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Scott Cairns, Ph.D. is the author of nine poetry collections, including his most recent, Anaphora (Paraclete Poetry, 2019). He is also a librettist, memoirist, and translator, and his poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Image, Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, and others, and have been anthologized in multiple editions of Best American Spiritual Writing. He is the program director of SPU's MFA in Creative Writing program.
Jennifer Maier, Ph.D. is the author of The Occupant, forthcoming in 2021, and Now, Now, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013). Her debut collection, Dark Alphabet (Southern Illinois UP), was named one of “Ten Remarkable Books of 2006” by the Academy of American Poets and was a finalist for the 2008 Poets’ Prize. Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including Poetry, American Poet, Plume, The Gettysburg Review, and Image, as well as on National Public Radio and other print and broadcast media. She teaches English at SPU.
Mischa Willett, Ph.D. is the author of The Elegy Beta (Mockingbird Books, 2020) and the critically-acclaimed Phases (Cascade Books, 2017). A specialist in nineteenth century aesthetics, he has written essays, translations, and reviews that appear in both popular and academic journals, and teaches English at SPU.
Emily Holt, MFA, MLitt is the author of Though the Walls Are Lit (Lost Horse Press, 2020). Raised in northern California, Holt has worked as a journalist in the U.S. and Ireland, and has taught poetry in youth hospitals and jails. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Best New British and Irish Poets, Hinterland, Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction (W. W. Norton & Co., 2015), and other publications.