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, who is best known for his sustained, prolific songwriting听and recording, was creating collages even before he was writing songs. Often听satirical, political, dark, and sarcastic, his collages have been exhibited at听Michael Imperioli鈥檚 Studio Dante in New York, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame听in Cleveland, and Merge Records headquarters in Durham, North Carolina.

Benjamin Alfaro is a writer and educator from Detroit. He is the co-author of听Home Court(Red Beard, 2014), and his work has been featured in The BreakBeat听Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, on HBO, and elsewhere. Alfaro听is a teaching artist with InsideOut Literary Arts Project where he currently serves听as the youth leadership coordinator.

is the author of The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy听(Steel Toe Books, 2015). He won the 2015 Poetry Competition at Columbia听Journal, and his recent and upcoming publications include poetry in The Missouri听Review, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Best New Poets 2014, The Journal, Columbia听Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, The Iowa Review blog, and Hayden鈥檚 Ferry听Review and creative nonfiction in Boulevard, Passages North, and Colorado Review.听Citro received his MFA from Indiana University and lives in Syracuse, New York.

is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at听Washington & Jefferson College. His first book, Reveille (University of Arkansas听Press, 2015), won the Miller Williams Prize, and his more recent work can be听found in AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Image, The New听Criterion, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He edits the journal 32 Poems and听lives with his wife and their three young children in Washington, Pennsylvania.

is a writer and lyricist from Pennsylvania and the author of听a chapbook, Love and a Loaded Gun, forthcoming from Minerva Rising Press.听She has received awards from Jabberwock Review, Ruminate Magazine, and the听Academy of American Poets, and her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in听Nimrod, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Pinch, and The Arkansas International, among others. Cole holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale听and is currently a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati. You can reach听her on Twitter via @EmilyColeWrites.

first book, Thaw, won the National Poetry Series and is听forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press in 2017. Her work appears in听The Southeast Review(winner of the Gearhart Poetry Contest), Washington Square听Review, Southern Humanities Review (finalist for the Auburn Witness Prize),听Arcadia (finalist for the Dead Bison Editor鈥檚 Prize), Sugar House Review, American听Literary Review, and Carolina Quarterly, among others.

Gregory Fraser is the author of three poetry collections: Strange Piet脿, Answering听the Ruins, and Designed for Flight. His poetry has appeared in journals including听The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, and The Gettysburg Review.听He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the听John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Fraser serves as professor of听English at the University of West Georgia.

John Gallaher鈥檚 most recent collection is In a Landscape (BOA, 2015), and other听poems appear in New England Review, Poetry, FIELD, and Pleiades.

holds a PhD in creative writing from Florida State听University. Her poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, Mid-American听Review, Hayden鈥檚 Ferry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Copper Nickel, and others. They also appear in the anthologies Best New Poets 2013, It Was Written: Poems听Inspired by Hip-Hop, and Myrrh, Mothwing, Smoke: Erotic Poems. Honors include a听Tennessee Williams Scholarship to Sewanee Writers鈥� Conference, a scholarship to听Martha鈥檚 Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and a residency at Vermont Studio Center. She is a contributing editor for Organic Weapon Arts chapbook press.

is the author of four books of poetry, including Bright Dead Things,听which was named a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry,听a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a finalist for the 2015 National听Book Critics Circle Award, and one of the Top Ten Poetry Books of the Year听by The New York Times. Her other books include Lucky Wreck, This Big Fake听World, and Sharks in the Rivers. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of听Charlotte Low Residency MFA program and the 24Pearl Street online program听for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Lim贸n also works as a freelance writer, splitting her time between Lexington, Kentucky, and Sonoma, California.

The winner of a 2014 Lannan Literary Fellowship and three Pushcart prizes,听 is the author of Reaper, Habeas Corpus, Oh, James!, and听Where You Live. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library听of Congress, and Stanford鈥檚 Stegner program, and has taught incarcerated college students through Boston University鈥檚 Prison Education Program for thirteen years.听Her work has appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Nation, The Threepenny Review, and听The Best American Poetry. McDonough teaches in the MFA program at UMass-Boston and directs 24PearlStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center online. Her fifth听poetry collection, Here All Night, is forthcoming from Alice James Books.

is the author of Beasts of the Hill and Dirty Bomb, both from Oberlin听College Press. His awards include an NEA Poetry Fellowship, an Indiana Individual听Artist鈥檚 grant, and the FIELD Poetry Prize. Neely teaches at Ball State University听and at Ashland University鈥檚 low-residency MFA program.

is the author of the poetry collections Best Bones,听winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and Darwin鈥檚 Mother, which听is forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh in fall 2017. Her poems and essays听appear widely in journals such as Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, AGNI,听The Kenyon Review Online, and Copper Nickel. Native to North Carolina,听Nordgren is currently a doctoral student in poetry at the University of Cincinnati听and associate editor at 32 Poems.

has been published in Best New Poets 2009, Quarterly West, Hobart,听PANK, and The Rumpus, among others. Her chapbook Forget Me, Hit Me, Let Me听Drink Great Quantities of Clear, Evil Liquor is out at Split Lip Press. Schmid was a听2011 AWP Intro Journals Winner. She lives and writes in Nebraska.

is the author of three books of poetry: Weep Up (Tupelo Press,听September 2017), The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Lamp of the Body. Smith听is also the author of three prizewinning chapbooks. Her poems appear in The Best听American Poetry, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Guernica,听Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. In 2016 her poem 鈥淕ood Bones鈥� went听viral internationally and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. Public听Radio International called it 鈥渢he official poem of 2016.鈥�

A singer-songwriter and poet from Atascadero, California, is the author of The Night We Set the Dead Kid on Fire which won the听2016 Patricia Bibby First Book Award and was published in February of 2017 by听Tebot Bach Press. Recent essays and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in听Beloit Poetry Journal, cream city review, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Verse Daily,听and elsewhere. Having received his PhD from Western Michigan University,听Ephraim currently teaches creative writing on the graduate faculty at the听University of Central Florida and lives with his fianc茅 in Orlando.听

2016 Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award winner听Richard Thompson was recently awarded Sigma Tau Delta鈥檚 Eleanor P. North听Poetry Award. His poetry has appeared in Skive Journal, Empirical Journal, and The听Avenue, among others. He grew up in rural Canada, and now lives with his wife,听Sherise, and son, Jacob, in Houston, Texas, where he is a clinical psychologist听and studies creative writing at the University of Houston.

Michael Waters has written eleven books of poetry, including Celestial Joyride;听Gospel Night; Darling Vulgarity, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize;听and Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems, finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize.听His poems have appeared in various journals, including The Yale Review, The Paris听Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review, and Rolling Stone. He is听professor of English at Monmouth University and also teaches in the Drew听University MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation. Waters lives with听his wife, poet Mihaela Moscaliuc, in Ocean, New Jersey.

Philip Metres is the author of Pictures at an Exhibition (2016), Sand Opera听(2015), A Concordance of Leaves (2013), and others. His work has garnered a听Lannan fellowship; two NEAs; six Ohio Arts Council grants; the Hunt Prize听for Excellence in Journalism, Arts & Letters; the Beatrice Hawley Award; two听Arab American Book Awards; the Watson Fellowship; the Creative Workforce听Fellowship; the Cleveland Arts Prize; and a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant.听Metres is professor of English and the director of the Peace, Justice, and Human听Rights Program at John Carroll University in Cleveland.

2016 Mary C. Mohr Fiction Award winner Bradford Kammin鈥檚听short stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Arts &听Letters, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the University of听Michigan鈥檚 MFA program in creative writing, and is currently pursuing a PhD in听English and creative writing at Western Michigan University, where he teaches听creative writing and serves as fiction editor of Third Coast.

Andrew Mitchell鈥檚 fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares,听Gulf Coast, Sycamore Review, Tin House鈥檚 鈥淭he Open Bar,鈥� and elsewhere. He is the听2016 recipient of the Barthelme Prize for Short Prose. Mitchell lives in Dover,听New Hampshire.

Leslie Pietrzyk is the author of This Angel On My Chest, which received the听2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was published by University of Pittsburgh听Press. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in many publications, including听The Hudson Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Midwestern Gothic,听Salon, and The Washington Post Magazine.

Catherine Pond has been published in Boston Review, Narrative, the Los Angeles听Review of Books, and more. She teaches poetry at the Fashion Institute of听Technology, and she is assistant director of the New York State Summer Writers听Institute. In the fall, she will begin her PhD in creative writing at the University听of Southern California.

Lee Zacharias is the author of a collection of short stories, Helping Muriel听Make It through the Night; two novels, Lessons and At Random; and a collection of听personal essays, The Only Sounds We Make, which won a silver medal in creative听nonfiction in the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Her nonfiction has听appeared in numerous journals, including The Southern Review, The Gettysburg听Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, and Shenandoah, among others, and has been听reprinted in The Best American Essays. Zacharias is emerita professor of English at听the University of North Carolina Greensboro.