Notes on Contributors
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elijah burrell is the author of The Skin of The River (2014) and troubler (2018), both published by Aldrich Press. His writing has appeared in agni, North American Review, Southwest Review, The Rumpus, Sugar House Review, and elsewhere. He is an associate professor of English at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri.
stephanie burt is Professor of English at Harvard. Her recent books include After Callimachus (Princeton UP, 2020) and Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems (Basic, 2019). A new collection from Graywolf will appear in late 2022. Ask her about the X-Men.
andrea cohen is the author of seven collections of poetry, including, most recently, Everything. A new collection, The Sorrow Apartments, is forthcoming. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA.
jalen eutsey is a poet, librarian, and sportswriter from Miami, Florida. He received an mfa in Poetry from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. His work has been published in or is forthcoming from South Florida Poetry Journal, Nashville Review, storySouth, Harpur Palate, and others.
eileen g’sell is a poet and critic with regular contributions to larb, Hyperallergic, diagram, the Boston Review, and other outlets. Her first volume of poetry, Life After Rugby, was published in 2018; in 2019 she was nominated for the national Rabkin Foundation award in arts journalism. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
becky hagenston is the author of four story collections, most recently The Age of Discovery and Other Stories (Mad Creek Books, 2021) which won The Journal’s Non/Fiction Book Prize. She is a professor of English at Mississippi State University.
mark halliday ’s seventh book of poems, Losers Dream On, appeared in 2018 from the University of Chicago Press. He teaches at Ohio University.
spencer hupp is a poet and critic from Little Rock, Arkansas. He works as an mfa candidate and graduate instructor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
jenny johnson is the author of In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books, 2017). Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, New England Review, Waxwing, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor at West Virginia University, and she is on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop.
sylvia jones lives in Baltimore. She is a 2021–22 Stadler Fellow and serves as an associate poetry editor for west branch. Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, Shenandoah, The Santa Clara Review, Windfall Room, diagram, and elsewhere. She earned her mfa from American University in Washington, DC.
samuel kọ́láwọlé was born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria. He is on the mfa in Writing faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts and is working toward his PhD at Georgia State University. His novel is forthcoming from Amistad/Harper Collins.
jane lewty is the author of two collections of poetry: Bravura Cool (1913 Press, 2013), winner of the 1913 First Book Prize in 2011, and In One Form to Find Another (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2017), winner of the 2016 csu Poetry Center Open Book Competition.
steven leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. He is author of The Understudy’s Handbook, which won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers Publishing House. Steven is an assistant professor at the University of Baltimore in the Klein Family School of Communications Design.
jean mcgarry is the author of ten books of fiction: No Harm Done, a collection of stories, from Dalkey Archive Press, the most recent, was published in 2019; Blue Boy, a novel, is forthcoming from Jackleg Press.
jill nathanson belongs to the Color Field legacy, but her immersive and sensual paintings stand in a category of their own. Consisting of hues of overlapping layers of variable translucency, they create emotionally nuanced experiences with enough tension to engage our contemplation. Jill Nathanson lives and works in New York.
stella n’djoku is a Swiss poet, journalist, and educator of Italian and Congolese heritage. Il tempo di una cometa (Ensemble, 2019) is her debut collection. Currently completing her PhD in Philosophy, N’Djoku teaches high school and university students, organizes cultural events, and works with the...
