08/09/2023
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Dixon Wingrove is a writer from North Carolina. Before joining the CWW at UNO, He worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Myanmar. His work has appeared in the Blotter Magazine and the Wilderness House Review.
Kay Murphy (MFA Goddard College) is Professor Emerita at the University of New Orleans where she taught in the English Department, the Creative Writing Workshop, the Honors Program, and served as Poetry Editor for Bayou. Her awards include the Louisiana Division of the Arts Individual Artist Grant and a University-wide Excellence in Teaching Award. She has published over fifty
essay/reviews of contemporary poetry in national journals such as The American Book Review; fiction in Fiction International, and poetry in over 100 journals such as North American Review, Poetry, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She is the author of two poetry collections: The Autopsy and Belief Blues. She
has taught in five countries in the study abroad program. She was awarded a UNO author award in 2022 for her anthology, On A Wednesday Night, a collection of poems from MFA graduates and faculty in poetry.
Annalia Hopper is a poet, author, and educator from Indianapolis, Indiana whose work appears in the notes app on her phone and the back of a napkin shoved in her purse. She is a second-year fiction student at UNO's CWW. Before moving to New Orleans, Annalia was a teacher and program coordinator for Indy Reads, a nonprofit that provides free, adult education courses to the Indianapolis area. Currently, she is working on a fantasy-horror novel about a female serial killer who hunts down bad guys, flipping the male gaze back on those that would subdue her feminine rage. When Annalia isn't writing, she can be found petting her cat, Nyx, and listening to true crime podcasts for “book research."
Ben Fluet is a poet, journalist, and filmmaker from Virginia but has been living and writing in New Orleans for two years. This past spring, he released his chapbook “How We Forgot to Sing.” In 2020, Ben directed Meet Me By The Magnolia Tree, a documentary exploring the history of gay men’s lives in Richmond, VA, which aired on PBS and VPM. He received his BS in Mass Communications from Virginia Commonwealth University and is now pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans.