Visiting Writer

Mitchell L. H. Douglas is the author of dying in the scarecrow’s arms, \blak\ \al-fə bet\, winner of the Persea Books Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor's Choice Award, and Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem, an NAACP Image Award and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominee. His poetry has appeared in Callaloo, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (University of Georgia Press), The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Haymarket Books), Crab Orchard Review, and Ninth Letter, among others. He is a cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets, a Cave Canem graduate, and an Associate Professor of English at Indiana University Indianapolis.

Rosalie Moffett is the author of Making a Living (Milkweed, 2025), Nervous System (Ecco Press), which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book, and June in Eden (OSU Press, 2017). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, New England Review, Narrative, Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana, and the Senior Poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review.