Poetry

Camille Dungy is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University. She is the author of four collections of poetry including Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press: 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award, and a Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (W.W. Norton &Co: 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. In 2021 she held the Academy of American Poets Fellowship and in 2019 she had a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Shana Youngdahl is a poet, professor, and fiction writer. Shana loves helping young people embrace the stories they need to tell. Educated at Mills College and The University of Minnesota, Shana teaches writing at the University of Maine-Farmington, where she has also directed the Longfellow Young Writers Workshop, and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.

Tess Taylor is the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry. Her chapbook, The Misremembered World, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship, and The San Francisco Chronicle called her first book, The Forage House, “stunning.” Her second book, Work & Days, was hailed as “our moment’s Georgic” by critic Stephanie Burt and named one of the 10 best books of poetry of 2016 by The New York Times.

Robert Strong is a poet, writer, and scholar widely recognized for his innovative work combining archival research and literary production. He has received fellowships for creative research from the Massachusetts Historical Society in 2003 and the American Antiquarian Society in 2009. He is also the founding editor of the Poetic Research column at Common-place, the journal of early American history and culture.

James Thomas Stevens, Aronhió:ta’s, (Akwesasne Mohawk) attended the Institute of American Indian Arts, Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and Brown University’s graduate C.W. program. Stevens is the author of eight books of poetry, including, Combing the Snakes from His Hair, Mohawk/Samoa: Transmigrations, A Bridge Dead in the Water, The Mutual Life, Bulle/Chimere, and DisOrient, and has recently finished a new manuscript, The Golden Book.

Catherine Sasanov was a 2016 Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. There she conducted research for her book-length poem, in-progress, Markd Y (Archives & Invocations). She is the author of Traditions of Bread and Violence (Four Way Books, 1996), All the Blood Tethers (Northeasten UP, 2002), and Had Slaves (Firewheel Editions, 2010). Most recently, her essay, "The Will, the Woman, and the Archive", was published in the anthology Slavery's Descendants (Rutgers, 2019).

Margaret Rozga was the Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2019–2020. Her first book, 200 Nights and One Day (Benu Press, 2009), was awarded a bronze medal in poetry in the 2009 Independent Publishers Book Awards and named an outstanding achievement in poetry for 2009 by the Wisconsin Library Association.

Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of Rue (BOA, 2020), the James Laughlin Award-winning The End of Pink (BOA Editions, 2016), and the Antivenom Prize-winning Rag & Bone (Elixir Press, 2011). Her collection of lyric essays, Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past (Ohio State University Press, 2017), won the Non/Fiction Prize from The Journal. Another essay collection about witches and witch trials, The Witch of Eye (Sarabande, 2021), is forthcoming.

Born and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill is the author of the hybrid poetry collection, The Negroes Send Their Love (Milkweed Editions, 2026), and two poetry collections, Dangerous Goods, awarded the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, (Milkweed Editions, 2014) and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, named one of the Ten Books All Georgians Should Read in 2015 by the Georgia Center for the Book, (UGA Press, 2008).