Join us at the November 17th Sunday Salon, featuring five writers and poets—each an incredible talent, each creating a unique world on the page. We can’t wait for the beautiful and the unexpected at the mic. Can DJ DubSix spin it? You know he can! Don’t miss this!
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is a poet & visual artist born in Trinidad and raised in Queens, New York. She is the author of six collections of poetry which include Mama Phife Represents, a verse memoir about the life of her son, Hip Hop Legend, Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor, which won the 2022 Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Her most recent collection, The Limitless Heart: New and Selected Poems (1997-2022), recently won the 2024 Firecracker Award for poetry. Cheryl holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast: The University of Southern Maine, and an MSW from Fordham University in NYC.
Janis Hubschman has published dozens of stories in literary magazines that include Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Electric Literature, Michigan Quarterly Review, Saturday Evening Post, Southern Humanities Review, and West Branch. Her stories have won Bellingham Review’s Tobias Wolff Award and a first-place award from Glimmer Train. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Glimmer Train Bulletin, and New York Runner. She was the recipient of a Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Fiction Scholarship and a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives with her husband in New Jersey, and currently teaches fiction writing at Montclair State University. Take Me With You Next Time is her first book. You can find her online at Janishubschman.com
Ed Lin, a native New Yorker of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards and is an all-around standup kinda guy.
Cherry Lou Sy is a writer and playwright originally from the Philippines and currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU and her MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College, where she has been an adjunct lecturer in the English and American Studies departments. Cherry is also a teacher with PEN America’s DREAMing Out Loud. She has received fellowships and residencies from VONA, Tin House, and elsewhere. Love Can’t Feed You is her debut novel.
Sahar Muradi is author of the collection OCTOBERS, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She is author of the chapbook [ G A T E S ], the hybrid memoir Ask Hafiz (winner of the 2021 Patrons’ Prize for Emerging Artists from Thornwillow Press), and the chaplet A Garden Beyond My Hand. She is co-editor, with Seelai Karzai, of EMERGENC(Y): Writing Afghan Lives Beyond the Forever War, An Anthology of Writing from Afghanistan and its Diaspora; and, with Zohra Saed, of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature. Sahar is the recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award in Poetry, a Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award, and twice recipient of the Himan Brown Poetry Award. Her writing has been supported by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Bethany Arts Community, Blue Mountain Center, Kundiman, and WOC Writers. She is co-founder of the Afghan American Artists & Writers Association, directs the arts education programs at City Lore, and dearly believes in the bottom of the rice pot. saharmuradi.com
DJ DUBSIX
DJ DUBSIX was born and raised in Queens, NYC. He mixed cassette tapes as a child, dropped needles to grooves as a teen, and now curates soundscapes that engage both the body and the mind. His musical selections tell stories and fill dance floors—and are why people say he is the “music man.” Remember to wear your dancing shoes and be ready to embrace your inner rebel when DJ DUBSIX is juggling tunes. He is about musical revolution using the 1s and 2s.
Find his playlists here and here and here. Contact him at doublesix98@gmail.com.