While Away

Poet Laureate of Kansas (2017-2019), Kevin Rabas teaches at Emporia State University, where he leads the poetry and playwriting tracks. He has sixteen books, including Lisa's Flying Electric Piano, a Kansas Notable Book and Nelson Poetry Book Award winner. Rabas is the winner of the Langston Hughes Award for Poetry, the Victor Contoski Poetry Award, the Jerome Johanning Playwriting Award, and the Salina New Voice Award.




Linzi Garcia can be found frolicking through fields,

cemeteries, bookstores, and bars across the states. Her full-

length poetry collection, Thank You, was published in 2018 by Spartan Press, and her chapbook about studying abroad in London, Live a Great Story (co-written with Jase Buck), was published by Analog Submission Press (2019). While getting her MA in English at Emporia State University, Linzi worked as the graduate assistant to Poet Laureate Emeritus of Kansas Kevin Rabas and as an editorial assistant with Bluestem Press and Flint Hills Review. Linzi now serves as the publicist at Meadowlark Press and the poetry editor for its imprint, Meadowlark Poetry Press.




Brett Seton was born and raised in Manhattan, Kansas. He graduated from Olathe West High School and now attends The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Brett previously started a now-defunct literary magazine called Astra Magazine which published Kevin Rabas's work alongside Rudy Francisco, Ted Kooser, and Huascar Medina. Brett has published poetry in the American Library of Poetry, Kansas Voices, and Elementia. He is currently editing a second solo poetry manuscript.
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