If you’ll be there too—for AWP—visit us at table T1602.
Author Signings
We’ll be joined by Diode authors Paula Cisewski, Conor Bracken, Emilia Phillips, Philip Metres, Stephanie Niu, Dorothy Chan, Remica Bingham-Risher, KC Trommer & Lee Ann Roripaugh. See the schedule below for timings!
11–12 PM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8
PAULA CISEWSKI's fourth poetry collection, Quitter, won the Diode Editions Book Prize. She is also the author of The Threatened Everything, Ghost Fargo (Nightboat Poetry Prize winner, selected by Franz Wright), Upon Arrival, and several chapbooks, including the lyric prose Misplaced Sinister. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from organizations including the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Oberholtzer Foundation, Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, and House of Helsinglight. Her poems have been featured on Verse Daily and included in the anthologies Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics, Rocked by the Waters: Poems of Motherhood, Rewilding: Poems for the Environment, Beyond the Frame, and New Poetry from the Midwest.
Most recently, her visual work has been featured on the covers of Rain Taxi Review of Books and Concision Literary Journal, in Folder Magazine, and in the group exhibit Beyond the Page: Poets as Artists in the New Year at Friedli Gallery.
While raising her son, Cisewski earned her BA from St. Catherine's University and her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. During those years, she worked in warehouses, was a mosaic artist mentor, owned a coffee shop, and waited one million tables. She lives in Minneapolis, where she teaches writing privately and academically, collaborates, makes visual work, serves as co-editor of Beauty School Editions and as poetry curator for The Waves, a quarterly cabaret of poets and musicians.
2:30–3:30 PM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8
CONOR BRACKEN is the author of The Enemy of My Enemy is Me (Diode Editions, 2021), and Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour (Bull City Press, 2017), winner of the fifth annual Frost Place Chapbook Competition. He is the translator of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Scorpionic Sun (CSU Poetry Center, 2019), and Jean D’Amérique’s No Way in the Skin Without This Bloody Embrace (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). His work has earned him fellowships from Bread Loaf, the Community of Writers, Cornell’s Institute for Comparative Modernities, The Frost Place, Inprint, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and can be found in places like BOMB, New England Review, the New Yorker, Ploughshares, and West Branch. He lives in Ohio, teaches classes with LitCleveland, and teaches in the Liberal Arts department at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
4–5 PM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8
EMILIA PHILLIPS (they/them/theirs) is the author of five poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, including Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (forthcoming, 2024) and Embouchure (2021), and five chapbooks, including Hemlock (Diode Editions, 2019). Their poems and lyric essays appear widely in literary publications including The Adroit Journal, Agni, American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The New York Times, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. They are an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English; MFA in Writing Program; and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at UNC Greensboro, where they regularly teach MFA- and undergraduate-level poetry workshops, Queer Poetry & Poetics, and Women’s Health & Bodies.
11–12 PM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9
PHILIP METRES is the author of twelve books, including Fugitive/Refuge (Copper Canyon 2024). His other works include The Sound of Listening (essays), Pictures at an Exhibition (poems), the translation I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky, Shrapnel Maps and Sand Opera. His work has garnered fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as seven Ohio Arts Council grants, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant, the Hunt Prize, the Beatrice Hawley Award, the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Watson Fellowship, the Lyric Poetry Award, the Anne Halley Prize, the Alice James Award, the Creative Workforce Fellowship, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University.
1–2 PM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9
STEPHANIE NIU is a poet, writer, and digital humanities scholar from Marietta, Georgia. She is the author of Survived By: An Atlas of Disappearance, winner of the 2023 Host Publications Chapbook Prize, and She Has Dreamt Again of Water, winner of the 2021 Diode Editions Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Lit Hub, The Missouri Review, Copper Nickel, The Offing, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for community archiving work on Christmas Island’s immigration and labor history, through which she led free youth poetry workshops and published Our Island, Our Future: A Zine of Youth Poetry On Christmas Island.
2:30–3:30 PM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9
DOROTHY CHAN (she/they) is the author of five poetry collections, including Return of the Chinese Femme (Deep Vellum, forthcoming April 2024), BABE (Diode Editions, 2021), Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). They were a 2023 finalist for the Roethke Poetry Award for Revenge of the Asian Woman, 2022 finalist for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club for BABE, a 2020 and 2014 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a 2020 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry for Revenge of the Asian Woman, and a 2019 recipient of the Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Their work has appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. Chan is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, former Book Reviews Co-Editor of Pleiades, and Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of Honey Literary Inc., a 501(c)(3) BIPOC literary arts organization. Chan was the 2021 Resident Artist for Toward One Wisconsin. They are a 2022 recipient of the University of Wisconsin System's Dr. P.B. Poorman Award for Outstanding Achievement on Behalf of LGBTQ People.
4–5 PM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9
REMICA BINGHAM-RISHER, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is an alumna of Old Dominion University and Bennington College. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Among other journals, her work has been published in the New York Times, the Writer’s Chronicle, New Letters, Callaloo and Essence. She is the author of Conversion (Lotus, 2006) winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan, 2013) shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Award and Starlight & Error (Diode, 2017) winner of the Diode Editions Book Award. Her first book of prose, Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books and Questions that Grew Me Up, was published by Beacon Press in 2022. Her next book of poems, Room Swept Home, will be published by Wesleyan in February 2024. She is currently the Director of Quality Enhancement Plan Initiatives at Old Dominion University and resides in Norfolk, VA with her husband and children.
11–12 PM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10
KC TROMMER is the author of We Call Them Beautiful (Diode Editions, 2019) and The Hasp Tongue (dgp, 2014) and is founder of the poetry project QUEENSBOUND. Since 2018, KC has collaborated with the Grammy Award-winning composer Herschel Garfein on a song cycle based on poems from her first collection. These were included in Garfein’s 2023 release The Layers. She is at work on her second collection of poems, Paragones, which looks at the work and lives of female-identifying artists from across the globe. She is the Communications Director at International House and lives in Jackson Heights with her son.
2:30–3:30 PM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10
LEE ANN RORIPAUGH is the author of four volumes of poetry, the most recent of which, Dandarians, was released by Milkweed Editions in September 2014. Her second volume, Year of the Snake (Southern Illinois University Press), was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004, and her first book, Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin Books), was a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series. The recipient of a 2003 Archibald Bush Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship, she was also named the 2004 winner of the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, the 2001 winner of the Frederick Manfred Award for Best Creative Writing awarded by the Western Literature Association, and the 1995 winner of the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize. Her short stories have been shortlisted as stories of note in the Pushcart Prize anthologies, and two of her essays have been shortlisted as essays of note for the Best American Essays anthology. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Roripaugh is currently a Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, where she serves as Director of Creative Writing and Editor-in-Chief of South Dakota Review.
