The Authors of River River Books
Lauren Mukamal Camp
Author of An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, June 2023)
Lauren Camp is the Poet Laureate of New Mexico and author of five previous books. Her honors include the Dorset Prize and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, Housatonic Book Award, and Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry. She is an emeritus Black Earth Institute fellow and was Astronomer in Residence at Grand Canyon National Park. Her work has been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, and Arabic.
E.G. Cunningham
Author of Field Notes (River River Books, Fall 2025)
E. G. Cunningham was born in South Carolina and grew up in Italy and Florida. Her poems, essays, stories, and hybrid pieces have appeared in or are forthcoming from a wide range of national and international publications, including The Abandoned Playground, Colorado Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Nation, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, Southern Humanities Review, and ZYZZYVA. Her most recent chapbook, Oranges for Venus, was selected as the 2023 1br/3bath Editor’s Choice from Tilted House Press. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Georgia. Read more about her writing and music at egcunningham.com.
Jameela F. Dallis
Author of Encounters for the Living and the Dead (River River Books, Fall 2025)
Jameela F. Dallis lives in Durham, NC. Her publications include poems, interviews, arts journalism, and literary scholarship in Feminist Studies, Honey Literary, The Fight and the Fiddle, Our State, Walter, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison, and elsewhere. She's inspired by memory and desire, the thrill of wandering new cities, and the wonder of everyday encounters. Her work explores texture, taste, sound, sensation, and the richness of visual art. She curated Material Encounters (Peel Gallery, Carrboro, March 2024), juried Scaffold (Artspace, Raleigh, April 2023), and has served on regional curatorial and fellowship committees. Jameela holds a Ph.D. in English from UNC-Chapel Hill and has taught dozens of university courses and facilitated creative workshops for more than a decade. Originally from Chattanooga, TN, Jameela received her B.A. in English from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and holds both an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from UNC-Chapel Hill. Read more about her work at jameeladallis.com.
Rachel Edelman
Author of Dear Memphis (River River Books, January 2024)
Rachel Edelman is a Jewish poet raised in Memphis, TN. She has received fellowships and residencies from the University of Washington, the Academy of American Poets, Mineral School, and Crosstown Arts. Her poems have been published in Narrative, Poetry Northwest, Muzzle Magazine, The Threepenny Review, and The Seventh Wave, among many other journals. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Kenyon Review online and the Ploughshares blog, where she wrote a year-long series on poetry to imagine the Anthropocene. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington and a BA in English and geology from Amherst College. She teaches high school English in Seattle.
Carla Sofia Ferreira
Author of A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us (River River Books, January 2024)
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Carla Sofia Ferreira is a poet and teacher from Newark, New Jersey. Author of micro-chapbook Ironbound Fados (Ghost City Press 2019), her poetry and prose have appeared in The Rumpus, Glamour, Washington Square Review, december, EcoTheo, underblong, Okay Donkey, and Cotton Xenomorph, among others. A recipient of fellowships from the Sundress Academy for the Arts and DreamYard Rad(ical) Poetry Consortium, her poetry has received several nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. One of three students selected to write a creative thesis in poetry during her senior year at Harvard College, Ferreira holds graduate degrees in English and education from the University of Cambridge and Stanford University, respectively. The daughter of Portuguese immigrants, her writing explores transit and transience, urban geographies and distance, tenderness and translation. Her work as an English teacher continues to inform and nourish her writing as a practice of community and care.
Beth Gilstrap
Author of There Is News Along the Ohio River (River River Books, Spring 2026) Plainwater Nonfiction Series
Beth Gilstrap (she/her) is a writer from Charlotte, North Carolina who likes to play with genre lines. She is the author of two story collections including Deadheading & Other Stories (2021), winner of the Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Prize, and I Am Barbarella: Stories (2015) from Twelve Winters Press. She is also the author of the chapbook No Man’s Wild Laura (2016) from Hyacinth Girl Press & EIC/publisher of the goth/punk zine, Black Lily. Her essays, stories, and hybrids have appeared in Poets & Writers, Wigleaf, Craft, Bending Genres, and The Cincinnati Review, among others. She and her house full of critters currently call the Charleston-metro area home. As a neurodivergent human who lives with c-PTSD, she is quite vocal about ending the stigma surrounding mental illness.
