MARGAREE LITTLE

MARGAREE LITTLE is an award-winning writer and the author of Rest (Four Way Books, 2018), winner of the 2018 Balcones Poetry Prize and the 2019 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Her poems, criticism, and CNF have appeared in American Poetry Review, the Kenyon Review Online, New England Review, The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Her translations from the Russian of Marina Tsvetaeva and Osip Mandelstam have appeared in American Poetry Review, Asymptote, and InTranslation (The Brooklyn Rail). With Jaquira Díaz, she co-edited Resistance, Change, Survival, a special feature in the Kenyon Review Online. Little is the recipient of numerous fellowships and residencies. She lives in Tucson, AZ and teaches at Pima Community College. https://www.margareelittle.com/

JOSEPH ROSS

JOSEPH ROSS is the author of four poetry collections: Raising King (Willow Books, 2020), Ache (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017), Gospel of Dust, and Meeting Bone Man (both by Main Street Rag Publishing, 2013 and 2012 resp.). His poems have appeared in many journals, including The Los Angeles Times, Poet Lore, Southern Quarterly, Xavier Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly and Drumvoices Revue. He has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations and won the 2012 Pratt Library / Little Patuxent Review Poetry Prize. He recently served as the 23rd Poet-in-Residence for the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society in Howard County, MD. Ross lives in Silver Spring, MD, and teaches English and Creative Writing at Gonzaga High School in Washington, DC. https://josephrossnet.wordpress.com/