Lindsay Ahl is the author of Desire (Coffee House Press, 2004). She has work published in The Georgia Review, Hotel America, BOMB Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, Fiction Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Global City Review, The Offing, and many others.

Vladimir Amaya is a Salvadoran poet, secondary school teacher, and founding member of the literary workshop El Perro Muerto. He has a BA in literature, and has published twelve collections of poetry and edited six anthologies. His most recent collections are abomiNación (Salvadoran Cultural Institute, 2021) and El vuelo circular de la calandria (Puesiesque, 2022). From 2016 to 2019 he was director of the magazine Cultura from the Ministry of Culture in El Salvador. Together with the poet Dennis Ernesto Morales, he co-founded the literary blog El Borracho Abstemio in 2020.

William Archila is the winner of the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry for his collection S Is For (Black Lawrence Press, 2025). He is the author of The Art of Exile (Bilingual Press, 2009) and The Gravedigger’s Archaeology (Red Hen Press, 2015), and was awarded the 2023 Jack Hazard Fellowship. His work has appeared in AGNl, APR, Copper Nickel, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, POETRY, Poetry Northwest, Pleiades, TriQuarterly, and the anthologies Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, and The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States. He is an associate editor at Tía Chucha Press.

Lilliam Armijo completed undergraduate studies in international relations in San José, Costa Rica, and won the Miguel de Cervantes graduate scholarship at the University of Alcalá de Henares and Ortega y Gasset Institute in Madrid. She has worked in Southeast Asia and West Africa, and now lives in Vienna, where she writes poetry and children’s literature. Armijo is a three-time winner of El Salvador’s Juegos Florales for her collections Al borde del dia (2019), Otoño blanco (2020), and Dos (2021). She was recognized as Grand Master in 2021—the sixth woman and one of twenty writers in El Salvador’s history to receive the title.

Gopal Balachandran is a lawyer, writer, and meditator based in State College, Pennsylvania. As an Associate Professor of Clinical Law at Penn State Dickinson Law, he directs a legal clinic focused on post-conviction work. Born in India, he moved to the United States at the age of three. Gopal has written two novels, one of which, “Naraka,” was a finalist for the Gival Press Novel Award in 2012. His writings explore the workings of race and class in the legal system, the nature of consciousness, and shifting cultural identities.

Efraín Caravantes is a multidisciplinary artist based in Antiguo Cuscatlán, El Salvador. Since 2008, his visual and graphic work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including his solo show Semen: The Molds of Chance (2015). His art appears in private collections in El Salvador and abroad. His writing has been published in various Central American anthologies and journals. His book-length poem Casa won the 2020 Juegos Florales, El Salvador’s national poetry award, and was subsequently published in the Colección Juegos Florales. He also won first place in the I Certamen Letras Nuevas (2004) and third place in the XI Premio de Arte Joven (2010).

Rebecca Chace is the author of two novels, a memoir, and a book for middle-grade readers. Her third novel, Talking to the Wolf, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2026. She is also a playwright, screenwriter, and a regular contributor to The New York Times. Her work has appeared in The Yale Review, LA Review of Books, Guernica, Lit Hub, Bookpost, and many other publications. Fellowships include Civitella Ranieri, MacDowell, Yaddo, Dora Maar House, American Academy in Rome (visiting artist), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and others. She is a Faculty Associate at the Institute for Writing and Thinking, Bard College.

Derlin De León has published writing in the magazine Cultura n°122 and in the anthologies El territorio del ciprés (Índole Editores, 2018), Tierra breve: antología centroamericana de minificción (Centroamericana, 2018), La soledad de los errantes: Relatos sobre el desplazamiento forzado (La mosca azul, 2019), A la buena de Dios: Historias de migrantes del norte de Centroamérica (La mosca azul, 2021), and Daños colaterales: antología narrativa (Abrojo editores, 2025).

