Summer 2019

Vievee Francis is the author of Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State, 2006), Horse in the Dark (Northwestern, 2012) and Forest Primeval (Northwestern, 2015), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry. She is an associate professor at Dartmouth College and an associate editor for Callaloo. 

Dina Litovsky received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from New York University and her MFA in photography from NYU’s School of Visual Arts. In 2020, she received the Nannen Prize, Germany’s foremost award for documentary photography. Other awards include the PDN 30, New and Emerging Photographers to Watch; Picture of the Year International; NPPA Best of Photojournalism, International Photography Awards and American Photography. She is a regular contributor to TIME, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and GQ magazine.

Eloisa Lopez is a photojournalist based in Manila, Philippines, with a special interest in stories on human rights, women’s issues, and religion. Since 2016, she has worked extensively to document the ongoing war on drugs in the Philippines; her work has been exhibited in France, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Netherlands. She is a regular contributor to Reuters, and is the winner of the 2019 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation.

Adam Willis, a former VQR intern, is a freelance writer based in Washington, DC. His work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Politico, the Outline, Commonweal, and Slate. His reportage on the Philippine Catholic Church is supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Mark Wunderlich is the author of four collections of poems, most recently God of Nothingness (Graywolf, 2021). His other collections include The Earth Avails (Graywolf, 2014), which received the Rilke Prize; Voluntary Servitude (Graywolf, 2004); and The Anchorage (Massachusetts, 1999), which received the Lambda Literary Award. He is the director of the Bennington Writing Seminars graduate writing program.