Maisha Hossain is from Dhaka, Bangladesh. She completed her Ph.D. in Creative Writing (Fiction) in Summer 2024 with a minor in postcolonial literature and women’s writing. For her dissertation, she wrote a collection of short stories on Bangladeshi women, for which she was awarded the Adam M. Johnson Fellowship Award in Spring 2023. Her writing has appeared in Prose Online, Another Chicago Magazine, QUB’s Blackbird Anthology of 2018, Poet’s Choice, The Offending Adam, and NPR’s Fresh Picked Prose. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland and a B.A. in English from BRAC University, Bangladesh. As of Fall 2024, she joined Francis Marion University as an Assistant Professor of English.

(PhD 2021, Poetry) is the author of DM Me, Mother Darling, winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize.

(PhD 2021, Fiction) is the author or editor of many published books, including her contest-winning chapbook An Inventory of Abandoned Things (Split/Lip Press) and her forthcoming young adult novel Tink and Wendy (Three Rooms Press).

(PhD 2021, Poetry) is the author of Plunder, winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, as well as the chapbook The Pirate Anne Bonny Dances the Tarantella.

(PhD 2021, Poetry) is the author of Gulf (2019).

Feroz Rather is the author of The Night of Broken Glass, a novel-in-stories about the war in Kashmir. His short fiction has appeared in Granta, The Common, and Adroit Journal and his non-fiction has been published in World Literature Today and Carve. He is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Humanities Department at Simmons University in Boston and is working on his second novel, The Derby Shoe, in which he follows a Kashmiri flaneur who’s adrift in New Delhi.

(PhD 2019, Poetry) is the author of Bangalore (Copper Canyon), a Lannan Literary Selection.

(PhD 2019, Fiction) is the author of the novel Bewilderness (Catapult, 2021). Her short fiction appears in The Missouri Review, The Yale Review Online, Boulevard, and elsewhere.

(PhD 2018, Poetry) is the author of two poetry collections: Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James/Penguin, 2017) and Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf, 2021). His poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. In 2022, Penguin Classics will publish a new anthology edited by Kaveh titled The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 100 Poets on the Divine. In 2020 Kaveh was named Poetry Editor of The Nation. Kaveh has been awarded Pushcart Prizes, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, and the Levis Reading Prize.

(PhD 2018, Poetry) is the author of three poetry collections: Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). Her writing has been published in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. She co-founded Honey Literary, a BIPOC-focused literary journal, and is the current editor-in-chief.