Joy Priest

Joy Priest was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky across the street from the world's most famous horse racing track. She is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series and The Atlantic , among others, as well as in commissions for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) and the Los Angeles...See more

Joy Priest was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky across the street from the world's most famous horse racing track. She is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series and The Atlantic , among others, as well as in commissions for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Her essays have appeared in The Bitter Southerner , Poets & Writers , and ESPN . Priest received her MFA in poetry with a certificate in Women & Gender Studies from the University of South Carolina. V. Joshua Adams is the author of a chapbook, Cold Affections (Plan B Press, 2018). Work of his has appeared or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Posit, Painted Bride Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. A former editor of Chicago Review, as well as a translator and critic, he teaches literature and writing at the University of Louisville. makalani bandele is a Louisville native and Affrilachian Poet. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem Foundation, Millay Colony, Kentucky Arts Council, and Vermont Studio Center. Currently a candidate for the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky, bandele's work has been published in several anthologies and widely in literary journals. The author of hellfightin' and under the aegis of a winged mind, awarded the 2019 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, poems from under the aegis have been published in Prairie Schooner, 32poems, and North American Review. Mackenzie Berry is from Louisville, Kentucky. Her poetry has been published in Vinyl, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Hobart, and Blood Orange Review, among others. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison through the First Wave Program and Goldsmiths, University of London, she is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Cornell University. Her debut poetry collection 'Slack Tongue City' is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in 2022. You can find her work at mackenzieberry.com. Steve Cambron 's poetry has appeared in Literary Leo, Word Hotel and Heartland Trail Review and have one two Green River Writers awards. His poetry was choreographed and featured in the Louisville Ballet's 2018 Choreographer's Showcase. He is the creator and host of Flying Out Loud, a monthly reading series featuring some of Louisville's finest writers and poets. He is currently working on an MFA at the Eastern Kentucky University Bluegrass Writer's Studio. Jeremy Michael Clark 's poems have appeared in West Branch, Poetry Northwest, Southern Review, and elsewhere. He holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice and Rutgers University-Newark, where he received his MFA. Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, he is a licensed social worker living in Brooklyn. Bernard Clay is a Louisville, Kentucky, native who grew up in the shadow of the now demolished Southwick housing projects on the "West End" of town. He has spent most of his life in Kentucky cultivating an appreciation, over the years, for the state's disappearing natural wonders and unique but sparse urban areas. Bernard received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Kentucky Creative Writing Program and is a member of the Affrilachian Poets collective. His work has been... See less