Hayan Charara was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1972, to Arab immigrants from Lebanon. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006. His most recent books are Compass of Affection (poetry), Short Trip to the Edge (memoir), Love’s Immensity (translations), and a book-length essay, The End of Suffering. His poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Image, Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, etc., and both have been anthologized in multiple editions of Best American Spiritual Writing. Scott Cairns, Professor of English at University of Missouri, is director of MU Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki/Thasos, bringing graduate and undergraduate students to Greece every June for engagement with literary life in modern Greece. She is working on a memoir/poetry titled, The Red Bible: Poems of Loss and Remembrances after her mother Eugenia Boyce. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Stonecoast: The University of Southern Maine. Boyce-Taylor’s text, WATER has been commissioned by Jacob’s Pillow, and The Joyce Theater for Ronald K. Her work is in anthologies including: Callaloo, Carry the Word, The Mom Egg, To Be Left With The Body, So Much Things To Say:100 Calabash Poets and Making the Trees Shiver. Born in Trinidad and raised in New York City, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is the author of Raw Air, Night When Moon Follows, and Convincing the Body. An Ann Arbor, Michigan, native and recent NEA Writer-in-Residence at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Samiya teaches creative writing at Reed College. 2 F-K,and has been honored of late by two Hopwood Awards from the University of Michigan and the Aquarius Press Legacy Award. Her poetry most recently appeared in Poet Lore, Michigan Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, Cura, The Rumpus, and Encyclopedia Vol. Samiya Bashir’s second book of poems, Gospel, was a finalist for both the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and along with her first collection, Where the Apple Falls, the Lambda Literary Award. She teaches at Lake Superior State University where she edits the journal Border Crossing. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Waccamaw, Kestrel, UCity Review, Diode, damselfly press, Prime Number Magazine, and Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems. Julie Brooks Barbour is the author of the chapbook Come To Me and Drink (Finishing Line Press, 2012).
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