ISSUE FIFTEEN: THE SECRET HISTORY

CONTRIBUTOR BIOS

SAMUEL AMADON teaches in the MFA program at the University of South Carolina and edits, with Liz Countryman, the poetry journal Oversound. His newest book, Divers, is forthcoming from Omnidawn.

LAURA BANDY hails from Jacksonville, Illinois. She attended the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers PhD program, where she received the Joan Johnson Poetry Award. Her chapbook, Hack, was published by Dancing Girl Press, and her full collection is Monster Movie (Gold Wake Press, 2023). 

CRAIG BEAVEN is the author of four books of poetry, most recently In Arcadia (Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series, Seven Kitchens Press) and Teaching the Baby to Say I Love You (Anhinga Press Poetry Prize). He lives in Tallahassee, Florida. 

AIMEE BENDER is the author of six books of fiction, including the bestseller The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and The Color Master, a NY Times Notable Book. Her short fiction has been published in Granta, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, and Tin House, as well as heard on “This American Life.” She lives in Los Angeles and teaches writing at USC.

MALACHI BLACK is the author of the poetry collections Indirect Light (Four Way Books, 2024) and Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014). He teaches at the University of San Diego.

DANIEL BOUCHARD is completing his fifth book of poems, Razor Zigzag. Previous works include Spider Drop (Subpress) and Art & Nature (Ugly Duckling Presse). He has written essays on the poetry of Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Fanny Howe, and George Stanley. He edited the magazine The Poker and also was an editor of Pressed Wafer. Recent poems appear in The Arts Fuse, The Brooklyn Rail, The Harvard Review, and spoKe. He works in academic publishing.

THEA BROWN is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Loner Forensics (Northwestern University Press, 2023). Her poems can be found in Action, Spectacle; LitHub, Oversound, and River Styx .She lives in Baltimore and teaches creative writing at George Washington University.

J. S. BRYCH is an award-winning writer whose publications include CALYX, Fourteen Hills, The Los Angeles Times, sparkle+blink, The Rumpus, and Witness. At City College of San Francisco, she taught creative writing and literature for many years, and helped revive Forum, the college’s literary magazine. In her previous life, she was a journalist, writing hundreds of articles about online music and culture for such outlets as Salon and Wired News.

IAN CAPPELLI has poems in the 2023 Best New Poets anthology, as well as in Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, The Florida Review, Greensboro Review, The Iowa Review, The Journal, Palette Poetry, RHINO, and West Branch. He is a creative writing PhD student in poetry at the University of Denver.

MONIKA CASSEL has poems and German translations in Adroit, AGNI, Diode, The Georgia Review, Guesthouse, Orion Magazine, and Poetry. She was awarded Poetry Magazine’s 2024 John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation, and her manuscript Rehearsal for Future Hungers was a finalist with River River Books. She lives in Portland, OR, and is an assistant poetry editor for Four Way Review.

NIKOLA CHAMPLIN received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and her BA from Yale University. Her poetry has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Off the Coast, and Spoon River Poetry Review.. She is an English teacher in New York City.

MICHAEL CHANG is the author of Synthetic Jungle (Northwestern University Press, 2023), Toy Soldiers (Action, Spectacle, 2024), and Things a Bright Boy Can Do (Coach House Books, 2025). They won the Poetry Project's Brannan Prize and edited Lambda Literary's Emerge anthology. They live in Manhattan.

JACK CHRISTIAN is the author of the poetry collections Family System (Center for Literary Publishing / U Colorado Press) and Domestic Yoga (Groundhog Poetry Press). His recent essays have appeared in ArtForum, Cleveland Review of Books, and Diagram. 

CHRISTOPHER CITRO is the author of If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His honors include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for poetry, a 2019 fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation, Columbia Journal's poetry award, and a creative nonfiction award from The Florida Review. Citro’s poetry appears in 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, and West Branch. He is an editorial assistant for Seneca Review and lives in sunny Syracuse, New York.

ADAM CLAY is the author, most recently, of Circle Back (Milkweed Edition, 2024). He teaches at Louisiana State University.

CARRIE COGAN is a former winner of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Prize and the Kenyon Review Nonfiction Contest. She has received support from MacDowell and Ucross for her first novel.

H. M. COTTON is an MFA student at Warren Wilson and teaches at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the managing editor of the Birmingham Poetry Review and a contributing editor for NELLE. She was a 2023 Alabama State Council on the Arts poetry fellow and used the grant to fund a 180-mile solo kayak trip down the Cahaba River.

