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Contributors’ Notes

Patrick Autréaux is the author of dozens of books and articles. The view of illness as an inner experience informs his first cycle of writing, ending withSe survivre (Verdier, 2013). Dans la vallée des larmes (In the Valley of Tears) was published in English by UIT Books (USA) in 2019. In 2024, Pussyboy (Verdier, 2021), his novel about an erotic passion, was published in Spanish by Canta Mares (Mexico). His latest novel, L’époux, was published by Gallimard in 2025. His fiction and essays have appeared in translation in Asymptote, Socrates on the Beach, 3:AM Magazine, and elsewhere. Autréaux divides his time between Paris and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Flora Elmi Beagley is a writer based in London. She won the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize and has been longlisted for the National Poetry Competition and the Bridport Prize. Her work explores intimate histories, Anglo-Finnish heritage, materiality, and interwoven linguistics. Beagley’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in Wasafiri, Prairie Schooner, Boulevard, The Belfast Review, and West Trade Review.

Carly Berwick is a writer and teacher based in New Jersey. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, included in Best Small Fictions 2025, and has published in The Cincinnati Review, The Vestal Review, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. An alumna of The Kenyon Review’s residential Writers Workshop, she is at work on a novel.

T.C. Boyle’s new novel is No Way Home (Liveright, 2026). In 2027, Liveright will publish his collection The End Is Only a Beginning, which will include “What the Photos Didn’t Reveal,” along with eleven more new stories. Boyle is very happy to be drawing breath and walking the earth.

Thea Brown is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Loner Forensics (Northwestern University Press, 2023). Her recent and forthcoming poems can be found in Bennington Review; Coma; the tiny;Action, Spectacle; River Styx; and elsewhere. Brown lives in Baltimore and teaches creative writing at the George Washington University.

Prince Bush is a poet from Nashville whose poems appear in The Believer, The Cortland Review, The Drift, and elsewhere. He received a fellowship from the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets while earning his BA in English as an Erastus Milo Cravath Presidential Scholar at Fisk University. Bush earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Literary Trust Fellow. He is currently a Yates Fellow and a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati.

Kai Carlson-Wee is the author of RAIL (2018) and The Cloudmaker’s Key (forthcoming in 2027), both from BOA Editions. He has received a Pushcart Prize, a MacDowell Fellowship, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. He lives in San Francisco and is a lecturer at Stanford University.

Jessie Cato (she/her) is a writer and climate activist from Naarm/Melbourne. She writes fiction and nonfiction pieces that explore class and gender roles, especially as expressed on and through the human body. Her writing has been featured in Stadtsprachen,Flash Fiction Magazine, and The Quarter(ly). Cato lives in Berlin, where she is at work on her first novel. 

Victoria Chang’s most recent book of poems is With My Back to the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), which received the Forward Prize for Poetry. Chang is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and serves as Director of Poetry@Tech.

Dante Di Stefano is the author of six collections of poetry and a chapbook, including the book-length poems Midwhistle (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023) and The Widowing Radiance (Bordighera Press, 2025). He coedited the anthology Misrepresented People (NYQ Books, 2018). His latest collection, Heartland Errata, is forthcoming from Etruscan Press in fall 2026.

Laura Didyk is a writer and artist based on California’s Monterey Peninsula. Her poetry has appeared in The Sun and elsewhere. She has held residencies at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and MacDowell and is working on a memoir and a poetry collection.

Timothy Duffy lives in Utah with his wife and three children. His writing has appeared recently in Salt Hill,trampset, and elsewhere. He is at work on a debut collection, The Rabbit in the Archive, and teaches at Utah Valley University.

Luke Dunne is a writer from London. His poetry has appeared or will appear in The New Republic, The London Magazine, and berlin lit. His criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, The Little Review, West Branch, and Socrates on the Beach. He has won the Jane Martin Poetry Prize and been longlisted for the Dan Veach Prize, the London Magazine Poetry Prize, and the Bridport Prize.

