U.S., New England

Jessie Leitzel (she/they) was born in the mountains of Pennsylvania and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. They are a YoungArts award winner with distinction, a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and a gold...

Scipio Moorhead, born around 1750 to 1760, was an enslaved, African American artist in Boston, Massachusetts, who is remembered primarily for his association with the poet Phillis Wheatley Peters. Enslaved...

Keli Stewart (she/her) is an author, educator, and arts activist whose writing has been published in Rhino, Meridians, and WarpLand: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, among others. Her published works...

George B. Bailey (he/him) is an associate professor of English, emeritus, in the English department of Columbia College Chicago. He earned a BA in creative writing from Columbia College Chicago, an MA in English...

Jasmine Dreame Wagner is an American writer and multimedia artist. They are the author of the full-length collections On a Clear Day (Ahsahta Press, 2017) and Rings, winner of the 2014 Kelsey Street Press ...

Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled, bakla poet and playwright. Colgate is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling...

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...

Sarah Audsley, a Korean American adoptee, is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press, 2023), a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective...

Al Filreis is Kelly Professor of English, faculty director of the Kelly Writers House, director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, codirector of PennSound, and publisher of Jacket2 magazine...

Adam O. Davis is the author of Index of Haunted Houses (Sarabande, 2020), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize. The recipient of the 2022 Poetry International Prize and the 2016 George Bogin Memorial...

Eric Weiskott grew up in Greenport, New York, on the east end of Long Island. He teaches poetry and poetics at Boston College, with a focus on the 14th and 21st centuries. Weiskott is the author of the poetry...

Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is a Cave Canem fellow and an Affrilachian Poet. She is the author of the poetry collections Conversion (Lotus, 2006), winner of the Naomi Long Madgett ...

Norman Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1954. Educated at Binghamton University and Emory University, he joined the English faculty of Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1980 and retired from...

Shanta Lee is the author of GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues (Diode Editions, 2021). She was named the 2021 Vermont Book Award winner, won the 2020 Diode Press...

Lauren K. Alleyne is the author of two collections of poetry, Difficult Fruit (2014) and Honeyfish (2019), and two chapbooks, Dawn in the Kaatskills (2008) and (Un)Becoming Gretel (2022). She is a coeditor...

Charles Henri Ford was a poet, an editor, a novelist, an artist, and a cultural catalyst whose career spanned much of 20th-century modernism. Ford claimed inspiration from filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist...

Maya Marshall (she/her) is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Adelphi University. She is the author of All the Blood Involved in Love (Haymarket Books, 2022) and a cofounder of underbelly...

Kerrin McCadden is the author of Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes (New Issues, 2014), Keep This to Yourself (Button Poetry, 2020), and American Wake (Black Sparrow Press, 2021). Her poems have appeared in...

Poet, fiction writer, and scholar Mũkoma Wa Ngũgĩ was born in Evanston, Illinois, and grew up in Kenya. His father is the highly regarded African writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Ngũgĩ earned a PhD in English from...

Traveling often throughout his long and productive life, Henry James wrote fiction and travel literature about Americans in Europe and Europeans in America during the great epoch of transatlantic tourism and...