Spring 2026 Issue Launch Party

Gabrielle Bates is the author of Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023), an NPR Best Book of 2023, New York Times Book Review Critic’s Pick, and finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Currently the 2026 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she also works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium, co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon, and serves occasionally as visiting faculty for the University of Washington Rome Center, the Tin House Workshops, and the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the Believer, Sewanee Review, and elsewhere.

Annie Finch is the author of twenty books of poetry and poetics including Calendars (Tupelo Press, 2003) and Eve (Story Line Press, 1997), both finalists for the National Poetry Series, Spells: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2013), the writing guide A Poet’s Craft (University of Michigan Press, 2012), works of poetics including The Ghost of Meter (University of Michigan Press, 1993) and The Body of Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2005), and anthologies including A Formal Feeling Comes (WordTech Communications, 2007), Villanelles (Everyman’s Library, 2012), An Exaltation of Forms (University of Michigan Press, 2002), Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Everyman’s Library, 2015), and Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (Haymarket Books, 2020). Her other works include poetry translations and collaborations with choral music, opera, theater, and dance. She earned a PhD from Stanford University and served for a decade as Director of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. Based in New York City, she offers workshops and performances worldwide.

Jane Huffman is the author of Public Abstract (American Poetry Review, 2023), winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She is a doctoral student in English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. Her poems have appeared in the Nation, the Atlantic, Poetry Magazine, the New Yorker, and elsewhere. She was a 2019 recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.

Jenna Le is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Six Rivers (NYQ Books, 2011), A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora (Indolent Books, 2016), and Manatee Lagoon (Acre Books, 2022). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in AGNI, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. A daughter of Vietnamese refugees, she has a BA in math and an MD, and works as a physician and educator in New York City. 

Karen Winn is the Boston-based author of The Society (Dutton, 2026) and Our Little World (Dutton, 2022). Her short stories and essays have appeared in Hippocampus, Lit Hub, Writer’s Digest, and elsewhere. Prior to becoming an author, she was a nurse and nurse practitioner. 

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