Elinam Agbo is an assistant professor of English-Creative Writing at Bucknell. Her novel-in-progress has received support from the Les River Fellowship for Young Novelists, and elsewhere. Born in Ghana, she holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. Glorious Piner is the Fall 2023 Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing. A recent MFA graduate of the University of Maryland, she is a poet, podcaster, editor, and professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.