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Jad Adkins has published essays in Fourth Genre, Sonora Review, the Pinch, Appalachian Heritage, Jelly Bucket, and elsewhere. He is also the nonfiction editor of Pinball.

Ruth Baumann is the author of Parse (Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming in 2018). She has also written four chapbooks: A Thousand Ars Poeticas (Sixth Finch, 2018), Retribution Binary (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), wildcold (Slash Pines Press, 2016), and I'll Love You Forever & Other Temporary Valentines (Salt Hill, 2015).

Conor Bracken has recent work in the Adroit Journal, At Length, Muzzle, and the New Yorker, among others. His chapbook, Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour (Bull City Press, 2017), was selected by Diane Seuss as the winner of the 2017 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. He lives with his wife in Houston, Texas.

Christopher Citro is the author of The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books) and a recipient of a 2018 Pushcart Prize. His poems appear in Ploughshares, Best New Poets, the Missouri Review, the Iowa Review Blog, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, and elsewhere. He lives in Syracuse, New York.

Allison Cobb is the author of After We All Died (Ahsahta Press, a finalist for the National Poetry Series), Green-Wood (Factory School); Plastic: an autobiography (Essay Press ep series), and Born2 (Chax Press). The poet Carolyn Forché calls After We All Died "inventive, visionary, hard-thought, and impossible to put down."

Martin Corless-Smith is an English poet who lives and works in Boise, Idaho.

Edison Dupree's collection Prosthesis was published in the Bluestem Award series at the University of Kansas, and more recent poems appear in Salamander, Southern Poetry Review, and the Rialto (uk). He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and works as a library assistant at Harvard University. Selections from his published work are at edisondupree.com. [End Page 158]

K. M. English has recent work appearing or forthcoming in Third Coast, Poetry Northwest, Berkeley Poetry Review, Cream City Review, and other places. These poems are from her manuscript, "wave says," a 2017 semifinalist for the Sawtooth Prize (Ahsahta). She is currently at work on a second manuscript of poems.

Patricia Foster is the author of two books of nonfiction, All the Lost Girls and Just beneath My Skin, and most recently, a novel, Girl from Soldier Creek. She's been a professor in the mfa Program in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa for over twenty years and has taught in Australia, France, Italy, and Spain. She won the 2017 Clarence Cason Award for Nonfiction.

George Kalamaras, former Poet Laureate of Indiana (2014–16), has published fifteen books of poetry, eight of which are full-length, including Kingdom of Throat-Stuck Luck (2011), winner of the Elixir Press Poetry Contest. He is Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he has taught since 1990.

Sophie Klahr's poetry appears in the New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Agni, and other publications. She is the author of Meet Me Here at Dawn (YesYes Books, 2016) and the chapbook _____ Versus Recovery (Pilot Books, 2007). She lives sometimes in California and sometimes in Nebraska.

Sharon Kunde received her PhD in English from the University of California, Irvine in February 2018. Her research on nineteenth-century American literature shares with her poetry a concern with embodiment, relationality, nonhuman animals, and materiality. She lives in Altadena, California, with her husband, two sons, one dog, and eight chickens.

Cate Lycurgus's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Third Coast, Tin House, and elsewhere. She currently lives south of San Francisco, where she interviews for 32 Poems and teaches professional writing.

Alessandra Lynch is the author of Sails the Wind Left Behind, It was a terrible cloud at twilight, and Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, the Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, and other journals. She serves as Poet-in-Residence at Butler University. [End Page 159]

Ray Malone is an artist, writer, and translator living and working in Berlin, in recent years dedicated to exploring the lyric potential of minimal forms in a series of projects based on various musical and literary models. He has...

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