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David Caplan (he/him) is the Daisy Deane Frensley Chair in English Literature and the author of seven books of literary criticism and poetry, including Rhyme’s Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming, Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form, and American Poetry: A Very Short Introduction (all from Oxford University Press). Twice he has served as a Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature. His other honors include an Individual Excellence Award in Criticism from the Ohio Arts Council and the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry from the Virginia Quarterly Review.

Rosanne Brooks (she/her) is a Ph.D. student at Southern Methodist University. Her primary interest is in how representations of gender attitudes in late Victorian literature reconcile with historical evidence of gender expression in greater print culture. Her work centers on depictions of the British Music Hall as a place where class and gender are both fixed and inchoate. She is the winner of ÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ’s 2023 Pueppke Writing Prize for outstanding graduate student essay.

Lauren Brazeal Garza is the author of four books of poetry and fiction including her memoir-in-verse, Gutter, which chronicles her homelessness as a teenager. She earned her M.F.A in creative writing from Bennington College and her Ph.D. in Literature from The University of Texas at Dallas with a specialty in testimonial literature and narratives from marginalized voices. Lauren teaches literature at UT Dallas and regularly offers creative writing workshops at independent writing schools like Writing Workshops (partnered with Electric Lit) and Hudson Valley Writers Center.

TaylorLight is a poet from Dallas. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming inPloughshares,The Missouri Review,Poetry Ireland Review,Birmingham Poetry Review, Literary Matters, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Florida and has received support from the Convivio Conference in Postignano, Italy. Her upcoming work will be presented at the Marianne Moore Generations Conference at Stanford University. Currently, she is a PhD student at Southern Methodist University with a focus on ecopoetics.

Marimac Carty (she/her) is a Ph.D. student at Southern Methodist University. She earned her B.A. at Dartmouth College before coming to Dallas. As an undergraduate, she wrote a senior thesis in the English Department and led Dartmouth’s Writing Center as the Co-Head Tutor. Combining poetics and narrative theory, her dissertation will focus on narrative poetry.