SIR 2021 Fall
Artwork
is a photographer who has shown her work in solo and groupexhibitions since 2011. She was an active member of Oak Street Art, an artists’collective in Illinois, before moving to northeast Ohio, and in 2018 one of herabstract images took first place in the Shrode Photography Competition. Beforeturning to photography, she spent two decades as a researcher and professor ofpsychology. |
Poetry
Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads and Millennial Teeth, as wellas two chapbooks from Unicorn Press: The Use of the World and Of Air andEarth. His poems have appeared in 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, Crazyhorse,Five Points, The Southern Review, The Best American Poetry 2017, and two editionsof The Pushcart Prize, as well as other journals and anthologies. Albergotti is aprofessor of English at Coastal Carolina University. |
fifth book of poems, The Echo Chamber, was publishedby Milkweed Editions in October 2021. His work has appeared in Copper Nickel,Tin House, The Threepenny Review, The American Poetry Review, The Sun,The Nation, and Ploughshares, and his verse translation of the Mayan creationepic, The Popol Vuh, was named one of 2018’s best books of poetry by The NewYork Times. The recipient of an NEA Fellowship, Bazzett lives in Minneapolis. |
work has been published or is forthcoming in Ploughshares,AGNI, Copper Nickel, The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, American PoetryReview, The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. Currently, Boutris livesin California and serves as editor-in-chief of The West Review. |
is the author of Field Recordings. His writing has appearedin the Indiana Review, New Orleans Review, Poet Lore, Crab Orchard Review,Hobart, and elsewhere. Brakefield teaches writing at the University WritingProgram at the University of Denver. |
is the author of the chapbooks MOT and Agape. They havework in Pleiades, Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Colorado Review,The Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, and other magazines. They are an avid recordcollector and curator of curiosities. |
Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Fellow and author of The Fire Eater. Hiswork appears in The American Poetry Review, Georgia Review, The Iowa Review,Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, The Nation, POETRY, and The Best AmericanNonrequired Reading. He has been a finalist for the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Competition and the 2020 National Poetry Series. Currently, Diaz is a guest editor for FrontierPoetry and Palette Poetry. |
Carina Finn is the author of several collections of poetry, including Lemonworld& Other Poems, Invisible Reveille, and The Grey Bird: Thirteen Emoji Poems inTranslation. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of NotreDame, where she was the recipient of a Nicholas Sparks Fellowship. She works asan editor for Bustle Digital Group, and as a freelance food writer and photographerfor publications including The Kitchn, Bon Appétit, Eater, and others. Finn isrepresented by Linda Epstein of Emerald City Literary Agency. |
is a multiple award-winning playwright, breakbeat poet, director,educator, and organizer. His poetry collections include Can I Kick It? and TheseAre The Breaks. He is the author of over sixty original plays ranging from hisHip Hop inspired breakbeat play series to historical dramas to works for youngaudiences. Goodwin has appeared on HBO's Def Poetry, Sesame Street, NPR,BBC Radio, and the Discovery Channel. He is a 2021 United States Artist Fellow. |
Rosalind Guy is a high school English teacher. She recently received an MFAfrom the University of Memphis. Her poems and essays have appeared or will appearin African Voices, Juke Joint, Glass Poetry Journal: Poets Resist, and Georgia Review. |
is the author of Sawgrass Sky (Texas Review Press, 2021).His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, The Journal,Prairie Schooner, and The Southern Review. He won the 2018 River Styx InternationalPoetry Contest. Hemmert earned his MFA from Southern Illinois UniversityCarbondale, and currently serves as a poetry editor for Driftwood Press. |
debut poetry collection, Dear Specimen, was selected byKwame Dawes as a winner of the 2020 National Poetry Series and publishedby Beacon Press (2021). Selected by Natasha Trethewey for inclusion in TheBest American Poetry 2017, her poems also appear in The Atlantic, Boulevard,Hudson Review, Pleiades,and elsewhere. Herbert lives in Kingston, New York,and Portland, Maine. |
is the author of Here All Night; Reaper; Where You Live; Oh,James!; andHabeas Corpus. The recipient of three Pushcart prizes and fellowshipsfrom the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the FineArts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress,and Stanford’s Stegner program, she taught incarcerated college students throughBoston University’s Prison Education Program for thirteen years. Her work hasappeared in POETRY, Slate, The Nation, The Threepenny Review, and The BestAmerican Poetry. McDonough teaches in the MFA program at UMass-Bostonand started a program offering college reading and writing in two Boston jails. |
is the author of five books of poems, including Holy Moly CarryMe, which was the winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award, and a finalistfor the National Book Critics Circle Award. Meitner is currently a professor ofEnglish at Virginia Tech. Her newest book, Useful Junk, is due out from BOAEditions in April 2022. |
is the author of Marvels of the Invisible and Refusal. Her thirdcollection is expected to appear in 2023. She is the recipient of a 2019-2020Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well asscholarships and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Vermont StudioCenter, and the C.D. Wright conference. Molberg's work has recently appearedor is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Tupelo Quarterly, The Rumpus,The Missouri Review, and other publications. |
is a writer, editor, and transitional deacon in the Episcopal Dioceseof Texas. He received an MFA from NYU and a Master of Divinity from EmoryUniversity, where he was a Forum for Theological Exploration Fellow. Myersis the executive director of EcoTheo Collective and editor-in-chief of EcoTheoReview. He lives with his wife and son in Houston. |
is a CantoMundo Fellow. His work has recentlyappeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, Crazyhorse, Salamander,TriQuarterly, The Missouri Review, and Blackbird, among others. He is the foundingeditor of THE BOILER and poetry editor for Deep Vellum and has receivedscholarships and awards from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf Writers’Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center. Páramo holds a PhD in English andcreative writing at the University of North Texas and will be the 2021 Jesse H.Jones Fellow through the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program, sponsored by theUniversity of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters. |
Alexa Patrick is a singer and poet from Connecticut. She holds fellowshipsfrom Cave Canem, Obsidian, and The Watering Hole. Patrick was the 2019 headcoach of the D.C. Youth Slam Team, and has held teaching positions throughSplit This Rock, The University of the District of Columbia, and the Center forCreative Youth at Wesleyan University. You may find her work in publicationsincluding The Quarry, ArLiJo, CRWN Magazine, and The BreakBeat Poets Vol.2: Black Girl Magic. Patrick's debut collection, Remedies for Disappearing, will bepublished by Haymarket Books in 2023. |
Lucas Daniel Peters is a poet from rural Indiana. He received his MFA inpoetry from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in FivePoints, The Greensboro Review, The Laurel Review, Midwest Review, The MissouriReview, and Southern Humanities Review. Peters is a grant recipient throughUnited State Artists. |
Anzhelina Polonskaya was born in Malakhovka, a small town nearMoscow. She has had the opportunity to participate in a number of prestigiouswriting residencies, including those of the Cove Park Scottish Arts Council,the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, the MacDowell Colony,the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and the Villa Sträuli in Zurich.Polonskaya has published translations in many journals, including The AmericanPoetry Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, and Kenyon Review. |
is the author of the chapbook Still, No Grace (Madhouse Press, 2021).Their work appears in such journals as Sixth Finch, West Branch, DIAGRAM,and others. They are pursuing an MFA from Georgia State University, where theycurrently serve as editor of New South. |
is the author of Rise and Float, winner of the 2020-21 JakeAdam York Prize (Milkweed, forthcoming February 2022). His poetry and prosehave appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, AGNI,New England Review, Image Journal, and others. He is a former Wallace StegnerFellow at Stanford University and graduate of the Bennington College WritingSeminars. Raised in Philadelphia, Tierney lives in Oakland, California, where heteaches poetry at The Writing Salon. |
is the author of six books of poetry, including The Sound Boat:New and Selected Poems (University of Wisconsin Press Four Lakes Prize, spring2022). Her poetry, reviews, and essays have appeared or are about to in BarrowStreet, Plume, Poetry International, The Women’s Review of Books, Prairie Schooner,The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire, and many other journals and anthologies.Vollmer teaches privately and lives in Pittsburgh’s Nine Mile Run Watershed. |
