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Carlina Duan is a writer-educator from Michigan, and the author of the poetry collections I Wore My Blackest Hair (Little A, 2017) and Alien Miss (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2021). Her poems have appeared in POETRY Magazine, Narrative Magazine, Poets.org, The Rumpus, and other publications. Carlina received her M.F.A. in Poetry from Vanderbilt University, and is currently a doctoral student in the University of Michigan’s Joint Program in English and Education. Among many things, she loves river walks, snail mail, and being a sister. social media – Twitter @ccduan, instagram @earthtocarlina
Lisa Low‘s poems appear or are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Ecotone, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and elsewhere, and her nonfiction won the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize. She graduated from Indiana University’s MFA program and is currently a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati and associate editor at The Cincinnati Review. Her debut chapbook, Crown for the Girl Inside, won the 2020 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest and is forthcoming from YesYes Books. social media – @lisalowsays