Andrew De Silva’s fiction has won december magazine’s Curt Johnson Prose Award and Bayou Magazine’s James Knudsen Prize for Fiction and placed third for Britain’s 2023 Bridport Short Story Prize. He was raised in metro Detroit and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two young children. He teaches writing at the University of Southern California. A companion story to “The Empress and the Ghost,” featuring the veterinarian Alison Dao, came out in The Missouri Review in fall 2024.

Lucía de Sola cofounded Editorial Kalina in 2006 and is currently based in New York City. She spends half her time working in programming for NGO Glasswing International and the other half on Editorial Kalina and The Salvadoran Cultural Foundation, based in Washington, DC. She studied modern European history and literature at Harvard University and has advanced degrees in business administration from the Universidad Pontificia Católica de Chile, fine arts (specialization in poetry) from Pacific University, and social work from Columbia University. Among the books she has edited are Teatro Bajo mi Piel (Editorial Kalina, 2014), Puntos de Fuga (Editorial Kalina, 2017), and Siemprevivas (Editorial Kalina, 2022).

Óscar Moisés Díaz is a poet-astrologer, translator, and film curator. They were the inaugural Poetry in Translation editor for Fence alongside Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, as well as the 2020–2021 inaugural Curatorial Fellow at the Poetry Project as a member of Tierra Narrative. Recently, they completed a writing residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and recent poems can be found in Copenhagen, Annulet, and The Brooklyn Rail. Their translations of Fabrizio Quemé appear in Noir Sauna issue #4 and Mercury Firs issue #6. 

Aída Esmeralda (she/they) is a queer Salvi poet and interdisciplinary tinkerer from the DM(V). This is her first published translation, and she is ecstatic to keep seeing the voices of Salvadoran writers flourish beyond and in spite of borders. Aída believes that building transnational networks of community engagement, collaboration, and aid are critical to our collective liberation.

Mauricio Espinoza is a Costa Rican–born educator, researcher, poet, and translator. He is associate professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of Cincinnati. He has co-translated from Spanish into English (with Keith Ekiss and Sonia Ticas) the work of twentieth-century Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio, which appears in Territory of Dawn: The Selected Poems of Eunice Odio (Bitter Oleander Press, 2016) and in the four-volume The Fire’s Journey (Tavern Books, 2013-19). He has also translated poetry by Randall Roque (Costa Rica), Alejandra Solórzano (Guatemala-Costa Rica), and Miroslava Rosales (El Salvador).

Monica Ferrell is the author of a novel and two books of poems, mostly recently You Darling Thing (Four Way, 2018), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry. Her third poetry collection, The Future, will be published in March 2026.

Lourdes Ferrufino holds a degree in literature from the University of El Salvador. Her work appears in Las muchachas de la última fila (Zeugma Editores, 2017) and Poeta Soy: Poesía de mujeres salvadoreñas (Mineducyt, 2019). Her poetry has been published in Suplemento Tres Mil of Diario Co Latino, Revista Cultura No. 121, and various digital magazines. Published works include La Espina Etérea (chapbook, 2016), Diluvio (chapbook, 2017), Sahumerio (full-length poetry collection, 2021, Estro Editores), and Pulsión (chapbook, 2024, Proyecto Cölmenart, Costa Rica). Currently, she teaches at the college level.

Jorge Galán is an award-winning poet and novelist whose books include the internationally acclaimed Noviembre (Planeta Publishing, 2015).

Lauri García Dueñas is a poet, playwright, novelist, and journalist. She is the author of six poetry collections, including Del mar es el ahogo from Editorial Praxis (2011), winner of the 2009 Navachiste Inter-American Poetry Prize, and El tiempo es un texto indescifrable (2012) from Proyecto Literal (Limón Partido), from which these poems are selected. She has also published several poetry chapbooks and plays and has co-authored two books of investigative journalism. She has been a recipient or finalist for literary prizes in El Salvador and Mexico. She earned an MA in communication and culture from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

Nestor Gómez is a cadejo, artist, and translator whose work explores exile, multilingual memory, and creation from silence. His translations recently appeared in Fence Steaming. His original work, which has been featured in POETRY and Zyzzyva, blends visual, textual, and aural forms that reimagine myth within the fractures of contemporary life. He is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and recently earned his doctorate in English at the University of Illinois Chicago.

