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Andrea Abi-Karam
Andrea Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg, writing on the art of killing bros, the intricacies of cyborg bodies, trauma & delayed healing. Their chapbook, THE AFTERMATH (Commune Editions, 2016), attempts to queer Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Under the full Community Engagement Scholarship, Andrea received their MFA in Poetry from Mills College. With Drea Marina they co-hosted Words of Resistance [2012-2017] a monthly, radical, QTPOC open floor poetry series to fundraise for political prisoners’ commissary funds. Selected by Bhanu Kapil, Andrea’s first book is EXTRATRANSMISSION [Kelsey Street Press, 2019] a poetic critique of the U.S. military’s role in the War on Terror. Simone White selected their second assemblage, Villainy for forthcoming publication. Andrea toured with Sister Spit in 2018 and has performed at RADAR, The Poetry Project, The STUD, Basilica Soundscape, TransVisionaries, Southern Exposure, Counterpulse, Poets House, Radius for Arab-American Writers. With Kay Gabriel they are co-editing an anthology of Radical Trans Poetics forthcoming from Nightboat Books in 2020. They are a leo currently obsessed with queer terror and convertibles.

Caroline Clark
Caroline Clark's first collection, Saying Yes In Russian, came out in 2012 with Agenda Editions. Poems and images from her current project, Sovetica, are in the latest issues of Snow lit rev, Confingo, Tentacular and The Fortnightly Review.

Her translation of an essay by Olga Sedakova, In Praise of Poetry, came out with Open Letter Books in 2014. She edited the novel Meridian (Unthank, 2015) by David Rose and is on the (snow)board of Snow lit rev.


She moved back to her hometown of Lewes 6 years ago after living in Moscow and Montreal.

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Christopher Rey Pérez
Christopher Rey Pérez is the author of gauguin's notebook (&NOW Books). Currently, he lives in the West Bank of Palestine, where he is a lecturer at al-Quds Bard Honors College of Arts & Sciences. He is from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.

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Denise Jarrott
Denise Jarrott is the author of NYMPH (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2018). She is also the author of two chapbooks, Nine Elegies (Dancing Girl Press) and Herbarium (Sorority Mansion Press). Her poems and essays have appeared in jubilat, Black Warrior Review, Zone 3, Burnside Review and elsewhere. She grew up in Iowa and currently lives in Brooklyn.

Diana Arterian
Diana Arterian is the author of the poetry collection Playing Monster :: Seiche (1913 Press, 2017), the chapbooks With Lightness & Darkness and Other Brief Pieces (Essay Press, 2017), Death Centos (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), and co-editor of Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics (Ricochet, 2016). A Poetry Editor at Noemi Press, her creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Banff Centre, Caldera, Millay, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo, and her poetry, criticism, conversations, and translations have been featured in BOMB, Denver Quarterly, LitHub, Los Angeles Review of Books, NPR, The New York Times Book Review, and The Poetry Foundation website, among others.
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Diana holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Southern California, and an MFA in poetry from CalArts. She is currently Assistant Director for Los Angeles Poet Laureate Robin Coste Lewis' Poetic Truths & Reconciliation Commission: Los Angeles project. This spring, she was the Visiting Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Wichita State University.

Hadara Bar-Nadav
Hadara Bar-Nadav is an NEA fellow and author of several award-winning collections of poetry, among them The New Nudity, Lullaby (with Exit Sign), The Frame Called Ruin, and others. In addition, she is co-author of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, 8th ed. Individual poems appear in the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, The Believer, The New Republic, Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. She is a Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Jacob Saenz
Poet and editor Jacob Saenz was born in Chicago and raised in Cicero, Illinois. He earned a BA in creative writing from Columbia College in Chicago. His first collection of poetry, Throwing the Crown (Copper Canyon Press, 2018), was awarded the 2018 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize.

Saenz has been an editor at Columbia Poetry Review and an associate editor at RHINO. He works as an acquisitions assistant at the Columbia College library and has read his poetry at a number of Chicago venues. A CantoMundo fellow, he has also been the recipient of a Letras Latinas Residency Fellowship and a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.

Jamondria Harris
Jamondria Harris is a multimedia artist, utilizing language and experimental music. After writing four chapbooks over the last few years, quaerere (Magic Helicopter Press) is Jamondria’s first full-length work. The book implores the reader to seek, to ask, to desire in a collection of poems written from a black queer prospective.