J.D. Ho
Author of Backyard Alchemy (River River Books, Spring 2026)
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J.D. Ho was born by the sea, raised on a rock, schmoozed in Hollywood, drove to Austin, Texas for an MFA, and now lives among foxes and deer on a sliver of east coast green. J.D.’s work has appeared in Georgia Review, Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, and other journals.
Elane Kim
Author of Antibody (River River Books, Spring 2026)
Elane Kim is a Korean American writer from California. The editor-in-chief of Gaia Lit, she is the recipient of the 2024 Roger Conant Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry, the winner of the 2021 Columbia Journal Winter Poetry Contest, and a Davidson Fellow in Literature. Her writing can be found in Poetry, Narrative Magazine, One Teen Story, and more. She is the author of Postcards (Bull City Press, 2022) and a student at Harvard College.
Jennifer A Sutherland
Author of House of Myth and Necessity (forthcoming Spring 2026) and Bullet Points (River River Books, June 2023)
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Jennifer A Sutherland is an attorney and an educator in Baltimore, MD. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets, the Denver Quarterly, the I-70 Review, Parhelion, the Hollins Critic, and elsewhere. Bullet Points is her first book.
Elizabeth Sylvia
Author of Scythe (River River Books, Spring 2026)
Elizabeth Sylvia’s first book, None But Witches: Poems on Shakespeare’s Women (2022), won the 2021 3 Mile Harbor Press Book Award. She has been a semifinalist or finalist in competitions sponsored by the Burnside Review, C&R Press, DIAGRAM, Thirty West, Rare Swan and Wolfson Press, and is a reader for SWWIM Every Day. She has received fellowships from the West Chester University Poetry Center and the Longleaf Writers Conference. She is the winner of the 2023 riverSedge Poetry Prize. Her chapbook My Little Book of Domestic Anxieties is forthcoming from Ballerini Press.
Preeti Vangani
Author of Fifty Mothers (River River Books, Spring 2026)
Preeti Vangani is an Indian poet & writer based in San Francisco. She is the author of Mother Tongue Apologize (2019), winner of the RLFPA Poetry Prize. Her work has been published in AGNI, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner among several other places. Her debut short story won the 2021 Pen/Dau Emerging Writers Prize. Vangani has been a resident at UCross, Djerassi and Ragdale. She has received artist grants from San Francisco Arts Commission and YBCA through which she facilitates poetry workshops rooted in writing grief through joy. She holds an MFA in Writing from University of San Francisco.
Joe Wilkins
Author of Pastoral, 1994 (January 2025)
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Joe Wilkins was born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana and now lives with his family in the foothills of the Coast Range of Oregon. He is the author of the novels Fall Back Down When I Die (2019) and The Entire Sky (2024), both published by Little, Brown and Company. A finalist for the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, Fall Back Down When I Die won the High Plains Book Award. Wilkins is also the author of a memoir, The Mountain and The Fathers, and four previous collections of poetry. Wilkins directs the creative writing program at Linfield University and is a member of the low-residency MFA faculty at Eastern Oregon University.
Zoë Ryder White
Author of The Visible Field (River River Books, Spring 2026)
Zoë Ryder White (she/her) has had poems appearing in Tupelo Quarterly, Iterant, Plume, and Threepenny Review, among others. Her most recent chapbook, Via Post, was a finalist for Tupelo Press’ Snowbound Chapbook award and won the Sixth Finch chapbook contest in 2022. Her chapbook, HYPERSPACE, was the editors’ choice pick for the Verse Tomaž Šalamun Prize in 2020 and is available from Factory Hollow Press. She co-authored A Study in Spring, with Nicole Callihan. Another collaboration with Nicole, Elsewhere, won the Sixth Finch chapbook competition in 2019. A former elementary school teacher, she edits books for educators about the craft of teaching.
Corrie Williamson
Author of Your Mother's Bear Gun (River River Books, January 2025)
Corrie Williamson was born and raised on a small farm in southwestern Virginia and now makes her home in Montana. She is the author of two previous poetry collections, The River Where You Forgot My Name, selected for the Crab Orchard Series and a finalist for the 2019 Montana Book Award; and Sweet Husk, winner of the 2014 Perugia Press Prize. Her work has appeared recently in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Pleiades, Copper Nickel, Cascadia Field Guide, and many other venues. She was the 2020 Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency fellow, spending 7.5 months living off-grid in southwest Oregon’s Rogue River wilderness.