About Noemi

Suzi F. Garcia

Co-Publisher

Suzi F. Garcia is the author of A Homegrown Fairytale (Bone Bouquet, 2020), and, along with José Olivarez, is a Poetry Editor for Haymarket Books. In addition, Suzi recently served as a Guest Editor for Poetry magazine.

Suzi is a CantoMundo Fellow, a Macondista, and she participated in the first ever Poetry Incubator at the Poetry Foundation. She has served as a CantoMundo Steering Committee member, CantoMundo regional director, and a board member for the Latinx Caucus.

Her writing has been featured or is forthcoming from the Offing, Vinyl, Fence Magazine, and more. She has presented at PCA/ACA, AWP, and Console-ing Passions, among other national conferences. Find her at www.suzifgarcia.com or on Twitter at @SuziG.

Anthony Cody

Co-Publisher

Anthony Cody  is the author of Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020), winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize. He is a 2022 Whiting winner, 2021 American Book Award winner, a 2020 Poets & Writers debut poet and a 2020 Southwest Book Award winner. His collection was named a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry, the PEN America / Jean Stein Book Award, the California Book Award, the LA Times Book Award in Poetry, as well as longlisted for The Believer Magazine 2020 Editor’s Award in Poetry.

A CantoMundo fellow from Fresno, California, Anthony has lineage in both the Bracero Program and the Dust Bowl. Anthony co-edited How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology (Heyday, 2011), as well as co-edited and co-translated Juan Felipe Herrera’s Akrílica (Noemi, 2022). He is a MFA-Creative Writing graduate from Fresno State, where he collaborates with Juan Felipe Herrera and the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio. He has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and Desert Nights, Rising Stars Conference. He currently serves as a poetry editor for Omnidawn and is currently visiting faculty for the Low Residency MFA Program at Randolph College.

Sarah Gzemski

Executive Director

Sarah Gzemski is a poet. She is the executive director of Noemi Press and the financial coordinator at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She is an editor and book designer living and working in Tucson, AZ, the ancestral and current home of the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui people. Her current manuscript about growing up an evangelical pastor’s daughter grapples with fundamentalism’s effects on her girlhood/womanhood and confronts its nationalist rhetoric and roots. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Bone Bouquet, Four Chambers, and Cartridge Lit, among others.

Mariah Bosch

Managing Editor

Mariah Bosch (she/they) is a queer Chicana poet and educator from Fresno, CA. She received her MFA in Poetry from Fresno State where she served as a fellow in Juan Felipe Herrera’s Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio & currently teaches first year writing. She has taught poetry to K-college students from throughout the Central Valley. Her poems have been published by the Academy of American Poets, Small Press Traffic, and others. More of her work can also be found at mariahdbosch.wordpress.com.

Diana Arterian

Poetry Editor

Diana Arterian is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Agrippina the Younger (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone, 2025). Her first book, Playing Monster :: Seiche, received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Also forthcoming is Smoke Drifts, her co-translation of Nadia Anjuman’s poetry done with Marina Omar (World Poetry Books, 2025). Diana has penned two chapbooks, With Lightness & Darkness and Other Brief Pieces (Essay Press) and Death Centos (Ugly Duckling Presse). A twice-finalist for the National Poetry Series, Diana’s creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Banff Centre, Caldera, Millay Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo. Her poetry, nonfiction, criticism, co-translations, and conversations have been featured in BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, Georgia Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, NPR, and The New York Times Book Review, and she writes “The Annotated Nightstand” column at LitHub. Diana holds a PhD in Literature and Creative writing from USC, and an MFA from CalArts. She has served as a Poetry Editor at Noemi Press for over a decade.

Sara Borjas

Poetry Editor

Sara Borjas is a self-identified Xicanx pocha and a Fresno poet. Her debut collection, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff was published by Noemi Press in 2019 and received a 2020 American Book Award. Sara was featured as one of Poets & Writers 2019 Debut Poets. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, CantoMundo, The Poetry Foundation, Sewanee Writers Conference, Postgraduate Writers Conference, and Community of Writers. Her poems have been published in The Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares, WorldLiterature Today, The Rumpus, Poem-a-Day by The Academy of American Poets, amongst others, and anthologized in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext (Haymarket Books, 2020), Get Lit: Words Ignite, and forthcoming in Até Mais: Until More: An Anthology of Latinx Futurisms (Deep Vellum, 2024). She believes that all Black lives matter and will resist white supremacy until Black liberation is realized. She teaches creative writing at California State University, East Bay, and stays rooted in Fresno. Find her @saraborhaz or at www.saraborjas.com.

Emily Kiernan

Prose Editor

Emily Kiernan is the author of a novel, Great Divide (Unsolicited Press, 2014). She writes about islands, vaudeville, implacable but unjustified feelings of abandonment, The West, and places that aren’t the way she remembered them. Her short fiction has appeared in Pank, The Collagist, Monkeybicycle, decomP, The Good Men Project, Dark Sky, Redivider, JMWW, and other journals. She resides in Berkeley, California with her man and her dog. More information can be found at emilykiernan.com.

Auden Eagerton

Publicity Coordinator

Auden Eagerton (he/him) is a transgender poet whose work focuses on the intersection of gender identity and complex family trauma. His work has been featured in Across the Margin, peculiar, Whale Road Review, and other journals. His poem, “Concussion/Camellia” was a finalist for Boulevard magazine’s 2022 Poetry Contest for Emerging Writers. He received an MFA from Georgia College & State University in 2023.

Grace Gaynor

Assistant Poetry Editor

Grace Gaynor is a writer from Louisville, Kentucky. She is currently an MFA student studying creative writing at Virginia Tech. She serves as an editor for the minnesota review and SUNHOUSE Literary. Her work can be found in Salt Hill Journal, Lesbians are Miracles, and Wild Shrew Literary Review.

Carmen Giménez

Founder

Carmen Giménez is the author of eight books, including Be Recorder, a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry; Milk and Filth, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry; Goodbye, Flicker, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry; and Bring Down the Little Birds, winner of the American Book Award. The recipient of a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, she teaches at Bennington College and directs the MFA program in creative writing at Virginia Tech.

Evan Lavender-Smith

Founding Editor

Evan Lavender-Smith is the author of From Old Notebooks and Avatar. His stories and essays have been noted in Best American Nonrequired Reading and Best American Essays, adapted for stage and radio, and translated into several languages. Lavender-Smith’s writing has been praised in Bookforum, The Guardian, Harper’s, The Irish Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Vice, and other national and international media outlets. He has recently served as a juror for the National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Capital, the Heinz Foundation, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. He is a member of the Creative Writing Studies Organization’s Board of Directors, the president of Phi Beta Kappa’s Mu of Virginia Chapter, and an assistant professor at Virginia Tech.