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Éanlaí Cronin’s writing has appeared in String Poet, Peregrine, Sinister Wisdom, The Courage to Heal, and The Magic of Memoir. She has spent the last twenty years attending writing workshops across America. She was a Lit Camp Writers Conference scholarship recipient; a Pat Schneider Poetry Contest Honorable Mention winner; long listed in the National Poetry Competition United Kingdom in 2017; a Winner of the Eastern Iowa Review’s Lyric Essay Contest in 2018; a Top Ten Finalist in the Fish Short Memoir Prize contest in 2018; and she received a literary residency at WordSpaceStudios in San Francisco this year. An elementary school teacher for ten years, she is currently a writing workshop leader. Her teaching’s primary focus is reconnection with the lost voice, to bolster its boldness to tell untold stories.

Naomi Goldner is a writer and educator living and working in San Francisco, CA., focused on fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry. She holds an MA in English and an MFA in Fiction from San Francisco State University. Founder of WordSpaceStudios Literary Arts, she is currently completing her first novel which spans 4 generations and is based of family history. Naomi has recently finished a collection of short stories entitled “Necessities and Desires.” From this collection, her short story “Evyatar” (a Glimmer Train finalist) was published in Amerarcana: The Bird and Beckett Review, “Kitchen Table” was included in Poetica Magazine, and “Coming Out of My Mother’s Closet” was featured in Entropy. Other works have been performed at various literature events such as BANG OUT (“Tunnels”), Action Fiction! (“Sahlab” and “Evyatar”), Litquake SF (“Tunnels”), and Listen to Your Mother (“Love Sucking Away at You”). Her short stories have also received honorary mention and been finalists with Glimmer Train. While living in Israel, she contributed pieces to Ha’Ir Weekly, and was commissioned to write short stories for Morocco in Colors.