CONTRIBUTORS

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Dominique Ahkong is a London-born, Singapore-raised, Arizona-based writer of Chinese-Mauritian descent. Her work has appeared in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. She holds degrees from Middlebury College and NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and coedits Shō Poetry Journal. Find her on Twitter @domkeykong.

 

Devon Balwit’s work appears here, as well as in The Worcester Review, The Cincinnati Review, Tampa Review, Barrow Street, Rattle, Sierra Nevada Review, and Grist, among others. Her most recent collections are We Are Procession, Seismograph (Nixes Mate Books, 2017), Dog-Walking in the Shadow of Pyongyang (Nixes Mate Books, 2021), and Spirit Spout (Nixes Mate Books, 2023). For more, visit Pelapdx.wixsite.com/devonbalwitpoet. 

 

Ruth Bavetta’s poems have appeared in North American Review, Nimrod, Rattle, Slant, American Journal of Poetry, Atlanta Review, Tar River Poetry, and many other journals and anthologies. She likes the light on November afternoons, the music of Stravinsky, the smell of the ocean. She hates pretense, fundamentalism, and sauerkraut.

 

Allison Field Bell is originally from northern California but has spent most of her adult life in the desert. She is currently pursuing her PhD in prose at the University of Utah, and has an MFA in fiction from New Mexico State University. Her work appears in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Gettysburg Review, New Orleans Review, West Branch, Epiphany, The Cincinnati Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Hunger Mountain Review, The Pinch, and elsewhere. Her micro-essay “Girls Are Always” won Quarter After Eight's 2021 Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Contest; her story “Of the Eating Variety,” (Ruminate), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021; and her essay “The Body, The Onion: A Balagan,” (Shenandoah), was a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2021. Find her at AllisonFieldBell.com.

 

Mirande Bissell is a teacher in Baltimore, MD. Her first book of poems Stalin at the Opera was selected by Diane Seuss as the winner of the 2020 Ghost Peach Press Prize.

 

John Blair's seventh book, The Shape of Things to Come—Poems, has just been published by Gival Press. He has published poems with various magazines, including Poetry, The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, Colorado Review, and New Letters.

 

Robert Carr is the author of Amaranth, published by Indolent Books, as well as The Unbuttoned Eye and The Heavy of Human Clouds, both from 3: A Taos Press. Among other publications, his poetry appears in Crab Orchard Review, Lana Turner Journal, The Maine Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Shenandoah. He is the recipient of a 2022 artist residency at Monson Arts. Find more at RobertCarr.org.

 

Camille Carter is a writer, poet, educator, and traveler. She currently lives in Harlem, MT, where she teaches at Aaniiih Nakoda College on the Fort Belknap Reservation. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, SWWIM, The American Poetry Review, Hotel Amerika, Concho River Review, Cherry Tree, and Broad River Review.

 

Wyn Cooper’s first novel Way Out West was published in 2022. He has also published five books of poetry, including, most recently, Mars Poetica. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, AGNI, Five Points, and more than one hundred other magazines. Cooper lives in Vermont and works as a freelance editor.

 

Shira Dentz is the author of five books, including Sisyphusina (PANK, 2020), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize 2021, and two chapbooks, including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Her writing appears in many venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Plume, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, New American Writing, Brooklyn Rail, Apartment, Lana Turner, Berkeley Poetry Review, Poets.org, and NPR. She’s a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards, Painted Bride Quarterly's Poetry Prize, and Electronic Poetry Review's Discovery Award. Shira holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD from the University of Utah. Currently, she lives and works in upstate New York, and more about her writing can be found at ShiraDentz.com.

 

Jordan Deveraux has poems published in Bodega, Tilted House, The Meadow, Blackbox Manifold, and elsewhere. Originally from Woods Cross, UT, he now works and plays in Queens, NY.

 

Lawrence Di Stefano’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Columbia Journal, RHINO, Southern Humanities Review, and Santa Clara Review, among other journals. He holds an MFA in poetry from San Diego State University and is coeditor of poetry at The Los Angeles Review. He is currently working on his debut chapbook. Find him at LawrenceDiStefano.com.

 

Will Dolben holds a master’s in writing from the University of Southern California. He was a quarterfinalist in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences international screenwriting competition. His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

 

Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, Vallum, Griffith Review, Gulf Coast, Lake Effect, Magma Poetry, Poetry Salzburg Review, Salamander, Sycamore Review, Constellations, TAB, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Account, Raritan, and other publications.

 

Michelle Donahue is an assistant professor at UNC Wilmington, where she is associate editor of Ecotone. Her prose has been supported by the Kentucky Foundation for Women and published in Passages North, CutBank, and Arts & Letters, among others. She holds a PhD in creative writing from the University of Utah.

 

Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a poet, playwright, and performer based out of the Southwest. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Poets.org, Best New Poets, The Adroit Journal, MTV, Teen Vogue, Time, and elsewhere. Currently, she is an Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow and winner of the 2022 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize.

