Graduate Student Creative Reading: Amir, Raley, Sienkiewicz

Juliana Amir is a second-year PhD candidate in the Department of English whose current research focuses on folklore, fairy tales, American literature, and mad studies. She enjoys exploring the bridge between research and creative practice in both the classroom and her writing. Her chapbook Mythic Perspectives was published along with a few short stories in Grimoire, Enchanted Conversation, and Iron Faerie Publishing.

Abigail Raley is a poet from Kentucky. Her work has appeared in The Offing, HAD, Hanging Loose Magazine, Maudlin House, Identity Theory, and elsewhere. She is a 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee, and her debut poetry collection, Wet Specimen, is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in April, 2026. She holds an MFA from the University of Montana and is a PhD candidate at Case Western Reserve University.

Emily Sienkiewicz is a first-year master’s student with undergraduate degrees in English and Communications from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Her writing frequently ventriloquizes her female ancestors, imagining the historical and social conditions that shaped their lives. She is equally drawn to experimental forms, often complicating the relationship between author and reader through her explorations in autofiction. Her current project examines what it means to choose motherhood in the face of a long list of cultural, social, and bodily objections. In particular, she focuses on disabled motherhood and the ways this choice reshapes personal identity.

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