Craig Beaven earned an MFA in poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University and PhD from the University of Houston. Beaven’s collections of poetry areNatural History (Gerald Cable Book Award, 2019), Teaching English Lit on the Day After a Shooting (CutBank Chapbook Prize Winner), and Teaching the Baby to Say I Love You (Anhinga Press Poetry Prize). He is a recipient of scholarships and fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, and the Sewanee Writers Conference. His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Western Humanities Review, Carolina Quarterly, Hollins Critic, Atlanta Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, the Best New Poets anthology, and many others. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida. www.craigbeaven.com.

Emily Pérez is the author of What Flies Want, winner of the Iowa Prize; House of Sugar, House of Stone; and two chapbooks. She co-edited the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. A CantoMundo fellow and Ledbury Critic, her poetry has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Copper Nickel, Poetry, and Fairy Tale Review, and her reviews appear in RHINO, LA Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Georgia Review. She teaches in Denver, where she lives with her family. Find more at www.emilyperez.org.

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