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E.G. Cunningham is the author of the book Apologetics. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Barrow Street, Fjords Review, Hobart, LUMINA, The Nation, Poetry London, Puerto del Sol, Quiddity, Rhino, 3:AM Magazine, and other publications. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD in English from the University of Georgia.

Earl S. Braggs is a UC Foundation, Battle Professor at UTC. He is the author of ten collections of poetry. Braggs is the recipient of the Anhinga Prize, the Jack Kerouac Prize, the Gloucester College Prize and the Cleveland State Prize (unable to accept). His novel, Looking for Jack Kerouac, (finalist) James Jones First Novel Contest.

Ed Falco is the author of a dozen books, including novels, short story collections, and poetry collections. Recipient of the Emily Clark Balch Prize in Fiction from the Virginia Quarterly Review, The Robert Penn Warren Prize in Poetry from the Southern Review, as well as a Pushcart Prize and an NEA grant in fiction, his short stories have been published in journals and anthologies, including The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Ploughshares, and The Best American Short Stories. His crime novel, The Family Corleone, developed from unproduced scenes from screenplays by Mario Puzo, was a New York Times Best Seller, and has been translated in twenty-one foreign editions. The audio edition, narrated by Bobby Cannavale, was included in The Washington Post’s list of “The Five Best Audio Books of 2012.” Raised in Brooklyn, NY, Ed currently lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he teaches in Virginia Tech’s MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Eleanor Kedney is the author of the chapbook The Offering (Liquid Light Press, 2016). Her work has appeared in Miramar Poetry Journal, New Ohio Review, The Fourth River, Sliver of Stone, and other journals. She has contributed to several anthologies, including The Cumberland River Review: The First Five Years (Trevecca Nazarene University, 2018) and The Writers Studio at 30 (Epiphany Editions, 2017). Her poem “Bubbles Blown through a Wand” won the 2019 riverSedge Poetry Prize (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley). Kedney is the founder of the Tucson branch of the New York-based Writers Studio, and served as the director for ten years. She lives in Connecticut and Arizona with her husband, Peter Schaffer, their dog, Fred, and their cat, Ivy. Learn more at eleanorkedney.com

Elizabeth Kadetsky is the author of a memoir (First There Is a Mountain, Little Brown) and a novella (On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World, Nouvella Books). Her short stories have been chosen for a Pushcart Prize, Best New American Voices, and two Best American Short Stories notable citations, and her personal essays have appeared in The New York Times, Guernica, Santa Monica Review, Antioch Review, Post Road, Agni, and elsewhere. She has traveled to Guatemala as a journalist covering the underground adoption trade for the Village Voice, to Southern Mexico covering the war in Chiapas for The Nation, to Malta as a creative writing fellow at the St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, and to Spain and France as a fellow in the arts at Camargo Foundation, Funadción Valparaiso, Fondation La Napoule, and elsewhere. She studied Arabic in Morocco and as a research scholar at the Center for Forced Migration Studies at American University in Cairo, and she was a Fulbright fellow to India in creative writing. She is assistant professor of fiction and nonfiction at Penn State University.

Elizabeth Knapp is the author of The Spite House (C&R Press, 2011), winner of the 2010 De Novo Prize for Poetry. The recipient of the 2007 Discovered Voices Award from Iron Horse Literary Review, she has published poems in Best New Poets 2007, The Massachusetts Review, The Mid-American Review, Barrow Street, and many other journals. She holds an M.F.A. from the Bennington Writing Seminars and a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University and is currently Assistant Professor of English at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, where she lives with her husband and son. Continue Reading →

Erik Martiny holds a PhD in contemporary poetry. He teaches literature, art and translation to prep school students at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris. His short stories, reviews and articles have appeared in Fjords Review, Frieze, Litro, the Times Literary Supplement, The London Magazine, Aesthetica Magazine, The Cambridge Quarterly and other periodicals. He is the editor of A Companion to Poetic Genre (Wiley-Blackwell). He lives with his wife and two sons in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Erik Rasmussen is the Editor-In-Chief of At Large magazine, and the former Deputy Editor at Man Of The World. His articles, essays, interviews and photographs have appeared in numerous magazines and websites. He’s written for Lexus, J.Crew, Hermes, Glenfiddich, Santoni, Zegna, and other brands. His only literary award was a grant to Long Island’s prestigious Lutheran High School for an essay about his father, My Unsung Hero — a true story with a false premise, and how he learned fiction’s meaning and value. A Diet Of Worms is his first novel.

Gabriel Green is a Poet, Musician, and Scholar (in that order, depending the day) from Pontiac, MI. He currently resides in State College, PA where he is a Dual-Title PhD candidate at the Pennsylvania State University, studying English and African American/African Diaspora studies. His work has been featured in WusGood!, The Amistad, and Peregrine. The Magical Negro Reveals His Secret, his first chapbook, was a winner of C&R Press’s 2019 Winter Soup Bowl Competition. Contact him at gabe-green.com

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George Kalamaras is Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he has taught since 1990. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including five chapbooks. His titles include Gold Carp Jack Fruit Mirrors (The Bitter Oleander Press, 2008), Borders My Bent Toward(Pavement Saw Press, 2003), and The Theory and Function of Mangoes (Four Way Books, 2000). Stockport Flats recently published Something Beautiful Is Always Wearing the Trees—George’s poems with paintings by Alvaro Cardona-Hine. He is the recipient of Creative Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1993) and the Indiana Arts Commission (2001), and first prize in the 1998 Abiko Quarterly International Poetry Prize (Japan). A long-time practitioner of yogic meditation, he spent several months in India in 1994 on an Indo-U.S. Advanced Research Fellowship from the Fulbright Foundation and the Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture.