Founders

Jennifer Bartlett (she/her) was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and educated at the University of New Mexico, Vermont College, and Brooklyn College. She is the author of Derivative of the Moving Image (UNM Press 2007), (a) lullaby without any music (Chax 2012), and Autobiography/Anti-Autobiography (Theenk 2014). Bartlett also co-edited, with Sheila Black and Michael Northen, Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. Bartlett has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Fund for Poetry, and the Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut. She is currently writing a full-length biography of the poet Larry Eigner.

Connie Voisine (she/her) is the author, most recently, of The Bower (2019) and the chapbook of poems, And God Created Women. Her work has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and has won the Associated Writing Program’s Award in Poetry. She has poems published in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. A former Fulbright Fellow to Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, she lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico and Chicago.

Sheila Black (she/her) received her BA in French Literature from Barnard College, an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry, and MA in English Literature from the University of Montana. She is the author of four poetry collections, most recently, Iron Ardent (Educe Press, 2017), A fifth collection Vivisection is forthcoming form Salmon Poetry in 2022. She is a co-editor of Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press, 2011) and The Right Way to Be Crippled and Naked: The Fiction of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Spectacle, The New York Times, and other places. She was a 2012 Witter Bynner Fellow with the Library of Congress for which she was selected by Philip Levine. She currently lives in San Antonio.