA Fellowships––most recently in 2020 for Nonfiction Literature. Eng’s plays and performances have been seen Off-Broadway, throughout the U.S., as well as in Paris, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China. www.alvineng.com 

Topaz Winters is the Singaporean-American author of three poetry collections (most recently So, Stranger, Button Poetry, 2022). She is the founder & editor-in-chief of the independent publishing house & literary journal Half Mystic. Her peer-reviewed scholarly work is published in the Journal of Homosexuality. Her creative work is published in diode, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Puritan, & Hobart, & has been featured by The Straits Times, American Banker, the National University of Singapore, the Center for Fiction, & the Academy of American Poets. Topaz is 22 years old & studies Creative Writing, Italian, & Visual Art at Princeton University. You can find more of her work at topazwinters.com.

Philip Brunetti – Fiction writer, poet, antipoet, gentle quasi-misanthrope, librarian, has been writing fiction and poetry since his early 20s. His innovative work has been published in numerous paper and online literary journals including Cobalt Weekly, Swamp Ape Review, The Boiler, The Wax Paper, and Identity Theory. His debut novel, NEWER TESTAMENTS, is described in the Independent Book Review as ‘an innovative existential novel told through hallucinatory poetics.’ Via his librarianship at the Brooklyn Public Library, Brunetti also runs the Gravesend Writers Group, a monthly discussion group for published authors. Aside from an MLS, Philip holds an MFA degree from Georgia State University where he was awarded the Paul Bowles Fellowship in Fiction Writing and was the Fiction Editor for The GSU Review for three years running. His author website is PhilipBrunetti.com and he currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.