Alan Williamson has authored 6 books of poetry, most recently Franciscan Notes (Tupelo, 2019). He has also published 6 books of criticism, most recently Dante and the Night Journey (Anthem First Hill, 2023). He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, & teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
Mona Lisa Saloy is an Author & Folklorist, Educator, & Scholar. As a poet, her first book, Red Beans & Ricely Yours, won the T.S. Eliot Prize & the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. She is the former Poet Laureate of Louisiana, and her most recent collection, Black Creole Chronicles, is the 2024 One Book One New Orleans selection.
Jeanne Foster, Professor Emerita Saint Mary College of California, is a Unitarian Universalist minister. Goodbye, Silver Sister (Northwestern) is her latest poetry collection. Former Poet-in-Residence Tulane University, she is recipient of the QRL Poetry Award, MacDowell, New York State CAPS, Saint Lawrence, & Lannan Foundation grants.
Tierney Oberhammer is a writer based in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in swamp pink, The Adroit Journal, Aster(ix), Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, & River Teeth. She lives with Jamie & Wavy.
Ed Ruzicka’s newest collection of poetry, Squalls, came out in March. His poems have appeared in the Atlanta Review, Rattle, Canary & the San Pedro River Review as well as many other literary journals & anthologies. Ed has been a finalist for the Dana Award & the New Millennium Award. Ed lives with his wife Renee & Tucker the doddering bulldog in Baton Rouge.
Cynthia Manick is the author of No Sweet Without Brine (Amistad-HarperCollins, 2023), which received 5 stars from Roxane Gay and was selected as a New York Public Library Best Book of 2023; editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry; and author of Blue Hallelujahs.