Michael Morse
Michael Morse lives in New York City, teaches at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and is a poetry editor at The Literary Review. His book Void and Compensation was published by Canarium Books and was a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. Recent publications include the poems “Objective Perspective” and "Letter as Mix Tape In Medias Res" which can be found on Love’s Executive Order.

Manjiri Indurkar
Manjiri Indurkar is a poet who hails from the small central Indian town of Jabalpur. She is one of the founders and editors of the literary magazine Antiserious.

Rasma Haidri
Rasma Haidri grew up in Tennessee and makes her home on the arctic seacoast of Norway. She is the author of As If Anything Can Happen (Kelsay, 2017) and three college textbooks. Her writing has appeared in literary journals including Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Sycamore Review, and Fourth Genre and has been widely anthologized in North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. She is a current MFA candidate at the University of British Columbia and serves as a reader for the Baltic Residency program. Awards for her work include a Vermont Studio residency, the Southern Women Writers Association emerging writer award in creative non-fiction, the Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Letters & Science poetry award, and a Best of the Net nomination. Visit her at www.rasma.org.

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Ruby Robinson
Yorkshire poet Ruby Robinson, her debut poetry collection, Every Little Sound, was published by Pavilion Poetry, an imprint of Liverpool University Press, in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Best Collection, 2016.

Zephyr Lisowki
Zefyr Lisowski is a trans Southerner poet and editor living in NYC. She's the author of Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press, 2019) and a Poetry Co-Editor for Apogee Journal; Zefyr's work has appeared in Nat. Brut, Literary Hub, DIAGRAM, and The Texas Review, among many other places, and she's a 2019-2020 recipient of the CUNY Adjunct Incubator Grant from the Center for the Humanities. She lives online at @zefrrrrrrr and zeflisowski.com.

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Alex Gallo-Brown
Alex Gallo-Brown is the author of Variations of Labor (Chin Music Press, 2019), a collection of poems and stories. His writing has appeared in publications that include Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry Northwest, Electric Literature, The Brooklyn Rail, Salon, and Lit Hub. He lives in Seattle where he works as a union organizer.

Ken L. Walker
Ken L. Walker lives in Louisville, Kentucky after being in Brooklyn for the past 11 years. He is the author of Twenty Glasses of Water (Diez, 2014), Antworten (Greying Ghost, 2017), and has work in the Boston Review, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Brooklyn Rail, Seattle Review, Atlas Review, Lumberyard, and Tammy.

Nick Courtright
Nick Courtright is the founder and Executive Editor of Atmosphere Press. He is the author of Let There Be Light and Punchline, both published by Gold Wake Press, and his writing has appeared in The Harvard Review, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review Online, Boston Review, The Huffington Post, SPIN Magazine, and elsewhere. Find him at nickcourtright.com, and in Austin, Texas.

Rebecca Morgan Frank
Rebecca Morgan Frank's fourth collection, Oh You Robot Saints!, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon in 2021. She is also the author of Sometimes We're All Living in a Foreign Country and The Spokes of Venus, both from Carnegie Mellon University Press, and Little Murders Everywhere (Salmon Poetry), a finalist for the 2013 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She received the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award for her next manuscript in progress. Her poems have recently appeared in such places as The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Orion, Kenyon Review, and Poetry Ireland. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Memorious: a journal of new verse & fiction.

Sarah Dowling
Sarah Dowling is the author of Security Posture and Birds & Bees. Her poetry was included in the anthology I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. She teaches at the University of Washington Bothell and is international editor at Jacket2. She currently lives in Toronto.

Tina Cane
Tina Cane serves as poet laureate of Rhode Island and is the founder and director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI, for which she works as a visiting poet. Tina is also an instructor with the writing community, Frequency Providence. Over the past twenty years, she has taught French, English, and creative writing in public and private schools throughout New York City and Rhode Island. Tina’s poems and translations have appeared in numerous journals including Spinning Jenny, Tupelo Quarterly, Cargo, Two Serious Ladies, The Literary Review, and Jubliat. Her work, The Fifth Thought, was published by Other Painters Press in 2008. She is also the author of Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante (Skillman Ave. Press, 2016), Once More With Feeling (Veliz Books, 2017) and Body of Work ( Veliz Books, 2019). Tina was the 2016 recipient for the Fellowship Merit Award in Poetry from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She lives outside of Providence, RI with her husband and their three children.