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MIRIAM CALLEJA
Miriam Calleja is an award-winning Maltese bilingual freelance poet, nonfiction/fiction writer, ghostwriter, workshop leader, and translator. Her poetry has been published in anthologies and in translation worldwide. Her latest chapbook is titled Come Closer, I Don’t Mind the Silence (BottleCap Press, 2023). Her essays and poems have appeared in platform review, Odyssey, Tupelo Quarterly, Modern Poetry in Translation, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a series of nonfiction hybrid essays.
Greg Brownderville, a professor of English at Southern Methodist University, has published three collections of poetry: A Horse with Holes in It (LSU Press, 2016), Deep Down in the Delta (Butler Center Books, 2012), and Gust (Northwestern University Press, 2011). Greg wrote the lyrics for a musical piece entitled Ripple the Sky, which premiered with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2016. He edits the Southwest Review, the nation’s third-longest-running literary magazine, and directs the Creative Writing program at SMU.
pietro federico
Pietro Federico was born in Bologna, Italy in 1980, and currently lives in Rome. His poetry books include Non nulla (2003, Ibiskos Editore, Empoli), winner of the 2003 prize “Il Fiore” Pistoia; Mare Aperto (Nino Aragno Editore, Turin, 2015), winner of the 2015 Subiaco Award and the 2017 Ceppo Award; and La maggioranza delle stelle--Canto Americano (Edizioni Ensemble, Rome, 2020), translated by John Poch as Most of the Stars (St. Augustine's Press, 2025).
JENNA HARTE
Jenna Harte’s yoga practice began in 2016, and she received her 200-hour teacher-training from Asheville Yoga Center in 2019. Her favorite style of yoga is a slow, warm vinyasa flow where practitioners build strength and also move into stillness, and she is known for frequently pointing out similarities between writing and yoga. In 2023, Jenna received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Georgia State University.
kevin hibbard
Dr. Kevin Hibbard is Professor Emeritus of Music from the University of West Georgia, where he served as director of choirs for thirty-two years. He earned his B A.in music from Luther College in Decorah, IA, and his master's and doctoral degrees in music from Arizona State University. Kevin has sung with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chamber Chorus, and with the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers. He has been the music director of Collegium Vocale in Atlanta since 2001, and also serves as choir director at Grace Lutheran Church in Carrollton, GA.
GENEVA HUTCHINSON
Geneva is a visual artist and received her MFA from the University of Notre Dame and received her BFA in printmaking and BA in communications from Clemson University. She is currently a Postdoc at the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame. Her research and artwork examines the intersections of gender, trauma, and religion. She creates artwork in a variety of mediums, such as textile, embroidery, collage, and installation. She has exhibited in many different galleries and museums across the US and internationally in Ireland, and has received numerous grants for her artistic practice.
Nathan Rees
Nathan Rees is an art historian whose research focuses on the intersections of art, colonization, and religion in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century West. He has published, presented, and curated exhibitions on monuments to Western settlement, representations of Native Peoples, and the theology of visuality. His monograph Mormon Visual Culture and the American West was published by Routledge in 2021.
JONATHON SMITH
Jonathon Smith holds a B.A. in music performance from Lander University, an M.M. in musicology from the University of Tennessee, and Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Illinois. He served as University carillonneur for Lander University and was the first graduate student Chimesmaster for the University of Illinois’ Altgeld Chimes organization. Jonathon is a multi-instrumentalist with experience playing a wide range of musical styles, from the Irish harp and Bulgarian kaval, to classical flute and pipe organ. He is currently lecturer of musicology at the University of Illinois.
Jeffrey Thomson
Jeffrey Thomson is a poet, memoirist, translator, and editor, and the author of multiple books, including most recently Museum of Objects Burned by the Souls in Purgatory (2022) and Half/Life: New and Selected Poems (2019), both from Alice James Books. He also published the memoir fragile, The Belfast Notebooks (poems), The Complete Poems of Catullus, as well as having edited collection From the Fishouse. He has been an NEA Fellow, the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, and the Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellow at Brown University.