Morgan English is the recipient of The Florida Review’s 2021 Editors’ Award in Poetry. Her poetry, criticism, and nonfiction have been featured in publications and institutions including Arc Poetry, SHOOSTER Arts & Literature, and The Believer. English was a contributor to Emily Mason: Unknown to Possibility (Rizzoli, 2025), the first comprehensive survey of the abstract artist’s work. She lives in Vermont.

Mary Fontana’s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, SWIMM, Moss, and elsewhere. Her first book of narrative nonfiction, Strangers in the Province of Joy, is forthcoming from Orbis Books in May 2026. Fontana lives in Seattle.

Carlos Andrés Gómez is a Colombian American poet from New York City and the author of Fractures (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020), selected by Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the Felix Pollak Prize. Winner of the International Book Award, Gómez has been published in The Nation, New England Review, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World (W. W. Norton, 2022), and elsewhere.

Jacque Gorelick’s essays on motherhood, health, and estrangement have been published in Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times, Salon, and more. Map of a Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Finding the Way Home (Vine Leaves Press, 2026) is the story of a life upended by a medical crisis. Gorelick lives and writes in California with her husband and two sons.

Harrison Hamm is the author of If It’s Country Music You Want (Poetry Society of America, 2026), winner of the 2025 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. He was a 2025 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. His writing appears in Best New Poets, Poetry, The Missouri Review, The Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Originally from rural Tennessee, Hamm is currently a Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellow and MFA candidate in creative writing at New York University.

Born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, Gary Jackson is the author of the poetry collections small lives (University of New Mexico Press, 2025), origin story (University of New Mexico Press, 2021), and Missing You, Metropolis (Graywolf, 2010), which received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He coedited The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry (Blair, 2021), and his poems have appeared in journals including Callaloo, The Sun, and Copper Nickel. Jackson is the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair of English in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, both at the University of Pittsburgh.

Jill Jones’s latest book is How To Emerge (Vagabond Press, 2025). Her book Wild Curious Air (Recent Work Press, 2020) won the 2021 Wesley Michel Wright Prize, and in 2015 Jones won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry for The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014). Her work is widely published in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, the UK, and the US. She recently contributed a chapter to New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry (Palgrave, 2021), and a cowritten chapter to the Cambridge History of Australian Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2025). Jones has worked as an academic, arts administrator, film reviewer, journalist, book editor, and bookseller.

Jung Young Moon (b. 1965) is a South Korean novelist and short story writer. He studied psychology at Seoul National University and made his literary debut with the publication of 겨우 존재하는 인간 (A Man Who Barely Exists) in the Winter 1996 issue of the quarterly magazine 작가세계 (Writer’s World ). Since then, he has published fifteen novels and short story collections, his most recent novel being 프롤로그 에필로그 (Prologue Epilogue, Munhak Dongnae, 2022). In 2012, his novel 어떤 작위의 세계  (A Contrived World, Moonji Publications, 2011; trans. Mah Euniji and Jeffrey Karvonen, Dalki Archive Press, 2016) won the Han Moo-sook, Dong-in, and Daesan Literary Awards, marking the first triple crown in Korean literature. He has participated in international residencies, including the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program and UC Berkeley’s Center for Korean Studies. Jung is a prolific English-to-Korean translator: In addition to his own literary works, Jung has more than fifty translations of books to his name.

Joan Naviyuk Kane’s most recent book, with snow pouring southward past the window, will be published in the 2026 Pitt Poetry Series. A 2025 United States Fellow, Kane raises her children in Portland and teaches creative writing at Reed College.

Tae Rang Kim is a translator of Korean and Japanese. He grew up in South Korea, Japan, and the US and studied creative writing and comparative literature at Waseda University. In 2023 and 2024, he participated in Korean and Japanese translation workshops at the British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School, hosted by the University of East Anglia and led by translators Anton Hur and Polly Barton. Kim’s work has appeared inAsymptote.

