Elin O'Hara Slavick is an artist and a Professor of Visual Practice at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of two monographs - "Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography" with a foreword by Howard Zinn, and "After Hiroshima", with an essay by James Elkins. Her visual work has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Images Magazine, FOAM, San Francisco Chronicle, Asia-Pacific Journal, and Photo-Eye, among other publications. Her Surrealist and Dadaist poems have been published in the Papers of Surrealism, Survision, and Lips.

Maria Grazia Calandrone is an Italian poet, educator and radio presenter from Rome. She has published nine collections of her poems, the latest being "Morally Sound" (2017), as well as two books of prose. Her poems also appeared in New Italian Poets 6 and Poets of the Year anthologies. She was the recipient of the Giuseppe Pisano Poetry Award (2013). Her work is available in English translation for the first time.

More than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, what we are witnessing is not a Second Nuclear Age – there is no post-atomic – but an uncanny, quiet return of the nuclear threat that so vividly animated the Cold War era. The renewed threat of nuclear proliferation, public complacency regarding weapons stockpiles, and the lack of a single functioning long-term repository after seventy years and thousands of tonnes of nuclear waste reveals the industry’s capacity for self-reinvention abetted by an ever-present capacity to forget. More than “fabulously textual,” as Jacques Derrida described it, the protean, unbound, and unending materiality of the nuclear is here to stay: resistance is crucial. Toxic Immanence introduces contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives that resist and decolonize the nuclear. Contributors highlight the prevalence and irrationality of slow violence and colonial governance as elements of the contemporary nuclear age. They propose a reappraisal of Cold War-era anti-nuclear art as well as pop culture representations of nuclear disaster, while decolonizing pedagogies advance the role of education in communicating and understanding the lethality of nuclear complexes. Collectively, the essays develop a robust critical discourse across fields of nuclear knowledge and integrate the work of the nuclear humanities with environmental justice and Indigenous rights activism. This reach across ways of knowing extends artistically: the poetry and photography included in this volume offer visions of past and present nuclear legacies. Conceived as a critical reflection on the potential of nuclear humanities, Toxic Immanence offers intellectual strategies for resisting and abolishing the global nuclear regime.

Alexander Korotko is a Russian-language Ukrainian poet from Kyiv. Born in Korosten, Ukraine, he studied economics at Odessa University. His first collection, ?Window?, was published in 1989. Since then he has published more than twenty books of his poetry, including some in translation into English, French, Ukrainian, and Hebrew.

Bob Lucky was educated at Dartmouth College and holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Washington, Seattle, and an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso. He currently lives and works in Saudi Arabia. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in various journals such as Flash, Rattle, KYSO Flash, Modern Haiku and Haibun Today. His chapbook "Ethiopian Time" (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014, ) a collection of haibun, tanka prose and prose poetry, was an honorable mention in the Touchstone Book Awards. He is an editor at Contemporary Haibun Online.

Nicholas Alexander Hayes is a Chicago-based writer and educator. He is the author of "Ante-Animots: Idioms and Tales," "NIV: 39 & 7" (both published by BlazeVOX), "Between" (Atropos), "ThirdSexPot" (Beard of Bees), and "Metastaesthetics" (Atropos). His work has been featured in the anthologies "Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism" and "Quantum Genre in the Planet of Arts." Most recently his creative writing has appeared in "Scab", "Peculiar Mormyrid", "SurVision", and "BlazeVox Journal".