Casa Ecco Writers
2025
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
CASA ECCO, 2025
Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer and artist. She is the winner of an Eric Gregory Award, and her critically acclaimed poetry debut, QUIET, won the Folio Prize for Poetry, the John Polla by Faber & Faber in the UK and in North America by Knopf.
Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
CASA ECCO, 2025
Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas is a theater-maker based in New York. His most recent play, Recent Alien Abductions, was presented at the Humana Festival at the Actors Theater of Louisville. Other works include Backroom (Whitney Museum of American Art), Bird in the Hand (Fulcrum Theater, New York Times Critics Pick, published by Dramatic Publishing) and Blind Mouth Singing (NAATCO, New York Times Critics Pick). His many awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, United States Artists and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His plays have also been published by Playscripts and TDR/The Drama Review. He has been commissioned by Soho Rep, the Mark Taper Forum and Playwrights Horizons. He is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop.
Diana Marie Delgado
CASA ECCO, 2025
Diana Marie Delgado is a writer, editor, and consultant based in Tucson. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and is a graduate of UC Riverside’s Creative Writing Program. Raised in Southern California’s San Gabriel Valley, her work centers on survival, resilience, and transformation. She is the author of Tracing the Horse, a New York Times Noteworthy Pick, and Late Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust, winner of the Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize. Her anthology, Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration (Haymarket, 2025), brings together voices confronting the carceral state. Delgado has held residencies at Hedgebrook, Ucross, and the Hawthornden Foundation, with upcoming fellowships at Le Baldi and Banff. She is the founder of No More Pyramids, a consultancy supporting nonprofits and creative individuals.
Tarik Dobbs
CASA ECCO, 2025
Tarik Dobbs (b. 1997, Dearborn, MI) is a writer, artist, and Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Poems by Dobbs have been featured in the anthologies Best New Poets and Best of the Net, as well as in AGNI, American Poetry Review, and Poetry Magazine, among others. Dobbs is the Director of Poetry and has served as a guest editor at Mizna and Zoeglossia. Dobbs holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and an M.F.A. in art, theory, and practice from Northwestern University. Dobbs is an assistant professor of English in creative writing (poetry) at Southwest Minnesota State University. The debut poetry collections by Dobbs, Nazar Boy (2024), and Dearbornistan (forthcoming) are from Haymarket Books.
Elisa Gonzalez
CASA ECCO, 2025
Elisa Gonzalez is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her debut poetry collection, Grand Tour (FSG, US; Penguin, UK), was named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker. A former Fulbright scholar, she has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a Whiting Award, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Levis Reading Prize, and was a finalist for the 2025 Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. A novel and a nonfiction book are also forthcoming.
Eliana Hernández-Pachón
CASA ECCO, 2025
Eliana Hernández-Pachón is a writer from Bogotá, Colombia. She holds an M.F. A. in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from Cornell University. Her book The Brush won the National Award of Poetry in Colombia in 2020 and was selected among the top ten books of 2024 by The Atlantic. She is the co-author of Plantas del camino, a book on weeds and healing, and edited the anthology Un florero que se rompe/A Vase that Shatters, which features short stories and poems by members of the Truth Commission of Colombia. She is part of Como un lugar, a poetry collective that runs an independent press in Buenos Aires and organizes a Latin American poetry festival in NYC.
Vi Khi Nao
CASA ECCO, 2025
Vi Khi Nao is a multidisciplinary writer working across poetry, fiction, theater, film, and collaborative art. She won the 2016 Nightboat Poetry Prize for The Old Philosopher and the 2017 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize for A Brief Alphabet of Torture. Her latest novel, The Italy Letters, was published by Melville House. A former Black Mountain Institute and the current 2024-2025 Iowa Artist fellow, she was awarded the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize in 2022.
Diana Khoi Nguyen
CASA ECCO, 2023
Poet and multimedia artist Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of the chaplet Unless (Belladonna*, 2019), and poetry collections: Ghost Of (Omnidawn, 2018), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and recipient of the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery and Colorado Book Awards, and Root Fractures (Scribner, 2024). Her writing appears in Poetry, American Poetry Review, and Asymptote; her video work was exhibited at the Miller ICA in 2023. A MacDowell and Kundiman fellow, as well as a member of the Vietnamese diasporic artist collective, She Who Has No Master(s), Nguyen’s other honors include winning a "Discovery" Poetry Contest, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, an artist-in-residence at Brown University, and writer-in-residence at UCLA. Currently, she teaches creative writing in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA program and is an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Eunsong Kim
CASA ECCO, 2025
Eunsong Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Northeastern University. Her practice spans: poetics, literary studies, critical digital studies, translation, visual culture and critical race & ethnic studies. She is the author of gospel of regicide, published by Noemi Press in 2017, and with Sung Gi Kim she translated Kim Eon Hee’s poetic text Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days? published in 2019. Her monograph, The Politics of Collecting: Race & the Aestheticization of Property (Duke University Press 2024) materializes the histories of immaterialism by examining the rise of US museums, avant-garde forms, digitization, and neoliberal aesthetics, to consider how race and property become foundational to modern artistic institutions. She is the recipient of the Ford Foundation Fellowship, a grant from the Andy Warhol Art Writers Program, and Yale’s Poynter Fellowship. In 2021 she co-founded offshoot, an arts space for transnational activist conversations.
