Sally Ashton is the author of Some Odd Afternoon, Her Name Is Juanita, and These Metallic Days. She is Editor-in-Chief of the DMQ Review, an online journal featuring poetry and art. Honors include a fellowship from Arts Council Silicon Valley and a residency at Montalvo Arts Center. She was Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County […]

Josip Novakovich emigrated from Croatia at the age of 20. He has published a novel, April Fool’s Day (in ten languages), three story collections (Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust, Yolk and Salvation and Other Disasters) and three collections of narrative essays as well as two books of practical criticism, including Fiction Writers Workshop. His […]

In the past few years Lopes’ work has been seen in the U.S. at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, at El Museo del Barrio, ApexArt and the America’s Society in New York, at the Contemporary Art Museum in Saint Louis, among other venues.  In the same period his work was also seen in France, Germany, […]

Terri Witek’s most recent books of poetry include her 2023 collection, Something’s Missing in This Museum (Anhinga Press) and 2 chapbooks: copies: I loved you in the hard old way (2024 Sigilist Press) and Down Water Street  (2025 aboveground press). W/\ SH , a collaboration with Amaranth Borsuk, loops the eco-emergency as a crisis of rain and smoke between […]

Erica Dawson is the author of three books of poetry: When Rap Spoke Straight to God, winner of the 2018 Florida Book Awards Gold Medal for Poetry; The Small Blades Hurt, winner of the 2016 Poets’ Prize; and, Big-Eyed Afraid, winner of the 2006 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Orion, Revel, The […]

Alissa Nutting is author of the novel Tampa (Ecco/HarperCollins 2013) and the short story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (Starcherone/Dzanc 2010), which won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction judged by Ben Marcus. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as The Norton Introduction to Literature, Tin House, Bomb, and Conduit; her essays […]

KATHERINE VAZ, a former Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University, a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, is the author most recently of the novel ABOVE THE SALT (Flatiron Books/Macmillan, 2023), a People Magazine Book of the Week, a Top 15 Pick of […]

Denise Duhamel’s most recent book of poetry is Scald (Pittsburgh, 2017). Blowout (Pittsburgh, 2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other titles include Ka-Ching! (Pittsburgh, 2009); Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005); Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001); The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999); and […]