 

John Gallaher's forthcoming collection is My Life in Brutalist Architecture (Four Way Books, 2024). He lives in northwest Missouri and coedits Laurel Review.

 

Chris Gaumer’s writing appears in The Rumpus, McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, Best Microfiction 2019, Citron Review, The Under Review, and elsewhere. He won the 2019 Poetry Society of Vermont’s National Poetry Prize and is a founding director of the Randolph College MFA program, where he also serves as managing editor and art director of Revolute magazine. Chris also writes and directs short films.

 

Robyn Groth is an autistic poet and bookmaker with an MA in linguistics. She lives in the Midwest with her husband and sons. She is the author of Hello, Robot (Defunkt Mag + Press, 2023), and her work has been published in CALYX Journal, Gordon Square Review, and Ruminate Magazine. She is a reader for Chestnut Review.

 

Tim Z. Hernandez is an award-winning author, research scholar, and performer. His work includes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays. He is the recipient of numerous awards, most notably the American Book Award, the Colorado Book Award, and the International Latino Book Award. Hernandez holds a BA from Naropa University and an MFA from Bennington College, and is an associate professor with the University of Texas at El Paso’s bilingual MFA program in creative writing. He lives in El Paso, TX, with his two children.

 

Katherine Indermaur is the author of I|I (Seneca Review Books, 2022) and two chapbooks. She is an editor for Sugar House Review and the recipient of prizes from Black Warrior Review, the Academy of American Poets, and Colorado Humanities. Her writing has appeared in Ecotone, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, The Normal School, and elsewhere. She lives in Fort Collins, CO.

 

C. E. Janecek is a Czech-American writer who received a poetry MFA from Colorado State University in 2023 and was the managing editor of Colorado Review during that time. Janecek's writing has appeared in Poetry, Gulf Coast, Cream City Review, Booth, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. CEWritesPoems.com

 

Sarah Koenig lives in Seattle, WA. Her poetry has appeared in Barrow Street, PANK, Bellevue Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Cutbank, DIAGRAM, Sixth Finch, Poetry Northwest, and Faultline, among several other journals.

 

Raised, educated, and then educated some more in New Jersey (PhD Rutgers, 2005), Julian Koslow was formerly a professor of English Renaissance literature at Virginia Tech, but left academia to take care of a child with special needs. He is currently a stay-at-home parent and increasingly concerned citizen. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Columbia Review, SRPR, Cumberland River Review, New Ohio Review, Atlanta Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, and Paterson Literary Review. He lives with his spouse and two sons in Fair Lawn, NJ.

 

Sandy Longhorn is the author of three books of poetry. The Alchemy of My Mortal Form, her latest book, won the 2014 Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press. She teaches in the Arkansas Writer’s MFA program at the University of Central Arkansas. When not writing, her obsessions include cataloging the often hilarious means of murder in innocuous British mysteries, collecting and cutting up pounds and pounds of magazines and paper ephemera to use in her collage art, and bowing to the will of her two feline companions (#TeamCat).

 

Emily Kay MacGriff is a writer and bookmaker living in Detroit, MI. Her work pulls from working aboard expedition vessels as a wilderness guide in the polar regions, South Pacific, and British Isles. In 2022 she earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, founded the MacGriff Writing Studio, and joined the MA/MFA Design for Climate Action faculty at the College for Creative Studies. Emily’s work has been published in Australia and the United States.

 

Melanie McCabe is the author of three collections of poems: The Night Divers (Terrapin Books, 2022), What The Neighbors Know (FutureCycle Press, 2014), and History of the Body (David Robert Books, 2012). Her memoir, His Other Life: Searching For My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams, won the University of New Orleans Press Lab Prize. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Georgia Review, The Threepenny Review, Lake Effect, Alaska Quarterly Review, and many other journals.

 

Kevin McLellan is the author of in other words you/ (winner of the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection selected by Timothy Liu); Ornitheology (Massachusetts Book Awards recipient); Tributary, Round Trip; and the book objects, Hemispheres and [box], which reside in several special collections including the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University. He makes videos under the name Duck Hunting with the Grammarian. Dick won Best Short Form Short at the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival and was also shown at the Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival, Berlin Short Film Festival, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, and others. Kevin lives in Cambridge, MA. KevMclellan.com

 

Daniel Edward Moore lives in Washington on Whidbey Island. His work is published or forthcoming in I-70 Review, Tar River Poetry Journal, Bryant Literary Review, Book of Matches, Deep South Magazine, and Triggerfish Critical Review. His book Waxing the Dents is from Brick Road Poetry Press.

 

Juan J. Morales is the son of an Ecuadorian mother and Puerto Rican father. He is the author of three poetry collections, including The Handyman’s Guide to End Times, and his fourth collection, Dream of the Bird Tattoo, is forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press. Morales is a CantoMundo Fellow, a Macondo Fellow, the editor/publisher of Pilgrimage Press, and the associate dean of the College of Humanities Arts & Social Sciences at Colorado State University Pueblo.

