Jacquelyn Alpine is a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Iowa.

Austin Araujo, Wallace Stegner Fellow, MFA in Poetry, and author of At the Park on the Edge of the Country, has work in Poetry, Gulf Coast, and more.

Alayna Becker is a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Iowa.

Learn more about Lauren Childs, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Learn more about Ruben Cota, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Reid Dempsey is a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Iowa.

Ana Eberts is a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Iowa.

Jacob Fidoten is a writer from New York City, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Learn more about Sarah Frank, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Josephine Geiger-Lee is a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Iowa.

Riley Hanick’s Three Kinds of Motion explores American history and identity, blending stories of Kerouac, Pollock, and highways. Award-winning nonfiction editor for New Madrid.

Learn more about Aidan Kendrick, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Learn more about Tianyu (Matt) Ma, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Learn more about Pedro Martinez, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Learn more about Maddie Matsubara, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Learn more about Casie Minot, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Alfred Darryl Moton, PhD student and educator, researches Black Male Studies, racial identity, post-Marxist criticism, and 20th-century Anglophone literature; also a rhetoric instructor.

Khaled Rajeh, PhD student and literary translator from Lebanon, researches translation, postcolonialism, resistance, and Arabic/Palestinian literature; work published in ArabLit and MQR.

Learn more about Nikka Randhawa, graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Riley Ryan-Wood is a writer, educator, and interdisciplinary artist from Austin, Texas. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa. Her work has been supported by the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Mission Creek Festival, and the Yale Writers' Workshop and has been published by Electric Literature and BRINK. She is currently working on an essay collection about rodeo, Buffalo Bill, and other such American mythology.

Brandon Sward is a nonfiction MFA candidate at the University of Iowa.