We are delighted to announce that our Series Editor, Steve Bellin-Oka, has selected two chapbooks for publication in the Robin Becker Series: Lowercase Gods by Christopher Nelson, and Night Terrors by Dana Belott. Our thanks to Joshua Davis for serving as first reader this year. Both chapbooks will be published early in 2026. Please join us in congratulating the poets!

Christopher Nelson is the author of Blood Aria (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021)
and five chapbooks, including Blue House, winner of a Poetry Society of America
Fellowship, and Love Song for the New World (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019). A
recipient of the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship and a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, he
is the founding editor of Green Linden Press, a nonprofit publisher dedicated to poetic
excellence and reforestation. He has edited two anthologies, Essential Voices: Poetry of
Iran and Its Diaspora, which received a Midwest Book Award, and Essential Queer
Voices of U.S. Poetry. Visit christophernelson.info.

Dana Belott is a trans poet, multidisciplinary artist, and teacher from woodsy NJ. Their work explores ghosts, queer desire, and the body. Dana received their MFA from Pratt Institute after 5 years teaching creative writing in middle and high schools. They have published over 50 volumes of their students’ writing and are dedicated to art-making as a community practice.