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Anna Catone

Anna Catone’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cortland Review, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Lumina, Post Road, and elsewhere. She lives in Pittsburgh, where she teaches at Duquesne University and is associate editor at Coal Hill Review.

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Victoria Brockmeier

Victoria Brockmeier’s first book, my maiden cowboy names, won Truman State University’s 2008 T. S. Eliot Prize. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Buffalo.

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John Rawls

John Rawls (1921–2002) taught political philosophy at Harvard University and authored A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism, The Law of Peoples, and Justice as Fairness: A Restatement.

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Tanya Larkin

Tanya Larkin is the author of My Scarlet Ways. She attended Columbia University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Larkin's poems have appeared in Conduit, Quarterly West, and Ploughshares, among other publications.

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Campbell McGrath

Campbell McGrath is author of several books of poetry, including Pax Atomica, and most recently Seven Notebooks. He is Frost Professor of Creative Writing at Florida International University in Miami.

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John W. Evans

John W. Evans's poems appear in Poetry East, Nimrod, Best New Poets 2006, 5AM, and Hayden's Ferry Review. This fall, he will be a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

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Cynthia Lowen

Cynthia Lowen's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Black Warrior Review, Lumina, Provincetown Arts, and Tin House, among others.

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Nicholas Bredie

Nicholas Bredie has been published in The Brooklyn Rail. He received the Ford Poetry Prize from Columbia University in 2005.

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Marie Howe

Marie Howe is author of The Good Thief and, most recently, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University.

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Frances Justine Post

Frances Justine Post's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review, Seneca Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Manhattan.

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Barbara Claire Freeman

Barbara Claire Freeman is a poet and author of The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction. She teaches in the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Matevi Yankelevich

Matevi Yankelevich is editor and translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms and author of a long poem, The Present Work. He teaches Russian Literature at Hunter College in New York City.

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Bridgette Bates

Bridgette Bates has published poetry in various journals including Lit, American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, and 3rd Bed.

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Desirée Alvarez

Desirée Alvarez is a poet and painter born in New York City. Her first book, Devil’s Paintbrush, won the 2015 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Award from Bauhan Publishing. She has a video poem currently featured at Luna Luna Magazine and has published in Poetry and The Iowa Review. Alvarez has received numerous awards for her written and visual work, including the Willard L. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner. Her poetry is anthologized in The Traveler’s Vade Mecum, forthcoming in Fall 2016 from Red Hen Press. She has received fellowships as both a visual artist and writer from Yaddo, Poets House, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program. Alvarez exhibits widely and teaches at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, and The Juilliard School. She also teaches poetry to New York City public school teens as part of an Artists Space initiative. “Trading Post” is from a manuscript in progress.

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Charles Bernstein

Charles Bernstein's most recent books include Girly Man, With Strings, and Republics of Reality: 1975-1995. He is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Travis Nichols

Travis Nichols's work has appeared in FO(A)RM, Filter, Factorial, Lungfull, and the anthology Isn't It Romantic.

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Erin Belieu

Erin Belieu is Associate Professor of English at Florida State University. She has written several poetry collections, including Black Box.

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Elias Khoury

Elias Khoury (1948–2024) was a prizewinning Lebanese novelist, playwright, and critic and editor of the literary supplement of An Nahar, a Beirut daily. His novels in English translation include Gate of the Sun, Yalo, and As Though She Were Sleeping.

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Andrew Zawacki

Andrew Zawacki is the author of VideotapePetals of Zero Petals of OneAnabranch, and By Reason of Breakings. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, the New RepublicThe Nation, and elsewhere, and is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Georgia, where he directs the doctoral Creative Writing Program.

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Danielle Lazarin

Danielle Lazarin was born and raised in New York. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where this story won an Avery and Jule Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction in 2007. Her work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review.

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Todd O. McCracken

Todd O. McCracken is president of the National Small Business Association

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Zakes Mda

Zakes Mda is a South African novelist and poet. His most recent book is Wayfarers’ Hymns.

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Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel's debut novel is Vida.

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Cathie Jo Martin

Cathie Jo Martin is Professor of Political Science at Boston University. She is author of Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy.

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