The Poetry Foundation and POETRY Welcome New Team Members

The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine continue their commitment to grow opportunities for people in the poetry ecosystem, welcoming new team members to aid in the work of maintaining a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.

Poetry Magazine
Angela Flores joined the Poetry magazine team in May as the new editorial assistant, working alongside the existing magazine team.

Angela Flores (she/her) is a trans writer, teacher, and editor from Fresno, California. After earning her BA from the University of California at Irvine, she went on to study creative writing with an emphasis in publishing & editing at California State University, Fresno, where she earned her MFA. 

Five new readers will join guest editor Su Cho, assisting with Poetry magazine content for her issues in the fall. 

• Sarah Ahmad (she/her) was born in Delhi and grew up across the Indian subcontinent. She has been a graduate student in the women’s history and writing programs at Sarah Lawrence College, taught in the CUNY Start program, and was the 2018–19 Editorial Fellow at Poets & Writers. She is assistant editor at Guernica (poetry) and Conjunctions, and a PhD student in literature at UMass-Amherst where she works on the poetics of space in contemporary queer/diasporic texts, and writes in-between poem-prose beings.
   
• Noah Baldino (they/them) is a writer and editor from Illinois. Their poems have appeared in New England Review, Gulf Coast, Memorious, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Knox College Creative Writing Program and of the Purdue University MFA, Noah has also received support from The University of Arizona Poetry Center and The Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts, where they were both a 2015 Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets Fellow and a 2019–2020 Stadler Fellow. They currently live in Maine. 
   
• victoria mallorga hernandez (she/her) is a queer Peruvian taurus, poet, and editor. Currently, she is an associate editor at Palette Poetry and an MA candidate in Publishing and Writing at Emerson College. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Revista Lucerna, Plastico, perhappened, Anti-Heroin Chic, Kissing Dynamite, and Thin Air, among others. It has also been featured in various anthologies both in Peru and the United States. Across the hemisphere, she moonlights as the chief coordinator of literature in the alternative art fair ANTIFIL and reviews books for La Libretilla, a Hispano-American project. victoria has published two collections in Spanish, albión (alastor editores, 2019) and absolución (2020). Find her on Instagram and Twitter as @cielosraros. 
   
• Jenna Peng (she/her) is an editor at Copper Canyon Press and the Asian American Literary Review, and she is a curator for the Smithsonian Asian American Literature Festival. She writes hybrid lit crit and lives in Pittsburgh. 
   
• Naima Yael Tokunow (née Woods) (she/her) is an educator, writer, and editor, currently living in New Mexico. Her work (and life) focus around interrogating black femme identity & privilege, social justice, and black futurity. She is the author of three chapbooks, Make Witness (Zoo Cake Press, 2016), Planetary Bodies (Black Warrior Review, 2019), and Shadow Black, winner of the 2019 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest, selected by Jericho Brown. She is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a TENT Residency Fellow and has attended The Home School workshop in Miami. She proudly edits the Black Voices Series for Puerto del Sol and also reads for Nat. Brut. More information is available at naimaytokunow.com. She is blessed to be Black and alive.

Forms & Features Guest Teachers
Several early-career teaching artists are coming onboard to design and lead an original poetry workshop for the Foundation Library’s long-running Forms & Features workshop series.

• Michael Frazier (he/him) is a poet and educator living in central Japan. Frazier’s honors include Tinderbox’s 2020 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize, Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets nominations, and support from Cave Canem / EcoTheo Collective, Callaloo, The Watering Hole, The Seventh Wave, and Brooklyn Poet. His poems appear in Poetry Daily, The Offing, Cream City Review, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Visible Poetry Project, and elsewhere. He is currently facilitating a biweekly Zoom poetry book club, which is open to the public.
   
• Krishan Mistry (he/him) is a writer and electronic musician based in Brooklyn, NY. His work activates various forms of “borrowing” as a means to explore diaspora and cultural hybridity. He likes driving very far to buy things off Craigslist. He does not like it when two people order the same thing at a restaurant. 
   
• Cindy Juyoung Ok (she/they) teaches creative writing, edits for Guernica, and has poems now or soon in Bennington Review, Colorado Review, and The Yale Review. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she received Capote, Rydson, and Rosenberg Fellowships, Cindy has also been supported by Banff Centre, Bread Loaf, and Vermont Studio Center.
   
• Crista Siglin (she/her) is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist and poet. She grew up in Iowa, and was awarded a BFA in Painting and Creative Writing from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2015. She is currently a poetry editor for SAND Journal Berlin, and runs Poetry As__A Workshop. Her second book of poetry, Unpleasable Nature, was released in 2020 by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. 
   
• Jake Sorgen (he/him) is a composer-poet and musician based in Chicago. His writing and compositions blur borders between poetry and music. His most recent works of music-poetry include "The Forgotten Suite," released in February 2021, and the debut of the multidisciplinary ensemble Small Giants. Sorgen served as composer-in-residence and artistic associate for The Rogue Theatre from 2014–2019, was named the Maverick Prodigy Composer at the Maverick Concert Hall in 2018, and received a 2020 Composer's Fellowship from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
   
• Adele Elise Williams (she/her) is a writer, editor, and educator pursuing her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston. She has taught creative writing at various institutions, including correctional facilities and universities. Her poetry can be found in or is forthcoming from Guernica, Barzakh, Cream City Review, Bear Review, Split Lip Magazine, Quarterly West, SAND, Beloit Poetry Journal, among others.

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