JAMES CAMPBELL’s latest book is NB by J.C.: A Walk Through The Times Literary Supplement (Paul Dry Books, 2023).
 
ANTONIO MUÑOZ MOLINA’s novel Your Steps on the Stairs was published in the U.S. by Other Press in April.
 
JEFFREY T. BERSETT* teaches Spanish and Film Studies at Westminster College in Pennsylvania.
 
RICHARD SMITH* is a clinical psychologist in Washington, D.C. His first book, Not a Soul But Us: A Story in 84 Sonnets, was the winner of the 2021 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize and was published in 2022 by Bauhan Publishing, which in 2026 will also publish Beyond Where Words Can Go: A Novel in 100 Sonnets, from which the selection in this issue was excerpted.
 
BRECHT DE POORTERE* was born in Belgium and grew up in Africa. He currently lives in Paris.
 
DAVID HAMILTON has retired from the University of Iowa.
 
AARON POOCHIGIAN’s latest poetry collection, American Divine, the winner of the Richard Wilbur Award, came out in 2021 (U. of Evansville Press). His Four Walks in Central Park: A Poetic Guide to the Park will be published by Familius Press in September.
 
CALLY CONAN-DAVIES lives by the sea in southern Tasmania.
 
ELIZABETH SPIRES is the author of seven collections of poetry, including The Wave-Maker (2008) and A Memory of the Future (2018), both published by W. W. Norton. She recently retired from teaching and lives in Baltimore.
 
DEAN FLOWER edited an anthology called Great Short Works of Henry James (Harper & Row, 1966) with a fine cover drawing by Leonard Baskin, befitting the Master’s fine intelligence. He is retired now, after 53 years of teaching.
 
BROOKE ALLEN is a literary critic who lives in Hudson, New York.
 
ERICK NEHER is Vice President of Marketing for Hearst Magazines.
 
KAREN WILKIN and artist Catherine Murphy recently had a conversation as part of the New York Studio School lecture series.
 
BECKY Y. LU teaches Western music history and theory at Baruch College.
 
BRUCE WHITEMAN’s most recent book is Work to Be Done: Selected Essays and Reviews (Biblioasis, 2024).
 
CHARLES MCGRATH’s memoir The Summer Friend was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2022.
 
DAVID MASON’s new book of poems, Cold Fire, will appear in 2026 from Red Hen Press. He lives in Tasmania.
 
ASAKO SERIZAWA was born in Japan and raised in Singapore, Jakarta, and Tokyo. Her debut book of fiction, Inheritors (Doubleday, 2020), won the PEN Open Book Award and The Story Prize Spotlight Award.
 
TOM WILHELMUS is a writer who lives in Evansville, Indiana.

 

*Asterisk indicates a new contributor.