Poet of the Week

Tara Mesalik MacMahon is the winner of the 2024 James Hearst Poetry Prize (North AmericanReview). Her debut collection, Barefoot Up the Mountain, won the Open Country Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems also appear in Nimrod, Poet Lore, Jabberwock Review, Red Hen Press’s New Moons and elsewhere. Tara calls an island in the Salish Sea home, where she lives with her husband and their rescue dog.

Lisabelle Tay is a Singaporean writer and poet. Her poetry appears in Anthropocene, Bad Lilies, and elsewhere; her debut pamphlet was Pilgrim (The Emma Press, 2021). Her fiction appears in Sine Theta Magazine and elsewhere. She was part of the 2023 Black List Feature Lab with her screenplay MOMO, which is currently in development.

Tom Snarsky is the author of Light-Up Swan and Reclaimed Water, both from Ornithopter Press. His book A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems is forthcoming from Animal Heart Press in 2025. He lives with his wife Kristi and their cats in the mountains of northwestern Virginia.

Suzanne Richardson earned her M.F.A. in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the University of New Mexico. She currently lives in Binghamton, New York where she's a Ph.D. student in creative writing at SUNY Binghamton. She is working on a memoir, Throw it Up, and a full poetry collection, The Want Monster which was recently named a finalist for the 2024 Saturnalia Press Book Awards. She is the current nonfiction editor for Harpur Palate. Her nonfiction has appeared in New Ohio Review, New Haven Review, Rejection Lit, and No Contact Magazine. Her poetry has appeared in Bomb Magazine, Gulf Coast, Poet Lore, and DIALOGIST. Her fiction has appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Front Porch, and High Desert Journal.

Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Find Me as the Creature I Am (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024). She has also published A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco, 2018), a finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and a chapbook, Ordinary Misfortunes (Tupelo Press, 2017).

ethan s. evans (they/them) is a writer and photographer based in central virginia. their work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, minnesota review, and poets.org. am i allowed to tell people to join their labor unions in a third person bio? join your labor union. they can be found on twitter and instagram @ethanevanssucks

Asa Drake is a Filipina/white poet in Central Florida. She is the author of Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026) and Beauty Talk (Noemi Press, 2026), winner of the 2024 Noemi Press Book Award. A National Poetry Series finalist, she is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, Kenyon Review Residential Writers Workshop, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Storyknife, Sundress Publications, Tin House and Idyllwild Arts. Her poems are published or forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, Georgia Review, and Poetry. A former librarian, she currently works as a teaching artist.

Bethany Jarmul is an Appalachian writer and poet. She’s the author of two chapbooks, and her debut poetry collection Lightning Is a Mother is forthcoming with ELJ Editions in 2025. Her work has been published in many magazines including Rattle, Brevity, Salamander, and One Art. Her writing was selected for Best Spiritual Literature 2023 and Best Small Fictions 2024 and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net. Bethany can be found on twitter or instagram: @bethanyjarmul