Terrain.org Welcomes New Poetry and Nonfiction Assistant Editors

Elizabeth (Betsy) Aoki

Assistant Poetry Editor
Elizabeth (Betsy) Aoki is a 2019 National Poetry Series Finalist. Her poetry collection about women in technology, Breakpoint, went on to receive the Patricia Bibby First Book Award and its signature poem, “Slouching like a velvet rope,” was selected by Jericho Brown as the winner of the 2021 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Aoki has received fellowships from the City of Seattle, Artist Trust Foundation, Jackstraw Writers Program, and Hedgebrook. Her publications include the Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Hunger Mountain, The Seattle Times, Nassau Review, Terrain.org (Letters to America series), Phoebe, Enizagam, Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, Calyx, Asian Pacific Journal, and Southern Humanities Review (as a finalist for Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, judged by Naomi Shihab Nye).

Chaun Ballard

Assistant Poetry Editor
Chaun Ballard is an affiliate editor for Alaska Quarterly Review, a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and a doctoral student. His chapbook, Flight, was the winner of the 2018 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize and was published by Tupelo Press. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Narrative, Rattle,Terrain.org, The New York Times, Tupelo Quarterly, and other literary magazines.

Sean Enfield

Assistant Nonfiction Editor
Sean Enfield is a writer and educator from Dallas, Texas who recently received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. His work has been published in Hayden’s Ferry, Tahoma Literary Review, The Rumpus, among others, and he was the 2020 recipient of the Fourth Genre‘s Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize. Currently, Sean tends to a community garden in the golden heart of Alaska.

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