Guada Mabuya
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, raised in Essex County, New Jersey, Poetry Reader for Muzzle Magazine, and current recipient of the Atlantis Award for Poetry, Julio Cesar Villegas is the writer that your abuelos warned you about. His scriptures can be found or are forthcoming in PANK, Rigorous Mag, Subprimal Poetry Art, Bridge Eight, Into The Void, Waccamaw, Bare Fiction, as well as the inescapable mouth of the abyss. Puerto Rico Se Levanta. Follow Julio’s tweets from the abyss at @VforVillegas.
Museums of Natural Histories (1)
Beth Marzoni’s poems have recently appeared in Cimarron Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review,and American Literary Review among others. She co-edits Pilot Light, a journal of contemporary poetics and criticism, and she teaches literature and writing at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
receding monologue
Mackenzie Kozak is a poet living in Asheville, North Carolina. She holds an MFA from UNC-Greensboro, where she served as Poetry Editor of The Greensboro Review. Currently, she is an Associate Editor at Orison Books and Asheville Poetry Review. Her manuscript in place of a mouth & far flung was a finalist for the 2018 National Poetry Series. Mackenzie’s poetry appears in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Sixth Finch, THRUSH Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Find her online at mackenziekozak.com
Reading Is Fundamental
Hailing from the farm valleys of west Appalachia, Ben Kline lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, toiling away on his full-length manuscript Twang while drinking just the right amount of bourbon, but more coffee than seems wise. His work is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Rappahannock Review, Toe Good, Riggwelter, The Mantle, Ghost City Review, apt, ImageOutWrite Vol. 7, The Offing, Impossible Archetype, Ink & Nebula, The Matador Review and many more.
Slash on a Bicycle
W. Todd Kaneko is the author of The Dead Wrestler Elegies (Curbside Splendor, 2014) and This Is How the Bone Sings (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), and co-author of Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). A Kundiman fellow, he is co-editor of Waxwing magazine and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he teaches at Grand Valley State University.
Amorak Huey is author of the poetry collections Boom Box (Sundress, 2019), Seducing the Asparagus Queen (Cloudbank, 2018), and Ha Ha Ha Thump (Sundress, 2015), as well as two chapbooks. He is co-author of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018) and teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.
Quaking Aspen, or dendrophilia
Matty Layne Glasgow is the author of the poetry collection, deciduous qween, selected by Richard Blanco as the winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award and forthcoming from Red Hen Press in June 2019. His recent poems appear in or are forthcoming from the Missouri Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Poetry Daily, Collagist, BOAAT, Puerto del Sol,Nimrod, and elsewhere. Matty received his MFA in Creative Writing & Environment from Iowa State University and currently lives in Houston, Texas where he teaches with Writers in the Schools.
The Hundredth Anniversary
Leah Falk’s poems and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, FIELD, Thrush, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She’s received support for her writing from the Yiddish Book Center, the Vermont Studio Center, Asylum Arts, and the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. She lives in Philadelphia and runs programming at the Writers House at Rutgers University-Camden.
In My Brother’s House
Cydnee Devereaux is a writer from Florida. Her poetry has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Sewanee Writers Conference. She is the Robert Penn Warren Fellow at Vanderbilt University, where she received her MFA in Poetry.
Where the Map Is
Adam Clay’s most recent collection is Stranger (Milkweed Editions, 2016). His work has appeared recently in Georgia Review, Tin House, and jubilat. He teaches in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi and edits Mississippi Review.
John Cho
Originally from Brooklyn, Dan Chu holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Houston, where he was a recipient of the Inprint Verlaine Prize. He has poems forthcoming in Fence, Prairie Schooner, and Grist.