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Spring 2026 cover artist Deanna Lee Hardy is a photographer working across editorial, commercial, and conceptual styles. Her work spans a range of approaches, from polished editorial fashion imagery to more surreal, conceptual, and constructed scenes. Through controlled lighting, styling, and composition, she blends conceptual ideas with commercial aesthetics, creating images that are both visually and thoughtfully composed.

A.H. Jerriod Avant was born and raised in Longtown, Mississippi. His first book, Muscadine, received the 2024 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in poetry. He has received two winter fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and an emerging-artist grant from the St. Botolph Club Foundation of Boston. A former John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence, Avant is currently a University of Mississippi visiting assistant professor of English and creative writing.

Sébastien Luc Butler was born and raised in Michigan. He is the author of Sky Tongued Back with Light (Black Lawrence, 2026) and Viscera (Four Way Books, 2027). His poems have appeared in Narrative, Pleiades, Bennington Review, Black Warrior Review, and Indiana Review. A Poe/Faulkner Fellow in Poetry while at the University of Virginia, Butler currently works as an editor for The Adroit Journal and lives in New York City.

Stacie Cassarino’s collection Each Luminous Thing won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, and was recommended by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post Book Club. She is the author of Zero at the Bone, which received a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award, and a scholarly monograph, Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature. A recipient of the 92NY “Discovery”/The Nation prize and an Astraea Foundation Writers’ Fund Grant, Cassarino lives in Vermont with her three daughters.

Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. She is the author of All Heathens, which was the winner of the 2021 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and Leaving Biddle City. Her poems have appeared in POETRY, The Best American Poetry, New England Review, The Kenyon Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Old Dominion University and teaches poetry in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

Allison Pitinii Davis is the author of Line Study of a Motel Clerk, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Ohioana Book Award; Poppy Seeds, winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize; and Business, anthologized in Agency 3: Novellas (Baobab, 2025). Her creative writing and scholarship are forthcoming from or have appeared in The Best American Poetry, POETS.org, The Oxford American, The Georgia Review, The New Republic, and Studies in Jewish American Literature. Davis is a visiting assistant professor of poetry at The Ohio State University.

Jordan Escobar is a writer from Bakersfield, California, and the author of the chapbook Men with the Throats of Birds. He is a 2023 winner of the St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award and a 2022 The Adroit Journal Djanikian Scholars in Poetry recipient. His poetry has been recently published in Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, and Prairie Schooner. Escobar currently teaches at the University of California San Diego.

John Gallaher’s most recent book is My Life in Brutalist Architecture, a poem-memoir on adoption. His eighth collection, Radio Good Luck, will be out in 2028 from Four Way Books. He has edited two collections, and his poems appear in The American Poetry Review, POETRY, New England Review, Colorado Review, and The Best American Poetry. Gallaher lives in northwest Missouri and co-edits the Laurel Review.

Matthew Gellman’s first book, Beforelight, won BOA Editions, Ltd.’s 2023 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His second book, The Understudy, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2027. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Bennington Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Indiana Review, and Lambda Literary’s Poetry Spotlight.

Vernita Hall is the author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color, winner of the Willow Books Grand Prize and Marsh Hawk Press Robert Creeley Prize, and The Hitchhiking Robot Learns About Philadelphians, winner of the Moonstone Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, African American Review, Barrow Street, The Common, The Hopkins Review, Arts & Letters, Obsidian, and Terrain.org. Hall holds an MFA in creative writing from Rosemont College and serves on the poetry review board of Philadelphia Stories.

David Hernandez’s most recent collection of poems, Hello I Must Be Going, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He’s also been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry and two Pushcart Prizes.

Vedran Husić was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and raised in Germany and the United States. His collection of stories, Basements and Other Museums, was published by Black Lawrence Press. He has poetry published or forthcoming in Frontier Poetry, Blackbird, Palette Poetry, and Poetry Northwest.

Anna Journey’s most recent poetry collection is Wolf Cut: New & Selected Poems (LSU Press, 2026). Her poems appear in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, POETRY, and The Southern Review. She’s an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Arah Ko is a writer from Hawai'i and PhD student in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati. She is author of a poetry collection, Brine Orchid (YesYes Books, 2025), and a chapbook, Animal Logic (Bull City Press 2026). Her work is published in The American Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, The Threepenny Review, Poetry Northwest, and 32 Poems.

Seth Leeper is a queer poet. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Foglifter, Waxwing, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, and The Greensboro Review. He is a candidate in the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Randolph College. Leeper teaches drop-in and virtual workshops for Brooklyn Poets. 

