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Katie Hartsock’s first book of poems Bed of Impatiens (Able Muse Press, 2016) was a finalist for the Ohioana Prize in poetry. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Arion, Dappled Things, Ecotone, Grist, Image, Pleiades, Quiddity, and Poetry. She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Oakland University in Michigan, where she lives with her husband and sons.

Len Krisak’s most recent books are translations of Rilke’s New Poems, 1907–1908, and Prudentius’s Peristephanon. His brand new translation of the Aeneid will appear in the fall of 2020 from Hackett. With work in the Antioch, the Hudson, Sewanee, Southwest, and PN Reviews, he is the recipient of the Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, and Robert Frost Awards, and a four-time champion on Jeopardy!

David MacRae Landon’s poems have appeared in the Dark Horse, the Southwest Review (Marr Prize Runner-up), Think Journal, Birmingham Poetry Review, Sewanee Theological Review, Subtropics, American Journal of Poetry, Southern Poetry Review (Guy Owen Prize finalist), Harvard Advocate Centennial Anthology, and elsewhere. As an actor he has performed with the Nashville, Alabama, and New York Shakespeare Festivals, and with the Provincetown and New Orleans Tennessee Williams Festivals.

Edward Lee’s poetry, short stories, nonfiction and photography have been published in magazines in Ireland, England, and America, including the Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen, and Smiths Knoll. He is currently working on a novel. He also makes musical noise under the names Ayahuasca Collective, Lewis Milne, Orson Carroll, Blinded Architect, Lego Figures Fighting, and Pale Blond Boy.

Hailey Leithauser is the author of Swoop (Graywolf, 2013) and Saint Worm, newly out from Able Muse Press. She has recent and forthcoming work in AGNI, the Cincinnati Review, the Hopkins Review, Poet Lore, and the Yale Review.

Amit Majmudar is a widely published poet, translator, novelist, and essayist. His forthcoming poetry collection is What He Did in Solitary (Knopf, 2020), and his most recent book in the United States is Godsong: A Verse Translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, with Commentary (Knopf, 2018). Recent and forthcoming novels published by Penguin Random House, India, include Sitayana and Soar.

Mary Meriam edited the anthology, Irresistible Sonnets. She’s the author of My Girl’s Green Jacket and The Lillian Trilogy, and her poems have appeared in Literary Imagination, Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, Think, Evansville Review, and Measure.

Richard Meyer, a former English and humanities teacher, lives in Mankato, Minnesota. His poems have appeared in a variety of publications, including Able Muse, theRaintown Review, Think, Measure, Alabama Literary Review, Light, and the Evansville Review. He was awarded the 2012 Robert Frost Farm Prize for his poem “Fieldstone” and was the recipient of the 2014 String Poet Prize for his poem “The Autumn Way.” A book of his collected poems, Orbital Paths, was a silver medalist winner in the 2016 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards.

Alfred Nicol collaborated with Rhina P. Espaillat and illustrator Kate Sullivan to create the chapbook Brief Accident of Light: Poems of Newburyport (Kelsay Books, 2019). Nicol’s most recent full-length collection of poetry, Animal Psalms, was published in 2016 by Able Muse Press. He has published two other collections, Elegy for Everyone (2010), and Winter Light, which received the 2004 Richard Wilbur Award. Nicol’s poem “Addendum” was included in the 2018 edition of The Best American Poetry.

Suzanne Noguere is the author of a book of poems, Whirling Round the Sun (Midmarch Arts Press, 1996), as well as two natural history children’s books. With James V. Hatch she cowrote a novel and the musical play Klub Ka: The Blues Legend, which was performed at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York City, where she lives. With artist Miriam Adams she created the art/poetry series Leaf Lines. Her honors include a Poetry Society of America award, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, and the University of Iowa Partnership in the Arts Award for Klub Ka.