<h4>Callie Siskel lives in Los Angeles and teaches creative writing at USC, where she is working on a PhD in creative writing.  She received her MFA in 2013 from Johns Hopkins University and her poems have appeared in The Yale Review, 32 Poems, Passages North, The New Criterion, The Hopkins Review, and other journals. She is currently working on her first book of poems and is poetry editor at Los Angeles Review of Books.</h4>

Callie Siskel

Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin, 2022). Their work appears in The New York Times and The New Yorker. Paul is an assistant professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Paul Tran

Katie Peterson’s sixth book of poetry, Fog and Smoke, is forthcoming from FSG in early 2024. She is the author of five previous books of poetry: This One Tree (New Issues, 2006), Permission (New Issues, 2013), The Accounts (University of Chicago, 2013), A Piece of Good News (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 2019), and Life in a Field (2021), a collaboration with the photographer Young Suh. She is the editor of the New Selected Poems of Robert Lowell (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 2017). Her work has been recognized with awards and fellowships, including the Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas for The Accounts, a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is the director of the graduate creative writing program at the University of California, Davis, where she is professor of English and a Chancellor’s Fellow.

Katie Peterson

Spencer Reece’s third book of poetry, Acts, will be published by FSG in the spring of 2024. He is an Episcopal priest, the vicar of St. Paul’s, Wickford, Rhode Island.

Spencer Reece

Elisa Gonzalez is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. The recipient of a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, she is the author of the poetry collection Grand Tour (FSG, 2023).

Elisa Gonzalez

Richie Hofmann is the author of two collections of poetry, A Hundred Lovers (2022) and Second Empire (2015).

Richie Hofmann

You Hear This Voice? This Is My Mind’s Voice: A Tribute to Louise Glück

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

The Terrible and the Possible: An Interview with Ross Gay

Young God

Nightmares and Mornings in Appalachia

Callie Siskel lives in Los Angeles and teaches creative writing at USC, where she is working on a PhD in creative writing.  She received her MFA in 2013 from Johns Hopkins University and her poems have appeared in The Yale Review, 32 Poems, Passages North, The New Criterion, The Hopkins Review, and other journals. She is currently working on her first book of poems and is poetry editor at Los Angeles Review of Books.

Callie Siskel

Articles

You Hear This Voice? This Is My Mind’s Voice: A Tribute to Louise Glück

The Terrible and the Possible: An Interview with Ross Gay

Nightmares and Mornings in Appalachia