Kira Tucker

Kira Tucker

Kira Tucker (she/they) is an artist from Memphis and a current MFA+MA candidate in poetry at Northwestern University. Kira’s latest creative project is all about dreams and dreaming—a poetic investigation spanning the mythos of the American Dream and the...
George Abraham

George Abraham

George Abraham (they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet in the Litowitz MFA+MA program. Their debut poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist.
Kayla Boyden

Kayla Boyden

Kayla Boyden (she/her) is a PhD student in the Northwestern University English department. Her research interests include Black contemporary poetry and poetics, Black feminist thought, and Black critical theory.
Ryan Nhu

Ryan Nhu

Ryan Nhu (he/him) is a PhD student in English at Northwestern, where he researches post-1945 multiethnic American literature with interests in psychoanalysis, queer of color critique, and interracial desire.
Viola Bao

Viola Bao

Viola Bao is a PhD student in the Northwestern Comparative Literature Department. Their research focuses on documentary poetics.
Smith Yarberry

Smith Yarberry

Smith Yarberry (they/them) is a PhD student in the Northwestern English department. Their research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century receptions of William Blake. Smith’s first book of poems, A Boy in the City, is now out from Deep Vellum.