Amitava Kumar
CASA ECCO, 2025
Amitava Kumar’s books of nonfiction include Husband of a Fanatic, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb, and A Matter of Rats. His novel Immigrant, Montana was on the best of the year lists at The New Yorker, The New York Times, and President Obama’s list of favorite books of 2018. His next novel A Time Outside This Time was described by The New Yorker as “a shimmering assault on the Zeitgeist.”
Kumar’s latest, My Beloved Life, was described by James Wood as “beautiful, truthful fiction.” Three volumes of his diaries and drawings have been published recently by HarperCollins India. His work has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s, BRICK, Guernica, and The Nation. Kumar has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, a Cullman Center Fellowship at the NYPL, and residencies from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Lannan Foundation.
Edgar Kunz
CASA ECCO, 2025
Edgar Kunz is the author of Fixer (Ecco, 2023), a New York Times Editors' Choice book, and Tap Out (Ecco, 2019), which The Washington Post called "a gritty, insightful debut." He has been an NEA Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Oxford American, and American Poetry Review. He lives in Baltimore where he teaches at Goucher College and in the Newport MFA.
Jesse McCarthy
CASA ECCO, 2025
Jesse McCarthy is a John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He is the author of The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War (University of Chicago Press, 2024); Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? Essays (W.W. Norton, 2021); and a novel, The Fugitivities (Melville House, 2021). His writing on literature, politics, and the arts has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, n+1, and The New York Review of Books. He also serves as an editor at the magazine The Point and literary fiction editor at Public Books.
Fiona McFarlane
CASA ECCO, 2025
Fiona McFarlane is the author of two novels, The Night Guest and The Sun Walks Down, and two collections of short stories, The High Places and Highway Thirteen. Her short fiction has been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Best Australian Stories. Born in Sydney, Australia, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and teaches creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley.
Thomas Morris
CASA ECCO, 2025
Thomas Morris is a writer and editor from Caerphilly, South Wales. He is the author of two books of stories: We Don't Know What We’re Doing and Open Up (Faber & Faber/Unnamed Press). His awards include the Wales Book of the Year, The Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award, and a Somerset Maugham Award. In 2023, he was named as one of the 20 Best Young British Novelists by Granta magazine. He lives in Dublin where for over a decade he was an editor at The Stinging Fly.
Mihaela Moscaliuc
CASA ECCO, 2025
Born and raised in Romania, Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of the poetry collections Heartmoor (Alice James Books 2026), Cemetery Ink (Pitt Series 2021), Immigrant Model (Pitt Series 2015), and Father Dirt (Alice James Books 2010) and of a collection in Spanish titled Algunos poemas fugitivos (Ecuador, 2023), translated by Frances Simán. Moscaliuc translated Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper (2014) and Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star (2019). She edited Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern (2016), and co-edited, for Knopf, Fruits of the Earth: Harvest Poems (2025) and Border Lines (2020). She is the recipient of two Pushcart prizes, two Glenna Luschei Awards from Prairie Schooner, two Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and a Fulbright. She is translation editor for the journal Plume, and professor of English at Monmouth University (US), where she directs the M.A. graduate program.
Mariana Oliver
CASA ECCO, 2025
Mariana Oliver was born in Mexico City in 1986. She is an essayist and holds a PhD in Literature from the Universidad Iberoamericana. Her research questions translingual aesthetics in the work of contemporary women authors and the power relations inscribed in languages. She was a full-time fellow at the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas for literary essay from 2013 to 2015. In 2016, she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Ensayo Joven José Vasconcelos for Aves migratorias (Migratory birds). Migratory birds has been published in Mexico, Colombia, United States, Italy, Ecuador and Turkey. Her essays have been published in Mexican magazines such as Este País or Revista de la Universidad, as well as in other international publications such as LitHub, Words Without Borders or Pessoa magazine.
Nii Ayikwei Parkes
CASA ECCO, 2025
Nii Ayikwei Parkes is a multi-genre author, working across poetry, radio, fiction and children’s writing. Translated in multiple languages, he has written for National Geographic, Financial Times, Condé Nast Traveller, The Guardian, and Lonely Planet, and his freelance research work explores the praeter-colonialism survivals of African philosophy, skills and ways of being in Africa and the African diaspora. He is described as a writer "of ritualistic delicacy" (Caleb Femi) and is the author of Tail of the Blue Bird (fiction), The Makings of You (poetry), Tales From Africa (children) and The Ga Picture Alphabet. Nii Ayikwei is a 2022 Hutchins Fellow of Harvard University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His most recent books are The Geez, a collection of poems; and Azúcar, a novel.