CHANCE DIBBEN is a writer, photographer, and music maker living in Lawrence, KS. His work has appeared in matchbook, Reality Beach, Split Lip, and Yes Poetry. With Melissa Fite Johnson, he co-presents the reading and open mic series VOLTA in Lawrence.

BRANDON DOWNING is a poet, visual artist, curator, and filmmaker. His published collections include The Shirt Weapon (2002), Dark Brandon (2005), At Me (2010) and Mellow Actions (2013). A monograph of his literary collages from 1996 to 2008, Lake Antiquity, was published by Fence Books in 2010. He's recently completed an inaccurate, visually-driven, sixteen-book translation of Euripides' The Bacchae,

SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY is the author of the memoir in prose and prose poems Death Prefers the Minor Keys from BOA Editions, and The Dead are Everywhere Telling Us Things, winner of the 2021 Jacar Press Full Length Poetry Prize, selected by Jessica Jacobs and Nickole Brown. His book The Second O of Sorrow was winner of the Housatonic Book Award and cowinner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. He works as a long-term caregiver and medtech along Lake Erie.

JEHANNE DUBROW is the author of three books of creative nonfiction and ten books of poetry, including, most recently, Civilians (Louisiana State University Press, 2025). Her work has appeared in New England Review, Ploughshares, and Southern Review.. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of North Texas.

LAURA EVE ENGEL is the author of Things That Go (Octopus Books). A recipient of fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Yiddish Book Center, her work can be found in Best American Poetry, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, The Nation, and PEN America. "Death Certificate" is for Daniel Saz. May his memory be a blessing.

KAMI ENZIE is a D.C.-based writer. His work appears in Chicago Review, Epoch, The Glacier, and 128 LIT. His manuscript-in-progress River of Love was named runner-up for Autumn House Press’s CAAP 2025 Book Prize and he was a 2025 finalist for Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship.

ANGIE ESTES has eight books of poems including Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City and The Swallows Come Out: Selected Poems 1995-2025. Awards for her poetry include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize, and essays devoted to her work appear in The Allure of Grammar: The Glamour of Angie Estes’s Poetry.

JOHN GALLAHER is the author, most recently of, the collection My Life in Brutalist Architecture (Four Way Books, 2024). His forthcoming collection, Radio Good Luck, is scheduled for 2028. 

RACHEL GALVIN is the author of the poetry collection Uterotopia (Persea Books, 2023). Her translation of Raymond Queneau’s Hitting the Streets won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation and her co-translation of Decals: Complete Early Poetry of Oliverio Girondo was a finalist for the National Translation Award. Her poems and translations appear in journals and anthologies including Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Best American Poetry 2020, Harvard Review, McSweeney’s, The Nation, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Poetry. She is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.

CARLOTA GAMBOA is a poet and art writer from Los Angeles, CA. She spends the majority of her time as an assistant to independent film sales agents, and the rest of her days losing to her mom in pickleball. You can find her work in Oversound Magazine, Salt Hill Journal, Denver Quarterly, Bodega Magazine, Outlook Springs, and now Bennington Review. 

MATTHEW GELLMAN is the author of Beforelight, selected by Tina Chang as the winner of BOA Editions, Ltd. 's A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His second book, The Understudy, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2027. Gellman has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Brooklyn Poets, Adroit's Djanikian Scholars Program, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Bread Loaf Writers Conference. His poems are featured in Bennington Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Indiana Review, The Common, the Missouri Review, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and is currently a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.

MANDY GUTMANN-GONZALEZ is a Chilean poet and novelist working at the intersections of text, textile, performance, archive, and translation. They are the author of La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalistas) and A/An (End of the Line Press). They teach creative writing at Clark University in Worcester, MA.

AMELIA GRAY is the author of five books, most recently Isadora (FSG). Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, and Ploughshares. She lives in Los Angeles

BENJAMIN S. GROSSBERG is the author of , My Husband Would (University of Tampa, 2020), winner of the Connecticut Book Award. He also wrote the novel, The Spring before Obergefell (University of Nebraska, 2024), which was selected by Percival Everett for the AWP’s James Alan McPherson Prize.

JULIE HANSON is the author of The Audible and the Evident (Ohio University Press, 2020) and Unbeknownst (University of Iowa Press, 2011), a Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist. She has work in recent issues of Posit, 32 Poems, Plume, Copper Nickel, and VOLT.

JARED HAREL is the author of the poetry collection, Let Our Bodies Change the Subject (University of Nebraska Press, 2023), winner of the Prairie Schooner Raz/Shumaker Book Prize and named a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize. 

