Jenny Cookson
Poet and scholar Jenny Cookson is a Lecturer in English at the University of Colorado Boulder; she is also on the executive committee for the MLA Genre Studies Nonfiction Prose forum and a reader for the Colorado Book Award. She was formerly Managing Editor for the multi-disciplinary English Language Notes, and has held commercial editorial positions with Doubleday Publishing Group (Random House/Bertelsmann), Kirkus Media, and SPS Studios. Jenny has a PhD in Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry), both from CU Boulder, as well as a BA in English from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. An Americanist, her academic research swims in the liminal spaces between feminism, critical race theory, and space theory. Current experimental projects include: “Castle: Ideologies of Exclusion in American Domestic Space," a monograph; “Strata: Poessays,” a critique of ecofeminist essentialism; “Inoculation: Cotton Mather and the Destroying Angel, Variola or, Smallpox,” a verse history; and “Indigo,” a novel set in the 18th century colonial Atlantic.
Emma Gomis
Emma Gomis is a Catalan American essayist, poet, editor and academic. Her texts have been published in Denver Quarterly, The Brooklyn Rail, Entropy, Asymptote, and Vice Magazine among others and her chapbook Canxona is forthcoming from b l u s h lit. She was selected by Patricia Spears Jones as The Poetry Project’s 2020 Brannan Poetry Prize winner. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where she was the Anne Waldman Fellowship recipient and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in criticism and culture at the University of Cambridge where she also teaches Practical Criticism.