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Joan Dewig Kempf deJong is assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts听and associate professor of art at the 91社区. For nearly听twenty-five years, she has taught college-level courses in graphic design, digital听photo imaging, illustration, web design, interactive media, and 3D computer听graphics. Her creative work has been shown in numerous invitational and听competitive exhibitions and is included in private and corporate collections.听Her current work consists of mixed media and computer-generated 3D graphics.

is the author of I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions, forthcoming 2017), winner of the National Poetry Series, and Oxyana, winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, forthcoming in 2017. He is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Brewer was born and raised in West Virginia.

is the author of five books of poems: Sycamore, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in March, 2017; The Raft, a National Poetry Series Award Winner; MOVING & ST RAGE, winner of the 1998 Vassar Miller Prize for Poetry; The Charm (2002); and LIP(2009). Her work appears recently in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, and Blackbird. Fagan directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Ohio State where she serves as Series Editor for The OSU Press/The Journal Wheeler Poetry Prize.

Maggie Graber is a poet originally from the Midwest. She holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Luminarts Cultural Foundation and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Her poems have been featured or are forthcoming in Jet Fuel Review, the Harpoon Review, GlitterMOB, the Button Poetry blog, Duende, and elsewhere. A former radio DJ and farmhand, she currently lives and teaches at the Cahaba Environmental Center on the Cahaba River in Alabama.

is the author of Fair Copy and Vow. Her poems have appeared inPoetry,听The New Yorker, and Best American Poetry 2013 and 2015.

has nine collections of poetry, most recently Revenance, listed as one of the 2014 鈥淪tandout鈥� books by the Academy of American Poets, and the forthcoming In June the Labyrinth (Red Hen Press, 2017). Her work has appeared recently in Kestrel, Best American Poetry, Hotel Amerika, Prairie Schooner, and Field, among others. She holds the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.

earned her MFA in creative writing as the Bernice Kert听Fellow at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and is the recipient of a Sewanee Writers鈥� Conference scholarship and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Five Points,听Ninth Letter,听American Literary Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere.

first collection, Into the Cyclorama, won the 2015 Michael Waters听Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Kenyon Review,听Ninth Letter, Mudlark, Asian American Literary Review, and DMQ Review. A graduate听of Warren Wilson College鈥檚 MFA program for writers and the recipient of听fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Hambidge Center,听Kim works at the University of Virginia School of Law as the assistant dean for听public service.

Kien Lam lives in Los Angeles, where he works as an esports writer. He received his听MFA in poetry from Indiana University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming听in Ploughshares, Rattle, and Hobart, among others. His favorite reptile is a Gatorade.听Follow him on Twitter @meanmisterkien.

Michael Marberry鈥檚 poetry has appeared in The New Republic, Sycamore Review,听Indiana Review, West Branch, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. His work has听received a Pushcart Prize and has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series.听Currently, Marberry lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he serves as coordinator听of the Poets-in-Print Reading Series. He is originally from rural Tennessee.

Leah Nielsen鈥檚 collection No Magic was published by Word Press in 2005.听Side Effects May Include, a chapbook, appeared as its own volume from The听Chapbook in 2014. Nielsen lives and teaches in Westfield, Massachusetts.

Annette Oxindine鈥檚 poems appear in Gulf Coast, Shenandoah, Crab Creek听Review, Willow Springs, New Orleans Review, Hollins Critic, Winter Tangerine听Review, RHINO Poetry, and elsewhere. Originally from Maryland, she teaches听literature at Wright State University, in Ohio.

poems have appeared in Harvard Review, The Kenyon听Review, Ladowich, Yale Review, and other journals; her essays and reviews have听appeared in The Believer, Boston Review, Massachusetts Review, The Toast and听other journals. Phillips teaches at Dickinson College.

third book, The Tornado Is the World, is forthcoming from听Saturnalia Books in December; her other books are The Girls of Peculiar (Saturnalia, 2012) and Famous Last Words (Saturnalia, 2008). Her poems have appeared听in The Best American Poetry, Boston Review, Ploughshares, FIELD, and elsewhere.听She co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State University.

Drew Pomeroy鈥檚 poetry has been published by The Louisville Review. He holds听an MFA from Spalding University, where he is currently leading an online alumni听workshop in poetry. Born and raised in Selma, Alabama, Pomeroy now lives and听works in Louisville, Kentucky, dividing his time between the Copper & Kings听brandy distillery and the Kentucky Opera.

