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Cornelius Eady

Cornelius Eady is the author of several books of poetry, including the critically acclaimed Hardheaded Weather, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets, The Gathering of My Name, which was nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize, and his most recent collection The War […]

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Hannah Lee Jones

Hannah Lee Jones is a Korean American poet and nomad whose poetry, fiction, and essays can be found in Literary Orphans and Orion, among other journals. Her debut poetry collection, When I Was the Wind was published by June Road Press in 2022. She previously edited The MFA Project, a resource for writers pursuing their craft without an advanced […]

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Michael Dylan Welch

Michael Dylan Welch  has been writing haiku since 1976 and teaching since about 1990. He has won numerous poetry contests, and his poetry has been published in at least twenty-two languages in hundreds of journals and anthologies. His poetry, translations, and interviews have also been broadcast on numerous radio stations. His books include Seven Suns […]

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Derek Sheffield

Poet and naturalist Derek Sheffield was born in Portland, Oregon, and grew up in Gig Harbor, Washington. The first in his family to graduate from college, Sheffield earned his MFA from the University of Washington. His collections of poetry include Not for Luck (Michigan State University Press, 2021), winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize judged […]

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CMarie Fuhrman

CMarie Fuhrman is the co-editor of the anthology Native Voices (Tupelo 2019) and the forthcoming chapbook of poems Camped Beneath the Dam (Floodgate 2020). Her poetry has appeared in The Yellow Medicine Review, Cutthroat… A Journal of the Arts, Whitefish Review, High Desert Journal, and Broadsided Press’ NoDapl Compilation, as well as many other journals […]

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Elizabeth Bradfield

Writer/naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Toward Antarctica, Once Removed, Approaching Ice, Interpretive Work, and Theorem, a collaboration with artist Antonia Contro. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Sun, the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Orion and have been widely anthologized. Winner of the Audre Lorde Prize from the Publishing Triangle, finalist for a Lambda Literary Award […]

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Katharine Whitcomb

Katharine Whitcomb is the author of three full-length collections of poems, including the award-winning Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems and The Daughter’s Almanac, and most recently Habitats (forthcoming in 2023 from Poetry Northwest Editions in the Possession Sound Series). She has published two poetry chapbooks: Lamp of Letters and Hosannas, and a faux […]

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Risa Denenberg

Risa Denenberg lives on the Olympic peninsula in Washington state where she works as a nurse practitioner. She is a co-founder of Headmistress Press; curator at The Poetry Café Online; and the Reviews Editor at River Mouth Review. Her most recent publications include the chapbook, Posthuman, finalist in the Floating Bridge 2020 chapbook competition, and Rain/Dweller, finalist for the […]

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Dayna Patterson

Dayna Patterson is a photographer, textile artist, and irreverent bardophile. She’s the author of O Lady, Speak Again (Signature Books, 2023) and If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020). Honors include the Association for Mormon Letters Poetry Award and the 2019 #DignityNotDetention Poetry Prize judged by Ilya Kaminsky. Her creative work has appeared in […]

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Kristy Webster

Kristy Webster is a queer, Latina writer and the author of The Gift of an Imaginary Girl: Coco and Other Stories, published by A Word with You Press in 2015 and most recently, Heretic: a story of spiritual liberation in poems, pubished by Beyond the Veil Press. Kristy earned her MFA in Creative Writing from […]