M. Soledad Caballero is a Macondo, CantoMundo, and StoryKnife fellow. Her collection, I Was a Bell won the 2019 Benjamin Saltman poetry prize, was the 2022 International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry book of the year, and a 2022 International Latino Book Award  winner.

Her second collection, Flight Plan, was published by Red Hen Press in September. Her work has appeared in Missouri Review, Iron Horse Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. She is a professor of English at Allegheny College.

Catharina Coenen is the winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. Her essay collection Unexploded Ordnance: What she felt. What they feared. How they survived. What they saw. will be published by Restless Books on October 29, 2025.

Her essays have also appeared in The Threepenny Review, The American Scholar, The Christian Science Monitor, and Best of the Net. She is a professor of biology at Allegheny College.

Sponsored by the John C. Sturtevant Memorial Lectureship and the Professor Bill Bywater Endowment For more information, contact Christopher Bakken at cbakken@allegheny.edu