María Fernanda Gómez Peralta majored in creative writing and literature at Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana and later completed a specialization in translation at ENALLT (Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Lingüística y Traducción). She is an editor and translator specializing in literature and publishing. She has experience collaborating with major publishing houses such as Penguin Random House México, Grupo Planeta México, SM Ediciones México, and VR Editoras. She has worked on translation revisions, copyediting, manuscript evaluation, adaptation of linguistic nuances, and proofreading literary works. She translated from English to Spanish Malinda Lo’s La última noche en el Club del Telégrafo (Cross Books, 2023), Gina Chen’s Una violeta hecha de espinas (Cross Books, 2023), and Joy Woodward’s Guía de numerología para principiantes (VR Editoras, 2022), among others. 

Leticia Hernández-Linares is a bilingual interdisciplinary writer, artist, and racial justice educator. Widely published, she is the author of the poetry collection Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl (Tía Chucha Press, 2015) and the children’s book Alejandria Fights Back! ¡La lucha de Alejandria! (Feminist Press, 2021). She has received five San Francisco Arts Commission grants, and the San Francisco Flor y Canto Poetry Festival honored her with the Community Appreciation Teyolía award in 2023. She teaches in Latina/Latino Studies at San Francisco State University and has lived, created, and protested in the Mission District for thirty years.

Donika Kelly is the author of The Natural Order of Things, forthcoming fall 2025 from Graywolf, The Renunciations (Graywolf, 2021), winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in poetry, and Bestiary (Graywolf, 2016), winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and Pushcart Prize winner. She is an associate professor at the University of Iowa, where she teaches creative writing.

Christopher Kempf is the author of the poetry collections Late in the Empire of Men (Four Way, 2017) and What Though the Field Be Lost (LSU, 2021), as well as of the scholarly book Craft Class: The Writing Workshop in American Culture (Johns Hopkins, 2022). Recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, he teaches in the MFA program at the University of Illinois.

Inkyoo Lee is a Korean poet and an MFA candidate at New York University, where he is a translations editor for Washington Square Review. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Image, Wildness, Antiphony, and others. He earned a BA in philosophy from University College London and attended the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop.

Jorge López’s poetry collection, Ceremonia de sombras (Falena Editores, 2025), won El Salvador’s 2023 national poetry prize, Los Juegos Florales. His work has been published in El Salvador and abroad. His poetry books include Testamento de la sangre (Editorial Malpaso, 2022), Idioma reptil o primera visión de la belleza (Incendio Plaquette, 2021), Doppelgänger (Imago Ediciones, 2018), Historia de un espantapájaros (Alkimia Libros, 2016), and Para invocar a los pájaros (Ediciones de la Casa, 2016). Jorge is the editor of the anthologies Siete voces para retratar el rostro detrás del silencio (Imago Ediciones, 2020) and Ars Poéticas 1970 (Red Europea de Investigaciones sobre Centroamérica, 2020).

Alberto López Serrano is the author of six books of poems, including La nave falta (Alkimia Books, 2007), El domador de caballos (Alkimia Books, 2013), and Cantos para mis muchachos (Zeugma Editores, 2017). He has worked as a math teacher and director of Salarrué Writer’s House and Museum. He is a member of the Alkimia Cultural Foundation, coordinator for Poetry Wednesdays, and director of the Amada Libertad International Festival of Poetry.

Bridget Lowe is the author of the poetry collections My Second Work (2020) and At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky (2013), both from Carnegie Mellon University Press.

Alexandra Lytton Regalado is a Salvadoran-American author, editor, and translator. She is the author of Relinquenda, winner of the National Poetry Series (Beacon Press, 2022); the chapbook Piedra (La Chifurnia, 2022); and the poetry collection Matria, winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award (Black Lawrence Press, 2017). A CantoMundo and Letras Latinas fellow, she has recently published work in POETRY, Best American Poetry, BOMB, World Literature Today, AGNI, Poets.org, and Creative Nonfiction. Alexandra is co-founder and co-director of Kalina Press and can be found at www.alexandralyttonregalado.com.