Chelsea Wagenaar is the author of two collections of poetry, most recentlyThe Spinning Place, winner of the 2018 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Her firstcollection, Mercy Spurs the Bone, was selected by Philip Levine to win the 2013Philip Levine Prize. She holds degrees from the University of Virginia and theUniversity of North Texas, and currently teaches in North Carolina. Recent workappears or is forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review and The Massachusetts Review. |
is a doctoral student at the University of Georgia where shestudies poetry and speculative narratives. She is the author of two chapbooks: [re]construction of the necromancer from Sundress Publications and Southern GothicCorpse Machine from Carrion Bloom Books (forthcoming 2022). Her works haveappeared in Gulf Coast, Passages North, and Fairy Tale Review, among others. |
is the author of six collections, including The DrowningHouse (Elixir Press Poetry Award), As One Fire Consumes Another (OrisonPoetry Prize), Skin Memory(Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press),and Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize). Williams is the winner of numerousawards, including the Wabash Prize for Poetry, Philip Booth Award, PhyllisSmart-Young Prize, and Laux/Millar Prize. He serves as editor of The InflectionistReview and founder of the Caesura Poetry Workshop series. Previous publishingcredits include The Best American Poetry, Yale Review, Verse Daily, North AmericanReview, Prairie Schooner, and TriQuarterly. |
Fiction
debut full-length book of fiction, Eternal Night at the NatureMuseum, was published by Sarabande Books (2021). He’s the author of TheQuiet Part Loud, winner of the Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest from Split LipPress. His short fiction has been published widely in journals and magazines suchas Kenyon Review, Subtropics, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, The Cincinnati Review,Copper Nickel, and others. |
Tom Franklin is the The New York Times bestselling author of Crooked Letter,Crooked Letter, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the CrimeWriters' Association's Gold Dagger Award. His previous works include Poachers,Hell at the Breech, and Smonk. Franklin teaches in the University of Mississippi'sMFA program. |
Lindsay Hunter is the author of the story collections Don’t Kiss Me and ٲ’sand the novels Ugly Girls and Eat Only When You're Hungry, a finalist for the 2017Chicago Review of Books Fiction Award. Originally from Florida, she now lives inChicago with her husband, sons, and dogs. |
essays, flash fiction, and short stories have appeared orwill appear in Colorado Review, Epiphany, Michigan Quarterly Review, Salt Hill,The Cincinnati Review, The Normal School, The Rumpus, and other journals.She worked as an economics consultant in a former life and lives in Boston. |
fiction has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Foglifter, Joyland,and elsewhere. She lives in upstate New York where she is an assistant professorof English at Hartwick College. Her debut story collection, The RunawayRestaurant, is forthcoming from 7.13 Books in 2022. Follow her on Twitter: @ThePtessadactyl. |
Nonfiction
is a writer and editor living in Santa Cruz, California. She holdsan MFA from Northern Arizona University and has had previous lives as a middleschool teacher, wilderness guide, yoga instructor, energy bar maker, and graphicdesigner. Her essay “Owlgazing” was named a The Best American Essays 2019 NotableEssay. Lyons's work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Catamaran, Atticus Review, Hawkand Handsaw, and other journals. |
has written numerous books, including Shrapnel Maps, SandOpera, and The Sound of Listening. Awarded fellowships from the Guggenheimand Lannan Foundations, and three Arab American Book Awards, he is professorof English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program atJohn Carroll University, and core faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts MFAprogram. He hopes you're taking care of your beloved self today and every day. |
essay collections are The Witch of Eye (Sarabande,2021) and Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past. Her poetry collections includeRUE and The End of Pink. A recipient of fellowships from the NEA, AmericanAntiquarian Society, Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life, and H. J. AndrewsResearch Forest, Nuernberger teaches in the creative writing program at theUniversity of Minnesota. |