Francisco Márquez, born in 1983 in Miami, Florida, and raised in Maracaibo, Venezuela, holds an MFA from New York University and currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico. His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry (2021), The Yale Review, and Narrative and has earned him fellowships from the Fine Arts…
Mary Jo Bang was born in Waynesville, Missouri, in 1946. She graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in sociology. She later earned another Bachelor’s degree in photography at the University of Westminster and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at Columbia University. Putting her college degrees to use, Mary…
Diane Thiel was born in 1967 in Florida. She received her undergraduate degree and graduate degrees from Brown University. Currently a Regents’ Professor at the University of New Mexico and Associate Chair of the Department of English, Thiel has been teaching English and creative writing for over twenty-five years in a wide variety of settings…
Jessica Greenbaum was born in 1957 in Brooklyn, New York. Her first novel, Inventing Difficulty, was acknowledged in the Silverfish Review in 1998, her second novel, The Two Yvonnes, won the Gerald Cable Prize, and her third novel, Spilled and Gone, was named the ‘Best Book in Poetry,” by Library Journal in the University of Pittsburgh Press (2019). Additionally, Greenbaum co-edited,…
Alex Dimitrov was born in Bulgaria on November 30th, 1984, and currently lives in New York City. He attended the University of Michigan for his Bachelor’s degree, Sarah Lawrence College for a Master of Fine Arts, and Columbia University in the City of New York to get his Professional Certificate in Publishing. He has lectured…
Matthew Dickman was born on August 20, 1975, in Portland, Oregon. He attended Portland Community College and graduated with a B.A. from the University of Oregon in 2001. Matthew and his twin brother, Michael, also a poet, studied creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin. They both went on to have brief stints…
Alina Stefanescu is a present-day poet and writer born in Romania. She currently lives in Alabama with her spouse. She constantly involves herself in the literary community, participating in workshops and holding leadership positions in many literary societies, such as Poetry Editor for Pidgeonholes, board member of the Alabama Writers Cooperative, and co-founder of 100,000 Poets for Change Birmingham, the town…
Cecily Parks was born in 1976 and she currently lives in Austin, Texas. There, she works at the University of Texas where she is an associate professor in the MFA program for creative writing. She has written three collections of poetry, including Field Folly Snow (2008), O’Nights (2015), and The Seeds, which is coming out…
Patrick Phillips is the author of three collections of poetry and a work of nonfiction. His 2004 collection, Chattahoochee, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and his 2015 collection, Elegy for a Broken Machine, was a finalist for the National Book Award. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Phillips earned his PhD in English Renaissance…
Philip Metres was born July 4th, 1970 in San Diego, and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. He graduated from Holy Cross College in 1992, then went on to receive a Ph.D. in English and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Indiana University. He is now a professor of English at John Carroll University…