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graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor鈥檚 in rhetoric. He completed his MFA in photography听at Savannah College of Art and Design. Johnson utilizes photo-based mixed media听to re-imagine his cultural and racial identity via photography and video. In 2016听he was awarded the Critical Mass Solo Exhibition Award. Johnson has exhibited听all across the United States, most notably with Blue Sky Gallery in Portland and听Arnika Dawkins Gallery in Atlanta and also Detroit鈥檚 Wright Museum.

Emily Cinquemani is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the University听of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she currently teaches. Her poetry has听recently appeared or is forthcoming in 32 Poems, Meridian, Nashville Review,听Indiana Review, and Cherry Tree.

"Upon Meeting My Father for the First Time, My Mother Thinks鈥�" 鈥斕�Bailey Cohen is the author of Self-Portraits as Yurico (forthcoming, Glass听Poetry Press). An undergraduate student at New York University, he serves as the听associate editor for Frontier Poetry and runs Alegrarse, an online journal of poetry听and interviews with poets. Cohen鈥檚 work appears in publications such as [PANK],听Raleigh Review, Boulevard, Longleaf Review, The Boiler Journal, and elsewhere. He听can be found across most social media platforms @BaileyC213.

Dorsey Craft holds an MFA from McNeese State University. Her work听has appeared or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, The Massachusetts听Review, Mid-American Review, RHINO Poetry, and elsewhere. She is currently听a PhD student in poetry at Florida State and the assistant poetry editor of The听Southeast Review.

Didi Jackson鈥檚 collection of poems, Moon Jar, is forthcoming from Red Hen听Press (2020). Her poems have appeared most recently in The New Yorker, New听England Review, and Ploughshares, among other publications. Currently, Jackson听teaches creative writing at the University of Vermont.

"Motel, Oregon" 鈥斕� is the author of Meet Me Here At Dawn (YesYes Books, 2016) and听the chapbook _____ Versus Recovery. Her poetry appears in The New Yorker, The听American Poetry Review, Ploughshares,听AGNI听and other publications.

first collection of poems, Self-Portrait in Dystopian Landscape,听won the Unicorn Press First Book Prize and was published in 2016. It was听subsequently a finalist for an Eric Hoffer Award and the Oregon Book Award for听Poetry. Lackaye lives in Beaverton, Oregon, with his wife and two daughters.听

Moira Logan, an emeritus professor of dance, has spent the last several years听shifting her creative focus from dance to poetry. A native of Philadelphia, she lives听in Memphis, Tennessee, with her husband, a visual artist, and her son, a musician.

is a writer and collagist living in Memphis. Her newest听poetry collection Hothouse (Sarabande Books) was a New York Times Editor鈥檚听Choice. Her other books include The 9-Day Queen Gets Lost on Her Way to the听Execution, I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, and Scorpionica. Her poems听have recently appeared in The Kenyon Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Ninth Letter,听The Georgia Review, New England Review, Best American Poetry blog, and The听Academy of American Poet鈥檚 Poem-A-Day. McGlynn is an assistant professor of
creative writing at Christian Brothers University in Memphis and teaches with听Tennessee Young Writers Workshop. She鈥檚 currently completing a new poetry听collection called 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me 新彩网 the Multiverse. Find her on Instagram/Twitter @karynamcglynn.

Michael Mlekoday is the author of one collection of poems, The Dead Eat听Everything, and is currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of听California, Davis. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares,听Hayden鈥檚 Ferry Review, Washington Square Review, and other venues.

"Something Quiet" 鈥斕� is the author of Nervous System, winner of the National听Poetry Series, chosen by Monica Youn, forthcoming from Ecco press. She is also听the author of June in Eden, winner of the Ohio State University Press/The Journal听prize. She has been awarded the 鈥淒iscovery鈥�/Boston Review prize, a Wallace听Stegner fellowship in creative writing from Stanford University, and scholarships听from the Tin House and Bread Loaf writing workshops. Moffett鈥檚 poems and听essays have appeared in Tin House, The Believer, FIELD, Narrative, The Kenyon听Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, and other magazines, as well as in the anthology听Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets.

poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in FIELD, Indiana听Review, The Shallow Ends, The Greensboro Review, Booth, Glass: A Journal of听Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the Writer鈥檚 Block Prize in Poetry.听Oliver lives in Massachusetts with her family.

"Casida of the Branches" 鈥� 2018 Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award winner, C. C. Reid, is the recipient of two Artist Fellowships from the DC Commission听on the Arts and Humanities, and winner of the Larry Neal Writers鈥� Award for听poetry. Her work has appeared in/is forthcoming from Poet Lore, Mid-American听Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Five Points.

Felicity Sheehy鈥檚 poems appear or are forthcoming in The New Republic,听The Yale Review, The Adroit Journal, Southern Humanities Review, Shenandoah,听Narrative, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. A finalist in 狈补谤谤补迟颈惫别鈥檚 30 Below听Contest, she has received an Academy of American Poets Prize, a scholarship to听the Kenyon Review Writer鈥檚 Workshop, and the 2019 Jane Martin Poetry Prize for听UK residents under thirty. Originally from New York鈥檚 Hudson Valley, she is a听PhD student at Cambridge University.

