2024 Tributaries Editor

Sakena Jwan Washington is a Pittsburgh boomeranger, creative nonfiction writer, and the 2024-25 Emerging Black Writer in Residence at Chatham University. Her work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Huffington Post, Jellyfish Review and others. In 2021, her flash essay, "The Blood Remains." was nominated for the 2021 Best of the Net anthology. She is also one of five Pittsburgh-based storytellers who documented the public art project, "Art in Parks" in the city's five Allegheny Regional Asset District (RAD) parks. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles. More of her work can be found at sakenajwan.com

2022 Tributaries Editor

Caitlyn Hunter is a current doctoral student in the English Department at Duquesne University. She holds a MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Chatham University. She has additionally been an Editorial Assistant intern for Creative Nonfiction Magazine. Her book, Power in the Tongue is forthcoming by Tolsun Books in 2022. She currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA.

2019 Tributaries Editor

Geeta Kothari is the nonfiction editor of the Kenyon Review. Her writing has appeared in various anthologies and journals, including New England Review, Massachusetts Review, and others. Her essay “If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?” is widely taught in universities and has been reprinted in several anthologies, including in Best American Essays. She is the editor of ‘Did My Mama Like to Dance?’ and Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters and recently published a short story collection, I Brake for Moose and Other Stories.

2023 Tributaries Editor

Cameron Barnett is a Pittsburgh poet, teacher, and the Emerging Black Writer in Residence at Chatham University. He’s the author of The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water and  Murmur, forthcoming from Autumn House Press. His work explores the complexity race, place, and relationship for Black people in America, more of which can be found at cameronbarnett.net

2021 tributaries editor

Cedric Rudolph moved to Pittsburgh, PA, in 2016. After two years at Chatham University, he earned his MFA in Poetry. He is currently in his third year of teaching fiction and poetry to middle and high school writers at the Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts school (CAPA). He is one of the founding editors for Beautiful Cadaver, which publishes social justice-themed anthologies and stages theatrical performances. His poems are published in Coal Hill Review, Christianity and Literature Journal, The Laurel Review, and the Santa Fe Literary Review.

2018 Tributaries Editor

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the memoirs Southside Buddhist and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, the short story collection The Melting Season, and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night. He is the coeditor of two anthologies on the topic of obesity: What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. He is the recipient of the 2015 American Book Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, an Arts and Letters Fellowship, and the Emerging Writer Fellowship. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including Post Road, The Sun, and Creative Nonfiction. He is one of the founding editors of Sweet: A Literary Confection, and teaches in the MFA program at University of South Florida.