Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is a writer and visual artist. He is the author of two poetry books: the
full-length collection Common Grace (Beacon Press, 2022) and Ubasute, winner of the 2020
Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition. His honors include a MacDowell Fellowship, a
Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry, a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist
Award in Literature, and nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets
anthologies. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Plume Poetry,
Poetry Daily, RHINO, Pirene’s Fountain, Cave Wall, and elsewhere. Aaron earned his MFA in
creative writing from Boston University and is also the author and illustrator of Text, Don’t Call:
An Illustrated Guide to the Introverted Life (TarcherPerigee, 2017).
Matthew Thorburn’s most recent book is String, published by Louisiana State University Press in March. He’s also the author of seven previous collections of poetry, including The Grace of Distance, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, and Dear Almost, which received the Lascaux Prize. His work has been recognized with a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, as well as fellowships from the Bronx and New Jersey arts councils. Originally from Michigan and for many years a New Yorker, he lives with his family near Princeton, New Jersey.