Destiny O. Birdsong is an African American poet born in 1981 in Louisiana and currently lives in Nashville. She attended Fisk University, where she received her BA in English and history, and Vanderbilt University, where she received her MFA in poetry and PhD in English. Over time, some hallmarks of her work have become exploring…
Elaine Equi’s latest book is The Intangibles from Coffee House Press. A new collection, Out of the Blank, is forthcoming in 2025. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Brooklyn Rail, Big Other, Plume, New American Writing, and many other journals. In 2023, she served as guest editor of the annual anthology Best…
Robert Pinsky was born on October 20th, 1940, in Long Branch, New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers University and then attended Stanford University to receive his PhD, graduating in 1966. He is currently a professor at Boston University, teaching English and Creative Writing in the graduate writing program. Pinsky has written numerous books, including At…
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…
Danielle DeTiberus, born in Connecticut, teaches creative writing at the Charleston School of the Arts. In 2016, she received a poetry fellowship from the South Carolina Academy of Authors. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Arts & Letters, Missouri Review, Rattle, River Styx, The Southeast Review, Spoon River Poetry Review and elsewhere. She…