Dorothea Lasky, Elizabeth Metzger, Carly Joy Miller, Leah Umansky
Dorothea Lasky is the author the poetry collections Milk (Wave Books, 2018), ROME (W.W. Norton/Liveright, 2014), Thunderbird (Wave Books, 2012), Black Life (Wave Books, 2010), and AWE (Wave Books, 2007).She is the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney’s, 2013) and several chapbooks, including Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
Carly Joy Miller is the author of Ceremonial (Orison Books, 2018), selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2017 Orison Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Like a Beast (Anhinga Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Blackbird, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, West Branch and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor for Poetry International and a founding editor of Locked Horn Press.
Elizabeth Metzger is the author of The Spirit Papers (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Juniper Prize, and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (Horsethief Books, 2017). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, BOMB, and The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day. Her essays and interviews have appeared in PN Review, The Rumpus, and Boston Review. Elizabeth is the Poetry Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal.
Leah Umansky is the author of The Barbarous Century (Eyewear 2018) and other poetry collections. She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and is the curator and host of The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Guernica, The New York Times, Pleiades, Salamander, and other journals, as well as in the anthologies The Eloquent Poem (forthcoming from Persea Books) and Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump’s America (NYQ Books, 2018). She is #teamkhaleesi & #teammaeve.