ÌýArtworkÌýÌý
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is a photographer who has shown her work in solo and groupÌýexhibitions since 2011. She was an active member of Oak Street Art, an artists’Ìýcollective in Illinois, before moving to northeast Ohio, and in 2018 one of herÌýabstract images took first place in the Shrode Photography Competition. BeforeÌýturning to photography, she spent two decades as a researcher and professor ofÌýpsychology. |
ÌýPoetry
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Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads and Millennial Teeth, as wellÌýas two chapbooks from Unicorn Press: The Use of the World and Of Air andÌýEarth. His poems have appeared in 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, Crazyhorse,ÌýFive Points, The Southern Review, The Best American Poetry 2017, and two editionsÌýof The Pushcart Prize, as well as other journals and anthologies. Albergotti is aÌýprofessor of English at Coastal Carolina University. |
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fifth book of poems, The Echo Chamber, was publishedÌýby Milkweed Editions in October 2021. His work has appeared in Copper Nickel,ÌýTin House, The Threepenny Review, The American Poetry Review, The Sun,ÌýThe Nation, and Ploughshares, and his verse translation of the Mayan creationÌýepic, The Popol Vuh, was named one of 2018’s bestÌý books of poetry by The NewÌýYork Times. The recipient of an NEA Fellowship, Bazzett lives in Minneapolis. |
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work has been published or is forthcoming in Ploughshares,ÌýAGNI, Copper Nickel, The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, American PoetryÌýReview, The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. Currently, Boutris livesÌýin California and serves as editor-in-chief of The West Review. |
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is the author of Field Recordings. His writing has appearedÌýin the Indiana Review, New Orleans Review, Poet Lore, Crab Orchard Review,ÌýHobart, and elsewhere. Brakefield teaches writing at the University WritingÌýProgram at the University of Denver. |
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is the author of the chapbooks MOT and Agape. They haveÌýwork in Pleiades, Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Colorado Review,ÌýThe Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, and other magazines. They are an avid recordÌýcollector and curator of curiosities. |
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Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Fellow and author of The Fire Eater. HisÌýwork appears in The American Poetry Review, Georgia Review, The Iowa Review,ÌýKenyon Review, The Missouri Review, The Nation, POETRY, and The Best AmericanÌýNonrequired Reading. He has been a finalist for the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Competition and the 2020 National Poetry Series. Currently, Diaz is a guest editor for FrontierÌýPoetry and Palette Poetry. |
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Carina Finn is the author of several collections of poetry, including LemonworldÌý& Other Poems, Invisible Reveille, and The Grey Bird: Thirteen Emoji Poems inÌýTranslation. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of NotreÌýDame, where she was the recipient of a Nicholas Sparks Fellowship. She works asÌýan editor for Bustle Digital Group, and as a freelance food writer and photographerÌýfor publications including The Kitchn, Bon Appétit, Eater, and others. Finn isÌýrepresented by Linda Epstein of Emerald City Literary Agency. |
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is a multiple award-winning playwright, breakbeat poet, director,Ìýeducator, and organizer. His poetry collections include Can I Kick It? and TheseÌýAre The Breaks. He is the author of over sixty original plays ranging from hisÌýHip Hop inspired breakbeat play series to historical dramas to works for youngÌýaudiences. Goodwin has appeared on HBO's Def Poetry, Sesame Street, NPR,ÌýBBC Radio, and the Discovery Channel. He is a 2021 United States Artist Fellow. |
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Rosalind Guy is a high school English teacher. She recently received an MFAÌýfrom the University of Memphis. Her poems and essays have appeared or will appearÌýin African Voices,Ìý Juke Joint, Glass Poetry Journal: Poets Resist, and Georgia Review. |
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is the author of Sawgrass Sky (Texas Review Press, 2021).ÌýHis poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, The Journal,ÌýPrairie Schooner, and The Southern Review. He won the 2018 River Styx InternationalÌýPoetry Contest. Hemmert earned his MFA from Southern Illinois UniversityÌýCarbondale, and currently serves as a poetry editor for Driftwood Press. |
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debut poetry collection, Dear Specimen, was selected byÌýKwame Dawes as a winner of the 2020 National Poetry Series and publishedÌýby Beacon Press (2021). Selected by Natasha Trethewey for inclusion in TheÌýBest American Poetry 2017, her poems also appear in The Atlantic, Boulevard,ÌýHudson Review, Pleiades,Ìýand elsewhere. Herbert lives in Kingston, New York,Ìýand Portland, Maine. |
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is the author of Here All Night; Reaper; Where You Live; Oh,ÌýJames!; andHabeas Corpus. The recipient of three Pushcart prizes and fellowshipsÌýfrom the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the FineÌýArts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress,Ìýand Stanford’s Stegner program, she taughtÌý incarcerated college students throughÌýBoston University’s Prison Education Program for thirteen years. Her work hasÌýappeared in POETRY, Slate, The Nation, The Threepenny Review, and The BestÌýAmerican Poetry. McDonough teaches in the MFA program at UMass-BostonÌýand started a program offering college reading and writing in two Boston jails. |
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is the author of five books of poems, including Holy Moly CarryÌýMe, which was the winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award, and a finalistÌýfor the National Book Critics Circle Award. Meitner is currently a professor ofÌýEnglish at Virginia Tech. Her newest book, Useful Junk, is due out from BOAÌýEditions in April 2022. |
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is the author of Marvels of the Invisible and Refusal. Her thirdÌýcollection is expected to appear in 2023. She is the recipient of a 2019-2020ÌýCreative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well asÌýscholarships and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Vermont StudioÌýCenter, and the C.D. Wright conference. Molberg's work has recently appearedÌýor is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Tupelo Quarterly, The Rumpus,ÌýThe Missouri Review, and other publications. |
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is a writer, editor, and transitional deacon in the Episcopal DioceseÌýof Texas. He received an MFA from NYU and a Master of Divinity from EmoryÌýUniversity, where he was a Forum for Theological Exploration Fellow. MyersÌýis the executive director of EcoTheo Collective and editor-in-chief of EcoTheoÌýReview. He lives with his wife and son in Houston. |
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is a CantoMundo Fellow. His work has recentlyÌýappeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, Crazyhorse, Salamander,ÌýTriQuarterly, The Missouri Review, and Blackbird, among others. He is the foundingÌýeditor of THE BOILER and poetry editor for Deep Vellum and has receivedÌýscholarships and awards from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf Writers’ÌýConference, and the Vermont Studio Center. Páramo holds a PhD in English andÌýcreative writing at the University of North Texas and will be the 2021 Jesse H.ÌýJones Fellow through the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program, sponsored by theÌýUniversity of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters. |
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Alexa Patrick is a singer and poet from Connecticut. She holds fellowshipsÌýfrom Cave Canem, Obsidian, and The Watering Hole. Patrick was the 2019 headÌýcoach of the D.C. Youth Slam Team, and has held teaching positions throughÌýSplit This Rock, The University of the District of Columbia, and the Center forÌýCreative Youth at Wesleyan University. You may find her work in publicationsÌýincluding The Quarry, ArLiJo, CRWN Magazine, and The BreakBeat Poets Vol.Ìý2: Black Girl Magic. Patrick's debut collection, Remedies for Disappearing, will beÌýpublished by Haymarket Books in 2023.Ìý |
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Lucas Daniel Peters is a poet from rural Indiana. He received his MFA inÌýpoetry from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in FiveÌýPoints, The Greensboro Review, The Laurel Review, Midwest Review, The MissouriÌýReview, and Southern Humanities Review. Peters is a grant recipient throughÌýUnited State Artists. |
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Anzhelina Polonskaya was born in Malakhovka, a small town nearÌýMoscow. She has had the opportunity to participate in a number of prestigiousÌýwriting residencies, including those of the Cove Park Scottish Arts Council,Ìýthe Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, the MacDowell Colony,Ìýthe Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and the Villa Sträuli in Zurich.ÌýPolonskaya has published translations in many journals, including The AmericanÌýPoetry Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, and Kenyon Review. |
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is the author of the chapbook Still, No Grace (Madhouse Press, 2021).ÌýTheir work appears in such journals as Sixth Finch, West Branch, DIAGRAM,Ìýand others. They are pursuing an MFA from Georgia State University, where theyÌýcurrently serve as editor of New South. |
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is the author of Rise and Float, winner of the 2020-21 JakeÌýAdam York Prize (Milkweed, forthcoming February 2022). His poetry and proseÌýhave appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, AGNI,ÌýNew England Review, Image Journal, and others. He is a former Wallace StegnerÌýFellow at Stanford University and graduate of the Bennington College WritingÌýSeminars. Raised in Philadelphia, Tierney lives in Oakland, California, where heÌýteaches poetry at The Writing Salon. |
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is the author of six books of poetry, including The Sound Boat:ÌýNew and Selected Poems (University of Wisconsin Press Four Lakes Prize, springÌý2022). Her poetry, reviews, and essays have appeared or are about to in BarrowÌýStreet, Plume, Poetry International, The Women’s Review of Books, Prairie Schooner,ÌýThe Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire, and many other journals and anthologies.ÌýVollmer teaches privately and lives in Pittsburgh’s Nine Mile Run Watershed. |
