Emari DiGiorgio, Megan Fernandes, Nancy Reddy
Emari DiGiorgio is the author of Girl Torpedo (Agape, 2018), winner of the 2017 Numinous Orison, Luminous Origin Literary Award, and The Things a Body Might Become (Five Oaks Press, 2017). She is the recipient of the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, the Ellen La Forge Memorial Poetry Prize, the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize, RHINO’s Founder’s Prize, the Woodrow Hall Top Shelf Award, and a poetry fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. DiGiorgio has received residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, Sundress Academy of the Arts, and Rivendell Writers Colony. She teaches at Stockton University, is a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poet, and hosts World Above, a monthly reading series in Atlantic City, NJ. Learn more at emaridigiorgio.com.
Megan Fernandes is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books, 2015). Her work has been appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Rattle, The Adroit Journal, Pank Magazine, The Common, The Walrus Magazine, Postmodern Culture, Guernica, Memorious, the Academy of American Poets, Redivider, the California Journal of Poetics, among others. An Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College, she holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. She lives in New York City. Learn more at meganfernandes.com.
Nancy Reddy is the author of Double Jinx (Milkweed Editions, 2015), a 2014 winner of the National Poetry Series, and the chapbook Acadiana (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Blackbird, The Iowa Review, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, she teaches writing at Stockton University in southern New Jersey. Learn more at nancyreddy.com.