School of Humanities

Jenny Xie is the author of Eye Level (Graywolf Press), a finalist for the National Book Award, and the recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and the Holmes National Poetry Prize.

Margaret Ray (she/her) grew up in Gainesville, Florida and holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College.

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado was born and raised in Puerto Rico.

Emily Lee Luan is a Taiwanese American poet and essayist.

Devon Walker-Figueroa is the author of Philomath (Milkweed Editions, 2021), selected for the National Poetry Series by Sally Keith and of the chapbook, So Lame (Berfrois, 2019).

Ashley Toliver received her MFA from Brown University in 2013. She teaches poetry at The Attic Institute in Portland, Oregon.

Carlie Hoffman is a poet and translator from Northern New Jersey.

Laura Romeyn is the author of Wild Conditions, winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship.

Nathan Xavier Osorio is the son of a Mexican grocer and Nicaraguan nurse.