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  • Contributors

adeniyi ademoroti is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His writing has appeared in AGNI and Hobart.

lisa ampleman’s most recent poetry collection is Romances. A recipient of a 2020 Hermitage Artist Retreat fellowship, she is the managing editor of The Cincinnati Review and the poetry series editor at Acre Books.

paula bohince has authored three poetry books, most recently Swallows and Waves, and has served as the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholar and the John Montague International Poetry Fellow at University College Cork.

david boyd is an assistant professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has translated Hideo Furukawa’s Slow Boat, Hiroko Oyamada’s novellas, and is cotranslating the novels of Mieko Kawakami.

fleda brown’s tenth collection of poems, Flying Through a Hole in the Storm, won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize from Ohio University Press. Her new memoir, Mortality, with Friends, will be out from Wayne State University Press this autumn.

jinwoo chong is an MFA candidate in fiction at Columbia University. His work has appeared in CRAFT, Salamander, and Tahoma Literary Review. He is an editorial assistant at One Story.

krystyna dąbrowska has won the Wisława Szymborska Award, the Kościelski Award, and the Literary Award of the Capital City of Warsaw. Her first English- language collection, Tideline, translated by Karen Kovacik, Antonia Lloyd- Jones, and Mira Rosenthal, is forthcoming from Zephyr Press in 2022.

patrick flanery is the author of four novels, most recently Night for Day, as well as a hybrid creative- critical memoir, The Ginger Child: On Family Loss and Adoption. He is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide.

mary jo firth gillett’s Soluble Fish won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. She also has four prize-winning poetry chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in New Ohio Review, Salamander, and Southern Poetry Review.

albert goldbarth lives in Wichita, Kansas. Two of his books received the National Book Critics Circle Award. His new collection, Other Worlds, is due out in November from the University of Pittsburgh Press.

nick fuller googins is a teacher and writer. His work has been read on All Things Considered and has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and The Paris Review. He lives some of the time in Los Angeles, California, and some of the time in Maine.

corrado govoni (1884–1965) was a leading figure in the Italian literary movement of crepuscularism. Derived from “twilight,” crepuscularism concerns itself with humble subjects, melancholy, and introspection.

michael griffith’s most recent book is The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell. He has written other books, including the novel Trophy, which made Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2011 list.

jared harél’s debut poetry collection is Go Because I Love You. He has been awarded the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review. He lives with his family in Queens, New York.

carolyn hembree wrote Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, which won the Trio Award and the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. She is a teacher at the University of New Orleans and the poetry editor of Bayou Magazine.

bob hicok’s latest book, Red Rover Red Rover, was published in January.

mitchell jacobs is a poet from Minnesota, now living in Los Angeles, California. His work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, and Best New Poets 2019.

jessie king received her BA and MFA from Florida State University. She is the owner and operator of a plant nursery as well as an organizer of the Florida Earthskills Gathering.

molly kirschner is a poet and playwright. Her poems have appeared in New Ohio Review and Off course Literary Journal and have been translated into Italian. She has published two books of poetry.

karen kovacik won two fellowships in translation from the National Endowment for the Arts. She edited Scattering the Dark, an anthology of Polish women poets, and authored Metropolis Burning and Beyond the Velvet Curtain.

danusha laméris’s latest book of poems is Bonfire Opera. She received the 2020 Lucille Clifton Legacy Award and was the 2018–2020 poet laureate...

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