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Michelle Aucoin Wait holds a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Spanish and a Master of Arts in English with a certificate in Gender Studies from Mississippi State University and an M.F.A. in Poetry and a certificate in Gender, Race, and…

After graduating from MSU in 2016 with a BA in English and a minor in history, Hannah V. Warren completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Kansas in 2019. Now, she's is an English Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia where she…

Robert West’s poems have appeared in Christian Science Monitor, Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, and other periodical venues, as well as anthologies including The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. 3: Contemporary Appalachia (Texas Review Press), Hard…

Nate Venarske is a student at Mississippi State University majoring in Biological Engineering and minoring in Creative Writing. He is an artist and naturalist who enjoys photographing, drawing, and writing about nature as much as studying it. On the…

DeJuanay Hunter Jr. was born and raised in Buffalo, NY. He transferred to Mississippi State University as a sociology major in 2019. He has enjoyed getting to know Mississippi better, though he has found it challenging at times. In his own words, he…

Keli Barrett is a resident of Newton County, MS. She currently works at East Central Community College and attends Mississippi State University as an undergrad in the Interdisciplinary Studies program. Barrett is the mother of three amazing children,…

Ciera Higginbotham currently teaches composition and creative writing at Mississippi State University and is a consultant at The Writing Center. She received her MFA in Poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2020, after previously graduating…

Sam Kealhofer is a Mississippi native who obtained a master's degree in English with a concentration in creative writing from Mississippi State University. His work focuses on setting, tone, and revitalizing a modern-day romanticism. His work has…

C.T. Salazar is a Hispanic poet living in Mississippi. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Tampa Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, The Harpoon Review, The Matador Review, Bad Pony, FLARE: the Flagler Review, and elsewhere. He's the…

Saddiq Dzukogi is a Nigerian poet and Asst. professor of English at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), winner of the 2021 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, and the 2022 Julie Suk…