Diana Dalton is a writer, documentarian and multidisciplinary artist based in Nashville, though her heart remains in Appalachia. Her poetic work has been featured in You're Not Seeing Things, The Oakland Arts Review, and more; her films and photoessayist works find themselves concerned with memory spaces, the ephemeral, and the mundane. When not writing, Diana pursues the replicable thrills of cutting her own bangs, hunting down the last remaining analog photobooths, and playing banjo.
Diana Dalton
Phoebe Farrell-Sherman
Phoebe Farrell-Sherman
Phoebe Farrell-Sherman (she/they) is a poet and critic making her home in Nashville, TN. They are the Fiction, Audiobooks and Poetry editor at BookPage, and a frequent moderator at the Southern Festival of Books. Her work has been featured in SWING, the Free Nashville Poetry Library Writers Gym Anthology, Mermaids Monthly, BookPage, Business Insider and elsewhere.
Vicki Grammer
Vicki Grammer is a sophomore at MLK who loves reading, writing poetry and prose, watching YA shows, transcribing and dissecting music, and having deep conversations with her parents. Her work is usually some sort of translation of her thoughts on an abstract concept. Her artistic process is very emotionally based, and often started up by resonating with a book line or song lyric.
Vicki Grammer
Sam Heyman
Sam Heyman
Sam Heyman (he/they) is a queer, Jewish playwright, author, and educator based in Nashville, TN. In his spare time, Sam teaches playwriting for The Porch Writers Collective and produces the virtual Playwrights Thriving Reading Series. Outside of theatre and writing, Sam loves tabletop gaming, animation, and good food. Sam is currently earning their MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Their plays can be found on their website, heysamhey.com.
Jasmine Hollowell
Jasmine Hollowell is a Junior at Ensworth and a complete nerd for the word. In addition to writing of all kinds, she loves puzzles, weird TV, drawing, knitting, doing things with no plan and planning things she won't do. She spends most of her days trying to understand and appreciate all the different, bizarre kinds of love there are. And of course, channel them into art!
Jasmine Hollowell
Yvonne Kendall
Yvonne Kendall
Yvonne Kendall, a Stanford-educated musicologist, returned to the role of student after years as a tenured professor in Texas. The Tennessee native earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Columbia University. Kendall’s diverse publications include fiction in Black Butterfly: Voices of the African Diaspora, nonfiction in Columbia Journal, poetry in Marbled Sigh, and arts criticism in Music City Review. Kendall, now back home, read her works in the 2025 New York City Poetry Festival.
Erica Lynn
Erica Lynn is a documentary storyteller, expressive writing facilitator, and trauma-informed yoga teacher. She works across journalism, photography and film, and nonprofit communications, with photography published by NPR, the Associated Press, and USA Today, among others. Through poetry and essays on her Substack, I’m So Glad You’re Alive, she explores grief, embodiment, and belonging. She helps others reconnect with their stories, bodies, and innate creativity. Learn more at ericalynncreative.com.
Erica Lynn
Elisabeth Moss
Elisabeth Moss
Liz Moss is a writer, musician, and photographer from Indianapolis who now calls Nashville her home. Her work has been published in Genuine Article Magazine, Belmont Literary Journal, and Clayjar Review, amongst others. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and Songwriting from Belmont University and currently serves as Poetry Editor for Loose Thread Literary Magazine. You can find more of her work on Substack @lizmoss.
Imogen Nelson
Imogen Nelson is a sophomore at Central Magnet School. She loves all things related to history as well as reading and writing. Along with writing poetry and fiction, she also enjoys writing nonfiction and almost any other genre imaginable. Aside from writing, her two greatest hobbies are knitting and playing viola in her school orchestra.
Imogen Nelson
Thayer Parsley
Thayer Parsley
Thayer Parsley is a junior at Nashville School of the Arts, where she is a member of the Literary Arts Conservatory. Her writing focuses on mental health and identity, as well as the darker aspects of life. She views writing as a way to process her emotions and always enjoys being able to share her work with others. Her goal is to one day publish a book of her own.
