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Matthew Graham听is the author of three books of poetry,听World Without End,听New World Architecture, and听1946, and is the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the Indiana Arts Commission, and the Vermont Studio Center. He teaches creative writing at the 91社区.

Tom Wilhelmus听is professor emeritus of English at the 91社区. His reviews of contemporary fiction appear frequently in听The Hudson Review.

is an artist, writer, and educator who resides in Evansville, Indiana, with his wife, two children, and their energetic firecracker of a dog, Luna. Currently Blair is an assistant professor of art and design at the 91社区 where he teaches digital design, art history, and gender studies courses. Blair鈥檚 research incorporates multidisciplinary art practices, cultural geography, environmental aesthetics, and philosophies of place. Blair has exhibited his artwork and presented his research both nationally and internationally. Blair鈥檚 latest book project, The Politics of Spatial Transgressions in the Arts, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021.

Formerly muscle for the IRS,听Ron Mitchell听is the co-founder and former editor of RopeWalk Press. He teaches composition, creative writing, and literary editing & publishing at the 91社区.

听is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize,听The Missouri Review's听Miller Audio Prize, as well as fellowships from Cave Canem and the Fine Arts Work Center. His first collection听Maybe the Saddest Thing, a National Poetry Series winner, was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Wicker's poems have appeared in听The Nation,听Poetry,听American Poetry Review,听Oxford American, and听Boston Review. His second book,听Silencer, is just out听from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Wicker听teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis.

听debut short story collection,听The Spoils, was published by Switchgrass Books in 2017. He was awarded the 2015 Charles Johnson Fiction Prize at听Crab Orchard Review, and his work has appeared in听Beloit Fiction Journal,听Midwestern Gothic,听Harpur Palate,听BULL,听Wigleaf, and听Yalobusha Review, among many other places. He holds an MFA in fiction writing from Wichita State University and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

is the author of the poetry collections Making a Living (Milkweed, 2025), Nervous System (Ecco), which was chosen by Monica Youn for the 2018 National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book, and June in Eden (OSU Press). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and her work has appeared in magazines like The American Poetry Review, New England Review, Narrative, Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares, among others.

work has been anthologized in the Best American Poetry and is published or forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Orion Magazine, New England Review, Ploughshares, River Styx, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Watering Hole fellow, he earned his dual MA/MFA from Indiana University and is currently a doctoral student studying literature & creative writing at the University of Houston.听

is a Ghanaian writer and the author of the poetry chapbook, A Mouthful of Home (Akashic Books, 2020). Her fiction and essays have appeared in Narrative Magazine, Commonwealth Writers, and Lit Hub, among others. She is a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Anthony Rintala听trained as a poet at the University of Southern Mississippi and Louisiana State University. He has edited for听Callaloo,听New Delta Review,听New Tex[t], and听Blinn Literary Journal. His own poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and he is the faculty advisor for the 91社区's student literary journal,听FishHook.

Brittney Scott鈥檚听first poetry collection,听The Derelict Daughter, won the 2015 New American Poetry Prize. She is also a recipient of the Joy Harjo Prize for Poetry, as well as the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in听Best New Poets 2014,听Prairie Schooner,听The New Republic,听Narrative Magazine,听Cincinnati Review,听Alaska Quarterly Review,听Linebreak,听Indiana Review听and elsewhere. She homesteads on seven acres in rural Virginia.听

is a Lebanese-American poet, a 2021 NEA Poetry fellow, and the author of Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024) and Set to Music a Wildfire, winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Alongside Rachel Mennies, she is the co-editor of The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry. She is the recipient of a 2020 and 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and she won the 2013 and 2012 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and the 2011 Copper Nickel Poetry Contest. Her work appears in The Atlantic, AGNI, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Believer, The New Republic, Pleiades, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and she lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio.

Matthew Guenette听is the author of听American Busboy听(Akron Series in Poetry) and听Sudden Anthem, winner of the 2007 American Poetry Journal Book Prize from Dream Horse Press. His poems have appeared in听Another Chicago Magazine,听DIAGRAM,听The Greensboro Review,听Indiana Review,听The Spoon River Poetry Review,听The National Poetry Review, and other publications.

Mihaela Moscaliuc's听first poetry collection,听Father Dirt, was published by Alice James Books in 2010. Her poems, translations, reviews, and articles have appeared in听The Georgia Review,听New Letters,听Prairie Schooner,听Poetry International,听Pleiades,听Arts & Letters,听Connecticut Review,听Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. Moscaliuc teaches at Monmouth University and in the MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation at Drew University.

Jacob Sunderlin听is a writer and musician. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in听Beloit Poetry Journal,听Gulf Coast,听Narrative,听Ninth Letter,听Ploughshares,听Third Coast, and elsewhere. He鈥檚 received residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. His records听Death Ranch听(Castle Bravo, 2016) and听Hymnal听(NULLZ脴NE, 2017) are available on cassette and for download.

Trevor Roberts is a senior at 91社区. He is pursuing a BS in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing and a minor in literary editing & publishing. He enjoys writing short stories and reading contemporary fiction. Outside of school, he works part-time as a server and lives with his partner and four pets. After graduating, he hopes to land and job in the publishing industry and publish work of his own.

Ian Young is a first-semester senior at 91社区 where he is pursuing a BA in Journalism with a creative writing and literary editing & publishing minor. Young works for The Shield, an independent student publication at 91社区 as Editor-in-Chief for the 2024-25 academic year. Young helped create the 56-page magazine published by The Shield titled Unmasked: Unmasking the Story of How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected the 91社区 by contributing three news stories during his time as a staff writer. When he's not writing or editing, he is listening to an album on his turntable while reading.