Jennifer Barber's most recent collection of poetry is Works on Paper, winner of the 2015 Tenth Gate Prize (The Word Works). She's also the author of Given Away and Rigging the Wind, and received a MacDowell Fellowship in 2017. She edits the literary journal Salamander and teaches at Suffolk University in Boston. (In this issue: “Continuum.”)

Richard Barnes was born in San Bernadino, California, in 1932. Educated at Pomona, Harvard, and the Claremont Graduate School, he taught medieval and renaissance literature at Pomona for nearly forty years. He published several volumes of poetry and translations. He died in May 2000. (In this issue: “Six Poems,” co-translated with Richard Barnes from the Spanish of Jorge Luis Borges.)

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet, and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature. He served as the director of the National Public Library of Argentina and taught literature at the University of Buenos Aires. (In this issue: “Six poems,” translated by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes.)

Daniel Bosch is the author of Crucible (Other Press, 2002) and Octaves (Beard of Bees, 2014). His "Cover Letter," an essay proposing a radical revision of creative writing pedagogy, is legible at 3:AM Magazine and will be republished in Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New and Beginner Poets, an anthology edited by Abayomi Animashaun to appear later this year from Black Lawrence Press. He will teach "20th Century American Poetry" at Emory University in Fall 2018. (In this issue: “Proverbs.”)

Kasia Buczkowska, born in Poland, is a writer and translator in New York City, who writes very short fiction in Polish and English. She studied English Philology at the University of Warsaw and English Literature and Film at Columbia University. She has published in Literary Imagination, Przegląd Polski, Clarion, Kurier Plus, Trafika Europe and Akcent. Her first collection, In Prose, was published in 2014 by Un-Gyve Press, Boston. (In this issue: “Three Miniatures.”)

Peter J. Caputo (1950-2013) was Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston for thirty-one years. His areas of expertise included 19th century English literature, history of the novel, classical mythology, and post-Jungian (archetypal) psychology. He is the author of the short story collection Saint Medusa (Pen & Anvil, 2014), and was a finalist for the prestigious Peter Taylor Prize and semifinalist in the William Faulkner Competition for his then-unpublished but now forthcoming novel, The Taletellers. At the time of his passing he was at work on a second novel. (In this issue: “May 13 – May 14.”)

Melissa Castillo Planas earned her PhD in American Studies and African American Studies from Yale University. She is editor of ¡Manteca!: An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets; co-editor of La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades; author of the poetry collection Coatlicue Eats the Apple; and co-author of the novel Pure Bronx. Her current book project, forthcoming with Rutgers University Press’ new Global Race and Media series, A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture, examines the creative worlds and cultural productions of Mexican migrants in New York City. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Lehman College. (In this issue: “09.27.2018.”)

U. S. Dhuga’s first book, Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek Tragedy, was published through Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies (January 2011). His debut collection of poetry, The Sight of a Goose Going Barefoot, was released in March 2017 by Eyewear Publishing. Dhuga’s classical music criticism, literary criticism, and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker (where he worked as an opera reviewer), The Hudson Review, PN Review, and elsewhere. Dhuga’s poetry was Highly Commended by the Forward Arts Foundation in August 2017, and is featured in The Forward Book of Poetry 2018, an anthology which “showcases a selection of the best contemporary poetry published in the British Isles over the last year” (Faber and Faber, September 2017). Trained as a classical philologist at Columbia University—where he earned his PhD, MPhil, and MA degrees in Classics—Dhuga presently lives in Toronto. (In this issue: "Sonnets on the Dole.")

Meia Geddes (@meiageddes) has written two books, The Little Queen and Love Letters to the World. She loves a good walk. (In this issue: "Meet me by the purple fence.")

Thomas Graves (@bradyscarriet) grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, has a master's in English from Iowa, and has operated the Scarriet blog since 2009. (In this issue: "Mazer, Poetry, and Painting," an extract from Ben Mazer and the New Romanticism.)

Jeff Griffin is the author of Lost and (University of Iowa Press, 2013). He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is pursuing his PhD in creative writing at the University of Kansas. An associate at Griffin Moss Industries, he also operates the publishing house Slim Princess Holdings. (In this issue: "Warm Springs" and "Rendezvous Ditch.")

