Our Team

Nicholas Skaldetvind was born and raised in New York.

Preeti Kaur Rajpal is the author of membery, a book of poems. Her work has been honored with a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in Literature and a McKnight Artist Fellowship in Creative Writing.

Iliana Rocha is the 2019 winner of the Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry for her newest collection, The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez available from Tupelo Press. Karankawa, her debut, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015). The recipient of a 2020 CantoMundo fellowship and 2019 MacDowell fellowship, she has had work featured or forthcoming in the Best New Poets anthology, as well as Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Latin American Literature Today, Oxford American, and Blackbird> among others, and she serves as Poetry Co-Editor for Waxwing Literary Journal. She earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her three chihuahuas Nilla, Beans, and Migo are the loves of her life.

Dr. Kyle McCord is the author of seven books including National Poetry Series Finalist Magpies in the Valley of Oleanders and the novel Reunion of the Good Weather Suicide Cult. He has work featured or forthcoming in AGNI, Blackbird, Boston Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. He's received grants or awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Baltic Writing Residency. Kyle holds an M.F.A. from University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a Ph.D. from the University of North Texas. He served as associate poetry editor of The Nation and currently serves as Executive Editor of Gold Wake Press and Acquisitions Director for Atmosphere Press. He is married to the visual artist Lydia McCord and lives in Des Moines, Iowa.

Javeria Hasnain is the author of SIN (Chestnut Review, 2024), a chapbook of poems about desire, god, and femininity. Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, Rattle, and beestung, among others. She is a Fulbright scholar from Pakistan, a second-year MFA student at The New School, NY, and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Xiao Yue Shan is a poet, writer, translator, and editor. Born in China and living on Vancouver Island. then telling be the antidote won the Tupelo Press Berkshire Prize and was published in 2023. How Often I Have Chosen Love won the Frontier Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published in 2019.

Beth McDermott is the author of Figure 1 (Pine Row Press), a 2022 finalist for the Foreword Indies and a 2023 finalist for the da Vinci Eye/Eric Hoffer Award; and a chapbook titled How to Leave a Farmhouse (Porkbelly Press). Her poetry appears in journals such as DIAGRAM, Southern Humanities Review, Terrain.org, and Memorious. Reviews appear in American Book Review, After the Art, Kenyon Review Online, and Heavy Feather Review. She has been an editor at Kudzu House Quarterly, RHINO, and Cider Press Review and serves as an Associate for the Center for Humanities Communication (CHC) and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at University of St. Francis in Joliet, IL.

Ariel Francisco is the author of All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins (Burrow Press, 2024), Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head (Flowersong Press, 2022), and A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press, 2020), and the translator of Haitian-Dominican poet Jacques Viau Renaud’s Poet of One Island (Get Fresh Books, 2024) and Guatemalan poet Hael Lopez’s Routines/Goodbyes (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022). A poet and translator born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents and raised in Miami, his work has been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, POETRY Magazine, The New York City Ballet, Latino Book Review, and elsewhere. He is Assistant Professor of Poetry and Hispanic Studies at Louisiana State University.

Ming Di is a Chinese poet and translator currently based in the US. She has co-translated four books into English including Empty Chairs–Poems by Liu Xia (Graywolf Press, 2015), which was a finalist of the Best Translated Book Award and won a translation prize from Poetry Foundation. She has translated seven books into Chinese, including Marianne Moore’s Observations (Sichuan Wenyi, 2018). She has received the Lishan Poetry Award (translation) and 10+ Translator Award in China as well as translation fellowships from the Luce Foundation. Her solo translations have appeared in journals such as World Literature Today, Poetry, New York Review of Books, Poetry International (SDSU), Mānoa, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, Plume, Poetry South, Rio Grande Review, On the Seawall and Arlington Literary Journal. She has edited and co-translated New Cathay–Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Tupelo Press and Poetry Foundation, 2013) and New Poetry from China 1917–2017 (Black Square Editions, 2019) and co-edited seven other anthologies (published by Vaso Roto, Leviatan, Valparaiso, Kritya, Sonámbulos…) She has co-guest-edited three issues of Mānoa. She has been a partner with Lyrikline (Berlin), editor of China domain of Poetry International Web (Rotterdam) and co-organiser of International Translation Workshops (Beijing). She is the author of eight books of poetry and essays in Chinese and one in collaborative translation: River Merchant's Wife (Marick Press, 2012). Some of her poems have been translated into other languages: Luna fracturada (Valparaiso/Spain, 2014), Histoire de famille (Transignum/France, 2015), Création (Transignum/France, 2015), Distracción (Fundación Casa de Poesia/Costa Rica, 2016), Pájaro Isla (Circulo de Poesía/Mexico, 2019).

Abigail Ardelle Zammit is a Maltese writer and educator whose third poetry collection, Leaves Borrowed from Human Flesh, is forthcoming with Etruscan Press, Wilkes University, 2025. Her poetry and reviews have appeared in international journals and anthologies including Black Iris, Matter, Tupelo Quarterly, Boulevard, Gutter, Modern Poetry in Translation, Mslexia, Poetry International, The Ofi Press, The SHOp, Iota, Aesthetica, Ink, Sweat and Tears, High Window, O:JA&L, The Ekphrastic Review, and CounterText (forthcoming). Zammit’s poems have been translated and/or anthologized in Grand Tour - Reisen durch die junge Lyrik Europas (Germany: Hanser, 2018), Smokestack Lightning (Middlesbrough: Smokestack, 2021) and The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2022 (Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2023), among others. Her other poetry collections are Voices from the Land of Trees (Middlesbrough: Smokestack, 2007), and Portrait of a Woman with Sea Urchin (London: SPM, 2015), which won second prize in the Sentinel Poetry Competition. Zammit translates Maltese poetry and has co-authored two bilingual pamphlets: Half Spine, Half Wild Flower and A Scatter of Leaves. She has also written a critical poetry guide for high-school students and is currently researching desert landscapes across three continents.