Zoland Poetry Authors
is a recent MFA graduate of Vermont College. She was published in the 2005 Grolier Poetry Prize, and has poems forthcoming in Gulf Coast and 42opus. She is the assistant poetry editor for Fringe Magazine, and currently works and writes in North Carolina.
also reviewed Charles Reznikoff's Collected Poems for Zoland Poetry, and conducted an interview with Nathaniel Tarn (in Zoland Poetry #3). Recent poems of his have appeared in The Nation and were featured in The Nation's online audio feature "Lyric Nation." His critical reading of Rachel Blau DuPlessis's Drafts was included in a special feature of DuPlessis's work in Jacket2 (edited by Patrick Pritchett), and a reading of George Stanley's book Vancouver was published recently in The Capilano Review.
Jessica Bozek is the author of The Bodyfeel Lexicon (Switchback Books) and several chapbooks, including Squint into the Sun (Dancing Girl). Recent poems appear in Action, Yes, Artifice, Black Warrior Review, Guernica, horse less review, and Sixth Finch. Jessica teaches at Boston University and runs Small Animal Project, a reading series based in Cambridge, MA.
is a poet who lives in Boston's South End and is Director of Student Writing Activities in MIT's Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. He writes frequently on art, directs the small press Pressed Wafer and is on the advisory board of Manhattan's CUE Art Foundation. Among his books are the memoirs Furthering My Education and Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. He edited Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler and The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O'Hara. Corbett's most recent book of poetry Opening Day is available from Hanging Loose Press.
is the co-founder and director of O, Miami, an annual poetry festival in Miami, FL. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Harvard Review, Court Green, Pool, Pure Francis, PANK, Abe’s Penny, Northville Review, OH NO, Roanoke Review, Redivider, and elsewhere. He lives in Miami, FL.
received her MFA in Poetry from Texas State University and is currently a PhD student and composition teacher at the University of Oregon. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, Front Porch Journal, Alice Blue Review, Southwestern American Literature, Ironhorse, and others.
is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Her poems and translations appear in journals such as Drunken Boat, Gulf Coast, and McSweeney’s. Her book of poems, Pulleys & Locomotion, was just published by Black Lawrence Press.
is a poet, translator and editor. She lives in Boston and is the Zoland Poetry Reviews Editor.
lives in Montevideo, Uruguay, where she studied Latin American Literature at the Universidad de la República. She works as an elementary school English teacher.
was born and grew up outside of Lund, Sweden, but has lived in the US for the past twenty years. He translated Remainland: Selected Poems of Aase Berg, published by Action Books last year. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia, and teaches at Notre Dame.
has poems recently appearing in Tin House, and criticism recently appearing in Pleiades. He currently lives and teaches in France.
works in book publishing and lives in Brighton, England.
is a graduate of Cornell University and the MFA program at the University of Oregon. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, Shenandoah, Cutthroat, Willow Springs, Tampa Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Verse Daily, and Best New Poets 2009. She is the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Project Award and a Winter Fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She was also a finalist for the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.
, the editor and founder of Cipher Journal, is a labor activist, writer, and translator currently living in Connecticut, after having lived in both Paris and Beijing. A graduate of Middlebury College, where he studied Literary Studies and Chinese, he is currently slouching towards a Ph.D. in the department of East Asian Languages & Literatures at Yale University.
's poetry has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Fugue, and is forthcoming in Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction. Other work includes Flight, a chamber opera libretto commissioned by composer Sarana Chou.
’s poems have appeared in Weave, Iron Horse Literary Review, Strange Horizons, and The Chariton Review. His essays and stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, Grist, and DIAGRAM. His first book of poems, City of Regret (Zone 3 Press, 2007), won the Zone 3 First Book Award. He has been the recipient of a Houston Arts Alliance Fellowship, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship, and a D. H. Lawrence Fellowship. His chapbook A Natural History, written with Michelle Schmidt, will be published in 2011 by Blue Hour Press.
