Chad Sweeney teaches in the MFA program at California State University San Bernardino where he edits Ghost Town. He is the author of five books of poetry—most recently, White Martini of the Apocalypse (Marick Press, 2015); Wolf’s Milk: The Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney (Forklift, 2012); and Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James Books, 2010)—and the translator of […]
Heather Treseler’s poems appear (or are forthcoming) in Alaska Quarterly Review, Boulevard, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Missouri Review, Notre Dame Review, Obsidian, Pleiades, Southern Poetry Review, and Southern Humanities Review, among other journals. Her essays appear (or are forthcoming) in Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and in six books about postwar American poetry. […]
Born and raised in Albania, Ani Gjika moved to the U.S. at age eighteen and studied poetry writing at Simmons College and Boston University. She is the recipient of a 2010 Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship and winner of a 2010 Robert Fitzgerald Translation Prize. Her first book, Bread on Running Waters (Fenway Press, 2013), was […]
Paula Cunningham was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1963. She has lived in Belfast for much of her adult life. She won the Poetry Business competition in 1999, and a poetry chapbook, A Dog Called Chance, was published by Smith/Doorstop that year. Her poems have been widely anthologised. She also writes drama and […]
Tiffany Higgins is the author of And Aeneas Stares into her Helmet (Carolina Wren Press, 2009), selected by Evie Shockley as the winner of the 2008 Carolina Wren Press Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Big Bridge, nocturnes, dritto, Poetry, and other journals. In 2012, her poem, “You bear the scar at the base of your spine, […]
Youna Kwak was born in Seoul, Korea. She has lived in Maryland, Montana, Providence, and Paris, and now is a poet and translator living in Brooklyn, New York. Her poems and translations have appeared in journals includingThe Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, The Horizon Review, Left-Facing Bird, Muthafucka, Neo, and Po&sie. She teaches in the French department at New York University, […]
Yona Harvey lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her husband and two children.
Xochiqueztal Candelaria is the author of the poetry collection Empire (University of Arizona Press, 2011). She was raised in San Juan Bautista, California, and holds degrees from UC Berkeley and New York University. Her work has appeared in The Nation, New England Review, Gulf Coast, Seneca Review, and other magazines. She has also written articles for the online journal Solo Ella. […]