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Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom to Muslim parents of Indian descent and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. Alis poetry collections include Sukun, The Voice of Sheila Chandra, Inquisition, Sky Ward, The Fortieth Day, and The Far Mosque, which won Alice James Books' New England/New York Award. His prose includes Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water, winner of the Banff Mountain Book Award in Environmental Literature, and Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry and Poetics of Lucille Clifton, winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism.

John Bonanni is a Cape Cod based writer whose collection retrovirogy won the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry in 2025. Bonanni founded the Cape Cod Poetry Review in 2011, and his poems have appeared in Foglifter, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Florida Review, Washington Square Review, Seattle Review, and Gulf Coast, among others.He is the recipient of grants from the Mass Cultural Council, the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, and Cape Cod Five Educators, scholarships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a residency from AS220 in Providence, RI.