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Aug 31, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Donika Kelly |Gabrielle Calvocoressi |Melissa Faliveno |Rickey Fayne

Donika Kelly is the author of The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and Bestiary, the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Kelly is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a founding member of the collective Poets at the End of the World. She currently lives in Iowa City, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa.

Aug 31, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Zoe Bossiere |Gabrielle Calvocoressi |Melissa Faliveno |Rickey Fayne

Zoë Bossiere (she/they) is a nonfiction writer and the managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. She is the coeditor of The Best of Brevity (Rose Metal Press, 2020) and The Lyric Essay As Resistance: Truth from the Margins (Wayne State University Press, 2023). Bossiere’s debut memoir, Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir, is forthcoming from Abrams Books.

Aug 31, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | S. Brook Corfman |Gabrielle Calvocoressi |Melissa Faliveno |Rickey Fayne

S. Brook Corfman is the author of the poetry collections My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites (Fordham, 2020), one of The New York Times Best Poetry Books of 2020, finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award, and winner of the Fordham University Press POL Prize chosen by Cathy Park Hong; and Luxury, Blue Lace (Autumn House, 2019), chosen by Richard Siken for the Rising Writer Prize. Read more at @sbrookcorfman and sbrookcorfman.com.

Aug 31, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Sreshtha Sen |Gabrielle Calvocoressi |Melissa Faliveno |Rickey Fayne

Sreshtha Sen is a poet from Delhi. They studied Literatures in English at Delhi University, and completed their MFA at Sarah Lawrence College and their PhD at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in Apogee, bitch media, Hyperallergic, Hyphen Magazine, The Margins, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Sen has previously worked at Poets & Writers, The Believer, and UNLV, and is currently an assistant professor in expository writing at NYU.