Poetry Series

Paula Mendoza earned her MFA at the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. at the University of Utah. Her work has appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Bennington Review, Seneca Review, and elsewhere. Her first book, Play for Time, was selected by Vijay Seshadri as the winner of the 2019 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. She is a Filipino-Canadian and lives and writes in Salt Lake City.

Rajiv Mohabir is an Indo-Caribbean American author of three acclaimed poetry collections, The Taxidermist’s Cut, Cowherd’s Son, and Cutlish (Four Way Books, 2021), which was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award in Poetry. He is also the author of the hybrid memoir Antiman (Restless Books, 2021), finalist for the 2022 PEN Open Book Award and a 2022 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist in Gay Memoir/Biography.

ellipsis... debut featuring former contributor Saddiq Dzukogi, current contributors, and staff. Saddiq Dzukogi is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla (University of Nebraska Press, 2021) which was named one of 29 best poetry collections by Oprah Daily, a finalist for both the 2022 Derek Walcott Poetry Prize & the Nigeria Prize for Literature. His poems have appeared in POETRY, Guernica, Ploughshares, Poetry London, Kenyon Review, Poetry Wales, and World Literature Today among others. His chapbook Inside the Flower Room was selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for APBF New Generation African Poets Chapbook Series. He was a finalist of the Brunel International African Poetry Prize and a recipient of fellowships and Grants from Nebraska Arts Council, Pen America, Obsidian Foundation U.K, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In the fall of 2022, Saddiq will begin as an Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi State University.