Blackbird ArchiveGregory Kimbrell
Gregory Kimbrell is the author of the poetry collection The Primitive Observatory (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016), which won the 2014 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poetry has appeared in The Abaculi Project and The Laurel Review . His reviews have appeared in Blackbird , for which he served as associate production editor and lead copyeditor. He is the events and programs coordinator for Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries.
Gregory Kimbrell is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Primitive Observatory (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016), which was selected for the 2014 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poetry has appeared in The Abaculi Project and The Laurel Review . His reviews have appeared in Blackbird , for which he served as associate production editor and lead copyeditor. He is the events and programs coordinator for Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries and copyeditor for The Abaculi Project . Photo by Joe Mahoney, 2014
Allison Titus received her MFA in fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2003 and her MFA in poetry from Vermont College in 2005. Her first full-length book of poems, Sum of Every Lost Ship , will be published by CSU Press in 2009. Her chapbook, Instructions from the Narwhal, won the 2006 Bateau Press BOOM Chapbook Prize. Recently, her poems have appeared in absent magazine, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, and Octopus Magazine . One of her stories is forthcoming in Ninth Letter .