Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, chosen by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the 2010 Benjamin Saltman Award and published by Red Hen Press. A Cave Canem alumna, her poetry has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Callaloo, Gulf Coast, Harvard
Review, Indiana Review, Narrative Magazine, Subtropics, The Winter Anthology and other journals.
Bianca Spriggs, an Affrilachian poet and Cave Canem fellow, Spriggs is a multidisciplinary artist who lives
and works in Lexington, Kentucky. Currently a doctoral student at the University of Kentucky, she holds
degrees from Transylvania University and the University of Wisconsin.
Marcus Wicker’s first book Maybe the Saddest Thing, was selected by DA Powell for the National Poetry Series and is forthcoming from Harper Collins in 2012. The recipient of a 2011 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, he has also held fellowships from Cave Canem, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Indiana
University where he received his MFA.
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