SIR 2019 Fall
Artwork听听
was born in Kochi, Japan. She moved to the United States to听complete her BFA at Massachusetts College of Art in 2000 and studied with听realist painter Adrian Gottlieb from 2002 to 2008. Her paintings have been听exhibited in galleries worldwide, including Dorothy Circus Gallery in Italy,听Urban Nation in Germany, Gallery Bern Art in Japan, Corey Helford Gallery听in Los Angeles, Haven Gallery in New York, and William Baczek Fine Arts in听Massachusetts. Yoshii currently lives and works in Los Angeles. |
听Poetry
"Honey"听鈥斕Allison Adair鈥檚 debut collection, The Clearing, was selected by Henri Cole for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and is forthcoming in 2020 from Milkweed. Her work appears in Best American Poetry, Image, Kenyon Review Online, North American Review, and ZYZZYVA; and has been honored with the Pushcart Prize (2019), The Florida ReviewEditors鈥 Award, the Orlando Prize, and first place in Mid-American Review鈥檚 Fineline Competition. Originally from central Pennsylvania, Adair now lives in Boston, where she teaches at Boston College and GrubStreet. |
"An Accommodation"听鈥斕 is the author of three poetry collections鈥Count the Waves,听I Was the Jukebox, and Theories of Falling鈥攁s well as Don鈥檛 Kill the Birthday听Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, a disability memoir and cultural history of food听allergies. She served as the editor for Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern听Foodways Alliance. Honors for her work include the 2019 Munster Literature听Centre鈥檚 John Montague International Poetry Fellowship, a 2015 NEA fellowship,听and four DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities fellowships. Beasley lives听in Washington, D.C., and teaches with the University of Tampa low-residency听MFA program. |
"God Letter"听鈥 CM Burroughs is associate professor of poetry at Columbia College Chicago. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from Yaddo, the听MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,听and Cave Canem Foundation. She has received commissions from the Studio听Museum of Harlem and the Warhol Museum to create poetry in response to听art installations. Her first book is The Vital System from Tupelo Press, and her听poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including Poetry, Callaloo, jubilat,听Ploughshares, and Best American Experimental Writing 2015. Burroughs earned her听MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. Her second book, Master Suffering, will be听published by Tupelo Press in 2021. |
is the author of Translucence, co-written with Samar Abdel听Jaber; Downtown; The Deeply Flawed Human; and SuperLoop. The assistant听director and a senior language lecturer at New York University鈥檚 Tandon School of听Engineering, Callihan frequently collaborates with artists and actors throughout听New York City. |
A finalist for the 2019 National Poetry Series, Kyle Churney鈥檚 poetry has听appeared in Salt Hill, The Journal, Memorious, and other publications, and his听essays are published in the Chicago Tribune. He is a recipient of a Literary Award听from the Illinois Arts Council and a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony.听A native of rural Illinois, Churney lives in Chicago, where he teaches developmental听writing at a community college. |
"Marigolds of Fire"听鈥斕Ama Codjoe is the author of Blood of the Air, winner of the eighth annual听Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize, forthcoming from Northwestern听University Press in April 2020. She has been awarded support from Cave Canem,听Jerome, Robert Rauschenberg, and Saltonstall foundations, as well as from听Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Crosstown Arts, Hedgebrook, and the听MacDowell Colony. Her recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The听Common, The Massachusetts Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Codjoe is the recipient of a 2017 Rona Jaffe Writer鈥檚 Award, The Georgia Review鈥檚 2018听Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, a 2019 DISQUIET Literary Prize, and a 2019 NEA听Literature Fellowship. |
third book, Paradise Drive, won the 2015 Press 53 Poetry Award.听A new chapbook is forthcoming from Swan Scythe Press, and recent poems are in听Blackbird, Ecotone, The Hudson Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Southern听Review, and Southwest Review. Recognitions include the Cavafy Prize, the James听Hearst Poetry Prize and fellowships from Hedgebrook, MacDowell, Sewanee, and听The Frost Place. Foust is the current Marin County Poet Laureate, the poetry听editor for Women鈥檚 Voice for Change, and an assistant editor for Narrative Magazine. |
Madelyn Garner鈥檚 recent writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Best听American Poetry 2015, The Pinch, The Florida Review, The Western Humanities听Review, Water~Stone Review, and the anthology Beyond Forgetting, Poetry and听Prose about Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease. She is the co-editor of the poetry anthology听Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined. Her debut poetry manuscript,听Hum of Our Blood, winner of Tupelo Press/3: A Taos Press July Open Reading,听was published in 2017. |
"Buying Back-to-School Supplies"听鈥斕齅atthew Guenette is the author of three poetry collections, including听Vasectomania and American Busboy, both from the University of Akron Press.听His first book, Sudden Anthem, winner of the American Poetry Journal Book听Prize, is published by Dream Horse Press. Guenette works at a technical college听in Madison, Wisconsin, where he lives with his wife, their two children, and a听twenty-pound cat named Butternut. |
is a Sierra Leonean-American writer and an Oakland native.听She鈥檚 the author of A Brief Biography of My Name (Akashic Books/APBF, 2018),听which was included in New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano),听and When The Living Sing(Ledge Mule Press, 2017). She received an MFA in听poetry from Indiana University, Bloomington and is currently a doctoral student听in creative writing and English literature at the University of Cincinnati.听 |
Tara McDaniel is a poetry teacher residing in the arts district of Minneapolis.听Her poetry is forthcoming in Cutthroat and RHINO Poetry, and has been featured听in Crab Orchard Review, Cimarron Review, Third Wednesday, and elsewhere.听Her poetics and prose have been featured in William Paterson University鈥檚听Contemporary Writing Blog and The Loft Literary Center鈥檚 Writer鈥檚 Block Blog.听McDaniel is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars and is currently a听Loft Mentor Series Fellow in Poetry and Prose. |
"Professor Marva Stewart鈥檚 Funeral Service at Gilbert-Lambuth Chapel, Paine College"听鈥 is the author of Starshine & Clay, a CLMP Firecracker听Award finalist featured on NPR鈥檚 All Things Considered as a collection that听captures America in poetry, and She Has a Name, a finalist for both the Audre听Lorde and Lambda Literary Awards. Moon鈥檚 work has been published widely,听including in Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, Poem-A-Day, PBS Newshour,听Buzzfeed, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize winner and 2015 New American Poet听who has received fellowships to MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, and Hedgebrook, she holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is an assistant听professor of creative writing at Agnes Scott College. |
is the author of three books of poems, including, most recently,听Vivarium; a book of literary criticism, Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary听Theory; and a book of personal essays, Terroir: Essays on Otherness, forthcoming听from Trinity UP in 2020. Saj茅 teaches at Westminster College in Salt Lake and in听the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing program. |
is the author of the poetry collections No Object and Hard听Child. She teaches at Tufts University. |
"Gather" 鈥斕Originally from Georgia, is currently pursuing a PhD in English听and creative writing at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, where she co-founded听and curates the LHUCA Literary Series. Her work can be found in Prairie听Schooner, Waxwing, 32 Poems, The Rumpus, and other journals. Smith received听her MFA in poetry from The New School and is the recipient of scholarships听from the Sewanee Writers鈥 Conference and the Vermont Studio Center. |
is the author of Virgin, the inaugural winner of the Jake听Adam York Prize, selected by Ross Gay for Milkweed Editions (2018). She is also听the author of the chapbook Nonstop Godhead, selected by Rigoberto Gonz谩lez听for a 2016 Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Fellowship. Her poem听鈥淚鈥檓 Trying to Write a Poem 91社区 a Virgin and It鈥檚 Awful鈥 was selected for Best听New Poets 2015 by Tracy K. Smith. Poems have also appeared in The New Yorker,听Boston Review, FIELD, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and The Antioch听Review. Sotelo is the recipient of the 2016 DISQUIET International Literary Prize,听a CantoMundo fellowship, and scholarships from the Community of Writers at听Squaw Valley and the Image Text Ithaca Symposium. |
is the author of As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison听Poetry Prize, 2019), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, 2019), Disinheritance, and听Controlled Hallucinations. He is the winner of numerous awards, including the听Philip Booth Award, American Literary Review Poetry Contest, Phyllis Smart-Young Prize, The 46er Prize, Nancy D. Hargrove Editors鈥 Prize, Confrontation听Poetry Prize, and Laux/Millar Prize. Williams serves as editor of The Inflectionist听Review and works as a literary agent. Previous publishing credits include The Yale听Review, Sycamore Review, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Mid-American Review,听Third Coast, and various anthologies. He lives in Portland, Oregon. |
is the author of Monk Eats an Afro and the co-editor of听Peace is a Haiku Song. A Pew and Cave Canem Fellow, she has been a Writer in听Residence at Hedgebrook and Aspen Words. Wisher taught high school English听for a decade, served as Director of Art Education for Philadelphia Mural Arts, and听founded and directed the Germantown Poetry and Outbound Poetry Festivals.听She performs a unique blend of poetry and song with her band The Afroeaters,听and has led workshops and curated events in partnership with the Philadelphia听Museum of Art, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the U.S. Department of听Arts & Culture. Wisher is currently the Curator of Spoken Word at Philadelphia听Contemporary and is part of the first cohort of artists with studios at the Cherry听Street Pier on the Delaware River Waterfront. |
Fiction
is a writer from Texas. His fiction has appeared in The Yale Review, The Iowa Review, Story, and elsewhere. He lives in Cleveland, where he is finishing听a novel and a collection of stories. |
lives in Richmond, Virginia. Her work appears in听Carve Magazine, The Southampton Review, failbetter, SAND Journal, and elsewhere.听Her prose has won the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest (2019) and the听Frank McCourt Memoir Prize (2018), and been supported by fellowships and artist听residencies from the Tin House Summer Workshop, Hypatia-in-the-Woods, Jentel,听and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. |
is the author of the short story collections Universal Love听(forthcoming 2020) and Children of the New World, which was chosen as a notable听book of the year by The New York Times, NPR, Google, and Electric Literature.听His fiction and interviews have appeared in Rolling Stone, World Literature Today,听Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, and Best American Experimental Writing.听Weinstein is the director of The Martha鈥檚 Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing,听and an associate professor of creative writing at Siena Heights University.听 |
Nonfiction
work focuses on the arts emerging from the African听Diaspora. She is particularly interested in the mysterious link between artistic听genius and mental health. de Souza is a 2020 Barbara Smith Writer-in-Residence听at Twelve Literary Arts and a 2019 MacDowell Fellow. In the past year, she was a听finalist for the Creative Capital Award, the Oxford American Jeff Baskin Writers听Fellowship, and the Mary C. Mohr Nonfiction Award. Her first book, Sleeping in听the Fire: The Black Artist in America, is forthcoming. Find her听@paintwithlite. |
is the author of The Sound of Listening, Pictures at an Exhibition,听Sand Opera, I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky, A Concordance听of Leaves, To See the Earth, and others. His work has garnered a Lannan fellowship,听two NEAs, six Ohio Arts Council Grants, the Hunt Prize for Excellence in听Journalism, the Beatrice Hawley Award, two Arab American Book Awards,听the Watson Fellowship, the Creative Workforce Fellowship, the Cleveland Arts听Prize, and a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant. Metres is professor of English at听John Carroll University in Cleveland. |