ALL POSTS BY: Shannon C. Ward

Raised in a renovated slaughterhouse on the outskirts of Wilmington, Ohio, Shannon Ward is author of the poetry collection Blood Creek (Longleaf Press, 2013). She received an MFA in Poetry from North Carolina State University in 2009, and she is the recipient of the 2016 Foley Poetry Prize, the 2016 White Oak Kitchen Prize in Southern Poetry, and a 2013 Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize. Her work has received generous support from Yaddo, Willapa Bay AIR, the Eastern Frontier Educational Foundation, the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Hypatia in the Woods, and Vermont Studio Center, and her poems have appeared in New Ohio Review, Great River Review, Tar River Poetry, and others.

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Melanie McCabe

Melanie McCabe is the author of three previous poetry books, including The Night Divers (Terrapin Books), which was a finalist for the 2023 Library of Virginia Literary Awards. Her memoir, His Other Life: Searching For My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams, won the 2016 University of New Orleans Press’s Publishing Lab Prize and was featured in The Washington Post. Her writing has graced the pages of The Washington Post, The Georgia Review, The Massachusetts Review, Threepenny Review, and more. With an impressive teaching career spanning 22 years in high school English and creative writing, Melanie’s literary journey is as inspiring as her work.

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Christopher Buckley

Christopher Buckley’s recent books—in addition to One Sky to the Next—are Agnostic (Lynx House Press), The Pre-Eternity of the World (Stephen F. Austin State University Press), and The Consolations of Science & Philosophy (Lynx House Press). Star Journal: Selected Poems was published by University …

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George Rawlins

George Rawlins was born and raised in southeastern Ohio. He has a BA from Ohio University, attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and earned an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. He has recent poems in Chiron Review, The Common, Illuminations, New Critique (UK), Mudfish, Nine …

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Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin’s poetry has appeared in The Nomad, Atlanta Review, Appalachian Heritage, Great Smokies Review, Notes from the Gean and several anthologies including The Gift of Experience (Atlanta Review, 2005), Immigration, Emigration, Diversity (Chapel Hill Press, 2005), and The Moveable Nest (Helicon Press, 2007), . Her …