Sara Wainscott, Elise Paschen, & Jacob Saenz

Sara Wainscott is the author of Insecurity System (Persea 2020) and The Star Cabins (Rescue Press 2026). She lives in Chicago.

Elise Paschen is the author of six poetry collections, most recently, Blood Wolf Moon (winner of the Foreword Indie Book of the Year Award in Poetry and the Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry), as well as Tallchief, The Nightlife, Bestiary, Infidelities (winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize), and Houses: Coasts. Her poems have been published widely, including Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker, A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry and The Best American Poetry. An enrolled member of the Osage Nation, Paschen received the Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs Medal. She has edited or co-edited numerous anthologies, including The Eloquent Poem and The New York Times best-seller, Poetry Speaks. A co-founder of Poetry in Motion, Dr. Paschen teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute…