BOMB Magazine Winter Launch

About the Authors

Naomi Jackson is the author of The Star Side of Bird Hill, published by Penguin Press in June 2015. The Star Side of Bird Hill was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and the International Dublin Literary Award. Star Side was named an Honor Book for Fiction by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Jackson is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark. She was a 2021-2022 Scholar-in-Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and served as Writer-in-Residence at Queens College. She previously taught at the University of Iowa, the University of Pennsylvania, City College of New York, and Oberlin College. Jackson was born and raised in Brooklyn by West Indian parents.

Ed Park is the author of the novels SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS (2023), named a Top Ten Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and a New York Times Notable Book, and PERSONAL DAYS, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Bookforum, and many other publications. He is a founding editor of The Believer and the former literary editor of The Village Voice, and has worked in book publishing and academia. Born in Buffalo, Ed lives in Manhattan with his family. He currently teaches writing at Princeton University.

Mike Lala i s a poet and performance writer, the author of the poetry collections The Unreal City and Exit Theater, and a contributing translator to Tales of Dionysus, the first English verse translation of Nonnus of Panopolis’ Dionysiaca.

Saretta Morgan was born in Appalachia and raised on military installations. She’s interested in the ecologies and intimacies that materialize in the shadows of U.S. militarization. She is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative and organizes with the grassroots humanitarian aid organization No More Deaths, and with About Face: Veterans Against the War.

Tanya Bush is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, and baker. She is the co-founder of Cake Zine, the pastry chef for Tables of Contents and the Brooklyn-based restaurant Little Egg. In 2023, her cruller was dubbed New York Magazine’s Best Pastry. She is also the author of the forthcoming literary cookbook Will This Make You Happy (Chronicle Books, 2025). Her writing has appeared in New York Magazine, Guernica, Eater, Bon Appetit, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Hunter College.