bio

Amit Majmudar is a widely published poet, novelist, and essayist. He is also a diagnostic nuclear radiologist and the state of Ohio’s first Poet Laureate. His latest book is Dothead (Alfred A. Knopf, March 2016).

Daniel Brown’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Partisan Review, PN Review, Parnassus, the New Criterion and other journals, as well as a number of anthologies including Poetry 180 (ed. Billy Collins) and The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (ed. David Yezzi). His work has been awarded a Pushcart prize, and his collection Taking the Occasion won the New Criterion Poetry Prize. A new collection, What More?, was published this year.

Paul Soto lives in Austin, where he studies, writes, and loves. He grew up in Venezuela, San Antonio, and the Rio Grande Valley, and looks to work with children for some time before heading up to graduate school. He is grateful for the support of his loved ones and the inspiration of his heroes, J.D. Salinger, Kendrick Lamar, and Louis C.K. His work has been featured in Unbroken Journal, Analecta, the Nocturnal, and Corvus Review.

Athar C. Pavis grew up in New York City, attended Mount Holyoke College and studied literature in France. She lives both in Maine and in France where she teaches at the University of Paris. Her poems have been published in the UK (New Poetry, Candelabrum) and in magazines in the United States in Measure, the Eclectic Muse, the Comstock Review, Slant, Oberon, the Raintown Review, Tule Review, and Trinacria, among others. She is currently working on a collection of poetry to be entitled Pulled Pork.

Elise Hempel’s poems have appeared in many places over the years, including Able Muse, Measure, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Poetry, the Midwest Quarterly, and Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry. Her chapbook Only Child was published by Finishing Line Press in 2014, and in 2009 she won an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for a sonnet that appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review. She grew up in suburban Chicago and now lives in central Illinois.

Autumn Newman is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program and has the great fortune of teaching English composition and creative writing at College of San Mateo to amazing, eclectic students. She has published in Cider Press Review, Suisun Valley Review, and Louis Liard Magazine. She is currently working on her first book of poems, a (mostly) autobiographical account of domestic violence.

Peter Kline teaches creative writing at Stanford University and the University of San Francisco.

Max Gutmann’s plays have been performed in New York City, Orlando, and the San Francisco Bay Area. He has contributed to more than three dozen journals, including Light Quarterly, Measure, and Cricket for children. His book There Was a Young Girl from Verona: A Limerick Cycle Based on the Complete Dramatic Works of Shakespeare sold several copies.

Ryan Wilson was born in Griffin, Georgia. His poems, translations, and criticism appear widely, in journals such as 32 Poems, First Things, the Hopkins Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Measure, and Unsplendid, and he was recently awarded the Walter Sullivan Prize for Promise in Criticism by the Sewanee Review. He holds graduate degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and Boston University, and he is currently a doctoral candidate at The Catholic University of America.

Leslie Schultz studied creative writing at the UW-Madison and at McNeese State University. She now lives in Northfield, Minnesota, where she helped the Arts and Culture Commission establish Sidewalk Public Poetry in 2011 to publish new work in a truly concrete medium. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared a variety of journals, including Mezzo Cammin, Swamp Lily Review, Poetic Strokes Anthology, Pacific Review, the Northern Review, the Madison Review, the Mid-American Poetry Review, the Midwestern Quarterly, Stone Country, Sun Dog, the Wayfarer, and in a chapbook, Living Room.