Alphabetical list of all contributors to date:

Ishaq Adekunle is a Nigerian writer and photographer. He is trying to learn about the state of well-being and reasoning among African children and to lend them a louder voice. He has learned to tell their stories in his poetry and photographs/visual arts which may be themed with anger, misery, woe, melancholia, but also hope. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in EyeEm NYC, Angst Zine, New Horizon Creatives, GetlitNaija and elsewhere.

Carrie Albert is a multifaceted artist and poet who lives in Seattle. Her drawings, collage and poems are featured there at Four Corners Art. Her visual art, photos and poems have been published and/or featured in many diverse journals, such as cahoodaloodaling, Grey Sparrow, Foliate Oak, Earth’s Daughters, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and Gargoyle.

Jen Ashburn is the author of the The Light on the Wall (Main Street Rag, 2016), and has work published in numerous venues, including The Writer’s Almanac, Pedestal and New Ohio Review. She holds an MFA from Chatham University, and lives in Pittsburgh.

Terry Barr’s essays have been published in storySouth, The New Southern Fugitives, Under the Sun, Coachella Review, and Lowestoft Chronicle, among other journals. He lives In Greenville, SC, with his family, and blogs at medium.com/@terrybarr.

Alana Benson is a freelance writer living in Lander, Wyoming. Her work is reflective of location: Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains, small-town Kentucky, Vermont in winter, downtown Athens. She has been previously published in BlazeVOX magazine and the University of Vermont’s literary journal Vantage Point, and has also published six non-fiction books ranging in subject matter from identity theft to birth control.

Carl Boon’s debut collection of poems, Places & Names, will be published this year by The Nasiona Press. His poems have appeared in many journals and magazines, including Posit and The Maine Review. He received his Ph.D. in Twentieth-Century American Literature from Ohio University in 2007, and currently lives in Izmir, Turkey, where he teaches courses in American culture and literature at Dokuz Eylül University.

Mike Bove is the author of Big Little City (Moon Pie Press, 2018). His poems have appeared in Rattle, Poetalk, The Cafe Review, and others. He lives in Portland, Maine with his family.

Wolff Bowden grew up in a Florida swamp, swimming with alligators and absorbing the art of the wild. He was named ARTEXPO ARTIST OF THE MILLENNIUM in Miami for his mixed-media paintings. His famous collectors include the late Frank McCourt. Wolff’s poetry has appeared in dozens of literary journals and was quoted by astrologer Rob Brezsny. Wolff also performs with the band The Winterlings whose five CDs have been praised by PASTE, No Depression and The Seattle Times. The Winterlings played at the Lincoln Memorial in 2017. To learn more, visit: Winterlings.com.

Shevaun Brannigan’s work has appeared in such journals as Best New Poets, AGNI, and Slice. She is a recipient of a Barbara J. Deming Fund grant, and holds an MFA from Bennington College.

Jennifer Brown studied creative writing at the University of Maryland and University of Houston. She spent many years teaching college and high-school English, living on the campus of a boarding school, and teaching creative writing in summer programs. In 2018, she won the Linda Flowers Literary Award from the NC Humanities Council; the winning essay appears in North Carolina Literary Review, Summer 2019. Her poems appear in IthacaLit, Muse/A, CCLR, Rumble Fish Quarterly, and Stonecrop. She blogs on Medium.com and at Howeverthink.com, and exists on various social media as oneofthejenns.

Kate Bucca holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BFA from Goddard College. She is a PhD student in Educational Studies, with a focus on inclusive education, at University of Prince Edward Island. Her work has appeared in The Masters Review Anthology VIII, Welter, Limestone, The Nervous Breakdown, DigBoston, and elsewhere. She lives in Vermont and Prince Edward Island with the writer Dominic Bucca and two cats, Snack and Barney. Find more of her work at katebucca.com.

Mary Buchinger is the author of three collections of poetry: e i n f ü h l u n g/in feeling (2018), Aerialist (2015) and Roomful of Sparrows (2008). She is President of the New England Poetry Club and Professor of English and communication studies at MCPHS University in Boston. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Diagram, Gargoyle, Nimrod, PANK, Salamander, Slice Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere; her website is www.MaryBuchinger.com.

Claudia Buckholts has received Creative Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and the Grolier Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, Minnesota Review, New American Writing, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and other journals; and in two books, Bitterwater and Traveling Through the Body.

Kevin Burris lives in southern Illinois. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including Poetry East, Atlanta Review, Southern Poetry Review, and The Bitter Oleander. His first poetry collection, “The Happiest Day of My Life,” was published in 2016 by FutureCycle Press.

