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Diannely Antigua (she/her) is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. She is the author of two poetry collections, Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019), which was the winner of the Pamet River Prize and a 2020 Whiting Award, and Good Monster (Copper Canyon Press, 2024). She received her MFA at New York University, where she was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to Florence, Italy. She is the recipient of additional fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program and was a finalist for the 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and chosen for The Best of the Net Anthology. Her poems can be found in Poem-a-Day, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. From 2022 to 2024, she served as the Thirteenth Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the youngest and first person of color to receive the title. She currently teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire as the inaugural Nossrat Yassini Poet in Residence. She hosts the podcast Bread & Poetry, which seeks to make poetry accessible to all in a way that nourishes the soul.
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George Abraham (they/he/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic, and performance artist. They are the author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket, 2026) and Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), which won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the editor-at-large of Mizna and coeditor of HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket, 2025), which was long-listed for the Palestine Book Award. They are a graduate of Northwestern University’s Litowitz MFA+MA program and teach at Amherst College as a writer-in-residence.
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Miller Oberman (he/him) is the author of Impossible Things (Duke University Press, 2024) and The Unstill Ones (Princeton University Press, 2017). He has received a number of awards for his poetry, including a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the 92Y Discovery Prize, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, and Poetry magazine’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation. Miller's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Hopkins Review, London Review of Books, The Nation, Poem-a-Day, and Foglifter. He teaches writing at Eugene Lang College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Brooklyn Poets. Miller is a trans Jewish anti-Zionist committed to the liberation of all. He lives with his family in the Catskills.
