Carrie Jerrell’s debut collection, After the Revival, received the 2008 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from Waywiser Press. She received an M.A. from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University, and, in the fall of 2009, she will join the faculty at Murray State University as an assistant professor of English. […]
Carmen-Oliva Menéndez earned an M.A from Indiana University in Comparative Literature and published the essay, “Glimpses,” on Unamuno and Sartre, before turning to architecture and linguistics. Out of her interest in traditional architecture, she carried out extended research on West European thatching, later published as a book, Teitos, which received the Europa Nostra Research Award in […]
Carlos Pardo has published three poetry collections including El invernadero (The Greenhouse) (Hiperión, 1995); Desvelo sin paisaje (Sleepless Without Landscape) (Pre-Textos, 2002); and Echado a perder (Spoiled) (Visor, 2007), for which he has received such highly esteemed prizes as the Hiperión, Emilio Prados and the Generación del 27 awards for poetry. His first novel, Vida de Pablo(The Life of Pablo) was published […]
Carey Salerno is executive editor of Alice James Books. Her first book, Shelter, won the 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award and was published in 2009. Carey has an MFA from New England College. Her work has appeared in such journals as Rattle and Natural Bridge.
Carey McHugh’s poems have appeared in Smartish Pace, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Original Instructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds &c., was chosen for a New York Chapbook Fellowship and published by the Poetry Society of America in 2008; and her collection American Gramaphone is forthcoming from Augery Books. She currently lives in Manhattan and teaches writing […]
Camille-Yvette Welsch is an instructor of English and the Advising Coordinator for Undergraduate Studies in English and American Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her work has appeared in Barrow Street,Mid-American Review, The Women’s Review of Books, Calyx and Red Cedar Review, among others.
Camille T. Dungy’s latest publication is a book of essays, Guidebook to Relative Strangers (W.W. Norton, 2017). She is the author of four poetry collections, Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press, 2017); Smith Blue (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011); Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010); and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen, […]
Bruce Smith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the author of six books of poems, The Common Wages (Sheep Meadow Press, 1983); Silver and Information (University of Georgia Press, 1985), a National Poetry Series selection by Hayden Carruth; Mercy Seat (University of Chicago Press, 1994); The Other Lover (University of Chicago Press, 2000), which was a finalist for both the National Book […]
Brittany Perham is the author of The Curiosities (Parlor Press, 2012). Her recent work may be found in Southern Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Lo-Ball, Linebreak, and elsewhere. She is a Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University, where she held the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from 2009-2011. She is a member of the word/music project Nonstop Beautiful Ladies and she lives in San […]