Editor

Chad Prevost

Chad Prevost has served as Editorial Director of nonprofits Terminus Magazine, and C&R (Conscious and Responsible) Press. He currently runs Game Time Books, LLC with Co-Founder and Illustrator, Brian Woodlief. A Ph.D. in creative writing from Georgia State, Chad is author of several books of poems and prose. He has led workshops and panels at places like Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), Baylor University’s Art and Soul Conference, Austin College, Clemson University, the Yale Writers’ Conference, the Meacham Writers’ Workshop and Lost in the Letters Festival. His writing has been in print in places such as American Poetry Journal, The Good Men Project, Huffington Post, Matter: A Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Seattle Review, Sentence, The Southern Review and the Washington Post.

Advisory Board

Richard Jackson

Richard Jackson has published over twenty books including thirteen books of poems, most recently Traversings (with Robert Vivian) from Anchor and Plumem in 2016, The Heart’s Many Doors (Wings Press, 2017), Retrievals (C&R Press, 2014, Maxine Kumin Award winner), Out of Place (Ashland, 2014), Resonancia (Barcelona, 2014, a translation of Hoeffer Prize winning Resonance from Ashland, 2010), Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (Autumn House, 2004), Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (Ashland, 2003), and Heartwall (UMass, Juniper Prize 2000), as well as four chapbook adaptations from Pavese and other Italian poets. Fifties, a chapbook of prose poems appeared from U of Toledo in 2017 and Broken Horizons will appear from Press 53 in 2018. He has translated a book of poems by Alexsander Persolja (Potvanje Sonca / Journey of the Sun) (Kulturno Drustvo Vilenica: Slovenia, 2007) as well as Last Voyage, a book of translations of the early-20th-century Italian poet, Giovanni Pascoli, (Red Hen, 2010). In addition, he has edited the selected poems of Slovene poet, Iztok Osojnik. He also edited nearly twenty chapbooks of poems from Eastern Europe. His own poems have been translated into seventeen languages including Worlds Apart: Selected Poems in Slovene. He has edited two anthologies of Slovene poetryand Poetry Miscellany, a journal.. He is the author of Dismantling Time in Contemporary American Poetry (Agee Prize), and Acts of Mind: Interviews with Contemporary American Poets (Choice Award). He was awarded the Order of Freedom Medal for literary and humanitarian work in the Balkans by the President of Slovenia for his work with the Slovene-based Peace and Sarajevo Committees of PEN International. He has received Guggenheim, NEA, NEH, and two Witter-Bynner fellowships, a Prairie Schooner Reader’s Choice Award, and the Crazyhorse Magazine prize, and he is the winner of five Pushcart Prizes and has appeared in Best American Poems ‘97 as well as many other anthologies. Originator of VCFA’s Slovenia Program, he was a Fulbright Exchange poet to former Yugoslavia and returns to Europe each year with groups of students. He has been teaching at the Iowa Summer Festival, The Prague Summer Workshops, and regularly at UT-Chattanooga (since 1976), where he founded and directs the Meacham Writers’ Conference. He has taught at VCFA since 1987. He has won teaching awards at UT-Chattanooga and VCFA. In 2009 he won the AWP George Garret Award for teaching and writing.

Cody Taylor

Cody Taylor is a professional writer in Chattanooga, TN. He was recently published in The Heart’s Many Doors: American Poets Respond to Metka Krašovec’s Images Responding to Emily Dickinson (Wings Press, 2017). He has previously edited the Poetry Miscellany’s 45th retrospective issue and served as assistant poetry workshop director on UT-Chattanooga’s creative writing trips abroad in both Slovenia and Portugal.