Manhattan Writers Center Staff
Charles Balin-Pelham, Executive Director
Madolin Cohen Blum, Program Director
Astrid Adams, Administrator
Women’s Poetry Fellowship Resident Fellows
Hesther Blum, Celebrated Poet
Priscilla Underwood, Southern States Poet Laureate
Aeisha, Camden, New Jersey
Abbie Bleuet, Brattleboro, Vermont
Cyra Bilal, Contributing Editor, Al-Khansa (in exile)
Writers Center Board‘ Executive Committee
Carole Newman, Board and Executive Committee Chair
Julie Carew, Vice Chair
Arnold, Board Treasurer
Raz McKenna, Member and Novelist
Keith Blakemore , Member, Actor, Entrepreneur
25th Precinct
Dawkins, Detective Lieutenant
Emily Gold, Detective and Madolin’s Second Cousin
& Incidental Characters