
A ten-time Pushcart nominee, John is the winner of numerous awards, including the Philip Booth Award, American Literary Review Poetry Contest, Nancy D. John Sibley Williams ( Speaking Of The Coal Beds.) is the editor of two Northwest poetry anthologies and the author of nine collections, including Disinheritance and Controlled Hallucinations. Her third book, Empty Clip, will be published by the University of Akron Press Spring 2018. She’s an assistant professor in the MFA Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her poems and lyric essays appear widely in literary publications including Agni, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. Her poems can be found in recent or forthcoming issues of Rattle, Prairie Schooner, Stone Canoe, and the Rise Up Review.Įmilia Phillips ( Butterfly-Shaped Organ) is the author of two poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, Signaletics (2013) and Groundspeed (2016), and three chapbooks, most recently Beneath the Ice Fish Like Souls Look Alike (Bull City Press, 2015).
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Murray ( Why Women Write Poems For Their Sons, How I Continue To Fail At Parenting) teaches creative writing at the University of Washington Tacoma, where she offers free poetry workshops to soldiers and their loved ones and serves as editor in chief for Collateral, a journal that publishes work focused on the impact of military service. She lives in Modesto, California with her husband and two sons, where she works as a wedding photographer.Ībby E. Her poems have appeared in EPOCH, Indiana Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Cincinnati Review, MUZZLE, Thrush Poetry Journal, The Collagist, and many others. She was recently a finalist for Greg Grummer Poetry Award and serves as the Managing Editor of The Journal.ĭana Koster ( When My Father Was A Private Investigator) is the author of Binary Stars (Carolina Wren Press, 2017).

Her visual and written work has appeared or is forthcoming in Quarterly West, The Adroit Journal, DIAGRAM, West Branch, Ninth Letter, Mid-American, Copper Nickel and others. Margaret Cipriano ( And Now, Everyone Is Married) is from Chicago, IL and currently lives in Columbus, OH where she is an MFA candidate at The Ohio State University. in Library Science from the University of Kentucky.

in Creative Writing from Murray State University and an M.S. Find more poems at Robert Campbell’s ( I Cannot Shed Entirely The Shapes I Have Assumed) poems have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, and many other journals. He lives in Syracuse, NY, where he attends Syracuse University's MFA program and leads poetry workshops for high school students in the community.

Recent poems can be found in The Seneca Review, Copper Nickel, Berkeley Poetry Review, and Birdfeast. Tim Carter ( Blur Sparrow, The Translucent Bell) is a Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets nominee.
