poetry

Clare Jones is a graduate of Carleton College. Her work has been recognized with fellowships from the Fulbright Program and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she earned an MFA in 2014.

Elizabeth Wager is a second-year MFA candidate studying at Southern Connecticut State University. Originally from the Southern Tier in Upstate New York, she lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and works as a freelance writer and editor. Her poems have appeared in the Allegheny Review, the Rectangle, and Yellow Chair Review. When she’s not writing for work, for school, or for fun, she enjoys sewing, graphic design work, and ice skating.

Cody Walker is the author of The Self-Styled No-Child and Shuffle and Breakdown (both from Waywiser) and the coeditor of Alive at the Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific Northwest (Ooligan). He lives with his family in Ann Arbor, where he teaches English at the University of Michigan.

Liz Ahl lives in Holderness, New Hampshire. Her work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Measure, Nimrod, Rappahannock Review, and River Styx. Her most recent chapbook, Home Economics, was published by Seven Kitchens Press in 2016.

Elise Hempel’s poems have appeared in numerous journals over the years, including Poetry, Measure, Valparaiso Poetry Review, the Evansville Review, and the Midwest Quarterly, as well as in Ted Kooser’s weekly column, American Life in Poetry. She is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award and the winner of the 2015 Able Muse Write Prize in Poetry and is a finalist in the 2016 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize from Crab Orchard Review. Her first full-length poetry collection, Second Rain, was released in summer 201