Contributors Nidhi Agrawal has a background in communication design in health, media and entertainment spaces. She strongly feels that poetry is a deal of joy, she is the author of the poetry collection, Confluence. Her work has been published in California State Poetry Society, University of Tennessee, Chronogram Media, Yale University, South Asian Today, Indian Periodical, Spill Words Press, Rising Phoenix Review, and Setu Journal, and elsewhere. She lives in Bihar, India. Thomas Bonner, Jr. is writing the introduction and notes for the Indonesian translation of Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening and is making revisions on his poetry manuscript “Bagatelles.” His most recent poetry appeared in War, Literature and the Arts. He also wrote the foreword to Mary Queen Donnelly’s A Banks Street Story. An emeritus professor at Xavier and former editor of Xavier Review and its press, he is teaching a research course on Toni Morrison’s fiction. Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan at poetrypacific. blogspot.ca. Credits include eleven Pushcart nominations, nine chapbooks and poetry awards, as well as publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry: Tenth Anniversary Edition & BestNewPoemsOnline, among others. Recently, Yuan served on the jury for Canada’s 44th National Magazine Awards. A native of the Midwest and a graduate of Shimer College, the University of Chicago and the Writers’ Workshop at University of Iowa, where he received his Ph.D., Peter Cooley has lived over half his life in New Orleans; he was Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University from 1975-2018. He has published eleven books of poetry, ten of them with Carnegie Mellon. His work has appeared in The
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