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Allison Adair's recent poems appear in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Boston Review, Greensboro Review, Mississippi Review, Missouri Review, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, and Third Coast, among other journals. Adair teaches literature and creative writing at Grub Street and at Boston College, where she is an associate professor of the practice.

Michael Alessi's work has appeared in literary journals such as Passages North, Mid-American Review, The Pinch, NANO Fiction, and New Delta Review, among others. Raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, he lives in Chicago. He received his MFA from Old Dominion University.

Emma Bolden received a 2017 Creative Writing Fellowship from the NEA and serves as the Senior Reviews Editor for Tupelo Quarterly. She is the author of medi(t)ations (2016) and Maleficae (2013).

Alan Chazaro is a public high school teacher pursuing his MFA in Writing at the University of San Francisco. He is the current Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fellow and a graduate of June Jordan's Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley. His work has received an AWP Intro Journals Award and appears in Huizache, the Cortland Review, Borderlands, Iron Horse Review, Juked, decomP, and others.

Alex Chertok has work published or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review Online, the Missouri Review, the Cincinnati Review, Quarterly West, Copper Nickel, and Best New Poets 2016, among others. He was awarded a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and completed his MFA degree at Cornell University, where he was also a lecturer. He currently teaches at Ithaca College and through the Cornell Prison Education Program.

Charlotte Covey is from St. Mary's County, Maryland. Currently she is an MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. She has poetry published or forthcoming in journals such as [End Page 140] Salamander Review, Normal School, The MacGuffin, and Emerson Review. In 2015, she was nominated for an AWP Intro Journal Award. She is coeditor-in-chief of Milk Journal.

Ally Covino is a graduate of the New Writers Project as well as the recipient of a Michener fellowship and an award from the Academy of American Poets. She lives in San Francisco.

Chelsea Dingman is an MFA candidate at the University of South Florida. Her first book, Thaw, won the National Poetry Series and is forthcoming (2017). In 2016, she also won the Southeast Review's Gearhart Poetry Prize and the Sycamore Review's Wabash Prize and was a finalist for the Auburn Witness Prize, Arcadia's Dead Bison Editor's Prize, Phoebe's Greg Grummer Poetry Award, and Crab Orchard Review's Student Awards. Her forthcoming work can be found in Mid-American Review, Ninth Letter, and Gulf Coast, among others. Visit her website: chelseadingman.com.

James Dunlap is an Arkansas poet. He studied creative writing at University of Arkansas and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Nashville Review, storySouth, Juked, Gulf Stream, and Copper Nickel.

Stevie Edwards is a teaching fellow and PhD candidate in creative writing at University of North Texas. She is also senior editor in book development at YesYes Books, editor-in-chief of Muzzle Magazine, and a poetry reader for American Literary Review. She is the author of Good Grief (2012) and Humanly (2015). Her poems are published or forthcoming in Rattle, Verse Daily, Redivider, Nashville Review, The Offing, Indiana Review, The Journal, and elsewhere.

Corey Ginsberg is a freelance writer and editor. Her chapbook Bowling in the Bumper Lane is forthcoming.

Rasma Haidri is an English lecturer in Norway. She is the author of As If Anything Can Happen (2017) and coauthor of Tracks for SF (2015), Tracks for YF (2013), and International Focus (2007). Her poems and essays are widely anthologized, most recently in Veils, Halos, and Shackles: International Poetry on the Abuse and Oppression of Women (2016) and Polterguests (2016). Literary journals featuring her work include Sycamore Review, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Fourth Genre, [End Page 141] Runes, Kalliope, and I-70 Review. Her literary distinctions include the Southern Women Writers Association Emerging Writer Award in Creative Non-fiction, the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters Poetry Award, and a Best...

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