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Lesly-Marie Buer

Lesly-Marie Buer is an applied medical anthropologist and author of the upcoming book Rx Appalachia. She is the data manager at Choice Health Network in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Tanya Olson

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Chelsea Jennings

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Wayne Johns

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Rodney Jack

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Felicia Zamora

Felicia Zamora is the author of the books Quotient (Tinderbox Editions, 2021), Body of Render (2018 Benjamin Saltman Award winner, Red Hen Press, 2020), Instrument of Gaps (Slope Editions, 2018), & in Open, Marvel (Parlor Press, 2018), and Of Form & Gather (2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize winner, University of Notre Dame Press, 2017). She is a 2019 CantoMundo Fellow, 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize winner, and was the 2017 Poet Laureate of Fort Collins, Colorado. Her poetry is found or forthcoming in Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Alaska Quarterly Review, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, Lana Turner, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review Poem of the Week, and The Nation. She teaches creative writing online for Colorado State University, is Associate Poetry Editor for the Colorado Review, and is Education Programs Manager for the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. 

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Vincent Guerra

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Anna Maria Hong

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Grant Souders

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Jonathan M. Metzl

Jonathan M. Metzl is Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. His latest book is What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms.

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Jacques J. Rancourt

Jacques J. Rancourt is the author of Brocken Spectre (forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2021), Novena (winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd prize), and the chapbook In the Time of PrEP (Beloit Poetry Journal). His poems have appeared in the Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. He has held poetry fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He lives in San Francisco.

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Masoud Movahed

Masoud Movahed is a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has written for Foreign Affairs, Harvard Economic Review, Harvard International Review, Yale Journal of International Affairs, World Economic Forum, and Aljazeera English. Find him on Twitter @MasoudMovahed.

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Devon Miller-Duggan

Devon Miller-Duggan has published poems in Rattle, Margie, Christianity and Literature, Gargoyle, Massachusetts Review, and Spillway. She teaches Poetry Writing at the University of Delaware. Her books include Pinning the Bird to the Wall, Alphabet Year, and The Slow Salute (Lithic Press Chapbook Competition Winner, 2018). She also directs the Poets’ Corner Reading Series, a joint project of the English Department of the Uiversity of Delaware and St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church in which poets read (mostly) their favorite poems by other poets—a cross between Poetry Outreach and Story Hour for grown-ups.

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Robin McDowell

Robin McDowell is Ph.D. Candidate in African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She was a Gerald Gill Fellow at Tufts University Center for the Study of Race and Democracy and is cur- rently a Fellow at the History Design Studio at the Hutchins Center for African American Research.

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C. Russell Price

C. Russell Price is a genderqueer Appalachian punk writer originally from Virginia but now lives in Chicago. They are a Lambda Fellow in Poetry, Ragdale Fellow, Windy City Times 30 Under 30 honoree, essayist, and poet. Their chapbook Tonight, We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other was released by Sibling Rivalry Press. Their full-length poetry collection oh, you thought this was a date?!: APOCALYPSE POEMS explores sexual assault survivorship and queer liberation. They are currently at work on a collection of essays, Everyone’s Doing It; They Just Aren’t Telling You.

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Alexis L. Boylan

Alexis L. Boylan is Associate Professor of Art and Art History and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut, and is Director of Academic Affairs for University of Connecticut’s Humanities Institute. She is author of Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man and editor of Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall.

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John Ahlquist

John Ahlquist is associate professor in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego.

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Sarah A. Seo

Sarah A. Seo is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Iowa and author of Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom.