Contributors – Page 2

April 12, 2018 | contributors

Sarah Cedeño’s work is forthcoming or has appeared in 2 Bridges, The Pinch, The Baltimore Review, New World Writing, The Rumpus, Hippocampus Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. Sarah is the Editorial Director of the national literary magazine Clockhouse and holds an MFA from Goddard College in Vermont. She lives in Brockport, NY with her husband and two sons, and teaches writing at the College at Brockport.

Joy Grace Chen is an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at The Ohio State University. She is an associate poetry editor for The Journal and has previously served in editorial capacities with Measure Press and The Evansville Review.

Rachel Custer‘s first full-length collection, The Temple She Became, is available from Five Oaks Press. Other work has previously been published or is forthcoming in Rattle, The American Journal of Poetry, B O D Y, DIALOGIST, and The Penn Review.

Aran Donovan lives in New Orleans. Her poetry has recently appeared in Hobart, Juked, Barnstorm Journal and is forthcoming in Permafrost and The Common. She tweets sporadically @barelymarigny.

Quinn Forlini holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Virginia and a BA in English from Ursinus College. Her work has previously appeared in The Fourth River and The Broken City. She lives in Baltimore.

Knar Gavin attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. Knar’s work appears or is forthcoming in Storm Cellar, Poetry, Foundry, Yemassee, Pouch and elsewhere. Tumbles can be found at knargavin.tumblr.com.

Daniel Matthew Huppman lives in the hilly part of Philadelphia, where he spends an abnormal amount of time thinking about crystal doorknobs. This is his first publication.

Annie Kantar’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, as well as The Adirondack Review, The American Literary Review, Barrow Street, Birmingham Review, Cincinnati Review, Drunken Boat, Entropy, Literary Imagination, Poetry International, Poet Lore, Rattle, Tikkun, and elsewhere. Her translation from the Hebrew of With This Night, the final collection of poetry that Leah Goldberg published during her lifetime, was published by University of Texas Press (2011), and was shortlisted for the ALTA Translation Prize. She directs the English Program at Shalem College in Jerusalem.

Patrick Kindig is currently a PhD candidate in Indiana University’s Department of English. He is the author of the micro-chapbook Dry Spell (Porkbelly Press 2016), and his poems have recently appeared in Meridian, Third Coast, Columbia Poetry Review, Muzzle, and other journals.

Emily Koehn’s poems are forthcoming or have recently appeared in Fence, Crazyhorse, Cincinnati Review, Vinyl, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where she works as a site coordinator for Poetry Inside Out, a poetry and translation program in the public schools.

Julia Koets’ poetry collection, Hold Like Owls, won the 2011 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize and was published by the University of South Carolina Press, and her memoir-in-essays, The Rib Joint, won the 2017 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Award and will be published by Red Hen Press. Her poems and nonfiction essays have been published in literary journals including Indiana Review, The Los Angeles Review, Carolina Quarterly, and Portland Review. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of South Carolina and a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Cincinnati.

Karl Lorenzen is a professional artist who exhibits and teaches at cultural, educational, health, and holistic learning centers in New York City. He was a faculty member of the New York Open Center and Anthroposophy NYC, and he is a teaching Artist in Residence at the Omega Institute, NY. In 2016 and 2017, he received a SU-CASA Award/Residency, sponsored by the Queens Council on the Arts/New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Jennie Malboeuf is a native of Kentucky. Her poems are found in the Virginia Quarterly Review, FIELD, Oxford Poetry (UK), The Hollins Critic, AGNI, Epoch, The Collagist, Image, New American Writing, Poetry Northwest, and Best New Poets. She teaches writing at Guilford College in North Carolina.

Becka Mara McKay directs the Creative Writing MFA at Florida Atlantic University. Her chapbook of prose poems, Happiness Is the New Bedtime, was published in 2016 by Slash Pine Press. Other publications include a book of poetry, A Meteorologist in the Promised Land (Shearsman), and several translations of fiction and poetry from Modern Hebrew. Her work can be found in recent issues of Colorado Review, Cream City Review, Forklift Ohio, Interim, Iron Horse Literary Review, Ninth Letter, and Ploughshares.

Peter Mason is a queer poet from Rochester, NY. He received a BA in English from SUNY Fredonia and is currently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas. His poetry has appeared in Epiphany: A Literary Journal, Muzzle Magazine, Vinyl Poetry & Prose, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Red Paint Hill, and elsewhere. He is a co-founder and poetry editor of |tap| lit mag, an assistant poetry editor of The Arkansas International, and a co-curator of the Open Mouth Reading Series.

Louise Mathias is the author of two books of poems, Lark Apprentice (New Issues Press) and The Traps (Four Way Books). She lives in Joshua Tree, California.

Alicia Mountain’s first collection, High Ground Coward, won the Iowa Poetry Prize and will be published by the University of Iowa in 2018. She is also the author of the digital chapbook Thin Fire, from BOAAT Press. Mountain is a queer poet, a PhD candidate at the University of Denver, and an assistant editor of the Denver Quarterly. She earned her MFA in poetry at the University of Montana. Keep up with her at aliciamountain.com and @HiGroundCoward.

Nazli S. Pearl is a Muslim-American from the deep south. Her work was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the Fairy Tale Review. She now lives in California.

Lizzy Petersen is a St. Louis native. Her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from Apalachee Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, FifthWednesdayPlus, The Journal, New South, and RHINO. Her poetry reviews have appeared in Coldfront, Poetry Magazine’s Harriet Blog, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Previously, she served as poetry co-editor of Sycamore Review at Purdue University, where she received her MFA in poetry, as well as the managing editor and later grants and outreach manager at River Styx Magazine. Currently, she works for a non-profit and volunteers at a high school in St. Louis Public Schools facilitating a student-run online literary magazine.

Jacob Sunderlin is a writer and musician who has received support from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Narrative, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. His records Death Ranch and Hymnal are available.

James A.H. White is a gay, first-generation Japanese-British U.S. immigrant currently living and working in South Florida. Author of the chapbook hiku [pull] (Porkbelly Press, 2016) and winner of an AWP Intro Journals Project award for poetry (selected by Iris Jamahl Dunkle), his writing appears in Best New British & Irish Poets 2018 (selected by Maggie Smith), Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Quarterly West, and Washington Square Review, among other journals. Twitter: @jamesahwhite.

Kit Zauhar is a writer, filmmaker, and sometimes actress living in New York and Philadelphia. Her work deals with female sexuality, the dissection of anxiety, the minutiae of human interactions, and the process of becoming in a post-digital landscape. You can find out more about her work and life at kitzauhar.com.

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February 14, 2018 | contributors

Sarah Antine received an MFA from Hunter College in 2004 and has shared work through various publications including, the anthology, Torah: A Women’s Commentary, Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Lilith Magazine, Mom Egg Rewview: Vox Mom, Big City Lit, pms:poemmemoirstory, Elohi Gadugi, and upcoming in Moment Magazine. She lives in Potomac with her husband and three children.

Dan Beachy-Quick‘s Of Silence and Song, a collection of essays, fragments, and poems, will be published by Milkweed Editions in December 2017. His work has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, and he teaches in the MFA Program at Colorado State University.

Brennan Bestwick is a reader and writer from the Flint Hills of Kansas. His poems have been published in THRUSH, Winter Tangerine, The Colorado Review, and Best New Poets. He is a winner of the AWP Intro Journals Project Award. He tweets @bestfriendwick.

Kristen Brida‘s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Fairy Tale Review, New Delta Review, Hobart, Barrelhouse, Whiskey Island, and Bone Bouquet. She is the Editor in Chief of So to Speak, a feminist literary journal.

Scott Broker lives in Columbus, Ohio, where is a current MFA candidate in fiction at Ohio State University. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared or are soon forthcoming in DIAGRAM, The Rumpus, The Masters Review, and Sonora Review, among others. He can be found at scottjbroker.com.

J.H. Bond is from Boyd County, Kentucky, and now lives in Atlanta. For several years he covered MMA fighting for ESPN.com and other websites. His writing has been published in various magazines and newspapers in the U.S., Brazil, and Japan.

Joseph J. Capista‘s poems have appeared in AGNI, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, and The Georgia Review. His work has also been featured on Poetry Daily and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He lives with his family in Baltimore and teaches writing at Towson University.

Chelsea Dingman is a Canadian citizen and Visiting Instructor at the University of South Florida. Her first book, Thaw, was chosen by Allison Joseph to win the National Poetry Series (University of Georgia Press, 2017). In 2016-17, she also won The Southeast Review’s Gearhart Poetry Prize, The Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize, and Water~Stone Review’s Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize. Her work can be found in Ninth Letter, The Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, Cincinnati Review, and Gulf Coast, among others. Visit her website: chelseadingman.com.

Duy Doan is the author of We Play a Game, winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets. His work has appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Cortland Review, and elsewhere. A Kundiman fellow, he received an MFA in poetry from Boston University, where he serves as director of the Favorite Poem Project.

Lane Falcon’s poems are forthcoming or have been recently published in American Poetry Journal, The Chattahoochee Review, December, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Gargoyle, RHINO, and more. She lives in Alexandria, VA with her two young children.

John Gallaher is the author of In a Landscape (BOA, 2014) and the forthcoming Brand New Spacesuit, also from BOA. He lives in rural Missouri and co-edits The Laurel Review.

torrin a. greathouse is a genderqueer trans womxn and cripple-punk from Southern California. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Black Napkin Press. Their work is published/forthcoming in Bettering American Poetry, Split Lip, The Offing, and BOAAT. She is the author of one chapbooks, Therǝ is a Case That I Ɐm (Damaged Goods, 2017).

Natalie Homer is an MFA candidate at West Virginia University. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The Pinch, The Lascaux Review, Ruminate, Salamander, Blue Earth Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and others. She received an honorable mention for poetry in the 2017 AWP Intro Awards.

Luther Hughes is a Seattle native and author of Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018). He is the Founder/Editor-in-Chief of the Shade Journal and Associate Poetry Editor for The Offing. A Cave Canem fellow and Windy City Times Chicago: 30 Under 30 Honoree, his work has been published or is forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, Vinyl, BOAAT, Tinderbox, The Adroit Journal, and others. Luther is currently an MFA candidate in the Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Youcan follow him on Twitter @lutherxhughes. He thinks you are beautiful.

Bellee Jones-Pierce writes and mothers in a quiet corner of Alabama. She is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at Emory University. Her research links disability and the lyric in early modern literature. A graduate of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama, she also holds an MFA from Georgia College & State University.

Jesse Lee Kercheval‘s latest poetry collection, America that island off the coast of France, won The Dorset Prize and is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. She is also a translator; recent books include The Invisible Bridge: Selected Poems of Circe Maia and Fable of an Inconsolable Man by Javier Etchevarren.

Katy Kim is a Korean American poet. Her work is forthcoming or published in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Hobart, and has been featured on Verse Daily, among others.

Chip Livingston is the author of the novel Owls Don’t Have to Mean Death (Tincture, 2017); a collection of essays and short stories, Naming Ceremony (Lethe, 2014); and two collections of poetry, Crow-Blue, Crow-Black (NYQBooks, 2012), and Museum of False Starts (Gival, 2010). His poetry, essays, and short stories have appeared in journals including Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, and Mississippi Review, as well as on the Poetry Foundation and Academy of American Poets websites. Chip teaches in the low-residency MFA programs at Institute of American Indian Arts and Regis University.

Maja Lukic is a poet and environmental attorney. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Colorado Review, Prelude, Salamander, Sugar House Review, Vinyl, Posit, Canary, and other journals. Selected pieces published online are available at majalukic.com, and she can be found on Twitter: @majalukic113. She lives in New York City.

Anna Mebel lives in Portland, OR, and has an MFA from Syracuse University. She is the author of the chapbook Eradicate Sex Chemicals! (dancing girl press) and a co-founding editor of Figure 1. Find her writing in Ghost Proposal, Pinwheel, Juked, and elsewhere.

When he died at the age of 83 in 2014, Malcolm Miller of Salem, Massachusetts left behind a trove of some 59 books of self-published poetry. A graduate of McGill University and a Navy veteran, Miller led an unconventional life, including stints of homelessness. He is the subject of the documentary Unburying Malcolm Miller (2017) by filmmakers Kevin Carey and Mark Hillringhouse. More of Miller’s posthumous work is forthcoming in Paterson Literary Review.

Jenny Molberg’s debut collection of poetry, Marvels of the Invisible, won the 2014 Berkshire Prize (Tupelo Press, 2017). Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Copper Nickel, Boulevard, Redivider, Poetry International, The Orison Anthology, Best New Poets, and other publications. In 2017, she was the Mark Strand scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference. She teaches at the University of Central Missouri and is Co-editor of Pleiades. Find her online at jennymolberg.com

Daniel Moysaenko holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is the author of the chapbook New Animal (H_NGM_N Books, 2015). Other work has appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, Oversound, Pleiades, Tupelo Quarterly, Verse Daily, and The Volta. He is pursuing a poetry PhD at Florida State University.

Danny Thanh Nguyen’s short stories and personal essays have appeared in South Dakota Review, Entropy, Foglifter, New Delta Review, Gulf Coast, and other magazines. He received his MFA from Indiana University and is the editor of AS IS, an anthology of Vietnamese American art and literature. He is a Kundiman Fellow and a Lambda Literary Fellow. Find him @engrishlessons.

Amy Pickworth’s poems have appeared in Dusie; Forklift, Ohio; New Ohio Review; Smartish Pace; Two Serious Ladies; and other journals. Her book Bigfoot for Women (Orange Monkey Publishing, intro by Matt Hart) was released in 2014.

Meghann Plunkett is a poet, coder, and lover of dogs. She is the 2017 winner of the Third Coast Poetry Prize judged by Natalie Diaz. She was a finalist for the 2017 North American Review’s Hearst Poetry Prize as well as the 2016 Narrative Magazine‘s 30 Below Contest. Meghann has been recognized by the Academy of American Poets in both 2016 and 2017. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, Rattle, The North American Review, Washington Square Review, Adroit Journal, The Paris-American, Muzzle Magazine, Winter Tangerine, decomP Magazine, storySouth, among others. Her essays, erasures, and animated poems can be found in Luna Luna Magazine. She is the writer in residence at Omega Institution and the director of The Black Dog Tall Ship Writing Retreat on Martha’s Vineyard, MA. Visit her at meghannplunkett.com.

Arabella Proffer is a painter whose loose narrative themes revolve around a fascination with punk rock, the dying aristocracy, the history of medicine, and biomorphic organisms. She attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA before receiving her BFA from California Institute of the Arts, where she studied under artists such as John Mandel, Derek Boshier, Jim Shaw, and Susan Pitt. Arabella participates in solo and group exhibitions throughout North America as well as parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Plain Dealer, Snob, Hi-Fructose, Juxtapoz, The Harvard Gazette, Scene Magazine, Hektoen International Medical Journal, and more. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and bred in Southern California, she lives on the shores of Lake Erie in Cleveland, Ohio.

Julian Randall is a Living Queer Black poet from Chicago. He has received fellowships from Callaloo, BOAAT, and the Watering Hole and was the 2015 National College Slam (CUPSI) Best Poet. Julian is the curator of Winter Tangerine Review’s Lineage of Mirrors. He is a candidate for his MFA in Poetry at Ole Miss. His first book, Refuse, is the winner of the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry prize and will be published by University of Pittsburgh Press in Fall 2018.

Caitlin Roach received an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Provost Fellow and the recipient of a Postgraduate Fellowship. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2017, Poetry Northwest, Colorado Review, West Branch, Copper Nickel, Prelude, Handsome, and The Iowa Review. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she is an assistant professor-in-residence. More of her work can be found at caitlinroach.com.

Eileen Rush is a writer from Johnson City, Tennessee. She earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of Florida. She lives in the swamp and practices hortitorture by drinking beer on her porch while pruning misshapen topiaries. Her work appears in Stoneboat, FOLIO, Word Riot, Pleiades, and elsewhere.

Sam Rush began writing poems after developing progressive hearing loss and realizing how many words each word could be. They were a finalist at the National Poetry Slam in 2016. Their work has been featured or is forthcoming in The Offing, Muzzle, and Drunk in a Midnight Choir.

Leslie Sainz is a first-generation Cuban-American, born and raised in Miami, Florida. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she served as the Editor-in-Chief of Devil’s Lake. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Black Warrior Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Southern Humanities Review, POOL, Spoon River Poetry Review, and others. She is the Fall 2017 Writer-in-Residence at the Hub City Writers Project.

Hannah Shea is an MFA student in poetry at Johns Hopkins. She is an assistant editor for The Hopkins Review and co-founder of Row Home Press.

Lily Starr is an eager student of poetry from North East, Maryland. She graduated from Washington College in the spring of 2017 and is currently pursuing an MFA from Florida International University in Miami.

Jaz Sufi is a Kundiman fellow, a National Poetry Slam finalist, and the slammaster of the Berkeley Slam, the longest running poetry event on the West Coast. She was a a featured poet at the 2011 USF Creative Justice Art Show and has featured at venues across the country, from the Scottish Rites Center to performing alongside the Townsend Opera. Her work has been published or is upcoming in PANK, DIALOGIST, The Offing, The Dead Animal Handbook, and elsewhere.

John Allen Taylor’s first chapbook, Unmonstrous, is forthcoming from YesYes Books in spring 2019. His poems are published in Booth, RHINO, NashvilleReview, Zone 3, Muzzle, and other places. He serves as Ploughshares’s senior poetry reader, and he coordinates the writing center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Say hello @johna_taylor.

Mary Jo Thompson is the author of Stunt Heart (Backwaters Press, 2017), selected by Henri Cole for the 2016 Backwaters Poetry Prize. Her poetry is anthologized in The Best American Poetry, 2011 and Another and Another, Bull City Press, and has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Field, Prairie Schooner, The Missouri Review, The North American Review, Rhino, Indiana Review, Spillway, and Carolina Quarterly, among other journals. Thompson holds a MFA in Creative Writing from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson and teaches teachers and arts managers at two universities in Minneapolis. She lives on an island in the Mississippi River.

H.R. Webster is a 2017-2018 poetry fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Black Warrior Review, The Seattle Review, Ecotone, and other journals.

Shana Youngdahl is the author of History, Advice and Other Half Truths as well as three chapbooks, most recently Winter/Windows (Miel 2012). Individual poems have appeared lately in 1110, Rhino: A Poetry Journal, and Muse/A. She teaches writing at the University of Maine, Farmington where she also oversees The Sandy River Review online and directs the Longfellow Young Writers’ Workshop.

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October 19, 2017 | contributors

Aria Aber was born to Afghan parents in Munster, Germany. Her work has appeared in Best British Poetry 2015, Muzzle Magazine, Prelude, Reservoir Journal, decomP, and others. She has been awarded the New Writing Prize in Poetry from Wasafiri, and fellowships from Kundiman and Dickinson House. She is an MFA candidate in poetry at NYU, where she serves as a Writers in Public Schools fellow.

Elizabeth Blackford is a writer and visual artist living in Columbus, Ohio. Her work has appeared in Lungfull! Magazine.

Anthony Blake is a poet from Louisville, KY. He is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Arkansas, where he serves as managing editor and designer for the Arkansas International. You can reach him via his website anthonyjblake.net.

Elizabeth T. Chao received her BA in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley and holds nursing degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at San Francisco’s School of Nursing. She worked for several years as an oncology nurse in California before moving to Texas, where she recently earned an MFA in Poetry from the James A. Michener Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

James Dunlap is an Arkansas poet. He studied creative writing at University of Arkansas and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in storySouth, Nashville Review, Minnesota Review, and Copper Nickel.

Jaclyn Dwyer is the author of The Bride Aflame (Black Lawrence Press, 2019). She has published fiction and poetry in a number of literary magazines, including Ploughshares, Sugar House Review, Indiana Review, The Journal, Rattle, Prairie Schooner, New Ohio Review, and Witness. She is Assistant Professor and Director of Creative Writing at Malone University in Ohio, where she lives with her husband and daughters.

Chad Foret is a PhD candidate in Poetry at the University of Southern Mississippi where he assists in the publication of the Robert Frost Review and teaches composition. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Louisiana Literature, The Midwest Quarerly, Rabbit Catastrophe, the anthology Down to the Dark River, and elsewhere, and was selected as a finalist for the 2017 Tennessee Williams Fest Poetry Award and 2017 Real Good Poem Prize.

Tyler Gillespie is a pale Floridian. His poems appear in Apogee Journal, Columbia Poetry Review, PANK, Juked, Exposition Review, and Prelude, among other places. Find him at TylerMTG.com.

Julia Heney lives in Chicago, Illinois. She received her MFA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in CutBank, Devil’s Lake, the Best of the Net Anthology, and elsewhere.

Carolina Hotchandani received her Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska and teaches English at Morningside College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fugue, Feminist Studies, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and other journals.

Jennifer L. Knox is the author of four books of poems. The Los Angeles Book Review said of her most recent book, Days of Shame & Failure, “This panoply of twenty-first century American human experience leaves the reader a different person.” Her work has appeared four times in The Best American Poetry series as well as in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and American Poetry Review. She teaches at Iowa State University and is currently at work on a culinary memoir.

John Liles is a poet, science writer, and living chordate. His chapbook, Following the Dog Down, was the recipient of the 2015 Omnidawn Chapbook Prize. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rust+Moth,Arcadia, inter/rupture, decomP, and has been used as course material for science writing workshops. He resides in New York, where he attends NYU as an MFA student.

Emily MacWilliams is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and a Teaching-Writing Fellow. She lives in Iowa City.

Hugh Martin is a veteran of the Iraq War and the author of The Stick Soldiers (BOA Editions 2013) and the forthcoming Service (BOA Editions 2018). He is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, and many other journals. He is completing a PhD at Ohio University.

Paula Mendoza‘s work has appeared in Seneca Review, Bennington Review, Cream City Review, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. She lives and writes in Salt Lake City.

Ellene Glenn Moore is a writer living in sunny South Florida. Her poetry has appeared in Best New Poets, Caliban, and Ninth Letter, among others, and her prose has appeared in Brevity, Fjords Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Ellene earned her MFA in creative writing at Florida International University, where she held a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellowship in Poetry. Her chapbook The Dark Edge of the Bluff is forthcoming from Green Writers Press. Find her at elleneglennmoore.com.

Katrina Prow lives and writes in Long Beach, California. Her writing is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Pithead Chapel, Redivider, Passages North, Nano Fiction, WhiskeyPaper, Juked, and elsewhere. She received a PhD in Creative Writing, Fiction from Texas Tech University in May of 2017. Today, she is back in Southern California, where she teaches creative writing courses at both Chapman University and her BA and MFA alma mater, CSULB. Outside of teaching, she still finds freedom waiting tables and is currently working on a novel about the restaurant industry after many years in the ‘biz. Keep up with Katrina on katprow.com.

Taylor Rugg has served as a poetry editor for Persephone’s Daughters and currently lives in Pittsburgh, where she is earning her Master’s at Carnegie Mellon University.

Jacqueline Winter Thomas is a contributing editor at Eratio and an MA candidate at Dartmouth College. She teaches courses in writing and form. Her poems and papers have appeared in Green Mountains Review, TAB, Redivider, Diagram, Barrelhouse, Tinderbox, and Open House, among others. She is interested in the convergence of poetics and philosophy and has attended the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. She has an MFA in poetry from The University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Brandon Thurman is a behavior analyst and poet living in Fayetteville, Arkansas with his husband and son. His poetry can be found or is forthcoming in Nashville Review, Ninth Letter, The Blueshift Journal, PANK, and others. You can find him online at brandonthurman.com or on Twitter @bthurman87.

J. Williams teaches in North Carolina. A recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, his poems have appeared in Cincinnati Review, The Adroit Journal, Ninth Letter, The Pinch, Salt Hill, and others. New work appears in Frontier Poetry. He is co-editor of the anthology It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop (Minor Arcana Press). He holds degrees from Elon University and the University of Alabama.

Katie Willingham is the author of Unlikely Designs (University of Chicago Press, 2017). A graduate of the Helen Zell Writers Program, she now lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Kenyon Review, Poem-A-Day, Third Coast, West Branch, and others. Get in touch through her website: katiewillingham.com.

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August 30, 2017 | contributors

Rebecca Bornstein is a poet and worker currently living in Portland, Oregon. She’s held jobs as a production cook, professional goat-sitter, parking garage receptionist, and creative writing instructor. She holds an MFA from North Carolina State University, and her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Baltimore Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Columbia Journal, Slice, Word Riot, and elsewhere. Visit her website at rebeccabornstein.com

Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, BOAAT, Day One, Indiana Review, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In 2015, she was the first runner-up for the Poets & Writers Maureen Egen Writer’s Exchange Award for Poetry. She is currently poetry editor for Split Lip Magazine and lives with her husband in Tallahassee, Florida.

Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and out now from BOA Editions. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, The Best American Poetry, Bettering American Poetry, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is a PhD student at Texas Tech University. For more, visit chenchenwrites.com.

Meghan Maguire Dahn grew up in the middle of the woods, alongside fisher cats and deer, beavers and coyotes, and a whole unintended aviary. Her first poem was published in Highlights Magazine and read primarily in waiting rooms by children nervous about getting shots or stitches. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, the Iowa Review on-line, the Cincinnati Review, Poetry Northwest, Phantom Limb, Beloit Poetry Journal, Gulf Stream, and ellipsis…a journal of art and culture. She was a winner of the 2014 Discovery/92nd Street Y Poetry Prize. She has an MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She lives steps away from Manhattan’s only forest.

Lydia Davis’s most recent collection of stories is Can’t and Won’t (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014). She is also the author of The Collected Stories (FSG, 2009), as well as translations of Proust’s Swann’s Way (Viking Penguin, 2002) and Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (Viking Penguin, 2010), among other works. Her translation from the Dutch of the very short stories of A.L. Snijders appeared last year in a bi-lingual edition published by AFdH in The Netherlands. Her translation of Proust’s Letters to His Neighbor appears this year from New Directions, and she is currently assembling a collection of essays.

Katie Farris is the author of the hybrid-form text boysgirls, (Marick Press, 2011), and the award-winning translator of several books of poetry from the French, Chinese, and Russian. Her translations and original work have appeared in literary journals including Virginia Quarterly Review, Verse, and The Massachusetts Review. She received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, and currently teaches at San Diego State University.

Ariel Francisco is the author of All My Heroes Are Broke (C&R Press, 2017) and Before Snowfall, After Rain (Glass Poetry Press, 2016). Born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents, he completed his MFA at Florida International University in Miami. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2016, Fjords Review, Gulf Coast, PANK, Poets.org, Prelude, Quiet Lunch, Washington Square, and elsewhere. He lives in South Florida (for now).

Noah Eli Gordon lives in Denver and teaches in the MFA Program at CU-Boulder, where he currently directs Subito Press. His books include The Word Kingdom in the Word Kingdom (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2015) and Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007), which was selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series and subsequently chosen for the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award.

Janice N. Harrington is the author of Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone, The Hands of Strangers, and the newly released Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin. She curates “A Space for Image,” a blog on poetic imagery, and teaches at the University of Illinois.

Heikki Huotari is a retired professor of mathematics. In a past century, he attended a one-room country school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. His poems appear in numerous journals, recently in Spillway and the American Journal of Poetry, he’s the winner of the 2016 Gambling the Aisle chapbook contest, and his first book, Fractal Idyll,

Victoria Hsu graduated with a degree in Visual Arts from Brown University. She will be an MFA candidate in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis in the fall.

Hong Kong bred, Sydney based, Henry Hu’s artworks are personal and intentional, with a focus on storytelling. He strives to assemble a full body of work, forming a series piece by piece. Each individual art series usually consist of multiple pieces, grouped by specific concepts or stories. By experimenting with digital tools, visually Henry commits to linking something fresh, alternative yet familiar, and presenting them in traditional forms.

Elizabeth Knapp is the author of The Spite House (C&R Press, 2011), winner of the 2010 De Novo Poetry Prize. The recipient of awards from Literal Latté and Iron Horse Literary Review, she has published poems in AGNI, Barrow Street, Best New Poets, The Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and many other journals. She teaches at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland.

David Kutz-Marks is the author of Violin Playing Herself in a Mirror (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015), selected by James Tate, Dara Wier and James Haug for the 2014 Juniper Prize for Poetry. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, Boston Review, Kenyon Review Online, jubilat, Verse Daily, and other venues.

Cade Leebron is a writer living in Columbus, Ohio. She holds an MFA from The Ohio State University, where she serves as an editor at The Journal. Her work has appeared in Brevity, The Deaf Poets Society, The Establishment, and elsewhere. Currently, she podcasts at The Cold Take and serves as the managing editor of Us For President. Find her online at www.mslifeisbestlife.com or on Twitter @CadeyLadey.

Rachel Litchman is a high school senior at Interlochen Arts Academy. Her poetry and prose have been recognized by the Hippocrates Young Poets’ Prize for Poetry and Medicine, the Luminarts Cultural Foundation, and The Glimmer Train Press Short Story Award for New Writers. Other work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Colorado Review, Drunken Boat, New South, and others. She is currently a poetry reader for the Adroit Journal. This poem was published with permission of the Hippocrates prize.

Erin Lynch‘s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Mid-American Review, New England Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of North Texas and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. She currently lives in Seattle, where she is a 2017-2018 Made at Hugo House Fellow.

Rebecca Macijeski holds a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has been awarded artist residencies at The Ragdale Foundation, Art Farm Nebraska, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in Nimrod, Sycamore Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Poet Lore, Fairy Tale Review, Puerto del Sol, and many other places. This fall she will join the creative writing faculty at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Randall Mann‘s fourth collection of poems, Proprietary, was recently published by Persea Books. He lives in San Francisco.

Lynn Melnick is the author of Landscape with Sex and Violence (forthcoming, October 2017) and If I Should Say I Have Hope, and the co-editor of Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation. A 2017-2018 fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, she serves on the Executive Board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.

Rachel Mindell is writer and teacher from Tucson, AZ. Her chapbook, A Teardrop and a Bullet, was released last year by Dancing Girl Press. Individual poems have appeared in Pool, DIAGRAM, Bombay Gin, BOAAT, and elsewhere. She works for Submittable.

Anthony Moll (@anthonywmoll) is a poet, essayist and educator. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts and is completing his PhD in poetry and Queer theory. His chapbook about the melancholy of the modern workplace; Go to the Ant, O Sluggard; is available now from Akinoga Press. His debut memoir won the 2017 Non/Fiction Prize from The Journal, and will be published in late 2018 by Mad Creek Books.

Sean Patrick Mulroy earned his MFA in Creative Writing: Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His poetry has been read, performed and taught all over the world, in over 20 countries on 4 continents. He can be reached via his website (http://www.thevanishingman.com) or via twitter (@thevanisher) where he pretty much never shuts up.

Nhu Xuân Nguyễn is a trans Vietnamese American writer. Their work appears or is forthcoming in The Offing and Deluge and on Button Poetry.

Noelle Kocot is the author of seven books of poems, most recently, Phantom Pains of Madness (Wave Books, 2016). She has won numerous awards and honors for her work, and is Poet Laureate of Pemberton Borough, NJ.

Rosa Hiraya Pangilinan’s work has appeared in the 2007 Anthology of Poetry by Young Americans. She is the winner of the 2011 The Labyrinth Poetry Contest judged by Barbara Fischer. She is currently pursuing an M.A. in Psychology from The New School, having received her B.A. in English from Rutgers University–Newark and her A.A. in History from Bergen Community College. She has worked with Helen Wan in the 2016 Turning Your Real Life into Fiction workshop. Rosa lives and works in New Jersey.

Chet’la Sebree was the 2014-2016 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry. She is a graduate of American University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program and has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, and The Vermont Studio Center. Her work has most recently appeared in Gulf Coast, Crazyhorse, and BOAAT.

Melissa Studdard’s books include the poetry collection I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast and the novel Six Weeks to Yehidah. Her writings have appeared in a wide range of publications, such as Poets & Writers, Southern Humanities Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and Psychology Today. She is the executive producer and host of VIDA Voices & Views for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and an editor for American Microreviews and Interviews.

Sara Wainscott’s recent work appears in DIAGRAM, The Journal Petra, Powder Keg, BOAAT, Fairy Tale Review, The Collapsar, and elsewhere. Her chapbook of sevenlings is forthcoming from dancing girl press (2017). She co-curates Wit Rabbit, an inter-genre reading series in Chicago.

Rushi Vyas is a poet currently living in Boulder, CO where he teaches creative writing and is working toward an MFA at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He serves as Managing Editor of Timber Journal and he coordinates multiple reading series in the Boulder area. His writing can be found in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, tap Magazine, and elsewhere.

The product of a Chinese immigrant and a white polygamist from Fort Scott, Kansas, Ashley Yang-Thompson was born in Washington State in 1993 and grew up in San Francisco. She graduated from Kenyon College in 2015, where she received Honors and Distinction in Studio Art. Now based in Queens, NY, she lives and works in a greeting card factory.

Dean Young was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and received his MFA from Indiana University. His numerous collections of poetry include Strike Anywhere (1995), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry; Skid (2002), finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Elegy on Toy Piano (2005), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Primitive Mentor (2008), shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize. He has also written a book on poetics, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (2010). Young has been awarded a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His poems have been featured in Best American Poetry numerous times. Young has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College, and the University of Texas-Austin where he holds the William Livingston Chair of Poetry.

Notes on Contributors

January 27, 2017 | contributors

Abdul Ali is the author of Trouble Sleeping, a 2014 winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize selected by Fanny Howe. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gathering of Tribes, Plume, Poet Lore, and the recent anthology Resisting Arrest. Ali has been honored with two Literature fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He currently teaches high school English at a private school in Baltimore.

Rennie Ament studied poetry at Hunter College, where she has taught creative writing. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, Sixth Finch, Prelude, and elsewhere. She lives in Astoria, Queens and works at Poets House in Manhattan.

Rae Armantrout is professor emerita of writing at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of thirteen previous books of poetry, most recently Partly.

Paul Asta was born in South Korea. He is a bookbinder and writer from the Chicago suburbs. He is a poetry editor for Hobart, and currently resides in Cork, Ireland, studying creative writing at University College Cork on a Fulbright Scholarship. He is a founding member of Frontier Slumber, and is the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and Indiana University, Bloomington where he earned his MFA in Poetry.

Monica Berlin’s first book, No Shape Bends the River So Long, a collaborative collection of poems with Beth Marzoni, was published in 2015 (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press). Her solo work has appeared in many journals, most recently The Cincinnati Review, Cimarron Review, Crazyhorse, Passages North, Kudzu House Quarterly, Bennington Review, december, Salt Hill, Water~Stone Review and The Kenyon Review. Berlin serves as Associate Director of the Program in Creative Writing and Chair of the English Department at Knox College in Galesburg, IL, where she is an associate professor.

Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry chapbook Equilibrium, selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. She is the winner of the 2016 Academy of American Poets Prize and 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. Tiana is currently an MFA candidate and teaching assistant at Vanderbilt University where she serves as Poetry Editor for Nashville Review. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Rattle, Best New Poets 2015, Crab Orchard Review, Southern Indiana Review, The Adroit Journal, Muzzle Magazine, Thrush Poetry Journal, The Offing, and elsewhere. Tiana received the Tennessee Williams scholarship to The Sewanee Writers’ Conference. You can find her online at tianaclark.com.

Grant Clauser is the author of the books Necessary Myths (2013) and The Trouble with Rivers (2012). Poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Cortland Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review and others. By day he writes about electronics, and sometimes he fishes. He blogs occasionally at www.unIambic.com. Twitter: @uniambic

Brian Clifton co-edits Bear Review. His work can be found in: Pleiades, Guernica, Barrow Street, Bennington Review, Prairie Schooner, and other such magazines.

S. Brook Corfman is a poet who writes plays, living in a turret in Pittsburgh. A Lambda Literary Fellow who has also been published as Sam Corfman, work has appeared or will appear soon in Phantom, Prelude, Ghost Proposal, Washington Square Review, and OmniVerse, among other places.

Adam Day is the author of A Model of City in Civil War (Sarabande Books), and is the recipient of a PSA Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, and of a PEN Emerging Writers Award. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry London, and elsewhere. He directs The Baltic Writing Residency in Sweden, Scotland, and Blackacre Nature Preserve. These poems form part of a triptych of poems that function as mock centos, working as a parody of explicit, problematic sexual writing by novelists such as Roth, Franzen, Mailer, Updike and others.

Jessica Farquhar holds an MFA in Poetry from Purdue, where she was the assistant director of Creative Writing. You can find her poems in recent or forthcoming issues of Diagram, Fogged Clarity, and Interrupture

Jennifer Franklin is the author of Looming (2015), winner of the 14th Annual Editor’s Prize from Elixir Press. She received an AB from Brown University and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, where she was a Harvey Baker Fellow. She was nominated for the 2016 Rona Jaffe Award. Her poetry has appeared widely in literary magazines and journals including Blackbird, Boston Review, Gettysburg Review, Guernica, The Nation, New England Review, [PANK], “poem-a-day” on poets.org, Prairie Schooner, Salmagundi, and Southwest Review. She teaches poetry workshops at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, where she serves as Program Director. She lives in New York City.

Matthew Gellman’s poems are featured or forthcoming in Thrush, The Adroit Journal, Muzzle, Word Riot, Lambda Literary’s Poetry Spotlight, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize and a scholarship from the New York State Summer Writer’s Institute, and is currently an MFA candidate at Columbia University.

Michael Homolka is the author of Antiquity, winner the 2015 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry from Sarabande Books. His poems have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Antioch Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Agni, and Poetry Daily. A graduate of Bennington College’s MFA program, he currently teaches high school students in New York City.

Hanae Jonas is a Zell Fellow at the University of Michigan. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in jubilat, The Volta, Columbia Journal, H_NGM_N, and Twelfth House.

Abe Koogler writes plays and fiction. His plays have been produced or are upcoming at Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and the Goodman Theatre, and are published by Dramatists Play Service and Bloomsbury. He earned an MFA from the Michener Center at UT-Austin, and is a native of Washington State.

Dan Kraines is a poet whose work has most recently appeared in the anthology The Traveler’s Vade Mecum. He teaches at the University of Rochester, where he is a PhD student and Slattery Fellow. Like many other writers, he cherished corresponding with Franz Wright.

Kara Krewer grew up on an orchard in rural Georgia. She holds an MFA in poetry from Purdue University, where she also taught creative writing and film studies. Her poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Prodigal, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a 2016-2018 Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.

Yael Massen is an MFA Candidate in Poetry at Indiana University and former Nonfiction Editor and Associate Poetry Editor of Indiana Review. Her poems can be found within the pages and URLs of DIAGRAM, Hobart, Mid-American Review, Lilith, Southern Indiana Review, Ninth Letter Online, and Day One. She is a recipient of the 2016 Vera Meyer Strube Academy of American Poets Award, the 2016 Kraft-Kinsey Award from the Kinsey Institute, and was a 2015 TENT Fellow in Creative Writing at the Yiddish Book Center. She volunteers as an On-Scene Advocate and a Legal Advocate at Middle Way House, a domestic violence shelter in Bloomington, Indiana, where she lives, works, and walks.

Sarah Munroe is a creative writing MFA candidate in poetry at West Virginia University, where she is also the editorial assistant for the West Virginia University Press and the poetry editor for Cheat River Review. She has a deep and abiding love for dinosaurs. When not in Morgantown, she can be found in Philadelphia with her husband and their two dogs.

Miguel Murphy is the author of Detainee and A Book Called Rats, winner of the Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry. He lives in Southern California where he teaches as Santa Monica College.

Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of the lyric essay collection, Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past, which won the Non/Fiction Prize from OSU Press. Her poetry collections are The End of Pink (BOA, 2016) and Rag & Bone (Elixir, 2011). Recent work appears in 32 Poems, Crazyhorse, Field, Ninth Letter, Poetry International, and Willow Springs. She is an associate professor of Creative Writing at University of Central Missouri, where she also serves as the director of Pleiades Press.

Ines Pujos holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU and lives in NYC. She is the cofounder of Print Oriented Bastards, an online literary journal. Her poems will be appearing Salt Hill Press and has been previously published in Cosmonauts Ave, Powder Keg, The Adroit Journal, Day One, Bone Bouquet, Cimarron Review, Gulf Coast, Phantom, Hayden’s Ferry, Puerto del Sol, and Verse Daily, among others.

John Repp‘s poems have appeared in several past issues of The Journal. His most recent collection is Fat Jersey Blues, winner of the 2013 Akron Poetry Prize from the University of Akron Press.

C. F. Sibley is the Assistant Editor at Parnassus: Poetry in Review. She received a scholarship to Breadloaf Writers’ Conference in 2012 and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from DIAGRAM, Sugar House, FIELD, Muzzle Magazine, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2015.

Lisa Russ Spaar is the author of many collections of poetry, including Glass Town (Red Hen Press, 1999), Blue Venus (Persea, 2004), Satin Cash (Persea, 2008) and most recently Vanitas, Rough (Persea, December 2012). A new collection of her poems, Orexia, will appear from Persea in 2017. She is the editor of Acquainted with the Night: Insomnia Poems (Columbia University Press, 1999) and All that Mighty Heart: London Poems (University of Virginia Press, 2008), and a collection of her essays, The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry, appeared from Drunken Boat Media in March 2013. She is the editor of a new anthology, Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Jefferson, due out from the University of Virginia Press in February 2016. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Award, a 2016 Pushcart Prize Anthology award, the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize for Poetry. Her poems have appeared or forthcoming in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize Anthology series and have recently appeared in Poetry, Boston Review, IMAGE, and Virginia Quarterly Review. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.

Jennifer Sperry Steinorth is a poet, educator, collaborative artist, and licensed builder. Her poetry has appeared recently in Alaska Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Colorado Review, jubilat, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry Northwest, Quarterly West and elsewhere. A chapbook, Forking The Swift, was published in 2010. She has received grants from the Sewanee Writers Conference, The Vermont Studio Center, Warren Wilson College where she received her MFA in poetry, and The Bear River Writers Conference. In 2016 she was the Writers@Work Poetry Fellow selected by Tarfia Faizzulah and won the The Connecticut River Review Poetry Prize. She lives in Traverse City, Michigan and teaches at The Leelanau School and at Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Nomi Stone is the author of the poetry collection STRANGER’S NOTEBOOK (TriQuarterly, 2008), a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology at Princeton University, and an MFA Candidate in Poetry at Warren Wilson College. Poems appear or are forthcoming in The New Republic, The Best American Poetry 2016, Diode, Poetry Northwest, Guernica, and elsewhere, and her new manuscript KILL CLASS was just named runner-up for the May Sarton Poetry prize.

Jason Tandon is the author of three collections of poetry including, Quality of Life (Black Lawrence Press, 2013) and Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt (Black Lawrence Press, 2009), winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Columbia Poetry Review, Esquire, Paterson Literary Review, Poetry East, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, and on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac.

Leah Umansky is the author of the dystopian themed chapbook, Straight Away the Emptied World (Kattywompus Press, 2016)¸ the Mad-Men inspired, Don Dreams and I Dream (Kattywompus Press, 2014) and the full-length collection Domestic Uncertainties (Blazevox, 2012). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such places as Poetry, Boston Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, The Golden Shovel Anthology, and elsewhere. You can find her at www.leahumansky.com.

Dr. Ernest Williamson III has published creative work in over 600 journals. Williamson has published poetry in over 200 journals, including The Oklahoma Review, The Roanoke Review, Pamplemousse, formerly known as The Gihon River Review, The Copperfield Review, The Penwood Review, and Wilderness House Literary Review. Some of his visual artwork has appeared in journals such as Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, The William & Mary Review, New England Review, The Tulane Review and The Wisconsin Review. Williamson is an Assistant Professor of English at Allen University. Learn more here: www.ernestwilliamsoniii.com

Notes on Contributors

August 29, 2016 | contributors

Greg Allendorf is originally from Cincinnati, OH. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from such journals as Smartish Pace, Subtropics, The Portland Review, Narrative Northeast, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Hawaii Review, and Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction. His chapbook, Fair Day in an Ancient Town, was recently selected by Kiki Petrosino for the Mineral Point Chapbook Series from Brain Mill Press. He holds graduate degrees from The University of Cincinnati and Purdue University. He currently lives in Columbia, MO, where he is a PhD candidate and Creative Writing Fellow at The University of Missouri-Columbia.

Eloisa Amezcua is an Arizona native. Her poetry and translations are published or forthcoming from BOAAT, Tahoma Literary Review, Salamander, and others. Her chapbook On Not Screaming is forthcoming from Horse Less Press. You can find her at www.eloisaamezcua.com.

John Manuel Arias is a gay, Costa Rican / Uruguayan poet and crepe-maker, raised in a DC ghetto when it was the murder capital. His poems have appeared in Red Paint Hill, The James Franco Review, Rogue Agent Journal and others, and will soon appear in upcoming issues of Assaracus, Tinderbox Journal, Cleaver Magazine and decomP. He currently lives in San José, Costa Rica with his grandmother and five ghosts. His debut poetry collection, ¡I’d Rather Sink–!, will be published in 2017 by Red Paint Hill.

Helena Chung studies poetry at Johns Hopkins University, where she received a 2015 Academy of American Poets prize. Currently, she serves as a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal. This summer, she will be a 2016 fellow at the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Hopkins Review, DIALOGIST, The Boiler Journal, and elsewhere.

Gillian Cummings is the author of My Dim Aviary, chosen as the winner of the 2015 Hudson Prize from Black Lawrence Press and forthcoming in November 2016. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Boulevard, Colorado Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Laurel Review, and in other journals.

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of over twenty books of poetry. Her awards include two Yaddo residencies, a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, and a Visiting Artist Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, as well as grants from the Whiting Foundation and Harvard University’s Kittredge Fund.

Kendra DeColo is the author of My Dinner With Ron Jeremy (Third Man Books, 2016) and Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia, 2014), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2013 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. She lives in Nashville, TN.

Jose Hernandez Diaz holds degrees in English and creative writing from the University of California, Berkeley, and Antioch University Los Angeles. His poetry and prose poetry appears in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Green Mountains Review, Huizache, Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, Witness, and others. He has served as an editor for Floricanto Press and Lunch Ticket.

Hannah Dow is a PhD student at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers, where she is an Associate Editor for Mississippi Review. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Open Bar at Tin House, Harpur Palate, and American Literary Review, among others.