BOB HICOK is the author of the forthcoming collection Breathe (Copper Canyon Press, 2026).

MADILYNE IGLEHEART is originally from the midwest but currently resides in Tallahassee, Florida where she is an MFA candidate at Florida State University and an assistant fiction editor for the Southeast Review. You can find her work in Contrary and Gone Lawn.

DANA ISOKAWA has published poems in American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, and the Southern Review.

GILAD JAFFE has poems in Harvard Review, Image, The Iowa Review, Poetry, and The Yale Review. He serves as a senior editor at Conjunctions.

ELAINE JOHANSON is a Philadelphia-based writer and artist. In 2020, she published “AND AND” (Elm Twig Press), a chapbook of poems and photographs with photographer Jan C. Almquist.

L. A. JOHNSON is the author of the chapbook Little Climates. She holds a PhD from the University of Southern California, where she is currently a Mellon Humanities and University of the Future postdoctoral fellow. The winner of the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Prize, her poems appear in The Atlantic, Poetry Magazine, and Ploughshares.

SPENDER LANE JONES is pursuing an MFA in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, where she will be a Marcus Bach Fellow in Spring 2025. Her work has appeared in Hopkins Review, Root Quarterly, Arts & Letters, and Black Warrior Review.

GENEVIEVE KAPLAN is the author of (aviary) (Veliz Books), In the ice house (Red Hen), and five chapbooks, most recently Felines, which sounds like feelings (above/ground). She lives in southern California where she edits the Toad Press International chapbook series, publishing contemporary translations of poetry and prose.

JONATHAN KLINE is a photographer working in both traditional and digital forms of imaging and time-based projects. His recent exhibitions include the Catskill Art Space, Galerie RB Fine Arts Milan, and Fotosphere Gallery Tokyo. He has received fellowships from the American Scandinavian Foundation, the Aaron Siskind Foundation, and Earthwatch, and his work is in the permanent collections of SFMoMA, The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Princeton Art Museum, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. From 1998 to 2024 he taught at Bennington College.

GEORGE KOVALENKO is a poet, critic, and translator. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, and Lana Turner. He holds an MFA from New York University and a PhD from the University of Denver.

FARRYL LAST is a writer and international educator whose poetry has appeared in publications such as Cream City Review, SAND Journal, and Willow Springs.

BENJAMIN CHARLES GERMAIN LEE lives in Seattle and is an assistant professor at the University of Washington. His writing has appeared in Bright Wall/Dark Room, Current Affairs, Gawker, GoldFlakePaint, Jacobin, Protean Magazine, Real Life,  and WIRED.

KEITH PILAPIL LESMEISTER is the author of the fiction chapbook Mississippi River Museum and the story collection We Could’ve Been Happy Here (EastOver Press, 2023). He's editor of Cutleaf and was a 2023-25 Rural Regenerator Fellow through Springboard for the Arts.

SU-YEE LIN has work in Best Small Fictions, Electric Literature, The Offing, the Pushcart Prize anthology, Strange Horizons, and Quarterly West. A 2012 Fulbright fellow to China, she has also received fellowships from the Center for Fiction, New York Foundation for the Arts and the Speculative Literature Foundation.

DOMENICA MARTINELLO is a Montreal-based author of Good Want (2024) and All Day I Dream about Sirens (2019), both from Coach House Books. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she won the Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize in 2023. Her work appears in Best Canadian Poetry, Black Warrior Review, Maisonneuve, Salt Hill Journal, and The Walrus.

ORLANDO RICARDO MENES is an NEA Fellow and Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of seven poetry collections, including The Gospel of Wildflowers & Weeds (University of New Mexico Press, 2022), Memoria (Louisiana State University Press, 2019), Heresies (University of New Mexico Press, 2015), and Fetish (University of Nebraska Press, 2013), winner of the 2012 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Recent poems have appeared inAmerican Poetry Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, and The Yale Review.

PHILIP METRES has written twelve books, including Fugitive/Refuge (Copper Canyon, 2024) and Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020). Winner of three Arab American Book Awards, he is a professor of English and the director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University.

NICHOLAS MONTEMARANO is the author of five books, most recently a memoir, If There Are Any Heavens (Perseas, 2022). His writing has appeared in such magazines as AGNI, Esquire, The Southern Review, and Tin House. He has won a Pushcart Prize and an NEA fellowship.

JULIA ANNA MORRISON is a poet and filmmaker living in Iowa City. A Yaddo and MacDowell fellow, she has work in Brink, The Georgia Review, and Notre Dame Review .Her first book of poems is Long Exposure (Moon City, 2023).  She teaches at the University of Iowa.