Thea Matthews is the author of GRIME (City Lights Books, 2025) and Unearth [The Flowers], which was named one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Indie Poetry Books of 2020. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, ZYZZYVA, The Cortland Review, Colorado Review, The Common, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, The Massachusetts Review, The New Republic, and On the Seawall. She attained her MFA from New York University, and currently teaches at Columbia University. Originally from San Francisco, Matthews lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Ideal Cities, a 2009 National Poetry Series winner; Holy Moly Carry Me, winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry; and Useful Junk. Meitner is currently a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her newest book of poems, Assembled Audience, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in September 2026.

Poet and visual artist Allan Peterson’s most recent book is Amid This. His fourth book, Fragile Acts, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His eighth book, Also and Also, is forthcoming from Project Poëtica, SMU/Bridwell Press. A recipient of the Juniper Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Peterson lives and writes in Ashland, Oregon.

Edward Salem is the author of Intifadas (Sarabande, 2026), selected by Hanif Abdurraqib as the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and Monk Fruit (Nightboat, 2025), winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize. His writing appears in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, The New York Review of Books, POETRY, and Granta.

Edward Sambrano III is a Latinx poet, critic, and educator from San Antonio, Texas. They received their MFA from the University of Florida, and have received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the New York State Summer Writers Institute. Poetry editor for The Dodge, they have writing in or forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and Pleiades.

Ryan Teitman is the author of the poetry collections Litany for the City and Paperweight (University of Akron Press, 2026), winner of the Akron Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, POETRY, The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review, and The Yale Review, and his awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Teitman lives in Glenside, Pennsylvania, with his wife and  daughter.

G.C. Waldrep is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently The Opening Ritual; he currently serves as professor of English at Bucknell University.

Jim Whiteside is the author of a chapbook, Writing Your Name on the Glass. The recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers’ conferences and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University, his poems appear in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The American Poetry Review,  POETRY, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. Originally from Cookeville, Tennessee, he is a visiting assistant professor of English and creative writing at Sewanee: The University of the South.

Jeff Whitney’s most recent chapbook is Sixteen Stories. His poems can be found or found soon in Alaska Quarterly Review, Bennington Review, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, and Sixth Finch. A recipient of a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, he lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon.

Phillip B. Williams is a Chicago, Illinois, native. He is the author of Thief in the Interior, which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and Mutiny, which was a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection and won a 2022 American Book Award. Williams also received a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts. His debut novel, Ours, won the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger in France and was a finalist for the James Tait Black Prize (UK). He is a professor of creative writing at Rice University and a member of the founding faculty for the Randolph College low-residency MFA program in creative writing.

Genevieve Abravanel’s short fiction is available or forthcoming in American Short Fiction, The Missouri Review, Story, Chicago Quarterly, Ecotone, and elsewhere. Two of her short stories have recently been noted as “Distinguished” in The Best American Short Stories. Abravanel is currently working on a novel.

Christopher Lee Chilton lives and teaches in New York. His work has appeared in A Public Space, The Masters Review, The Penn Review, South Carolina Review, and Oyster River Pages. He can be found in most social grottoes at @grnpointer.

Michael Czyzniejewski is the author of four collections of stories, most recently The Amnesiac in the Maze. He serves as editor-in-chief of Moon City Press and Moon City Review, as well as interviews editor of SmokeLong Quarterly. Czyzniejewski has received a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts and two Pushcart Prizes.

Seth Gleckman teaches high school English in Sonoma County, California. His fiction has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, and The Penn Review.

Edward Hardy is the author of two novels, Keeper and Kid and Geyser Life, and the forthcoming story collection A Building of Worry on My Chest. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, GQ, The New England Review, Boulevard, and Epoch. Hardy teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown, and lives in Cranston, Rhode Island.

Brynne Jones is a writer from Tennessee. Her fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review and The Missouri Review Online. She holds an MFA in fiction and screenwriting from the Michener Center for Writers.

Parul Kaushik is a practicing physician living in Dallas, where she hosts a radio show while pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of North Texas. Her work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She holds an MFA from Pacific University. Her fiction has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, Adda, and The Masters Review, and is forthcoming in The Sun. Kaushik is working on a linked story collection set in rural India.

Liz Schroeder is a fiction writer from the American Midwest. Her work has previously appeared in The Cincinnati Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and New Letters.

Adrienne Brock’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Mid-American Review, New Ohio Review, Poets & Writers, West Branch, and Washington Square Review. She has taught writing and literature in New York; New Jersey; the Federated States of Micronesia; Peru; and in Cork, Ireland, where she currently lives.

Danielle Shorr is a professor of creative writing in Southern California. Winner of the Touchstone Literary Magazine Debut Prize in Nonfiction, her work has appeared in Electric Literature, The Florida Review, Driftwood Press, and The  New Orleans Review. You can find her online @danielleshorr.