Winter 2021

Lydia Conklin has received a Stegner Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, three Pushcart Prizes, a Creative Writing Fulbright in Poland, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and fellowships from Emory, MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Djerassi, and elsewhere. Their fiction has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, and the Paris Review. Their first story collection, Rainbow Rainbow (Catapult, 2022), is forthcoming.

Jade Doskow is a New York–based architectural and landscape photographer best known for her works Lost Utopias, Freshkills, and Red Hook. Doskow holds a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts.  Doskow’s photographs have been featured in the New York Times, Aperture, and Smithsonian, among others. Doskow is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography and the City University of New York.

Rebecca Hazelton is an award-winning poet, writer, critic, and editor. Her first book, Fair Copy (Ohio State, 2012), won the Wheeler Prize from Ohio State University Press. Her second book, Vow (CSU, 2013), was an editor’s pick from Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Her most recent book of poetry, Gloss (Wisconsin, 2019), was a New York Times “New and Noteworthy” pick. 

Hannah Reyes Morales contributes photography and writing to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and National Geographic, among others.

Peter Trachtenberg is the author of 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh (Penguin, 1998), The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning (Little, Brown and Company, 2008), and Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons (Da Capo, 2012). His essays, journalism, and short fiction have been published in the New Yorker, Harper’s, BOMB, the New York Times Travel Magazine, A Public Space, and VQR. Trachtenberg is an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He’s currently working on a book of nonfiction, The Last Artists in New York (Black Sparrow, forthcoming 2023).