Susan Bernhard is a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship recipient and a graduate of the GrubStreet Novel Incubator program. She was born and raised in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, is a graduate of the University of Maryland, and lives with her husband and two children near Boston. ‘Winter Loon’ (Little A) is her debut novel.

Stephanie Jimenez is a former Fulbright recipient whose fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Guardian; O, The Oprah Magazine; Barrelhouse, Vol. 1 Brooklyn; Joyland Magazine; and more. Her first novel, THEY COULD HAVE NAMED HER ANYTHING, will be published on August 1, 2019 from Little A Books. Visit Stephanie at www.stephaniejimenezwriter.com or on Twitter at @estefsays.

Melissa Rivero‘s debut novel, The Affairs of the Falcóns’, is forthcoming from Ecco/HarperCollins. The novel has been named a most anticipated book of 2019 by the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, and Southern Living, among others. Melissa was raised in Brooklyn, where she still lives with her family. www.melissa-rivero.com

Dixon Place Literary Programs are supported, in part, with private funds from the Axe Houghton Foundation, public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.