Jennifer Franklin is the author of three full-length poetry collections, most recently If Some God Shakes Your House (Four Way Books, March 2023), finalist for the Paterson Prize in Poetry and finalist for the Julie Suk Award. Poems from her manuscript in progress, A FIRE IN HER BRAIN, have been published in American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, The Common, “poem-a-day” on poets.org, Poetry Northwest, and the Montreal International Poetry Prize Anthology. Her work has also been published in The Bedford Guide to Literature (Macmillan, 2024), Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift, Gettysburg Review, The Nation, Paris Review, “poem-a-day” on poets.org, and Poetry Society of America’s Poetry in Motion. She is the recipient of a 2024 Pushcart Prize, the 2024 Jon Tribble Editing Fellowship from Poetry by the Sea, a 2025 Broadside Award from Ashland Poetry Press, a 2021 NYFA/City Artist Corps grant for poetry, and a 2021 Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation Literature Award. She is Poetry Reviews coeditor of The Rumpus and coeditor of Braving The Body (Harbor Editions, 2024). Jennifer taught manuscript revision for over ten years at the Hudson Valley Writers Center and now teaches classes privately, offers manuscript consultations, and teaches craft in the Manhattanville MFA Program and 24Pearl Street/Provincetown Fine Arts Center.

Juan Pablo Mobili was born in Buenos Aires, and adopted by New York. His poems appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Hanging Loose Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal and Louisville Review, among others, as well as international publications such as Impspired (UK), Hong Kong Review (Hong Kong, SAR), and The Wild Word (Germany). His work received multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. His chapbook, “Contraband,” was published in 2022, and he is currently finishing his first full-length manuscript of poems. Most recently, he has been appointed Poet Laureate of Rockland County, New York.