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Contributors
Daniel Barbiero is a writer, double bassist, and composer in the Washington DC area. He writes on the art, music, and literature of the classic avant-gardes of the 20th century as well as on contemporary work; his essays and reviews have appeared in Arteidolia, Heavy Feather Review, periodicities, Word for/Word, Otoliths, Offcourse, London Grip, Perfect Sound Forever, and elsewhere. He is the author of As Within, So Without, a collection of essays published by Arteidolia Press; his score Boundary Conditions III will be appearing in A Year of Deep Listening, to be published by MIT Press in fall, 2024.
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David Boyle has produced numerous oil paintings since the mid-nineties, which have sold well in New Zealand (Wellington, Palmerston North). David has T-shirts featuring his works and makes sculptures from found objects. His sculptures have been exhibited and sold at Hastings City Art Gallery New Zealand while his art has been seen in online magazines and paperbacks such as Last Leaves, The Woodward Review, Five on the Fifth, Radar Poetry, Mollusk Lit., Thimble Lit., Creative Mag, Club Plum, Zoetic Press, Two Hawks Quarterly, Poetry Pacific, and Backwards Trajectory. Covers of Small Wonders and Red Rose Thorns out soon.
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Andrea Carter is from Southern California. Her work is forthcoming or appears in The Comstock Review, Catamaran, Painted Bride Quarterly, Terrain, The Common Ground, SWWIM, and The Florida Review. A finalist for the Bellingham Review Poetry Prize, she won the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize. She teaches at UC San Diego.
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Victoria Chang’s most recent book of poems is With My Back to the World, published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US and Corsair in the UK. It is the winner of the 2024 Forward Prize in Poetry. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.
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David Colmer is an Australian writer and translator of Dutch and Flemish literature. He has translated over eighty books throughout his career, including Little Fox (Levine Querido), I’ll Root for You, and A Pond Full of Ink (both Eerdmans). His translations have won several prestigious awards, such as the PEN Translation Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. David lives in Amsterdam.
Puneet Dutt’s The Better Monsters was a Finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and was Shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award. Her most recent chapbook was Longlisted for the 2020 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest, selected by Carl Phillips. Dutt lives in Markham, Canada with her partner and two kids.
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Carl-Christian Elze's most recent books are Oda and my stuffed father (Zoo stories; kreuzerbooks 2018), slowly fading in the labyrinth (Venice poems; Verlagshaus Berlin 2019) and panic/paradise (Verlagshaus Berlin 2023). His debut novel Freudenberg (Voland & Quist 2022) was longlisted for the 2022 German Book Prize.
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Gary Geddes has written and edited more than 50 books of poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, criticism, translation, and anthologies and won a dozen national and international literary awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Americas Region), the Lt.-Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, and the Gabriela Mistral Prize from the government of Chile. His most recent poetry books are The Resumption of Play, The Ventriloquist and The Oysters I Bring to Banquets. Geddes has taught at Concordia, Western Washington University, and University of Missouri-St. Louis and served as writer-in-residence at U. of Alberta, Green College, Ottawa U., and the Vancouver Public Library. He lives on Thetis Island, on the west coast of Canada.
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Amy Gordon spent her childhood years in New England, England, and Brazil and has spent her
adult years teaching theater skills to middle schoolers. Her poems have appeared in the Amsterdam Review, Blue Nib, The Massachusetts Review, Pomegranate London and other journals. She has published two chapbooks, Deep Fahrenheit (Prolific Press, 2019), The Yellow Room, (Finishing Line Press, 2022), and her chapbook, Leaf Town, won the 2023 Slate Roof Press Elyse Wolf chapbook prize and will be forthcoming. She lives in Western Massachusetts. |
Yuemin He has published on East Asian literature and visual art, Asian American literature, Buddhist American literature, and composition pedagogy. Her poetry translations appear in more than twenty literary magazines, journals, and anthologies, including The Cincinnati Review, Delos, and Oxford Anthology of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (2nd ed.). Currently, she is an English professor at Northern Virginia Community College.
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John T. Howard is a Colombian American writer, translator, and educator. He has served as Writer-in-Residence at Wellspring House Retreat and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. His poetry can be found at Hayden's Ferry Review, Salamander, Notre Dame Review, PANK Magazine, The South Carolina Review, and elsewhere. His creative nonfiction can be found in The Cincinnati Review. He resides in the greater Boston area with his partner and their daughter, and he teaches Analytical Writing at Bryant University.
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Keetje Kuipers’ most recent collection of poetry, All Its Charms, includes poems honored by publication in both The Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, POETRY, and over a hundred other magazines. Keetje has been a Stegner Fellow, Bread Loaf Fellow, and the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident. She lives with her wife and children in Montana, where she is Editor of Poetry Northwest. Her fourth book, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, will be published by BOA Editions in spring 2025.
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Astrid Lampe's work sits at a considerable distance from the mainstream, which threatens to become even broader due to the use of social media and AI. Since her debut Rib (nominated for the C. Buddingh' Prize), Lampe has been writing strikingly unconventional collections, such as De memen van Lara, Spuit je ralkleur (Ida Gerhardt Poetry Prize), Rouw met diertjes, Zusterstad 2.0, Tulpenwodka, and most recently Zachte landing op leeuwenpootjes, which addresses the war in Ukraine. In 2023, she was awarded the P.C. Hooft Prize for her entire poetic oeuvre. The jury noted that, since her debut, Lampe has been raising pressing questions in her poems about climate, corporeality, and digitalization. They describe her as one of the most idiosyncratic and generous poets of our time.
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Megan McDermott is a poet and Episcopal priest living in Massachusetts. In 2018, she graduated from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, an interdisciplinary program dedicated to religion and the arts. Her first full-length collection, Jesus Merch: A Catalog in Poems, was published in 2023 with Fernwood Press. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Woman as Communion (Game Over Books) and Prayer Book for Contemporary Dating (Ethel Zine and Micro-Press). Her poems have been published in a variety of journals, including U.S. Catholic, UCity Review, Moist Poetry Journal, Night Heron Barks, and more.
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The author of more than 30 trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, rob mclennan’s recent titles include the short story collection On Beauty (University of Alberta Press, 2024), the poetry collection World’s End (ARP Books, 2023), a suite of pandemic essays, essays in the face of uncertainties (Mansfield Press, 2022), and the anthology groundworks: the best of the third decade of above/ground press 2013-2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023). The editor/publisher of above/ground press, a chapbook press that recently celebrated 31 years of continuous activity, he is also the current Artistic Director for VERSeFest: Ottawa’s International Poetry Festival.
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Liz Nakazawa is an American poet, playwright and photographer. Her poems, haiku and photographs have appeared in The Timberline Review, Rock and Sling, ahundredgourds, The Poeming Pigeon, The Amethyst Review and other publications. She has published two poetry anthologies: Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Oregon (Ooligan Press, 2007) and The Knotted Bond: Oregon Poets Speak of Their Sisters (Uttered Chaos Press, 2018). She has also published a collection of her own poetry, Pulse and Weave (Flowstone Press, 2022). She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Daniel Carden Nemo is a poet, translator, and photographer. His work has appeared in Magma Poetry, RHINO, Full Stop, Off the Coast, and elsewhere.
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Aza Pace’s debut poetry collection, Her Terrible Splendor, won the 2024 Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize and is forthcoming from Willow Springs Books. Her poems appear in The Southern Review, Copper Nickel, Tupelo Quarterly, Crazyhorse, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She is the winner of two Academy of American Poets University Prizes and holds an MFA from the University of Houston and a PhD from the University of North Texas. She currently teaches at Ohio Wesleyan University.
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Eric Pankey is the author of many collections of poetry, most recently The History of the Siege.
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Dian Parker’s nonfiction and fiction has been published in numerous literary journals, magazines, newspapers, and nominated for a number of Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net. She also writes about art and artists for art publications. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and currently lives in the hills of Vermont.
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Alex Poppe is the author of four works of literary fiction: Duende was a 2024 American Book Fest Legacy Award winner, a 2023 International Book Awards winner, and a 2023 Spring Readers’ Choice Book Awards finalist. Jinwar and Other Stories won the 2023 Spring Readers’ Choice Book Award and was a 2022 International Book Awards finalist. In 2018, Girl, World was named a 35 Over 35 Debut Book Award winner, First Horizon Award finalist, Montaigne Medal finalist, Eric Hoffer Grand Prize finalist, and was awarded an Honorable Mention in General Fiction from the Eric Hoffer Awards.
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Sam Rappaport is a Los Angeles-born, Brooklyn-based writer and musician. His writing has appeared in, among other publications, Raconteur Magazine, Promethean, Third Coast Review, and Bushwick Daily. His music is available wherever you stream music. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at The City College of New York.
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Caroline Wilcox Reul is the translator of In the morning we are glass, by Andra Schwarz (Zephyr Press, 2021) and Who Lives by Elisabeth Borchers (Tavern Books, 2017), both from the German. Her translations have appeared in the PEN Poetry Series, The Los Angeles Review, Waxwing, Exchanges, LIT Magazine, The Columbia Journal, ANMLY, Tupelo Quarterly, Mantis, and others.
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A poet and installation artist, Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer is the author of the poetry collections Well Waiting Room (Fordham University Press, 2021) and Cleavemark (BOAAT Press, 2016), as well as the children’s book The Cloud Lasso (Penny Candy Books, 2019). Her work has appeared in Bomb, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, AGNI, Washington Square, Ploughshares, and the Poetry Foundation. Schlaifer’s work has been supported by the Regional Arts Commission and the Mid-America Arts Alliance. She was the runner-up for the 2019 Iowa Review Prize and served as the 2016 Greyfriar Writer-in-Residence + Living Literature Series at Siena College.
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Dr. Genevieve Stevens is a writer and lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. She completed her practice-based poetry PhD in 2023 under the supervision of Lavinia Greenlaw. Stevens’ poems, reviews and essays have appeared in various publications including PN Review, The Moth, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, The London Magazine, Poetry London, Blunt Instrument and many others. Alongside university work, Stevens runs writing courses at Charleston Farmhouse, Poetry School, Curious House and at Maidstone and Lewes Prisons. Stevens lives in East Sussex with her husband and two children, where she is working on her first full-length collection.
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Robin Lindsay Wilson is a lecturer in acting and drama at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland. He is an award-winning playwright and poet. His poems have appeared in many UK poetry and literary magazines, including The Rialto, Magma, Acumen, Dream Catcher, and Agenda. He has three collections of poetry published by Cinnamon Press. His last book Rehearsals for the Real World is a collection of short monologues and microfiction. It is being used in actor training in North America, UK, China, and Australia.
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Sveta Yefimenko is a writer and researcher whose works appear in literary and academic journals. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Zhang Zhihao [张执浩] is one of the most accomplished contemporary Chinese poets. Author of ten poetry collections as well as several books of fiction and essay collections, he has won almost all the prestigious poetry awards in China, including the Luxun Literary Prize for poetry, which is the Chinese equivalent to the Pulitzer poetry prize. Currently, he is editor-in-chief of Chinese Poetry, a quarterly poetry magazine in Wuhan, China.
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