About the Authors
Virginie Poitrasson’s poetry collections include: Une position qui est une position qui en est une autre (éditions Lanskine), Le pas-comme-si des choses (éditions de l’Attente), Il faut toujours garder en tête une formule magique (éditions de l’Attente), Journal d’une disparition (Ink #1), Nous sommes des dispositifs (La camera verde), Tendre les liens (http://www.publie.net), Demi-valeurs (éditions de l’Attente), Série ombragée (Propos2 éditions), and Épisodes de la lueur (L’Atelier du Hanneton). Poitrasson also translates poets Cole Swensen, Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, Marylin Hacker, Charles Bernstein, Jennifer K. Dick, Michelle Noteboom, Shanxing Wang, Rodrigo Toscano, and Laura Elrick for a French audience and has published the following booklength translations: Angle of yaw by Ben Lerner (Joca Seria), First figure by Michael Palmer, with Éric Suchère (José Corti), and Slowly by Lyn Hejinian (Format Américain).
Mary Reilly’s poems and translations have appeared in the New York Quarterly, Soulages: A Century, and most recently the Rattapallax and Bowery Arts & Science collaborative Ghazal “Poetry is Like Bread.” She was the recipient of two Beesen Fellowships (2016, 2018) and a LeClerc (2018) for her research on contemporary French poetry. A curator at Lévy Gorvy from 2018–2020, Reilly headed the gallery’s poetry program, commissioning poems for the exhibition catalogs and running readings.
Lana Lehpamer is an artist living in Zagreb, Croatia. She works with text, poetry, and performance and is currently attending the MA, New Media program at the Academy of Fine Arts. Her poetry can be found here and on Instagram at @makni_se.
Homa Zarghamee is a behavioral economist and author of the chapbook A Long Drawn Face (Finishing Line Press).
Emmalea Russo is a writer and artist whose work combines poetry, media, and philosophy. She is the author of two books of poetry/essay, G and Wave Archive, and several chapbooks. Recent writing has appeared in Artforum, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Granta, Hyperallergic, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is pursuing a PhD in Philosophy and co-edits the multidisciplinary journal Asphalte Magazine.
Claire Dougherty lives in LA where she’s looking for a job. Her poems can be found in Fence and RECLINER.
Bianca Rae Messinger is a poet and translator living and working in Buffalo, NY. She is the author of the long poem The Land Was V There (Poetry Will Be Made By All) and other chapbooks. Her translation of Uruguayan anarchist mauricio gatti’s children’s book in the jungle there is much to do was published for the 2019 Berlin Bienniale. Her chapbook parallel bars will be published this fall by the Center for Book Arts. She writes for ramona (Buenos Aires, AR).
Katherine Gibbel is the author of the chapbook Prairie (Ethel Press). Her poems have been published in The Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Tin House Online, and elsewhere. She lives in Windsor, VT.
Austin Rodenbiker is a poet and editor living in Austin, Texas. His poems have appeared in Prelude, POETRY, Hobart, and Spillway, among other publications.
Guillermo Rebollo-Gil (San Juan, 1979) is a poet, sociologist, and attorney. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Fence, Feed, Mandorla, Spry, Second Factory, Trampset, Trampoline, FreezeRay, and Anti-Heroin Chic. His book-length essay Writing Puerto Rico: Our Decolonial Moment, a careful consideration of the potentialities of radical thought and action in contemporary Puerto Rico, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in their New Caribbean Studies Series. He belongs to/with Lucas Imar and Ariadna Michelle. Happily so.
Ariel Yelen‘s poems and critical work have been published in The American Poetry Review, BOMB, Conjunctions, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn and serves as the Associate Editor for Futurepoem, where she also edits the blog futurefeed.
Patty Nash is a poet and translator. Her work appears in jubilat, West Branch, Denver Quarterly, Oversound, and elsewhere. She lives in Berlin, Germany.
Holly Woodward is a writer and artist. She served as writer in residence at St. Albans, Washington National Cathedral, and was a fellow for four years at CUNY Graduate Center’s Writers’ Institute. She earned her BA from the College of Letters at Wesleyan University, her MFA in fiction at Columbia University, where she was a Woolrich fellow, and a PhD at SUNY Binghamton. She enjoyed a year as a doctoral fellow at Moscow University. She also studied at Leningrad University. Her poetry and fiction have won prizes from Story Magazine, the 92nd Street Y, and New Letters, among other honors.
Emily Barton Altman is the author of two chapbooks, Bathymetry (Present Tense Pamphlets), and Alice Hangs Her Map (dancing girl press). Recent poems are forthcoming or appear in La Vague, Bone Bouquet, Tagvverk, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a Poets & Writers Amy Award and received her MFA from New York University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver.
Noreen Khawaja is a scholar and writer working in multiple genres. Her work has appeared in the Yale Review and Immanent Frame, as well as in numerous academic journals. She is the author of The Religion of Existence: Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre (University of Chicago Press) and teaches in the Religious Studies department at Yale University.
Timmy Straw is a writer, musician, and translator from Oregon. They live in Iowa City.
Sara Gilmore is an MFA candidate in poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and holds a MFA in comparative literature—literary translation. She lives in Iowa City with her young son. Her most recent editing work is with the Iowa Prison Writing Project.
Joe Milutis is a writer, media artist, and Associate Professor in Interdisciplinary Arts and core faculty in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington-Bothell. His excerpt in issue 2 of Second Factory is a creative interpretation of Michael Maier’s 14th emblem in the alchemical book Atalanta Fugiens, part of a long-term project of translating and reinterpreting all 50 emblems, which he has recently completed. His work can be found at joemilutis.com.
