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Rocío Ágreda Piérola (Cochabamba, 1981) studied philosophy and literature. Her work has appeared in anthologies in Peru and Chile, and she has collaborated with the Bolivian publishing projects “Género aburrido” and “Lenguanegra.” In 2017 she published the poetry collection Detritus (Maki_Naria), and is currently working on a manuscript called Quetiapina 400mg. In 2021, Ugly Duckling Presse published the chapbook Horse Drawn in Blue Chalk, a collection of her poems translated by Jessica Sequeira.
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Victor Alegría S. (Santiago de Chile, 1956). Visual artist and poet. MFA in Visual Arts from the University of Chile. Associate Professor of the Faculty of Arts from the same university since 1982. He has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions. He has published the poetry books Pleamar (TEHA, 2012), Ensenada (Ril Editores, 2014), Estuario (Ril Editores, 2017) and the pamphlet Arte de Vivir (Cuadernos de Poesía, 2014). Along with this, he has won the Chilean National Book Fund in 2014 and 2019, respectively.
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Inger Christensen was born in Vejle Denmark in 1935, and was one of Europe's leading contemporary experimentalists. Her works include poetry, fiction, drama, and essays. She received numerous international literary awards, including the Nordic Prize of the Swedish Academy, the Grand Prix des Biennales Internationale de Poésie, the Austrian Sate Prize for Literature, and the German Siegfried Unseld Award. She died in Copenhagen in 2009.
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Kelly Clare is an artist and poet based in Western Massachusetts. She received her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Iowa and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her visual and literary work appears and is forthcoming in FENCE, Second Factory, Tagvverk, New Delta Review and elsewhere. She is an Editor at Ghost Proposal and was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center in 2019.
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Justin Cox’s writing has appeared in Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, The Canary, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, jubilat, and elsewhere. Justin teaches at the University of Iowa and has been a fellow at the International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Tracy Fuad is the author of about:blank, which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the winner of the Donald Hall Prize, selected by Claudia Rankine and published by Pitt Poetry in 2021. She teaches poetry at the Berlin Writers' Workshop, and was a 2021-22 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellow.
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Ryan Greene is a translator, book farmer, and poet from Phoenix, Arizona. He's a co-conspirator at F*%K IF I KNOW//BOOKS and a housemate at no.good.home. His translations include work by Elena Salamanca, Claudina Domingo, Ana Belén López, Giancarlo Huapaya, and Yaxkin Melchy, among others. His recent bilingual collections with Elena Salamanca include Landsmoder, which won the 2020 Stories Award for Poetry put on by Not a Cult, and Tal vez monstruos // Monsters Maybe, which was the inaugural title in the CLASH! chapbook series published by Mouthfeel Press. Since 2018, he has co-facilitated the Cardboard House Press Cartonera Collective bookmaking workshops at Palabras Bilingual Bookstore. Like Collier, the ground he stands on is not his ground.
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Joe Hall is the author of five books of poetry, including Someone's Utopia (2018) and Fugue & Strike (forthcoming). His poems, reviews, and scholarship have appeared in Poetry Daily, Postcolonial Studies, Peach Mag, terrain.org, PEN America Blog, Poetry Northwest, Ethel Zine, Gulf Coast, and Best Buds! Collective.
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PJ Lombardo is a poet from northern New Jersey. He’s received an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and has worked as an editorial assistant for Action Books. His poetry can be read in Dream Pop Journal, DREGINALD, Lana Turner Journal, the Brooklyn Rail and elsewhere.
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Olivia Muenz is the author of poetry collection I Feel Fine (Switchback Books, 2023), which won the 2022 Gatewood Prize, and chapbook Where Was I Again (Essay Press, 2022). She holds an MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University, where she earned the Robert Penn Warren Thesis Award in prose and served as an editor for New Delta Review. A '22 Tin House Summer Workshop participant, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, Massachusetts Review, The Missouri Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Daily, Black Warrior Review, Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She currently serves as Music Column Editor for ANMLY. Find her online at oliviamuenz.com
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Patty Nash is a poet and translator. Her work has appeared in West Branch, Sixth Finch, jubilat, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She lives in Berlin, Germany.
