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Sasha Debevec-McKenney is the author of the debut poetry collection Joy Is My Middle Name, which won the 2026 Dylan Thomas Prize. She received her MFA from NYU, and has been a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin and a Creative Writing Fellow at Emory University. Her poems have been published widely, including in places like The New Yorker, The Yale Review, Granta, and The New York Review of Books. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut and currently teaches poetry in Michigan.

Felicia Zamora is the author of eight books of poetry including Murmuration Archives (Akrilica Series, Noemi Press 2026), Interstitial Archaeology (Wisconsin Poetry Series 2025), and I Always Carry My Bones (2021) winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and Ohioana Book Award in poetry. She’s won the Benjamin Saltman Award, Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, Tomaž Šalamun Prize, and two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. She’s been supported by CantoMundo, Ragdale Foundation, Tin House, and Yaddo. Her writing appears in The American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Boston Review, Ecotone, The Kenyon Review, Orion, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, and others. She’s a poetry professor at the University of Cincinnati and a poetry editor at Colorado Review.