Authors

Kelvin Christopher James

Kelvin Christopher James is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature. He is the critically-acclaimed author of five novels: Secrets, a Novel (Villard & Vintage & KDP Indie), Fling with a Demon Lover (HarperCollins & KDP Indie), The Sorcerer’s Drum, Web of Freedom, Mooch, the Meek (KDP Indies), and short story collections Jumping Ship and Other Stories (Villard & KDP Indie), “City Lives”, “Crazy Loves”, “Backcountry Tales”, “A Fantastic Dozen”(KDP Indies). Author of two cli-fi novels, People and Peppers, and Augments of Change, Kelvin lives in New York.

Jack Clinton

Jack Clinton is the winner of the The Neltje Blanchan Award, for which $1,000, is given for the best poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or script which is informed by a relationship with the natural world. Clovis is his debut LGBT, climate fiction, literary novel. In Clovis, Jack Clinton bears witness to the quiet environmental usurpation of American public lands.

Alisa Clements

Alisa Clements is the author of All at Once, a novel that invites readers to new heights of awareness by leading them nowhere and everywhere at once. The Midwest Review praised Clements’ exploration of “the boundaries of the imagination,” and indeed, the boundaries between fiction and reality blur when her protagonists attempt to ‘logon’ to the far-out ‘Outernet’ for a meeting of the minds fit to challenge corporate greed on Earth. You can read an excerpt of the novel here.

Clements decided at age seven that she would be a writer when she grew up, but this vocation was eclipsed in college by the exploration of other media, primarily electronic music. As a student at Harvard University, she became a teaching assistant in the electronic music studio and stayed on after graduation, later taking the role of studio manager.

She then entered the Studio for Interrelated Media program at the Massachusetts College of Art to pursue her interests in experimental music, performance, and film. Upon receiving her MFA degree, she became an instructor at the college, teaching classes in electronic sound composition. Her experience in this field―as a performer, composer, and teacher―enters into All at Once in the guise of arcane facts about the effects of audio stimuli on human consciousness.

After a journey that has spanned several professions and countries, including thirteen years spent in Bahia, in northeastern Brazil, Alisa now lives in the Sirius intentional community in the woods of Western Massachusetts.

Harriet Levin Millan

Harriet Levin Millan is a prize winning poet and writer. Her debut migrant novel is a Charter for Compassion ‘Global Read’. Her poetry collection, The Christmas Show, (Beacon Press) was selected for the Barnard New Women Poets Prize and The Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. She received a MFA from the University of Iowa’s Writers Workshop and has written for The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, PEN America, The Smart Set, among other publications. She and her family founded the Reunion Project and along with the participation of Philadelphia-area high school and college students, raised money to reunite several Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan with their mothers living abroad. She teaches creative writing in the English Department at Drexel University and directs the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing.

Jeffrey Lockwood

Jeffrey Lockwood hails from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and is a member of the Chippewa tribe there. He is the author of In These Low Mountains(March Street Press), a chapbook of poems and short stories, and has several other published poems and short stories in print. Jeff has lived internationally for many years, as a soldier, Fulbright Scholar, Peace Corps volunteer, and teacher. Presently, he writes in Inner Mongolia. Anomieis his first novel.

Scott Adlerberg

Scott Adlerberg, former host of the book/film TV show, “Journey Into Darkness,” is a regular contributor to sites such as Lithub and Criminal Element, and each summer he co-hosts the Word for Word Reel Talks film commentary series in Manhattan’s Bryant Park at the New York Public Library. His Martinique-set crime novel, SPIDERS AND FLIES (Harvard Square Editions), is his debut novel. Next came the noir/fantasy novella JUNGLE HORSES, followed by the psychological thriller GRAVEYARD LOVE. His new novel, JACK WATERS, a historical revenge thriller, is out now from Broken River Books.

Kyla Bennett

Kyla Bennett’s debut novel is “No Worse Sin (Harvard Square Editions). She received a PhD in Ecology from the University of Connecticut, then attended Lewis and Clark’s Northwestern School of Law, where she obtained a J.D. with a certificate in Natural Resources and Environmental Law. Kyla returned to the east coast in 1989, when she began work at the Boston office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency doing wetlands permitting and enforcement, and soon became EPA’s Wetlands Enforcement Coordinator for New England. Kyla then worked as Deputy Director of Habitat for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), and is now Director of New England PEER, working to protect local, state and federal employees who protect the environment.

Fidelis O. Mkparu

Fidelis O. Mkparu is an award-winning author born in Onitsha, Nigeria. He was a recipient of Reader’s Digest Scholarship and is the author of Love’s Affliction, winner of a Nautilus Award, and a Reviewer’s Choice Award; it is also an IndieFab Book of the Year Finalist. His second award-winning novel is Tears Before Exaltation. A Harvard-trained cardiologist, he has published peer-reviewed scientific papers and review articles in major journals, and written articles for lay people on medical issues. He was inducted into Paul Dudley White Honor Society by Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where he was a Spaulding fellow. He lives in Canton, Ohio. Visit his web site here.

Abda Khan

Winner of the Noor Inayat Khan Woman of the Year Award at the British Muslim Awards 2019, Abda Khan was also named a ‘True Honour Award’ Honouree by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation in 2017, for her work including Stained, her debut novel (Harvard Square Editions). She was shortlisted for the Asian Women of Acheivement Award, 2017. Born to Pakistani immigrant parents, Abda Khan was the first child in her family to go on to higher education. Abda is a lawyer with her own practice.

S. Li

S. Li’s debut novel, Transoceanic Lights (Harvard Square Editions), won a National Book Foundation ‘5 Under 35 Award’. It was a Leapfrog Fiction Contest Semifinalist, Asheville Award Finalist, and a Willow Books Literature Award Finalist. He was born in Guangzhou, China in 1984 and moved to the US in 1989. He graduated with an A.B. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard in 2006 and an M.D. from the University of Massachusetts in 2010. He is a neurologist living in the Boston area.

Sabrina Fedel

Sabrina Fedel’s fiction and poetry has appeared in online and print journals. She won a Gold Moonbeam Children’s Book Medal and a LitPick 5-Star Review Award for her debut novel Leaving Kent State, a young adult novel about the first school shooting in the US, by its own National Guard. Sabrina holds an MFA in Creative Writing, with a concentration in Writing for Young People, from Lesley University in Cambridge. You can often find her on twitter @writeawhile, or follow her blog at www.sabrinafedel.com, and she loves pictures so Instagram is a favorite hangout. She writes from Pittsburgh, where she lives in a small house with lots of people and animals, some of whom think she’s funny.

Guy Kuttner

The late Guy Kuttner (1946-2011, Harvard ’67) was the recipient/victim of a dreary public school education. Guy shared his humanity, insight, irreverence and wit in his story “Always” in HSE’s Above Ground and through his writings on school reform, social justice, politics and the people he knew. He wrote books, columns and powerful letters to the editor. A lifelong peacemaker and war resister, he turned in his draft card with a poem to J. Edgar Hoover and worked whole-heartedly with the War Resisters League, War Tax Resistance Movement, Humboldt Draft Coordinating Committee, Humboldt Sanctuary Movement and Humboldt Committee for Conscientious Objectors, establishing the GI Rights Hotline.

As the Ironies of Fate decreed, he moved from his native Chicago to became a public school teacher in a small college town in Northern California. In his unflagging attempt to introduce humanity and environmental wonder into the curricula, he butted heads, crossed swords, and mixed metaphors with one implacable administration after another. After twenty years, he migrated to a small community college nestled in the redwoods, where he happily taught Academic Literacy. He worked as an education columnist for the local paper and was the author of Tales of the Dolly Llama (Outskirts Press, 2007), a series of vignettes from the classroom liberally intermingled with educational polemic. His last book is entitled More Tales. Guy co-founded the Lost Coast Writers Retreat. He was the proud father of three, grandfather of two, and was married to a saint.