By Some Miracle a Year Lousy with Meteors

Winner of the 2011 Dream Horse Press Chapbook Prize Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis’s book, Intaglio, was published by Kent State University Press in 2006. Her collaborative chapbook, Emuseum, written with Caleb Adler was published in 2009. She currently works at Columbus College of Art and Design where she is the facuty adviser for Botticelli Literary/Art Magazine. Kartsonis lives in Powell, Ohio with cats Cricket and Guthrie and cool-cat, Mitch Lear. Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College and a former Kundiman fellow. Her books include People are Tiny in Paintings of China (Octopus 2010) and Manifest (Gatewood Prize, Switchback 2013). This year she served as a Dodge Poet. Her poems will have appeared his year in Offending Adam, Everyday Genius and American Books, Steck Editions. Her collaborations with Sophia have appeared in Boston Review, New Orleans Review, Black Warrior Review and many others.