Julia Kolchinsky, PhD, is the author of four poetry collections: The Many Names for Mother (The Kent State University Press, 2019), Don’t Touch the Bones (Lost Horse Press, 2020), 40 WEEKS (YesYes Books, 2023), and Parallax (University of Arkansas Press, 2025). Her next book, When the World Stopped Touching (YesYes Books, 2023), is a collection in collaboration with Luisa Muradyan. Kolchinsky is at work on a set of linked lyric essays about parenting her neurodiverse child and the end of her marriage under the shadow of the war in Ukraine, her birthplace. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction in Brevity, The Cincinnati Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Denison University.

Joan Larkin’s sixth book is Old Stranger: Poems (Alice James Books, 2024). Her previous titles include Blue Hanuman (Hanging Loose Press, 2014) and My Body (Hanging Loose Press, 2008). Larkin has taught at Smith, Sarah Lawrence, and Brooklyn College, among others. Her honors include the Shelley Memorial Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and Academy of American Poets and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships.

Éireann Lorsung works in a field of images, objects, movement, and texts. She is a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, and her collections include The Century (Milkweed Editions, 2020), Pattern-book (Carcanet, 2025), and the forthcoming Pink Theory!, which Milkweed Editions will publish in 2027. Find more at ohbara.com.

Radha Marcum is the recipient of the Washington Prize for Pine Soot Tendon Bone (The Word Works, 2024) and author of Bloodline (3: A Taos Press, 2017), winner of the New Mexico–Arizona Book Award for Poetry. Also an award-winning prose writer on health and the environment, Marcum has contributed to American Rivers, Outside, and the publications of the Wilderness Society. Her poetry appears in Conjunctions, Colorado Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere.

Emily Mathis is a writer and dancer in Brooklyn. She was the 2024 nonfiction winner of Sonora Review’s erotic-themed contest and has received accolades from Miami Book Fair’s Emerging Writers’ Fellowship, the Hudson Prize (Black Lawrence Press), and the Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize (Seneca Review Books). She is seeking to publish her debut essay collection and is working on a novel. Find her at emilymathiswriting.com and on Instagram at @emily_a_mathis.

Christopher Matthews teaches in the Residential College at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared in Copper Nickel, The Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere.

Leslie Adrienne Miller’s collections of poetry include Y (2012), The Resurrection Trade (2007), and Eat Quite Everything You See (2002) from Graywolf Press, and Yesterday Had a Man in It (1998), Ungodliness (1994), and Staying Up for Love (1990) from Carnegie Mellon University Press.

Alicia Mountain is the author of Four in Hand (BOA Editions, 2023) and High Ground Coward (University of Iowa Press, 2018), which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. She lives in New York City, where she writes and practices psychoanalysis. Mountain is a core faulty member and assistant teaching professor in the Brooklyn Writers Foundry low-residency MFA program.

Ivan David Ng is an artist from Singapore, presently based in the US. Working across painting, performance, and emerging technology, he investigates what it means to exist as human wedged between land and sky, drawing speculatively from the contested origins of the Hakka. Ng attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and his MFA in Painting and Drawing from The Ohio State University, conducting research at Ohio State’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design. In 2020, he won the Gold Award in the UOB Painting of the Year competition, one of the most recognized art accolades in Southeast Asia.  His work has been published in New American Paintings and Art & Market,and he has collaborated on projects with Louis Vuitton, Uber, and Singapore Land Group. Ng’s recent exhibition history includes shows at Chilli Art Projects in London (2024), Long Story Short in New York City (2024), Oolong Gallery in San Diego (2025), and Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center in Chicago (2026). 

Claire Oleson is a queer writer and a 2020 Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction. Her work is featured or forthcoming in Joyland Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Foglifter, among others. Her chapbook of short stories, Things from the Creek Bed We Could Have Been, was published in May 2020 by Newfound Press. Oleson is represented by Eloy Bleifuss Prados at Neon Literary. Find her online at claire-oleson.com.

Meghann Plunkett is a screenwriter and poet. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she served as a poetry reader for The New Yorker before shifting her focus to television and film. Her credits includeStation 19, Rebel, and First Lie Wins, an adaptation of the New York Times–bestselling novel, which she cocreated alongside Krista Vernoff and Octavia Spencer. Her collection What We Did to Her Made the Water Rise was published by Black Lawrence Press (2025). Plunkett’s writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Narrative Magazine, and Copper Nickel, among other publications.

