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Kathryn Cowles’s third book of poems, The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor, won the 2025 Fence Modern Poets Prize. Poems from this book won the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Manuscript-in-Progress Award, and collages from it were collected together in Feminine Monstrous, a solo art exhibition. Other books include Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World (Milkweed Editions) and Eleanor, Eleanor, not your real name (Bear Star), which won the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. Her poems and poem-photographs have been published in Best American Experimental Writing, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Diagram,Free Verse, Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, New American Writing, Verse, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-day, and elsewhere. She earned her doctorate from the University of Utah and is an associate professor of English at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in the Finger Lakes region of New York, where she directs (rotating) the Trias Residency for Writers and co-edits the Beyond Category section of Seneca Review.

Brandon Downing’s collections of poetry include The Shirt Weapon, Dark Brandon, AT ME, and Mellow Actions. In 2007, he released a feature-length collection of short digital films, Dark Brandon: Eternal Classics. Fence published Lake Antiquity, his literary collages.