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  • Contributor Notes

Kazim Ali’s most recent books are Inquisition (poetry) and Silver Road: Essays, Maps & Calligraphies. He lives on unceded Kumeyaay land in what is commonly called San Diego.

Geoffrey Babbitt’s first book, Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light, was published in 2018. His poems and essays have appeared in North American Review, Pleiades, Colorado Review, Diagram, Notre Dame Review, the Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, where he coedits Seneca Review.

Gay Baines lives in East Aurora, New York. Her poetry has appeared in the Buffalo News, Rattapallax, Cimarron Review, Slipstream, and other journals. She was co-founder of July Literary Press. In 2002, she published a novel, Dear M. K. A selection of her poetry, Don’t Let Go, was published in 2010. She is working on a chapbook, The Book of Lies, and a short story collection.

Gale Batchelder lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in the journals SpoKe 4, Amethyst Arsenic, and White Whale Review, and in the anthologies New Smoke and Triumph of Poverty from Off the Park Press.

Kristina Andersson Bicher is a poet and translator. Her work has been published in Ploughshares, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Plume, Harvard Review, the Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, Narrative, and others. She is author of She-Giant in the Land of Here-We-Go-Again (MadHat Press, 2020). She holds an mfa from Sarah Lawrence College.

Jeanette Clough is author of Island and Flourish. She has reviewed for Poetry International and was artist-in-residence for Joshua Tree National Park. Her poetry appears in the Laurel Review, Wisconsin Review, and Miramar.

Emma De Lisle studied poetry, prayer, and devotional literature at Harvard Divinity School. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Carl Dennis was born in St. Louis in 1939. His most recent book of poems, his thirteenth, Night School, was published in 2018. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize, he taught for many years in the English Department of the State University of New York and in the Warren Wilson mfa Program in North Carolina. He lives in Buffalo, New York.

Regan Good’s second book of poems, The Needle, was published this fall by Harry Tankoos Books. Her first book, The Atlantic House, was published in 2011. Good is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and she lives and teaches in New York City.

Isabel Duarte-Gray is a PhD candidate at Harvard University. Her first collection, Even Shorn, is forthcoming from Sarabande Books (2021). She was raised in a trailer in Kuttawa, Kentucky.

Amanda Gunn received an mfa in poetry from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and is currently a PhD student in English at Harvard University, where she studies twentieth-century American poetry, black poetics, and black pleasure. Her poems have appeared in the Baffler, Poetry Northwest, Redivider, and others.

Michael Homolka is the author of Antiquity (Sarabande Books, 2016). His poems have appeared in publications such as the New Yorker, Ploughshares, the Threepenny Review, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, Meridian, the Antioch Review, Agni, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and previously in Colorado Review. A graduate of Bennington College’s mfa program, he currently teaches high school students in New York City.

Miriam Huettner grew up in Minnesota and studied classical ballet, classical violin, and figure skating before pursuing her undergraduate degree at Harvard. There, she began writing poetry under the mentorship of Josh Bell and Jorie Graham. She currently resides at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an mfa candidate in poetry.

Lisa Isaacson has been living in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, since 2002 and teaches at Zayed University.

Laura Kolbe is a physician in New York. Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared recently in the American Poetry Review, Ecotone, and the Yale Review. She also reviews books for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Review of Books.

Angie Macri is the author of Underwater Panther (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2015). Her recent work appears in the American Literary Review, New England Review, and Tupelo Quarterly. An Arkansas Arts Council fellow, she lives in Hot Springs.

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