Han VanderHartis a queer writer living in Durham, North Carolina, under the pines. Their second poetry collection,
Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025), was selected by Chanda Feldman as winner of the 2024 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Han is also the author of the chapbook
Hawk & Moon (Bottlecap Press, 2025) and
What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021) and has essays and poetry published in Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, AGNI, and elsewhere. Han hosts
Of Poetry Podcast and, alongside
Amorak Huey, co-edits the poetry press
River River Books.
Amorak Huey (uh-MOR-ack) is the author of four books of poems including
Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-founder with Han VanderHart of
River River Books, Huey teaches in the BFA and MFA programs at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He also is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook
Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2024) and
Slash/Slash (2021), winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Prize. Huey is a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, and his poems have appeared in
The Best American Poetry,
American Poetry Review,
The Southern Review,
The Missouri Review, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, and many other print and online journals.