ISSUE 3, 2025

Ange Mlinko is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Foxglovewise (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025). Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books. Her awards include the Randall Jarrell Award in Criticism, the Frederick Bock Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the former poetry editor of The Nation. Currently, she teaches poetry at the University of Florida and serves as the poetry editor for their literary journal, Subtropics.

A. F. Moritz has written more than twenty books of poetry, most recently Great Silent Ballad (House of Anansi Press, 2024). Moritz served as the sixth Poet Laureate of Toronto. He also served for more than a decade as the Goldring Professor of the Arts and Society at Victoria University at the University of Toronto, where he continues to supervise projects in Creative Writing. Moritz has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, inclusion in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Ingram Merrill Fellowship. His collection, The Sentinel (House of Anansi Press, 2008), won the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize. Moritz has also translated the work of Spanish-language poets Ludwig Zeller and Gilberto Meza, most often in collaboration with his wife, Theresa Moritz. The two have also collaborated on several works of nonfiction, including biographies of Stephen Leacock and Emma Goldman.

Richard Tillinghast received his undergraduate degree from Sewanee: The University of the South before going on to study with Robert Lowell at Harvard. He has published thirteen books of poetry, most recently Blue If Only I Could Tell You (White Pine Press, 2022). His poems have appeared in such periodicals as The Yale Review, The American Poetry Review, The New Criterion, The Hudson Review, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, among others. He has taught courses at Berkeley, Harvard, University of Michigan, the college program at San Quentin State Prison, Trinity College Dublin, and the Poets’ House in Northern Ireland. Tillinghast is a winner of the James Dickey Prize for poetry from Five Points and the Cleanth Brooks Award for nonfiction from The Southern Review. He lives in Hawaii but spends his summers in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Susan Parr was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico and grew up in several states, including Florida, West Virginia, and Illinois. She earned a BA in Russian Studies from Barnard College and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Washington. Her first book of poems, Pacific Shooter (Pleiades Press, 2009), won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies including Alaska Quarterly Review, PageBoy, Poetry, DIAGRAM, and The Best American Poetry series. She currently lives in Seattle.

Ron L. Dowell wrote Watts UpRise, a poetry collection released by World Stage Press in 2022. A finalist for the 2022 Press 53 Award for Poetry, the collection is a very public love letter to Watts, Los Angeles, honoring its most notable artistic landmark, the Watts Towers, and its creator, Sabato Rodia. Dowell’s poetry resides in Penumbra, Writers Resist, Oyster River Pages, North Dakota Quarterly, The Wax Paper, Kallisto Gaia Press, The Penmen Review, Packingtown Review, and The Poeming Pigeon.

Emily Rosko is the author of three poetry collections: Weather Inventions (The University of Akron Press, 2018); Prop Rockery (The University of Akron Press, 2012), awarded the 2011 Akron Poetry Prize; and Raw Goods Inventory (University of Iowa Press, 2006), winner of the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize and Shenandoah’s 2007 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers. Additionally, she is the editor of A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line (University of Iowa Press, 2011). A former Wallace Stegner Writing Fellow at Stanford University, she also is the past recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship and a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. She joined the Department of English at the College of Charleston in 2010. She is the poetry editor for swamp pink.

Annie Stenzel is a lesbian poet who was born in Illinois, but did not stay put. Her second full-length collection is Don’t misplace the moon (Kelsay Books, 2024). Her poems have appeared in periodicals including Atlas and Alice, Chestnut Review, The Galway Review, Kestrel, The Night Heron Barks, On The Seawall, Rust & Moth, Saranac Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, SWWIM, The Lake, and The UCity Review. A poetry editor for Right Hand Pointing and West Trestle Review, she lives on unceded Ohlone land within walking distance of the San Francisco Bay.

Albe Harlow’s stories, essays, and poems have appeared in the The Hopkins Review, Cleveland Review of Books, Cambridge Literary Review, 3:AM Magazine, Bellingham Review, Princeton University’s Inventory, Contrary Magazine, RHINO Poetry, and elsewhere. His project relating to the auditory legacy of Jacques Derrida, publicized by Cornell University Library, is ongoing. He is a 2019 graduate of Columbia University’s Writing MFA Program and was a longtime reader at Harvard Review. He is currently querying a novel.

Melissa Reddish’s stories have appeared in Gargoyle, Raleigh Review, and Grist, among other publications. She has two collections of stories, The Distance Between Us (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2013) and My Father is an Angry Storm Cloud (Tailwinds Press, 2015), and a novella entitled Girl & Flame (Conium Press, 2016). Reddish received residencies at Soaring Gardens and the Rensing Center and currently teaches at Wor-Wic Community College.

Alexander Fredman is a writer living in New York. His work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Conjunctions, Hobart, Heavy Feather Review, and Dark Mountain, among other publications. He teaches at The City College of New York.

JP Gritton’s debut novel, Wyoming (Tin House Books, 2019), is a Kirkus best book of 2019. “Wonder Boy, Revisited” is one story in a developing series, the first of which, “Wonder Boy,” won the 2020 Meringoff Fiction prize from Literary Matters. The second story in the series, “Referral,” appeared in Gavialidae. Gritton teaches at Duke University.

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