Dan Bellm has published four books of poetry, most recently Deep Well (Lavender Ink) and Practice (Sixteen Rivers), winner of the 2009 California Book Award. He teaches at Antioch University Los Angeles. Recent translations from Spanish and French include Speaking in Song by Pura López Colomé (Shearsman) and The Song of the Dead by Pierre Reverdy (Black Square).
Arthur Boers is an Anglican priest in Toronto and author of several books, including The Way Is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago (IVP) and Living into Focus: Choosing What Matters in an Age of Distractions (Brazos). www.arthurboers.com
Connie T. Braun is the author of Silentium (Wipf and Stock), the memoir The Steppes Are the Colour of Sepia (Ronsdale), the poetry collection Unspoken: An Inheritance of Words (Fern Hill), and the chapbook Narrow Passageway (Alfred Gustav). She teaches at Trinity Western University.
Zeeva Bukai was born in Israel and raised in New York City. Her work is forthcoming in McSweeny’s and has appeared in december, WomenArts Quarterly, Calyx, Lilith, and Jewish Quarterly. She was a fellow at the New York Center for Fiction and is at work on a novel.
Nancy Naomi Carlson has authored seven titles, including four translations. She received an NEA grant to translate Abdourahman A. Waberi’s first collection of poems, which was a BTBA finalist. Her 2016 translation of René Char (Tupelo) was a CLMP Firecracker Award finalist.
www.nancynaomicarlson.com
Dorcas Cheng-Tozun is an award-winning writer and the author of Start, Love, Repeat: How to Stay in Love with Your Entrepreneur in a Crazy Start-Up World (Hachette Center Street). She lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
Robert Cording has published eight collections of poems, including Walking with Ruskin (CavanKerry), A Word in My Mouth (Wipf and Stock), and Only So Far (CavanKerry). He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Seattle Pacific University.
Pádraig J. Daly is an Augustinian friar based in Dublin. His most recent collection is God in Winter (Dedalus).
Sharon Dolin is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Manual for Living and Whirlwind (both from Pittsburgh). Her translation from Catalan of Gemma Gorga’s Book of Minutes is forthcoming from the Field Translation Series (Oberlin). She directs and teaches the Writing About Art workshop in Barcelona each June. www.sharondolin.com/barcelona-workshops
Luis Felipe Fabre is a poet and critic based in Mexico City. He has published a volume of essays, Leyendo agujeros: Ensayos sobre (des)escritura, antiescritura y no escritura, and several poetry collections, including Poemas de terror y de misterio.
Gordon L. Fuglie, a UCLA-educated art historian, began his career at the J. Paul Getty Museum, continued at UCLA’s Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, and then directed the Laband Gallery at Loyola Marymount University. He currently works as an art journalist and independent curator.
Gemma Gorga has published six collections of poetry in Catalan. The two poems here are from Diafragma (Girona), a 2013 collaboration with photographer Joan Ramell. She teaches at the University of Barcelona.
Jeff Gundy’s new books of poems are Abandoned Homeland (Bottom Dog) and Somewhere Near Defiance (Anhinga); he was named Ohio Poet of the Year for the latter. Recent work appears in The Sun, Georgia Review, Christian Century, and Cincinnati Review. After a sabbatical teaching at LCC International University in Klaipeda, Lithuania, he is back at Bluffton University in Ohio.
John Hart was raised in Kansas City and resides in Orlando. His poems have appeared in the Antioch Review, Chattahoochee Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Verse Daily, and Washington Square Review.
D.L. Mayfield lives and writes on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. She is the author of Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith (HarperOne). Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Ruminate, Sojourners, Christianity Today, and elsewhere. She is entirely too active on Twitter.
Susan Neville is the author of four books of essays including Indiana Winter, Iconography, and
Sailing the Inland Sea (all from Indiana) as well as Fabrication: Essays on Making Things and Making Meaning (MacAdam Cage). She lives in Indianapolis.
Natasha Oladokun is a Cave Canem fellow, poet, and essayist. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, Pleiades, RS 500, Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She is assistant poetry editor at storySouth and currently a visiting assistant professor of English at Hollins University, her MFA alma mater.
Luci Shaw has been writer-in-residence at Regent College since 1986 and has published over thirty-five books of poetry and creative nonfiction. In 2013, she received Image’s annual Denise Levertov Award. A new poetry collection, Eye of the Beholder, is forthcoming from Paraclete.
Marjorie Stelmach is the author of five volumes of poems, most recently Falter (Cascade), and the recipient of the 2016 Chad Walsh Poetry Prize from Beloit Poetry Journal.
Abdourahman A. Waberi is a critically acclaimed writer from Djibouti. These translations come from Naming the Dawn, forthcoming from Seagull Books. He teaches French and Francophone literature at George Washington University.
Claude Wilkinson’s poetry collections include Reading the Earth (Michigan State) and Joy in the Morning (Louisiana State). His poems have appeared recently in African American Review, Southern Quarterly, and Xavier Review, among other journals.
Jason Zencka’s first published story, “Catacombs,” was awarded a 2018 Pushcart Prize. He has worked as a newspaper reporter in Wisconsin and a criminal defense investigator in Washington, DC. Currently he teaches eleventh and twelfth-grade English in Minneapolis.
