Poet of the Week

Dean Rader has authored or co-authored twelve books, including Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, Landscape Portrait Figure Form, named a Barnes & Noble Best Book, and Works & Days, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize. Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, appeared in 2023. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry.

Fran Lock is the author of numerous chapbooks and fourteen poetry collections. Her most recent collections are Hyena! (Poetry Bus Press, 2023), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 and the PEN Heaney Prize 2024, and 'a disgusting lie': further adventures through the neoliberal hell-mouth (Pamenar Press, 2023). Her most recent pamphlet is The New Herbal (Blueprint Press, 2024). Vulgar Errors/ Feral Subjects, a collection of essays exploring feral subjectivity through the medieval bestiary, was published by Out-Spoken Press last year. Fran is a Commissioning Editor at radical arts and culture cooperative Culture Matters. She lives in Kent with her sassy American bully, Luna.

Luisa Muradyan is originally from Odesa, Ukraine and is the author of I Make Jokes When I'm Devastated (Bridwell Press, 2025) When the World Stopped Touching (YesYes Books, 2027), and American Radiance (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). She is the winner of the 2017 Raz/ ShumakerPrairie Schooner Book Prize and a member of the Cheburashka Collective. Additional work can be found at Best American Poetry, the Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, and the Georgia Review among others.

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).