Selected by Kyle Dargan
Melissa Dias-Mandoly, Planet Untouchable
William Fargason, Inheritance
Edgar Kunz, Salvage

Selected by Cate Marvin
David Welch, Wonderful

Selected by Patrick Rosal
Hafizah Geter, Un-American

Selected by Brenda Shaughnessy
Jennifer Whalen, Eveningful
Amanda Galvan-Huynh, Fray
Liza Flum, Guy Lines

ABOUT THE 2017 CHAPBOOK FELLOWS

zakia henderson-brown is of starshine and clay lineage. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow, a 2016 Poets House Emerging Poets fellow, and has received additional fellowships and support from the Fine Arts Work Center and Callaloo Journal. She has been in residence at the Vermont Studio Center and the Louis Armstrong House Museum, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2013. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in African American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, North American Review, the Offing, Vinyl, Washington Square Review, and others. zakia earned an MFA in Poetry and Literary Translation from Queens College and a BA from Wesleyan University. She currently serves as associate editor at nonprofit publisher The New Press and lives in her native Brooklyn.

Esther Lin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and lived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant for 21 years. Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, the Cortland Review, Crazyhorse, Drunken Boat, the Missouri Review Online, and Vinyl. She is a 2017–19 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and is the recipient of the Crab Orchard Review's 2018 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize, the inaugural Undocupoets fellowship, and a Poets House Emerging Poets fellowship.

Nicholas Goodly received a Teaching Fellowship from Columbia University. Nicholas is a Cave Canem Fellow and was a finalist in the 2017 Tennessee Williams Poetry Contest and a finalist in the 2016 Academy of American Poets Prize. Nicholas is the writing editor of WUSSY Magazine and creator of the LGBT reading series Loudspeaker and currently lives in Atlanta, GA.

Emily Hunerwadel is a MFA candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She was a finalist for Columbia Journal's 2016 Winter Contest. Her work has been published in the Vassar Review, Elke: A Little Journal, and Ursus Americanus Press among other journals. Born and raised in the deep south, she currently lives in Western Massachusetts.