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2018 Fall

Fall 2018

Artwork

is a mixed media visual communicator working andliving in Trinidad and Tobago. She is a self-taught artist and aims to create anew discourse examining issues of beauty, stereotypes, and the intricacies anddynamics of representing Afro-Caribbean women who are portrayed as beingstrong, long-suffering, exoticised and picturesque beings against a backdrop ofpoverty, hardship, abuse and/or scorn. Her form takes shape through masking andperformance art, fabric collage, traditional media, and installation pieces.

Poetry

has work published or forthcoming in The Georgia Review,Hotel Amerika, Barrow Street, BOMB Magazine, The Offing, and many others.She was a Fletcher Fellow at Bread Loaf for her novel, Desire (Coffee House Press).Ahl holds an MFA from Warren Wilson in poetry.

Aubade in the Old Apartment is a Tunisian-American poet and author of the chapbooks Ebb(Akashic Books, 2018) and Tunsiya/Amrikiya, the 2017 Editors’ Selection fromBull City Press. She is the recipient of scholarships from the Tin House Writers’Workshop, The Frost Place, and the Key West Literary Seminar; grants fromthe Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation; andfellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the WisconsinInstitute for Creative Writing, and Cleveland State University, where she isthe inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Publishing and Writing. Her poemshave received awards from Ploughshares’ Emerging Writer’s Contest, پ’s30 Below Contest and 10th Annual Poetry Contest, the Gregory O’DonoghueInternational Poetry Prize, and the Academy of American Poets. Chatti isthe consulting poetry editor for the Raleigh Review, and her work appears inPloughshares, Tin House, The American Poetry Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review,The Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere.

is the author of Pink Museum (Big Lucks, 2015), as well asseveral chapbooks. Her poetry and essays appear in Conjunctions, DIAGRAM,and Gulf Coast, among others. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD at Georgia StateUniversity.

Tommy D’Addario was born in Detroit, Michigan, and has lived on both of theMitten’s coasts. He has worked as a barista, a university writing instructor, anda chef on a ranch in Wyoming. He’s a second-year poet in the MFA program atthe University of Montana. D’Addario’s work has appeared or is forthcoming inSusquehanna Review, RHINO Poetry 2017, and Columbia Journal.

first book, Bastard Heart, was published in 2014 and was afinalist for the Utah Book Award in Poetry. Recent awards include fellowshipsfrom the Jentel Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Moulin à NefStudio Center in Auvillar, France. Recent work appears or is forthcoming inTupelo Quarterly, The Offing, Diode Poetry Journal, and The Normal School. For thepast two years, he was an assistant professor of humanities and creative writing atthe American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and he is nowan instructor of writing at Loyola University Maryland.

is an award-winning poet and writer. She’s the author ofFair Copy, winner of the 2011 Ohio State University Press/The Journal Awardin Poetry, and Vow, from Cleveland State University Press. She was the 2010-11Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, MadisonCreative Writing Institute and winner of the “Discovery” / Boston Review 2012poetry contest. A two-time Pushcart Prize winner, her poems have appeared inPoetry, The New Yorker, and Best American Poetry 2013 and 2015.

Matthew Kilbane is a graduate of Purdue University’s MFA program andcurrently a PhD candidate at Cornell University. His work can be found, now orsoon, in The GettysburgReview, The Adroit Journal, DIAGRAM, Jacket2, the Bestof the Net, and elsewhere.

Get Out of the Goddamn Car,Ben Kingsley is best known for his Academy Award-winning role as MahatmaGandhi. A touch less famous, Affrilachian author BenjamÌn Naka-HasebeKingsley has not acted since his third-grade debut as the undertaker inMusicMan. A Kundiman alum, Kingsley is currently the Tickner Writing Fellow andrecipient of a Provincetown FAWC fellowship. He belongs to the OnondagaNation of Indigenous Americans in New York. Peep his work from 2018 inBoston Review, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, and Tin House, amongothers. His first book, Not Your Mama’s Melting Pot, selected by Bob Hicok for theBackwaters Prize, was released fall 2018.

On the Haunted Hayride with Audrey is the author of three books of poems, all from BOA Editions:Beautiful in the Mouth (2010), winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize; The Keys tothe Jail (2014); and All Its Charms (2019). Kuipers’ poems, essays, and short storieshave appeared in Best American Poetry, Narrative, American Poetry Review, andPrairie Schooner. She has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow, Bread Loaf’s KatharineBakeless Nason Fellow, the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College,and the recipient of fellowships from the Lucas Artist Residency, the JentelArtist Residency Foundation, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, and PENNorthwest’s Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. Kuipers liveswith her wife and daughter on an island in the Salish Sea, where she is a facultymember at Seattle’s Hugo House and senior editor at Poetry Northwest.

white girl interrogates her recurring dreams” — is the author of wine for a shotgun (EM Press, 2013); whenthey say you can’t go home again, what they mean is you were never there, winner ofthe 2017 Michael Waters Poetry Prize (SIR Press, 2018); and Gathering Voices:Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop (YesYes Books, 2018). She is theco-creator of underbelly, an online magazine focused on the art and magic ofpoetry revision. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologiesincluding Best American Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, and IndianaReview. McConnell lives in Chicago with her wife, visual artist Lindsey Dorr-Niro.

