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on Theater after Film by Martin Harries

By Minou Arjomand
From the Spring 2026 Issue

Minou Arjomand is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment (Columbia University Press, 2018) and is currently writing a book about motherhood, performance, and reproductive rights.

on Mirror by Zhang Zao, translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

By Christina Cook
From the Spring 2026 Issue

Christina Cook is a poet, translator, essayist, and book critic. She is the author of Roaming the Labyrinth with Marie-Claire Bancquart (AIM Higher Press, 2025), speculative nonfiction combining poetry, prose, and translation, and A Strange Insomnia (Aldrich Press, 2016), a poetry collection. A former higher education speechwriter and writing professor, Cook lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

on Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir by Vidyan Ravinthiran

By Rishi Dastidar
From the Spring 2026 Issue

Rishi Dastidar’s fourth collection of poetry is Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak (Nine Arches Press, 2026). His third collection, Neptune’s Projects (Nine Arches Press, 2023), was longlisted for the Laurel Prize, and a poem from it was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2024. He is chair of Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing; a trustee of the Wordsworth Trust; and a regular poetry reviewer for The Guardian.

“I See It Feelingly”: On Criticism in Dark Times (on Nan Z. Da’s The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear)

By Thomas Dai
From the Spring 2026 Issue
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Thomas Dai

Thomas Dai is the author of Take My Name but Say It Slow: Essays (W. W. Norton, 2025). He teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho.

Julie Wills: Interiors

By Brian Hitselberger
From the Spring 2026 Issue

Brian Hitselberger works across drawing, text, bookmaking, and print processes in a call-and-response manner. He is the founder of the Weather Station, an artist-run project space, and Two Steps Press, an independent publishing imprint. He is a senior lecturer in art and design at Purdue University.

Subwalls

By Julie  Wills 
From the Spring 2026 Issue

Julie Wills (b. 1974) is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, drawing, and text. She studied at the University of Colorado at Boulder (MFA) and the University of Montana (BFA, MA in Art Criticism). Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad, including an upcoming solo exhibition at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, in fall 2026. Wills has received awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and fellowships and residencies from Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, KORDON, Hambidge, Jentel, and PLAYA, among others. Originally from Colorado, she is based in Baltimore and is an associate professor of studio art at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.

Given How the God for Whom We Reserve All Our Awe Is Our Everyday Absence & Census

By Mark Anthony Cayanan
From the Spring 2026 Issue

Mark Anthony Cayanan lives in Angeles City, Philippines. An associate professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman, they obtained an MFA from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and a PhD from the University of Adelaide. Their most recent poetry collections are Miracle Fever, forthcoming in 2026 from Northwestern University Press, and Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous (Giramondo, 2021). 

Self Portrait of Helen after Troy; So You Want to Speak to the Witches?; & Subject Potential

By Elfrieda Amaka Nwabunnia
From the Spring 2026 Issue

Elfrieda Amaka Nwabunnia is a writer and educator based in New York City. She holds an MFA in poetry from University of California, Irvine, where she was awarded the Schaeffer Fellowship for Writing in Translation. A writer interested in feminist narrative theory, postcoloniality, and Afro-surrealism, her work has been published in The Southeast Review. 

During the Storm, the City Reassures Me & I’m Not Here to Speak Until You Feel Clarity

By Asa Drake
From the Spring 2026 Issue

Asa Drake

Asa Drake is a Filipina/white poet in Central Florida. She is the author of Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026) and Beauty Talk (2026), winner of the Noemi Press Book Award. A National Poetry Series finalist, she is the recipient of fellowships and awards from 92NY’s Discovery Poetry Contest, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and other organizations. Her poems are published or forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, and Poetry. 

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