Claudia Emerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her 2005 poetry collection, Late Wife, and served as the poet laureate of Virginia. She was a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and frequently taught at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She died in 2014. Ungrafted includes previously uncollected poems left in manuscript at the time of her death, as well as selections from her eight published collections.
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Tyler Friend was grown — and is still growing — in Tennessee and received their MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Friend is the author of a poetry chapbook, BUNKER, and Him or Her or Whatever is their first full-length collection.
Stephanie Niu is a poet and writer from Marietta, Georgia. I Would Define the Sun, her first full-length poetry collection, won the inaugural Vanderbilt University Literary Prize. She is also the author of the chapbooks Survived By: An Atlas of Disappearance and She Has Dreamt Again of Water. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, Literary Hub, Copper Nickel, Ecotone, and elsewhere.
Ray Zimmerman is a freelance journalist and creative writer living in Chattanooga. He spends time outdoors whenever he can and loves reading and writing about nature.
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Richard Tillinghast’s latest poetry collection, Blue If Only I Could Tell You, won the 27th annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize.
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: John Bensko won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for his first book, Green Soldiers. His other books include The Waterman’s Children and The Iron City. The poem “Snow Day” appears in his 2014 collection, Visitations.