"For the Doctor's Records" 鈥斕�Clint Smith is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University and has received听fellowships from Cave Canem, the Art for Justice Fund, the Callaloo Creative听Writing Workshop, and the National Science Foundation. He is a 2014 National听Poetry Slam champion and a recipient of the 2017 Jerome J. Shestack Prize from听The American Poetry Review. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The听Atlantic, The Paris Review, The New Republic, and numerous other publications.听Smith is the author of Counting Descent (2016), which won the 2017 Literary听Award for best poetry book from the Black Caucus of the American Library听Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He was born and听raised in New Orleans.

Robert Thomas鈥檚 latest book, Bridge, is a work of fiction published by BOA听Editions. His first book, Door to Door, was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner听of the Poets Out Loud Prize and published by Fordham University Press, and his听second book, Dragging the Lake, was published by Carnegie Mellon University听Press. He has received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the听Arts and won a Pushcart Prize.

Jermaine Thompson was born in Louisville, Mississippi. He learned language听from big-armed women who salted their greens with gossip and from shade-sitting听men who cussed and prayed with equal fervor. Thompson has an MFA in poetry听and currently lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

William H. Wandless is a professor of English at Central Michigan University听specializing in British literature of the eighteenth century. He writes primarily on听scholarly subjects, but his verse has appeared in a number of poetry journals, most听recently in The Cincinnati Review and Rattle.

2018 Mary C. Mohr Fiction Award winner, Elise Burke, holds an MFA in creative writing from Hollins University. She is听the recipient of two Kratz Center Writing Fellowships, the Reese Writing Award,听the Dillard Arts Fellowship, James Purdy Award for Short Fiction, and her fiction听has recognized by 蝉迟辞谤测厂辞耻迟丑鈥檚 Million Writers Award. Her story collection Sorry听for Crashing Your Party and Possibly Killing Your Horse was a finalist for the YesYes听Books 2018 Pamet River Prize. Her work has appeared in Indiana Review, Hayden鈥檚听Ferry Review, Joyland, and The RS 500, among others. Burke is a visiting assistant听professor of creative writing at Susquehanna University as well as fiction editor at听Flock literary journal.

Tim Potter is a retired dairy farmer from the Berkshire Hills of Connecticut.听Now that his cows are no longer calling the shots, he鈥檚 found the time to write听again. He studied at the University of Montana in the days of William Kittredge,听James Lee Burke, and Richard Hugo. In the early seventies, while driving a yellow听cab in NYC, he was part of an Anatole Broyard writing group at The New School.听Potter now lives in Skaneateles, New York, with his wife, Linda.

Robyn Ritchie is an MFA graduate of Emerson College. She is currently at work听on a novel, Red All Over, which is set in the same small town as that in 鈥淩evival听Meetings鈥� (her story in SIR). She tweets at @RobynBRitchie.

2018 Mary C. Mohr Nonfiction Award co-winner, , is also a winner of the 2016 Raymond Carver Contest, a Sterling听Watson fellow, and an Ann McKee grant recipient. Her novella Blindsided won听the Clay Reynolds novella competition and was published in 2018. Her novel听Summer of the Cicadas won the Quill Prose Award and will be published in 2020.听Catherine lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where she enjoys running along the听beach and hanging out with other people鈥檚 dogs.

2018 Mary C. Mohr Nonfiction Award co-winner, , is a 2018 National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing听Fellow as well as an authorized teacher of Zen meditation. His One Bird, One听Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories, won the 2014 International Book Award in听the Eastern Religions category. He is the award-winning author of three novels听with Bantam Dell Books, receiving the Hemingway Award for a First Novel for听The Hope Valley Hubcap King, the 2009 National Press Women鈥檚 Communication听Award for best novel for The Time of New Weather, and the 2017 William Faulkner听Wisdom Award for novel-in-progress for his current project, Wilson鈥檚 Way.

听has published twelve books of poetry, most recently The Dean of听Discipline(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018) and Celestial Joyride (BOA Editions,听2016). Darling Vulgarity was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and听Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review,听The Paris Review, The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, and Rolling Stone. A 2017听Guggenheim Fellow, he has been the recipient of five Pushcart Prizes, fellowships听from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright Foundation, and New Jersey听State Council on the Arts, and residency fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell,听Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary听Studies, St. James Cavalier Centre (Malta), Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland), and听Chateau de Lavigny (Switzerland). Waters teaches at Monmouth University and for听the Drew University MFA Program. He lives in Ocean, New Jersey.

received a BFA from California Institute of the Arts in Acting.听He has performed throughout the country working as a professional actor for over听twenty years. He has worked for one of Los Angeles鈥檚 premier classical theatre听companies A Noise Within, as well as the Stella Adler Theatre, and was a member of听The Other Side Theatre in Portland, Oregon. He has worked as a director, poet, and听playwright having work produced at the Los Angeles Greenway Court Theatre and听directing shows in Wisconsin. His plays and poetry have been published in Rise Up听Review and Clockhouse. For ten years Schaufler has been collaborating with Above听the Clouds, a faith-based program, bringing the arts to disadvantaged children听free of charge. Currently, he works as a special education teacher, adjunct theatre听instructor, as well as a working artist. He has the joy of artistically collaborating听with his beautiful wife, Lori Woodall (head of the Concordia Theatre Program),听on various theatrical projects. He is also blessed with two beautiful children.听