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Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer.
Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. is a poet, translator, critic, and corporate consultant. Poetry collections include After the Operation (Four Way Books 2025), Salient (New Directions 2020) and Series | India (Four Way Books, 2015). Her translations from classical and contemporary Persian include Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season, poems of Forough Farrokhzad (New Directions 2022, Finalist for the PEN Prize for Poetry in Translation (2023) and The Green Sea of Heaven: Eighty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz: 30th Anniversary Edition (Monkfish Publishing 2024). She serves on the Boards of Kimbilio Fiction, World Poetry, Flood Editions, Friends of Writers, The Beloit Poetry Journal Foundation, and Human Rights and Democracy in Iran. She holds a BA and JD from Harvard University and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She was the founding CEO of Conflict Management, Inc. and Alliance Management Partners, boutique corporate consulting firms.
Eve Grubin’s most recent book of poems is Boat of Letters (Four Way Books 2025). Eve holds a PhD on the poetics of reticence from Kingston University London where she was a recipient of an Arts and Humanities Research Council fellowship, and previous degrees in from Smith College (BA), Sarah Lawrence College (MFA) and the Bread Loaf School of English (MA). She is currently a lecturer at NYU London and a tutor at the Poetry School. Eve also teaches online poetry courses on Zoom throughout the year.
Hayden Saunier is the author of six poetry collections, including her most recent book Wheel, published by Terrapin in 2024. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, the Pablo Neruda Prize, the Rattle Poetry Prize, and Gell Poetry Award and has been published widely in journals such as 32 Poems, Shenandoah, Thrush, Southern Poetry Review, The Sun, and Virginia Quarterly Review as well as featured on Poetry Daily, The Writer’s Almanac, and Verse Daily. Hayden is the founder and director of No River Twice, an audience-driven, interactive poetry performance group that offers readings and performances that are never the same twice. She lives on a farm in Pennsylvania.
Lesley Wheeler, Poetry Editor of Shenandoah, is the author of Mycocosmic, runner-up for the Dorset Prize and her sixth poetry collection. Her other books include the hybrid memoir Poetry’s Possible Worlds and the novel Unbecoming; previous poetry books include The State She’s In and Heterotopia, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize. Wheeler’s work has received support from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Workshop, and the Sewanee Writers Workshop. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Poets & Writers, Kenyon Review Online, Ecotone, Guernica, Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere.