LIANE STRAUSS is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which, The Flaws in the Story (Marsh Hawk Press, 2024), was chosen by Mary Jo Bang as the winner of press’s annual poetry prize.
A. E. STALLINGS’ most recent book, which began as a set of essays in The Hudson Review, is Frieze Frame (Paul Dry Books, 2025), a history of poets and the marbles of the Parthenon. She is currently serving as the 47th Oxford Professor of Poetry.
WENDY VIDELOCK lives on the edge of a canyon in western Colorado. Her most recent book is Desert Kin: Speaking Animal in the American Southwest, Essays and Poems (Able Muse Press, 2026).
EMMA BOLDEN* is the author of a memoir, The Tiger and the Cage (Soft Skull, 2022). Her fourth poetry collection, God Elegy, is forthcoming from BOA Editions.
DAVID LEHMAN received The New Criterion Poetry Prize for his book of sixty sonnets, Ithaca (Criterion Books, 2026).
ELISABETH MURAWSKI’s most recent publications are Alias Irene (Fernwood Press, 2026) and a chapbook, Voyage to the End (SurVision Books, 2026), which won the 2025 James Tate Poetry Prize.
REBECCA FOUST’s books include Only (Four Way Books, 2022) and You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems (Blue Light Press, 2026). She was the 2017–19 Marin County Poet Laureate.
SHAHRIAR SHAAMS* was awarded the 2026 A.C. Bose Grant by the Speculative Literature Foundation. He is from Dhaka, Bangladesh, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas.
PATRICIA HOOPER’s most recent books of poetry are Separate Flights (2016) and Wild Persistence (2019), both from the University of Tampa Press.
YARA ZGHEIB* is a Lebanese-born novelist and poet living in Paris. She is the author of No Land to Light On (Atria Books, 2022), which was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
MARY JANE WHITE’s latest books are Dragonfly. Toad. Moon. (Press 53, 2022) and a translation of After Russia by Marina Tsvetaeva (Adelaide Books, 2023).
JOYCE WILSON’s new book is The Morning After Burns Night (Kelsay Books, 2026).
BOB JOHNSON’s short story collection, The Continental Divide (Cornerstone Press, 2025), was longlisted in the PEN/Bingham Awards and included in Lit Hub’s 100 Notable Small Press Books.
RACHEL HADAS’ new book, My Cloak Is Poetry, a prosimetrum, is due out from Able Muse Press in 2027.
ERICK NEHER has published and lectured widely and works in magazine publishing.
KAREN WILKIN took part in a discussion of Jules Olitski’s work at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire.
MARINA HARSS’s critical biography of the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky’s Life in Ballet, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2023.
BROOKE ALLEN’s latest book is Good Bones: Glorious Relics from the Age of Reading (Tivoli Books, 2025).
MEG SCHOERKE lives in San Francisco.
BRUCE WHITEMAN’s latest book of poems is Mere Oblivion (Anstruther Press, 2026). He divides his time between Peterborough, Ontario, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
SUSAN BALÉE lives in Marin County. She has been writing for The Hudson Review since 1992.
DAVID MASON’s latest book is Cold Fire (Red Hen Press, 2026). He lives in Tasmania.
WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD’s next piece for us will be on Harold Bloom’s letters.
*Asterisk indicates a new contributor