. BIO Cameron Morse taught and studied in China. Diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2014, he is currently a third-year MFA candidate at UMKC and lives with his wife, Lili, in Blue Springs, Missouri. His poems have been or will be published in over 50 different magazines, including New Letters, Pamplemousse, Fourth & Sycamore…
. BIO: Christopher DeGroot is the editor of The Agonist. His poetry has appeared there as well as in New English Review and Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts. An Undercurrent I want to understand the largeness of our essential misunderstandings. I want to know my lacking is vast enough for your search….
. BIO Uzomah Ugwu is a poet and writer. She is a political, social and cultural activist. Her focus is on human rights, mental health, animal rights and rights of LBGTQ persons. Her work has been featured in Prelude Magazine, Tuck Magazine and Wild Word and is forthcoming in the Angel City review and Voice…
. . BIO Christopher Merrill has published six collections of poetry, including Watch Fire, for which he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; many edited volumes and translations; and six books of nonfiction, among them, Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars, Things of the Hidden God: Journey to…
BIO Khaled Shomali is a Palestinian poet born in Beit Sahour, a town located east of Bthlehem. He currently lives in Germany. Many of his poems composed during the first Palestinian uprisal were set to music. He has He has penned six Arabic poetry books: For Whom Do You Grow Roses (2008), Hanging In the…
BIO Nizar Sartawi is a poet, translator, essayist, and columnist. He was born in Sarta, Palestine, in 1951. He is a member of numerous literary and cultural organizations, including the Jordanian Writers Association (Jordan), General Union of Palestinian Writers (Palestine), General Union of Arab Writers (Cairo), and Asian and African Writers Union. He has participated…
BIO Ingeborg Bachmann is one of the prominent poet of Austria. She was a part of the legendary literary circle known as Gruppe 47, whose members also included Ilse Aichinger, Paul Celan, Heinrich Böll, Marcel Reich-Ranicki and Günter Grass. Bachmann’s literary work focuses on themes like personal boundaries, establishment of the truth, and philosophy of…
BIO Jennifer Reeser is the author of six collections of poetry. Her first was the winner of the Word Press First Book Prize. X.J. Kennedy wrote that her debut ‘ought to have been a candidate for a Pulitzer.’ Her third, ‘Sonnets from the Dark Lady and Other Poems’ was a finalist for the Donald Justice…
BIO Samih Masoud is a poet, writer, and researcher. He was born in Haifa, Palestine, in 1938. He holds a Ph.D. degree in economics. Masoud is a Member of the Jordanian Writers Association and is the chairman of the Canadian Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMESC) in Montréal. He has published a poetry collection in Arabic titled The Other Face of Days and another collection in English titled Haifa and other…
BIO Usha Akella has authored four books of poetry, one chapbook, and scripted/produced one musical drama. Her latest poetry book was published by Sahitya Akademi, India’s highest Literary authority in 2019. She recently earned an 2018 MSt. In Creative Writing from Cambridge University, UK. She read with a group of eminent South Asian Diaspora poets…
BIO Shadab Zeest Hashmi is the author of poetry collections Kohl and Chalk and Baker of Tarifa. Her latest work, Ghazal Cosmopolitan, is a book of essays and poems exploring the culture and craft of the Ghazal and Qasida forms, and has been praised by Marilyn Hacker as “a marvelous interweaving of poetry, scholarship, literary…
BIO Pramila Venkateswaran, a core member of Women Included, poet laureate of Suffolk County, Long Island (2013-15) and co-director of Matwaala: South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival, is the author of Thirtha (Yuganta Press, 2002) Behind Dark Waters (Plain View Press, 2008), Draw Me Inmost (Stockport Flats, 2009), Trace (Finishing Line Press, 2011), Thirteen Days to…
