Poetry
Richard Tillinghast | The Mission
Richard Tillinghast | Sweeping
Richard Tillinghast | Where Did They Go
Richard Tillinghast | Highway 61
Richard Tillinghast | Ambrosia
Elias Diakolios | Double Lariat
Elias Diakolios | Ludibria
Elias Diakolios | Pink Bean
Elias Diakolios | Wishing Well
Nonfiction
Barbara Black | Learning to Live with Ghosts
Fiction
Jessica Anthony | Ronald Reagan
Sam Kitterman & Kenny Geiler | Ludwig
Tatiana Schlote-Bonne | Twins
Stewart Love | Volcanic
Isabelle Puckette | The Knight
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.
Elias Diakolios holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University, where he taught undergraduate creative writing and served as Poetry Editor for Columbia Journal 59. His work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Epiphany, The Bookends Review, Juked, and Circle Show. He also makes linocuts and studies entomology.
Barbara Black is Professor of English and Tisch Chair in Arts and Letters at Skidmore College, where she teaches courses on Victorian literature and culture. She is the author of On Exhibit (University of Virginia Press, 2000), A Room of His Own (Ohio University Press, 2012), and Hotel London (Ohio State University Press, 2019), and a co-editor of the Broadview edition of Olive Schreiner’s Dreams (2020). In addition to her teaching at Skidmore, she is on the graduate faculty at Sewanee: The University of the South’s School of Letters. Black’s essays have appeared in such venues as Victorian Poetry, the Dickens Studies Annual, Salmagundi, and the Grolier Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era. She has served on the board of the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies organization and as the Book Review Editor of the international journal Nineteenth-Century Contexts. She currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Committee for PMLA.
Jessica Anthony is the author of three books of fiction, most recently Enter the Aardvark (Little Brown & Co., 2020). She lives in Maine.
Sam Kitterman and Kenny Geiler are New York-based writers most interested in screenplays and telling stories through film.
Tatiana Schlote-Bonne has an MFA in creative writing from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She won the 2020 Diverse Worlds grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation and second place in the 2019 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards for short fiction. Her work has been published in Narrative Magazine, F(r)iction, and The Los Angeles Review.
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