As we begin to evaluate submissions for the 2017 Snowbound Chapbook Award, we are pleased to welcome several preliminary readers to our editorial staff. This accomplished group of writers will assist with selecting the manuscripts that will be honored as finalists and forwarded on to our final judge, Lawrence Raab.
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A writer and visual artist, Kristy Bowen is the author of six books of poetry, including the recent salvage (Black Lawrence Press, 2016) and major characters in minor films (Sundress Publications, 2015), as well as a number of chapbook, zine, and artists book projects. Her work has appeared most recently in Paper Darts, Handsome, and Midway Journal. She lives in Chicago, where she runs dancing girl press & studio and spends much of her time writing, making papery things, and editing a chapbook series devoted to women authors.
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Anne Champion is the author of Reluctant Mistress (Gold Wake Press, 2013), The Good Girl is Always a Ghost (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), and The Dark Length Home (Noctuary Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Verse Daily, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Epiphany Magazine, The Pinch, The Greensboro Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, New South, and elsewhere. She was an 2009 Academy of American Poet’s Prize recipient, a Barbara Deming Memorial grant recipient, a 2015 Best of the Net winner, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She currently teaches writing and literature at Wheelock College in Boston, MA.
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Lisa Fay Coutley is the author of Errata (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award, and In the Carnival of Breathing (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition. Her poetry has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, scholarships to the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, and an Academy of American Poets Levis Prize. Recent prose and poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, storySouth, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, and Poets & Writers. She is an Assistant Professor of Poetry in the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
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Ariel Francisco is the author of All My Heroes Are Broke (C&R Press, 2017) and Before Snowfall, After Rain (Glass Poetry Press, 2016). Born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents, he completed his MFA at Florida International University in Miami. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2016, Fjords Review, Gulf Coast, PANK, Poets.org, Prelude, Quiet Lunch, Washington Square, and elsewhere. He lives in South Florida (for now).
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Christine Hamm has a PhD in American Poetics, and is an editor for Ping*Pong Free Press. She is currently an MFA poetry student at Columbia University. Her poetry has been published in Painted Bride Quarterly, Orbis, Nat Brut, BODY, Poetry Midwest, Rattle, Dark Sky, and many others. She has been nominated five times for a Pushcart Prize, and she teaches English at Pace. She has three books out; the latest, Echo Park, was published by Blazevox. The New Orleans Review published Christine’s chapbook, A is for Afterimage, and nominated her work for a Pushcart in 2014, and in 2017, Ghostbird Press is publishing an excerpt from her ongoing manuscript, Notes on Wolves and Ruin.
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Sara Henning is a poet and editor. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, most recently View from True North, which won the 2017 Crab Orchard Poetry Open Prize, selected by Adrian Matejka, and will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2018. Her other collections include A Sweeter Water (Lavender Ink 2013), as well as two chapbooks, Garden Effigies (dancing girl press 2015) and To Speak of Dahlias (Finishing Line Press 2012). In 2015, she won the Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, judged by Alberto Ríos. She has published poems in several journals and anthologies, most notably Quarterly West, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, Passages North, RHINO, Meridian, and the Cincinnati Review. Sara is a visiting assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she has taught or will teach a variety of courses and workshops in introductory creative writing, intermediate nonfiction, rhetoric and composition, and literature.
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Brandi Homan is the author of two books of poetry, Bobcat Country and Hard Reds, from Shearsman Books and two chapbooks from dancing girl press. With Hanna Andrews and Becca Klaver, she co-founded Switchback Books. She holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and, in June, will hold a PhD with a specialization in Prose from the University of Denver’s Creative Writing Program.
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Kyle McCord is the author of five books of poetry including National Poetry Series Finalist Magpies in the Valley of Oleanders (Trio House 2016). His work has been featured or is forthcoming in AGNI, Boston Review, Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly and elsewhere. He serves as co-executive editor of Gold Wake Press and lives in Des Moines, Iowa where he teaches at Drake University.