Sharona Muir

Sharona Muir is the author of Invisible Beasts: Tales of the Animals That Go Unseen Among Us, along with a memoir, The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secrets of My Father’s Lives, a book of poetry, During Ceasefire, and a scholarly study, The Artificial Paradise: Science Fiction and American Culture. Her poetry and prose have appeared in numerous journals including the New York Times; she is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, two Ohio Arts Council Fellowships, and College English Association of Ohio Nancy Dasher Book Award for The Book of Telling.

https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/english/people/sharona-muir.html

Lawrence Coates

Lawrence Coates is the author of five books, including the novels The Goodbye House (2015), The Garden of the World (2012), The Master of Monterey (2003), and a novella, Camp Olvido. His work has been recognized with the Western States Book Award in Fiction, the Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, the Nancy Dasher Award in Creative Writing (for The Garden of the World), and the Miami University Press Novella Prize. He is the recipient of Creative Writing Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Work in Progress: Boom, a novel.

www.lawrencecoates.com

Larissa Szporluk

Larissa Szporluk is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Startle Pattern, 2015: Willow Springs Editions, and Traffic with Macbeth, published by Tupelo Press in 2011. Her books have won the Iowa Prize, the Foreword Book of the Year, and the Barnard Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ohio Arts Council. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 1999, 2001 and 2012, and many other anthologies. Work in Progress: Rogue’s March; The School of Apocalyptic Flying.

https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/english/people/larissa-szporluk.html

Abigail Cloud

Abigail Cloud is the Editor-in-Chief of Mid-American Review. Her poetry collection, Sylph, won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize from Pleiades Press. Her poems have appeared in journals such as American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, and The Gettysburg Review. She is currently working on a poetry collection, The Oracle’s Stenographer.

https://casit.bgsu.edu/midamericanreview/

F. Daniel Rzicznek

F. Daniel Rzicznek is the author of three poetry collections, Settlers (forthcoming from Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press), Divination Machine (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press) and Neck of the World (Utah State University Press), as well as four chapbooks, most recently Live Feeds (Epiphany Editions). He is coeditor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice (Rose Metal Press). His recent poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in West Branch, Willow Springs, Colorado Review, 32 Poems, TYPO, Terrain, The Collagist and elsewhere. Rzicznek teaches writing at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.

https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/english/people/frank-daniel-rzicznek.html

Jessica Zinz-Cheresnick

Jessica Zinz-Cheresnick is a writing instructor at Bowling Green State University, focusing on arts-based teaching and learning. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Licking River Review, Fjords Review, and Rubbertop Review. She has published art, poetry, and hybrid poetry, most recently in RHINO Magazine, Harpy Hybrid Review, and The Art Students League of New York. With a background in mixed media arts and creative writing, she practices and is interested in hybrid creative writing forms and visual poetry. Word and image collage, found poetry and arts, and comic-style hybrid work have been more recent focuses of her work.

https://www.instagram.com/jessicadawnzinzart/?hl=en

Joe Celizic

Joe Celizic is an Associate Teaching Professor at Bowling Green State University. His fiction has appeared in North American Review, Indiana Review, Third Coast, Cutbank, and Redivider, and has been shortlisted in Best American Mystery Stories. He is currently represented by Writers House Literary Agency.

https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/english/writing/faculty-staff/joe-celizic.html

Mike Schulz

"As a teacher of writing, I want my students to learn how to improve their writing skills and to be proactive in gaining the knowledge to do so. I want them to care about writing as a form of communication and expression. And if they feel that they don’t have the ability to become a better writer, then they need to know that they can improve and that I am there to guide them. With higher education becoming more of a means for employment and less of a way for students to explore learning, it is important for students to understand that learning how to create, learning how to read and write critically, and learning how to express themselves with written ideas are skills that transcend disciplines. When taking one of my courses, I hope students understand that being able to write well is a reflection of their ability to think and communicate clearly.

Ultimately, it is my responsibility to provide students with as much information and assistance as I can to help them become more successful students and writers. In composition courses, this approach requires significant individual attention to the writing that each student produces and an understanding about how each student’s attitude and skill set may differ. As I learn these characteristics of students I expect them to understand these characteristics about themselves as well and to take the initiative to improve where needed. The most successful students in my courses seem to be those who want to learn, who want their writing to get better, and those who take responsibility for their decisions."

https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/english/writing/faculty-staff/mike-schulz

Amanda McGuire Rzicznek

M.F.A. Poetry, West Virginia University

B.A. English, Kent State University

Research Interests: college composition; contemplative pedagogy; graphic facilitation; literature for children and young adults; interdisciplinary studies.

Together with Elizabeth Loo Zemanski, they received the 2020 BGSU College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Award. The award was first given in 2012, and is intended to honor faculty leadership of student projects and initiatives around diversity.

https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/english/people/amanda-mcguire-rzicznek.html

Reema Rajbanshi

Reema Rajbanshi is a creative and critical writer whose short fiction explores the contours of girlhood, violence, immigration, and landscape through semi-experimental forms. Her writing has been published in the Chicago Quarterly Review, Confrontation, and Southwest Review, among others, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her collection won the 2015 Maurice Prize Fiction contest, was runner-up for the 2017 2040 Books contest, and won the 2018 Women’s Prose Prize for Red Hen Press. Her book Sugar, Smoke, Song was published in 2020. She completed her BA at Harvard University, her MA at UC Davis, and her PhD at UC San Diego.

Amorak Huey

Amorak Huey is a poet and professor, a writer and sometime journalist, a decent dad and a mediocre slow-pitch softball player, an occasional essayist and co-founder of River River Books, a small poetry press which will publish its first books in June 2023). He pronounces his first name uh-MOR-ack. He holds a B.A. in English from Birmingham-Southern College and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Western Michigan University. He is author of four poetry collections: Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021); Boom Box (Sundress Publications, 2019); Seducing the Asparagus Queen (Cloudbank Books, 2018), winner of the Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize; and Ha Ha Ha Thump (Sundress Publications, 2015); two poetry chapbooks: The Insomniac Circus (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2014) and A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road (Porkbelly Press, 2016); and is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, published by Bloomsbury Academic (January 2018), and the poetry chapbook Slash / Slash (2021), winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Prize.