Margaret Noodin, author of Weweni (Wayne State University Press, 2015) and Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams (Michigan State University Press, 2014), is Anishinaabe, teaches at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and edits www.ojibwe.net.
Daniel Owen is the author of Toot Sweet (United Artists Books), Restaurant Samsara (Furniture Press Books), and the chapbook Authentic Other Landscape (Diez). His translation of Afrizal Malna’s Document Shredding Machine is forthcoming in 2019 from Reading Sideways Press. His writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, The Fanzine, Vestiges, and elsewhere. He is a member of the Ugly Duckling Presse editorial collective and lives between Brooklyn and Yogyakarta.
Callie Garnett is the author of the chapbooks Hallelujah, I’m a Bum (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015), and On Knowingness, new from The Song Cave. Her poems have appeared in Prelude, Company, jubilat, and elsewhere. She works as an Assistant Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing and lives in Brooklyn.
Poet and playwright, Chris Tysh is the author of several collections of poetry and drama. Her latest publications are Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic (Les Figues, 2013); Molloy: The Flip Side (BlazeVox, 2012) and Night Scales: A Fable for Klara K (United Artists, 2010).
Her play, Night Scales, a Fable for Klara K was produced at the Studio Theatre in Detroit under the direction of Aku Kadogo in 2010. She holds fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and the Kresge Foundation. Her latest project, Hotel des Archives, features verse “transcreations” from the French novels of Beckett, Genet and Duras, which will be released as a trilogy by Station Hill Press, later this year.
Katy Lederer is the author of three full-length poetry collections including The bright red horse–and the blue– (Atelos, 2017). Her work has appeared in a diverse array of magazines and journals, most recently Nat. Brut, Lana Turner, the Colorado Review, The Portable Boog Reader, Literary Matters, and The New York Times.
S. Brook Corfman is the author of Luxury, Blue Lace, chosen by Richard Siken for the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize (forthcoming November 2018), and Meteorites, a chapbook forthcoming this summer from DoubleCross Press. Corfman is the recipient of fellowships from Lambda Literary, the Vermont Studio Center, and the University of Pittsburgh; recent poems have appeared in the Indiana Review, Territory, and Typo, while recent plays have appeared in Ghost Proposal, Interim, and Muzzle.
Dorothy Friedman August is a widely published, award-winning poet, who has published two books of poetry and two more books will be published by Poets Wear Prada and Autonomedia: The L Shaped Room and Drinking Alaska. She has received two New York Foundation of the Arts fellowships and most recently an Acker award. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, most recently in Tribes WORD anthology, Bright Hill Press 25th Anniversary Anthology, Sensitive Skin, Many Mountains Moving, The Long Islander, Poetry Bay, Home Planet News and Brownstone Poets. She has also published poems in The Partisan Review, Hanging Loose, The California Quarterly, and The Centennial Review, among others. She received an MFA from Brooklyn College where she studied with John Ashbery, and teaches writing at Fordham University, CSI, and Empire State College. She also writes art and books reviews, edits a zine, WHITE RABBIT, and is working on a memoir.
Dale Smith lives in Toronto, Ontario. He recently edited An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson and Imagining Persons: Robert Duncan’s Lectures on Charles Olson. His books of poems include Slow Poetry in America (2014), Black Stone (2007), and American Rambler (2000).
Kristin Dykstra is principal translator of The Winter Garden Photograph forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. Cubanology, her translation of a book of days by Omar Pérez, is forthcoming from Station Hill. She is the translator of books by Cuban authors Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Flores, Angel Escobar, and Marcelo Morales published by the University of Alabama Press in 2014 and 2016. Currently Dykstra is guest-editing a dossier dedicated to Flores for The Chicago Review. She is co-editor of Materia Prima, an anthology showcasing poetry by Amanda Berenguer (Uruguay), forthcoming from Ugly Duckling.
Manuel Becerra (b. Mexico City, 1983) is the author of Cantata Castrati (Colibrí, México, 2004), Los alumbrados (Estado de México, 2008). Canciones para adolescentes fumando en un claro del bosque (Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, 2011), Instrucciones para matar un caballo, (Conaculta/Fonca, 2013) and La escritura de los animales distintos. Becerra held a fellowship at Art Omi in 2018. Previously he received the 2008 Enrique Enrique González Rojo Arthur Prize for Poetry, the 2011 Ramón López Velarde National Prize for Poetry, the 2013 José Francisco Conde National Prize for Poetry, and the 2014 Enriqueta Ochoa National Prize for Poetry. In 2009-2010 he held a poetry fellowship for young writers from the Foundation for Mexican Letters.
Lisa Rogal is a poet and teacher living in Sacramento, CA. She is the author of MORNING RITUAL (United Artists Books), and the chapbook THE NEW REALITIES (Third Floor Apartment Press). Her next chapbook, FEED ME WEIRD THINGS, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2018.