Author: binxperino

  • Under Pressure: Megan Peak

    Girldom, Megan Peak  Megan Peak received her M.F.A. in Poetry from The Ohio State University, where she was former Poetry Editor at The Journal.  Her first book of poetry, Girldom, won the 2018 Perugia Press Prize from Perugia Press, the 2019 The John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of…

  • Under Pressure: Melissa Wiley

    Skull Cathedral: A Vestigial Anatomy, Melissa Wiley Melissa Wiley is the author of Skull Cathedral, a book interweaving thoughts on the body’s vestigial organs with autobiographical fragments, which won the 2019 Autumn House Press Nonfiction Contest and was judged by Paul Lisicky. She has also published the personal essay collection Antlers in Space and Other…

  • Under Pressure: Todd Dillard

    Ways We Vanish, Todd Dillard Todd Dillard‘s work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Fairy Tale Review, Booth, The Boiler Journal, Electric Literature, and The Adroit Journal. His debut full-length collection of poetry Ways We Vanish. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and daughter, and works as a writer and editor…

  • Under Pressure: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

    Letters From The Interior, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her first full-length collection of poems, Water & Salt (Red Hen) won the 2018 Washington State Book Award for Poetry. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Arab in Newsland,  (Two Sylvias, 2016), and Letters From The Interior…

  • Under Pressure: Stephanie Cawley

    My Heart But Not My Heart, Stephanie Cawley Stephanie Cawley is a poet from southern New Jersey. She is the author of My Heart But Not My Heart, winner of the Slope Book Prize chosen by Solmaz Sharif, and the chapbook A Wilderness from Gazing Grain Press. Her poems and other writing appear in DIAGRAM, The Fanzine, TYPO, The Boston Review, and West…

  • Under Pressure: Jenny Molberg

    Refusal, Jenny Molberg Jenny Molberg is the author of two poetry collections: Marvels of the Invisible (winner of the Berkshire Prize, Tupelo Press) and Refusal (LSU Press). She has received fellowships and scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sewanee Writers Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and the Longleaf Writers Conference. Her work has…

  • Under Pressure: Kayleb Rae Candrilli

    All The Gay Saints, Kayleb Rae Candrilli Kayleb Rae Candrilli is a 2019 Whiting Award Winner in Poetry and the author of Water I Won’t Touch, Copper Canyon Press 2021, All the Gay Saints, Saturnalia 2020, and What Runs Over, YesYes Books 2017. You can read more of Candrilli’s work here. Interview Bina Ruchi Perino:…

  • Under Pressure: Esteban Rodríguez

    In Bloom, Esteban Rodríguez Esteban Rodríguez is the author of the poetry collections Dusk & Dust, Crash Course, In Bloom, (Dis)placement, and The Valley. His work has appeared in Boulevard, Shenandoah, The Rumpus, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. He is the Interviews Editor for the EcoTheo Review, an Assistant Poetry Editor for AGNI, and a regular reviews…