The Team 2019 Grand Manan Field Studies
Kim Bussing is an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Arizona. Originally from Seattle, she has worked as a journalist and editor in Los Angeles and Australia, and at a farm in the Pacific Northwest. Her writing explores the intersections between mental health, the female body, and the environment, using mythology and folklore to interrogate these themes and the social-cultural circumstances from which they emerged. She also enjoys traveling, rain, and coffee.
Emilio Carrero is a writer from Orlando, Florida. He recently completed an MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of Arizona and is editor-in-chief for Sonora Review. His writing explores issues of poverty, sexual violence, and suicide. He is currently working on a book that investigates the nature of creaturely life and serves as a foreground for the exploration of memories (both repressed and remembered) and the socio-political realities of American life.
Kevin Mosby is an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at the University of Arizona. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Kevin regularly writes about kitsch, crime, gender, and family. He is currently working on a book about the cultural fascination with the true crime genre.
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Katerina Ivanov is a Mexican-Russian writer raised in the swamps of Northern Florida. Her work in multiple genres has been published in Bird’s Thumb, The Florida Review, and The Nashville Review. Most recently, she won the John Weston Award for Fiction. She is currently an MFA student at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Logan Phillips is a bilingual poet, performer, educator and DJ based in Tucson, Arizona. Born in Cochise County, Arizona to a family of Irish-Slavic ancestry, Phillips lived in and around Mexico City 2006-2011, where he contributed to organizing and hosting the country’s first regular poetry slam series. He has regularly performed in venues across the U.S., Latin America and beyond since 2007, and is author of the full-length book of poems Sonoran Strange (West End Press, 2015). Phillips is currently a MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Arizona.
Miranda Trimmier grew up in Milwaukee, lives in Tucson, and is writing a book about how concepts of land shape place. She recently completed her MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of Arizona. Her work has been published in Places Journal, The New Inquiry, Terrain, and other outlets.
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Laura Espósto is an MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Arizona. She writes about how people value land (or disregard it), how the familial stories passed down contribute to our place-based attachments, and how our relationships with the landscape are both physical and psychological. She hopes to explore Native land use rights and the commodification of geographical locations that have been historically isolated, ignored, and placed in the path of destruction under the guise of development.
Emi Noguchi is an MFA candidate in Fiction at the University of Arizona. A New Jersey native, she has taught English and ESL in New Jersey, NYC, India, Japan, California, and Arizona. As a daughter of Naruto, Japan, a fishing and farming town on the island of Shikoku, she is interested in extended family dynamics, storytelling, and how individuals experience climate change on a personal scale across cultures and landscapes. In her fiction, she aims to collapse borders between east and west to create common ground where people, animals, and philosophies from opposite ends of the world can coexist. Lately, Emi has also been experimenting with ways writing can express, reinterpret, and speak with other forms of artistic expression
Eshani Surya is an MFA candidate in fiction from Connecticut, who writes about the intersection of bodies, health, land/borders, and intimate relationships. Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, New Delta Review, and Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, among others. Also an avid traveler, her recent trips have included Costa Rica, Portugal, and Hungary.The Team 2018
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Emilio Carrero is a memoirist from Orlando, Florida. Born to an immigrant family, his work explores the intersection of Latinx and American culture from the perspective of a brown body. His writing is narrative-driven, exploring issues of poverty, sexual violence, and suicide along with questions of otherness that arise from these experiences. The memoir he is currently working on investigates the nature of creaturely life and serves as a foreground for the exploration of memories (both repressed and remembered) and the socio-political realities of American life.
Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell grew up working on a family farm in Lockney, a small town between Lubbock and Amarillo, Texas. Her writing explores agricultural and military land use as well as the intersections between coming from a farm family and a military family. She is committed to telling the stories of women in both farm and military subcultures as they relate to caregiving, mental health, and identity. She enjoys traveling, reading to her children, and being outside. She is an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction.
Sophia Terazawa likes the color purple. She is working toward the MFA in Poetry at the University of Arizona. In a past life, she was set on fire and publicly executed. Sophia also likes to dance. She wrote I AM NOT A WAR, a winner of the 2015 Essay Press Digital Chapbook Contest, selected by Rosebud Ben-Oni. Work appears most recently in Peach Mag, Entropy, Cosmonauts Avenue, Poor Claudia, and elsewhere. This country is simply purgatory.The Team 2017
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KATIE GOUGELET is an MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction Writing. She writes about environmental change, contamination, health, and justice. She is currently working on a project to understand the United States’ transition away from coal power, and what this transition means for the long-term health of communities that used to provide this resource to the rest of the country.
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ABBY DOCKTER is an MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction from Farmington, New Mexico. She spent a few years following field and lab science jobs up and down the Rockies, and currently writes as a science communicator for the Institute of the Environment. Her most irresistible interests are (pre)history and ethnobotany, how we change our surroundings and how they in turn change us. She enjoys long, dry archaeological reports, and usually hikes with poetry.
GABRIEL DOZAL is an MFA Candidate in Poetry at the University of Arizona from El Paso TX. He is concerned with defining the extreme code-switching, camouflage, and chameleon nature of the culture of the borderlands.
RAQUEL GUTIERREZ is a bilingual poet and essayist pursuing an MFA degree in poetry at the University of Arizona. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she writes about language, history, space and institutionality and publishes chapbooks by queers of color with the tiny press Econo Textual Objects, established in 2014. Her work has found homes in Huizache, The Portland Review, Los Angeles Weekly, GLQ: Gay and Lesbian Quarterly and Entropy.
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JOSEPH BRADBURY hails from Salt Lake City, Utah, but has lived throughout the American West his entire life. He learned the business end of a shovel at a young age, which propelled him into an early adult life of concrete work, carpentry, framing, drywalling, a year as a farm hand, and just about every other mode of manual labor thinkable. These years of hard work serve as the content for much of his writing, which focuses on labor and land ethics in working-class communities. He is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Arizona and the nonfiction editor at Sonora Review.
DANIELLE GELLER is just wrapping up her first year in the Creative Writing program at the University of Arizona, where she is concentrating in nonfiction. Before attending UA, she received an MS in Library and Information Science with a concentration in archives management. Her research and writing interests include birds and birding; video games and gaming culture; and her Diné (Navajo) heritage.
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