Read “Coffee Lover, Coffee Snob”

Michaele Weissman’s articles appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Forbes, Sprudge, LitHub, Nosher, and numerous other print and online publications. Michaele’s most recent book is the literary memoir The Rye Bread Marriage. Her previous book, God in a Cup, is widely credited with putting the specialty coffee industry on the map. Michaele leads writing workshops at Politics and Prose, Washington, D.C.’s beloved independent bookstore.

Read “My Father Puts His Book Down”

Mitch Levenberg has published essays and stories in such journals as Fiction, The Common Review, The New Delta Review, Fine Madness, The Saint Ann’s Review, The Assisi Review, and others. “Write Something,” his collection of essays, was published in 2013. He teaches writing and Literature at St. Francis College. Mitch is a member, along with Modo di Bere founder Rose Thomas Bannister, of the Carroll Street Collective.

Read “The People of the Dark Water”

Dominique Burleson is the owner of the North Carolina bookshop Paperbacks and Frybread. A member of the Lumbee Tribe, Dominique participates in the re-Indigenization movement of her generation by helping people “decolonize their bookshelves” through entrepreneurship, activism, writing, speaking and curriculum design.