ISSUE 2, 2024

Merle Lyn Bachman’s most recent book is her poetry/prose memoir, Thank You for Being (2022). In 2018, Carcanet Press published her project, Nameless Country, an anthology of selected poems by Scottish-Jewish poet A. C. Jacobs, which she co-edited with Anthony Rudolf. She has another anthology forthcoming in 2024, this time of poems by the Yiddish poet Rosa Nevadovska, which Bachman selected and translated.

Leigh Anne Couch, formerly at Duke University Press and The Sewanee Review, is the editor of Swing, a literary periodical based in Nashville; in addition, she works as a freelance editor of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and miscellany. Her books of poetry include Every Lash (2020 Vassar Miller Prize winner) and Houses Fly Away (Zone 3 Press). She lives in Sewanee, Tennessee with writer Kevin Wilson and their sons, Griff and Patch.

Mandy Moe Pwint Tu is a writer and a poet from Yangon, Myanmar. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Guernica, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She is the Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Monsoon Daughter (Thirty West Publishing House, 2022) and Unsprung (Newfound, 2023).

Sofia M. Starnes, Virginia Poet Laureate, Emerita, 2012-2014, is the author of six poetry collections, most recently The Consequence of Moonlight (Paraclete Press, 2018), and editor or co-editor of several anthologies. She is the recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, among other commendations, including five Pushcart Prize nominations and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Union College, Kentucky. Her poetry has appeared in such journals as Poetry, First Things, Bellevue Literary Review, and Notre Dame Review, as well the Best of the Decade Edition of the Hawai’i Pacific Review and various other anthologies. Sofia lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, with her husband, Bill, Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, and jazz pianist.

Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, Good Apothecary, is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press. His other booklength projects include a first Selected Poems in English, translated from the Italian of Giovanni Giudici (1924–2011), and a hybrid memoir of World War II called Grim Reapers: A Family History of Ambiguous Loss. Kirchwey teaches in the MFA Program at Boston University.

Julian Mithra hovers between genders and genres, border-mongering and -mongreling. Winner of the 2023 Alcove Chapbook Prize, Promiscuous Ruin (WTAW, 2023) twists through labyrinthine deer stalks in the imperiled wilderness of inhibited desire. Unearthingly (KERNPUNKT, 2 022) excavates forgotten spaces to mine the occult for queer solidarity.

Charles Byrne is a writer and teacher with work recently published or forthcoming in Meridian, New American Writing, Sonora Review, and Notre Dame Review.

Lindsey Harding’s debut novel, Pilgrims 2.0, was published in November 2023 by Acre Books. Her recent flash fiction and stories have appeared in The Palisades Review, Lost Balloon, Spry Literary Journal, and Prick of the Spindle, among other periodicals. She lives in Athens, Georgia, along with her husband and four children.

JP Gritton’s debut novel, Wyoming, a Kirkus best book of 2019, is out with Tin House. “Referral” is one story in a developing series, the first of which, “Wonder Boy,” won the 2020 Meringoff Fiction prize from Literary Matters. He is an assistant professor in the English department at Duke University.

Kevin Yeoman has an MFA from Eastern Washington University, where he teaches English Composition and Creative Writing. He is at work on a collection of short stories. His work has appeared in Clamor and BarBar, among other periodicals.

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