 

Cecil Morris retired after thirty-seven years of teaching high school English, and now he tries writing what he spent so many years teaching others to understand and (he hopes) enjoy. He has a handful of poems published in Cimarron Review, The Ekphrastic Review, The Evening Street Review, Hole in the Head Review, The Midwest Quarterly, The Talking River Review, and other literary magazines. He is trying to learn the names of all the birds that frequent the yard he shares with his patient partner, the mother of their children.

 

The grandson of Filipino immigrants and the great-grandson of Japanese immigrants, Troy Osaki is a poet, organizer, and attorney. Osaki is a three-time grand slam poetry champion and has earned fellowships from Kundiman, Hugo House, and Jack Straw Cultural Center. He was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellowship from the Poetry Foundation in 2022. A 2022–2023 critic-at-large for Poetry Northwest, his poetry has appeared in Crazyhorse, The Margins, Muzzle Magazine, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Seattle University School of Law where he interned at Creative Justice, an arts-based alternative to incarceration for youth in King County. He lives in Seattle, WA.

 

As her grandmother once said, Callie Plaxco flew the coop when she left South Carolina to journey west to the University of Wyoming for her MFA. Still in Wyoming, Callie lives with her husband, two small boys, and two big dogs. When her children aren’t stealing the poetry from her mouth, Callie might be found running, baking, hiking, or doing yoga. Her chapbook Dear Person is available at Dancing Girl Press and individual poems have been published by Carve Magazine, Tinderbox, and Gingerbread House.

 

Todd Robinson’s work has lately appeared (or soon will appear) in Notre Dame Review, The Pinch, North American Review, and South Dakota Review. He is an assistant professor in the Writer's Workshop at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and caregiver to his partner, a disabled physician.

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s.d.s. is the pseudonym of a writer who has written five books as well as two chapbooks of visual poetry. The poetry, fiction, and nonfiction of s.d.s. have been published in, among others, The Guardian, The Atlantic, New York Times, McSweeney’s, Mobius, Mudlark, Cafe Review, Storm Cellar, Tupelo Quarterly, and Clapboard House, where s.d.s. won a short story prize.

 

Samantha Samakande is a Zimbabwean-American poet based out of New Jersey, where she resides with her husband, and is a graduate of Allegheny College. In 2020, she was the second-place winner of Frontier Poetry’s Award for New Poets. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Terrain.org, The American Journal of Poetry, The Indianapolis Review, Hobart, Okay Donkey, and Gordon Square Review, among other journals. 

 

Michele Santamaria’s poems have been published in Cimarron Review, Bellingham Review, The Canary, and Bayou Magazine, among others. She is an assistant professor and learning design librarian at Millersville University in Millersville, PA.

 

Brian Satrom’s poetry collection Starting Again came out from Finishing Line Press in 2020. His poetry has appeared in a variety of journals, most recently UCity Review. His work has also been featured on Verse Daily and Vandal Poem of the Day. After completing his MFA at the University of Maryland, he lived in Madison, WI, and Los Angeles before settling in Minneapolis. You can find more about him at BrianSatrom.com.

 

Allie Spikes’ poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, The Los Angeles Review, The Rumpus, River Teeth, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. Her poetry collection manuscript was a finalist for BOA's A. Poulin, Jr. Prize, and her nonfiction has been listed as notable in Best American Essays 2022.

 

Emily Stutzman is an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where they study creative writing. Their poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Rainy Day, Montage, and Euphony.

 

Paige Sullivan is a poet, writer, and communications professional living in Atlanta, GA. A graduate of the creative writing programs at Agnes Scott College and Georgia State University, she has recent work in The Journal, Florida Review, Cherry Tree, and other journals.

 

Millie Tullis is a poet and folklorist from northern Utah. Her poetry has been published in Rock & Sling, Cimarron Review, Juked, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. She is the editor-in-chief of Psaltery & Lyre, an online journal pushing the borders of the sacred and secular. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @millie_tullis.

 

Mike White is the author of the collections How to Make a Bird with Two Hands (Word Works, 2012) and Addendum to a Miracle (Waywiser, 2017). His work has appeared previously in Sugar House Review and in other journals including Poetry, Ploughshares, Rattle, Copper Nickel, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, The Threepenny Review, and The Yale Review. He lives in Salt Lake City and teaches at the University of Utah.

 

Holli Zollinger is a self-taught artist who has made a career of her talents: drawing, painting, and surface design. She is continually inspired by her surroundings living in the desert town of Moab, UT. She is highly motivated by the art of creativity and incorporates the color, texture, and pattern she sees in the world around her. Holli’s work has been published and featured worldwide. HolliZollinger.com

 

A native of Utah, Shari Zollinger divides her time between her work as a professional astrologer and independent bookseller. She has been known to write a poetic verse or two with published work in Sugar House Review and Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. She is the author of Carrying Her Stone, a collection of poems based on the work of Auguste Rodin. ShariZollinger.com

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