Kathy Fagan, Shelley Wong, and David Baker

Kathy Fagan’s fifth poetry collection, Sycamore (Milkweed, 2017), was a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Award, and her new book with Milkweed, Bad Hobby, is now available. Her work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Poetry, Nation, Kenyon Review, and Best American Poetry, among others. Fagan is a recipient of grants from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, and National Endowment for the Arts, and she is a cofounder of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Ohio State, where she teaches poetry and coedits the Wheeler Poetry Prize series for the Journal and The Ohio State University Press. Read more on Fagan’s website.

Author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, 2022) and winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize, Shelley Wong's poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. She is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and awards from Kundiman, MacDowell, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. Wong holds an MFA from Ohio State and lives in San Francisco. Read more on Wong’s website.

David Baker’s new book of poems, Whale Fall (W. W. Norton, 2022) was released this summer, adding to his repertoire of 18 other books of poetry and prose about poetry that he has authored or edited. His many honors include fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Poetry Society of America, National Endowment for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, Society of Midland Authors, and Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Foundation. A resident of Granville, Ohio, Baker continues to teach literature and creative writing at Denison University and has served as poetry editor of the Kenyon Review for more than 25 years. Read more on Baker’s website.