poetry

Adam Houle is the author of Stray (Lithic Press 2017), a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. His poems have appeared in AGNI, Shenandoah, Baltimore Review, and elsewhere. He lives in South Carolina, where he is an assistant professor of English at Francis Marion University.

Angie Macri is the author of Underwater Panther (Southeast Missouri State University), winner of the Cowles Poetry Book Prize, and Fear Nothing of the Future or the Past (Finishing Line). Her recent work appears in The Carolina Quarterly, Harpur Palate, Jet Fuel Review, Lake Effect, and New England Review. An Arkansas Arts Council fellow, she lives in Hot Springs and is teaching at Hendrix College.

Brooke Sahni’s poetry and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines such as The Missouri Review, Nimrod, EcoTheo Review, 32 Poems, Cimarron Review and elsewhere. Her poetry chapbook, Divining, is the winner of the 2019 Orison Chapbook Prize and is forthcoming in 2020.

Carolyn Guinzio is the author of six collections, most recently How Much Of What Falls Will Be Left When It Gets To The Ground? (Tolsun Books, 2018) and Ozark Crows (Spuyten-Duyvil, 2018). Among her previous books are Spoke & Dark (Red Hen, 2012), winner of the To The Lighthouse/A Room Of Her Own Prize, and Spine (Parlor, 2016). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, Harvard Review, Bomb, Agni, and many other journals.

Cory Hutchinson-Reuss grew up in Arkansas and holds a PhD in English from the University of Iowa. Her poems have most recently appeared in Pangyrus, basalt, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, wildness, and The Missouri Review’s Poem of the Week feature. She has been a Best New Poets nominee and the recipient of the Lynda Hull Memorial Prize for Poetry from Crazyhorse. She lives in Iowa City and serves as a Poetry Reader for The Adroit Journal.

L.I. Henley hails from the Mojave Desert of California. A visual artist and writer, she is the author of many books including Starshine Road, which won the 2017 Perugia Press Prize, and the poetry and art book From the moon, as I fell with artist Zara Kand. A childhood spent in the desert attracted her to the risk, disappointment, and surprise of mixed media. Her artwork has appeared in Waxwing, Thrush, The Indianapolis Review, Candyfloss, Arthole, Adroit, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and Meat for Tea. She is the creator of Paper Dolls & Books.

Laura Maher is the author of the chapbook, Sleep Water (Dancing Girl Press, 2017). Her poetry and prose has appeared in Quarter After Eight, The Common, Crazyhorse, The Collagist, New Ohio Review, and Third Coast. Laura holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Arizona, a Master of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Master of Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College. She lives, works, and writes in Tucson, Arizona.

Mariah Bosch is a Chicana poet from Fresno, CA. She attends the MFA program there, where she works with Juan Felipe Herrera as a graduate fellow in his Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio. Her work can be found in Peach Magazine, The Acentos Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and is forthcoming in Cosmonauts Avenue.

Monika Zobel is the author of two books of poems—An Instrument for Leaving, selected by Dorothea Lasky for the 2013 Slope Editions Book Prize (Slope Editions, 2014), and Das Innenfutter der Wörter (edition keiper, Graz, Austria, 2015). Her writing has appeared in Carve Magazine, Ruminate Magazine, Nimrod International Journal, Poetry Northwest, RHINO Poetry, Redivider, DIAGRAM, Beloit Poetry Journal, Drunken Boat, Guernica Magazine, The Cincinnati Review, Best New Poets 2010, as well as German and Austrian publications. A Fulbright and Djerassi Resident Artists Program alumna, she works as a translator in Bremen, Germany.

Robin Gow is the author of the chapbook HONEYSUCKLE. They are a queer and trans poet, editor, and educator based in the NYC area. Their first full-length collection is forthcoming with Tolsun Books Fall 2020.

Tommy D'Addario earned his MFA at the University of Montana. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Columbia Journal, Southern Indiana Review, and Western Humanities Review, among others. He teaches for the Missoula Writing Collaborative, a nonprofit organization devoted to empowering children with critical thinking, cultural awareness, and artistic joy through creative writing. He also holds a Lilly Graduate Fellowship.