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Bobby Rea is the deputy editor and web editor for Southwest Review.

Monica Lee Weatherly was the winner of the 2021 Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing in poetry for her poem “If I Had My Grandmama’s Praise” and is the author of the chapbook It Felt Like Mississippi: Poems. She is a poet, writer, and professor of English at Georgia State University’s Perimeter College in Decatur. Her work … Continued

Derrick Harriell is the director of African American studies program at the University of Mississippi and the Otillie Schillig Associate Professor of English, African American Studies, and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an MFA in creative writing from Chicago State University. A … Continued

Beth Ann Fennelly, a 2020 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, was the poet laureate of Mississippi from 2016 to 2021 and teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Mississippi. She’s won grants and awards from the NEA, the United States Artists, a Pushcart, and a Fulbright to Brazil. Fennelly has published three … Continued

W. Ralph Eubanks is the author of A Place Like Mississippi, which takes readers on a complete tour of the real and imagined landscapes that have inspired generations of authors. This is a book that honors and explores the landscape of Mississippi—and the Magnolia State’s history—and reveals the many ways this landscape has informed the work … Continued