Uddipana Goswami
Editor-in-Chief
Uddipana Goswami is a writer & feminist peace researcher currently teaching at the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding & Development at Kennesaw State University. A former Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (2016-’18), she is author of eight books examining networks of personal & political violence in conflict zones. Her poetry reflects the research in Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries (Routledge 2023) that also informs her fiction in The Women Who Would Not Die (Speaking Tiger 2024). A former journalist, Uddipana worked with several multinational & hyperlocal media groups, from National Geographic Channel to Seven Sisters Post, before teaching internationally at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati College, University of Pennsylvania, Curtis Institute of Music, & Johns Hopkins University.
Charity Butcher
Editorial Advisor
Charity Butcher is the Director of the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding & Development at Kennesaw State University & a registered mediator with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution. She received her PhD in Political Science from Indiana University in 2009. She conducts research on peace, conflict, ethnicity, religion, NGOs, & human rights. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Political Science Education & is active in the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning. She has published numerous academic articles & books, including her recent co-edited volume, the Palgrave Handbook of Teaching and Research in Political Science. Aside from her academic work, she also writes speculative fiction.
Consulting Editors
Stéphane Verlet Bottéro
Stéphane V. Bottéro is an artist working at the intersection of social practice, installation, writing, & gardening. He is interested in the entanglements of community, materiality, body, & place. Based on site-specific research & durational interventions, his practice explores pedagogies of repairing. He co-initiated the collaborative platform School of Mutants in Dakar in 2018. His work has been exhibited at biennales, museums, and festivals, including: ZKM, Karlsruhe; 4th Autostrada Biennale; Centre Pompidou Metz; 12th Berlin Biennale; 14th Dakar Biennale; RAW Material Company, Dakar; 12th Taipei Biennial; 7th Oslo Triennale; Le Lieu Unique, Nantes; Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam; Sheffield DocFest.
Laura Davis
Laura Davis is a Professor of English & Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University, where she has taught since 2002. Davis teaches courses in Asian Studies, American Studies, English Literature, Peace & Conflict, & Gender & Women’s Studies, & previously served as the coordinator of the Gender & Women’s Studies program & as the associate chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies department. Her research interests include ecofeminism, particularly creating safe spaces in the outdoors for underrepresented communities. She also writes about gender & sexuality in the United States south, teaching with technology, & motherhood studies, particularly in queer contexts. Her work has appeared in Ms. Magazine Online, LitHub.com, & the Faulkner Journal, among other publishing outlets.
Sha Huang
Sha Huang, originally from China, is an associate professor who currently teaches Chinese & Asian cultures at Kennesaw State University. As a bilingual poet, Huang was nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net in 2021. Her bilingual poetry book, “October Fruit 十月之果,” was published in Hong Kong, & her poems were recognized as outstanding translated works at the third Flush Poetry Festival in New York. Huang is also an artist whose works have been exhibited in China and the U.S., including cities such as Suzhou (China), Asheville (Tennessee), Marietta, Kennesaw, Roswell, Woodstock, & Acworth in Georgia. Her art has been published in multiple journals, & she was the cover artist for Thimble Literary Magazine. She received the “Very Influential Artist” award from Tranquility Fine Arts Gallery. In 2023, she curated a group exhibit titled “We are all Stardust” at The Art Place, Marietta.
Pedro Larrea
Pedro Larrea is the author of three books of poems: The Free Shore (Nueva York Poetry Press, 2019); La tribu y la llama (Amargord, 2015); and The Wizard’s Manuscript (Valparaíso USA, 2017). His poetry has appeared, among others, in the prestigious Spanish magazine Revista de Occidente. He has read at the Library of Congress in Washington DC, the New York Public Library, the University of New York, The City University of New York, Emory University, the University of Kentucky, the Universidad de los Andes, and in several international poetry festivals. As a scholar, he is the author of the book Federico García Lorca in Buenos Aires (Renacimiento, 2015) and several academic articles on Hispanic poetry of all periods. As a translator, he has published Spanish editions of poets like Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock, E.E. Cummings, Rita Dove, Joy Harjo, Joyce Carol Oates, Kevin Young, and Ada Limón. Currently, he is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Lynchburg, in Virginia.
Olga Livshin
Olga Livshin grew up in Ukraine & Russia & came to the US as a teenager. Her poetry, essays, translations & interviews appear in the New York Times, Ploughshares, The Rumpus, the Kenyon Review, & other journals. She is the author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman (Poets & Traitors Press, 2019). Recently, Livshin co-translated Today is a Different War by the Ukrainian poet Lyudmyla Khersonska (Arrowsmith Press, 2023), & A Man Only Needs a Room, a volume of the immigrant Russian poet Vladimir Gandelsman (New Meridian Arts, 2022). In the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Livshin co-organized “Voices for Ukraine: A Words Together Words Apart Reading,” a reading of Ukrainian poets & translators, attended by 800 people. She holds a PhD in Slavic Languages & Literatures & taught at the university level for over a decade before becoming an independent teacher of creative writing. Her students’ work appears in The New York Times and Rattle Young Poets Anthology, & is widely published.
