Contributors

Inbar Gidron is a PhD candidate at Tel Aviv University and the recipient of the Ignatz Bubis grant and the 2025 Pozis Foundation Grant for Outstanding Research. Her dissertation explores postintersectionality through the poetics of attachment, drawing on queer, psychoanalytic, and deconstructive approaches to twentieth-century fiction. Her current research explores attachment, identity formation, and female friendship in contemporary literature.

Cynthia Hogue is professor emerita of English at Arizona State University and an award-winning poet, editor, and translator, with published works spanning nearly forty years. A selection of her monographs from the last fifteen years includes Instead, It Is Dark (Red Hen Press, 2023); Distantly (with Sylvain Gallais) (Omnidawn Press, 2022); In June the Labyrinth (Red Hen Press, 2017); Joan Darc (with Sylvain Gallais) (La Presse, 2017); Revenance (Red Hen Press, 2014); Fortino Sámano (with Sylvain Gallais) (Omnidawn, 2012); and When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina (with Rebecca Ross) (U of New Orleans P, 2010). Her essays have been published in numerous journals and poetry collections, including ISLE, Jacket2, The Emily Dickinson Journal, Inciting Poetics (U of New Mexico P, 2019), Everywoman Her Own Theology: On the Poetry of Alicia Suskin Ostriker (U of Michigan P, 2018), and A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2016). Cynthia is currently finishing a manuscript of her poems titled “The Witness Tree.”

Lizzy LeRud is an assistant teaching professor at the University of Oregon and a coeditor, with Caroline Gelmi, of Teaching Poetry Now (forthcoming 2026, SUNY P). Her essays have been published in Genre, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Nineteenth-Century Prose, The Poetry Foundation, The Routledge Companion to the Literature of the U.S. South (Routledge, 2022), and The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem (Edinburgh UP, 2021). Currently, Lizzy is writing "Radical Rule-Makers," which documents two centuries of poetic forms invented by Black American poets.

Brett Sigurdson is a faculty member at Alexandria College. His published work includes contributions to Rethinking Kerouac: Afterlives, Continuities, Reappraisals (Bloomsbury, 2025) and The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac (Cambridge UP, 2024). He is currently revising his dissertation on Jack Kerouac for publication as a monograph.

Emily K. Yoon is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, who has published articles in Amerasia and Modern Language Studies. Her current book project, “Little Intimacies: Ecologies of Race, Migration, and Relation in Minority Literatures,” explores how the environments surrounding global migrations shape minoritized characters’ experiences and understandings of race and relation.

Guizhen Zhang is an associate professor at Fujian Normal University and the author of A Study of the British Short Story from the Perspective of Space (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2022). Her published articles appear in Foreign Literature Studies, the Journal of Fujian Normal University, and Chinese Social Sciences Today. Currently, Guizhen is working on a series of essays that explore decolonial and ecological themes in Doris Lessing’s African Stories as well as one on representations of aging in contemporary Chinese fiction.