This is Where

Louise K. Waakaa'igan is enrolled at Odaawaa Zaaga 'iganiing (Lac Courte Orielles Reservation) in northern Wisconsin. Louise is the recipient of the 2017 PEN Poetry Prize for her first-place poem, There is Where. She is also the first-place winner of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop's Broadside Competition (2016). Louise's work has been previously published in PEN America, 21 Mythologies, The Moon Magazine, 27th Letter, Words in Gray Scale, and Doors Adjacent. She was released this year from the Shakopee Correctional Institution in Minnesota.

Randall Horton is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature. His previous work includes the poetry collection Pitch Dark Anarchy (Triquarterly/Northwestern University Press, 2013). Horton serves on the Board of Directors for Pen America's Pen Prison Writing Program and teaches at the University of New Haven. He is a Cave Canem Fellow and a member of both the Affrilachian Poets and the experimental performance group Heroes are Gang Leaders. Horton is also a senior editor at Willow Brooks, an independent literary press he helped found in 2006. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, he now resides in Harlem, New York.