Todd Davis is the author of six books of poetry, including Winterkill, In the Kingdom of the Ditch, and the forthcoming Native Species, all from Michigan State University Press. He is professor of English and environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College.
Jerzy Ficowski (1924–2006) was a poet, songwriter, and scholar who studied the Polish Roma population and the work of writer and artist Bruno Schulz. Translations of Ficowski’s poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Nation, New York Review of Books, and Ploughshares.
Jennifer Grotz’s third book of poems, Window Left Open, recently appeared from Graywolf Press. She is director of the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference.
Ron Hansen’s books include the novels Mariette in Ecstasy (Edward Burlingame), Atticus (Harper), and most recently The Kid as well as She Loves Me Not: New & Selected Stories (both from Scribner). “Making Things Up” will be included in a new collection of essays, Hotly in Pursuit of the Real. He teaches creative writing and film at Santa Clara University.
Cyan James holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. Her work has been nominated for two Pushcarts and has been published in the Gettysburg Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Arkansas Review, New Mexico Review, Harvard Review, The Account, and Salon, among others.
Rodger Kamenetz has recent work in Southern Review and Kenyon Review. His eleven books include The Jew in the Lotus and The History of Last Night’s Dream (both from HarperOne). His latest collection of poetry, Yonder, will appear in spring 2019 from Diálogos.
Douglas Luman is production director of Container, art director at Stillhouse Press, head researcher at appliedpoetics.org, a book designer, and author of The F Text (Inside the Castle).
Jennie Malboeuf is a native of Kentucky. Her poems are found in Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Field, Agni, Epoch, The Collagist, The Hollins Critic, Memorious, Zyzzyva, and Best New Poets. She teaches at Guilford College in North Carolina.
Samuel Martin is the author of the story collection This Ramshackle Tabernacle and the novel A Blessed Snarl (both from Breakwater). His fiction has been nominated for the Winterset, ReLit, and Dublin IMPAC awards and has won ScreenCraft’s Cinematic Short Story Award. He teaches creative writing at Northwestern College in Iowa.
Jennifer Anne Moses is the author of Tales from My Closet (Scholastic), Visiting Hours (Fomite), Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou (Wisconsin), and Food and Whine (Simon & Schuster). Her short stories have been widely published and anthologized. She is also a painter.
Alicia Ostriker is a poet and critic. Her most recent collection of poems is Waiting for the Light (Pittsburgh), which received the National Jewish Book Award for poetry in 2018. As a critic, she writes about poetry and about the Hebrew Bible.
John Poch is professor of English at Texas Tech University. His most recent book, Fix Quiet (St. Augustine’s), won the 2014 New Criterion Poetry Prize. His poems have been published in The Common, Agni, Sewanee Review, Paris Review, and many other journals.
Keith Ratzlaff’s most recent books of poetry are: Then, a Thousand Crows; Dubious Angels: Poems after Paul Klee; and the forthcoming Who’s Asking? (all from Anhinga). He teaches writing and literature at Central College in Pella, Iowa.
Michael Shewmaker is the author of Penumbra (Ohio), which won the 2016 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. His poems recently appear in Best American Poetry, Narrative, Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he is a Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University.
James K.A. Smith teaches philosophy at Calvin College and is editor in chief of Comment magazine. He is the author of a number of books, including You Are What You Love (Brazos) and Awaiting the King (Baker).
Piotr Sommer is the author of Continued (Wesleyan) and Overdoing It (Hobart and William Smith). His collected poems, Po Ciemku Tez˙ (Also in the Dark), appeared in Poland in 2013.
Abraham Storer is an American painter, teacher, and occasional writer currently based in Jerusalem. He holds an MFA from Boston University, a BA from Brandeis, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Israel from 2011 to 2012. His work can be seen at www.abrahamstorer.com.
Jeanne Murray Walker was born in Parkers Prairie, a village in northern Minnesota. She is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Helping the Morning: New and Selected Poems (WordFarm). Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking, her sequence of sonnets, will be out in 2018 from Paraclete.
Lauren F. Winner’s most recent book is The Dangers of Christian Practice: On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, and Sin (Yale). Her other books include Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis and Wearing God (both from HarperOne). She is associate professor of Christian spirituality at Duke Divinity School.
Jane Zwart teaches English at Calvin College, where she co-directs the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing. She also writes poems, some of which have appeared in Margie, Boston Review, Rattle, and TriQuarterly Review.