Krisma Mancía was born in San Salvador and is a writer and artisan designer. Winner of the first La Garúa Young Poetry Prize in 2005, she has published five books of poetry, and her writing appears in newspapers, anthologies, and magazines in Latin America and Europe. She has participated in national and international festivals, conferences, and readings and was the first director of the Casa de la Cultura de la Mujer in Ciudad Mujer. She is the creator of Krismática, a brand specializing in paper jewelry, and works at the Ministry of Culture coordinating El Salvador’s national literary awards, the Juegos Florales.

Nick Mandernach is a fiction and television writer based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in EPOCH, Split Lip Magazine, and The Florida Review. He currently writes on The Great North.

Kerrin McCadden is the author of American Wake (Black Sparrow Press, 2021), a finalist for the New England Book Award. Her debut collection, Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2014), won the Vermont Book Award and the New Issues Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, Keep This to Yourself (Button Poetry, 2020), won the Button Poetry Prize. McCadden has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Sustainable Arts Foundation Writing Award, as well as the Herb Lockwood Prize in the Arts. She holds an MFA from The Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and lives in South Burlington, Vermont.

Roxana Méndez is a poet and fiction writer whose work has earned her prestigious literary awards across Spain, the United States, and Central America. Her published books include Caro y Lucy en la isla de basura (Fiction Express, 2024), Las bañistas (Universidad José Hierro y RTVE, 2022), El gato mecánico (DPI, 2021), Olivia y la carreta chillona (Piedrasanta, 2021), Máquinas voladoras (Ediciones Valparaíso, 2018), La lluvia de 1979 (Ediciones Valparaíso, 2018), El cielo en la ventana (Ediciones Valparaíso, 2012), and Clara y Clarissa (Loqueleo, 2012), and forthcoming are Ana Glass (El Naranjo, 2025) and Navegantes del cielo (Loqueleo, 2026).

Josué Andrés Moz is a poet, storyteller, playwright, editor, and cultural critic from El Salvador. He is the author of several poetry collections, including El Libro del Carnero (Sión Editorial, 2024), Crac[K] (Casa de Poesía, 2023), Revólver (Sión Editorial, 2023), Babel (Ediciones MALPASO, 2020), Pesebre (La Chifurnia, 2018), and Carcoma (La Chifurnia, 2017). Moz’s poetry has been translated into English, Italian, Arabic, and French. Recently, he has participated in various international literary festivals and convenings, including Festival Internacional de Poesía de Aguacatán in Guatemala, Primer Encuentro Centroamericano de Escritores “Edilberto Cardona Bulnes” in Honduras, the thirtieth anniversary of the Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín in Colombia, and the sixteenth Festival Mundial de Poesía de Venezuela, FilXela, among others. He is currently the co-editor of Revista Ars Poética 1970.

Vanessa Núñez was born in El Salvador and is a lawyer, writer, and educator in Guatemala. She holds master’s degrees in political science, Latin American literature, and gender studies, and currently works as a cultural coach. Núñez’s publications include Los locos mueren de viejos (F&G Editores, 2009), Dios tenía miedo (F&G Editores, 2011), La caja de cuentos (Alas de Barrilete, 2015), Espejos (Uruk Editores, 2015), and Le tuviste miedo (La Pereza Ediciones, 2022), as well as several short stories in various anthologies. She has been a featured speaker at several literary events, including at the University of Copenhagen, Nicolás Guillén Foundation in Havana, University of Liverpool, and Tulane University, among others. 

Willy Palomo is the author of Wake the Others (Editorial Kalina/Glass Spider Publishing, 2023), a winner of the 2023 Foreword Indie Poetry Prize. In 2024, Edizioni FormArti published Tres tercas trincheras by Marielos Olivo in a Spanish-Italian-English edition, where Palomo served as the Spanish-to-English translator. A veteran of the Salt Lake City poetry slam scene, he has published his fiction, essays, poetry, translations, and songs across many print and web pages, including the Best New Poets 2018, Latino Rebels, The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, and more. He is the son of two refugees from El Salvador.

