Hailey Leithauser
Hailey Leithauser was born in Baltimore and raised in Maryland and Central Florida. Over the years she has worked as a salad chef, real estate office manager, gourmet food salesperson, freelance copy editor, phone surveyor, bookstore clerk, fact checker, and, most recently, senior reference librarian at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C.
Returning to writing after a break of several decades, her work has appeared in such publications as Poetry, Agni Online, Crazyhorse, the Gettysburg Review, the Iowa Review, Meridian, Pleiades, and Best American Poetry.
She is a recipient of the Discovery/The Nation Prize and an Individual Artist’s Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. Leithauser’s book, Swoop (Graywolf Press, 2013), won the Poetry Foundation’s Emily Dickinson First Book Award. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Gary Fincke
Gary Fincke’s latest collections are The Infinity Room (Michigan State Press, 2019) and Bringing Back the Bones: New and Selected Poems (Stephen F. Austin, 2016). He has published collections with Ohio State, Arkansas, BkMk, and Zoland. His latest book of prose is The Out-of-Sorts: New and Selected Stories (West Virginia, 2017).
E.K. Steelwater
E. K. Steelwater writes poetry, fiction, and essays in Bloomington, Indiana, where she has lived and worked as a historic-preservation consultant for 20 years. She was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her novel, Almost Human, is currently making the rounds of publishers, and this poem is the first she has submitted for publication in quite a few years.
Herbert Woodward Martin
Herbert Woodward Martin’s tenth collection of poems is forthcoming from Wayne State University Press. For more than thirty years he served as Professor of English and poet-in-residence at the University of Dayton where he taught creative writing and African-American literature. He has also taught at Aquinas College. He has been a Fulbright Scholarship Fellow to Pecs, Hungary. He has devoted some three decades to reading and editing the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a Dayton native, to a worldwide audience. For his scholarship he has been awarded four Honorary Doctorates.
Will Greenway
Will Greenway’s eleventh collection, Selected Poems, was the Poetry Book of the Year Award winner from FutureCycle Press, and his tenth collection, Everywhere at Once, won the Poetry Book of the Year Award from the Ohio Library Association, as did his eighth collection, Ascending Order. The latter two are from the University of Akron Press Poetry Series. His work has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Southern Review, Georgia Review, Southern Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, and Shenandoah. His awards include the Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Poetry Award, the Larry Levis Editors’ Prize from Missouri Review, the Open Voice Poetry Award from The Writer’s Voice, the State Street Press Chapbook Competition, an Ohio Arts Council Grant, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and he has been named Georgia Author of the Year. He is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Youngstown State University.
Indran Amirthanayagam
Indran Amirthanayagam (www.indranmx.com) is the author of sixteen books of poems written in English, Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, and Portuguese, most recently in English, Coconuts On Mars (www.paperwall.in); in Spanish, Ventana Azul and En busca de refugio; in French, The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems and Uncivil War. His first book, The Elephants of Reckoning, won the 1994 Paterson Poetry Prize. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the US/Mexico Fund for Culture, and the MacDowell Colony. His poem “Juarez” won the Juegos Florales of Guaymas, Mexico in 2005.
Chris Llewellyn
Chris Llewellyn is the author of Fragments From the Fire (Viking, 1987), which received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares and other journals.
Daniel Bourne
Daniel Bourne’s books include The Household Gods (Cleveland State) and Where No One Spoke the Language (CustomWords). His poems are forthcoming in Salmagundi, Yale Review, Lake Effect, and Valparaiso Poetry Review, and have also appeared in such journals as Field, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Conduit, Boulevard, Guernica, Pleiades, Shenandoah, New Letters, Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, Plume, Many Mountains Moving, and North American Review. The recipient of four Ohio Arts Council poetry fellowships, he teaches in the English Department and Environmental Studies program at The College of Wooster in NE Ohio, where he edits Artful Dodge, a magazine of American fiction, poetry and essay with a special interest in translation, and for which he has interviewed such writers as Jorge Luis Borges, Tim O’Brien, Czesław Miłosz, James Laughlin, Rita Dove, and Terry Tempest Williams.
Michael Gessner
Michael Gessner has authored eleven books of poetry and prose, most recently, Selected Poems (FutureCycle Press, 2016). His poems appear in The American Journal of Poetry, North American Review, (finalist for the James Hearst Poetry Award,) The French Literary Review, and Verse Daily. A voting member of the National Book Critics Circle, his reviews may be found in NAR, Jacket2, The Edgar Allan Poe Review, and The Kenyon Review. For additional information: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/michael-gessner.
Adam Tavel
Adam Tavel’s third poetry collection, Catafalque, won the 2017 Richard Wilbur Award (University of Evansville Press, 2018). He is also the author of The Fawn Abyss (Salmon Poetry, 2017) and Plash & Levitation (University of Alaska Press, 2015), winner of the Permafrost Book Prize in Poetry. His recent poems appear, or will soon appear, in The Georgia Review, Puerto del Sol, New Ohio Review, Sixth Finch, Salamander, Potomac Review, and American Literary Review, among others. You can find him online at http://adamtavel.com/.
Tim Suermondt
Tim Suermondt is the author of five full-length collections of poems, the latest Josephine Baker Swimming Pool (MadHat Press, 2019). He has published in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Stand Magazine, Galway Review, Bellevue Literary Review and Plume, among many others. He lives in Cambridge (MA) with his wife, the poet Pui Ying Wong.
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David Danoff
David Danoff lives in the Washington, DC, area and works for the federal government. His poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Yale Review, Poet Lore, The Raintown Review, Measure, The Lyric, Snakeskin, Antiphon, The Orchards, Unsplendid, Tikkun, Pleiades, and elsewhere.
Edison Jennings
Edison Jennings is the author of two chapbooks, Reckoning (Jacar Press) and Small Measures (Wild Leek Press). A Head Start bus driver and occasional teacher living in the southern Appalachian region of Virginia, his poems have appeared in Boulevard, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, River Styx, Slate, Southwest Review, and TriQuarterly.
Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett is the author of ten full-length collections of poetry and more than thirty poetry chapbooks. His most recent book is Just Another Day in Just Our Town: Poems New And Selected, 2000-2016 (Orchises Press, 2017). His most recent chapbook is A Man Rode Into Town (FootHills Publishing, 2018). He taught English and American Literature and Creative Writing and directed the Visiting Writers Series at Wells College from 1973 until his retirement in 2014, and is now Emeritus Professor of English. In 2012 he received a Pushcart Prize for a villanelle in Ploughshares. His poetry website is https://justanotherdayinjustourtown.com.
Mary Lee
Mary Lee’s poems have appeared in Skylight 47; Crannog; Orbis; The Linnet’s Wings; The Galway Review; Spirituality; The Poet’s Quest for God (anthology, Eyewear Publishing, UK); The Anglican Theological Review; The 2018 Poiema Poetry Series (Anthology); Poems for Patience Competition (highly commended 2017 and 2018); The Furrow; Dodging the Rain; Presence, A Journal of Spiritual Directors; Proust (Collection 2); The wild Word. Her work has been broadcast on RTE Radio 1, A Living Word. Her debut poetry collection, Bloom, was published by REjoice an Imprint of Matthew James Publications, November, 2016.
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