Andy Sterling
Andy Sterling is a writer living in NYC and a member of Rob Fitterman’s Collective Task ensemble. Notable publications include Mackey (bas-books, 2010), Supergroup (Gauss PDF Editions, 2013) and Who Owns Primos? (forthcoming).
Poets
Gabriel Kruis
Gabriel Kruis is a New Mexican poet living & writing in Brooklyn. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Quadrant, the Atlas Review, Everyday Genius, & at Well Greased Press. He is also a founder of Wendy’s Subway & runs the Shitluck Reading series at the Tip Top Bar & Grill.
Peter O’Leary
Peter O’Leary is the author of four books of poetry. A new book, The Sampo, a book-length fantasy poem about a wizard, a sorceress, and the theft a powerful magical object in the frosty northern hinterlands, will be published in the spring by the Cultural Society. A new book of criticism, Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. He teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago, and with John Tipton, runs Verge Books. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois.
Joseph Donahue
Joseph Donahue is the author of seven books of poetry, the most recent of which are Red Flash on a Black Field, from Black Square Editions, and Dark Church, from Verge. A book length suite of poems, Wind Maps, is forthcoming from Talisman in 2016. He lived for many years in NYC, and now lives in Durham, NC, where he teaches in the English Department at Duke University.
Krystal Languell
Krystal Languell was born in South Bend, Indiana. Her most recent book is Gray Market (1913 Press, 2016). She published Archive Theft, a collection of interviews with women poets, with Essay Press in 2015. She is the recipient of a Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be fellowship (2013-2014) and a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council workspace residency (2014-2015). Development Director for Belladonna* Collaborative and publisher of the feminist poetry journal Bone Bouquet, Languell also works as a freelance bookkeeper for small presses and teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Julie Carr
Julie Carr is the author of six books of poetry, most recently 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta, 2010), RAG (Omnidawn, 2014), and Think Tank (Solid Objects, 2015). She is also the author of Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry (Dalkey Archive, 2013). A chapbook of prose, “The Silence that Fills the Future,” was recently released as a free pdf from Essay Press.
Objects from a Borrowed Confession (prose) is forthcoming from Ahsahta press in 2016.
Carr was a 2011-12 NEA fellow and is an associate professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder in the English department and the Intermedia Arts Writing and Performance Ph.d. She is the co-founder of Counterpath Press and Counterpath Gallery.
Ariel Resnikoff
Ariel Resnikoff is the author of Between Shades (Materialist Press, 2014) & the co-author of Ten Four: Poems, Translations, Variations (The Operating System, 2015) with Jerome Rothenberg. He is currently at work on a translation into English of Mikhl Likht’s Yiddish modernist long poem, Protsesiyes (Processions), in collaboration with Stephen Ross. Ariel is an editor-at-large on Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury, forthcoming) & curates the “Multilingual Poetics” reading/talk series at Kelly Writers House.
Jennifer Nelson
Jennifer Nelson‘s first book of poems, Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife, came out with Ugly Duckling Presse in Dec. 2015. She is a fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows and teaches in the art history department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dawn Lundy Martin
Dawn Lundy Martin is author of three books of poetry, and three chapbooks. Of her latest collection, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life (Nightboat Books 2015), Fred Moten says, “Imagine Holiday singing a blind alley, or Brooks pricing hardpack dandelion, and then we’re seized and thrown into the festival of detonation we hope we’ve been waiting for.” Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh, Martin is a member of the three-person performance group, The Black Took Collective. She is also a member of the global artist collective, HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?, the group that withdrew its work from the 2014 Whitney Biennial to protest the museum’s biased curatorial practices. Martin is currently working on a hybrid memoir, a tiny bit of which appears as the essay, “The Long Road to Angela Davis’s Library,” published in the The New Yorker in December 2014.
Lara Mimosa Montes
Lara Mimosa Montes is the author of The Somnambulist, a noctural autobiography / mo(u)rning diary. Her poems and essays have appeared in BOMB, Boston Review, Fence, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in English from The Graduate Center. She was born in the Bronx.
Jennifer Falu
Jennifer Falu recently won first place in NBC-TV’s Amiri Baraka Poetry Slam and was ranked third internationally in the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam. She has been a member of the 2006, 2009 and 2012 Nuyorican Poets Cafe Slam Teams, won the national Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2006, and ranked 3rd in the WOWPS in both 2009 and 2012. As a performer, Falu has shared the stage with Jennifer Holliday, Carl Thomas and Patti LaBelle. She recently made her film debut in “Mania Days”, alongside Katie Holmes.
Ed Pavlić
Ed Pavlić’s new books are Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno (National Poetry Series, Fence Books, 2015) and ‘Who Can Afford to Improvise?’: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners (Fordham University Press, 2015). Recent works are Visiting Hours at the Color Line (National Poetry Series, Milkweed Editions, 2013), But Here Are Small Clear Refractions (Achebe Center, 2009, Kwani? Trust, 2013) and Winners Have Yet to be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway (U Georgia P, 2008). His other books are Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue (Copper Canyon, 2001), Crossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African American Literary Culture (U Minnesota Press, 2002), and Labors Lost Left Unfinished (UPNE/Sheep Meadow Press, 2006).
His prizes include the National Poetry Series Open Competition (2012, 2014), the The American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Prize (2001), the Writer of the Year Award from the Georgia Writer’s Association (2009), and the Darwin Turner Memorial Award from African American Review (1997). He has had fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, The Vermont Studio Center, The Willson Center for the Humanities, and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. He teaches at the University of Georgia and lives in Athens, GA.