Poetry

Alison Mandaville grew up in Portland, Oregon, Turkey, Massachusetts and Yemen. A Fulbright award to Azerbaijan led to grants facilitating several summer writing workshops for Azeri women writers and visual artists. Her poetry and prose translations from Azerbaijani and interviews with Azerbaijani writers have appeared in World Literature Today, Two Lines, and The International Journal of Comic Arts. Her own poems have appeared in Fifth Wednesday, Skidrow Penthouse, 13th Moon, Seattle Review, Off the Coast, Berkeley Poetry Review, Poets Against the War/Best Poems, Knock, and Magma, among other places. She writes, translates, and teaches future English teachers at Fresno State.

Asa Drake is an information services librarian. Her writing is published or forthcoming with The Margins, American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, The Journal and elsewhere. She received her MFA in poetry from The New School and was a finalist for Omnidawn's 2018 Chapbook Competition.

Christopher Burawa is a poet and translator. His most recent publication is a translation of Icelandic Modernist poet Steinn Steinarr’s most famous work, Time and Water, which he co-translated with Cynthia Hogue. He lives with his wife and daughter in Red Wing, Minnesota.

Dana Curtis’ third full-length collection of poetry, Wave Particle Duality, was recently published by blazeVOX Books. Her second collection, Camera Stellata, was published by CW Books, and her first book, The Body's Response to Famine, won the Pavement Saw Press Transcontinental Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in such publications as Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, Colorado Review, and Prairie Schooner. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the McKnight Foundation. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Elixir Press and lives in Denver Colorado.

Dara Elerath received her MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The American Poetry Review, AGNI and Poet Lore, among others. She was the winner of the Francis Ponge Poetry Prize. She lives, writes and designs in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Emma Bolden is the author of House Is An Enigma (Southeast Missouri State UP, 2018), medi(t)ations (Noctuary Press, 2016), Maleficae (GenPop Books, 2013), and four chapbooks. The recipient of a 2017 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, her work has appeared in The Norton Introduction to Literature, The Best American Poetry, The Best Small Fictions, and such journals as the Mississippi Review, The Rumpus, StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, New Madrid, TriQuarterly, the Indiana Review, Shenandoah, the Greensboro Review, and The Journal. She is Associate Editor-in-Chief for Tupelo Quarterly.

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Joe Wilkins is the author of a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, winner of a 2014 GLCA New Writers Award, and three collections of poetry, including When We Were Birds, winner of the 2017 Oregon Book Award in Poetry. His debut novel, Fall Back Down When I Die, is now available from Little, Brown. Wilkins has published poems, essays, and stories in The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Ecotone, The Sun, Orion, and Slate. He lives with his family in western Oregon, where he directs the creative writing program at Linfield College.

Kate Cumiskey is a writer and teacher living in coastal Central Florida. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and is the author of several books of poetry and nonfiction. Her award-winning writing has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Crazyhorse, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Paterson Literary Review. She is currently completing her memoir of growing up with a father who was a lead designer for NASA on the Apollo, Shuttle, Voyager, Skylab, and International Space Station programs; excerpts appear in peer-reviewed and literary journals.

O-Jeremiah Agbaakin was born in 1994 in Osun, Nigeria. He holds an LL.B (Law) degree from the University of Ibadan. His literary works are forthcoming/published in Diode Poetry Journal, Temz Review, the Brooklyn Review, OBSIDIAN, Sierra Nevada Review, StepAway Magazine, and elsewhere. A finalist in the 2017 Korea-Nigeria Poetry Contest, he has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net Award. He is the submissions editor for Dwarts Magazine and a poetry reader for PANK Magazine.

Robert Wood Lynn is a poet from Fauquier County, Virginia. He studied poetry at the University of Mary Washington, where he was a recipient of the school's Academy of American Poets College Prize. His poems have been featured or are forthcoming in American Literary Review, Iron Horse, Kestrel, Leveler, Natural Bridge and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.

Sarah Bates has an MFA in Poetry from Northern Michigan University and currently teaches at Southern Utah University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Diagram, Boston Review, Fugue, Zone 3, The Rumpus, Best New Poets 2017, Seneca Review, The Normal School, and Hotel Amerika, among others. Her manuscript, O-Six, was a finalist in the 2018 Saturnalia Poetry Book Prize. Her manuscript, Tender, was a finalist in the 2018 Bateau Press Chapbook contest.