Lacey Dunham is the Events and Engagement Specialist at Alice James Books. Prior to Alice James, Lacey ran literary education programs for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and 826DC, where she connected authors, students, and educators for readings, writing workshops, and collaborations. She also oversaw external communications for Politics & Prose Bookstore and Atticus Books. In her spare time, Lacey serves as an editor at Necessary Fiction and Story, and her own writing can be found in Ploughshares, Witness, and The Normal School, among others. Originally from rural Michigan, she graduated from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia as a first-generation college student, and now resides in Washington, DC.

Genevieve Hartman (she/her) is a Korean-American poet and reviewer based in Rochester, New York. She is the Social Media & Outreach Coordinator at Adi Magazine and an Art Editor for Gasher Journal. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Rain Taxi Review, Stone Canoe, River Mouth Review, and others. When not reading or writing, she is probably taking her dog Honey for a walk beside the Erie Canal. Connect with her at genahartman.com.

Stacy Gnall is the author of the poetry collections Dogged (winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry from The University of Massachusetts Press, 2022) and Heart First into the Forest (Alice James Books, 2011). A finalist for the Georgia Poetry Prize, her work has appeared in numerous journals, most recently Pleiades, Massachusetts Review, Bennington Review, and New American Writing. Gnall holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California, and is also a graduate of the University of Alabama’s MFA program in Creative Writing and Sarah Lawrence College. She is the founder and director of Wordstruck, a collective that offers creative writing programming for youth. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she is currently Poet-in-Residence at the University of Detroit Mercy.

Karan Kapoor is the Editor-in-Chief of ONLY POEMS. A finalist for the Diode, Tusculum Review and Iron Horse Literary Review chapbook prizes, their poems appear or are forthcoming in Best New Poets, AGNI, Shenandoah, Colorado Review, Cincinnati Review, North American Review, and elsewhere, fiction in JOYLAND and the other side of hope, and translations in The Offing and The Los Angeles Review. They’re an MFA candidate at Virginia Tech.

Laura Kasischke has published twelve collections of poetry and ten novels. She received the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books in 1998 for Fire & Flower. She has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rilke Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has been translated widely. She is the Theodore Roethke Distinguished University Profess at the University of Michigan.

David Kirby teaches at Florida State University, where he is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English. He has published fifteen poetry collections, including The Temple Gate Called Beautiful from Alice James Books in 2008. His latest books are a poetry collection, Help Me, Information, and a textbook modestly entitled The Knowledge: Where Poems Come From and How to Write Them. Kirby is the author of Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll, which the Times Literary Supplement described as “a hymn of praise to the emancipatory power of nonsense” and which was named one of Booklist’s Top 10 Black History Non-Fiction Books of 2010. Entertainment Weekly has called Kirby’s poetry one of “5 Reasons to Live.” In 2016, Kirby received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Florida Humanities, which called him "a literary treasure of our state."

Lucia LoTempio is the author of Hot with the Bad Things (Alice James Books, 2020). You can find her work in West Branch, BOAAT, Verse, The Journal, TYPO, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day Series, and elsewhere. With Suzannah Russ Spaar, she co-authored the chapbook Undone in Scarlet (Tammy, 2019). Lucia lives and writes in Minneapolis.

Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of Mothersalt (forthcoming 2025) and Isako Isako, California Book Award finalist and winner of the Nautilus Gold Award, Alice James Award, National Indie Excellence Award, and Maine Literary Award. Her chapbook Notes from the Birth Year won the Bateau Press BOOM Contest, and her work has been recognized internationally with the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry and the Singapore Poetry Prize. She is a Kundiman Fellow and founding member of The Ruby SF, a gathering space for women and nonbinary artists.

Matthew Nienow’s debut collection, House of Water, was published by Alice James Books in 2016. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such venues as 32 Poems, Georgia Review, New England Review, and Poetry. A former Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellow, he has also received fellowships and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Elizabeth George Foundation, Artist Trust, and 4Culture. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington with his wife and two sons where he is pursuing a degree in Mental Health Counseling.

Jacques J. Rancourt is the author of Brocken Spectre (Alice James Books, 2021), Novena (Pleiades Press, 2017), and the chapbook In the Time of PrEP (Beloit Poetry Journal, 2018). A recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and the Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, his poems have appeared in journals such as AGNI, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Raised in rural Maine, he now lives in San Francisco.

Kristin Robertson is the author of Surgical Wing, which was selected as Editors’ Choice for the Alice James Award and published in 2017. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review, Kenyon Review Online, The Adroit Journal, and Harvard Review. She is an assistant professor of writing and literature at Mercer University and lives in Georgia.

Carey Salerno is the Executive Director & Publisher of Alice James Books where she has been serving the literary community since 2008. She is also the author of Tributary (2021), Shelter (2009), and a co-editor of Lit From Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books (2013). She teaches publishing and poetry writing for the University of Maine at Farmington. Salerno teaches and/or lectures on poetry and editing at venues across the nation as well. You may find her essays, poems–and articles and interviews regarding her other professional work–in print and online.

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