Mary Lou Buschi’s poems have appeared in Lily Poetry Review, Thimble, Thrush, and Cloudbank among others. Mary Lou’s full-length collection, Awful Baby, was published through Red Paint Hill (2015). Tight Wire, her third chapbook, was published by Dancing Girl Press (2016).

Juliana Chang is a Taiwanese American writer, storyteller, and filmmaker based in the Bay Area. She received a BA in Linguistics and a MA in Sociology from Stanford University in 2019. Juliana is the 2019 recipient of the Urmy/Hardy Poetry Prize, the 2017 recipient of the Wiley Birkhofer Poetry Prize, and a 2015 Scholastic Art & Writing Gold Medalist in Poetry. She works as a Product Content Strategist in San Francisco.

Brendan Connolly’s work has been featured by Genre: Urban Arts, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, Gravel Magazine and elsewhere. He lives and writes in Salem, Ma.

William C. Crawford is a photographer based in North Carolina. He invented Forensic Foraging, a throwback, minimalist approach for modern digital photographers. His new book, DRIVE BY SHOOTING, is available from Amazon.com.

Steven Croft, an Army veteran, lives on a barrier island off the coast of Georgia on a property lush with vegetation. His work has appeared in Willawaw Journal, Sky Island Journal, So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, Third Wednesday, Red Eft Review, San Pedro River Review, Poets Reading the News, Gyroscope Review, and other places.

Martins Deep is a Nigerian poet and photographer. He is passionate about documenting muffled stories of the African experience in his poetry and visual art. Writing from Kaduna, or whichever place he finds himself, his creative juices tend to paint the spontaneity of his imagination, humanity, justice, truth and emotions, in different ways, bringing as much balm to as many wounds desperate for healing. His works have appeared, or are forthcoming on Barren Magazine, Writers Space Africa, Mineral Lit Mag, Agbowó Magazine, The Ducor Review, The Shallow Tales Review, Omelette Magazine, The Lumiere Review, and elsewhere. He is also the brain behind Shotstoryz Photography.

Claire Elliott is a painter who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She received her MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 2014.

Teddy Engs is a writer and musician living in Portland, Oregon. He writes stories and songs from a drum stool in his basement. Chestnut Review is home to his first-ever-published story, and he is eternally grateful.

Angelica Esquivel is a Xicana writer and embroidery artist whose work has appeared in publications such as Crab Orchard Review, Cream City Review, and Gordon Square Review.

Alan Feldman’s poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Threepenny Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Yale Review, and others. His full-length collection of poems, The Happy Genius (New York: Sun, 1978) won the 1979 Elliston Book Award. A Sail to Great Island (University of Wisconsin Press) was awarded the 2004 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Another collection, Immortality, published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2015, was awarded the 2016 Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry. His latest collection, which received the Four Lakes Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press, is The Golden Coin (2018). The National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation have awarded him fellowships in poetry. He lives in Framingham, MA and, in the summer, in Wellfleet, MA, and currently offers free, drop-in poetry workshops in those towns. He is married to Nan Hass Feldman, an artist.

Teal Fitzpatrick is a writer, musician, and clinical psychologist living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is working on a book about the history of American psychology as a colonizing practice and writes a bi-monthly column about ethical mental health practices for No Contact Magazine. Currently obsessed with worsted wool, dresses with pockets, savory scones, tearing down systems of oppression and writing poems and short stories about all of these things. This is her first prose publication. Find her on Twitter and Instagram at @TealFitzpatrick.

Laura Gill is a writer, photographer, and editor. Her essays have appeared in Agni, Electric Literature, The Carolina Quarter, and Entropy, amongst others. She contributes book reviews to Barrelhouse, and edits nonfiction for Hobart.

Halle Gulbrandsen is a Canadian writer and pilot. Her work has appeared in The New Quarterly, CV2, The Antigonish Review, Filling Station, and others. Find her in the sky, by the water, or online at hallegulbrandsen.com.

Ceridwen Hall recently completed a PhD at the University of Utah. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Triquarterly, Salamander, Spoon River Poetry, Pembroke Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the author of a chapbook, Automotive, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.

Lois Marie Harrod’s 17th collection, Woman, was published by Blue Lyra in February 2020. Her Nightmares of the Minor Poet appeared in June 2016 from Five Oaks; her chapbook And She Took the Heart appeared in January 2016; Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis (Cherry Grove Press) and the chapbook How Marlene Mae Longs for Truth (Dancing Girl Press) appeared in 2013. A Dodge poet, she is published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Zone 3. She teaches at the Evergreen Forum in Princeton and at The College of New Jersey. Links to her online work: www.loismarieharrod.org.

