William (Bill) Allegrezza is a poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He edits Moria Books and teaches at Indiana University Northwest. He has published eighteen poetry books; eleven chapbooks, including Sonoluminescence and Filament Sense ; and many poetry reviews, articles, and poems. His poetry has been translated into Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. He founded and curated series A, a reading series in Chicago, from 2006 to 2010. He also co-founded Cracked Slab Books and edited it for five years. He edits the blogzine Moss Trill. He earned his PhD in Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University.
Lia Purpura is an American poet, writer and educator. She is the author of four collections of poems, four collections of essays and one collection of translations. Her poems and essays appear in AGNI, The Antioch Review, DoubleTake, FIELD, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Orion Magazine, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Ploughshares. Southern Review, and many other magazines.
Dean Rader is an American writer and professor who teaches at the University of San Francisco, in the Department of English, where he has also served as department chair. Rader holds M.A. and Ph.D. in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton where he studied translation, poetry, visual culture, and literary studies. He is primarily known for his poems that mix high and low art and his scholarly work on Native American poetry.
Sarah Gorham is an American poet, essayist, and publisher residing in Prospect, Kentucky.
Denise Low is an American poet, honored as the second Kansas poet laureate (2007–2009). A professor at Haskell Indian Nations University, Low taught literature, creative writing and American Indian studies courses at the university. She was succeeded by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg on July 1, 2009.
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.
Karen An-hwei Lee is an American poet.
Tupelo Press is an American not-for-profit literary press founded in 1999. It produced its first titles in 2001, publishing poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Originally located in Dorset, Vermont, the press has since moved to North Adams, Massachusetts.
Tyehimba Jess is an American poet. His book Olio received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Martha Clare Ronk is an American poet.
Jacqueline Kolosov is an American poet, children's book author, and professor. Her most recent collection of poetry is Modigliani's Muse, and her most recent young adult novel is A Sweet Disorder. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Poetry, Passages North Orion,PRISM International, The Malahat Review, Ecotone, and Western Humanities Review, and her honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Baron Wormser is an American poet.
Tara Betts is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Refuse to Disappear, which was published in June 2022 with The Word Works, Break the Habit, which was published in October 2016 with Trio House Press, and her debut collection Arc & Hue on the Willow Books imprint of Aquarius Press. In 2010, Essence Magazine named her as one of their "40 Favorite Poets".
David Rigsbee is an American poet, contributing editor and regular book reviewer for The Cortland Review, and literary critic.
Shane McCrae is an American poet, and is currently Poetry Editor of Image.
Susan Firer ... (born October 14, 1948) is an American poet who grew up along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, WI. She was poet laureate of the city from 2008 to 2010, and from 2008 to 2014, she edited the Shepherd Express online poetry column.
Adam Day is an American poet and critic. He is the author of Left-Handed Wolf, Model of a City in Civil War, and one chapbook of poetry, Badger, Apocrypha. He is also editor of the anthology, Divine Orphans of the Poetic Project.
Danez Smith is a Poet, writer and performer from St. Paul, Minnesota. They are queer, non-binary and HIV-positive. They are the author of the poetry collections [insert] Boy and Don't Call Us Dead: Poems, both of which have received multiple awards. Their most recent poetry collection Homie was published on January 21, 2020.
Kaveh Akbar is an Iranian-American writer.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is an American poet, editor, essayist, and professor.
