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The Loudest Voice - October 17

Michael Powers grew up in Connecticut and completed his MFA in fiction at the University of Houston. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Barrelhouse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Gulf Coast, H.O.W. Journal, and Bellevue Literary Review.

Nikki Darling is a student in the Creative Writing/Literature PHD program at USC. An art critic columnist at KCET Artbound, her music criticism and essays appear regularly or have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Art Book Review, Tomorrow Magazine and Public Books, among others. Her essay “Appropriate For Destruction” was included in Best Music Writing 2010. She is finishing her first novel, “Fade Into You,” a memoir of mixed race identity in the San Gabriel Valley during the 90’s.

Chris Santiago is a poet, fiction writer, and critic who lives in Pasadena with his wife and two boys. He was born and raised near Minneapolis and has lived in Ohio, London, and Northern Japan. Recent poems appear in the current issue of Kartika Review and in the forthcoming issue of Postcolonial Text.

Douglas Manuel received a BA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University and a MFA from Butler University where he was the Managing Editor of Booth a Journal. He is currently a Dornsife Fellow at the University of Southern California where he is pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in North American Review, Many Mountains Moving, Thoughtsmith, Punchnel’s, The Bruised Peach Press, Marooned, and Lux.

Ryan McIlvain is a doctoral student in USC’s Literature and Creative Writing Program. His novel, Elders, came out in March and was recently longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. He is at work on his second book.