Gloria Heffernan’s poetry collection, What the Gratitude List Said to the Bucket List, is forthcoming from New York Quarterly Books. She has also written two chapbooks, Some of Our Parts (Finishing Line Press), and Hail to the Symptom, due out later this year from Moonstone Press. In addition, her work has appeared in over fifty journals including Chautauqua Literary Journal, Stone Canoe, Columbia Review, and The Healing Muse.

Katherine Hoerth is an Assistant Professor of English and Modern Languages at Lamar University and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Lamar University Literary Press. Her work has been published in journals such as Georgia Review, Atticus, and Valparaiso Review, among others. Her poetry collection, Goddess Wears Cowboy Boots, won the Helen C. Smith Award for the best book of poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. In 2018, she was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. She lives in southeast Texas.

Michael Hower is a photographer living in Enola, Pennsylvania. His formal artistic training includes courses at Lebanon Valley College, the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Harrisburg Area Community College, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Michael’s work focuses on historical themes and showcases a personal journey of learning about local history and heritage. Michael travels extensively throughout the Mid-Atlantic region seeking out the places and stories of our past. His long-term projects of documenting Graffiti strewn landscapes, prisons, and ghost towns of the Mid-Atlantic region are ongoing.

Zebulon Huset is a writer and photographer living in San Diego. His writing has recently appeared in The Southern Review, Louisville Review, Meridian, North American Review, Fjords Review, Portland Review, Texas Review and Fence, among others. He publishes a writing prompt blog (Notebooking Daily) and his flash fiction submission guide was featured at The Review Review.

Julie Allyn Johnson enjoys long walks in the woods with her puppy, riding her bicycle, travel, photography, crochet, and hiking in the Rocky Mountains with her husband where they hope to bag a 14er this fall. Her poetry has been published in Lyrical Iowa, Persephone’s Daughters, Typishly, The Esthetic Apostle and Coffin Bell with work forthcoming this fall in The Loch Raven Review.

Laura Johnson is poet in Eastern Iowa who serves as a co-editor of the literary journal Backchannels. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa. Laura participates in performance poetry and leads writing workshops in her community. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rosebud, High Shelf Press, Prompt Press, and First Literary Review–East.

Bryana Joy is a writer, poet, and painter who works full-time sending illustrated snail mail letters all over the world. She spent her childhood in Turkey and is currently in the middle of a one-year sojourn in York, England with her husband. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in an assortment of literary journals, including Beloit Poetry Journal, The Christian Century, and The Sunlight Press. She has a thing for thunderstorms, loose-leaf tea, green countrysides, and the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Maurya Kerr is a bay area-based writer, educator, and artist. Much of her artistic work, across disciplines, is focused toward Black and brown people reclaiming their birthright to wonderment. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Hole In The Head Review, Blue River Review, River Heron Review, Inverted Syntax, and The Future of Black: A Black Comics and Afrofuturism Anthology (2022). Her poem “for” was recently nominated for a Pushcart prize.

E.E. King is a painter, performer, writer, and biologist – she’ll do anything that won’t pay the bills, especially if it involves animals. She has won numerous various awards and fellowships for art, writing, and environmental research. She’s been published widely, most recently in Clarkesworld, Flame Tree, Cosmic Roots, and Eldritch Shores and On Spec. Her books include Dirk Quigby’s Guide to the Afterlife, Pandora’s Card Game, The Truth of Fiction, and The Adventures of Emily Finfeather. She’s worked with children in Bosnia, crocodiles in Mexico, frogs in Puerto Rico, egrets in Bali, mushrooms in Montana, archaeologists in Spain, butterflies in South Central Los Angeles, lectured on island evolution and marine biology on cruise ships in the South Pacific and the Caribbean, and painted murals in Los Angeles and Spain. Learn more at www.elizabetheveking.com.

Yasmin Mariam Kloth writes creative nonfiction and poetry. Her work has aired on NPR and appeared on npr.org. She co-translated a book of poetry by the French-Canadian author Mona Latif Ghattas called ‘Sails For Exile,’ and her work has appeared in Gravel and the West Texas Literary Review. She has work forthcoming in The Tiny Journal, Willawaw Journal, and JuxtaProse. She attended the Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop in July 2019 with Natalie Shapero. Yasmin lives in Cincinnati, OH with her husband and their young daughter.

