Please join us as Christian Bancroft, Niki Herd & Dino Enrique Piacentini their work with us!

Christian Bancroft received his PhD from the University of Houston and is the recipient of a Michener Fellowship. He is the author of a poetry collection, A Ghost Has No Fantasies (2026); a book of scholarship, Queering Modernist Translation: The Poetics of Race, Gender, and Queerness (2020); and a co-edited collection (with Jenny Molberg), Adelaide Crapsey: The Life and Work of an American Master (2018). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Gulf Coast, The Missouri Review, Petrichor, and Prairie Schooner, among others.

Niki Herd is the author of The Stuff of Hollywood (2024), a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and The Language of Shedding Skin (2011), as well as the chapbook _____ , don’t you weep (2022). Herd’s poetry and essays appear in Poem-a-Day, Adroit, Poetry Daily, the New England Review, Salon, and This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, among other journals and anthologies. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, Ucross, Bread Loaf, and Cave Canem. She teaches at Franklin & Marshall College.

Dino Enrique Piacentini’s debut novel, Invasion of the Daffodils, about a Mexican-American family living on an island off the coast of California during the Korean War, was published by Astrophil Press in October 2024. His stories and essays have appeared in One Story, Pembroke, Gulf Coast, Confrontation, The Masters’ Review, and The Massachusetts Review, among other places. A native Californian, he currently lives in Denver, Colorado.