Tinderbox Poetry Journal

(Editor) Lauren K. Carlson (she/her) is the author of Animals I Have Killed (Comstock Review Chapbook Prize 2018). A poet and spiritual director, her work has appeared in Waxwing, Salamander Magazine, Pleiades and others. In 2022 she was awarded the Levis Stipend for her work in progress. She lives with her family in Michigan.  (Poetry Editor) Threa Almontaser is the author of the debut poetry collection The Wild Fox of Yemen (Graywolf Press 2021), winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American poets, the Maya Angelou Book Award, and the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize—and nominated for the National Book Awards and the NAACP. She is a recipient of writing fellowships from Duke University and the Fulbright Program. She earned her MFA from North Carolina State University and teaches English to immigrants and refugees in her area. (Poetry Editor) A writer from Ohio, Geramee Hensley (they/them) is the Social Media Manager for The Kenyon Review. Their work has appeared in Button Poetry, Poets.org, The Journal, the lickety~split, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. They’ve received numerous awards including a 2022 Academy of American Poets Prize, Booth Journal’s 2022 Beyond the Margins Contest Prize, and Frontier Poetry’s 2nd Place Winner for the 2023 Hurt and Healing Prize. They earned their MFA from the University of Arizona, and their work has been supported by the Tin House Summer Workshop.  (Poetry Editor) Emily Wolahan (she/her) lives in San Francisco. She is the author of the poetry collection Hinge (National Poetry Review Press, 2015). Her poetry has appeared in the Boston Review, the Georgia Review, Oversound, and other publications. Her prose can be found in Arts & Letters, Among Margins (Ricochet Editions, 2016), and The New Inquiry. She has won the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize and the Unclassifiables Contest from Arts & Letters. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and an MA in Literature from the University of Houston and is currently pursuing a PhD in Anthropology and Social Change at CIIS. She has received fellowships from the Headlands Center of the Arts and Vermont Studio Center. More can be found at www.emilywolahan.com. (Social Media Editor) Jacqui Zeng’s poems appear in Mid-American, Black Warrior Review, and Yes Poetry, among others. In 2018, Jacqui received an MFA from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.