We are pleased to announce this year’s selections for the Robin Becker Series. Our series editors, Steve Bellin-Oka and Joshua Davis, have chosen Chris Gylee’s Homo Lines and Robin Arble’s Riverring to be published in 2027. Each author will receive twenty free copies of their chapbook and a 100-copy initial print run. Please join us in congratulating the poets!

Chris Gylee (he/him) is a queer writer and artist living in rural Finland. His poems include the micro-chapbooks Ten For ‘A’ and Songs for Our Future Selves (both Ghost City Press). His writing has appeared in & Change, Feral (TUO TUO), Frozen Sea, Fruit Journal, Fruitslice, GARLAND (Fifth Wheel Press), Impossible Archetype, Ink Sweat & Tears, meanwhile: bloom (living language), Powders Press, Tenebrae (Fathomsun), Seaford Review, Tidskriften Astra, and Under the Radar (Nine Arches Press). Chris was longlisted for the Cúirt New Writing Prize 2023 and shortlisted for the Katrina Collins Poetry Prize 2025.

Robin Arble ‘s poems have appeared in beestung, Passages North, Poetry Online, and Quarter After Eight, among others. She studied literature and creative writing at Hampshire College and lives in western Massachusetts.