______________________________________________ Ben Gunsberg is an Assistant Professor of English at Utah State University. His poetry appears in CutBank, The Southeast Review, and The South Carolina Review, among other magazines. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the University of Alabama and the University of
______________________________________________ Shelby Dale DeWeese grew up on a farm in the southeast United States but currently lives and writes in California. She is an MFA candidate at the University of San Francisco, a poetry reader for Switchback and Teen Ink, and an educational program intern
______________________________________________ Katherine DiBella Seluja frequently represents themes of migration and heritage in her work. Her first poetry collection Gather the Night focuses primarily on the impact of mental illness and is forthcoming from UNM Press in 2018.
______________________________________________ Benjamin Gucciardi has poetry appearing or forthcoming in Orion, upstreet, Talking River, Terrain.org, The California Journal of Poetics, and other journals. He is a winner of the 2013 Dorothy Rosenberg Memorial Prize.
______________________________________________ Idalith Bustos received her BA in Creative Writing and Literature and minor in Geography from California State University, Long Beach and is currently pursuing her MFA in Poetry at CSULB. Her poetry has previously been published in Riprap Literary Journal. She lives in Southern
______________________________________________ Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani-American poet and translator. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where she received her MFA in Creative Writing. She translates Urdu and Persian poetry, and seeks to recreate the Urdu and Persian poetic
______________________________________________ Joanna Rosenberg is an award-winning playwright and poet. She holds a degree in playwriting and Holocaust studies from Hampshire College. Her work has received the Denis Johnston Playwriting Award, the Gloria Ann Barnell Peter Playwriting Prize, and the Smith College Poetry Prize. Her poems
______________________________________________ Sierra Jacob is an MFA candidate at the University of Montana, where she received the Richard Hugo Memorial Scholarship for poetry. She is currently a poetry editor for CutBank Literary Magazine. Her poetry has appeared and is forthcoming in LUMINA, Yemassee, Sonora Review, The Louisville Review, Compose, Cream
______________________________________________ Sierra Jacob is an MFA candidate at the University of Montana, where she received the Richard Hugo Memorial Scholarship for poetry. She is currently a poetry editor for CutBank Literary Magazine. Her poetry has appeared and is forthcoming in LUMINA, Yemassee, Sonora Review, The Louisville Review, Compose, Cream
______________________________________________ Jacob Griffin Hall was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He studied English and Psychology at the University of Georgia and currently lives in Bowling Green, Ohio, where he is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing.