Poetry Series

Sadie Hoagland is the author of a collection of stories, American Grief in Four Stages, and a novel new this year, Strange Children. She teaches at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and this semester, at Westminster College. She is also a facilitator for Narrative4, a global organization “driven by artists, shaped by educators, and led by students” using stories to change the world.

Shane McCrae’s most recent books are Sometimes I Never Suffered, a finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Rilke Prize, and The Gilded Auction Block, both published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He has received a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

Atsuro Riley is the author of two books of poems: Romey’s Order and Heard-Hoard, new this year. His honors include a Whiting Award, Pushcart Prize, Lannon Foundation fellowship, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the Alice Fay di Castagnola from the Poetry Society of America. He was raised in South Carolina and now lives in San Francisco.

Carolyn Forché is the author of five books of poems, including In the Lateness of the World, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of the memoir What You Have Heard Is True, winner of the Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. Her international anthology, Against Forgetting, has been praised by Nelson Mandela as “itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice.” She received the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award and teaches at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

ellipsis... debut featuring former contributor Cindy King, current contributors, and staff Cindy King is the author of Zoonotic, a full length collection of poems from Tinderbox, and several chapbooks. She is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dixie State University and faculty editor of The Southern Quill.