Contributor Notes
- Contributor Notes
Serena Alagappan is a graduate of Princeton University, where she studied comparative literature and creative writing. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Poetry, Scientific American, the Oprah Magazine, Hobart, and the James Joyce Quarterly, among others. She is currently at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.
Emma Aylor's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, New Ohio Review, Pleiades, Mid-American Review, and the Cincinnati Review, among other journals, and she received Shenandoah's 2020 Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets. She lives in Lubbock, Texas.
Megan Baxter has won numerous national awards, including a Pushcart Prize, and her work was listed in The Best American Essays 2019. Recent publications include pieces in the Threepenny Review, Hotel Amerika, the Florida Review, and Creative Nonfiction. She lives in New Hampshire, serves as a mentor to young writers, and teaches writing at Colby-Sawyer College.
Joshua Bennett is the Mellon Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth. He is the author of three books of poetry and criticism: The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016)—winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for an naacp Image Award—Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020), and Owed (Penguin, 2020).
Chee Brossy (Diné) was born in Chinle, Arizona. He is the author of the chapbook Burntwater and the forthcoming poetry collection The Strings Are Lightning and Hold You In, from Tupelo Press. He has worked as a reporter, basketball coach, archivist, and English literature instructor. He lives in New Mexico.
Dorothy Chan is the author of Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, 2019) and Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018). She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and founding editor and editor in chief of Honey Literary.
Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and author of Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). Her honors include a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and Cleveland State University. She is the Mendota Lecturer in Poetry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Anthony Cody is from Fresno, California, with lineage in both the Bracero Program and the Dust Bowl. His debut collection, Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn), won the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize and has been recognized by the National Book Foundation, pen America, the Los Angeles Times, and Poets & Writers, among others.
J. David is the author of Hibernation Highway. Their work has appeared in Redivider, Muzzle, Salt Hill, The Journal, and Passages North, among others. They unapologetically love Julien Baker and the city of Cleveland, Ohio.
Steven Espada Dawson is a writer from East Los Angeles, now working out of Austin, Texas. The son of a Mexican immigrant, his poems appear/appear soon in the Adroit Journal, Best New Poets 2020, Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review Online, and Split Lip Magazine, among other journals.
Jordan Escobar is a writer in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. His work can be found or is forthcoming in Southern Humanities Review, Water-Stone Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and elsewhere. In 2020, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He currently divides his time teaching at Emerson College and working as a professional beekeeper.
Bryce Emley is the author of the chapbooks A Brief Family History of Drowning and Smoke and Glass. A Narrative 30 Below 30 poet and recipient of residencies from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Glen Workshop, and Wesleyan Summer Writers Conference, Bryce works for unm Press and co-edits Raleigh Review.
Zack Finch's poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the Georgia Review, New England Review, the Adroit Journal, Poetry, Tin House, and elsewhere. He teaches literature and creative writing at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in the Berkshire Mountains.
April Freely's poetry and essays appeared in American Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of fellowships and awards from Cave Canem, the Ohio Arts Council, Vermont Studio Center, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and others, and was the executive director of Fire Island Artist Residency. She passed away unexpectedly in July 2021.
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