Winter 2022

Diedrick Brackens is a poet and visual artist based in Los Angeles. His poems have appeared in Fourway Review, Boulevard, and the lickety~split. His visual work has appeared in the New York Times, Art in America, W magazine, and at institutions such as the New Museum in New York City, Hammer Museum at UCLA, and New Orleans Museum of Art.

Kris Graves is an artist and publisher based in New York and California. He received his BFA in Visual Arts from SUNY Purchase College and his work has been published and exhibited globally, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Getty Institute, Los Angeles; and the National Portrait Gallery, London. His work is in permanent collections at the Schomburg Center; the Whitney Museum; the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Brooklyn Museum; and the Wedge Collection, Toronto.

Elsa Julien Lora is a doctoral candidate in African and African American studies at Harvard University and is a student at Yale Law School. Her research interests include domestic labor, Black family life, and the social history of prisons. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, she received her BA from Wesleyan University. Her work is published in venues such as Public Books, Synapsis, and Aperture. 

Ed Pavlić has authored more than a dozen books written across and between genres, most recently: Call It in the Air: Poems (Milkweed, 2022); Outward: Adrienne Rich’s Expanding Solitudes (Minnesota UP, 2021); Another Kind of Madness: A Novel (Milkweed, 2019); and Who Can Afford to Improvise?: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners (Fordham, 2015). He is distinguished research professor of English and African American studies at the University of Georgia. 

Kalani Pickhart is the author of I Will Die in a Foreign Land (Two Dollar Radio, 2022), winner of the 2022 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and long-listed for the Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award.