I am a poet and scholar. In both areas, my work centers the epistemological potential of poetic language, with a particular interest in the relationship between poetry and ethics.
Coby-Dillon English is a fiction MFA student from Indiana and Michigan. They hold a BA in English and Political Science from Purdue University and are a current fellow of the inaugural class of the Periplus Collective. An enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, they write stories surrounding mythology, family, and the environment. They currently serve as editor for THiNK Magazine.
My research centers the theory and history of the nineteenth-century British novel: most recently, the ways midcentury novels change at the hands of earlier-century lyric forms. I’m increasingly drawn to the interstices of realism, the everyday, and address, but at the heart of my work is a sustained preoccupation with aesthetic forms and their collisions over time. I am currently completing my Ph.D. in English Language & Literature at the University of Virginia (expected graduation 2023), and I received my B.A.
GREGORY ORR is the author of ten collections of poetry, including the forthcoming How Beautiful the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) and the recent booklength lyric sequence Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2005).
B.A. University of Virginia, 1982
M.S. American University, 1994
B.A. George Mason University, 1997
M.F.A. University of Virginia, 2000
M.S. National Defense Intelligence College, 2010