TFW You Get When You're Named 1 of 30 Writers to Watch 🕶

Floored and deeply grateful to be named by the Literary Guild Complex as one of Chicago's 30 Writers to Watch. I can't wait to meet all the other writers who were named and continue to build and claim community.
Thank you so much to the Guild and congratulations on your 30th Anniversary! I remember your early days on Lincoln Avenue fondly and can't believe how full circle my experience has become and yours! Cheers!
Here are the writers who I celebrate this honor with:
Tara Betts, poetry, nonfiction, scholarship
Kimberly Dixon-Mays, poetry, plays
Raul Dorantes, poetry, plays, fiction
Emily Thornton Calvo, poetry, memoir
Michael Fischer, nonfiction
kwabena foli, poetry
Ricardo Gamboa, plays, television, scholarship
Jan-Henry Gray, poetry, storytelling
Ames Hawkins, nonfiction, scholarship
Tsehaye Geralyn Hébert, plays, poetry, nonfiction
Timothy J. Hillegonds, nonfiction
Nate Marshall , poetry
John McCarthy, poetry
Patricia Ann McNair, fiction, nonfiction
Ciara Darnise Miller, poetry, scholarship
Faisal Mohyuddin, poetry
Cheswayo Mphanza, poetry
Nikki Patin, poetry, music
Frances de Pontes Peebles, fiction
Ruben Quesada, poetry, translation
Christine Rice, fiction, nonfiction
Kenyatta Rogers, poetry
J. Howard Rosier, fiction, criticism
Natania Rosenfeld, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, scholarship
Mojdeh Stokley. Poetry, music
Rachel Swearingen, fiction
Naomi Washer, poetry, nonfiction, translation
Valerie Wallace, poetry
Jeremy T. Wilson, fiction
I can't wait to meet you all. Thank you again, Guild Literary Complex.