Jeanne Minahan
Poet Jeanne Minahan collaborates frequently with composers, including Jennifer Higdon, Rene Orth, and Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg. Her recordings include Any of Those Decembers (Navona Records, 2024); Force of Nature (Lexicon Classics, 2023); New Voices (Roven Records, 2015); and The Singing Rooms (TELARC, 2010). Her poems have been featured in over 60 performances sung by Lyric Fest, Philadelphia Singers, the NY Choral Society, DC Vocal Arts, Yale Glee Club, Pennsylvania GirlChoir, Rhodes Master Singers, and other ensembles. A graduate of Bucknell University and University College Cork, Ireland, Jeanne earned her Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr College. Jeanne Minahan (McGinn) teaches at Curtis Institute of Music, where she holds the Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams Jr. Chair in the Liberal Arts and is Senior Associate Dean of Academics.
Federica Santini
Federica Santini is a Professor of Italian & Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University, where she serves as Chair of the Department of World Languages & Cultures. She holds a Ph.D. in Italian literature from UCLA & an M.A. in Modern Literatures (Laurea cum laude in Lettere Moderne) from the University of Siena, Italy. Her scholarly work & literary translations have been published in numerous journals & volumes in the U.S. & Italy, while her poetry & short fiction have appeared internationally in over 60 journals & anthologies. She has authored or co-edited six volumes, as well as a poetry chapbook, Unearthed (2021). Her second poetry chapbook, Other Alices, won the Fauxmoir Summer 2023 Chapbook Contest & is in press with Fauxmoir Press.
Arshiya Sethi
Twice a Fulbright Fellow, Arshiya Sethi, a former dance critic for The Times of India, established Kri Foundation in 2003, which braids Arts, Activism, and Knowledge. She’s an author, presenter, & advisor for the Art and Culture channel DD Bharati. Sethi writes two popular columns in Narthaki.com, co-authored a book Non-Gharanedaar: Pt Mohanrao Kallianpurkar, The Paviour of Kathak (2022), & co-edited & contributed to the Dance Studies Association’s international publication Dance Under the Shadow of the Nation (2019). She jointly created & edits an online academic journal called South Asian Dance Intersections & is currently writing a book on Assam’s sattriya dance. Her new academic investigations focus on Indian diaspora dance & the intersection of arts & law. She has also helmed the activism around sexual harassment in the arts & co-created unmute.help for literacy on the legal rights & responsibilities of arts & arts leaders.
Robert Simon
Robert Simon is Professor of Spanish & Portuguese at Kennesaw State University. His academic publications include: The Purple Gladiolus and the Mystic’s Map: Mystical Symbolism and the Posthuman in the 20th and 21st Century Poetic Voice of Ana Rossetti (2023). He has written several peer-reviewed studies discussing mystical tendencies & poetic expressions of posthumanism & existentialism. Additionally, Simon has published ten collections of poetry & contributed to various journals in India, Portugal, & the United States. Simon is affiliated with the Center for Africana Studies, the KSU Honors College, & the Latinx Studies Program. Simon specializes in Hispanic & Lusophone literatures & cultures. In his free time, he enjoys reading, exercising, spending time with his daughter, & playing the oboe.
Griselda Thomas
Griselda Thomas is Professor of English & Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University. She teaches African American literature & culture, Black feminist studies, and African & African Diaspora studies. She is currently participating in the Woman Leadership Virtual Exchange Program with the University of Hassan ll in Casablanca, Morocco, sponsored by a Steven’s Initiative Grant. Her research and publications explore the politics of the Black female body, spirituality in the fiction of contemporary Black women writers, cultural influences in the Black community, and online pedagogy. Her teaching, scholarship, and service are guided by her commitment to diversity and equity, interdisciplinary studies, and the intersectional inquiry of systems of oppression. She is committed to the mentoring and professional development of students living and working at the margins. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department’s Outstanding Diversity Advocate Award, the College of Humanities Social Sciences Outstanding Diversity Advocate Award, the Presidential Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity R.O.H. Social Justice Award, and the Kennesaw State University Diversity Advocate Award.
Editorial Assistant
KayLeigh Nycole Fitzgerald, a PhD student in International Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University, brings a unique blend of creativity, research expertise, and strategic insight to amplify Mukoli’s mission of fostering peace through art and literature. At Mukoli, she’s played a pivotal role in rebranding the magazine through the digital spaces. Her work focuses on curating compelling digital narratives that engage global audiences while upholding Mukoli’s commitment to centering voices from marginalized and conflict-affected communities. With a deep belief in the transformative power of storytelling, KayLeigh strives to create digital spaces that invite meaningful conversations about peace, justice, and creativity.