Who We Are
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David Caplan
David Caplan (he/him) is the Daisy Deane Frensley Chair in English Literature and the author of seven books of literary criticism and poetry, including Rhyme’s Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming, Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form, and American Poetry: A Very Short Introduction (all from Oxford University Press). Twice he has served as a Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature. His other honors include an Individual Excellence Award in Criticism from the Ohio Arts Council and the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry from the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Staff
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Rosanne Brooks - Coordinator
Rosanne Brooks (she/her) is a Ph.D. student at Southern Methodist University. Her primary interest is in how representations of gender attitudes in late Victorian literature reconcile with historical evidence of gender expression in greater print culture. Her work centers on depictions of the British Music Hall as a place where class and gender are both fixed and inchoate. She is the winner of èßäÊÓƵapp’s 2023 Pueppke Writing Prize for outstanding graduate student essay.
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Marimac McRae - Social Media Co-Manager
Marimac McRae (she/her) is a Ph.D. student at Southern Methodist University. She earned her B.A. at Dartmouth College before coming to Dallas. As an undergraduate, she wrote a senior thesis in the English Department and led Dartmouth’s Writing Center as the Co-Head Tutor. Combining poetics and narrative theory, her dissertation will focus on narrative poetry.
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Jordan Young - Social Media Co-Manager
Jordan Young (she/he/they) is a senior at Southern Methodist University, studying creative writing. Her poetry focuses on the modern pressures of identity and how she navigates these struggles as an individual. After graduating, she hopes to get her MFA and start a small press. She is the 2023 winner of èßäÊÓƵapp's Margaret Terry Crooks award and the 2024 2nd place winner of èßäÊÓƵapp's David R. Russell Poetry prize.
Advisory Board
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Katie Condon
Katie Condon is the author of Praying Naked, winner of the 2018 Charles B. Wheeler poetry prize. Her poetry has recently appeared in the New Yorker and the American Poetry Review and is forthcoming in the 2025 anthology of Best American Poetry. Condon has received fellowships and support from the National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell. She is an assistant professor in the English department at Southern Methodist University, where she teaches creative writing and edits a line of poetry for Project Poëtica / Bridwell Press.
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Anthony J. Elia
Anthony J. Elia has been the J.S. Bridwell Foundation Endowed Librarian and Director of Bridwell Library, èßäÊÓƵapp since 2018. His research and publications cover areas of theology, literature, and history, especially related to environmental and geographic studies. In 2019, he co-edited a book on Tatar literature (Kazan, Russia). He is also a composer of contemporary classical music, including recent works "Orpheus in Cyberspace" (Viola Sonata, 2020) and "Voyages d'hiver" (24 Preludes for Piano, 2022).
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Mag Gabbert
Mag Gabbert is the author of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS, which won the Charles B. Wheeler Prize and the Writer’s League of Texas Book Award in Poetry; the chapbook The Breakup, which won the Baltic Writing Residencies Chapbook Award; and the chapbook Minml Poems. Her work can also be found in Poetry Magazine, The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review Daily, Copper Nickel, Guernica, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Mag is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Discovery Award from 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center, and fellowships from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Idyllwild Arts, and Poetry at Round Top. She has an MFA from UC Riverside and a PhD from Texas Tech, and she currently teaches at Southern Methodist University and serves as the Poet Laureate of Dallas, Texas.
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Dan Moss
Dan Moss is Associate Professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, having received his B.A. from Brandeis and his Ph.D. from Princeton, where he was a Mellon Fellow. Specializing in late 16th-century poetry and drama, Dan’s book, The Ovidian Vogue: Literary Fashion and Imitative Practice in Late Elizabethan Poetry (Toronto, 2014), maps the wide-ranging effects of Ovid’s pre-eminence as a source for imitation by the poets and playwrights of the 1590s. His work has also appeared in Modern Philology, Critical Survey, Spenser Studies, The Spenser Review, and in edited collections. In his spare time, Dan is putting the finishing touches on The Faerie Queene.