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Maggie Nipps is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Idaho. Her work appears in Figure 1, Pinwheel, Sporklet, No Contact, Sip Cup, petrichor, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder/co-editor of Afternoon Visitor, a new journal of poetry and hybrid text.
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Douglas Piccinnini is the author of Blood Oboe (Omnidawn, 2015) and Story Book: a novella (The Cultural Society, 2015), as well as numerous chapbooks, including Victoria (Bloof, 2019) and most recently, A Western Sky (Greying Ghost, 2022). Some of his recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Brooklyn Rail, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Hot Pink Magazine, Lana Turner, MQR, Opt West, Prelude, and Volt – among others.
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Elena Salamanca is a writer and historian from El Salvador currently living in Mexico. She has published Tal vez monstruos // Monsters Maybe (2022), La familia o el olvido (2017 and 2018), Peces en la boca (2013 and 2011), Landsmoder (2012 and 2022), and Último viernes (2008). Her most recent books, Claudia Lars: La niña que vio una salamandra (2020) and Prudencia Ayala: La niña con pájaros en la cabeza (2021) are the first two volumes of her “Colección Siemprevivas” series dedicated to the stories of more than 40 women who were born or lived in El Salvador between the 18th and 20th centuries. Her work has been translated into English, French, German, and Swedish. Since 2009, she has combined literature, performance, memory, and politics in public space. She is a doctorate candidate in History from the Colegio de México, and her thesis investigates the relationships between Central American unity, citizenship, and exile. She earned her master’s in History from El Colegio de México (2016) and the Universidad de Huelva, Spain (2013).
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Jimin Seo was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. He immigrated to the US to join his family at the age of eight. His debut, Furniture Music, was a winner of The Changes Book Prize and is forthcoming in Spring 2024. He lives in New York City where he is an adjunct lecturer and personal trainer.
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Jessica Sequeira is a writer and translator currently living in Santiago de Chile. Her latest book is Golden Jackal / Chacal Dorado (Buenos Aires Poetry).
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Brandon Shimoda is the author of eight books of poetry and prose, most recently The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019) which received the PEN Open Book Award, and Hydra Medusa (poetry and prose written in the Sonoran Desert), forthcoming from Nightboat Books in June 2023. He is also the curator of the Hiroshima Library, an itinerant reading room/collection of books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which has had stays in Bellingham, Denver, and Los Angeles.
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Dennis James Sweeney is the author of In the Antarctic Circle, which won the 2020 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize, and You’re the Woods Too, which is forthcoming from Essay Press, as well as four chapbooks of poetry and prose. His writing has appeared in Ecotone, Five Points, Ninth Letter, The New York Times, and The Southern Review, among others. Formerly a Small Press Editor of Entropy and Assistant Editor of Denver Quarterly, he has an MFA from Oregon State University and a PhD from the University of Denver. Originally from Cincinnati, he lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Sophia Terazawa's second book is Anon (Deep Vellum), love poems addressed to an adverb.
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Matthew Travers is a writer and translator whose works have featured in Lumpen, 3:AM magazine, Tripwire Journal, Asymptote, Firmament Magazine, Minor Literature(s), and Overground Underground, among others. He has translated Yahya Hassan for Peter Bouscheljong’s BLACKOUT website and his review of Sean Bonney’s Our Death can be found in the final issue of Zarf Poetry. Originally from Huddersfield, England, he now lives and works in Aarhus, Denmark.
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Lloyd Wallace is an MFA student at George Mason and an editorial coordinator for Poetry Daily. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Adroit Journal, FENCE, Peach Mag, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. You can find him on Twitter @jockeycornsilk.
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