Todd Copeland is the author of Like All Light (2022), winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press. His other works include the poetry chapbook The Book as Knife (Ravenna Press, 2021), and his poems have appeared in The Journal, Southern Poetry Review, Lake Effect, and Sugar House Review, among other publications. A native of Ohio, he lives in Waco, Texas. More information can be found at toddcopelandwriter.com.
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Jim Daniels’ latest book of poems is Gun/Shy, Wayne State University Press. Other recent books include The Perp Walk and RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music (2020), co-editor, M. L. Liebler. A native of Detroit, he lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program.
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William Virgil Davis’s most recent book of poetry, his sixth, is Dismantlements of Silence: Poems Selected and New. His first, One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His poetry has been published widely worldwide.
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Emma DePanise’s poems have appeared recently in journals such as The Los Angeles Review, The National Poetry Review, The Minnesota Review, Passages North and elsewhere. Currently an MFA candidate in poetry at Purdue University, she is a poetry editor for Sycamore Review and a co-editor of The Shore.
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Danielle Fleming is a social worker, dog mom, and writer living in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband. Her work has been featured in Bellarmine Magazine, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Tiger Moth Review and The Hopper. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She can be found on Instagram as @havendf or twitter @danismalley10
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Elia Hohauser-Thatcher is the author of The Prophet’s Toothbrush, a chapbook of poetry published by Finishing Line Press. Currently, Elia is a PhD Candidate in Rhetoric & Composition at Wayne State University and teaches creative writing in Detroit Public Schools as a Writer-in-Residence with InsideOut Literary Arts.
Read MoreWhen Stella D'oro Ruled the Airwaves; On Whatever Day in Whatever Summer of Nineteen Sixty Something
Ken Holland has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and has work widely published in such journals as Rattle, Tulane Review, Southwest Review, North Dakota Quarterly, The MacGuffin, and Tar River, as well as a number of anthologies. He lives in the mid-Hudson Valley of New York. www.kenhollandpoet.com
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Originally from Louisiana, Brandon Kilbourne is a biologist and poet living in Berlin, Germany. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poet Lore, Ecotone, Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere, with his work also being translated into Estonian. In 2021, he received a nomination for a Pushcart Prize from Ecotone.
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Born in 1979, Rania Mamoun is a Sudanese author, journalist, and activist. She has published two novels in Arabic—Green Flash (2006) and Son of the Sun(2013)—as well as a short story collection Thirteen Months of Sunrise, which will be published in English by Comma Press in 2018. Her short stories have been published in various magazines and anthologies, including The Book of Khartoum (Comma Press, 2016), the first ever anthology of Sudanese short fiction in translation. She has also worked as culture page editor of Al-Thaqafi magazine, a columnist for Ad-Adwaa newspaper and presenter of the ‘Silicon Valley’ cultural programme on Sudanese TV.
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Ambrose Massaquoi is a Sierra Leonean writer and author of Along the Peal of Drums. He has also been published in The Iowa Review, Kalashnikov in the Sun, Leoneathology and elsewhere. Massaquoi is an alumnus of University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. He currently lives in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Kevin McLellan—author of: Ornitheology (2019 Massachusetts Book Awards recipient); Tributary; Hemispheres (resides at the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center and other special collections); [box] (resides in the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University and other special collections); and Round Trip—makes videos as Duck Hunting with the Grammarian. https://kevmclellan.com
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John A. Nieves has poems forthcoming or recently published in journals such as: North American Review, Copper Nickel, 32 Poems, American Literary Review and Massachusetts Review. He won the Indiana Review Poetry Contest and his first book, Curio, won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award Judge’s Prize. He is associate professor of English at Salisbury University and an editor of The Shore Poetry. He received his M.A. from University of South Florida and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri.
Read MoreExit the Dream
Claudia Putnam is a craniosacral therapist in western Colorado. She has been evacuated or on standby due to wildfire several times. Her debut collection, The Land of Stone and River, won the Moon City Press poetry prize and came out in March 2022. A personal essay, Double Negative, won the Split/Lip Press chapbook prize and also came out in March. Among other residencies, she received the Bennett Fellowship from Phillips Exeter Academy.
Read MoreListen America, This is My Father
Marjorie Saiser’s recent book, The Track the Whales Make, is from University of Nebraska Press. Losing the Ring in the River (University of New Mexico Press), won the Willa Award in 2014. Saiser’s poems have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Westchester Review, Rattle, and American Life in Poetry.
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Meg Stout’s poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Cimarron Review, North American Review, Zócalo Public Square, and the Portland Press Herald. A graduate of the MFA program at Warren Wilson College, she lives in Midcoast Maine.
Read MoreGardeners Leave Notices At My Door Saying
Meg Yardley lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Salamander, SWWIM, Cagibi, Mom Egg Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and the Women’s Review of Books.
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