Colm Scully is from Cork, Ireland. He is an engineer and poetry film maker, as well as poet. He has been published in Cyphers, Crannóg, Philosophy Now and many other magazines and anthologies His poetry films have been shown in festivals around the world, including The Film and Video Poetry Symposium Pasadena, The International Film and Video Poetry Festival Athens, REEL Poetry Houston, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Dublin International Short Film Festival and Cork Indie Film Festival. His films have won prizes at Rabbits Heart Poetry Film Festival 2018 and MicroMania Film Festival, New York 2021 You can watch them at 
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August 31, 2018
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Robin Davidson is a poet, translator, and professor of English at the University of Houston- Downtown. She is author of Luminous Other, recipient of The Ashland Poetry Press’s 2012 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize. She is co-translator with Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska of The New Century: Poems by Ewa Lipska (Northwestern UP)as well as two poetry chapbooks, Kneeling in the Dojo (Finishing Line Press) and City that Ripens on the Tree of the World (Calypso Editions). She has received, among other awards, a Fulbright professorship at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and an NEA translation fellowship.
In May 2015 she was named Houston’s second Poet Laureate by Mayor Annise Parker.
Roy G. Guzmán is a Honduran poet whose first collection is coming out from Graywolf Press in 2020.
Raised in Miami, Florida, Roy is a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. They are also the recipient of a 2017 Minnesota State Arts Board Initiative grant and the 2016 Gesell Award for Excellence in Poetry. Their work has been included in the Best New Poets 2017 anthology, guest-edited by Natalie Diaz, and Best of the Net 2017, guest-edited by Eduardo C. Corral.
Roy also participated in the first Poetry Incubator, sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Crescendo Literary, and was invited to run a workshop during the Incubator’s second year. After the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, their poem “Restored Mural for Orlando” was turned into a chapbook with the help of poet and visual artist, D. Allen, to raise funds for the victims. With poet Miguel M. Morales, Roy edited the anthology Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando, published by Damaged Goods Press.
In 2016, Roy was the recipient of a Scribe for Human Rights Fellowship, focusing on issues affecting migrant farm workers in Minnesota. That same year, they were chosen to participate in the fourth Letras Latinas Writers Initiative gathering, sponsored by Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, in partnership with the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing and the MFA Program at Arizona State University. Roy returned to Arizona as a Letras Latinas Scholar in 2018.
In 2015, they were awarded a GRPP Graduate Research Fellowship to investigate trauma caused by violence in and migration from Honduras. In 2018, Roy was awarded a second GRPP Graduate Research Fellowship to travel to Honduras for research.
Roy holds degrees from the University of Minnesota, Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and the Honors College at Miami Dade College. They currently live in Minneapolis, where they are pursuing a PhD in Cultural Studies (Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society) at the University of Minnesota.
Carmen Giménez Smith is an American poet and lyric essay writer. She has won a number of awards for her poetry including the Juniper Prize for her third collection of poems, titled Goodbye, Flicker, published in 2012. The following year her collection called Milk and Filth won the National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry). In 2010 she was awarded the American Book Award for her memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds. Around the same time she produced three chapbooks” Glitch (2010), followed by Reason’s Monster and Can We Talk Here in 2011.
She joined the creative writing program at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, gained a Master of Fine Arts degree and joined the teaching staff as a Teaching-Writing Fellow. Her latest academic post is at the New Mexico State University, as assistant professor in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing and editing the university literary magazine, Puerto del Sol. She also champions women in the literary world as a committee member of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-director of Canto Mundo, a national organization that cultivates a community of Latinx poets.
Patricia Spears Jones’s poetry collections include Painkiller (2010), Femme du Monde(2006), The Weather That Kills (1995), and several chapbooks. Her work has been featured in numerous anthologies, including Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013), Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days (2010), Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009), and Best American Poetry (2000).
A contributing editor at BOMB magazine, Spears Jones has also served as a program coordinator for the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and led the New Works Program for the Massachusetts Council of Arts and Humanities. Her honors include an appointment as senior fellow for the Black Earth Institute, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Art and the New York Community Trust, and residencies at Yaddo, Bread Loaf, the Millay Colony, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
A resident of New York for more than 30 years, Spears Jones has taught at LaGuardia Community College and Queens College CCNY, Parsons, The New School, and the College of New Rochelle. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