Maya C. Popa is the author of If You Love That Lady, forthcoming from W. W. Norton and Picador in 2026. Her previous collections include Wound Is the Origin of Wonder (W. W. Norton, 2022; Picador, 2023), named one of The Guardian’s best books of poetry. American Faith (Sarabande, 2019) was runner-up for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize judged by Ocean Vuong and was awarded the North American Poetry Book Award in 2020. She has received awards from the Poetry Foundation and the Oxford Poetry Society, among others. She holds a PhD on the role of wonder in poetry from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she was a recipient of a department bursary for exceptional merit, as well as degrees from Oxford University, New York University, and Barnard College. Popa is the Poetry Reviews Editor at Publishers Weekly and the founder of Conscious Writers Collective, where she teaches and oversees all literary programming for poets and prose writers.

Ellen Rogers holds an MFA in creative writing from Western Washington University and is a 2025–26 Loft Mentor Series fellow. Her work appears in AGNI, Ecotone, Painted Bride Quarterly, and other journals. Formerly a poetry editor for The Hopper and assistant managing editor of Bellingham Review, Rogers now works in environmental communications.

Patrick Rosal is the author of The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems (Persea Books, 2021), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright research program. A distinguished professor at Rutgers University – Camden, Rosal is working on a collection of prayer poems as well as a prose book on the sacred.

Tobias Ryan is a writer, translator, and editor from Wales, living in France. His writing and translations have appeared in Asymptote, Tolka, Firmament, and elsewhere. His novella, GLANTZ, was published by Equus Press in 2025. Ryan is coeditor in chief of minor literature[s].

Arman Salem is the winner of the 2026 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is currently working on a book of the teachings of the eighth-century Sufi mystic Rabi’a al-’Adawiyya, forthcoming from the Modern Library in spring 2028.

Daniel Spielberger’s writing has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Esquire, The Baffler, Vogue, Interview Magazine, and other outlets. Spielberger runs a Google Docs interview series called Daniel Docs. He is currently working on a spy novel.

Alison Clara Tan is a Southeast Asian writer based in London. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in fourteen poems, Gutter, and Washington Square Review, among other publications. She is a Barbican Young Poet, a Brooklyn Poets Fellow, and a member of the London Writers Centre’s 2025 Poetics Lab.

Kate Tooley is a queer writer originally from the Atlanta area, now based in Brooklyn. They are an alum of Lambda Literary’s Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices and The Kenyon Review’s Writers Workshop, and they hold an MFA from The New School. Their work appears in journals including Passages North, Wigleaf, and Barren Magazine and has won the Tennessee Williams Fest Very Short Fiction Contest and the Larry Brown Short Story Award. They’re currently working on a queer gothic novel about small-town Southern cults, murder, and bodily possession.

Ross White is the director of Bull City Press, an independent publisher of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He is the author of Charm Offensive (Black Spring Press Group, 2023), winner of the Sexton Prize for Poetry, and three chapbooks. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, and The Southern Review, among other publications. White is a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches creative writing, grammar, editing and publishing, and podcasting. Follow him on Bluesky at @rosswhite.com.

Gus Wray is a writer from Sussex living in London. His writing has appeared in Port (2024) and Crumble (2025). He works in twentieth-century architectural heritage and preservation.

Alexis Zanghi is a writer based in New Haven, Connecticut. Her work appears in Catapult, Five Points, Mn Artists, Full Stop, The Point, CityLab, Jacobin, and The Atlantic. She is the recipient of residencies and awards from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Study Center of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), the Minnesota State Arts Board, the University of Minnesota, and the American Association of University Women (AAUW).

Kuln’Zu Zucule is an artist, scholar, and poet from Maputo, living in Nairobi. Their poetry appears in Brittle Paper, Kalahari Review, and The Shallow Tales Review. Their visual artistry is a sustained meditation on Afroqueerness through urban cultural production, migration, and movement.