U.S., Mid-Atlantic

Michael Brownstein is a poet, a novelist, and an activist. Often associated with Beat writing and both the New York School and a second generation of New York School poets, Brownstein moved to New York City...

Tom Snarsky (he/him) is a poet and the author of the full-length poetry collections Reclaimed Water (Ornithopter Press, 2023) and Light-Up Swan (Ornithopter Press, 2021), and the chapbooks Complete Sentences...

Natalie E. Illum (she/her) is a poet, disability activist, and singer living in Washington, DC. A former Jenny McKean Moore Fellow, she is the recipient of five poetry fellowship grants from the DC Arts Commission...

Jessica Smith (she/her) is a writer, teacher, editor, and librarian. Smith’s full-length poetry collections include How to Know the Flowers (Veliz, 2019), Life-List (Chax, 2015), and Organic Furniture Cellar...

Miriam Kramer (she/they) is a queer, Jewish poet residing in New Jersey with her partner, daughter, and two cats. She is the author of Built by Storms (Write Bloody Publishing, 2024), which won the 2023 Jack...

Carlie Hoffman is the author of When There Was Light (Four Way Books, 2023), winner of a National Jewish Book Award, and This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), winner of a Northern California Publishers and Authors...

Jon Sands (he/him) is the author of It’s Not Magic (Beacon Press, 2019), a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, and The New Clean (Write Bloody Publishing, 2011). Sands is the facilitator of the Emotional...

Julie Ezelle Patton is the author of The Flower Poem (Tender Buttons, 2024), Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2007), and “Car Tune” & Not So Bella Donna (Belladonna*, 2003). ...

Grisel Y. Acosta (she/they) is a professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. Their poetry collection, Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere (Get Fresh Books, 2021), was a 2020...

Lola Rosario (she/her) is a spoken-word poet, freelance journalist, and translator from New York City. She is the author of the chapbook Daughter de Borikén (Editorial Pulpo, 2024). Her work on identity, feminism...

Lexi Pelle is the winner of the 2022 Jack McCarthy Book Prize, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a finalist for a Prufer Poetry Prize and a Marvin Bell Poetry Prize. Her work has been published in Rattle, Ninth...

Cindy Savett is the author of The Breath (BlazeVOX, 2021) and Child in the Road (Parlor Press, 2007). Her chapbooks include Overtures of Survival (Dancing Girl Press, 2022), the story of my eyes (Dancing Girl...

Kiran Bath is a writer and lawyer based in New York. She is the author of Instructions for Banno (Kelsey Street Press, 2024). Bath has received fellowships, residencies, and support from Poets House, Kundiman...

Luftwerk Studio was founded by Chicago-based artists Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero. A combination of the German words luft (meaning “air”) and werk (meaning “work” or “artwork”), the name emphasizes both...

Sara Cahill Marron (she/her) is the author of Call Me Spes (MadHat Press, 2022); Nothing You Build Here, Belongs Here (Kelsay Books, 2021); and Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books, 2018). Her work ...

Chandanie Somwaru (she/her) is an Indo-Caribbean woman born and raised in Queens, New York. She is the author of Urgent \\ Where the Mind Goes \\ Scattered (Ghostbird Press, 2021). Her writing has been published...

Danielle Pieratti (she/her) is the author of Approximate Body (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2023) and Fugitives (Lost Horse Press, 2016), winner of the 2015 Idaho Prize and the 2017 Connecticut Book Award...

River Huiying Dandelion Chan (he, him, keoi / 佢) is a poet, a teacher, and a healer. He is a finalist for a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. He is the author of remembering (y)our ...

Robert Wood Lynn (he/him) is a poet from Virginia. His debut collection of poems, Mothman Apologia (Yale University Press, 2022), won the 2021 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and was named a Best Poetry...

Patricio Ferrari is a polyglot poet, literary translator, and editor. He has published nearly 20 translated or edited books, including Habla terreña by Frank Stanford, co-translated with Graciela S. Guglielmone...