C. S. Nelson: received his M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence University after a successful career as an actor. He has most recently published in The Gallatin Review, The River Review, and Oberon. His first book of poems, The Book of Clay garnered high praise from The Kirkus Review.

Charlotte H. Matthews: is author of four poetry collections, a memoir, and a novel. Associate Professor at The University of Virginia, she teaches writing to adult learners. She lives in Crozet, Virginia with her husband, children, two dogs, and three determined chickens.

George Looney: his eleventh collection of poetry, What Light Becomes: The Turner Variations, won the 2018 Red Mountain Poetry Prize and was published in June 2019. His novel, Report from a Place of Burning, published in 2018, was co–winner of the Leapfrog Press Fiction Award. For eight years he served as editor–in–chief of Mid–American Review, for which he is now translation editor. His M.F.A. is from Bowling Green State University. He is editor–in–chief of Lake Effect and chair of the creative writing program at Penn State Behrend, and he was co–founder of the original Chautauqua Writers’ Festival.

Robert Kelly: was born in Brooklyn and taught for many years at Bard College. He lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife, the French translator Charlotte Mandell. He has published many books of poetry and prose, most recently a long poem The Cup; a book of fairy tales, Shadow Talk; Earish, homeophonic translations of Celan; and a collection of new poems, Linden Word (Black Square). His 900–page Collected Short Stories is a new e–book (McPherson & Co.). See interview in this issue.