SARAH ROSE NORDGREN is the author of Feathers: A Bird Hat Wearer’s Journal, winner of the Essay Press Book Prize. She lives in North Carolina, where she writes, teaches poetry, and serves as Associate Editor for 32 Poems.

MARK NOWAK is the writer of Shut Up Shut Down, Coal Mountain Elementary, Social Poetics, and …AGAIN, all from Coffee House Press. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and Creative Capital foundations. Nowak recently wrote an introduction to Celes Tisdale’s When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal (Duke University Press, 2022). He is founding director of the Worker Writers School.

KYLE OKEKE is a writer from Sugar Land, Texas, whose work has preciously appeared in Poetry. He  was awarded the Evaristo Prize in African Poetry and a Poetry Society of America Chapbook fellowship. He is pursuing an MFA in creative writing through the UT-Austin New Writers Project.

SKYLER OSBORNE is the author of Rejoicer (Driftwood Press, 2023). He received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas.. 

LYNN PEDERSEN has poems in Borderlands, Ecotone, New England Review, Nimrod, and The Southern Poetry Review. She is the author of The Nomenclature of Small Things (Carnegie Mellon) and two chapbooks. A graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia. 

ALISON PELEGRIN is Louisiana Poet Laureate. Her most recent collection is Our Lady of Bewilderment (LSU Press 2022), winner of the Phillip H. McMath Award in poetry. The recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the NEA and an ATLAS Grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents, she is Writer-in-Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University. 

ALLAN PETERSON is the author of six books, most recently, This Luminous: New and Selected Poems (Panhandler Books, 2019). He lives and writes in Ashland, Oregon. 

COLIN POPE is the author of the recent poetry collection Prayer Book for the New Heretic (NYQ Books). His work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Slate, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, and AGNI. He is Assistant Director of Creative Writing at Northwestern University and works on the editorial boards of RHINO and TriQuarterly.

JAMES KELLY QUIGLEY is a poet and painter. 

ELIZABETH ROBINSON is the author of, most recently, Vulnerability Index (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone, 2025) and Being Modernists Together (Solid Objects, 2026). Her new chapbook, Catechist, appears from Three Count Pour along with chapbooks by George Albon, Denise Newman, and Randy Prunty, in a collection called Bay Area Suite.

DAVID RODERICK is the author of Darkness for Beginners (Omnidawn, 2027), as well as the previous collections Blue Colonial (Copper Canyon) and  The Americans (University of Pittsburgh Press). He lives in Berkeley, California, where he co-directs Left Margin LIT, a creative writing center and workspace for writers.

MATTHEW ROSSI writes and teaches about the intersection of human and natural spaces. His work is published in Gigantic Worlds, NY Tyrant, and West Branch. He has an MFA from Columbia University and attended the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference in 2023. He lives in Brooklyn.

MARY JO SALTER is the author of nine previous books of poems and a new volume , Casmeo Appearance (Penguin, 2026). Guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2024, she is a professor emerita at Johns Hopkins University. She lives in Baltimore.

STEPHANIE ELLIS SCHLAIFER is a poet, installation artist, and the author of the collections Well Waiting Room (Fordham University Press, Editor’s Prize, 2021) and Cleavemark (BOAAT Press, 2016), as well as the children’s book The Cloud Lasso (Penny Candy Books, 2019). A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Schlaifer has published poetry, art, and criticism in AGNI, BOMB, Colorado Review, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, The Offing, Ploughshares, Washington Square,  The Wilson Quarterly, Colorado Review, and Ploughshares, and  through the Poetry Foundation.

ROB SCHLEGEL is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Childcare (Four Way, 2023). A 2023 James Merrill House Fellow and co-editor of The Catenary Press, he lives in the state of Washington and teaches at Whitman College.

WILL SCHUTT is the author of Westerly (2013), selected by Carl Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His translations from Italian include My Life, I Lapped It Up: Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti (2018) and Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems by Fabio Pusterla (2023). He teaches at John Cabot University in Rome and co-directs Policromia, an annual international festival of poetry and translation in Siena, Italy.

KIM GEK LIN SHORT is the author of the lyric novels China Cowboy and The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits (Tarpaulin Sky), and the chapbooks Run (Rope-a-Dope) and The Residents (Dancing Girl). She is also a  contributor to I Know What’s Best For You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom (McSweeney’s). She lives in Philadelphia.