Kent Leatham has an MFA in poetry from Emerson College and a BA in poetry from Pacific Lutheran University. He is an editor at Black Lawrence Press and has served as chief editor of the literary journal Saxifrage and as a poetry reader for Redivider. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Zoland, Artifice, the Belleview Literary Review, the Battered Suitcase, and Oranges & Sardines. Kent grew up in Monterey, CA, and currently lives in Boston, MA.
is a former editor and bookseller whose reviews and essays have appeared in the Washington Post, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Boston Review, n+1 online, and the Brooklyn Rail. A musician, poet, and painter, he divides his time between Manhattan and Pennsylvania.
has been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in poetry, and her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Poetry Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, Cortland Review, and Poetry Northwest. One of the poems published in Poetry was featured on the Web site Poetry Daily.
received a Master's degree in Bulgarian Philology from St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia University, Bulgaria, and worked as an editor and translator before immigrating to the US. She lives in Austin, TX, where she is currently working on a collection of poetry and translating Bulgarian fiction.
is a lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard; her chapbook of poems, This Carrying Life (Arrowsmith/Pressed Wafer), came out in 2005. From July 10-14, 2006, she was the guest blogger/journalist for the Poetry Foundation: see "Recent Journals" at the Poetry Foundation.
is the author of The Red Bird and The Commandrine and Other Poems, both from Fence. A co-founder and co-editor of Action Books and Action, Yes, both dedicated to international writing and hybrid forms, McSweeney teaches in the MFA program at Notre Dame.
graduated from UMass Boston in December 2006 and is the Senior Editor of Arrowsmith Press. Mena is currently pursuing her literary studies in Cambridge, England.
was born in Newton, MA and attended Carleton College in Northfield, MN. Slope Editions released her first book, Isa the Truck Named Isadore, in 2006; it was chosen winner of the Slope Editions Book Prize by judge Lisa Jarnot. She currently lives in Minneapolis.
, a native Chamoru originally from the Pacific island of Guahan (Guam), is the co-founder of Ala Press, editor of the anthology Chamoru Childhood (2009), and the author of two poetry books: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008) and from unincorporated territory [saina] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2010). He earned an MFA from the University of San Francisco, a Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship, and is working towards his Ph.D. in Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Hawai‘i (Manoa), where he teaches creative writing and Pacific literature.
's poems and stories have appeared in journals and anthologies across North America and Australia. His first book of poems, Miraculous Hours, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book in Canada. A second collection, Living Things, is due from Nightwood Editions in 2008. He lives in Eugene, Oregon.
was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, and her MFA at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago, 2003) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish, 2005), for which she received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets.
's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Fifth Wednesday Review, Poetry International and Hubbub. Her reviews can be found on www.zolandpoetry.com. She lives in Oregon.
received his Masters in Fine Arts from Umass Amherst. His fiction and reviews have been around. He is the co-editor of New Herring Press and the co-curator of the brooklyn reading, film, and performance series Diamond Mouth Surprise. He lives in New Haven and attends Yale's school of forestry and environmental studies.
is the art critic for the Boston Globe and a winner of a 2011 Pulitzer Prize in art criticism. He is the author of five books on Lucian Freud, and one on Matisse and Picasso.
is an Associate Editor at Zoland Poetry. She is also a third-year MFA student at Emerson College and their 2007 Ruth Lilly Fellowship nominee. Shannon will be completing her thesis in poetry this fall.
was born on the Mississippi River in a town called Onalaska, Wisconsin, whose name originates from a couplet in a Thomas Campbell poem, "The Pleasures of Hope" but was altered/misspelled to have at word's beginning, instead of two, only one "O." While Wisconsin as a whole is not often associated with poetry, Lorraine Niedecker and Milwaukee proving the exceptions, Brian Young would like to be that missing letter by being a "good bad poet" (as Ogden Nash referred to himself) and a lover and celebrator of all the truly good ones.