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Each year, all work we publish will be considered for the Panorama Prize
See all authors of work nominated for the inaugural 2024 edition and their bios below
Amira Laghzail
Guest Contributor
Morocco
Amira Laghzail is a third year student majoring in English Studies at MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY in Rabat, originating from Marrakesh. She is actively involved in extracurricular activities related to womanhood and we-for-she themes in hope of sensitising her surroundings to the struggles of women in her home country, and shed ...
Devi S. Laskar
Senior Poetry Editor
USA
Devi S. Laskar is the author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues, winner of 7th annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize (2020) for best debut novel set in the South, winner of the 2020 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (selected by APALA); selected by The Georgia Center for the Book ...
Grace Loh Prasad
Former Contributor
USA
Grace Loh Prasad is the author of The Translator’s Daughter (Mad Creek Books/The Ohio State University Press, 2024), a debut memoir about living between languages, navigating loss, and the search for belonging. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Literary Hub, Longreads, Guernica, Brevity, The Offing, Oldster Magazine, ...
Jenny Boyar
Guest Contributor
USA
Jenny Boyar is a medical writer and holds a PhD in English from the University of Rochester. Her poetry has been published with Choeofpleirn Press, Maudlin House, and FEED lit mag, and her academic writing has appeared in a variety of scholarly publications. A Fulbright recipient, she has also been ...
Joelle Renstrom
Nonfiction Editor
Boston
In addition to writing about travel, Joelle Renstrom writes about science, technology, and science fiction for Slate, New Scientist, Aeon, Undark, Popular Science, and other publications. Her book, Travels in Life, Loss, and Literature, was published in 2015. She teaches writing and research at Boston University.
Katrina Woznicki
Contributor
Los Angeles
Katrina Woznicki is an award-winning writer and a 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee. In 2025, she received the Solas Awards' grand prize for Best Travel Story Of The Year for her piece, "It Can Be Beautiful For Everyone," which was first published by Panorama in 2024. Her essays and reporting have ...
Kristin Winet
Flash Editor
USA
Kristin Winet is a writer and teacher who lives in the Sonoran Desert. In her day job, she teaches writing at the University of Arizona and trains graduate students in writing pedagogy and inclusive teaching. Her travel writing, which has won awards from The North American Travel Journalists’ Association and ...
Liam Flake
Guest Contributor
USA
My name is Liam and I am a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire with a Bachelor’s in English and Journalism. I am currently a student at Iowa State University working towards my MFA in Creative Writing and Environment. Born in Kansas and raised in the Front Range ...
Nicolas D. Sampson
Books Editor
UK
Nicolas D. Sampson is a writer-producer, and the author of the poetry collection Όμορφη η Υφήλιος (Beautiful, Our World In the Sun) by Armos Books. He wrote and co-produced Behind the Mirror (winner Best Thriller in the Manhattan Film Festival); and was an executive producer on Show Me the Picture: ...
Noah Berlatsky
Guest Contributor
USA
Noah Berlatsky (he/him) is a freelance writer in Chicago. His first full length collection is Not Akhmatova (Ben Yehuda Press, 2024). He has chapbooks published and/or forthcoming with the Origami Poems Project, above/ground, and LJMcD Communications. He is also the author of Wonder Woman; Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter ...
S.D. Dillon
Guest Contributor
USA
S.D. Dillon is a poet and small business owner from Michigan. He has an AB from Princeton and an MFA from Notre Dame, where he was Managing Editor of The Bend in 2004. His poetry has appeared recently in Tampa Review, Door = Jar, Wild Roof Journal, Gabby & Min’s ...
Samuel Autman
Nonfiction Editor
USA
Samuel A. Autman is a US-born essayist, travel writer and college professor whose work focuses on identity, place and pop culture. His essays have appeared in The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction, The Kept Secret: The Half-Truth in Nonfiction, The Chalk Circle: Prizewinning Intercultural Essays, Bellevue ...
Yoko Nogami
Guest Contributor
USA/Japan
Yoko Nogami, an interdisciplinary artist, was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She resides both in Eastern Kentucky and Tokyo. She was the Visual Art Department Chair at Pinellas County Center for the Arts in Saint Petersburg, Florida before moving to the Appalachia region of Kentucky as the Artistic Director ...
Zeid
Guest Contributor
USA
Zeid (he/they) is an author, poet, and scientist from Jordan. After writing for almost a decade, they’re finally submitting their pieces to be published. And here they are in Panorama! Other poetry of theirs was accepted into Assignment Literary Magazine, In Parantheses, and Rising Phoenix Review.

