The Hopkins Review 17.1: Are you with us?

From Gioncarlo Valentine’s collaborative cover image, Self-Portrait with Dawit, through guest editors Leila Easa and Jennifer Stager’s provocative folio of scholarship and art, “Locating a Collective Lyric ‘I,’” you’ll find engagement with plurality and the relational self throughout this winter issue. Come read, reflect, and connect in great company. 

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Established in 1947 and relaunched in 2008, The Hopkins Review is a journal of literature and culture from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. It is published in partnership with Hopkins Press, America’s oldest university press.

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  • In this issue and beyond, you’ll cross languages, borders, and cultures; you’ll also experience the rich artistic life of The Hopkins Review’s home city. This juxtaposition of global and local reflects our belief in conversation across real and perceived distances—art and scholarship, tradition and innovation. Our community includes readers, writers, artists, and scholars; the staff of the Hopkins Press Journals Division; esteemed advisory and contributing editors; and a brilliant editorial team of students in the Writing Seminars at JHU. We hope the issues in 2023’s volume—our 16th in THR’s “New Series” founded by John T. Irwin in 2008—provide both escape and connection.

  • Julián David Bañuelos, Sarah Beckmann, Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer, Bethany Dixon, Leila Easa, Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Crystal Favorito, Eileen G’Sell, Briony Hughes, Christine Hume, Virginia Jackson, N. Jane Kalu, Laura Larson, Michael Leong, Chloe Martinez, James Miller, Mirabai (c. 1498–c. 1547), Tonee Moll, Amy Newman, David Ishaya Osu, Cristalina Parra, Michael Pearce, Antonia Pozzi (1912–1936), Related Tactics, Margaret Ronda, Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody, Jennifer Stager, Gioncarlo Valentine, Marcus Wicker, Kandis Williams

  • On the cover is Baltimore-born photographer Gioncarlo Valentine’s Self-Portrait with Dawit (2020). As part of its special folio, 17.1 also features a full-color selection of works by Kandis Williams (also born in Baltimore), preceded by an essay by Williams.


  • Meet the Artist

    featured in 17.1–4

    Gioncarlo Valentine (b. 1990) is an award-winning photographer and writer. Valentine hails from Baltimore City and attended Towson University, in Maryland. Backed by his seven years of social work experience, his photographic work seeks to examine issues faced by marginalized populations, most often focusing his lens on the experiences of Black/LGBTQIA+ communities.

  • Meet the Translator

    featured in 17.1

    Amy Newman’s latest book is An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Happiness and Unhappiness (Persea). Her translations of Antonia Pozzi’s poems and letters appear in Poetry, Harvard Review, Blackbird, Atlanta Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her awards include a MacDowell Fellowship and the John Frederick Nims Prize for Translation.

  • Meet the Writer

    featured in 17.1

    N. Jane Kalu is a creative writing and literature doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. Her short fiction has been featured or is forthcoming in American Short Fiction, Boston Review, Isele Magazine, Munyori Journal, and elsewhere. She’s working on a novel and a collection of short stories.

  • Meet the Poet

    featured in 17.1

    Tonee Moll is a queer & trans poet & essayist. She is the author of You Cannot Save Here and Out of Step: A Memoir. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from University of Baltimore and a PhD in English from Morgan State University.

  • Meet the Writer

    featured in 16.4

    T.J. Benson is a writer and visual artist from Nigeria who has published three books of fiction and regularly facilitates writing workshops. He founded Za! magazine and completed residencies like Art Omi New York and Moniack Mhor, Scotland.

  • Meet the Poet

    featured in 16.4

    S. Brook Corfman is the author of the poetry collections My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites, one of The New York Times Best Poetry Books of 2020, and Luxury, Blue Lace, winner of the 2018 Autumn House Rising Writer Award chosen by Richard Siken.

  • Meet the Writer

    featured in 16.3

    Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist and a community performance artist. Her third poetry collection, Gut Botany, was named one of the top 10 US poetry books of 2020 by the New York Public Library, and won the 2022 Award by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.

    Photo credit: Tamara Wade

  • Meet the Writer

    featured in 16.3

    Vauhini Vara is the author of the novel The Immortal King Rao and the story collection This Is Salvaged. Vara’s other stories have been published in magazines including One Story, Tin House, and McSweeney’s. She is the winner of an O. Henry Award.

  • Meet the Poet

    featured in 16.2

    Tsitsi Ella Jaji’s poetry collections include Mother Tongues (Cave Canem/Northwestern Press Prize 2018); Beating the Graves; and Carnaval (a chapbook in the New Generation African Poets series). She teaches English and African/African American Studies at Duke University, and is the author of Africa in Stereo: Music, Modernism and Pan-African Solidarity.

  • Meet the Artist

    featured in 16.1-4

    Born in Seoul, Se Jong Cho makes art to explore the extents of her imagination and broaden the creative domain. She began painting while pursuing her PhD in environmental engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Her training as a scientist taught her to become observant and think critically, and she cultivated her brand of creative expression that combines multidisciplinary perspectives.

    Photo credit: Marc Miller

  • Meet the Critic

    featured in 15.1-present volume

    Eileen G’Sell is a poet and critic with recent contributions to The Baffler, Current Affairs, LARB, Oversound, Hyperallergic, and DIAGRAM, among other outlets. Her first volume of poetry, Life after Rugby, was published in 2018; her second book, Francofilaments, is forthcoming in 2024 from Broken Sleep Books. In 2023, she was a recipient of the Rabkin Foundation prize in arts journalism. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

Meet the Artist

featured in 17.1-4

Gioncarlo Valentine (b. 1990) is an award-winning photographer and writer. Valentine hails from Baltimore City and attended Towson University, in Maryland. Backed by his seven years of social work experience, his photographic work seeks to examine issues faced by marginalized populations, most often focusing his lens on the experiences of Black/LGBTQIA+ communities.