janan alexandra is the author of come from (BOA Editions, 2025). The recipient of support from the Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright program, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, janan is a 2025 Djanikian Scholar in Poetry and won the 2023 Adrienne Rich Award for her poem “On Form & Matter.” She currently teaches at Indiana University and at the Monroe County Correctional Center, edits poetry at The Rumpus, and helps curate MONDAYS ARE FREE, a Substack collaboration between BFF poets Ross Gay and Patrick Rosal.

Daniel Barnum’s poems and essays appear in Washington Square Review, Ninth Letter, The Hopkins Review, The Offing, The Iowa Review, Muzzle, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. They live in Athens, Georgia, where they are a PhD student at the University of Georgia.

Kaveh Bassiri is the author of 99 Names of Exile (Newfound, 2019), winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, and Elementary English (Anhinga Press, 2020), winner of the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. His poems have been published in a number of journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora, and Somewhere We Are Human. His translations and essays can be found in The American Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, Guernica, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies, and Senses of Cinema.

Nathan Blum’s short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He received his MFA in fiction at Vanderbilt University, where he served as a teaching fellow. He is currently working on a collection of stories and a novel.

Seán Carlson is working on his first book, a family memoir of migration. His writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, Gulf Coast, The Irish Independent’s “New Irish Writing,” The Irish Times, Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Seán was awarded a 2025 St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award for Literature and a 2024 Elizabeth Kostova Foundation poetry fellowship in Bulgaria. His essay “False Cognates” appeared in NER 45.4 as part of the “Chungking Express at 30” special folio.

Marialena Carr began translating Catalan poetry in 2022 after half a lifetime as a research oceanographer. In 2024 she was selected for the Institut Ramón Llull translator program to advance heritage Catalan authors, the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, and the ALTA Emerging Translator Program. Recent translations appear in Modern Poetry in Translation and Poetry Northwest.

Michael Carson deployed to Mosul, Iraq, in 2006 with the US Army and now teaches community college in Baytown, Texas. His recent writing can be found in The Hudson Review, The Threepenny Review, Chautauqua, and Another Chicago Magazine.

Derek Chan holds an MFA from Cornell University, where he was a two-time recipient of the Corson-Browning Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Best of Australian Poems, Australian Book Review, Poetry London, Oxford Poetry, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, the Forward Prize, and the Palette Previously Published Poem Prize. He has received fellowships and support from the Vermont Studio Center, Tin House, and MASS MoCA. He is currently a lecturer at Cornell University, where he teaches creative writing and academic composition.

Jackie Chicalese is a writer originally from coal country, Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Salt Hill Journal, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. She is currently a PhD student in composition and rhetoric at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Cianga (cha-nga) is a Congolese writer based in California, by way of South Africa. Author of Congo Seen from the Heavens (Foglifter, 2023) and winner of the 2023 Evaristo Poetry Prize, Cianga creates interdisciplinary work that seeks to decolonize and disrupt language. They earned their MFA from Bennington College and received residency/fellowship support from SAVVY Contemporary Museum, UC Berkeley’s Arts & Research Center, Brooklyn Poets, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and more. They write, draw, compose, and perform with the belief of black art as radical joy and critical protest.

Nan Cohen is the author of two poetry collections, Rope Bridge (Cherry Grove Collections, 2005) and Unfinished City (Gunpowder Press, 2017), and a chapbook, Thousand-Year-Old Words (Glass Lyre, 2021). “From the Lost Notebook” poems have appeared in Bennington Review, CCAR Review: The Reform Jewish Quarterly, Louisville Review, The Night Heron Barks, and Tupelo Quarterly. A past recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, she lives in Los Angeles and serves as the co-director of poetry programs for the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.

Joel Cuthbertson is a writer and librarian from Denver. His short stories and essays have appeared in Electric Literature, Joyland Magazine, Literary Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, and more. He received his MFA from Syracuse.

Abigail Dembo lives in Iowa City, Iowa. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Paris Review, The Threepenny Review, Poetry London, The Best American Poetry 2025, and other places.