Maryam Ivette Parhizkar is a scholar, educator, and poet currently based in New Haven, Connecticut. As part of the US Central American collective Tierra Narrative, she (alongside Óscar Moisés Díaz) has served as a guest editor of translation at Fence magazine and a curatorial fellow at The Poetry Project, where she co-developed transnational and multilingual programming bringing together writers from the Central American diaspora and isthmus. She is the author of three chapbooks, including Somewhere Else the Sun Is Falling into Someone’s Eyes (Belladonna*, 2019).

Cecily Parks is the editor of the anthology The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets, 2016) and the author of three poetry collections, most recently The Seeds (Alice James Books, 2025). She teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State University and lives in Austin.

Janel Pineda is a poet, scholar, and the author of Lineage of Rain (Haymarket Books, 2021). Born and raised in Los Angeles within a family of Salvadoran migrants, she explores intergenerational narratives, abolitionist visions, and the legacies of the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War, among other themes. Pineda has performed her poetry internationally in both English and Spanish. Her writing has been recognized with a Writing Freedom Fellowship, a California Arts Council Emerging Artist Award, and a NALAC NFA Artist Grant. Pineda is currently pursuing a PhD at UCLA, where her research focuses on global Salvadoran diasporas and the liberatory capacities of poetry for Central Americans. 

Jon Pineda is the author of six books. He directs the creative writing program at William & Mary.

Tania Pleitez Vela was born in El Salvador. She has published Nostalgia del presente (Índoles, 2014), Preguerra | Prewar (Kalina, 2017), and Semillas desterradas (Ediciones Sin Fin, 2022), which includes three collections of poetry: the revised edition of her two previous books and her most recent work. She is a professor of Latin American literatures at the University of Milan and co-founder of the publishing house FormArti.

Gabriela Poma is a doctoral candidate in the Romance Languages and Literatures department at Harvard University. Her research focuses on contemporary Central American literature, poetry, and visual arts; diaspora studies; liminality; remittance architecture; migration; and the interplay of memory and memoir. She has contributed writing to The Buenos Aires Review, Theater Under My Skin: Contemporary Salvadoran Poetry (Editorial Kalina, 2014), The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States (Tía Chucha Press, 2017), and Revista Letral.

Jessica Rainey has translated a range of contemporary Spanish-language plays and poetry, including Taxi Girl by María Velasco (Cervantes Theatre, 2020), Run! by Yolanda García Serrano (Cervantes Theatre, 2019), and Thirty Days a Widow by Tania Pleitez Vela (Red Ceilings Press, 2014). She lives in the UK and is an associate translator with the Stephen Spender Trust, an associate lecturer at Newcastle University, and is currently researching the impact of creative translation activities in schools.

Reyes Ramirez (he/him) is the 2025–2027 Houston Poet Laureate and a writer, educator, and curator of Mexican and Salvadoran descent. He authored the story collection The Book of Wanderers (University of Arizona Press, 2022), a 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist; the poetry collection El Rey of Gold Teeth (Hub City Press, 2023), finalist for the 2024 Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best First Book of Poetry; and Cerveza Songs: Houston, TX (2024), a collection of craft beer poetry and photography. His latest curatorial project, The Houston Artist Speaks Through Grids, explores grids in contemporary Houston art, literature, history, and politics.

Michelle Recinos (San Salvador, 1997) is a writer, journalist, and winner of the tenth Carátula Central American Story Prize from the Centroamérica Cuenta literary festival and the Mario Monteforte Toledo Central American Story Prize, both in 2022. She has been published in Los Sin Pisto, F&G Editores, Páginas de Espuma, and Altamarea.

