Angela Ball

Angela Ball’s prize winning and frequently anthologized poems and translations have appeared in journals including The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Field, Partisan Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Southern Review. Her books of poetry include Kneeling Between Parked Cars (Owl Creek Press, 1990);Possession (Red Hen, 1995); Quartet (Carnegie Mellon, 1995); and The Museum of the Revolution (Carnegie Mellon, 1999). Her 2007 collection, Night Clerk At the Hotel of Both Worlds (University of Pittsburgh Press), received both the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Poetry and the Donald Hall Prize from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. The recipient of an Individual Writer’s Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Ball has represented the U.S. at the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam, and has been a writer in residence at the University of Richmond and at Chateau Lavigny near Lausanne, Switzerland.

https://www.usm.edu/english/faculty/angela-ball

J.A. Bernstein

J. A. Bernstein is the author of a forthcoming novel, Rachel's Tomb (New Issues, 2019, AWP Award Series), a forthcoming story collection, Stick-Light (Eyewear, 2019), and a forthcoming chapbook, Desert Castles (Southern Indiana Review, 2019, Wilhelmus Award). His work has appeared in Shenandoah, Kenyon Review Online, Tampa Review, Tin House (web), Boston Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and other journals, and won the Gunyon Prize at Crab Orchard Review. He has also published academic essays in The Conradian, Conrad and Nature, and Western American Literature. A Chicago-native, he taught previously as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth and is the fiction editor of Tikkun.

https://www.usm.edu/english/faculty/joshua-bernstein

Olivia Clare

Olivia Clare is the author of a short story collection, Disasters in the First World (Black Cat/Grove Atlantic, 2017). Her novel is forthcoming from Grove Atlantic. She is also the author of a book of poems, The 26-Hour Day (New Issues, 2015). Her stories have appeared in Granta, The American Scholar, Southern Review, n+1, Boston Review, Ecotone, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, London Magazine, FIELD, and elsewhere. In 2014, she won an O. Henry Prize for her first published story, “Pétur.” Her awards include a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship from Colgate University, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and fellowships from the Tin House Writers' Workshop, Vermont Studio Center, and the MacDowell Colony.

https://www.usm.edu/english/faculty/olivia-clare

Adam Clay

Adam Clay is the author of Stranger (Milkweed Editions, 2016), A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, 2012), and The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006). A fourth book, To Make Room for the Sea, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Bennington Review, Denver Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, Georgia Review, Boston Review, Tin House, Iowa Review, jubilat, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Literary Artist Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission. He edits Mississippi Review, co-edits Typo Magazine, and edits book reviews for Kenyon Review.

https://www.usm.edu/english/faculty/adam-clay

Monika Gehlawat

Monika Gehlawat received her Ph.D from UC Berkeley where she specialized in 20th century literature and visual art. Her current book manuscript Defending Dialogue: Literary Voice in Postwar New York studies the writing of James Baldwin, Frank O'Hara, Grace Paley and Andy Warhol, alongside the Habermasian theory. Gehlawat’s published work reflect her longstanding interest to work in the interdisciplinary mode, as do the courses she teaches in modern and contemporary literature, critical theory and visual art. She is the 2013 recipient of USM's Junior Faculty Teaching Award, the Series Editor for Literary Conversations (University of Mississippi Press) and literary critic for The Center for Writers.

https://www.usm.edu/english/faculty/monika-gehlawat