Steven Lang’s fiction has appeared in the anthology Fiction on a Stick, published by Milkweed Editions, in the book, The Art of Wonder, published by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and in the literary journals CutBank and Slush Pile Magazine.

Kathleen Latham grew up in southern California but somehow ended up raising a family in Boston. She holds degrees from Occidental College and Harvard University and loves hockey with the passion of a convert. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in such places as River Heron Review, Fictive Dream, Constellations, Eclectica Magazine, and Tipton Poetry Journal. Her productivity is directly related to the amount of time her cat spends on her keyboard. She can be found online at KathleenLatham.com or on Twitter/Instagram at @lathamwithapen.

Richard LeBlond is a retired biologist living in North Carolina. His essays and photographs have appeared in many U.S. and international journals, including Montreal Review, Redux, Compose, Concis, Lowestoft Chronicle, Trampset, and Still Point Arts Quarterly. His work has been nominated for “Best American Travel Writing” and “Best of the Net.”

Erin Little is a poet and essayist based in Jersey City. Her essays can be found in The New Orleans Review, and in 2018 she was included in Cengage Learning’s Anthology of Contemporary Literary Criticism. She is also an editorial assistant at Penguin Random House in New York.

Alex Luft’s work has appeared in Yemassee, Midwestern Gothic and other magazines. He reads prose for Quarterly West and teaches writing in Chicago.

Jayne Marek has provided color cover art for Silk Road, Bombay Gin, Amsterdam Quarterly’s 2018 Yearbook, The Bend, and her two recent poetry books In and Out of Rough Water (2017) and The Tree Surgeon Dreams of Bowling (2018). Her writings and art photos appear in One, Eclectica, Salamander, QWERTY, Folio, Gulf Stream, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Grub Street, Spillway, The Cortland Review, The Lake, Bellevue Literary Review, Camas, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere.

Avra Margariti is a queer Social Work undergrad from Greece. She enjoys storytelling in all its forms and writes about diverse identities and experiences. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Forge Literary, Longleaf Review, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and other venues. Avra won the 2019 Bacopa Literary Review prize for fiction. You can find her on twitter @avramargariti.

Diane G. Martin, Russian literature specialist, Willamette University graduate, translator, winner of the Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative Nonfiction, and runner-up for the Princemere Poetry Prize, has been anthologized and has published poetry, prose, and photography in numerous literary journals from the US to the UK to the West Indies. Her poetry collection A Pilgrim’s Progress is forthcoming from Purcell Press. She has exhibited photos in the USA, Italy, and Russia. Long-time resident of Nevada, Oregon, San Francisco, California, Maine, USA; St. Petersburg, Russia; and Sansepolcro, Italy, Diane has traveled throughout much of the world, often reluctantly, for reasons of visa, health, and financial insecurity. She has one daughter. The themes of exile, disability, and displacement pervade her work. She has completed several books of poetry, as well as a collection of creative nonfiction pieces, and is currently at work on a multi-genre memoir.

Cynthia McVay lives on a defunct farm in the Hudson Valley, where she writes, forages and makes art. Cynthia’s work has been/will be published in DASH, The Ravens Perch, daCunha’s Anthology 2, 2019 Orison Anthology, Ragazine and Eclectica. Her work was a winner of the 2018 Orison Anthology Award in Nonfiction; performed in the UK, as Editors’ Choice winner, daCunha’s 2017 Flash Nonfiction Competition; short-listed, Anton Chekov Contest New Flash Fiction Review; finalist, 2nd Annual — Sunshot Book Awards; Honorable Mention, Writer’s Relief Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award: Short Stories; Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Press’s Very Short Fiction contest; finalist, Palooka Chapbook Contest; finalist, New Millenium Writings Muse Contest; finalist, freeze frame fiction and non-fiction finalist, Bridging the Gap Awards at the Slice Writer’s Conference 2017.

Brittany Mishra helps make airplane engines for a living and writes poetry and fiction as her passion. She’s lived on both coasts of the US, but now she lives in Washington state, near the Puget Sound, with her husband. Brittany’s poetry can be found in Shabda Press’ Nuclear Impact Anthology and the online journals Voice Catcher, Sky Island, and The Write Launch.

