Contributors A poet and artist, Sally Van Doren has four poetry collections with LSU Press: Sibilance, Promise, Possessive, and Sex at Noon Taxes which received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. A graduate of Princeton University (BA) and the University of Missouri—St. Louis (MFA), she leads poetry workshops for public libraries near her art studio in Connecticut. website Kami Enzie (he/him) is a Vienna-born, New Orleans-raised queer Black writer. Work appears in Chicago Review, Common Place, The Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He recently earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Susanna Lang’s chapbook, Like This, was released in 2023 (Unsolicited Books), along with her translation of poems by Souad Labbize, My Soul Has No Corners (Diálogos Books). Her poems and translations have appeared in Asympote, Circumference, The Common, december magazine, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. website Melanie H. Manuel is a Filipina American poet who attends SDSU for her MFA in poetry. Her debut chapbook, in storyboard, is now out. Her work has been published by Grist: A Literary Journal of Arts, Los Angeles Review, and North American Review. Christine Marshall lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her poems and essays have appeared in places such as Agni, Beloit Poetry Journal, Best American Poetry, Memorious, The Missouri Review, and the Sun. Her first book, Match, was published in 2018 by Unicorn Press. Robert McDonald lives with his husband in Chicago, where he works at an independent bookstore. His poetry has appeared in Court Green, Pank, Sentence, Southern Poetry Review, and West Trade Review. Born on Oahu, Derek N. Otsuji is the author of The Kitchen of Small Hours (SIU Press 2021), featured in Honolulu Magazine’s “Essential Hawaii Books You Should Read.” He is a 2023 Longleaf Fellow in Poetry. Recent work has appeared in 32 Poems, Southern Review, and The Threepenny Review. website Pablo Piñero Stillmann has appeared in, among other places, Bennington Review, Best New Poets, Gettysburg Review, and Mississippi Review. His book of short stories, Our Brains and the Brains of Miniature Sharks, won the Moon City Short Fiction Award and was published in 2020 by Moon City Press. website Diane Thiel, a Regents’ Professor at the University of New Mexico, is the author of twelve books. Her latest book of poetry, Questions from Outer Space (Red Hen Press 2022), received the 2023 Independent Press Book Award. Her work appeared in Best American Poetry 2023. website Ellen June Wright is an American poet with British and Caribbean roots. Her work has been published in journals such as North American Review, Missouri Review, Plume, Tar River, and Verse Daily. She’s a Cave Canem and Hurston/Wright alumna. website Driftwood Series by Christie Taylor (website)
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