The Earth Is Rude, Silent, Incomprehensible—is the author of Novena, winner of the Lena-Miles WeverTodd prize (Pleiades Press, 2017), and the chapbook In the Time of PrEP (BeloitPoetry Journal, 2018). He has held poetry fellowships from the Wisconsin Institutefor Creative Writing, the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and StanfordUniversity, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. Rancourt’s poems haveappeared in the The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review,New England Review, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best NewPoets 2014, among others. He lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Frances Simán is a communications professional and translator. She is amember of the Alicanto Poetry Workshop, annually organizing the AlicantoPoetry Week in Honduras, and a contributor for the editorial board of the CisneNegro publishing house. Simán has translated to Spanish works by poets from theUnited States, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Serbia, Romania, Austria, Palestine,Georgia, China, and Hungary. She lives in Honduras.

work has appeared in or is forthcoming in New England Review,The Kenyon Review, AGNI, Best New Poets 2013, Boston Review, and others. A formerWallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and a graduate of the BenningtonCollege MFA Writing Seminars, he was named among پ’s “30 Below 30”emerging writers in 2013, and most recently was a finalist for Frontier Poetry’s 2018Industry Prize. He is winner of this year’s George Bogin Memorial Award fromthe Poetry Society of America, and currently lives in Oakland, California, wherehe teaches poetry at The Writing Salon.

December at Faribault Prison—Michael Torres was born and brought up in Pomona, California, where hespent his adolescence as a graffiti artist. His work has appeared or is forthcomingin Ploughshares, The Sun, and Water~Stone Review, among others. He has receivedgrants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Jerome Foundation.A CantoMundo Fellow and VONA alum, Torres has been a finalist for the JakeAdam York Prize and a semi-finalist for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Currentlyhe teaches creative writing at Minnesota State University, Mankato and throughthe Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.

Fiction

is the author of the novel FAMOUS MEN WHO NEVER LIVED,forthcoming from Tin House Books in 2019. Her short fiction has appeared in TheChicago Tribune’s Printers Row Journal, PANK, phoebe, and others. She receivedspecial mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology, won Midwestern Gothic’s LakePrize, and was runner-up for the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction. Chesslives in Providence, Rhode Island. Followher on Twitter .

R. M. Cooper’s writing has appeared in publications including The BaltimoreReview, Best American Experimental Writing, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Fugue,Oxford Magazine, Passages North, Redivider, and Wisconsin Review and has receivedawards and recognition from UC Berkeley and American Short Fiction. Cooper isthe managing editor of Sequestrum.

Nonfiction

is a poet and essayist living in Pittsburgh. She is the author ofthe poetry collection In Which I Play the Runaway (2016), which won the BarrowStreet Book Prize, and The Rusted City: a Novel in Poems (White Pine, 2014).Her work has been included in the Best New Poets anthology series and she’sbeen awarded prizes and fellowships from Arts & Letters, Hunger Mountain, PoetryInternational, Vermont Studio Center, Jentel, and Yaddo. Hurt teaches at SlipperyRock University.

Nancy McCabe’s work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies,including Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Fourth Genre, Los Angeles Review of Books,Newsweek, Every Father’s Daughter: 24 Women Writers Remember Their Fathers,and Oh Baby! True Stories about Conception, Adoption, Surrogacy Pregnancy,Labor, and Love. McCabe is the author of five books, and her work has received aPushcart and been listed as Notable in seven Best American anthologies.

Drama

holds an MFA in dramatic writing from Carnegie MellonUniversity. His plays have been performed across the United States, as well as inCanada, Australia, and Japan.

is a poet and playwright from West Philly. His plays have beenfeatured at Theater503 in London, Victory Gardens Ignition Fest, OregonShakespeare Festival, Great Plains Theater Conference, and The KennedyCenter. He is a member of The Working Farm at SPACE, a two-time finalist forthe O’Neill Theater Conference, and a semi-finalist for the Relentless Award.He is a Cave Canem poetry fellow, Callaloo poetry fellow, and the 2018 winnerof the Rattle Poetry Prize. His first full-length collection of poetry, Patricide, is
forthcoming in spring 2019 from Button Poetry. Harris is a second year MFAplaywright at UC San Diego.

Wynne Hungerford’s work has appeared in EPOCH, American Literary Review,and The Boiler, among other places. She recently graduated from MFA@FLA, thewriting program at the University of Florida.

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