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Christopher R. Vaughan

Christopher R. Vaughan’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, including the Cincinnati Review, Hawai‘i Pacific Review, Off the Coast, and Del Sol Review. He was a winner of the 2020 Princemere Poetry Prize and has received support from the Community of Writers, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Indiana University Writers’ Conference, and Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference. He was a Fellow in the Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose in 2022–23. He lives in Minneapolis.

 

 

Malcolm Farley

Malcolm Farley’s poems have appeared in various journals including AGNI, the New Republic, the Paris Review, the American Scholar, Commonweal, the American Journal of Nursing, the Harvard Review, and the Los Angeles Review. His prose has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Boston Review, and Psychoanalysis Today.

 

Jane McKinley

Jane McKinley is a Baroque oboist and artistic director of the Dryden Ensemble. Her manuscript, Vanitas, won the 2011 Walt McDonald First Book Prize and was published by Texas Tech University Press. Her work has appeared in the Georgia Review, Five Points, the Southern Review, Great River Review, Tar River Poetry, One Art, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. In March she was awarded a 2023 Fellowship by the State of New Jersey. Her second collection, Mudman, is forthcoming from Able Muse Press. She lives in Hopewell, New Jersey.

 

 

Kelly Scott Franklin

Kelly Scott Franklin has published poetry and translations in Literary Matters, Driftwood Press Literary Magazine, Light Poetry Magazine, Thimble Literary Magazine, National Review, Ekphrastic Review, Jesus the Imagination, and elsewhere. His essays and reviews have appeared in Commonweal, the Wall Street Journal, the New Criterion, and elsewhere. He teaches American Literature and the Great Books at Hillsdale College. He also plays the ukulele.

 

 

Hilary Biehl

Hilary Biehl’s poems have appeared in Blue Unicorn, the Orchards, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. She lives in New Mexico with her husband and their son.

 

 

Maura Stanton

Maura Stanton’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry East, Hudson Review, the Common, Cincinati Review, New England Review, Southern Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, and other magazines. She has published six books of poetry, a chapbook of prose poems, three collections of short stories, and a novel.

 

 

N. S. Thompson

N. S. Thompson is the nonfiction editor for Able Muse and lives near Oxford, UK. A poet, critic, and translator of Italian fiction, with Andy Croft he edited A Modern Don Juan: Cantos for These Times by Divers Hands (Five Leaves), and his poetry publications include Letter to Auden (Smokestack Books), Mr Larkin on Photography (Red Squirrel), and two recent pamphlets, After War (New Walk Editions) and Ghost Hands (Melos Press).

 

Susan McLean

Susan McLean, emerita professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University, is the author of The Best Disguise (winner of the Richard Wilbur Award), The Whetstone Misses the Knife (winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize), and Daylight Losing Time (forthcoming from Able Muse Press in 2024). She has also published translations of poems by Catullus, Martial, Thomas More, Baudelaire, and Rilke, and has served as translation editor for Better Than Starbucks. She lives in Iowa City.

 

 

Rachel Hadas

Rachel Hadas is Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University-Newark, where she taught for many years. The author of numerous books of poetry, essays, and translations, she has been a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Other honors include a Guggenheim fellowship, the O. B. Hardison Poetry Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and an award in literature from the Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters. Her most recent collections are Pandemic Almanac (2022) and Ghost Guest (2023).

 

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