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Katie Berta
3 poems
Marlene Effiwatt
6 poems Steven Duong
4 poems
Katie Berta’s poetry collection, retribution forthcoming, won the Hollis Summers Prize and was published by Ohio University Press in March. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Yale Review, The Iowa Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Southeast Review, and Sixth Finch, among other magazines. She has received residencies from Millay Arts, Ragdale, and The Hambidge Center, fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and an Iowa Review Award. She is a visiting assistant professor at Oberlin College.
Marlene Effiwatt is from Tucson, Arizona. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Provost Fellow, followed by a Pflughaupt Fellowship in Poetry. Her debut chapbook Future You was released November 1st, 2021 from Black Sunflowers Poetry Press.
Steven Duong is the author of At The End of the World There is a Pond (W. W. Norton, 2025). His poems and short stories have appeared in publications including The American Poetry Review, The Drift, and the Yale Review, as well as The Best American Short Stories 2024, selected by Lauren Groff. The recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, Kundiman, and the University of Iowa, he is currently a creative writing fellow at Emory University. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.