Join Sundress Publications, Doubleback Books, Stirring, beestung, and Pretty Owl Poetry for beers and poetry on Friday, March 6th in San Antonio!
Albert Abonado teaches creative writing. He has received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Boston Review, Colorado Review, The Margins, Zone 3, and others. He hosts Flour City Yawp on WAYO 104.3FM-LP. He lives in Rochester, NY with his wife.
Jasmine An comes from the Midwest. Her chapbook, Naming the No-Name Woman, won the 2015 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize and her work can be found in Black Warrior Review’s Boyfriend Village, Stirring, Nat. Brut and Waxwing, among others. Currently, she is an Editor at Agape Editions and pursuing a PhD in English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan.
Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books), The Opposite of Work (JackLeg Press, 2nd edition by DoubleBack Books), and most recently, Animal Children (Nomadic Press), a collection of prose poems and microfiction. He’s chief steward of the Adjunct Faculty Union at California College of the Arts, where he teaches in Writing and Literature.
Alyse Bensel is the author of Rare Wondrous Things, a poetic biography of Maria Sibylla Merian (Green Writers Press, 2020), and three chapbooks. Her poems have recently appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry International, and West Branch. She teaches at Brevard College, where she directs the Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference.
Stephanie Cawley is a poet from southern New Jersey. She is the author of My Heart But Not My Heart (Slope Editions, 2020) and the chapbook A Wilderness (Gazing Grain Press, 2018). Her next book, Animal Mineral, will be published by YesYes Books in 2021. You can find her at stephaniecawley.com.
Emily Rose Cole is the author of Love & a Loaded Gun, a chapbook of persona poems in the voices of women. Her work has appeared in American Life in Poetry, Best New Poets 2018, and Salamander, among others. She is a PhD candidate in Poetry and Disability Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where she is a Taft Fellow.
Robert Long Foreman has won a Pushcart Prize and the Nilsen Prize for a First Novel. His debut fiction collection, I AM HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS, is out now.
Malcolm Friend is a poet originally from the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. He is the author of the chapbook mxd kd mixtape (Glass Poetry, 2017) and the full length collection Our Bruises Kept Singing Purple (Inlandia Books, 2018). Together with JR Mahung he is a member of Black Plantains, an Afrocaribbean poetry collective.
Rodney Gomez is the author of Citizens of the Mausoleum (Sundress Publications, 2018), a finalist for the John A. Robertson Award from the Texas Institute of Letters; Ceremony of Sand (YesYes Books, 2019); Arsenal with Praise Song (Orison Books, 2020); and Geographic Tongue (Pleiades Press, 2020), winner of the Pleiades Press Visual Poetry Series. His work appears in Poetry, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, The Gettysburg Review, Blackbird, Denver Quarterly, Verse Daily, and other journals.
Aaron Graham is a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. His work has appeared in f(r)iction magazine, Scalawag: A Journal of the South, and Rising Phoenix Press, among others. He served as the editor-in-chief for the Squaw Valley Review, and is currently attending UCNG’s MFA program in poetry and finishing his Ph.D. at Emory University.
Chera Hammons is West Texas A&M University’s Writer-in-Residence. Work appears or is forthcoming in publications such as Beloit Poetry Journal, Foundry, The Penn Review, Ruminate, The Sun, The Texas Observer, and Tupelo Quarterly. She is a winner of the PEN Southwest Book Award. Maps of Injury is her fourth book of poetry. A novel is forthcoming through Torrey House Press.
David Joseph is writing about whiteness, but whiteness keeps trying to erase itself. He's writing about masculinity, which is hard because masculinity wants you to think it’s so strong. He's writing, sometimes, about other things. A novel is hard at work on David.
Lucia LoTempio is the author of Hot with the Bad Things (Alice James Books 2020). You can find her poems in Passages North, The Journal, TYPO, Quarterly West, as part of the Academy of American Poets poem-a-day series, and elsewhere. With Suzannah Russ Spaar, she co-authored the chapbook Undone in Scarlet (Tammy 2019). Lucia lives and writes in Pittsburgh.
Jess Silfa is an Afro-Latinx writer and poet from the South Bronx. They graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor’s in Psychology and currently live in Tampa Bay, Florida. Jess is currently working on their first novel about a tight-knit immigrant community. They have received a Displaced Artist Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center and are President of the Disabled and D/deaf Writers Caucus. Follow Jess on Twitter @jesilfa.
Addie Tsai teaches courses in literature, creative writing, dance, and humanities at Houston Community College. She collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel, among others. Addie holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. Her writing has been published in Banango Street, The Offing, The Collagist, The Feminist Wire, Nat. Brut., and elsewhere. She is the Nonfiction Editor at The Grief Diaries, Associate Fiction Editor at Anomaly, and Senior Associate Editor in Poetry at The Flexible Persona. She is the author of the queer Asian young adult novel Dear Twin.