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Editor, Greg McBride

Greg McBride is the author of Guest of Time (Pond Road Press, 2023); Porthole (Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry, Briery Creek Press, 2012); and a chapbook, Back of the Envelope (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2009). Awards include the Boulevard Emerging Poet prize and grants in poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council. His poem, “Know Thyself” was selected for Best American Poetry 2025. HIs work appears in Alaska Quarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, Boulevard, Gettysburg Review, Rhino, River Styx, Salmagundi, Southern Poetry Review. He is a Vietnam veteran, lawyer, and Innisfree’s founding editor. gregmcbridewriter.com.

 

Contributing Editor, Hailey Leithauser

Hailey Leithauser is the author of three collections: Swoop, winner of the Poetry Foundation’s Emily Dickinson First Book Prize (Graywolf, 2013), Saint Worm (Able Muse, 2019), and How to Moth (LSU Press, 2026), forthcoming this summer as part of the Sewanee Poetry Series. Poems from this new collection have most recently appeared, or are soon to appear, in 32 Poems, Copper Nickel, Plume, and Subtropics. Her poem, "Five Postcards," which was featured in Innisfree's Closer Look was selected for Best American Poetry 2025. Her poems appear in Agni, Crazyhorse, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Meridian, Pleiades, and Poetry.

 

Contributing Editor, John Barr

John Barr was President of the Poetry Foundation for its first decade. He is the author of six books of poems and three fine press editions. His work is also widely published in magazines. Recent books, from Red Hen Press, include The Hundred Fathom Curve: New and Collected Poems and The Adventures of Ibn Opcit, a two-volume mock epic. Dante in China, a collection of new poems with introduction by Ilya Kaminsky, was published in 2018. johnbarrpoetry.com.

 

Contributing Essayist, In Memoriam Rod Jellema

Rod Jellema, long associated with the University of Maryland and with The Writer’s Center (Bethesda, MD), won the Towson University Prize for Literature for A Slender Grace. His last book was Incarnality: The Collected Poems (Eerdmans, 2010). Rod was the subject of our Closer Look series in Innisfree 12. rodjellema.com.