Calis, Andrew: - Andrew Calis is a Palestinian-American Catholic poet, teacher, and father. His book of poetry Pilgrimages (Wipf & Stock, 2020) was praised by James Matthew Wilson for having "the intensity of Hopkins" and for "layer[ing] light on light in hopes of helping us to see." His work has been published in America, Dappled Things, St. Katherine Review, Presence, and elsewhere, and his poem "Arab Men Don't Cry, My Father Says" was recently nominated as "Best of the Net." He teaches at Archbishop Spalding High School in Severn, Maryland.