Alisha Dietzman is the author of Sweet Movie (Beacon Press, 2023), selected by Victoria Chang for the National Poetry Series. A finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Oregon Book Awards, Sweet Movie was also shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Her creative and critical work has received support from the Rebecca Swift Foundation, the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the US-UK Fulbright Commission.

Kaily Dorfman was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and completed her MFA in poetry at UC Irvine and her PhD in creative writing and literary arts at the University of Denver. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Best New Poets anthology, and is published or forthcoming in journals including The Wallace Stevens Journal, Painted Bride Quarterly, The New Criterion, Summerset Review, and The Lake.

Nick Foretek is currently writing other stories and a novel. His short fiction has appeared in The Baffler and The Drift.

Ariel Francisco is the author of four poetry collections, most recently All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins (Burrow Press, 2024), and the translator of various poetry collections from Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Haiti. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA program at Louisiana State University.

Felicia Fuster (1921–2012) was a Catalan painter and award-winning poet who entered the poetry world at sixty-two as runner up for the prestigious Carles Riba Award. She emigrated to Paris in 1952 where she lived to the end of her life. She is the author of six poetry collections and co-translator of contemporary poetry from and to Japanese, but only ten of her poems existed in English translation prior to 2022. The poems in this issue of NER are from her third collection I encara (“And yet,” Editorial Eliseu Climent/3i4, 1987).

Lukasz Grabowski is a writer and lawyer living in Chicago. His work has previously appeared in Toronto Journal.

Sebastián Andrés Grandas is pursuing his PhD in comparative literature at Yale University. He is a graduate of Yale Divinity School, the Bread Loaf School of English, and Middlebury College. His recent writing explores translingualism, conceptual poetics, and experimental translation. Sebastián formerly worked in public education, teaching literature and history in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

Shanti Grumbine is a multidisciplinary artist exploring value systems through material transformation. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Millay Colony, Yaddo, Saltonstall, Wave Hill, the Lower East Side Printshop, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program. Honors include the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, an Arts Mid-Hudson Individual Artist Grant, and the A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum, Dorsky Museum, Fridman Gallery, Planthouse Gallery, and Smack Mellon. She earned her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Huan He is the author of Sandman (Diode Editions, 2022), which was a finalist for the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. His poems can be found in Poetry Magazine, The Sewanee Review, A Public Space, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. He is an assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches courses on literature and new media.

Caley Henderson is an essayist, educator, and wilderness guide. She holds an MFA from Oregon State University and her work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Spring Creek Project. Originally from the Northeast, she now lives in Portland, Oregon.

Brian Henry is the author of eleven books of poetry and the prose book Things Are Completely Simple: Poetry and Translation (Parlor, 2022). He translated and edited Tomaž Šalamun’s Kiss the Eyes of Peace: Selected Poems 1964–2014 (Milkweed, 2024), which was shortlisted for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize. He also has translated six books by Aleš Šteger, most recently Burning Tongues: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2022). His work has received numerous honors including two NEA fellowships, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, a Howard Foundation fellowship, and the Best Translated Book Award.

Yael Herzog is an artist and writer currently living in New York City. She received an MA in poetry from Bar Ilan University and an MFA in painting and sculpture from the New York Studio School. She has had work published in Eclectica Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, and Quotidian Journal, among others. She is the recipient of the Andrea Moriah Poetry Prize and was nominated for Sundress Publications’ 2019 Best of the Net anthology.

Jane Huffman is the author of Public Abstract (American Poetry Review, 2023), winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She is a doctoral candidate in English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. Her poems have appeared in The Nation, Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. She was a 2019 recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.

Marckenson Jean-Baptiste is a poet, translator, and engineer born in Haiti near the Dominican border. He is the author of several books, including Sobresaturado (Editoria Medibyte, 2011), which includes the poems featured in this issue of NER. He now lives in Chile.

L. A. Johnson is the author of Lost Music (Milkweed Editions, 2027) and an associate editor of Swirl & Vortex: Collected Poems of Larry Levis (Graywolf Press, 2026). She holds a PhD from University of Southern California, where through academic years 2023–25 she was a Mellon Humanities and University of the Future Postdoctoral Fellow. She is currently a Hughes Fellow at Southern Methodist University. The winner of the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, her poems appear in The Atlantic, Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.

