Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach writes poetry from her perspective of having emigrated as a Ukrainian Jewish refugee when she was a child, interweaving commentary on the war in Ukraine with her experience raising a neurodiverse child in America. It is a richly detailed and vivid book we are eager to read.

Jung Hae Chae, a 2022 Finalist, is writing a memoir-in-essays titled Pojangmacha People, which explores what immigrant women-particularly Korean women, bound by the legacy of war and imperialism-inherit from their mothers and grandmothers.

Nicole, a 2017 Finalist, lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family. “What comes / after the after?” asks Nicole Callihan in her poem, “This Strange Garment.” As her poems explore this terrain, they bear witness, with stunning images and aching language, to mothering, the challenging days of lockdown, illness, and the anxiety of life as a person in this world. She lives with her family in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her use of reductive woodcuts is aesthetically appealing while also conceptually challenging, forcing us to reflect on what might have been destroyed in the name of a final product. Katrina Andry, a 2018 Finalist, impressed us with a series of powerful prints that explore the complex experiences of Black lives in America.

Greek love by katherine dunn