Jeb Livingood is an American essayist, short story writer, editor, and academic.
He graduated from University of Virginia, American University, George Mason University, and University of Virginia, with an M.F.A. in 2000.
He exhibited at the 1999 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Albany, New York. [1]
He teaches at the University of Virginia, [2] where he is faculty advisor for Meridian. [3] He is the series editor for the Best New Poets anthology.
He is a commander in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve.
Kim Addonizio is an American poet and novelist.
The Best New Poets series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing fifty poems from poets without a previously published collection. The first edition of the series appeared in 2005, and was published, as all later editions have been, by Samovar Press. In 2006, the University of Virginia Press began distributing the anthology.
Eric Pankey is an American poet and artist. He is married to the poet Jennifer Atkinson.
Jon Pineda is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist.
George Bradley is an American poet, editor, and fiction writer whose work is characterized by formal structure, humor, and satirical narrative.
Christina Duhig is an American poet.
Cynthia Lowen is the producer and writer of the 2011 documentary film Bully and director and producer of the 2018 documentary film Netizens.
Kerri French is an American poet.
Robin Beth Schaer is an American poet.
Lisa Russ Spaar is a contemporary American poet, professor, and essayist. She is currently a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia and the director of the Area Program in Poetry Writing. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Vanitas, Rough: Poems and Satin Cash: Poems. Her latest collection, Orexia, was published by Persea Books in 2017. Her poem, Temple Gaudete, published in IMAGE Journal, won a 2016 Pushcart Prize.
Stephanie Rogers is an American poet from Ohio who now lives in New York City.
Peter LaSalle is an American novelist, short story writer, and travel essayist.
Beth Bachmann is an American poet.
Steve Kistulentz is an American novelist, poet, and screenwriter. He is the founding director of the graduate creative writing program at Saint Leo University in Florida. He is no longer serving as the Poet Laureate of Safety Harbor, FL. after admitting to transmitting child pornography.
Abraham Burickson is an American poet and conceptual artist.
Jazzy Danziger is an American poet and editor.
Kelly Cherry was a novelist, poet, essayist, professor, and literary critic and a former Poet Laureate of Virginia (2010–2012). She was the author of more than 30 books, including the poetry collections Songs for a Soviet Composer, Death and Transfiguration, Rising Venus and The Retreats of Thought. Her short fiction was reprinted in The Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and New Stories from the South, and won a number of awards.
Carrie Oeding is an American poet.
Tyler Mills is an American poet, essayist, editor, and scholar. She is Editor-in-Chief of The Account, an Assistant Professor of English at New Mexico Highlands University and the author of Hawk Parable, winner of the 2017 Akron Poetry Prize and Tongue Lyre, winner of the 2011 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. She is also an editor and teacher and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Janine Joseph is a Filipino-American poet and author.