Vermont Studio Center

Heidi Reszies was a VSC James Merrill Poetry Fellow in October 2015. She is the author of two collections of poetry: Illusory Borders (published by The Operating System, 2019) and Of Water & Other Soft Constructions (selected by Samiya Bashir as winner of the 2018 Anhinga Robert Dana Prize for Poetry).

Of Water & Other Soft Constructions is available for purchase online through Anhinga Press (please see link on my website: heidireszies.com/books )

Amaud Jamaul Johnson is the author of three poetry collections, Imperial Liquor (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), Darktown Follies (Tupelo Press, 2013), and Red Summer (Tupelo 2006). A former Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford, his honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Dorset Prize, and fellowships from MacDowell, VSC, Bread Loaf, and Cave Canem. His work has appeared in The Southern Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and Best American Poetry. He teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a resident in April 2019.

Avia Tadmor was a Vermont Studio Center poetry fellow in June 2018. She holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University, and is a Language Lecturer at New York University’s Expository Writing Program.

Genevieve DeGuzman (VSC, James Merrill Poetry Fellow, September 2019) writes stories and poems. Her poetry appears or will appear in Cimarron Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Folio, RHINO, Rust + Moth, phoebe, and elsewhere. “Topsy” was originally published in Glass. Born in the Philippines, raised in California, she currently lives in Portland, Oregon where she brews kombucha and gazes dreamily at Wy’east, while perpetually perfecting her hygge and a novel-in-progress.

Read “Topsy” in Glass

Link: http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2019/february/deguzman-topsy.html

Twitter: @gen_deg

Web: genevievedeguzman.carbonmade.com

Ricardo Hernandez is the son of Mexican immigrants. A recipient of fellowships from Lambda Literary, Poets House, and Poets & Writers, his work has appeared in Muzzle, Witness, Hyperallergic, and elsewhere. A semifinalist for the 2019 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest, Ricardo holds an MFA from Rutgers-Newark and lives in Jersey City. "Feedback" was written at Vermont Studio Center when he was a resident in September 2019. It is published in MumberMag and you can read it here: https://www.mumbermag.me/2020/01/11/feedback-by-ricardo-hernandez-image-proof/

Nandi Comer is the author of the American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press) and Tapping Out (Northwestern University Press, May, 2020). She is a Cave Canem fellow as well as a Callaloo fellow. She is a 2019 Kresge Artist Fellow. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Green Mountains Review, Muzzle, The Offing, and Southern Indiana Review. She was a resident for the first time in May 2010 and most recently, this past year. She was a staff artist August 2014-July 2015. This poem is published in her upcoming book, which you can purchase here: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/tapping-out

Social media: @nandicomer (Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter)

Tessa Micaela is the author of Where Bells Begin (Rescue Press, November 2019) and there are boxes and there is wanting (Trembling Pillow Press 2016). Currently living and working in central Vermont, Tessa practices clinical herbal medicine and generative/reproductive care. Tessa was a VSC Vermont Week resident in April of 2018. You can read the poem below.

website: tessamicaela.com

IG: turkeyvultures

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at last/ the body is so salty that/its long story dissolves/the mirror

-after Inger Christensen

lacewing aflame, lacewing longs for sound, and chicory

and lengthened dashes of blue, the world wets and waters and warms, turns

the corner to sundown and ice again, stretching

horizon of broken, or cracked and shattered silhouettes

of hooves or claws, how close they’ve come

in the dark, human animals wake to stories of ecology, home

disordered beneath carbon cover, I mean to say lace

exists, lace and amines and teeth and balsam nests and titles

which sideways into making in the night and humans dream,

and gossamer gas lines protrude across corn and memory,

it is too cold to have children anymore,

and plastic dolls and cigarettes embracing in the floating

continents which gather near the ice islands, and here

the Winooski river, frozen, or nearly so, and fragmites exist,

beside cattails and calamus, in swamps that refuse

construction, poisoned by Boeing and Lufthansa,

thudding across the corroded sky and honey and clocks

tremble on shelves, faucets ignite, and the bones,

bones so dry their long song hoarsely lingers, at last, aflame.

Benjamin Aleshire received a James Merrill Fellowship to attend VSC in March, 2020. His work has appeared in The Times UK, Iowa Review, Boston Review, Lit Hub, and London Magazine, and he has received support from Bread Loaf, the Vermont Arts Council, and the University of New Orleans. Ben travels the world with a manual typewriter, composing poems for strangers in the street. The first chapter of his novel-in-progress, POET FOR HIRE, was selected by Nathaniel Rich as the winner of the 2019 Words & Music Festival prize. "Love Poem" is from Ben's poetry manuscript, FAKE NOOSE, a finalist for the 2020 Alice James Award. He lives in New Orleans, and serves as a contributing editor for the Green Mountains Review.

A Cave Canem alum, Richard Hamilton's poems have appeared in The Ringing Ear: Lean South, Cave Canem Anthologies, CONSEQUENCE magazine, and Steel Toe Review. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Alabama and MA in Arts and Philosophy from New York University. He has been awarded fellowships from the Chautauqua Literary Arts Festival and The Vermont Studio Center where he was resident in August 2019. His first collection of poetry, due out this Fall, will be published by Re-Center Press. He lives in Washington, DC.

Jennifer Sperry Steinorth is a poet, educator, interdisciplinary artist and licensed builder. Her first full-length book, A Wake with Nine Shades, was published by Texas Review Press in 2019. A hybrid text of visual poetry/erasure is forthcoming from TRP in 2021. Her poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Colorado Review, jubilat, Mid-American Review, Poetry Northwest, Quarterly West and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Connecticut River Review Prize, a Writers@Work fellowship and grants from Warren Wilson College, the Sewanee Writers Conference and Vermont Studio Center where she was a resident in January 2017 and October 2018. The poem "Wake In The Woods" was first published in Sycamore Review.

Link to order book: https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781680031911/a-wake-with-nine-shades/

Website: https://www.jennifersperrysteinorth.com/

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