was born on a submarine base in New London, CT and for an embarrassingly long time thought this meant she had been born underwater. She practices as a psychotherapist after decades practicing as a civil rights lawyer. Her poems have appeared in the Laurel Review and The American Poetry Journal; other work will appear in forthcoming issues of Copper Nickel and Verseweavers. She recently won first prize in the Poet’s Choice category of the Spring 2023 Oregon Poetry Association’s poetry contest. She lives in the mountains of Southern Oregon.

is the author of four collections of poetry and of the essay collection Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, he teaches in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Minnesota and serves as Executive Editor of Unbound Edition Press.

(https://www.petercampion.net/)

was born in Rho (Milan) Italy in 1963. She received a MFA from Yale University in 1988. Since then, she has completed projects in Italy, Guatemala, Turkey and the United States. She has received several awards and fellowships, including the Friends of Photography/Calumet Emerging Photographer award in 2000 and the Paul Taylor/Dorothea Lange Prize from Duke University in 2001, Puffin Foundation Grant in 2003 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography in 2004 and Harnish Visiting Fellowship at Smith College 2005 to 2011 and 2016 to 2017. Her work has been collected by several museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Smithsonian Museum of American History. She is the author of 19 Pictures, 22 Recipes 2011. Her writing has appeared in Art in America, Photograph magazine and Afterimage.

(https://www.paolaferrario.com/)

is the author of four books of poetry: The Year the City Emptied, Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, and She Didn’t Mean to Do It. The recipient of Guggenheim, Hodder and Pew Fellowships, she is an occasional poetry critic for the New York Times, Poetry Foundation and elsewhere; poetry editor for the journal Scoundrel Times; and a member of the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and the BFA Program in Creative Writing at University of the Arts. She lives in Philadelphia.

His forthcoming collection is My Life in Brutalist Architecture (Four Way Books 2024). His other books include In a Landscape (BOA Editions, 2014 ) and Brand New Spacesuit (BOA Editions, 2020). He lives in northwest Missouri and co-edits the Laurel Review.

His newest books are The Fears (Copper Canyon Press, 2023) and Sleepaway: a Novel (Acre Books, 2024). Among his eight other books are Churches, which was named one of the best ten books of 2015 by The New York Times, and How He Loved Them, which was long-listed for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the Julie Suk Award for the best poetry book from the American literary press.

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received the 2011 Jackson Prize for Poetry. His books include By the Numbers (2010), a finalist for the National Book Award, and Interglacial (Ausable, 2004), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His 1992 collection As If was reprinted this Fall in Carnegie Mellon’s Classic Contemporaries series. His most recent book is For Now (Copper Canyon, 2020).

(www.aboutjamesrichardson.com)