Elena Medel (Córdoba, 1985), poet and literary critic, is one of the prominent emerging voices in Spanish poetry. From 2006 to 2008 she held the prestigious scholarship given by the infamous Resedencia de Estudiantes in Madrid. She is part of the founding board of La Bella Varsovia and writes for numerous literary supplements in the Spanish press, […]
Colin Cheney’s collection of poems, Here Be Monsters (University of Georgia, 2010), was selected for the National Poetry Series. He has received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He is a founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art. He and his family recently relocated to Maine after living for years […]
Jennifer K. Sweeney is the author of three poetry collections: Little Spells (New Issues Press, 2015); How to Live on Bread and Music (Perugia Press, 2009), which received the James Laughlin Award, the Perugia Press Prize, and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize; and Salt Memory (Main Street Rag, 2006). She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a […]
Laura Scheffler Morgan has won two Academy of American Poets poetry prizes and other poetry prizes and awards. She has worked for Persea Books and The Missouri Review. Several of her earlier poems have appeared in Artful Dodge. She is a student in the MA program for Creative Writing / Poetry at the University of […]
Eoghan Walls was born in Northern Ireland, but has lived and taught in Germany, Rwanda and presently, England. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2006, an Irish Art's Council Bursary in 2009, and his work has been published widely in journals and anthologies throughout the UK and Ireland. His first collection of poems, The Salt Harvest, was published by […]
Allison Seay is the recipient of fellowships from the Ruth Lilly Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her first book of poems, To See the Queen, won the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize from Persea Books. Other work has appeared in such journals as Crazyhorse, The Southern Review, The Hollins Critic, Poetry, and Pleiades. She teaches at The Collegiate […]
Tasha Graff’s chapbook Similarities (2012) is available through Finishing Line Press. Her poetry has appeared in such publications as English Journal, OCEAN Magazine, Epigraph Magazine, and the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. A graduate of the Bread Loaf School of English (MA) and Bowdoin College (BA), Tasha taught for several years in the Maine public […]
Luljeta Lleshanaku was born in Elbasan, Albania, in 1968. Lleshanaku won the National Silver Pen Prize in 2000 and the International Kristal Vilenica Prize in 2009. She was a resident at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 1999, and a fellow at the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, […]
Petra White was born in Adelaide and lives in Melbourne, where she works, for the moment, as a public servant. Her first published collection of poetry, The Incoming Tide (John Leonard Press, 2007), was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and the ACT Poetry Prize. Her second collection, The Simplified Word, won the Grace Levin […]