Brandon Krieg is the author of Users with Access: New and Selected Poems (Cornerstone, 2025) and three other collections of poetry. His work appears in Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2025), edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street. He lives in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, and teaches at Kutztown University.

Jameelah Lang is an associate professor of English at Rockhurst University. Her fiction and nonfiction appear in The Kenyon Review, The Cincinnati Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Witness, Pleiades, and elsewhere. Her work has received fellowships and support from MacDowell, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Hub City Writers Project, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and VCCA. She serves as director of the Midwest Poets Series and is currently at work on a memoir titled “Father Panic.”

Linda Lê (1963–2022) was a French writer of Vietnamese origin and the author of numerous novels, short stories, and essays. A refugee of the Vietnam War, she moved to France in 1977. The Gospels of Crime, her fourth novel from 1992, was the first to attract significant attention in France, where her work is currently published by Christian Bourgois. Her first novel to appear in English is Slander (University of Nebraska Press, 1996), translated by Esther Allen.

Jessie Li was born in Hong Kong. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and StoryQuarterly, and has received the 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She is currently a Fiction Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers, where she is at work on her first book.

Jerry Lieblich plays in the borderlands of theater, poetry, and music. Their work experiments with language as a way to explore unexpected textures of consciousness and attention. Their plays include The Barbarians (La Mama), Mahinerator (The Tank), D Deb Debbie Deborah (Critic’s Pick: The New York Times), Ghost Stories (Critic’s Pick: TimeOut NY), and Everything for Dawn (Experiments in Opera). Their poetry has appeared in Foglifter, Second Factory, TAB, Grist, SOLAR, Pomona Valley Review, and others. Their poetry collection “otherwise, without” was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Jerry has held residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, MassMoCA, Blue Mountain Center, Millay Arts, Ucross, and Yiddishkayt.

Patrick Madden is the author of three essay collections, Disparates (2020), Sublime Physick (2016), and Quotidiana (2020), all from University of Nebraska Press, and co-editor of After Montaigne (University of Georgia Press, 2015) and Fourth Genre: 25 Essays from Our First 25 Years (Michigan State University Press, 2025). He teaches at Brigham Young University and Vermont College of Fine Arts, co-edits the journal Fourth Genre and the 21st Century Essay series at the Ohio State University Press, and curates the online essay resource quotidiana.org.

J. Bret Maney is a literary critic and translator from the French and Spanish. He is a recipient of several awards, including the 2020 Gulf Coast Translation Prize for his translations of Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s poetry and an International Latino Book Award and PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s novel Manhattan Tropics (Arte Público, 2019), which he also co-edited. He is an associate professor of English and Digital Humanities at Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Nathan McClain is the author of two collections of poetry: Previously Owned (Four Way Books, 2022), longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award, and Scale (Four Way Books, 2017). He is a recipient of fellowships from The Frost Place, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and is a Cave Canem fellow. He earned an MFA from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. His poems and prose have appeared in The Hopkins Review, Plume Poetry 10, The Common, Poetry Northwest, and Zócalo Public Square, among others. He teaches at Hampshire College and serves as poetry editor of Massachusetts Review.

Ellene Glenn Moore is an American writer living in Zürich, Switzerland. She is the author of How Blood Works (Kent State University Press, 2021), winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and Passage: An Essay (Orison Books, 2025), winner of the Orison Chapbook Prize for Nonfiction. Ellene’s translations of Schmid’s poetry have appeared in The Adroit Journal, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere; her own work has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Brevity, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. Find her at elleneglennmoore.com.

Nick Moschovakis has previously published his verse translations from modern Greek and from Latin in Arion, The Hudson Review, The Dirty Goat, and The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present. His literary scholarship and reviews appear in various periodicals including TLS, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Los Angeles Review of Books. A professional writing instructor and writing consultant for experts at (mostly) international organizations, he occasionally teaches college literature and composition, most recently at the American University of Paris. This is the third selection to be published from his complete translation of “The Glorious Stone” by Stamatis Polenakis.

