Jenny Boully is an author and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowships award in 2020 for general nonfiction. She is the author of The Book of Beginnings and Endings, The Body: An Essay, and [one love affair]*. Her work has appeared in literary magazines such as Boston Review,Conjunctions,Puerto del Sol,Seneca Review, and Tarpaulin Sky and has been anthologized in The Next American Essay,The Best American Poetry, and Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present.
Cleopatra Mathis is an American poet who since 1982 has been the Frederick Sessions Beebe Professor in the English department at Dartmouth College, where she is also director of the Creative Writing Program. Her most recent book is White Sea. She is a faculty member at The Frost Place Poetry Seminar.
Mark F. Jarman is an American poet and critic often identified with the New Narrative branch of the New Formalism; he was co-editor with Robert McDowell of The Reaper throughout the 1980s. Centennial Professor of English, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University, he is the author of eleven books of poetry, three books of essays, and a book of essays co-authored with Robert McDowell. He co-edited the anthology Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism with David Mason.
John Fenton Johnson is an American writer and professor of English and LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona.
Mary Szybist is an American poet. She won the National Book Award for Poetry for her collection Incarnadine.
Ander Monson is an American novelist, poet, and nonfiction writer.
Vijay Seshadri is an American poet, essayist and literary critic based in Brooklyn.
Michael Salcman is an American poet and physician who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. His poetical work is infused and vivified by his medical profession, his love of and expertise in contemporary art, and by the fact that his parents were Holocaust survivors. His work is characterized by a lushness of diction, a strong moral focus, and a sense of playful imagery.
Laura Kasischke is an American fiction writer and poet. She is best known for writing the novels Suspicious River, The Life Before Her Eyes and White Bird in a Blizzard, all of which have been adapted to film.
Sarah Gorham is an American poet, essayist, and publisher residing in Prospect, Kentucky.
Sarabande Books is an American not-for-profit literary press founded in 1994. It is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, with an office in New York City. Sarabande publishes contemporary poetry and nonfiction. Sarabande is a literary press whose books have earned reviews in the New York Times.
The Alice James Award, formerly the Beatrice Hawley Award, is given annually by Alice James Books. The award includes publication of a book-length poetry manuscript and a cash prize.
Jeffrey W. Harrison is an American poet. Born in Cincinnati, he was educated at Columbia University, where he studied with Kenneth Koch and David Shapiro. His most recent poetry collection is Into Daylight, which follows The Names of Things: New & Selected Poems. His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines, including The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, Poets of the New Century. His honors include Pushcart Prizes, Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and Amy Lowell Traveling fellowships. He has taught at George Washington University, Phillips Academy, and College of the Holy Cross. He is currently on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. He lives in Dover, Massachusetts.
Alison Hawthorne Deming is an American poet, essayist and teacher, former Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice and currently Regents Professor Emerita in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. She received a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Peter LaSalle is an American novelist, short story writer, and travel essayist.
Peter Klappert is an American poet.
Ned Balbo is an American poet, translator, and essayist.
Mary Quade is an American writer of poetry and nonfiction. In 2003, her poetry collection Guide to Native Beasts won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize, chosen by judge Marilyn Krysl. Her second collection, Local Extinctions, was published in 2016 by Gold Wake Press. Her essay collection Zoo World, won the 2022 The Journal Non/Fiction Prize, chosen by judge Michelle Herman, and was published in 2023 by The Ohio State University / Mad Creek Books Imprint in 2023. She earned her A.B. from the University of Chicago and her M.F.A. from The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has been awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship (2001) and four Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards. She is a Professor of English at Hiram College where she teaches creative writing.
David Lazar is an American writer and editor, primarily known as an essayist. Born in Brooklyn, NY, he has been involved in the development of "creative nonfiction" in the United States, creating graduate programs, writing theoretically about the essay, and mentoring and publishing many subsequent writers of note.
Alison Stine is an American poet and author whose first novel Road Out of Winter won the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award. Her poetry and nonfiction has been published in a number of newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Paris Review, and Tin House.
