Ruth Awad is a Lebanese American poet, 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellow, and the author of Outside the Joy and Set to Music a Wildfire, winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry.
Roger Reeves is the author of King Me and Best Barbarian, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His essays have appeared in Granta, the Yale Review, and elsewhere.
Rigoberto González is the author of eighteen books of poetry and prose. He has received fellowships from The Lannan Foundation, The Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and United States Artists.
Prageeta Sharma is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Grief Sequence, a narrative reflection on grief over the loss of a loved one; Undergloom; and Infamous Landscapes.
Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection All the Flowers Kneeling. Their work appears in the New York Times, the New Yorker, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere.
Paul Guest is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Because Everything Is Terrible, and a memoir, One More Theory About Happiness.
Patricia Smith is the author of Unshuttered; Incendiary Art, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the NAACP Image Award, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, winner of the Lenore
Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of nonfiction and seven books of poetry, including Nightingale, Appropriate: A Provocation, and most recently West: A Translation.
Monica Youn is the author of four poetry collections, most recently From From, which was published in both the United States and in the United Kingdom in 2023.
Molly McCully Brown is the author of the poetry collection The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded and the essay collection Places I’ve Taken My. With Susannah Nevison, she is also the co-author of the poetry collection In the Field Between Us.
