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James Kimbrell is the author of Smote, The Gatehouse Heaven, and My Psychic and the co-translator of Three Poets of Modern Korea: Yi Sang, Hahm Dong-Seon, and Choi Young Mi. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Discovery/The Nation Prize, a Whiting Award, the John and Renee Grisham Fellowship, the Florida Book Award, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry Magazine, and two fellowships from the NEA. A native of Mississippi, he serves as distinguished research professor at Florida State University.
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Martina Milerova is a Czech photographer based in Texas. Her work has appeared on the cover of Waylon County: Texas Stories by Heath Dollar as well as on the covers of literary journals. She will make kolaches if she is goaded enough and loves Willie Nelson. She lives in Fort Worth.
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Philip Raisor is the author of eight books of poetry, nonfiction, and criticism, as well as numerous scholarly articles, essays, reviews, and interviews in such journals as The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, Prairie Schooner, The Writer's Chronicle, Studies in English Literature, and Contemporary Literature. In his teen years, he played on the losing team in the state championship game in Indiana that inspired Hoosiers, and was a freshman on the team with Wilt Chamberlain that lost a national championship in triple-overtime. Raisor received his B.A and M.A from Louisiana State University and a Ph.D. from Kent State, where he was active in the protest movements of the 60's. He taught at various universities and is now professor emeritus of English at Old Dominion University, where he initiated the creative writing program, a visiting writers series, and the annual literary festival.
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Abdelrehim Youssef is an Egyptian poet and translator. Born in 1975 in Alexandria, he graduated from Alexandria University in 1997. He worked as a teacher of English for twenty years before retiring in 2018 and devoting his time to translation work. He has published seven books of poetry in Egyptian Arabic and has translated over twenty books. He received the Encouragement Award of the Egyptian State for translation in 2017 for his translation of Three Studies about Morals and Virtue by Bernard Mandeville. He is married to the Egyptian writer Omayma Abdelshafy and they have one son, Yehia, who is 16 years old.