Daniel Eduardo Ruiz was born in Bayam贸n, Puerto Rico, but currently lives听in Valpara铆so, Chile, on a Fulbright Scholarship. His poems can or will be found听in The Journal, Harpur Palate, Minnesota Review, and elsewhere.

Britton Shurley鈥檚 poetry has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, and听Wacamaw. He has also received Emerging Artist Awards from the Kentucky Arts听Council in both 2011 and 2017. Shurley is currently an associate professor of听English at West Kentucky Community & Technical College where he edits the听journal Exit 7 with his wife, poet Amelia Martens.

Brian Simoneau is the author of River Bound (C&R Press, 2014). His poems听have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Boulevard, Crab Orchard听Review, The Georgia Review, Mid-American Review, RHINO, and other journals,听and his awards include a work-study scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers鈥櫶鼵onference and an emerging writer fellowship from The Writer鈥檚 Center.听He lives in Connecticut with his family.

poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Mid-American听Review, Bellingham Review, Redivider, Ruminate, and elsewhere. A mini-chapbook,听Tracing the New Stars, was published in Rock & Sling. She is a graduate of the MFA听program at Eastern Washington University and lives in Spokane, Washington.

most recent book, Immortal Medusa, was chosen as one of听Kirkus Reviews鈥� Best Indie Books of 2015, and won the Adirondack Center for听Writing Poetry Award. Prior books include Charlotte Bront毛, You Ruined My Life听and The Origin of the Milky Way, which won the Gival Prize, an Independent听Publishers Silver Medal, and a Hoffer award. A professor of English at the College听of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, Ungar teaches writing and literature.

Jennifer Whalen鈥檚 poems can be found or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast,听Fugue, New South, Grist, The Boiler, and elsewhere. She was the 2015-2016 L.D.听& LaVerne Harrell Clark House writer-in-residence at Texas State University.听Residing in San Marcos, Texas, Whalen currently teaches college writing.

Katie Willingham teaches writing at the University of Michigan where she听earned her MFA. Her debut collection of poems, Unlikely Designs, is forthcoming听from University of Chicago Press in 2017. Willingham has poems in such journals听as The Kenyon Review, Cimarron Review, Whiskey Island, Phantom, and others.

Before becoming a novelist, , daughter of Tony Hillerman,听worked as a nonfiction author and journalist. In 2013 she revived her father鈥檚听classic Navajo mystery series with Spider Woman鈥檚 Daughter. Her second mystery,听Rock with Wings, was released in 2015, and quickly became a New York Times bestseller.听The third book in the new series, Song of the Lion, will debut in April 2017.

teaches writing at Shippensburg University and lives in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, with his wife and their two sons. 听He is the author of five novels. 听His story in this issue, "Holding Your Peace," will be included in the collection In the Wake of Our Vows, due out from Fomite Press in 2017. 听听

Matthew Socia鈥檚 stories have appeared in Tin House, CutBank, and Epiphany.听He has received a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers鈥� Conference and an听emerging writer fellowship from the Writers鈥� Room of Boston. He has an MFA听from Emerson College. Originally from northern Michigan, Socia now lives in听Connecticut.

Justin Bigos's stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly, The Best American Short Stories 2015, Ninth Letter, The Seattle Review, Memorious, and The Collagist, and a new story is forthcoming in Indiana Review. He is the author of the poetry chapbook Twenty Thousand Pigeons and co-editor of the literary journal Waxwing. He lives with his wife and daughter in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University.

Cate Hennessey鈥檚 essays and book reviews have appeared in or are forthcoming听from The Gettysburg Review, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, PANK, and Tinderbox听Poetry Journal. A Pushcart Prize recipient, she has been noted in The Best American听Essays and is a recent finalist for the Arts & Letters prize in creative nonfiction.听Hennessey teaches at West Chester University in Pennsylvania.

is the author of eight collections of poetry and prose, most听recently Catechism: A Love Story (Noctuary Press, 2016) and When I Was Straight:听Poems (A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Press, 2014). Her first lyric essay collection,听Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures (Colgate University Press, 2010; Bywater Books,听2014), won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, and her newest听collection of poems, SIX (Red Hen Press, 2016), was selected by C.D. Wright听as the winner of the AROHO/ To the Lighthouse Poetry Prize. Wade teaches听in the creative writing program at Florida International University and reviews听regularly for The Rumpus and Lambda Literary Review. She is married to Angie听Griffin and lives on Hollywood Beach.