Raleigh Review 7.2 (Fall 2017)

CONTRIBUTORS Mario Alejandro Ariza is a Dominican immigrant and a Michener Fellow in poetry at the University of Miami’s MFA program. He holds a Master’s degree in Hispanic Cultural Studies from Columbia University. His poetry can be found in places like The Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, and The Raleigh Review, and his journalism appears in places like The Atlantic and The Miami New Times. He is executive editor of Sinking City Magazine, and an editorial fellow at The New Tropic. His current project is a book-length nonfiction work on sea level rise and Miami.

Amanda Bales received her MFA from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Her work has appeared in Nashville Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Jenna Bazzell received her MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois UniversityCarbondale and her undergraduate degree in English from the University of Alabama-Birmingham. She was a semi-finalist for the Miller Williams Prize, won the 2015 Everett Southwest Literary Award, the 2010 AWP Intro Journal Award for her poem “Wet Field,” and has received two Honorable Mentions from the Academy of American Poets Prize for her poems “Into the Damp Woods” and “Drought.” Her poems have appeared in Passages North, Cream City Review, Fifth Wednesday, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New Madrid, Naugatuck River Review, Southern Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Sou’wester. Jenna is an adjunct instructor at Harrisburg Area Community College and Reading Area Community College in Pennsylvania.

Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, Angela Bilger is a classical musician living in the Philadelphia area with her husband and young son. Her work has recently been published in Rust+Moth and is forthcoming in the minnesota review.

Michelle Bitting’s third collection is The Couple Who Fell to Earth, named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2016. She has poems forthcoming or published in The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative, The New York Times, Vinyl, Plume, diode, the Paris-American, Fjords, and others.

Poems have appeared on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, have been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes, and most recently, The Pablo Neruda, American Literary Review, and Tupelo Quarterly Poetry contests.

Franny Choi is the author of the collection Floating, Brilliant, Gone and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine. She is a Kundiman Fellow, an MFA candidate at the University of Michigan, co-host of the poetry podcast VS, and a member of the Dark Noise Collective.

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