Hotel Room
Holli Carrell is a writer originally from Utah, now based in Queens. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Blackbird, The Florida Review, Poet Lore, Fugue, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and other places. She has received generous support from the NY State Summer Writers Institute and is a graduate of the MFA program in poetry at Hunter College, where she was a recipient of the Colie Hoffman Poetry Prize and a Norma Lubetsky Friedman Scholarship.
[If all the love we’ll know is the kind of love]
Monica Berlin’s recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Cincinnati Review, TriQuarterly, Ninth Letter, Witness, DIAGRAM, The Southeast Review, Third Coast, RHINO, The Missouri Review, Fourteen Hills, New Orleans Review, and Passages North, among others. Collaborations with Beth Marzoni have been published in Colorado Review, New Orleans Review, DIAGRAM, Quarterly West, Vela, TYPO, Better: Culture & Lit, ellipsis…, and others. She is the project director for The Knox Writers’ House digital archives of contemporary literature, and was the nonfiction editor at Fifth Wednesday Journal (2011-13). An Associate Professor of English at Knox College, Berlin also serves as Associate Director of the Program in Creative Writing.
Egg and Ash
Anne Barngrover earned her MFA at Florida State and is a current PhD student at the University of Missouri. Her first book of poems, Yell Hound Blues, is forthcoming with Shipwreckt Books later this year, and her chapbook, Candy in Our Brains, co-written with poet Avni Vyas, is forthcoming in 2014 with CutBank. Anne’s poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Meridian, and others.
Suddenly This Devastation after Jack Gilbert
Helen Vitoria’s work can be found and is forthcoming in The Offending Adam, PANK, The Awl, Ping Pong Journal, Rougarou, Gargoyle, Barn Owl Review, Pebble Lake Review and many others. Her poems have been nominated for Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize. She edits THRUSH Poetry Journal & THRUSH Press.
This Equation
Jami Macarty is a recipient of an Arizona Commission on the Arts poetry fellowship and has an MFA from the University of Arizona. Her poems have appeared in American & Canadian journals, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Verse Daily, Cimarron Review, Volt, Drunken Boat, The Fiddlehead, and Interrupture. Poems are forthcoming in Arc Poetry Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, Grain, Interim, Quiddity, and So To Speak. Her manuscript, You Is to Door, was a finalist for Persea Books’ 2012 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. Former Executive Director of Tucson Poetry Festival (1996-2004), she divides her time between the Arizona desert and Vancouver, BC, where she teaches poetry at Simon Fraser University.
This Vigil I Keep for Comfort
Sandy Longhorn is the author of Blood Almanac which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry. New poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, Crazyhorse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, North American Review, and elsewhere. Longhorn teaches at Pulaski Technical College, where she directs the Big Rock Reading Series. In addition, she co-edits the online journal Heron Tree, is an Arkansas Arts Council fellow, and blogs at Myself the only Kangaroo among the Beauty.
Thrall
Stephen Lackaye has his MSc from the University of Edinburgh, and his MFA from the Johns Hopkins University. Other poems can be found in Cave Wall, Crab Orchard Review, The Normal School, The Pinch, RHINO, and Waccamaw. He lives in Beaverton, OR, where he works for Powell’s Books, and teaches online for Northeastern University.