POETIC PROSE

JULIE MARIE WADE is a member of the creative writing faculty at Florida International University in Miami. A winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and the Lambda Literary Award for lesbian memoir, her collections of poetry and prose include Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, Small Fires: Essays, Postage Due: Poems & Prose Poems, When I Was Straight, Same-Sexy Marriage: A Novella in Poems, Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing, and Skirted. Her collaborative titles include The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, written with Denise Duhamel, and Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, written with Brenda Miller. Wade makes her home in Dania Beach, Florida, with her spouse, Angie Griffin, and their two cats. Her newest projects are Fugue: An Aural History (New Michigan Press) and Otherwise: Essays (Autumn House Press), selected by Lia Purpura for the 2022 Autumn House Press Nonfiction Book Prize.

KELLE GROOM is a poet and memoirist. Her most recent book is How to Live: A Memoir-in-Essays (Tupelo Press). She previously published I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl, which was a Barnes & Noble Discover selection, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, and an O Magazine selection. She is also the author of four poetry collections including, most recently, Spill. Groom is an NEA Fellow and two-time Florida Book Award winner. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Ploughshares, and Poetry.

SOPHIE KLAHR is a poet, teacher, editor, and the author of Meet Me Here at Dawn, There is Only One Ghost in the World – co-authored with Corey Zeller and winner of the Ronald Sukenick innovative fiction contest – and her latest book, Two Open Doors In a Field (The Backwaters Press). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry London, and elsewhere.