Jordi Alonso graduated with an AB in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Kenyon College in the spring of 2014, where he studied poetry and literary translation. He currently is the Turner Fellow in Poetry at SUNY Stony Brook Southampton and has been published or has work forthcoming in "The Southampton Review", "Noble/Gas Qtrly", "Roanoke Review", "The Lyric", and other journals. His first book, a collection of erotic poems inspired by Sappho entitled "Honeyvoiced" was published by XOXOX Press in November of 2014. He is the Poetry and Translation Editor of "The Whale". His chapbook, "The Lovers’ Phrasebook", is forthcoming from Red Flag Poetry Service in 2017