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Deborah Paredez

Deborah Paredez is the author of the poetry volume, This Side of Skin, and the critical study, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory. She is co-founder and co-director of CantoMundo, a national organization for Latina/o poets. She lives in New York City where she teaches creative writing and ethnic studies at Columbia University.

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Michelle Dominique Burk

Michelle Dominique Burk is a PhD Fellow in the University of Houston's Literature and Creative Writing Department. She lives in Houston.

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Joy Katz

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Trace Peterson

Trace Peterson is a trans woman poet critic. Author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press) and forthcoming books of poetry, she also edits/publishes EOAGH Books which won a Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry in 2016. She is Co-editor of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books) and of Arrive on Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott (Chax Press). Her recent work appears in The Best American Experimental Writing 2016 (Wesleyan University Press), New Narrative As Contemporary Practice (ON Contemporary Practice), TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and at The Academy of American Poets website (poets.org). She currently teaches at Yale University and Hunter College.

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Jennifer Givhan

Jennifer Givhan is a Mexican-American poet from the Southwestern desert. She is the author of Landscape with Headless Mama (2015 Pleiades Editors’ Prize) and Protection Spell (2016 Miller Williams Series, University of Arkansas Press). Her chapbooks include Lifeline (Glass Poetry Press), The Daughter’s Curse (ELJ Editions), and Lieserl Contemplates Resurrection (dancing girl press). Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship, The Frost Place Latin@ Scholarship, The 2015 Lascaux Review Poetry Prize, The Pinch Poetry Prize, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best of the Net, Best New Poets, AGNI, Ploughshares, POETRY, TriQuarterly, Crazyhorse, Blackbird, and The Kenyon Review. She lives with her family in New Mexico.

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Meena Alexander

Meena Alexander’s Atmospheric Embroidery will be published in 2018 by TriQuarterly Books/ Northwestern University Press. Also forthcoming is the anthology Name me a Word: Indian Writers Reflect on Writing. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College.

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Lisha Adela García

Lisha Adela García is the author of Blood Rivers, which was published by Blue Light Press of San Francisco. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Border Senses, Mom Egg Review and elsewhere. She is a Senior Business Advisor at the University of Texas at San Antonio Small Business Development Center.

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Robert Ostrom

Robert Ostrom is the author of two books, Ritual and Bit and The Youngest Butcher in Illinois. He is also the author of three chapbooks: To Show the Living, winner of the Center for The New York Center for Book Arts 2008 Poetry Chapbook Competition; Nether and Qualms, and Crossing the Bridge Quietly. He lives in Queens and teaches at New York City College of Technology and Columbia University.

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Michael D. Copperman

Michael Copperman is the author of TEACHER: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi).  He has taught writing to low-income, first-generation students of diverse background at the University of Oregon for a decade.  His prose has appeared in The Oxford American, The Sun, Creative Nonfiction, Salon, Gulf Coast, Guernica, Waxwing, and Copper Nickel, among other magazines, and has won awards and garnered fellowships from the Munster Literature Center, Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, Oregon Literary Arts, and the Oregon Arts Commission. He is currently seeking literary representation.

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Lara Mimosa Montes

Lara Mimosa Montes is the author of The Somnambulist (Horse Less Press, 2016). She was born in the Bronx.

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Geneviève Robichaud

Geneviève Robichaud is a PhD candidate in the Département de littératures et de langues du monde at the Université de Montreal. She is also a CWILA (Canadian Women in the Literary Arts) Board Member. Her writing has appeared in The Capilano Review, Lemon Hound, The Puritan, and elsewhere. She is the author of Exit Text (Anstruther Press, 2016), a nano-essay on the errant and secret life of ideas.

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Lightsey Darst

Lightsey Darst is author of Thousands (forthcoming from Coffee House, fall 2017), Find the Girl, and DANCE. Her awards include an NEA Fellowship for Literature and a Minnesota Book Award. She is a co-founder of Durham Independent Dance Artists (DIDA). 

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Billy Cancel

Billy Cancel has recently appeared in Bombay Gin, West Wind Review & Other Rooms Press. His latest body of work Psycho’Clock is out on Hidden House Press. His collection Mock Trough Rasping Crow will be published by later this year. He is one half of the noise duo Tidal Channel. Visit him at billycancelpoetry.com.

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Christopher Soto

Christopher Soto is a poet based in Brooklyn, NY. For more information visit christophersoto-poet.com.

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Emily Skillings

Emily Skillings’s first book of poems, Fort Not, is forthcoming from The Song Cave. She is currently a Creative Writing Teaching Fellow at Columbia University.

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Li Shangyin

Li Shangyin (813–859) was a late Tang poet whose works are famous for their lush and obscure imagery. During his lifetime, he held various posts as a low-level government official, and though his poetry and prose were appreciated within certain literary circles, his status as one of the most important poets of his time was not recognized until after his death.

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Pablo Piccato

Pablo Piccato is Professor of History at Columbia University, where he specializes in Mexican history. He is currently working on an overview of crime in Mexico during the twentieth century.

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Federico Finchelstein

Federico Finchelstein is Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. He is the author of five books on fascism, populism, Dirty Wars, the Holocaust and Jewish history in Latin America and Europe. His new book, From Fascism to Populism in History, is forthcoming from the University of California Press.

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Luis Chaves

Luis Chaves is a poet, novelist, and translator. His work has been published in Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Germany, Italy and Slovenia. He was awarded  the National Poetry Prize by the Ministry of Culture in Costa Rica in 2012.  The Akademie Schloss Stuttgart in Germany awarded him the “Jean Jacques Rousseau” grant in 2011. He was a 2015 fellow for the Artists in Berlin Program and is currently based in Nantes, France.

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Camille Guthrie

Camille Guthrie is the author of three books of poetry–the most recent being Articulated Lair: Poems for Louise Bourgeois (Subpress, 2013). She is the Director of Undergraduate Writing at Bennington College.

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Stephen Dobyns

Stephen Dobyns has published fourteen books of poems, twenty-three novels, a book of short stories, and two books of essays on poetry.  His most recent book of poems The Day’s Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech was published by BOA Editions Ltd. in 2016.  His most recent novel is Saratoga Payback published in March 2017 by Blue Rider Press. Two of Dobyns novels and two short stories have been made into films.  His book of poems Black Dog, Red Dog was made into a feature length film in 2015 by James Franco.  He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, three fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and numerous prizes for his poetry and fiction.  Dobyns teaches in the MFA Program of Warren Wilson College, and in the past at Sarah Lawrence College, Emerson College, Syracuse University, Boston University, University of Iowa and half a dozen other colleges and universities.  He was born in Orange, New Jersey in 1941.  He lives in Westerly, RI.

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Jillian Weise

Jillian Weise is the author of The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, The Colony and The Book of Goodbyes. Her heteronym, Tipsy Tullivan, hosts a show on YouTube.

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Diana Khoi Nguyen

Diana Khoi Nguyen is currently a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Denver. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Poetry, American Poetry Review, PEN America and The Iowa Review.