Laura Pegram Editor

Laura Pegram is a multi-hyphenate artist who is influencing a new generation of aspiring writers. She’s an author, educator, painter, and a jazz vocalist whose cabaret performance teamed her with jazz pianist Donald Smith. Her richly hued vibrant murals are part of several private collections. Pegram was mentored by the poet activist June Jordan, who taught her that the sky was her ceiling. She is the founding editor and publisher of the award-winning literary magazine, Kweli Journal.

Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969 and came to the United States when she was twelve years old. She graduated from Barnard College and received an M.F.A. from Brown University. She made an auspicious debut with her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, and followed it with the story collection Krik? Krak!, whose National Book Award nomination made Danticat the youngest nominee ever. She lives in New York.