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Alexander Long is a poet, teacher, book reviewer, essayist, and musician. Vigil, his first book of poems, was released in 2006 from the New Issues Press Poetry Series (2006). Co-editor of A Condition of the Spirit: the Life & Work of Larry Levis (Eastern Washington UP, 2004), Long is also the author of a memoir, Noise (RockWay Press, 2007), and a chapbook, Six Prose Poems (Brandenburg Press, 2004). His poems, essays, and book reviews have been published in American Writers (Charles Scribner’s Sons), Blackbird, The Prose Poem: an International Journal, Quarterly West, Third Coast, and elsewhere. Currently he is a member of the writing faculty at West Chester University, and writes, plays, and tours with the band Redhead Betty Takeout. Continue Reading →

Allison Funk has published three books of poems: The Knot Garden (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2002); Living at the Epicenter (Northeastern University Press, 1995); and Forms of Conversion (Alice James Books, 1986).  She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Arts Councils of Delaware and Illinois. She has also been awarded the George Kent Prize from Poetry magazine, the Celia B. Wagner Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and the 1995 Award for Poetry from the Society of Midland Authors. Her work has been included in The Best American Poetry 1994, and such journals as Poetry, The Paris Review,The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, and Shenandoah. Continue Reading →

Amanda Auerbach is a poet and literary critic. She received her PhD in English literature from Harvard University in 2018. She currently teaches at the University of Iowa, where she is pursuing an MFA degree in poetry. Her poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Fence, Boston Review, Conjunctions (online), Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review Online, Poetry Northwest, and Thrush Poetry Journal.

Amy C. Roma is an energy attorney based in Washington, D.C. In addition to her energy practice, Amy is a strong believer in community involvement, and dedicates a significant amount of time on a range of pro bono matters impacting society, including immigration, climate change, and advocacy for people with disabilities.

Amy Lemmon is the author of two previous poetry collections: Fine Motor (Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2009) and co-author, with Denise Duhamel, of the chapbooks ABBA: The Poems (Coconut Books, 2010) and Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation (Slapering Hol Press, 2011). Her writing has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Rolling Stone, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Court Green, The Journal, Marginalia, and many other magazines and anthologies. She is Professor and Chairperson of English and Communication Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY and lives in New York City.

An Tran is a parkour coach, a nationally competitive powerlifter, a software developer, and a writer of fiction and essays. His work has appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Gargoyle Magazine, Carolina Quarterly, Sundog Lit, and elsewhere, and has received a “Notable” distinction from the Best American series, nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and shortlisted for the Million Writers Award. He received his MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and lives in Fairfax, Virginia. His first collection of stories, Meditations on the Mother Tongue is out with C&R Press now!

Anis Shivani is the author of numerous books of fiction, poetry, and criticism, including, most recently Karachi Raj: A Novel, Soraya: Sonnets, and Literary Writing in the Twenty-First Century: Conversations. His work appears in many literary journals, including Georgia Review, Southwest Review, Yale Review, Threepenny Review, Boston Review, Fence, Subtropics, Boulevard, and others. He lives in Houston, Texas, and is the winner of a Pushcart Prize.

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Annie Christain is an assistant professor of composition and ESOL at SUNY Cobleskill with poems appearing in Seneca Review, Oxford Poetry, The Chariton Review, and The Lifted Brow, among others. She received the grand prize of the 2013 Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Contest, the 2013 Greg Grummer Poetry Award, the 2015 Oakland School of the Arts Enizagam Poetry Award, and the 2015 Neil Shepard Prize in Poetry. Additional honors include her being selected for the Shanghai Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist Residency and the Arctic Circle Autumn Art and Science Expedition Residency.

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Ariel Francisco is the author of All My Heroes Are Broke (C&R Press, 2017) and Before Snowfall, After Rain (Glass Poetry Press, 2016). Born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents, his poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2016, Fjords Review, Gulf Coast, PANK, Poets.org, Prelude, Quiet Lunch, Washington Square, and elsewhere. He lives in South Florida (for now).

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Barbara Crooker’s first collection, Radiance, won the 2005 Word Press First Book Award and was also a finalist for The Paterson Poetry Prize. Her second book, Line Dance (Word Press, 2008) won The Paterson Prize for Literary Excellence. C & R Press published her third book, More, in 2010. Barbara Crooker: Selected Poems (FutureCycle Press) came out in 2015; Les Fauves is her seventh full-length collection. Among her awards are the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, the WB Yeats Society of NY Poetry Prize, three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in literature, and writing residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; the Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France; and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Co. Monaghan, Ireland. Her work is included in The Bedford Introduction to Literature and The Bedford Introduction to Poetry, and she has given readings all over the country, including The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, The Library of Congress, The Festival of Faith and Writing, and Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium.

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