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Shannan’s recent work appears in Best New Poets (2024). She has been awarded or placed for the Palette Love & Eros Prize, Rattle Poetry Prize, Auburn Witness Prize, Foster Poetry Prize, among others. Her poems appear in Poetry Daily, Black Warrior Review, Missouri Review, Poet Lore, Gulf Coast, The Literary Review of Canada, EPOCH, december, & elsewhere. She is the Poet Laureate’s pick for Exile. Her essays appear in Tolka Journal and Going Down Swinging; they have been awarded the Alta Lind Cook Prize and the Irene Adler Essay Prize. She also translates Sanskrit poetry.

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Karan’s recent work appears in Best New Poets (2024). A finalist for the Felix Pollak Prize & Charles B. Wheeler Prize book prizes and Diode, Tusculum Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review chapbook prizes, their poems have appeared in Best New PoetsAGNI, Shenandoah, Colorado Review, Cincinnati Review, North American Review, and elsewhere, fiction in JOYLAND and the other side of hope, and translations in The Offing and The Los Angeles Review. They’re currently on the editorial board of Alice James Books.

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Justine is an MFA candidate at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington where she is a recipient of the Philip Gerard Graduate Fellowship and the Bernice Kert Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her writing is published or forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, Isele Magazine, The Masters Review, The Keeping Room, and others. She is currently an editor for Ecotone Magazine, an editorial intern with Tin House, and a guest editor for The Masters Review and CRAFT. An avid hiker and ecofeminist, Justine has traveled and worked across four continents.

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Svetlana is a poet and permaculture farmer who graduated from University of New Mexico. She is the author of a debut poetry chapbook, Only a Season (Bottlecap Features, 2024). Her work has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net. Her poetry has appeared in Apple Valley Review, Sky Island Journal, Jet Fuel Review, About Place, Plant-Human Quarterly, ONE ART, and elsewhere. Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, she now lives in Cape Girardeau, MO. She collects visits to botanical gardens around the world and likes to plant a garden everywhere she goes.

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Aditi Bhattacharjee | Aditi Kashyap | Akhila Mohan | Andreea Ceplinschi | Anita Ngai | Caroline Preziosi | Catherine Crochunis-Brown | Dani Kuntz | Davin Faris | Eleanor Colligan | Emily Vanryn | Emma Mott | Herb Kitson | Holli Flanagan | Holly James | Jacob Anavisca | Joyce Englander Levy | Larkin Ellis | Leigh Sugar | Mary Fontana | Mary Kelly | Nathaniel Calhoun | Orli Adamski | Parker Logan | Rishi Agrawal | Sasha Pickering | Stephen Minnich | Tran Tran | Turi Sioson