Fiston Mwanza Mujila is a poet, novelist, and playwright born in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His oeuvre available in English includes his two novels, Tram 83 (Deep Vellum, 2015) and The Villains’ Dance (Deep Vellum, 2024), which received the Etisalat Prize for Literature, the German International Literature Award, and the Prix Les Afriques, among other prizes. His poetry collection The River in the Belly (Deep Vellum, 2021) was a finalist for the Luschei Prize for African Poetry and the Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation. A second poetry collection in English, The Slaughterhouse of Dreams, is forthcoming from Deep Vellum.

Maggie Mull is a television writer (Family Guy) and a contributing cartoonist for The New Yorker. She is the winner of the 2025 Kirkwood Prize in Creative Writing and was awarded first place in the Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition. Her fiction has also appeared in the Mississippi Review.

Olakunle Ologunro is a 2025–2026 Olive B. O’Connor fellow in fiction at Colgate University. His writing has been awarded an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a Juniper Summer Workshop Scholarship, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His work has also received support from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Vermont Studio Center, and Aspen Words, where he was named a 2025 Emerging Writer Fellow in fiction. He received his MFA from Johns Hopkins University and is at work on a collection of stories and a novel.

Shizuka Omori was born in Okayama City in 1989. She is the author of three tanka collections: Burning the Palm of a Hand (Kadokawa, 2013), Camille (Shoshikankanbo, 2018), and most recently, Hectare (Bungei Shunju, 2022), which won the Tsukamoto Kunio Award. Omori has received numerous awards and is recognized as one of the leading tanka poets of her generation. She lives in Kyoto and serves as an editor for Tō, a longstanding tanka journal.

Aelita Parker is a Japanese- and Irish-American writer. Her stories have appeared in swamp pink, where she won the Fiction Award, and Vassar Review. A finalist for the Iowa Review Fiction Award and the River Styx Fiction Prize, she has received support from Ucross foundation and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She received her MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College and her BA from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently editing her novel, “Offering Child,” a multiperspective narrative exploring the price of one family’s devotion to a self-proclaimed Korean messiah, as well as a short story collection, “The Haunted.” She teaches at Gotham Writers Workshop.

Patrick Phillips is the author of four collections of poems, including Song of the Closing Doors (Knopf, 2022) and Elegy for a Broken Machine (Knopf, 2015), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has also written a work of nonfiction, Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (Norton, 2016), which was named a best book of the year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Smithsonian. Phillips lives in San Francisco and teaches writing and literature at Stanford University.

Stamatis Polenakis is the author of seven books of verse, one novel, and several plays—four of which have received stage productions—as well as various critical essays and interviews, all in Greek. His poetry volume “The Roses of Mercedes” (2017) was awarded the Greek National Prize for Poetry. A selection of his lyrics, Birds in the Night, has recently appeared in an English translation by Richard Pierce (Spuyten Duyvil, 2024).

Sergio Ramírez is a Nicaraguan novelist and short story writer central to the Latin American postboom. In the 1970s, Ramírez was a leading member of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), which overthrew the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979. After the revolution, Ramírez served as the vice president of Nicaragua until 1990. He has been awarded numerous honors for his literature, including the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Carlos Fuentes Award, the Casa de las Américas Novel Prize, and most recently, the Mario Vargas Llosa Novel Prize.

Erag Ramizi holds a PhD in comparative literature from New York University and an MFA in fiction and literary translation from Columbia University. He currently teaches in the undergraduate writing program at Columbia University. His first book, Ecological Time, is under contract with Verso Books. He is currently writing another book on Joris-Karl Huysmans, Léon Bloy, Ryamond Chandler, and Flannery O’Connor.

Mercedes Rodriguez is a poet and educator from Los Angeles, California. Winner of The Georgia Review’s Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, their work appears or is forthcoming in Washington Square Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, like a field, Bellingham Review, wildness, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. They hold an MFA from North Carolina State University and serve as a program associate for the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets.

Nathalie Schmid is an award-winning Swiss writer. She is the author of several books, including Gletscherstück (Wolfbach Verlag, 2019), from which these poems are excerpted, and Ein anderes Wort für einverstanden (Gans Verlag, 2025). After graduating from high school, Nathalie traveled through North and Central America, attended a mountain farm school, studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig, and trained as an adult educator and secondary school teacher. Today, she writes poetry and prose, teaches German as a foreign language, and gives writing courses. Nathalie lives in Baden, Switzerland.

