May 18, 2023

Francesca Bell is author of Bright Stain (Red Hen Press, 2019), finalist for the Washington State Book Award and Julie Suk Award, and What Small Sound (Red Hen Press, 2023). She is the translator of Whoever Drowned Here: New and Selected Poems by Max Sessner (Red Hen Press, 2023). Her work appears in New Ohio Review, North American Review, Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, and Rattle. Visit her website.

Dr. Kate Gale is editor of Red Hen Press and of the Los Angeles Review and teaches for the University of Nebraska and Chapman University MFA programs. She has published seven books of poetry including The Goldilocks Zone (University of New Mexico Press, 2014), and Echo Light (Red Mountain, 2014), and six librettos, including Rio de Sangre with composer Don Davis. Her collection, The Stoning Circle, was published in 2022 by the University of New Mexico Press. Visit her website.