2019 UW Poetry MFA Graduates Reading

Rebecca Bedell is a trans poet living in Madison, Wisconsin. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Vetch, Salt Hill, Grist, Barely South Review, Ponder Review, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Christopher J. Greggs is a poet, designer, and recording artist living in Madison, Wisconsin. He is a Callaloo and Watering Hole fellow and was the recipient of the Goodman Poetry prize from the City College of New York. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as TriQuarterly, Winter Tangerine, Texas Review, and Great Weather for MEDIA, among others. 

Rebekah Denison Hewitt holds the Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, Gulf Stream, The Pinch, and the Asheville Poetry Review, among others.

Wes Holtermann is the 2019-2020 WICW Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellow. His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, GlitterMOB, Deluge, and elsewhere. He is a gardener from Berkeley, California.

Kabel Mishka Ligot was born and raised in and around Metro Manila in the Philippines. Mishka has work published in Cha, Akda: The Asian Journal for Literature, Culture, and Performance, and CNN Philippines. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he lives in a constant state of wonder and abject horror at the climate.

Alexis Sears is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in the Hopkins Review, Able Muse, [PANK], the Texas Review, Passages North, and elsewhere. She is originally from Palos, Verdes, California.