Christine Sneed’s most recent books are Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos (7.13 Books, 2022)and Direct Sunlight: Stories (TriQuarterly, 2023), and her stories have appeared in previous issues of New England Review. Some of her other publications include stories in Boulevard, Massachusetts Review, Story, The Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry Prize Stories. She lives in Pasadena, California, and teaches for Northwestern University and Stanford Continuing Studies.

Bruce Snider is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Blood Harmony (University of Wisconsin, 2025). He is a co-editor of The Poem’s Country: Place & Poetic Practice (Pleiades, 2018). Snider’s poems and essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, New England Review, Poetry Magazine, and The Threepenny Review, among others. His awards include an NEA fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a James A. Michener Fellowship, and the Jenny McKean Writer-in-Washington award. He lives in Baltimore and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Sharon Solwitz’s novel manuscript in stories, “Abra Cadabra,” won the 2018 Christopher Dohenny Award from the Center for Fiction. Her novel Once, in Lourdes (Spiegel and Grau, 2017) won first prize in adult fiction from the Society of Midland Authors. She is the author of another novel, Bloody Mary (Sarabande, 1996), and a collection of stories, Blood and Milk (Sarabande 2003), which won the Carl Sandburg Prize from Friends of the Chicago Public Library, the prize for adult fiction from the Society of Midland Authors, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Solwitz teaches fiction writing at Purdue University and lives in Chicago with her husband, the poet Barry Silesky.

Aleš Šteger has published over twenty books in Slovenian, including poetry, novels, short fiction, and nonfiction. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and many other newspapers and magazines, and he occasionally writes for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Among other prizes and honors, his poetry collection The Book of Things won the Best Translated Book Award. In 2016, he was awarded the International Bienek Prize for poetry by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, and in 2022, the German translation of his novel Neverend received the International Spycher Prize for literature.

Yuki Tanaka was born and raised in Yamaguchi, Japan. His debut poetry collection is Chronicle of Drifting (Copper Canyon Press, 2025). His poems have appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. He has also co-translated, with Mary Jo Bang, A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi (Princeton University Press, 2024). He lives in Tokyo and teaches at Hosei University.

Paul S. Ukrainets is a poet and translator whose work appears in protean, the tiny, Tyger Quarterly, the Permanent Record anthology from Nightboat Books, and elsewhere. They’ve received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers, along with support from the Good Hart Artist Residency, Poetry at Round Top, and elsewhere. Paul grew up in Russia and the UK, and lives in Oakland. Their work and life orients toward a free Palestine.

Jodie Noel Vinson holds an MFA in nonfiction from Emerson College. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Harvard Review, Literary Hub, Ploughshares, Electric Literature, and AGNI, among other places. She is the recipient of the Ninth Letter Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Arts & Letters Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction, the New Ohio Review Literary Award in Nonfiction, the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, and a residency from Jentel Foundation.

Devon Walker-Figueroa is the author of Lazarus Species (Milkweed Editions, 2025) and Philomath (Milkweed Editions, 2021). She is an assistant professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and her work can be found in The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.

Nestor Walters was born in Bangladesh, raised in Greece, and served ten years in the US Navy. He studied applied mathematics and creative writing at Stanford University and is now a doctoral student in earth sciences at University of Maine. His poems and essays have appeared in STANFORD Magazine, ISSUED: Stories of Service, and others. His first novella, An Earth Day Eulogy, was published in 2024 by Sword Circle Pen. Find him at swordcirclepen.com.

Lisa Williams is the author of The Hammered Dulcimer (Utah State University, 1998), Woman Reading to the Sea (W.W. Norton, 2008), and Gazelle in the House (New Issues, 2014). She is the recipient of a May Swenson Poetry Award and a Barnard Women Poets Prize, and her poems have been featured in The Golden Shovel Anthology, Bright Wings: An Anthology of Bird Poems, and others, with recent work in Ecotone, IMAGE, Terrain.org, and Your Impossible Voice. Since 2014 she has served as series editor for the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series. She teaches at Centre College and lives in Kentucky with her husband and daughter.

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