Awards

Dzvinia received her BA from Oberlin College and her MFA in Writing from Warren Wilson College. She is the author of six poetry collections, including A Handful of Bees, Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones, and Silvertone. Her sixth, Bad Harvest (2018) was named a 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read” in Poetry. Her co-translation with Jeff Friedman of Memorials by Polish poet Mieczyslaw Jastrun was published in 2014, leading to their 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship in support of continuing their translation of Jastrun’s poems, three of which are in this issue. Her co-translation with Ali Kinsella from the Ukrainian of Natalka Bilotserkivets’s poems, Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow (Lost Horse Press, 2021) ,was short-listed for the 2022 Griffin International Prize in Poetry, the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize, and the ALTA National Translation Award and winner of the 2022 AAUS Translation Prize. She is Writer-in-Residence at the Solstice MFA Creative Writing Program.

Kaighla is a poet and storyteller, born and raised in Westville, Illinois. She is the author of four books and is currently writing on her fifth, a novel entitled Evryn the Light. Her work has also been published in various magazines, including American Road Magazine , Al-Jumuah and the inaugural issue of Pulse & Echo. Kaighla holds a BA in English Language & Literature from Southern New Hampshire University. She is the Featured Poet in the upcoming issue of Hyssop + Laurel, an online magazine focused upon deconstructing one’s religious experience.