David Keplinger
David Keplinger is the author of seven collections of poetry, including The World to Come (Conduit Books, 2021), winner of the 2020 Minds on Fire Prize and Another City (Milkweed Editions, 2018), which was awarded the 2019 UNT Rilke Prize. Among his other collections are The Most Natural Thing (New Issues, 2013) and The Prayers of Others (New Issues, 2006) , which won the Colorado Book Award. His first collection, The Rose Inside, was chosen by the poet Mary Oliver for the 1999 T.S. Eliot Prize. In 2020 Keplinger was the recipient of the annual Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Wayne Miller
Wayne Miller’s five poetry collections are We the Jury (Milkweed, 2021); Post- (2016), which won the Rilke Prize and the Colorado Book Award; The City, Our City (2011), which was shortlisted for the Rilke Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award; The Book of Props (2009), which was named a best poetry book of the year by Coldfront Magazine and the Kansas City Star; and Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006), which won the William Rockhill Nelson Award. He has co-translated two books by Moikom Zeqo—Zodiac (Zephyr, 2015), which was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award in Translation, and I Don’t Believe in Ghosts (BOA, 2007)—and he has co-edited three books: Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century (Milkweed, 2016; w/ Kurowski and Prufer), Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master (Unsung Masters, 2011; w/ Lento), and New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008; w/ Prufer). Miller’s awards include the George Bogin Award, the Lucille Medwick Award, the Lyric Poetry Award, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Bess Hokin Prize, and a Fulbright to Queen’s University Belfast. He is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Colorado Denver, co-curator of the Unsung Masters Series, and editor/managing editor of Copper Nickel.
Jenny Molberg
Jenny Molberg is the author of Marvels of the Invisible (winner of the Berkshire Prize, Tupelo Press, 2017) and Refusal: Poems (LSU Press, 2020). She coedited the Unsung Masters Series collection Adelaide Crapsey: On the Life & Work of an American Master. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, The Missouri Review, Poetry International, Boulevard, Copper Nickel, The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets, and other publications. She is the recipient of a 2019-2020 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as scholarships and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers Conference, the C.D. Wright Conference, Longleaf Writers Conference, and Vermont Studio Center.