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Chelsea Wagenaar is the author of two collections of poetry, most recentlyÌýThe Spinning Place, winner of the 2018 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Her firstÌýcollection, Mercy Spurs the Bone, was selected by Philip Levine to win the 2013ÌýPhilip Levine Prize. She holds degrees from the University of Virginia and theÌýUniversity of North Texas, and currently teaches in North Carolina. Recent workÌýappears or is forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review and The Massachusetts Review. |
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is a doctoral student at the University of Georgia where sheÌýstudies poetry and speculative narratives. She is the author of two chapbooks: [re]construction of the necromancer from Sundress Publications and Southern GothicÌýCorpse Machine from Carrion Bloom Books (forthcoming 2022). Her works haveÌýappeared in Gulf Coast, Passages North, and Fairy Tale Review, among others. |
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is the author of six collections, including The DrowningÌýHouse (Elixir Press Poetry Award), As One Fire Consumes Another (OrisonÌýPoetry Prize), Skin Memory(Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press),Ìýand Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize). Williams is the winner of numerousÌýawards, including the Wabash Prize for Poetry, Philip Booth Award, PhyllisÌýSmart-Young Prize, and Laux/Millar Prize. He serves as editor of The InflectionistÌýReview and founder of the Caesura Poetry Workshop series. Previous publishingÌýcredits include The Best American Poetry, Yale Review, Verse Daily, North AmericanÌýReview, Prairie Schooner, and TriQuarterly. |
Fiction
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debut full-length book of fiction, Eternal Night at the NatureÌýMuseum, was published by Sarabande Books (2021). He’s the author of TheÌýQuiet Part Loud, winner of the Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest from Split LipÌýPress. His short fiction has been published widely in journals and magazines suchÌýas Kenyon Review, Subtropics, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, The Cincinnati Review,ÌýCopper Nickel, and others. |
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Tom Franklin is the The New York Times bestselling author of Crooked Letter,ÌýCrooked Letter, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the CrimeÌýWriters' Association's Gold Dagger Award. His previous works include Poachers,ÌýHell at the Breech, and Smonk. Franklin teaches in the University of Mississippi'sÌýMFA program. |
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Lindsay Hunter is the author of the story collections Don’t Kiss Me and ¶Ù²¹»å»å²â’sÌýand the novels Ugly Girls and Eat Only When You're Hungry, a finalist for the 2017ÌýChicago Review of Books Fiction Award. Originally from Florida, she now lives inÌýChicago with her husband, sons, and dogs. |
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essays, flash fiction, and short stories have appeared orÌýwill appear in Colorado Review, Epiphany, Michigan Quarterly Review, Salt Hill,ÌýThe Cincinnati Review, The Normal School, The Rumpus, and other journals.ÌýShe worked as an economics consultant in a former life and lives in Boston. |
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fiction has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Foglifter, Joyland,Ìýand elsewhere. She lives in upstate New York where she is an assistant professorÌýof English at Hartwick College. Her debut story collection, The RunawayÌýRestaurant, is forthcoming from 7.13 Books in 2022. Follow her on Twitter: @ThePtessadactyl. |
Nonfiction
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is a writer and editor living in Santa Cruz, California. She holdsÌýan MFA from Northern Arizona University and has had previous lives as a middleÌýschool teacher, wilderness guide, yoga instructor, energy bar maker, and graphicÌýdesigner. Her essay “Owlgazingâ€� was named a The Best American Essays 2019 NotableÌýEssay. Lyons's work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Catamaran, Atticus Review, HawkÌýand Handsaw, and other journals. |
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has written numerous books, including Shrapnel Maps, SandÌýOpera, and The Sound of Listening. Awarded fellowships from the GuggenheimÌýand Lannan Foundations, and three Arab American Book Awards, he is professorÌýof English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program atÌýJohn Carroll University, and core faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts MFAÌýprogram. He hopes you're taking care of your beloved self today and every day. |
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essay collections are The Witch of Eye (Sarabande,Ìý2021) and Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past. Her poetry collections includeÌýRUE and The End of Pink. A recipient of fellowships from the NEA, AmericanÌýAntiquarian Society, Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life, and H. J. AndrewsÌýResearch Forest, Nuernberger teaches in the creative writing program at theÌýUniversity of Minnesota. |