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Derek JG Williams
 is an American writer and the author of 
Reading Water, 
selected by Eduardo Corral as the winner of the 2023 Lightscatter Press Prize, and 
Poetry Is a Disease
 (Greying Ghost, 2022). His poems and prose are published in 
Pleiades, The Writer’s Chronicle, Plume, Banshee, Salamander, Best New Poets, 
and 
Prairie Schooner,
 among others. He earned a doctorate in English and Creative Writing from Ohio University, and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He lives in Zurich with his family.
John Hodgen
 is Writer-in-Residence at Assumption University in Worcester, MA, and Advisory Editor at 
New Letters
 at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He is author of five previous poetry collections: 
In My Father’s House
, winner of the Bluestem Award; 
Bread Without Sorrow
, Winner of the Balcones Poetry Prize; 
Bread Without Sorrow
, winner of the Balcones Prize, 
Grace
, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry; 
Heaven and Earth Holding Company
, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award, and 
The Lord of Everywhere
 from Lynx House Press. Hodgen is also recipient of numerous other honors and awards, including the Grolier Prize, the Foley Poetry Prize, the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, an Arvon Foundation Award, the Chad Walsh Prize, the Collins Prize, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award in Poetry, and inclusion in the 2017 
Scribner’s Best American Poetry
.
Thera Webb 
(she/her) is a poet, archivist, and anarchist. She is the author of one full length collection—
The Witch, A Play 
(White Stag)—and two chapbooks—
On the Shoulders of the Bear 
(Fractious Press) and 
Reality Asylum 
(h_ngm_n). She has an MFA in Poetry from the University of North Carolina Greensboro, an MLIS in Cultural Heritage and Archives from Simmons University, and a BA in Gender Studies from The New School for Social Research. She lives in the cemetery district of Watertown, MA with one human, two cats, and a lot of books and records. Thera is queerspawn. She enjoys amateur taxidermy, amateur Victorian hair art, feminist fairytales, and giving longform opinions on the differences between oogles and crusties. The ‘h’ is silent.
Anna V. Q. Ross 
is the author of four collections of poems, most recently, 
Flutter, Kick
, which won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, the Julia Ward Howe Award in Poetry, and was named a Best New Poetry Book by the NY Public Library. Her work has garnered fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation & the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and has appeared in journals including 
Harvard Review
, 
The Kenyon Review
, 
The Nation
, and on 
The Slowdown 
podcast. She teaches creative writing at Tufts University and lives with her family in Dorchester, where she raises chickens.
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