ISSUE 4, 2026

Elias Constantine Diakolios holds an MFA from Columbia University and served as Poetry Editor for Columbia Journal. Elias’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, named a semi-finalist for The Journal Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, and has appeared in Notre Dame Review, Cream City Review, Epiphany, and other periodicals. Currently, Elias is a PhD student in English at the University of Maryland.

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 fourteen books of poetry, most recently Night Train to Memphis (White Pine Press, 2025). His poems have appeared in The Yale Review, The American Poetry Review, The New Criterion, The Hudson Review, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, among other periodicals. 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.

Ange Mlinko’s poems have been published in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books. Foolscap Press released her latest chapbook, Darkroom, in 2025. 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 asthe poetry editor for their literary journal, Subtropics.

Vidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north of England to Sri Lankan Tamils and now teaches at Harvard. His most recent books are Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir (W. W. Norton & Company, 2025) and Avidyā (Bloodaxe Books, 2025), for which he was awarded the Forward Prize.

Sam Ertelt is a Tennessee-based poet and MFA candidate at Sewanee: The University of the South. His work has been published in About Place Journal and Rattle. He works in Sewanee at the university library, assists in the school’s fencing program, and dotes on two lovely cats in his spare time.

Lana Matthews Sain lives, works, and writes in Sewanee, Tennessee, where she is always looking toward nature, experience, and the power of the next word to catalyze a perpetual unfolding of her truest self. She holds an MFA from the Sewanee School of Letters, and her poetry has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in SWING, Gleam, Shō Poetry Journal, and Reverie.

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 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, Poetry, DIAGRAM, and The Best American Poetry series. She currently lives in Seattle.

Robert Fitterman’s books of poetry include Rob’s Word Shop (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019), This Window Makes Me Feel (UDP, 2018), No Wait, Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself (UDP, 2014), Holocaust Museum (Counterpath, 2013), and Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books, 2009). He is the founding member of the artists-poets collective Collective Task. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at New York University.

Jenny Holden’s short stories have appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Harvard Review, Popshot, and other periodicals. Her work has also placed in competitions such as the Bridport Prize, The Hudson Prize, and The Big Moose Prize. Originally from Leicester in the UK, she now lives in Massachusetts.

Nathan Dragon is the author of The Champ is Here (Cash 4 Gold Books, 2024). His writing has appeared in NOON Annual, The Paris Review, New York Tyrant, The Baffler, and Cluny Journal. He was a DiTrapano Foundation resident in 2023. Along with Reagan Bird, he is the co-founder and editor of the publishing project Blue Arrangements.

Albe Harlow’s stories, critical essays, and poems are published in Cleveland Review of Books, The Hopkins Review, Cambridge Literary Review, Bellingham Review, 3:AM Magazine, Princeton University’s Inventory, Contrary Magazine, RHINO Poetry, La Piccioletta Barca, the prior issue of Gavialidae, and elsewhere. His project relating to the auditory legacy of Jacques Derrida, publicized by Cornell University Library, is ongoing. Harlow is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA Writing Program, attended the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, and was a longtime reader at Harvard Review. He is busy writing novels, essays, and stories from his home in New York City.

Marc Tweed is a writer, painter, and musician living in the Pacific Northwest. He is a frequent contributor to NOON Annual, and his fiction has also appeared in the Los Angeles Review, Hobart, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, and other literary journals. A collection of his short stories is forthcoming, and he continues to write. He recently purchased a new water heater.

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