Victoria Chang’s latest poetry collection, OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), was named a New York Times Notable Book and a TIME Best Book of the Year. It also received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the PEN/Voelcker Award, was longlisted for a National Book Award, and was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Her hybrid nonfiction book, Dear Memory, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2021. She lives in Los Angeles and serves as the program chair of Antioch University’s MFA program.

He Xiang lived in Beijing as a child. Her poems in this issue are part of a chapbook manuscript entitled “Emperor Penguins on the Square,” which reflects on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests on the occasion of their thirtieth anniversary. Other poems from this series have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Arkansas International, Bennington Review, The Rumpus, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner, where they received the Annual Prairie Schooner Strousse Award.

Morgan Hamill is a disabled poet and graduate fellow at Penn State–University Park. In 2019, she was a poetry semifinalist for Nimrod International Journal’s Francine Ringold Awards for Emerging Writers. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Copper Nickel, Cream City Review, The Journal, and The Southern Review.

Caleb Nolen completed his MFA at the University of Virginia and has received support from Blue Mountain Center and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, where he was a work-study scholar. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, FENCE, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, The Sun, and elsewhere. He lives with his wife in the Shenandoah Valley and is working on his first book.