Board Members

Michael Davidson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He has written extensively on poetry and poetics (The San Francisco Renaissance, Ghostlier Demarcations, Guys Like Us, On the Outskirts of Form) and more recently on disability issues: Concerto for the Left Hand (University of Michigan), Invalid Modernism (Oxford University Press), and Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error (New York University Press, 2022).  He is the editor of The Collected Poems of George Oppen and has published eight books of poetry, the most recent, Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House). 

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Deaf, genderqueer poet Meg Day is the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street, 2014), winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award. A recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship and an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, Day’s recent work can be found in Best American Poetry 2020 & The New York Times. Day teaches in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University. www.megday.com.

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Orchid Tierney is a poet and scholar from Aotearoa New Zealand, who now lives in Gambier, Ohio. She is the author of the collection a year of misreading the wildcats (The Operating System, 2019) and six chapbooks, including my beatrice (above/ground press, 2020) and ocean plastic (BlazeVOX Books, 2019). Her scholarship, reviews, and poetry have appeared in Jacket2, Venti, Fractured Ecologies, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Y22 Individual Artist Excellence Award. She is an assistant professor of English at Kenyon College and a senior editor at the Kenyon Review. orchidtierney.com.

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