Matthew Kelsey's poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, Southern Indiana Review, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a fellowship from Idyllwild Arts. In 2018, he co-authored a joke book for National Geographic Kids titled Just Joking: Sports. Originally from Glens Falls, NY, Matthew now lives in Chicago, where teaches for the Kenyon Review Young Writers Program and Hive Center for the Book Arts, and serves as content manager for Narrative Magazine.
Kathryn Kruse is the director of Residency on the Farm, an interdisciplinary artists’ residency program. Her work has appeared, among other places, in the pages of Indiana Review, The Manchester Review, Interim, Jet Fuel and The Adirondack Review, on the walls of the I Hope You Are Feeling Better Collaborative Art Exhibition, and on the stages of the San Francisco Olympians Festival. Her story collection, To Receive My Services You Must Be Dying and Alone, came out in February from JackLeg Press. After sojourns around the world and the US, she now lives and teaches back here at the shores of Lake Michigan.
Jose-Luis Moctezuma is a Chicano poet based in Chicago. He is the author of a chapbook, Spring Tlaloc Seance (Projective Industries, 2016), and two poetry books, Place-Discipline (Omnidawn, 2018) and Black Box Syndrome (Omnidawn, 2023). Place-Discipline was selected by Myung Mi Kim as the winner of the 2017 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize. His poetry and criticism have appeared in Peripheries, Postmodern Culture, Fence, Jacket2, Chicago Review, and elsewhere. He is an Assistant Professor of Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).
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