Ditmas Lit

Carissa Chesanek is a Brooklyn-based writer with an MFA in Creative Writing (fiction) from The New School. Her creative work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Brooklyn Rail, Writer’s Digest, BOMB, Electric Literature, and Litro Magazine, where her creative non-fiction essay, “White Deer,” won the Art of Reflection competition. Currently, she is a volunteer mentor with Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Visible Ink writing program for cancer patients and co-host of the Sunday Salon reading series in New York City.

Cat Fitzpatrick is the Editrix at LittlePuss Press and teaches at Rutgers University—Newark. Her novel-in-rhyme The Call-Out won the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction. She has also published a collection of poems, Glamourpuss, and co-edited the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction & Fantasy from Transgender Writers, which won the 2018 ALA Stonewall Barbara Gittings Award for Literature. Her most recent book, The Dinner Party: A Book About Love is out now from Seven Stories Press.

Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. is a poet,…