RICK SNYDER is the author of Here City (Parlor Press, 2021), Escape from Combray (Ugly Duckling, 2009), and six chapbooks. He  teaches in the Classics department at the University of California, Irvine.

QUENTIN STEADMAN graduated with an MFA in creative writing from Old Dominion University, and now teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is working towards a PhD in English.

DONNA STONECIPHER is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Ruins of Nostalgia (Wesleyan University Press), named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR; and one book of critical prose, Prose Poetry and the City (Parlor Press, 2017). Soon to be out are her translation of fleurs, the final volume of a trilogy by Friederike Mayröcker, as well as a prose book, The Secret Life and Death of Ornament in Berlin. 

CHRIS STROFFOLINO is the author of In The Here There (Spuyten Duyvil, 2024),, a collection of essays and reviews on mostly 21st-century poets and writers, and Medi(t)nation, (Blazevox, 2025), a collection of recent poems. He lives in Oakland, CA, where he taught English at Laney College until 2025 when he was laid up by a stroke.

BRIAN SWANN is the author of the poetry collection Imago (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023). In 2024, MadHat Press published Ya-Honk! Goes the Wild Gander.

ED TAYLOR is the author of the novel Theo (Old Street Publishing, 2016), and six poetry books and chapbooks.

MATTHEW THORBURN is the author of the books String, a novel in poems; The Grace of Distance, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize; and the book-length poem Dear Almost, which won the Lascaux Prize. He received a 2025 Finalist Award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

ELISE THI TRAN is the 2022 First Pages Prize winner. Her work appears in Apogee, Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Diode, The Kenyon Review, Poet Lore, and Salt Hill.

RODRIGO TOSCANO is the author of twelve books of poetry, most recently The Cut Point (Counterpath, 2023), The Charm & The Dread (Fence, 2022), and WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA (Omnidawn, 2025), a National Poetry Series finalist. His poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry (in 2023 and  2004), and in Best American Experimental Poetry.

TIFFANY TROY is the author of Dominus (BlazeVOX, 2023). She is Managing Editor at Tupelo Quarterly, Associate Editor of Tupelo Press, Book Review Coeditor at Los Angeles Review, Assistant Poetry Editor at Asymptote, and Coeditor of Matter.

JULIE MARIE WADE is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Florida International University in Miami. Her most recent collections are Fugue:An Aural History (Diagram/New Michigan Press, 2023); Otherwise: Essays (Autumn House, 2023), selected by Lia Purpura for the 2022 Autumn House Nonfiction Book Award; and The Mary Years (Texas Review Press, 2024), a memoir about The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Wade makes her home with Angie Griffin in Dania Beach.

NOAH WARREN is the author of The Complete Stories (Copper Canyon, 2021), and The Destroyer in the Glass (2016), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He is an assistant professor of English at the University of Vermont.

KATHARINE WHITCOMB is the author of five collections of poetry, including Habitats, Poetry NW Editions, 2024), Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems, and The Daughter’s Almanac, which was selected for  the Backwaters Prize  by Patricia Smith. She lives in northern Vermont.

PHILLIP B. WILLIAMS is a Chicago native. He is the author of the poetry collections Thief in the Interior (Alice James, 2016), Mutiny (Penguin, 2021), and Lift Every Voice (Penguin, 2026);  and the novel Ours (Penguin, 2024).  He is a professor of creative writing at Rice University and a founding faculty member of the Randolph College low-residency MFA program. 

STELLA WONG is the author of the poetry collections Stem (Princeton University Press, 2024) and  Spooks, winner of the Saturnalia Books Editors Prize; and the chapbook American Zero, selected by Danez Smith for the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize. A graduate of Harvard, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Columbia, Wong has published her poems in American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Lana Turner, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner.

EMMA WINSOR WOOD is the author of Preferred Internal Landscape (Ornithopter, 2025) and The Real World (BlazeVOX, 2022). She teaches writing at Xavier University in Cincinnati.

MARGARET YAPP is the author of Green for Luck (EastOver Press, 2024) and the founding editor of Rampage Party Press. She has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MFA in Book Arts from the Iowa Center for the Book. She lives in Iowa City. 

ELIZABETH MARIE YOUNG is a Boston-based poet and educator whose book Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize won the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books. Translation as Muse: Poetic Translation in Catullus’s Rome (University of Chicago Press, 2015) is a book about the ancient Roman understanding of lyric translation and literary creativity.

JIN ZHAO is a Chinese writer currently residing in Seattle. She received her MFA in fiction from the University of Pittsburgh. Her work has appeared in China30s and Variant Literature.