Kevin Clouther is the recipient of the Richard Yates Fiction Award and Gell Residency Award and the author of We Were Flying to Chicago: Stories (Catapult). He is an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha Writer's Workshop and Program Coordinator of the MFA in Writing.



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Kevin Clouther is the recipient of the Richard Yates Fiction Award and Gell Residency Award and the author of We Were Flying to Chicago: Stories (Catapult). His second story collection is forthcoming in 2023. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha Writer's Workshop and Program Coordinator of the MFA in Writing.

Sharmila Seyyid is a writer and social activist from Eravur, in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province. In 2009, she founded the Organization for Social Development, a community-based organization in Eravur. She was forced into exile when she was barely 30 years old because of her work. Sharmila was awarded a prestigious IIE-Artist Protection Fund Fellowship (IIE-APF) and placed in residence with the Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Center for Human Rights (GCHR) and the Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy.