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Contributors
Rae Armantrout has published 17 books of poetry, mostly with Wesleyan University Press. A new book, Go Figure, is forthcoming from Wesleyan in September 2024. Armantrout is the judge of the Yale Younger Poets Prize.
Alex Braslavsky is a poet, translator, and scholar. She is a doctorate student in the Slavic Department at Harvard University, where she writes scholarship on Russian, Polish, and Czech poetry through a comparative poetics lens. Her translations of poems by Zuzanna Ginczanka were released with World Poetry Books in February 2023. Her poems appear and are forthcoming in The Columbia Review, Conjunctions, and Colorado Review, among other journals.
Laynie Browne is the author of seventeen collections of poems, three novels, and a book of short fiction. Her recent books of poetry include: Intaglio Daughters (Ornithopter, 2023), Practice Has No Sequel (Pamenar, 2023), Letters Inscribed in Snow (Tinderbox, 2023), and Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists (Wave Books, 2022). Her work has appeared in journals such as Conjunctions, A Public Space, New American Writing, The Brooklyn Rail, and in anthologies including: The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press), The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street, UK), and Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (W.W. Norton). Her writing has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese and Catalan. She co-edited the anthology I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press) and edited the anthology A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet’s Novel (Nightboat). Honors include a Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award for her collection The Scented Fox, and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award for her collection Drawing of a Swan Before Memory. She teaches Creative Writing, and coordinates the MOOC Modern Poetry at the University of Pennsylvania. 
Rosalind Buck has been translating Dutch-language literature since 1998, with 40 books to her credit so far, besides many poetry projects for both publication and performance. In 1999, she was on the editorial team of the third edition of the Van Dale Dutch to English dictionary. Rosalind is also an author in her own right and, since Covid, has been presenting mainly online shows, featuring original stories, poetry and music with a faintly macabre flavour and a twist of humor. In addition, she finds time to be a vegan chef and secretary of an adoption association for retired hens in France.
Patrick Cotter lives in Cork, Ireland. He is a recipient of the Keats-Shelley Prize. His poems have been published in the Financial Times, London Review of Books, Poetry (Chicago), Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Sonic White Poise, his third full collection, was published by Dedalus, Dublin in 2021.
Paul Cunningham co-manages Action Books. He is the author of two poetry collections from Schism Press: Fall Garment (2022) and The House of the Tree of Sores (2020). New writing has appeared or is forthcoming in BOMB Magazine, Texas Poetry Review, The Ocean State Review, and the anthology A Flame Called Indiana: New Writing from the Crossroads (Indiana UP, 2023). His translation of Sara Tuss Efrik's play Danse Macabre Piggies will be anthologized in Experimental Writing: A Guidebook and Anthology (forthcoming from Bloomsbury). Cunningham currently manages the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame. 
Foster W. Donnell is an emerging poet currently enrolled in the Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension. His work is forthcoming in Southland Alibi and Unbroken Literary Journal. Originally from Dallas, Texas, he now lives in Los Angeles, California.
In addition to her full-length poetry book Apocryphal (San Francisco Press), Anna Evas has appeared in literary journals such as THINK Journal, Long Poem Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Orchards Poetry Review, Irises (The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize), The Ekphrastic Review, Euphony, Anglican Theological Review, and others. A recording artist and an award-winning composer of concert-level contemporary classical music, she finds that poetry (using Bach's phrase) is "recreation for the soul."
Jai Hamid Bashir is a Pakistani-American artist. She has been published in American Poetry Review, POETRY Magazine, Arkansas International, Guernica Magazine, Denver Quarterly, Radar, Crazyhorse, Asian American Writers Workshop, and others. Her work has been featured in The Best of the Net Anthology in 2022 and has received multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize. As an undergraduate, she also received an Academy of American Poets Prize. Jai is a graduate of Columbia University and resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. 
Ruth Lasters
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Ruth Lasters made her debut with the novel Poolijs, for which she received the Flemish Debut Prize 2007. Her fourth novel VIN was published in 2019, and is a book about a young teacher who tries to survive in a complicated school. Her poetry debut Folding Plans was awarded the 2009 Debut Prize Het Liegend Konijn. Lichtmeters, her second collection of poetry, was published in 2015, and received the Herman De Coninck Prize and a nomination for the VSB Poetry Prize. Lichtmeters has been translated into German and Spanish. In her poetry, Lasters searches for the ultimate reconciliation between classical poetry and modern poetry. She sees traditional poetry as a Caran d'Ache box with much-needed gray pencils, which she likes to complete with fluorescent pencils of modernity.
