Claudia Putnam is a craniosacral therapist in western Colorado. She has been evacuated or on standby due to wildfire several times. Her debut collection, The Land of Stone and River, won the Moon City Press poetry prize and came out in March 2022. A personal essay, Double Negative, won the Split/Lip Press chapbook prize and also came out in March. Among other residencies, she received the Bennett Fellowship from Phillips Exeter Academy.
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Marjorie Saiser’s recent book, The Track the Whales Make, is from University of Nebraska Press. Losing the Ring in the River (University of New Mexico Press), won the Willa Award in 2014. Saiser’s poems have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Westchester Review, Rattle, and American Life in Poetry.
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Anna Baker Smith grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina, and now lives in Western Massachusetts. Her writing has appeared in Essay Daily, PANK, Massachusetts Review, After the Art, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in fiction from UMass Amherst where she teaches part-time. Twitter and IG: @innergothic
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Asha Thanki's work has appeared in The Southern Review, Platypus Press’ wildness, The Common, and more. She won the 2019 Arkansas International’s Emerging Writers Prize and fourth prize of Zoetrope: All Story’s 2020 Short Fiction Competition. Her work has also received support from the Speculative Literature Foundation, Tin House, and more.
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Meg Stout’s poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Cimarron Review, North American Review, Zócalo Public Square, and the Portland Press Herald. A graduate of the MFA program at Warren Wilson College, she lives in Midcoast Maine.
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Meg Yardley lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Salamander, SWWIM, Cagibi, Mom Egg Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and the Women’s Review of Books.
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