Matthew Graham is the author of four books of poetry, The Indiana Series, World Without End, New World Architecture, and 1946 and the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the Indiana Arts Commission, and the Vermont Studio Center. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Southern Indiana.
Tom Wilhelmus is professor emeritus of English at the University of Southern Indiana. His reviews of contemporary fiction appear frequently in The Hudson Review.
Greg Blair is an artist, writer, and educator who resides in Evansville, Indiana, with his wife, two children, and their energetic firecracker of a dog, Luna. Currently Blair is an assistant professor of art and design at the University of Southern Indiana where he teaches digital design, art history, and gender studies courses. Blair’s research incorporates multidisciplinary art practices, cultural geography, environmental aesthetics, and philosophies of place. Blair has exhibited his artwork and presented his research both nationally and internationally. Blair’s latest book project, The Politics of Spatial Transgressions in the Arts, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021.
Formerly muscle for the IRS, Ron Mitchell is the co-founder and former editor of RopeWalk Press. He teaches literary editing & publishing at the University of Southern Indiana.
Marcus Wicker is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, The Missouri Review's Miller Audio Prize, as well as fellowships from Cave Canem and the Fine Arts Work Center. His first collection Maybe the Saddest Thing, a National Poetry Series winner, was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Wicker's poems have appeared in The Nation, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Oxford American, and Boston Review. His second book, Silencer, is just out from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Wicker teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis.
Casey Pycior's debut short story collection, The Spoils, was published by Switchgrass Books in 2017. He was awarded the 2015 Charles Johnson Fiction Prize at Crab Orchard Review, and his work has appeared in Beloit Fiction Journal, Midwestern Gothic, Harpur Palate, BULL, Wigleaf, and Yalobusha Review, among many other places. He holds an MFA in fiction writing from Wichita State University and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Kumari Devarajan is a trans Tamil Sri Lankan fiction writer from Washington, DC, and a Russell G. Hamilton Scholar at Vanderbilt University’s MFA program. They have been awarded grants from Lambda Literary and Community of Writers. Before Vanderbilt, they were an audio journalist at National Public Radio and produced stories about race and identity for the award winning Code Switch podcast.
Rosalie Moffett is the author of the poetry collections Making a Living (Milkweed, 2025), Nervous System (Ecco), which was chosen by Monica Youn for the 2018 National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book, and June in Eden (OSU Press). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and her work has appeared in magazines like The American Poetry Review, New England Review, Narrative, Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares, among others.
Austin Araujo is a writer from northwest Arkansas. A recipient of the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, his poems have recently appeared in POETRY, TriQuarterly, and Gulf Coast. His debut collection, At the Park on the Edge of the Country, was selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2023 The Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Prize and is forthcoming from Mad Creek Books in 2025. Araujo currently lives in Iowa City where he is at work on a book about Prince.
El Williams III’s work has been anthologized in the Best American Poetry and is published or forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Orion Magazine, New England Review, Ploughshares, River Styx, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Watering Hole fellow, he earned his dual MA/MFA from Indiana University and is currently a doctoral student studying literature & creative writing at the University of Houston.
Ruth Awad is a Lebanese-American poet, a 2021 NEA Poetry fellow, and the author of Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024) and Set to Music a Wildfire, winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Alongside Rachel Mennies, she is the co-editor of The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry. She is the recipient of a 2020 and 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and she won the 2013 and 2012 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and the 2011 Copper Nickel Poetry Contest. Her work appears in The Atlantic, AGNI, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Believer, The New Republic, Pleiades, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and she lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio.
Matthew Guenette is the author of American Busboy (Akron Series in Poetry) and Sudden Anthem, winner of the 2007 American Poetry Journal Book Prize from Dream Horse Press. His poems have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, DIAGRAM, The Greensboro Review, Indiana Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The National Poetry Review, and other publications.
Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of the poetry collections Heartmoor (Alice James Books, August 2026), Cemetery Ink (University of Pittsburgh Press), Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books), and translator of Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star (Etruscan Press) and Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press).
Jacob Sunderlin is a writer and musician. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Gulf Coast, Narrative, Ninth Letter, Ploughshares, Third Coast, and elsewhere. He’s received residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. His records Death Ranch (Castle Bravo, 2016) and Hymnal (NULLZØNE, 2017) are available on cassette and for download.
Tryphena Yeboah is the author of A Mouthful of Home (Akashic Press, 2020). She teaches English and creative writing at Tennessee Wesleyan University.
Jack Bethel is a junior at USI. He is majoring in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and minoring in Literary Editing and Publishing. He often writes poems, stories, and essays. Jack is interested in hybrid genres, independent publishing, and experimental writing. He is currently a student judge for the inaugural 2026 New Harmony Book Award. After graduation, he hopes to develop a literary publishing enterprise and help usher in global decentralized communism.
Jillian Gallagher is a first-semester junior at USI studying Communications with minors in Literary Editing and Publishing and Public Relations. Outside of class she enjoys working as a barista on campus, reading, and when at home, going to New York City to visit bookstores and the New York Public Library.
Alexander Mendoza is a third-year student at USI pursuing a degree in Journalism and a minor in Literary Editing and Publishing. In his second semester of his first year, he began interning for The Shield, the independent news source on campus. Next he was assistant editor, then editor, for the News beat. He now serves as the Editor-in-Chief where he drives creative and narrative direction. Mendoza has a long-standing interest in fantasy literature and alternative fashions: dark colors, baggy clothes, heavy jewelry, and fictional references are a great inspiration to him. One day he hopes to release a real version of his final project, Intertwined Fates.
Noelle Morris is a senior at the USI pursuing a BS in Marketing with a Literary Editing and Publishing minor. Outside of class, she works as a part-time Web Content Specialist and serves within the college ministry at her local church. She is passionate about cultivating deep conversations about life and purpose. Following graduation, she hopes to enter a career within ministry communications or Christian publishing.
Cale Walker is a second-semester junior at USI studying English with a concentration in Literature and a minor in Literary Editing and Publishing. Outside of studying, he spends time playing video games and petting dogs. He also pets cats.
Jack Weber is a junior at USI majoring in English with a minor in Literary Editing and Publishing. He has taken an interest in creative writing, specifically focusing on creative nonfiction.
