Uplifting Immigrant Voices (November 12 Live Streamed on YouTube)

Contemporary writers bring their perspectives and experiences to the next Uplifting Voices series reading. Click here to watch the reading.  

Julia Kolchinsky is the author of four poetry collections: The Many Names for Mother, Don't Touch the Bones, 40 WEEKS, and PARALLAX. Her nonfiction has appeared in Brevity, Shenandoah, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She is Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing at Denison University.

An internationally renowned Latina author from Mexico City, Violeta Orozco is a bilingual performer, fiction writer, essayist and poet, author of The Broken Woman Diaries, winner of the Rising Stars Award at the International Latino Book Award; and Stillness in the Land of Speed, winner of the New Voices Poetry Award.

Maria S. Picone/수영 is a Korean American adoptee with three chapbooks: Anti Asian Bias, Adoptee Song (Game Over Books), and This Tenuous Atmosphere (Conium). She received prizes from Salamander and Cream City Review, and grants from Kenyon Review, Juniper, Hambidge, SCAC, South Arts, and elsewhere.

A Bulgarian by birth, Katerina Stoykova is a bilingual poet and the author of Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House (University Press of Kentucky, 2024). Katerina is the founder and senior editor of Accents Publishing and serves as the 2025-2026 President of the Kentucky State Poetry Society.