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anne milano appel has translated works by Claudio Magris, Paolo Giordano, Paolo Maurensig, Giuseppe Catozzella, Primo Levi, Roberto Saviano, and many other Italian authors. Her awards include the Italian Prose in Translation Award, the John Florio Prize for Italian Translation, and the Northern California Book Award for Translation. Translating professionally since 1996, she is a former library administrator, and has a doctorate in Romance Languages.

elizabeth barnett lives in Kansas City. Her recent work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Hunger Mountain, and Poetry Northwest.

susanna brougham’s poetry has been published in Gettysburg Review, Denver Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, Tampa Review, and other journals, and has appeared on Poetry Daily. She has received grant support from the St. Botolph Club Foundation and Finlandia Foundation. Susanna works as an editor for book publishers and museums.

robert carr is the author of Amaranth, a chapbook published, in 2016 by Indolent Books and a 2017 Pushcart Prize–nominated poet. His first full-length poetry collection, The Unbuttoned Eye, will be published by 3: A Taos Press in 2019. He lives with his husband, Stephen, in Malden, MA, and serves as an associate poetry editor for Indolent Books. He is also deputy director for the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences in Massachusetts.

dorsey craft holds degrees from Clemson University and McNeese State University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Mid-American Review, Notre Dame Review, Rhino Poetry, and elsewhere. She is currently a PhD student in poetry at Florida State and the assistant poetry editor of Southeast Review.

kate durbin is a Los Angeles–based artist, writer, and filmmaker whose work deals with popular culture and digital media. She has shown her work internationally, and her most recent book is E! Entertainment. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Art in America, Art Forum, and elsewhere. You can find out more at www.katedurbin.la.

robert evory is the assistant coordinator of the Creative Writing Department at Western Michigan University, where he is doctoral assistant. He is the managing editor and cofounder of The Poet’s Billow. He has an MFA from Syracuse University. His poetry is featured or is forthcoming in Georgia Review, Spillway, Spoon River Review, Natural Bridge, Fat City Review, Nashville Review, Wisconsin Review, Arroyo, Madison Review, Water-Stone Review, and elsewhere.

robert long foreman is the author of Among Other Things and the novel Weird Pig, which won the Nilsen Prize for a First Novel and will be published in 2020. His work has appeared most recently in Kenyon Review Online, Crazyhorse, Willow Springs, and AGNI. He lives in Kansas City.

david freeman is a poet, playwright, and essayist from Long Lake, MN. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, Sinking City Literary Magazine, and Honey Bee Review.

alice friman’s seventh collection of poetry is Blood Weather, forthcoming from LSU in the fall of 2019. New work appears in Ploughshares, Southern Review, Western Humanities Review, Gettysburg Review, and Plume. A recipient of a Pushcart Prize and included in Best American Poetry, she is professor emerita of English and creative writing at the University of Indianapolis and now lives in Milledgeville, GA, where she was poet-in-residence at Georgia College.

j. malcolm garcia is the author most recently of Riding Through Katrina with The Red Baron’s Ghost.

edward hirsch’s tenth book of poems, Stranger by Night, will be published by Knopf in 2020.

matt izzi was born in Rhode Island and lives in east Boston. His writing has appeared in The Believer Review, Columbia Quarterly, Post Road, Shenandoah, Third Coast, and other journals.

leah claire kaminski’s poems have also appeared in Bennington Review, Fence, Prairie Schooner, and ZYZZYVA. She is the author of the chapbook Peninsular Scar, available from Dancing Girl Press. Some recent honors include Grand Prize in the Summer Literary Seminars Fiction & Poetry Contest and an Artist in Residence position at Everglades National Park. She lives in Chicago.

Born and educated in a small town in Bihar, India, tabish khair is the author of various books, including the poetry collections Where Parallel Lines...

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