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Eric Abalajon is currently a lecturer at the UP Visayas, Iloilo. His works have appeared in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, The Tiger Moth Review, ANMLY, Modern Poetry in Translation, Asymptote, and Footprints: An Anthology of New Ecopoetry (Broken Sleep Books, 2022). He lives near Iloilo City.
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Alexis Almeida is the author of I Have Never Been Able to Sing (Ugly Duckling Presse) and most recently the translator of Dalia Rosetti's Dreams and Nightmares (Les Figues) and co-translator of Carlos Soto Román's 11 (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023). Things I Have Made a Fiction is forthcoming from Oversound in 2024. Her poems, prose, translations, and interviews have recently appeared in FENCE, Oversound, BOMB, the Poetry Project Newsletter, and elsewhere. She teaches at the Bard Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library and edits 18 Owls Press.
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Paul Bisagni lives in Manhattan, NY, where he works as an academic editor for Columbia University. A new favorite film is Bringing Up Baby (1938).
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Clara Burghelea is a Romanian-born poet with an MFA in Poetry from Adelphi University. Recipient of the Robert Muroff Poetry Award, her poems and translations appeared in Ambit, Waxwing, The Cortland Review and elsewhere. Her second poetry collection Praise the Unburied was published in 2021 with Chaffinch Press. She is the Review Editor of Ezra, An Online Journal of Translation.
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Kinsey Cantrell is a Brooklyn-based poet. Her work has appeared in Protean Magazine, Booth, Hayden’s Ferry Review, ANMLY, Black Warrior Review, Datableed, New Delta Review, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She studies epidemiology and biostatistics at the City University of New York. She also writes for an indie video game.
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Aimee Chor is a poet and translator who lives in Seattle with her family. Born in New York, she lived and studied in Germany for several years and holds degrees in religious studies from Carleton College and The University of Chicago. Aimee is currently working on translations of German poetry and prose from the past two hundred years. She can be found on Twitter @aimeechor and at commonplaces.
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Ch’oŭi (1786-1866) was a Korean Buddhist monk given a traditional Confucian education, making him a uniquely trained scholar of his period. Ch’oŭi is considered one of the first pre-eminent experts on the subject of green tea in Korea.
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Logan Fry is the author of Harpo Before the Opus (Omnidawn, 2019), and of recent poetry in Lana Turner, Fence, Prelude, Shitwonder, and The New York Review of Books.
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Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo is a recent graduate of the Rutgers University-Camden MFA program, where she wrote about deer and hand models and renn faires and more. She is the author of the chapbook "DUH" (Bullshit Lit) and her work appears in The Cleveland Review of Books, Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, Passages North, and Bedfellows Magazine, among others. Juliet lives in Philadelphia where she runs the reading and open mic series Spit Poetry. She can be followed @tall.spy (Instagram) and @tall__spy (Twitter) but she can never be caught
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Ian Haight’s collection of poetry, Celadon, won Unicorn Press’ First Book Prize. With T’ae-yong Hŏ, he is the co-translator of Red Rain on a Spring Mountain: Complete Poems of Nansŏrhŏn and Homage to Green Tea by the Korean monk, Ch’oŭi, both forthcoming from White Pine Press. Other awards include Ninth Letter’s Literary Award in Translation, and grants from the Daesan Foundation, the Korea Literary Translation Institute, and the Baroboin Buddhist Foundation. Poems, essays, interviews, reviews, microfiction and translations appear in Barrow Street, Writer’s Chronicle, Hyundai Buddhist News, Full Stop, MoonPark Review and The Poetry Review (UK). For more information please visit ianhaight.com.
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Suzanne Highland is a writer, educator, and wildlife rehabilitator from the gulf coast of Florida. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize, and it appears in Apogee Journal, Nat. Brut, A Velvet Giant, Redivider, Yalobusha Review, and in the anthology Home is Where You Queer Your Heart from Foglifter Press, among others. She has received support from the 92nd Street Y, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Brooklyn Poets, Florida State University, and Hunter College, where she received the Miriam Weinberg Richter Award in 2016. She is also the voice behind Mortal Lives, a monthly essay series about ecology, money, death and birds. Suzanne lives in Brooklyn and at suzannehighland.com.
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T’ae-yong Hŏ has been awarded translation grants from the Daesan Foundation and Korea Literature Translation Institute. With Ian Haight, he is the co-translator of Borderland Roads: Selected Poems of Kyun Hŏ—finalist for KLTI’s Grand Prix Prize—and Magnolia and Lotus: Selected Poems of Hyesim—finalist for ALTA’s Stryk Prize. Working from the original classical Korean, T’ae-yong’s translations of Korean poetry have appeared in Agni, New Orleans Review, and Prairie Schooner.
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Kelly Hoffer is a poet and book artist. Her debut collection of poetry, Undershore, was selected by Diana Khoi Nguyen as the winner of the 2021 Lightscatter Press Prize and is forthcoming in May 2023. Her second book manuscript "Fire Series" was a finalist for the 2021 National Poetry Series and the Georgia Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Chicago Review, TAGVVERK, American Chordata, Denver Quarterly, Paperbag, and Prelude, among others. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and she is currently a doctoral candidate in Literatures in English at Cornell University. Learn more at https://www.kellyrosehoffer.com/
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Roberta Iannamico was born August 30, 1972 and for the past twenty years has lived in Villa Ventana, Argentina. She has published various books of poetry, including El zorro gris, El zorro blanco, El zorro colorado, Mamuskhas, El collar de fideos, Tendal, Many Poems, Nomeolvides, and Que lindo, and also several books for children, including: Nariz de higo, Ris Ras, La camisa fantasma, Bajo las estrellas, Retrato de un zorro cachorro, Saltar soga en la noche, Bien viento y varias adaptaciones de cuentos clásicos y de relatos de pueblos originarios. Her poems have been translated into English and Portuguese. She runs poetry workshops for people of all ages, and writes and performs music, mostly recently as part of the duo Las Kostureras. She co-directs Maravilla Press, and for the past 18 years has worked actively on cultural programming for the Macedonio Fernandez Public Library in Villa Ventana.
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Kai Ihns recently finished her PhD at UChicago, where she studied a form of attentional prosody she calls “aspect choreography” in contemporary experimental poetry and film. She makes short films, and is the author of one full length poetry collection, sundaey (Propeller Books, 2020), and a number of pamphlets, most recently with the Earthbound Poetry Series, slub press, and The Creative Writing Department. She lives and works in Chicago.
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Nadja Küchenmeister, born in Berlin in 1981, is one of the most important younger poets writing in German today. She has published three books of poetry: All the Lights (2010), Under the Juniper (2014), and In the Glass Mountain (2020), which includes the poems translated here. A book of translations of her work was published in English and Irish in 2015. Her writing has been recognized with many awards, most recently the Basel Poetry Prize (2022).
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Daniela Naomi Molnar is an artist, poet, and writer collaborating with the mediums of language, image, paint, pigment, and place. She is also a wilderness guide, educator, and eternal student. Her book CHORUS was selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of Omnidawn’s 1st /2nd Book Prize. Her visual work has been shown nationally, is in public and private collections internationally, and has been recognized by numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies. She teaches about poetry and the poetics of pigment-making. In 2016, she founded the Art + Ecology program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and is a founding Board member of the artist residency Signal Fire.
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Oak Morse lives in Houston, Texas, where he teaches creative writing and theatre and leads a youth poetry troop, the Phoenix Fire-Spitters. He was the winner of the 2017 Magpie Award for Poetry in Pulp Literature, a Finalist for the 2023 Honeybee Poetry Award and a Semi-Finalist for the 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. A Warren Wilson MFA graduate, Oak has received Pushcart Prize nominations, fellowships from Brooklyn Poets, Twelve Literary Arts, Cave Canem’s Starshine and Clay as well as a Stars in the Classroom honor from the Houston Texans. His work appears in Black Warrior Review, Obsidian, Tupelo, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Nimrod, Terrain.org, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, among others. www.oakmorse.com
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Peter Myers is a poet and teacher living in New York. His recent poems have appeared in Fence, Hot Pink Mag, jubilat, and Dusie, and he has written essays and reviews for Annulet, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Chicago Review. A chapbook is forthcoming from above/ground press.
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Vi Khi Nao is the author of seven poetry collections & of the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize), the novel, Swimming with Dead Stars. Her poetry collection, The Old Philosopher, won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014. Her book, Suicide: the Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche is out of 11:11 in Spring 2023. A recipient of the 2022 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize, her work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. She was the Fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute: https://www.vikhinao.com
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Deven Philbrick is a poet and literary critic living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His debut poetry collection, Snow Drifts, is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil publishing. His writings have appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including Palooka, Zone 3, Another Chicago Magazine, and Obsidian. He is currently at work upon a doctoral dissertation examining the role of process philosophy in modern and postmodern poetry.
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Cleo Qian is a writer from southern California who received her MFA from NYU. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in or are forthcoming from several outlets including The Sun, The Massachusetts Review, ZYZZYA, Pleiades, Four Way Review, and others. Her first book, the short story collection LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO, was published by Tin House in 2023.
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Maxwell Rabb is the author of the chapbook Faster, the Whirl Wheel (Greying Ghost, forthcoming). He lives in Chicago, leaving his heart in New Orleans and Atlanta. His poems have appeared in the Action Books Blog, Sleeping Fish, GASHER, and ctrl+v, among others. He is currently an M.F.A. candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Varun Ravindran was born and lives.
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Anne Marie Rooney is a poet and artist living in Baltimore. She is the author of No Beautiful (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018) and Spitshine (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012), as well as two chapbooks. She makes poetic games with Sam Sheffield as LORRAINE. Find her at annemarierooney.com, 10014.space, and lorraine.website.
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Fortunato Salazar's translation and other work is at or forthcoming at Lana Turner, Harvard Review, Witness, Ploughshares, Conjunctions, The Atlantic, the Guardian, and elsewhere. He lives in West Hollywood, California.
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Brett Shaw writes and teaches in Alabama. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Sycamore Review, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. His work has received support from the Community of Writers. He holds an MFA from the University of Alabama.
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Orland Agustin Solis writes poetry, short stories, and children’s stories primarily in the Hiligaynon language. His works explore farmer narratives in the hinterlands of Negros Occidental. His works have appeared in TLDTD, Revolt Magazine, Loch Raven Review, and elsewhere.
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Philip Sorenson is the author of three full-length collections: Of Embodies (Rescue Press, 2012), Solar Trauma (Rescue Press, 2018), and Work Is Hard Vore (Schism Neuronics, 2020). He lives and teaches in Chicago.
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Born in 1977 in Sibiu, Romania, Ioana Vintilă is a biotech engineer, with an MA in Molecular Biotechnology. In 2016, she won the PEN International New Voices Award for her poems. Her first poetry collection, Birds in the sandstorm (2018) was published by Max Blecher Editorial House. Birds in the sandstorm was nominated for several national prizes and won the Iustin Panța and George Bacovia debut awards. Her latest collection, the origami bunker was published in 2022.
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Lindsey Webb is the author of Plat (Archway Editions, forthcoming 2024) and the chapbooks Perfumer’s Organ(above/ground, 2023) and House (Ghost Proposal, 2020). Her writings have appeared in Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, and Lana Turner, among others. With Kylan Rice, she edits Thirdhand Books.
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