Contributors' Notes
- Contributors' Notes
Allison Adair's recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry (2018), Image, Iron Horse Literary Review, North American Review, and ZYZZYVA; and have received the Pushcart Prize (2019), the Florida Review Editors' Award, the Orlando Prize, and first place in Mid-American Review's Fineline Competition. Originally from central Pennsylvania, Adair now lives in Boston, where she teaches at Boston College and Grub Street.
Linette Marie Allen is earning an MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts at the University of Baltimore. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Notre Dame Review, Roanoke Review, Kestrel, and elsewhere.
Ruth Awad is a Lebanese-American poet whose debut poetry collection Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press 2017) won the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry and the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, The Rumpus, The Missouri Review, Sixth Finch, Crab Orchard Review, The Adroit Journal, BOAAT Journal, and elsewhere.
Amy Beeder's third book, And So Wax Was Made & Also Honey, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. She lives in Albuquerque.
Bhisham Bherwani is the author of three poetry books. His essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The American Reader, Pleiades, Rain Taxi, The Yale Review, and other places. He was educated at Cornell University and New York University. He lives in New York City.
Bruce Bond is the author of eighteen books including, most recently, Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015 (E. Phillabaum Award, LSU), Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Book Prize, Elixir Press), Frankenstein's Children (Lost Horse Press), and Dear Reader (Free Verse Editions). Presently he is Regents Professor at University of North Texas.
TR Brady is a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Originally from the Arkansas Delta, she currently lives in Iowa City with her partner.
Tammi Browne-Bannister is an Antiguan-born writer living on the island of Barbados with her family. Her publications include Commonwealth Writers—So Many Islands Anthology, New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, and The Caribbean Writers Anthology.
Lauren Camp's newest book is Turquoise Door: Finding Mabel Dodge Luhan in New Mexico (3: A Taos Press, 2018). Her third book, One Hundred Hungers (Tupelo Press, 2016), won the Dorset Prize and was named a finalist for the Arab American Book Award. She is a Senior Fellow at the Black Earth Institute.
Jos Charles is author of feeld, a Pulitzer finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, selected by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions) and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press). She is a PhD student at UC Irvine and currently resides in Long Beach, CA
Paula Colangelo is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Drew University where she received The Jane Coil Cole Scholarship. She previously attended Binghamton University where she was awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize for Poetry. Her poetry is published in Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, and she also has a forthcoming book review in Rain Taxi. She presently teaches poetry at a rehabilitation center in Wayne, New Jersey.
Katharine Coldiron's work has appeared in Ms., Washington Post, the Times Literary Supplement, LARB, The Rumpus, NPR, and many other places. Her novella, Ceremonials, is forthcoming from Kernpunkt Press in 2020. Find her at kcoldiron.com or on Twitter @ferrifrigida.
Judith Cooper's work has been published in New Stories from the Midwest, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Black Warrior Review, The Normal School, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago.
Colby Cotton is a 2018-2020 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and lives in Oakland, CA.
Anjanette Delgado is the author of The Heartbreak Pill (Simon and Schuster, 2008) and The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho (Kensington Publishing and Penguin Random House, 2014). Her writing has appeared in various anthologies and publications such as The Kenyon Review, NPR, The Miami Rail, Vogue, HBO, and The Rumpus. She writes about heartbreak and lives in Miami, Florida.
Jaquira Díaz is the author of Ordinary Girls, forthcoming October 2019 from Algonquin Books. She is the recipient of two Pushcart prizes and fellowships from the Kenyon Review, the Wisconsin Institute...
