We are pleased to announce this year’s selections for the A.V. Christie Series. Our series editor, Sandy Yannone, has chosen irene cooper’s disintegration and Iris Rosenberg’s Subway’s like a bell curve to be published in early spring of 2027. We extend our gratitude to Sandy and to our readers, Liz Ahl and Ellen Miller-Mack. Please join us in congratulating the poets!

irene cooper wrote the poetry collections spare change, finalist for the Stafford/Hall Award, even my dreams are over the constant state of anxiety, and octets, a chapbook of original form. she is the author of two novels and a clutch of short stories & essays. irene supports AIC-directed
creative writing, teaches in community, & co-hosts Raging Writers/Spoken Words in the middle
of oregon, where she lives with her people & roxy.

Iris Rosenberg‘s poetry has appeared in River Heron, SWWIM, Thimble, Rust & Moth,
Ekphrastic Review and other literary journals. She lives in New York City with her husband, Stephen Sherman, a painter.

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