Ana María Rivas is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Santa Tecla, El Salvador, whose work has been published in Salvadoran and Latin American journals and anthologies. Her writing has been translated into English and Polish. She is the recipient of the 2023 Ipso Facto Literary Award for Poetry, and her debut poetry collection, Delmara, was published by Editorial Equizzero in 2024.

Josué Rojas is a Salvadoran-American, San Francisco-based painter, muralist, fine artist, and educator. A socially committed creative, his work is deeply layered, content-rich, and abstract, blending satirical elements with luscious, narrative-driven paintings. Rojas is a visual storyteller who uses familiar imagery, cartoons, comic book art, and graffiti, and breaks their traditional settings in dynamic and often humorous ways. His work and vision have been characterized by a commitment to upholding cherished values of community arts, civic engagement, social justice, and empowerment for migrant communities at large.

Miroslava Rosales was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, in 1985. She is a writer and researcher who explores in her work themes like migration, history, trauma, and violence in Mexico and Central America. She is a PhD candidate in literature (Romanistik) at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany. She earned a masters in Hispanic-American literature from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. She is a member of the International Latin American Network (University of Oxford), RedIsca, and Rilmac. Her poetry has been published in international anthologies and literary journals. Additionally, she has participated in poetry festivals in Mexico, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. She was editor of the Mexican magazine Cuadrivio (2015–2018) and is a columnist for Alharaca, a Salvadoran feminist newspaper. Her first poetry collection, República del excremento (Formarti/Ojo de Cuervo, 2024), was translated into Italian by Rocío Bolaños (Italy: Formarti), and translated into English by Mauricio Espinoza.

Elena Salamanca is a Salvadoran poet, historian, fiction writer, and art curator based in Mexico City. She is the author of multidisciplinary books spanning poetry, fiction, and scholarly historical work. Elena served as 2024 writer-in-residence at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa. Her poetry has been published in bilingual editions including Incognita Flora Cuscatlanica (La Impresora, 2025), Tal vez monstruos/Monsters Maybe (Mouthfeel Press, 2022), Landsmoder (Not a Cult, 2022), and La familia o el olvido/Family or Oblivion (Kalina, 2017). Elena is a three-time recipient of El Salvador’s National Poetry Prize, and her books have been published in the US, Mexico, Italy, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

Richard Siken is a poet and painter. His book Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize (selected by Louise Glück), a Lambda Literary Award, and a Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books include War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) and I Do Know Some Things, which is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2025. Siken is a recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Christopher Soto is the author of Diaries of a Terrorist (Copper Canyon Press, 2022).

Emma Trelles is a Cuban-American writer and author of Tropicalia (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011), winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. The ninth Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, California, she has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the California Arts Council, and CantoMundo. Her work is anthologized in Best American Poetry, Best of the Net, and Verse Daily; recent work appears in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, POETRY, and LARB Quarterly. She is series editor of the Alta California Chapbook Prize, open to Latine writers in the US and published in bilingual editions by Gunpowder Press.

Nur Turkmani is a researcher and writer from Beirut. Her research looks at agriculture, social movements, and displacement. She has published her fiction and poetry in The Missouri Review, Copper Nickel, The Rumpus, Poetry London, Columbia Journal, The Adroit Journal, and others. Her essays appear in Evergreen Review, Al-Jumhuriya, Jadaliya, and Rusted Radishes. Her poetry collection October, selected by Chen Chen for Purple Ink’s Poetry Contest, is forthcoming.

Kirk Wilson’s books include the story collection Out of Season (Elixir, 2023), the poetry collection Songbox (Trio House, 2021), the poetry chapbook The Early Word (Burning Deck, 1971), and Unsolved (Carrol & Graf, 1990), a nonfiction crime study published in six editions in the US and UK. Kirk’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are published in anthologies and literary journals such as Conjunctions, Idaho Review, New England Review, Story, and others. His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Elixir Press Fiction Award, the Trio House Press Trio Award, Editor’s Awards, and other prizes in all three genres, and two Pushcart nominations. Kirk lives in Austin and in Minneapolis. His website is www.KirkWilsonBooks.com.

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