Lip Manegio (they/he) is a white, nonbinary dyke, poet, bookmaker, & designer. Their work has appeared in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Puerto del Sol, Gordon Square Review, Tin House, and been nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. They serve as editor in chief at Ginger Bug Press and are the author of We’ve All Seen Helena. Find them at lipmanegio.com.
Janet McAdams is a writer, editor, and translator. Her translations of Bolivian poetry have appeared in Poetry, Poesía en Acción, Pank, Kestrel, New Orleans Review, Anomaly, and Cigar City. She is the author of three poetry collections and the novel Red Weather.
Noelle McManus is a writer-poet-linguist from Long Island, New York. You can find more of their work at noellemcmanus.com, or follow them on Instagram @n.o.e.lle
Emily Munro is a writer, filmmaker, and curator based in Glasgow. She was longlisted for the 2023 Caledonia Novel Award and the 2022 Briefly Write Poetry Prize. She has been published in various journals, zines and anthologies. Much of her writing and film work is concerned with our ambivalence towards both past and future in the Anthropocene. Emily's archive documentary about the climate crisis, Living Proof: A Climate Story (2021), was nominated for a FOCAL International Award.
Daniel Nemo is a poet, translator, and photographer. His work is forthcoming or has appeared in RHINO, Full Stop, Dream Catcher, Brazos River Review, Off the Coast, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and elsewhere. More info at www.danielnemo.com
Paura Rodríguez Leytón (La Paz, 1973) is one of Bolivia’s most acclaimed living poets. Her books include Del Árbol y la arcilla azul azul [From the Tree to the Blue Blue Clay] (Argentina, 1989); Ritos de viaje [Travel Rites] (La Paz, 2004; Caracas, 2007, ed. digital); Pez de Piedra [Stonefish] (La Paz, 2007) Como monedas viejas sobre la tierra [Like Old Coins On The Ground] (La Paz, 2011) and Pequeñas mudanzas [Small Moves] (Colombia, 2017), which was the runner up for the 2017 Pilar Fernández Labrador International Poetry Prize (Premio Internacional de Poesía “Pilar Fernández Labrador” 2017). In 2022, Rodríguez was honored with Mexico’s prestigious Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Medal for Literary Excellence. Her selected poems, Instante claro [Moment of Clarity] was published by Circulo de Poesía in 2018. 
Salma Sayed is a Moroccan-Egyptian poet born and raised in northern Virginia. She holds a B.A. in English with a minor in Creative Writing from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Brian Sneeden is a poet, literary translator, and editor. His collection of poems, Last City, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2018. His poetry has received the Iowa Review Award in Poetry, the Indiana Review 1/2K Prize, and has appeared in Harvard Review Online, Poetry Daily, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other publications. His translations have received an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship, the World Literature Today Translation Award for Poetry, the Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize, a PEN/Heim Translation Grant, and other recognitions. His translation of Phoebe Giannisi’s Homerica (2017) was selected by Anne Carson as a favorite book of 2017, and his translation of Giannisi’s collection Cicada was published by New Directions in 2022. He is a lecturer in creative writing and publishing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Nominated for the National Book Award and nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize, J.R. Solonche is the author of 33 books of poetry and coauthor of another. He lives in the Hudson Valley.
Marin Sorescu was a Romanian poet, playwright, and novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and 1996. He published over twenty books of poetry.
Jocelyn Ulevicus is an American artist, writer, and poet. In her visual work, you'll often encounter colorful and energetic floral arrangements, while in her writing, she more closely explores her experiences of being a woman growing through and beyond loss and trauma. Her work is either forthcoming or published in magazines such as the Laurel Review, SWWIM Every Day, The Free State Review, Blue Mesa Review, and Humana Obscura, amongst others. In 2022, she was awarded a Certificate of Artistic Achievement from the Pinacothèque Museum in Luxembourg. In addition, Ulevicus is a Best of the Net, Best Poets, and two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her in-progress memoir, The Birth of a Tree, was shortlisted for the 2019 Santa Fe Literary Award Program, and her first book of poetry, The Difference Between Breathing and Swallowing, was recently published by Sunday Mornings At The River Press. She loves weightlifting, ice cream, and her favorite quality in a person is kindness to strangers and animals. She currently resides in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.