Beth Bachmann’s first book, Temper (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), won the AWP 2008 Donald Hall Prize and 2010 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Elizabeth Willis selected Bachman’s second collection, Do Not Rise (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012) as winner of the The Poetry Society of America’s 2011 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award. Bachman’s poems appear in American Poetry […]
Ben Maier was born in London in 1987. He studied English Literature at Durham University, before completing a Masters in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen’s University Belfast. His work is published in The Salt Book of Younger Poets and Irish Pages. He currently lives in Belfast, where he is studying for a PhD […]
Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Diwata (BOA Editions, 2010). She was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. […]
Averill Curdy’s poems have appeared in journals both in the United States and England, including Poetry, The Paris Review,Raritan, The Manchester Review, and The New England Review. Her work has been recognized by fellowships from the NEA and the Illinois State Arts Council, as well as the Rona Jaffe Foundation. She lives in Chicago, where she teaches creative writing […]
Arielle Greenberg is the co-author, with Rachel Zucker, ofHome/Birth: A Poemic (1913 Press, 2011); and author ofMy Kafka Century (Action Books, 2005); Given (Verse, 2002); and the chapbooks Shake Her (Dusie Kollektiv, 2009); and Farther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials(New Michigan, 2003; to be republished by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2012). She is co-editor of three anthologies: with Rachel Zucker, Starting Today: […]
Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis’s work has appeared or is forthcoming inCream City Review, Crab Orchard Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Madison Review, Margie, and Verse Daily. Her book,Intaglio, won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and was published by Kent State University Press in 2006. Glimmer Trainpublished her story, Sundress, and Stephen King recently listed it as a “distinguished story” in The Best American […]
Aracelis Girmay was awarded a 2015 Whiting Writer’s Prize for her third collection of poetry, The Black Maria (BOA Editions, 2016). Girmay received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for her second collection, Kingdom Animalia, which was published by BOA Editions in fall 2011. She is the author of Teeth, a collection of poems published by Curbstone Press in 2007. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Bellevue […]
April Ossmann was executive director of Alice James Books from 2000 – 2008, and left to launch her consulting business, helping poets to get published. She edits book manuscripts for and offers publishing advice to poets hoping to find a publisher (or to self-publish). She is the author of Anxious Music (Four Way Books, 2007), and has […]