Kamilah Aisha Moon was born September 5, 1973, in Nashville, Tennessee. She received a BA in English from Paine College in 1998 and earned an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of Starshine & Clay (Four Way Books, 2017), and She Has a Name (Four Way Books, 2013), a finalist […]
Jasmine V. Bailey is a poet and essayist. Her book-length poetry collections are Alexandria (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014), winner of the Central New York Book Award, and Disappeared (Carnegie Mellon, 2017). Her chapbook, Sleep and What Precedes It (Longleaf Press, 2009), won the Longleaf Press Chapbook Prize. She holds an MFA from the University […]
Erica Dawson is the author of two collections of poetry: Big-Eyed Afraid (Waywiser, 2007), winner of the 2006 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize; and The Small Blades Hurt (Measure Press, 2014), winner of the 2016 Poets’ Prize. Her new collection, a book-length poem, titled When Rap Spoke Straight to God, will be published by Tin House […]
Jacques J. Rancourt is the author of Novena (Pleiades Press, 2017), winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd prize, and the forthcoming chapbook Covenant (Beloit Poetry Journal, 2018). He has held poetry fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His […]
Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), selected by Jericho Brown for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poetry, The New York […]
Sally Bliumis-Dunn is the author of two poetry collections, Second Skin (Wind Publications, 2010), and Talking Underwater (Wind Publications, 2007). She teaches Modern Poetry at Manhattanville College and SUNY Purchase. She received her MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College in 2002. Her poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, BigCityLit, Lumina, MARGIE, Nimrod, The Paris Review, […]
Javier Etchevarren was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1979. He is the author of Fable of an Inconsolable Man/ Fábula de un hombre desconsolado (Action Books, 2017), translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval. His poems have appeared in América invertida: An Anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets, American Poetry Review, and American Literary Review.
Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of fourteen books of poetry, fiction, and memoir. Her translations include Invisible Bridge/ El puente invisible: Selected Poems of Circe Maia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Fable of an Inconsolable Man/ Fábula de un hombre desconsolado (Action Books, 2017) by Javier Etchevarren.