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Artist: Marcel Mayer
Poet: Gail Griffin
Poem: Solstice Eve

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Artist: Erin Hoffman
Poet: Aaron Coleman
Poem: Saint Who

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Gail Griffin is the author of four books of nonfiction, including “The Events of October”: Murder-Suicide on a Small Campus and Grief’s Country: A Memoir in Pieces. Her first collection of poetry and short prose, Omena Bay Testament, won the Wilder Prize from Two Sylvias Press, who published it in 2023. Her first chapbook, Virginals: A Book of Elizabethan Interiors, is a series of monologues by an imagined Queen Elizabeth I. Her second, recently completed, is De/Generation, which explores her experience of vision loss. In the works is a collection of memoir essays about growing up white. Gail was born in Detroit and spent her career teaching literature, writing, and women’s studies at Kalamazoo College.

Aaron Coleman is the author of Red Wilderness (Four Way Books, forthcoming 2025), Threat Come Close (Four Way Books, 2018) winner of the GLCA New Writers Award, and St. Trigger (Button, 2016), selected by Adrian Matejka for the Button Poetry Prize. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Cave Canem, the Fulbright Program, and the American Literary Translators Association. His poems and essays have appeared in publications including Boston Review, Callaloo, The New York Times, Poetry Society of America, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series. He is currently the Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Translation Studies at the University of Michigan and will join the faculty as Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature in fall of 2024.