SALLY BLIUMIS-DUNN teaches Modern Poetry at Manhattanville College. She received her MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence e in 2002. Her poems have appeared in  Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, the NYT, Paris Review, PBS NewsHour, PLUME, Poetry London, Prairie Schooner, The Writer’s Almanac and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day,  among others. Her books, Talking Underwater and Second Skin were published by Wind Publications in 2007 and 2010, respectively. Her latest book, Echolocation, was published in 2018 with Plume Editions. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. In 2008, she was invited to read at the “Love Poems Program” at the Library of Congress.  More available on Sally at: http://terrain.org/2013/poetry/two-poems-by-sally-bliumis-dunn, on Academy of American Poets, Writer’s Almanac, From the Fishouse.org, on PBS News Hour Weekly Poem, and Rattle. Find out more about Sally Bliumis-Dunn at http://www.sallybliumisdunn.com.

NICKOLE BROWN received her MFA from the Vermont College, studied literature at Oxford University, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. She worked at Sarabande Books for ten years. Her first collection, Sister, a novel-in-poems, was first published in 2007 by Red Hen Press and a new edition will be reissued by Sibling Rivalry Press in October 2018. Her second book, a biography-in-poems called Fanny Says, came out from BOA Editions in 2015, and the audio book of that collection became available in 2017. She was an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for four years until she gave up her beloved time in the classroom in hope of writing full time. Currently, she is the Editor for the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and teaches periodically at a number of places, including the Sewanee School of Letters MFA Program, the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNCA, and the Hindman Settlement School. She lives with her wife, poet Jessica Jacobs, in Asheville, NC, where she volunteers at a four different animal sanctuaries. Currently, she’s at work on a bestiary of sorts about these animals, but it won’t consist of the kind of pastorals that always made her (and most of the working-class folks she knows) feel shut out of nature and the writing about it—these poems speak in a queer, Southern-trash-talking kind of way about nature beautiful, but damaged and dangerous. A clutch of these new poems recently won Rattle‘s 2018 Chapbook Contest—To Those Who Were Our First Gods will be published in December. Find out more about Nickole Brown at http://www.nickolebrown.com/about

LORNA KNOWLES BLAKE was born in Havana, Cuba and spent her childhood in Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela and Puerto Rico before coming to the United States. Her collection of poems, Permanent Address, won the Richard Snyder Memorial Award from Ashland University Press. Work from a new collection has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cortland Review, Literary Imagination, Tampa Review and the Hudson Review. She has received the Able Muse Award for her most recent collection, Green Hill, to be published in 2018. She serves on the editorial board at the journal Barrow Street and on the advisory committee for WCAI’s Poetry Sundays radio program. She teaches creative writing in Brewster, on Cape Cod and in New Orleans.