Kenzie Allen is a Haudenosaunee (Oneida) poet and multimodal artist. Her life and work are strongly tied to mapping, journey, and landscape. Born in West Texas, Kenzie has lived in St. Louis, New York, Florida, in a fire lookout tower in the Oregon Cascades, on the Oneida Reservation in Green Bay, and most recently in Trondheim, Norway. She currently lives in Toronto, where she is an Assistant Professor at York University. Kenzie’s most recent project is a multimodal book of poetry which incorporates intergenerational histories and diasporic movements, Haudenosaunee traditions, and archival materials of the Carlisle Indian Boarding School. She received her PhD in English & Creative Writing from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, her MFA in Poetry from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and her BA in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis. Her poems can be found in Boston Review, Narrative Magazine, Best New Poets, and other venues.
Jon D. Lee is the author of three books, including An Epidemic of Rumors: How Stories Shape Our Perceptions of Disease and These Around Us. His poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, Sugar House Review, Sierra Nevada Review, The Writer's Chronicle, One, The Laurel Review, and The Inflectionist Review. He has an MFA in Poetry from Lesley University, and a PhD in Folklore. Lee teaches at Suffolk University.