Sharon Mesmer
Sharon Mesmer’s most recent poetry collection, Greetings From My Girlie Place (Bloof Books) was voted one of Entropy’s “Best of 2015.” Her other collections are Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo, 2008), The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose, 2008), and Half Angel, Half Lunch(Hard Press, 1998). A chapbook, Vertigo Seeks Affinities, was published by Belladonna in 2006. Four […]
Asiya Korepanova
Asiya Korepanova is a Boston-based Russian award-winning pianist, transcriber, artist, poet, entrepreneur, and composer. Asiya is passionate about the interdisciplinary connections between music and other arts, which led her to create projects where she expresses herself through different mediums at the same time. She is the founder and artistic director of the annual chamber music festival […]
Storme Webber
Storme Webber is a Two Spirit Sugpiaq/Black/Choctaw poet and interdisciplinary artist. Her work is cross genre, incorporating text, performance, audio and altar installation, archival photographs and collaboration in order to engage with ideas of history, lineage, gender, race and sexuality. Her practice explores liminal identities, survivance and decolonization, and does so in a blues-based experimental […]
Santee Frazier
A member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Santee Frazier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University. His collection of poems, Dark Thirty (2009), was published in the Sun Tracks series of the University of Arizona Press. Frazier’s honors include a Fall 2009 Lannan Residency Fellowship […]
Lamis Saidi
Lamis Saidi (born on 4 September 1981) is an Algerian poet and translator. In 2004, she graduated as a computer science engineer from the university of sciences and technology in Algiers. Adding to Arabic, she is fluent in French, English and Spanish. She has published three poetry books (As usual, I forgot my suitcase / […]
Christine Kitano
Christine Kitano is the author of the poetry collections Sky Country (BOA Editions, 2017) and Birds of Paradise (Lynx House, 2011), and co-author of the oral history collection Who You: The Issei (JCCH / University of Hawaii Press, 2018). She teaches at Ithaca College and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Recent work is […]
Hadara Bar-Nadav
Hadara Bar-Nadav’s most recent book of poetry is The New Nudity (Saturnalia Books, 2017). Her previous books include Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books, 2013), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues, 2012), Runner Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, […]
Emily Schuck
Emily Schuck is an editor-in-chief of Foothill Poetry. She is a PhD student in English at Claremont Graduate University and teaches writing at University of La Verne. Directed by students at Claremont Graduate University, Foothill Poetry is an annual print and online poetry journal that features the work of poets enrolled in graduate programs around […]
Vivek Narayanan
Vivek Narayanan was born in India in to Tamil-speaking parents and grew up in Zambia. He did undergraduate and graduate study in cultural anthropology and creative writing at Stanford and Boston Universities respectively, taught at the University of Kwazulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, and currently lives between India and the United States. Narayanan’s books of […]
Elmaz Abinader
Elmaz Abinader is an author and a performer. Her most recent poetry collection, This House, My Bones, was The Editor’s Selection for 2014 from Willow Books/Aquarius. Her books include a memoir: Children of the Roojme, A Family’s Journey from Lebanon, a book of poetry, In the Country of My Dreams… which won the Oakland PEN, […]