Brad Richard’s fifth poetry collection, Turned Earth, is forthcoming from LSU Press in Spring 2025. Other publications include Parasite Kingdom (The Word Works, 2019—winner of the 2018 Tenth Gate Prize) and the chapbook In Place (Seven Kitchens Press, 2022—winner of the 2021 Robin Becker Series Prize). He has taught at the New Orleans Center for…

Alex Jennings’ writing has appeared in Current Affairs Magazine, podcastle.org, pseudopod.org, Strange Horizons, New Suns, Volumes 1 and 2, and is forthcoming in From a Certain Point of View, the Return of the Jedi 40th-Anniversary anthology. He is the Director of DreamFoundry’s Con or Bust Program and an instructor of Popular Fiction at the Stonecoast…

Carolyn Hembree‘s third poetry collection, For Today, is forthcoming from LSU Press as part of their Barataria Series, edited by Ava Leavell Haymon. Carolyn is also the author of Skinny and Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, winner of the Trio Award and the Rochelle Ratner Memorial…

Miles Harvey is the author of The King of Confidence (Little, Brown & Co., 2020), a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selection. Harvey also wrote Painter in a Savage Land (Random House, 2008) and The Island of Lost Maps (Random House, 2000), a national bestseller. His collection of short stories, The Registry of…

Anya Groner is a journalist, fiction writer, and essayist, with work in Guernica, The New York Times, The Oxford American, Orion Magazine, and The Atlantic. Her audio reporting and production is featured in Monument Lab’s podcast Plot of Land as well as in WWNO/WRKF’s podcast Sea Change. Groner is a recipient of numerous awards, including…

Nina Bozak is the curator of rare books at The Historic New Orleans Collection who previously worked in the special collections of both Tulane and Dillard Universities before joining the staff of THNOC in 2010. In addition to her work with its rare books, Nina is also a curator for THNOC’s performing arts collections. As…

Chin-Sun Lee is the author of the debut novel Upcountry (Unnamed Press 2023), listed among Publishers Weekly’s Big Indie Books of Fall 2023 and Debutiful’s Most Anticipated Debut Books of 2023. She’s one of Poets & Writers’ 5 Over 50 Debut Authors of 2023 and is also a contributor to the New York Times-bestselling anthology…