Rachel Galvin is the author of Elevated Threat Level (Green Lantern Press, 2018), which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and Pulleys & Locomotion (Black Lawrence Press). She is the translator of Raymond Queneau’s Hitting the Streets (Carcanet Press), which won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation, and co-translator of Decals: Complete Early Poetry of Oliverio Girondo with Harris Feinsod (Open Letter Press, 2018). In 2019 her translation of Alejandro Albarrán Polanco’s Cowboy & Other Poems will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse. Her poems and translations appear in journals such as The Boston Review, Colorado Review, Drunken Boat, Fence, Gulf Coast, McSweeney’s, The Nation, The New Yorker, PN Review, and Poetry. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago and a co-founder of Outranspo, an international creative translation collective (www.outranspo.com).
Ben Purkert is the author of For the Love of Endings (Four Way Books, 2018), named one of the year’s best poetry books by the The Adroit Journal. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Tin House Online, and elsewhere. He was a Harvard undergraduate and holds an MFA in creative writing (poetry) from NYU, where he was a New York Times Fellow. He serves as the editor of Back Draft for Guernica, an interview series focused on poets and revision. He teaches at Rutgers–New Brunswick and is a freelance writer. For more info, visit benpurkert.com. (Photo by Siddhartha Sinha.)
Dominika Wrozynski is the author of American Accent (Evening Street Press, 2018), winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Crab Orchard Review, Slipstream, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Rattle, Five Points, Nimrod, Birmingham Poetry Review and New Madrid. Wrozynski is an assistant professor of English at Manhattan College in New York City, where she also co-directs the Major Author Reading Series.
Jason Zuzga is the author of Heat Wake (Saturnalia Books, 2016). His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in Tin House, The Seneca Review, The Yale Review, and The Paris Review, among other journals. Zuzga was awarded residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown at at the James Merrill House. An editor at FENCE, he holds an MFA in poetry and nonfiction from the University of Arizona, and a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania.