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Isabelle Lang has moved from the bayou to the desert and back again, and holds a BA and MA in English from Mississippi State University. She recently graduated with an MFA in Poetry from the University of Nevada, Reno, with a thesis collection…

Dr. Richard Lyons is the former director of creative writing in the English Department at Mississippi State University.  He is a professor of creative writing and English.  He came to Mississippi State University in the fall of 1994.  He has served…

Catherine Pierce is the author of four books of poems: Danger Days (2020), The Tornado Is the World (2016), The Girls of Peculiar (2012), and Famous Last Words (2008), all from Saturnalia Books. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, the…

Jermaine Thompson was born and raised in Louisville, MS. Inspired by having to memorize Langston Hughes “Dreams” for a Black History Program at St. James Presbyterian Church, he’s been writing poetry since eighth grade. Jermaine has publications in…

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…

A poem by Hannah V. Warren.

A poem by Catherine Pierce.