Ben Rutherfurd is a poet from California. Poems and reviews have appeared in Spork, Green Linden, Territory, The Volta, and others. He is currently a PhD student in English at The University of Georgia, where he is an interdisciplinary fellow through the Lamar Dodd School of Art, and a contributing editor for Green Linden. Claire Tranchino has yet to cross the 98 meridian, although she will be going hiking in Utah this spring with her best friend. A dweller of the northeast, she is looking forward to seeing red rocks and mountains that aren’t glorified hills for the first time. Claire currently studies at the University at Buffalo, where she is an MA candidate in the Poetics Program. Her work has recently been published in Seneca Review. th
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