Adriana Morgan completed a Ph.D. in French Literature at the University of Letters in Nantes, France. She is fluent in six languages and worked as a translator and terminologist at the European Commission in Luxembourg and the United Nations in New York. She taught French at the University of Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, India, the French Alliance, and the Universities of Valparaiso and Vina del Mar, Chile. She currently works as a multi-dimensional artist: poet, writer, painter, and children’s picture books writer and illustrator. She is the first prize winner of the Acumen International Poetry Prize, 2020, UK, the first prize winner of the Midnight Mozaic Fiction (Medium, 2019), and second prize winner of the Daniil Pashkoff International Poetry Contest, 2018, Germany. Her artworks and literary works have been published or are forthcoming in Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Infinity Room, Spillwords, Flying Ketchup Press, Ullalume Lighthouse, and Feminine Collective, among others.

Richard Newman is the author of three books of poetry and one novel. His work has appeared in American Journal of Poetry, Best American Poetry, Boulevard, Crab Orchard Review, and many other places. He lives and teaches in Vietnam and Japan.

Nam Nguyen is a multimedia artist who enjoys photography, writing, and music. He has been published in Jabberwock Review.

Rees Nielsen gave 35 years of his life to farming the orchards and vineyards along with his cousins on the family farm in California’s San Joaquin Valley. After his wife Riina passed he moved to Iowa to chauffeur his grandchildren. He has had prose, poetry and visual art accepted in numerous publications here and in the UK. He currently has an illustrated book of poems available, printed by Cholla Needles Press.

Cynthia (Cyn) Nooney’s stories and essays have appeared in New Flash Fiction Review, Ursa Minor, Fractured Literary, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and received an MFA from Pacific University.

Deb Nordlie has lived in twelve states and four countries, married once, had two children, and taught English since dinosaurs ruled the earth. After a lifetime of writing assignment sheets, she’s branched into life stories, believing “we are all novels filled with short stories and poems.” Currently, she teaches English in adult school and is scribbling away at the Great American Novel.

Victoria Nordlund’s poetry collection Binge Watching Winter on Mute was published by Main Street Rag in June 2019. She is a 2018 Best of the Net and 2020 Pushcart Prize Nominee, whose work has appeared in PANK Magazine, Rust+Moth, Gone Lawn, Pidgeonholes, Maudlin House, and elsewhere. Visit her at VictoriaNordlund.com.

Frances Ogamba’s short stories appear on Jalada Africa, in the 2019 New Weather for MEDIA anthology, and in the first issue of Rewrite Reads. Her nonfiction piece, “The Valley of Memories,” won the 2019 Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Non Fiction. She is an alumna of the Purple Hibiscus Creative Writing Workshop taught by Chimamanda Adichie.

Danielle O’Hanlon’s goal is to create works with which viewers can connect as they contemplate the visual, ideally arousing a strong emotional reaction. Her paintings are simple in composition and color, yet full of complexities that draw the viewer to stay longer. Inspired by artists Edvard Munch and Jackson Pollock, Danielle has expanded her technique to include a three-dimensional style of painting that she calls ‘Acrylic Sculpting’. She explains the impact of this method: “Acrylic sculpting brings my work to life in a whole new way; in a sense, the painting reaches into our world, asking to be seen.” She credits her husband and her many supporters who provided the amazing opportunity to pursue a career doing what she loves. She finds it very rewarding to know her paintings – displayed in public or private – are being shared, cared for, and admired. See more at www.DanielleOHanlonArt.com.

Jasper Oliver is a Gemini with Sagittarius-rising, ENFP, elder-millennial born in a wood-rat year. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He rode the rails, but just the once. Currently he lives in Chicago where he reads, writes, and dérives, saying “hey” to the local dogs. You can find him on the webs at Jasperoliver.net.

Steven Ostrowski is a poet, fiction writer, painter and teacher. His work appears widely in literary journals, magazines and anthologies, most recently in The American Journal of Poetry, New Delta Review, and Lily Poetry Review. He is the author of five published chapbooks–four of poems and one of stories. He and his son Ben are authors of a full-length collaboration called Penultimate Human Constellation, published in 2018 by Tolsun Books. His chapbook, After the Tate Modern, won the 2017 Atlantic Road Prize and is published in 2018 by Island Verse Editions.

James Owens’ newest book is Family Portrait with Scythe (Bottom Dog Press, 2020). His poems and translations appear widely in literary journals, including recent or upcoming publications in Atlanta Review, The Shore, The Windhover, and Southword. He earned an MFA at the University of Alabama and lives in a small town in northern Ontario.

Robert L. Penick’s work has appeared in over 100 different literary journals, including The Hudson Review, North American Review, and The California Quarterly. He lives in Louisville, KY, , with his free-range box turtle, Sheldon, and edits Ristau: A Journal of Being. In 2018, he won the Slipstream Press chapbook competition. More of his writing can be found at http://www.theartofmercy.net.

Laura Perkins lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Her work has appeared or is upcoming in Cutbank, Cagibi, The Mighty Line, and Sky Island Journal.

Timothy F. Phillips is a totally self-taught artist who painted before he could read or write. He has had many one-man shows in museums and galleries around the world, and his art is in many private collections of estates and corporations as well. He is presently living in Miami, Florida for the last 20 years, and works out of his studio on Miami Beach. For more, visit http://timothyfphillips.com.

Sara Pirkle is a Southern poet, an identical twin, a breast cancer survivor, and a board game enthusiast. Her first book, The Disappearing Act, won the 2016 Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry. Sara has received writing fellowships from The Anderson Center, I-Park Foundation, and The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. She is the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing at The University of Alabama, where she also runs the Pure Products Reading & Lecture Series.

Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and many other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications.

Kait Quinn is a law admin by day and a prolific poet by night. She studied creative writing at St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX and her poetry has been published in Sorin Oak Review and New Literati. She is also the author of the poetry collection A Time for Winter. Kait currently lives in Minneapolis with her partner and their regal cat Spart.

Greg Rappleye’s second collection of poems, A Path Between Houses (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. His third collection, Figured Dark (University of Arkansas Press, 2007) was co-winner of the Arkansas Prize in Poetry was published in the Miller Williams Poetry Series. His fourth collection, Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds, was published in the fall of 2018 by Dos Madres Press. He teaches in the English Department at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

Ankur Razdan grew up in Arizona and now writes in Washington, D.C. His short stories have appeared in Rabbit Hole Mag, Oscilloscope, Quail Bell, and 34th Parallel. You can follow him on Twitter at @mukkuthani.

Kiyoko Reidy is a MFA Candidate at Vanderbilt University. She lives in Nashville with her partner and their two dogs. She loves baking, coffee, live music, and anything outdoors. Her work has been published in Red Rock Review, Driftwood Press, The Berkeley Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

Dan Reilly lives with his wife Aggie in the Adirondacks where he had his first reading thanks to Maurice Kenny. Dan has worked in films and construction, bartended, driven truck and taxi, written for a newspaper, taught in prisons, owned a business, and lived in NYC and LA. His poetry and stories have recently been published in Pif Magazine, Beyond Words, and Closed Eye Open. Dan was a featured writer on The New Guard’s BANG! page. His story, “Sights Seen,” is upcoming in Ocotillo Review. “The Promise of Dreams Holy” was just accepted by Obelus Journal. He and Aggie are currently completing two children’s books, and Dan is collaborating with Atlanta artist Gail Foster on a chapbook.

Rick Rohdenburg did not begin publishing until past sixty. His work has appeared in the Laurel Review, Raleigh Review, Agave, and others. Now retired, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Eric Roller is a college recruiter and educator who lives in Port Angeles, WA. His passion is helping young people find their voices. He enjoys wood-working and being outside in the Olympic National Park. He is recently published in the online journal, Mothers Always Write.

Jennifer Ronsman lives and works in her hometown of Green Bay, Wisconsin, where she teaches English Composition at UW Green Bay. She is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Louisville Review, Arts and Letters, Literary Mama, and Calyx.

Kimberly Rooney (高小荣) is a Chinese-American adoptee from Jiangsu Province. They now live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and their writing has appeared in The Offing, Jellyfish Review, and The Pitt News. They have also contributed to Pittsburgh Magazine and The Review Review. When they aren’t writing or working, they enjoy cooking, singing, and crocheting.

Russell Rowland is a seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee and has two chapbooks with Finishing Line Press. A full-length collection, We’re All Home Now, is available from Beech River Books. He writes from New Hampshire’s Lakes Region, where he has judged high-school Poetry Out Loud competitions.

Erin Schalk is a visual artist, writer, and educator who lives in the greater Los Angeles area. She graduated with her MFA in Studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017, and she has exhibited her art throughout the United States and in Japan. Today, Schalk teaches and is in charge of an arts education program which provides tactile art courses to blind and visually impaired students.

Leland Seese’s poems appear in Juked, Rust+Stars, The South Carolina Review, The MacGuffin, and many other journals. His debut chapbook, “Wherever This All Ends,” was published in March (Kelsay Books). He and his wife live in Seattle with a revolving cast of foster, adopted, and bio children.

Elisabeth Sharber is a 12th grade English and Etymology teacher in Frankfort, Indiana. When she’s not grading, she writes poems and jokes while her cat scoffs at her sense of importance. She enjoys sharing her writing in open mics and has been published in The American Aesthetic, FLARE, and Driftwood Press.

Ben Sloan teaches at Piedmont Virginia Community College and the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. His poems have previously appeared—or are forthcoming in—The Tishman Review, the Pembroke Review, Ozone Park Magazine, and Northampton Poetry Review. His 2017 poetry chapbook, The Road Home, is available from Thirty West Publishing House. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Marie Metaphor Specht is a poet, artist, and educator living and working on unceded Lekwungen territory (Victoria BC). Most recently an audio recording of her poems was selected by Brick Books for online publication in Brickyard, their audiovisual hub. In 2018, “Quietly Unheard: A How to Guide” was selected for publication in the Spring/Summer issue of Untethered, and she was commissioned by a non-profit, Generation Squeeze, to write and record a video poem, “The Lucky Ones,” about the housing crisis in Western Canada. Her poem, “RestLess”, was selected for publication in Oratorealis. She has often performed as a featured poet and curated spoken word events in BC and Alberta, has participated in the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word twice as a competitive poet, and has coached many youth poetry writing and performance groups in the last eight years.

Michael Steffen is a graduate of the MFA writing program at Vermont College and the author of three poetry collections: “No Good at Sea” (Legible Press, 2002), “Heart Murmur” (Bordighera Press, 2009) and “Bad Behavior” (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2013). Individual poems have appeared in Poetry, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Rhino, and other journals. New work will appear soon in Chiron Review, Thimble, Lily Poetry Review, Street Light Press and The American Journal of Poetry.

Annie Stenzel was born in Illinois, but she has lived on both coasts of the U.S. and on other continents at various times in her life. Her book-length collection, The First Home Air After Absence, Big Table Publishing, was released in 2017. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in print and online journals in the U.S. and the U.K., from Ambit to Willawaw Journal with stops at Allegro, Catamaran, Eclectica, Gargoyle, Kestrel, The Lake, and Whale Road, among others. She lives within sight of the San Francisco Bay. For more, visit www.anniestenzel.com.

Matthew Sumpter is the author of the poetry collection Public Land (University of Tampa Press, 2018), which won the Anita Claire Scharf Award. His poems have also been awarded the Crab Orchard Review Special Issues Feature Award, as well as the Zocalo Public Square Poetry Prize. Other individual poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, AGNI, Best New Poets, and Poetry Daily. His scholarship on writing pedagogy has appeared in College English, and his creative prose has appeared in Glimmer Train and Pithead Chapel. A graduate of the Ohio State MFA program and the Binghamton University PhD program in creative writing, he is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Tulane University.

Aashika Suresh is a freelance writer from the Indian beach city, Chennai. She writes on days the world makes sense to her; and then again on days it doesn’t. Aashika was placed among the top 30 poets in Wingword Poetry Competition 2017 and her work has appeared in Erbacce Press’ chapbook, Literary Yard, Wax Art and Poetry, Visual Verse, and Bones Journal, among others. On most days, she seeks out good poetry, sunshine, coffee and puppies.

Sharon Suzuki-Martinez’s first book, The Way of All Flux, won the New Rivers Press MVP Poetry Prize for 2010. Her work has recently appeared in Gargoyle, South Dakota Review, Duende, Okay Donkey, and elsewhere. She was a finalist in the 2018 Best of the Net anthology, was awarded a residency to the Anderson Center at Tower View, a fellowship to Kundiman, grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and a scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Originally from Hawaii, she now lives in Arizona.

Katherine Szpekman writes poetry and memoir from her home in Collinsville, Connecticut. Her work has appeared in Red Eft Review, Sky Island Journal, and Muddy River Poetry Review, and is forthcoming in Hiram Poetry Review. She was awarded Honorable Mention in the Connecticut River Review Poetry Contest 2019.

Jamie Tews is an MFA candidate at the University of North Carolina – Wilmington and holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from Indiana Wesleyan University. She has contributed work to Appalachian Voices and Appalachia Service Project, among others. Besides being a writer, she is a condiment enthusiast, runner, and Taylor Swift fan.

Michael Thompson is a third year illustration student at The Ontario College of Art and Design University. He works in a hybrid of analogue and digital, focusing on either physical paper cutting or digital paper cutting.

Stephen Toskar is a longtime US expat resident of Japan. His work has appeared in Exposition Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, Chattahoochee Review, The Pedestal Magazine, LA Progressive, Hollywood Progressive, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Dissident Voice, and Poetry Nippon, among others, as well as in the anthologies Sixty Four Best Poets of 2018 (Black Mountain Press); Enough (Public Poetry, forthcoming); Manifestations (The D’arts Literary Anthology); and Farewell to Nuclear, Welcome to Renewable Energy (Coal Sack Press). He co-translated Selection from Mother Burning and Other Poems: Parallel Translation of Selected Poems of Soh Sakon. Living on the northern island of Hokkaido, he is a professor of English at Hokkaido Bunkyo University in Eniwa.

Yashodhara Trivedi is a writer and international student recruitment manager from India. Her work has been published in The Telegraph-t2, The Rising Phoenix Review, Words Dance, and The Palatinate.

Lazar Trubman is a college professor from the former USSR who immigrated to the United States in 1990, after surviving four years in a Strict-Regime Colony in Northern Russia. In 2017, after teaching the Theory of Literature and Cyrillic languages for twenty-four years, he retired to devote his time to writing. His work has appeared in print and online publications, among them, The Threepenny Review, New Letters, Vestal Review, The Fiddlehead, Black Mountain Press, Forge and others.

Cathy Ulrich does beading, but she has never mastered peyote stitch. Her work can be found in various journals, including Citron Review, Flashback Fiction, and Adroit.

Milla van der Have (The Netherlands, 1975) is a Gemini. Her poetry has been published in Cherry Tree, Otis Nebula and Ninth Letter, among others. In 2016 her chapbook Ghosts of Old Virginny was published. Milla lives and works in Utrecht, the Netherlands, with her wife and two rabbits (that sometimes appear in her poetry).

Siamak Vossoughi is a writer living in Seattle. He has work published in Glimmer Train, Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, West Branch, and The Rumpus. His short story collection, Better Than War, received a 2014 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.

Britnie Walston is a versatile artist, capturing energy through light, vibrant color, depth, and texture. The use of exaggerated brushstrokes and abstract color give her paintings life and voice. Her landscapes and abstract work consist of a variety of unconventional techniques to capture the elements portrayed. One of the most used techniques in her abstract paintings, is the method of mixing each individual color using acrylic paint, floetrol, silicone, and water. Together, they create “cell like” forms. Britnie also achieves different designs and textures using household objects such as strainers, straws, and frosting spatulas. She aims to depict the emotions of liberation (“set free”) and freedom (“being free”). Her work as a whole, is inspired by nature and portrays the absence of human presence, bringing out the personality of nature itself, while providing the viewer the opportunity to escape and appreciate all the beauty that surrounds us. More of her work can be found at www.BNWArt.com.

Tori Grant Welhouse is a poet-writer from Green Bay, Wisconsin. Her most recent poetry chapbook Vaginas Need Air won Etching Press’s 2020 chapbook contest. Her YA paranormal fantasy The Fergus won Skyrocket Press’s 2019 novel-writing contest. Both are available on Amazon and at indie bookseller Lion’s Mouth Bookstore. Tori is an active volunteer with Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.

Villania Wen has been painting for several years, and has used her studies in biology and medicine to merge with her love of art and music to create inspired images meant to evoke a sense of calm and nostalgia, as well as a dreamlike quality through images. She was born in China and is studying medicine in Chicago after graduating from the University of Virginia in 2018.

Erik Wilbur is from Bullhead City, Arizona (or Sacramento, California, depending on the context of the question). Currently, he teaches writing at Mohave Community College in Lake Havasu City. He is also the program director of Real Toads Poetry Society, a nonprofit literary organization that provides opportunities for residents of Northwestern Arizona communities to learn about, experience, and share works of literary art. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from Fresno State University in 2018. Winner of the 2020 Poetry Chapbook Contest for his What I Can Do.

Anni Wilson is a print-maker working in a combination of linocuts and stencils. Her work is set in the universe of the Industrial Revolution, a period whose themes resonate with those of our own: class divides, gender inequalities, capitalistic greed, and the alienating effects of technology. Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Folio, The Emerson Review, and Reed Magazine.

Kelly Wise is a young author mostly interested in writing free-styled poetry and short stories. Her goal for everything she works on is to produce something meaningful. She wants to show people that there is always a hidden purpose to every word, especially in works by the next generation of authors.

Cynthia Yatchman is a Seattle based artist and art instructor. She works primarily on paintings, prints and collages. Her art is housed in numerous public and private collections in the Northwest and she has been shown nationally in California, Connecticut, New York, Indiana, Michigan, Oregon and Wyoming.