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Ann Fisher-Wirth’s eighth book is Into the Chalice of Your Thoughts, a poetry/photography collaboration with Wilfried Raussert, with facing-page translations into Spanish by the Women in Translation group. Her seventh book is Paradise Is Jagged and her fifth, a poetry/photography collaboration with Maude Schuyler Clay, is Mississippi. With Laura-Gray Street, Fisher-Wirth coedited The Ecopoetry Anthology and the recently published Attached to the … Continued

Melissa Ginsburg is the author of the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City, the poetry collections Runoff (forthcoming in 2026 from Milkweed Editions), Doll Apollo, and Dear Weather Ghost, and three poetry chapbooks, Arbor, Double Blind, and Apollo. She is winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters poetry award and has been … Continued

Maggie Graber is the author of Swan Hammer, winner of the 2021 Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize and a 2023 nominee for a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. She has received fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission and the Luminarts Cultural Foundation, and she lives and teaches in Oxford, Mississippi, where she earned her PhD.

Natalie Green is the senior manager of public programs at the National Book Foundation. Previously, Natalie was the manager of Los Angeles Programs at PEN America. She holds a BA in English and creative writing from UCLA, is a Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends committee member, and she organizes with North Brooklyn Mutual Aid.  

Blair Hobbs was born in Oxford, Mississippi in 1964. She grew up in Auburn, Alabama and graduated from Auburn University with a BA in English in 1986. From there, she graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from Hollins University (1990) and an MFA in Creative Writing (poetry) from the University of Michigan (1992). For … Continued