Elisabeth Horan is an imperfect creature from Vermont advocating for animals, children and those suffering alone and in pain—especially those ostracized by disability and mental illness. Her collaborative nature and feminism chapbook “On This Path We Travel” is published at Moonchild Magazine. Her column Arsenic Hour is live at TERSE Journal, and she can be found on Twitter @ehoranpoet. (In this issue: "For Phyllis.")

Soojin Kim is a writer and translator from Seoul, Korea. Her writing has appeared in Dappled Things and Hot Street. Her flash fiction was shortlisted for the 2013 AWC Short Short Story Competition judged by Robert Olen Butler. She was 2012 Fiction Fellow at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, and has been artist-in-residence at Ragdale, I-Park, and Ox-bow. Blessing of the Rainbow is among her translations. She holds an MFA from The New School. (In this issue: "Reading Almond in Seoul.")

Meghan Lamb is the author of All Your Most Private Places (Spork Press) and Silk Flowers (Birds of Lace). Her work has been featured in Quarterly West, Passages North, The Collagist, and elsewhere. (In this issue: "from Centralia.")

Gregory Lawless is the author of I Thought I Was New Here (BlazeVOX Books, 2009), Far Away (Red Mountain Poetry Press, 2015) and Dreamburgh, Pennsylvania (Dream Horse Press, forthcoming). (In this issue: "Mud" and "Stool.")

El Habib Louai is an Amazigh poet, translator, teacher, musician from Taroudant, Morocco. He edited and translated an anthology of contemporary Moroccan poetry for Big Bridge Magazine. He has published articles about and Arabic translations of poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, and Amiri Baraka. In 2014, he received a Fulbright grant to do research on the Beats at Chapel Hill University. His poems have appeared in journals including The Fifth Estate, Arrafid, Ilanot Review, and The Istanbul Literary Review. Louai and his band are frequently invited to perform in Europe and the United States. His first collection of poems is called Mrs. Jones Will Now Know: Poems of a Desperate Rebel. (In this issue: "The Futility of Lordly Assistance.")

Larry Spotted Crow Mann is a citizen of the Nipmuc Tribe of Massachusetts. He is a writer, cultural educator, tribal musician and dancer, and motivational speaker. Mann is also a board member of the Nipmuk Cultural Preservation. He has given lectures at universities throughout New England on issues involving Native American sovereignty and identity. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Mann has published work in publications including Memescapes, Indian Country Today, New England on Fire, and Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing. His latest book, The Mourning Road to Thanksgiving, is the 2015 WordCraft Circle of Honors Winner. (In this issue: "Moccasins.")

Fred Marchant’s latest collection of poetry, Said Not Said, was published by Graywolf Press in May 2017. He is also the author of Tipping Point, Full Moon Boat, House on Water, House in Air, and The Looking House. He has co-translated, with Nguyen Ba Chung, From a Corner of My Yard, by Tran Dang Khoa, and Con Dau Prison Songs, by Vo Que, both books published in Hanoi. He is the editor of Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, and an Emeritus Professor of English, as well as the founding director of the Suffolk University Poetry Center. (In this issue: "Mind / Matter: On Catherine Strisik’s The Mistress and Max Ritvo’s Four Reincarnations.")

Stanislav Marmysh is a Boston-based and Russian-born multidisciplinary artist with a scavenger's mindset. Much of his artwork combines disparate elements for surreal effects, searching for meaning in distortion. His collage pieces databend film photography in resistance to the allure of imitative instant gratification. Under the moniker KhlystK.Ahlan, he brings this same approach to music, mutating and mutilating field recordings, samples and original compositions channeled through analog hardware. As a creator who has never felt truly American or truly Russian, his art is charged with valences of alienation and polarization. Objects and places that feel known and comfortable dissipate into static. (In this issue: "Lost Faces.")

Ben Mazer was born in New York City in 1964. He studied with Seamus Heaney at Harvard University, and completed his MA and Ph.D. under Christopher Ricks and Archie Burnett at the Editorial Institute, Boston University. He is the author of several collections of poems, including, most recently, February Poems (Ilora), December Poems (Pen & Anvil), and The Glass Piano (MadHat), and is the editor of The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom (Un-Gyve). He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (In this issue: "Spring Equinox" and "So many bridges crossed, as evening falls....")

Robert Mezey is an eminent poet, translator, critic, and editor. His books include the Lamont Prize-winning The Lovemaker (1960) and Collected Poems 1952-1999 (2000). He lives in Pomona, California. (In this issue: “Six Poems,” co-translated with Richard Barnes from the Spanish of Jorge Luis Borges.)

Philip Nikolayev is a Russo-American poet living in Boston. He is editor of Fulcrum, a serial anthology of poetry and criticism. His poetry collections include Monkey Time (2003) and Letters from Aldenderry (2006). A collection of his Indian poems, Dusk Raga, was published by the Writers’ Workshop in Kolkata in 1998. New volumes are forthcoming from MadHat (USA) and Poetrywala (India). (In this issue: "Selves gone by.")

Flaminia Ocampo is the author of a book of short stories, La locura de los otros (2003), published in English as Other People’s Phobias (2013); three novels in Spanish, Un amor antiguo (1996), Siete vidas (2004), and Cobayos criollos (2015); a literary study, Victoria y sus amigos (2009) and two books of essays: Deseos y desconsuelo (2014) and Un asesino entre nosotros: Eichmann en Buenos Aires (2016). She is also a screenwriter, and has written frequently on films. (In this issue: "Borges Comes to Dinner.")

Jayce Russell is a semi-quasi-recent graduate of the University of New Hampshire MFA program for poetry. When he isn't dancing for his dinner at a community college local to his home of Reidsville, NC, he works as poetry editor and warlock for Outlook Springs. (In this issue: "Selves gone by.")

Matt Salyer is an Assistant Professor at West Point who also teaches for Bard College's Prison Institute. His writing has appeared in journals including Narrative, Massachusetts Review, Poetry Northwest, Beloit Poetry Journal, Hunger Mountain, New Orleans Review, and The Common. He was a semifinalist for the Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prize, and a finalist in 2016 and 2017 for the Iowa Review Prize. His first book, Ravage & Snare, is forthcoming from Pen & Anvil Press. (In this issue: "Do-Right Man" and "Hudson Line.")

Austin Sanchez-Moran is an English teacher at Hebron Academy in Maine. His poems and short fiction have been published or are forthcoming in RHINO Poetry, Denver Quarterly, and Salamander, among many others. Additionally, he had a poem chosen for the anthology Best New Poets of the Midwest (2017). (In this issue: "The Hong Kong Harbor.")

Salvador San Juan is a writer, teacher and journalist from Córdoba, Argentina. His recent work has appeared in publications including The Battersea Review and Revista Tropos. His work as a journalist includes political notes and cultural studies. Nowadays, he is writing about latinoamerican literature. (In this issue: "Postcard from Buenos Aires.")

Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. They are the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (2016, ELJ Publications) and Xenos (2016, Agape Editions). They received their MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Joanna is the founder of Yes, Poetry, as well as the managing editor for Civil Coping Mechanisms and Luna Luna Magazine. Some of their writing has appeared in Prelude, BUST, The Atlas Review, The Feminist Wire, The Huffington Post, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. Joanna also leads workshops at Brooklyn Poets. Connect via Twitter and Instagram. (In this issue: "I Don’t Want to Come Back from the Dead.")

Ari Wolff's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Offing, Whiskey Island, Vinyl Poetry, Hinchas de Poesia, PANK and elsewhere. Ari lives in upstate New York and works as a youth advocate and sexual health educator. (In this issue: "Self-Portrait as the Rip Current" and "I Am Not a Religious Man.")

Ali Znaidi (b.1977) lives in Redeyef, Tunisia. He is the author of several chapbooks, including Experimental Ruminations and Bye, Donna Summer! (Fowlpox), Moon’s Cloth Embroidered with Poems (Origami Poems Project), Taste of the Edge (Kind of a Hurricane Press), Mathemaku x5 (Spacecraft Press), and Austere Lights (Locofo Chaps). (In this issue: "Against Darkness.")

Melissa T. Zobel is the Medicine Woman of the Mohegan Tribe in Uncasville, Connecticut. She is the author of the novel Wabanaki Blues (Poisoned Pen Press, 2015) and the short story “Dodo,” included in the anthology Bound by Mystery (Poisoned Pen, 2017). Melissa's writing focuses on the oft-overlooked world of Native New England. (In this issue: "Butterfly" and "Autobiography of a Wolf.")