Camille Rankine
CASA ECCO, 2025
Camille Rankine is the daughter of Jamaican immigrants. Her first book of poetry, Incorrect Merciful Impulses, was published by Copper Canyon Press, and her chapbook, Slow Dance with Trip Wire, was selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's New York Chapbook Fellowship. She is the recipient of a Discovery Poetry Prize, and fellowships from MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poetry has appeared in The Believer, Boston Review, The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Poetry, A Public Space, Tin House, and elsewhere. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University’s School of the Arts, she co-chairs the Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council, and is an assistant professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.
Roger Reeves
CASA ECCO, 2025
Roger Reeves is the author of King Me, Best Barbarian, and Dark Days: Fugitive Essays. Best Barbarian was a winner of the 2023 Griffin Prize, the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN / Voelker Poetry Award, and the NAACP Image Award. Roger Reeves is also a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard University, a 2015 Whiting Award, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, among other honors. His work has appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Sam Riviere
CASA ECCO, 2025
Sam Riviere is the author of seven books, the most recent of which are the poetry collections Conflicted Copy (Faber, 2024) and Mirrors for Princes (After Hours, 2025); his debut novel Dead Souls (W&N/Catapult) was published in 2021. He lives in London and runs the poetry micropublisher If a Leaf Falls Press.
Nicole Sealey
CASA ECCO, 2025
Nicole Sealey is the author of The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award, and an excerpt from which was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Poem. She is also the author of Ordinary Beast, a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize. With poet John Murillo, she edited the anthology Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters and Poems, for and about One Mr. Komunyakaa. Her honors include the Princeton Arts and Hodder Fellowships from Princeton University, a Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library, a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Namwali Serpell
CASA ECCO, 2025
Namwali Serpell is a Zambian writer and a Professor of English at Harvard University. She received a 2020 Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction, the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing, and a 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Her first novel, The Old Drift, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction, and the L.A. Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. It was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2019 by the New York Times and one of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of the Year. Her second novel, The Furrows: An Elegy, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the California Book Award for Fiction, and was named one of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2022. Her nonfiction book, Stranger Faces, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
Safiya Sinclair
CASA ECCO, 2025
Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the internationally bestselling author of the memoir How to Say Babylon, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and the Kirkus Prize. How to Say Babylon was included on over 17 Best Book of 2023 year-end lists, including The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of the year, The Washington Post Top 10 Books of 2023, TIME Magazine’s Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2023, and The Atlantic’s 10 Best Books of 2023. It was a Read with Jenna/TODAY Show Book Club pick and named one of President Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2023. How to Say Babylon was also named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, NPR, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Harper’s Bazaar, and Barnes & Noble, among others, and was an ALA Notable Book of the Year. The audiobook of How to Say Babylon was named a Best Audiobook of the Year by Audible and AudioFile magazine. Sinclair is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at Arizona State University.
Maria Stepanova
CASA ECCO, 2025
Maria Stepanova (born in Moscow in 1972) is a poet, essayist and editor, a recipient of several Russian and international literary awards, including the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding (2023). Her poems have been translated into a number of languages, including English, German, French, Italian and Swedish. Her documentary novel Pamiati pamiati (In Memory of Memory) was published in 2017 and received the Russian Big Book Prize in December 2018. The book was translated into 24 languages, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and Prix Médicis and longlisted for the National Book Award. It has also received the French Prix de Meilleur Livre Étranger (2022) and the Berman Literature Prize (Sweden). Her latest prose book, The Disappearing Act, comes out in English in February 2026 (Fitzcarraldo/New Directions). Since 2022 Stepanova is based in Berlin.
Paul Tran
CASA ECCO, 2025
Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin, 2022). Their work appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, and elsewhere. With support from the Hawthornden Foundation at Casa Ecco, they're working on a hybrid text that begins with their mother's arrival to the US as a Vietnamese refugee in 1989.
Monica Youn
CASA ECCO, 2025
Monica Youn is the author of four poetry collections, most recently From From (Graywolf Press 2023), which was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Award and was a New York Times Notable Book and Best Poetry Book of 2023, and a Time, NPR, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Electric Literature Best Book of 2023. Her books have twice been finalists for the National Book Award, as well as being finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Voelcker Prize, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. She has also been awarded the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bytter Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a Stegner Fellowship. A former constitutional lawyer, she is a professor of English at UC Irvine and is president of the board of Poets House.