Kallie Falandays is the author of Dovetail Down the House, forthcoming from Burnside Review Press. You can read more of her work in Black Warrior Review, Salt Hill, CutBank, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere.

Kat Finch is from the Pacific Northwest and a recent graduate of the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program. Currently, she is a leaf on the wind but might land soon. Her work may be found in The Literary Review, Black Warrior Review, Whiskey Island, and the Sonora Review, among others.

Alana Folsom received her MFA in poetry this spring from Oregon State University, where she was Editor-in-Chief of their literary magazine, 45th Parallel. Her writing has been published in Hobart, The Iowa Review, and The Rumpus. She is originally from Los Angeles and plans to name her first cat Birthday.

Amy Guidry is an artist currently residing in Lafayette, LA. She comes from a family of artists including the late painter Eleanor Norcross. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationwide including the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Aljira a Center for Contemporary Art, Brandeis University, the Paul & Lulu Hilliard Art Museum, and the Acadiana Center for the Arts. Her work is present in public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe.

Jacquelin Hedeman’s work has appeared online in Watershed Review and The Manifest-Station, and on stage with Available Light Theatre. Jackie is the Reviews and Interviews Editor for The Journal, and is a contributing editor at Partisan.

Gentris L. Jointe is a recent graduate of the MFA – Poetry program at the University of Florida in Gainesville. His poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in Pleiades, Blackbird, Fourteen Hills, The National Poetry Review, and Green Briar Review, among others. He is originally from Philadelphia, PA.

Erin Jones received her MFA from the University of Florida. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Pleiades, Fourteen Hills, Passages North, Parcel, Boxcar Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

Anna Journey is the author of three books of poems, most recently The Atheist Wore Goat Silk (LSU Press, 2017), and a collection of personal essays, An Arrangement of Skin (Counterpoint, 2017). She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern California.

S.Marie LaFata-Clay is a PhD student at Western Michigan University where she teaches creative writing and serves as the head editor of Third Coast. She is the winner of the 2016 Herb Scott award for excellence in poetry and the author of Strange Couple from the Land of Dot and Line (Orange Monkey Publishing, 2014). Her work has been featured or forthcoming in The Adroit, The Pedestal, Puerto Del Sol, Tupelo Quarterly, Juked, Phoebe, Eleven Eleven, Drunken Boat and others.

Lori Lamothe is the author of two poetry collections, Happily and Trace Elements, as well as several chapbooks, most recently Ouija in Suburbia. She has published new work in Borderlands, The Literary Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Saint Ann’s Review, Verse Daily and elsewhere. She also serves as a mentor for The Afghan Women’s Writing Project (awwproject.org).

Hailey Leithauser is the author of Swoop (Graywolf, 2013.) Recent publications include Agni, Field, The Gettysburg Review, Poetry and The Yale Review.

Paige Lewis is the Copy Editor at Divedapper and an Assistant Poetry Editor at Narrative Magazine. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Columbia Poetry Review, The Greensboro Review, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere.

Lucia LoTempio’s poetry has been published in NightBlock, Linebreak, apt, LEVELER, and more. She was named a finalist for the Black Warrior Review 10th Annual Contest and the Winter Tangerine Awards. Currently, Lucia is an MFA candidate at the University of Pittsburgh and a contributing editor for both Aster(ix) and Gandy Dancer.

Lucien Darjeun Meadows was born in Virginia. His poetry has appeared in West Branch, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Quarterly West, and the American Journal of Nursing. An AWP Intro Journals Project winner, he has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and recognition from the Academy of American Poets. Lucien lives in Fort Collins, CO.

Christopher Brean Murray is a PhD candidate in the creative writing program at the University of Houston. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in jubilat, New Ohio Review, Pleiades, North American Review, Forklift Ohio, and other journals. He lives and teaches in Houston, TX.

Brianna Noll’s first book, The Price of Scarlet, was the inaugural poetry selection for the University Press of Kentucky’s New Poetry and Prose Series and is forthcoming in Spring 2017. She is Poetry Editor of The Account, and her poems and reviews have recently appeared in The Georgia Review, 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, Hunger Mountain, and The American Book Review. She lives in Chicago.

Leah Poole Osowski received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her first book, hover over her, won the 2015 Wick Poetry Prize, chosen by Adrian Matejka. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, The Cincinnati Review, Hotel Amerika, Mid-American Review, Salamander, and Third Coast, among others.

Casey Patrick’s poems have recently appeared in Pleiades, The Adroit Journal, Passages North, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and others. She holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University and has received residencies from Hub City Writers Project and Tofte Lake Center. She lives in Minneapolis.

Jayme Ringleb grew up in upstate South Carolina and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. He holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and is currently a PhD student in poetry at Florida State University. Jayme is the recipient of scholarships to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat, a Fishtrap Fellowship, and prizes from the University of Oregon.

Nicole Rivas is from Los Angeles and the Inland Empire. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Alabama and currently lives and writes in Savannah, GA. Her prose has appeared or is forthcoming in Passages North, The Adroit Journal, Chickpea Magazine, and elsewhere. Find her at www.nicolemrivas.com.

Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers is the author of the poetry collection Chord Box (University of Arkansas Press, 2013), finalist for 2014 Lambda Literary Award. Her nonfiction has appeared on The Rumpus and is forthcoming in The Missouri Review. Rogers was a 2012-2014 Kenyon Review Fellow. She is 2016-2018 Murphy Visiting Fellow in Literature and Language at Hendrix College.

Eliza Rotterman’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Volta, TYPO, Quarterly West, Colorado Review and Poetry International, among others. Her interviews can be found on abradstreet.com and jacket2.org. Currently she is completing her first collection of poetry. She lives in Portland, OR and works as a nurse.

Glenn Shaheen’s newest collection of poetry is Energy Corridor (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016).

Jacob Shores-Argüello is a Costa Rican-American poet, fiction writer, and translator. He is the author of In The Absence of Clocks. Jacob is the recipient of the Dzanc Books ILP International Literature Award, The Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship in Provincetown Fellowship, and the Djerassi Resident Artist’s Fellowship. His work appears in The New Yorker, Guernica, and Indiana Review.

Alison Stagner lives in Seattle, where she is the Events Coordinator for Seattle Arts & Lectures. She is the winner of the 2016 James Wright Poetry Award, is a 2016 Jack Straw Fellow, and her work appears in the Mid-American Review, the Southeast Review, H_NGM_N, and other journals. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington.

Angela Voras-Hills holds an MFA at UMass-Boston and has received awards from The Sustainable Arts Foundation, Key West Literary Seminar, and The Writers’ Room of Boston. Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Memorious, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Best New Poets, among other journals and anthologies. She lives with her family in Madison, WI, where she is Literary Arts Program Co-director at Arts + Literature Laboratory.

Michael Walsh’s poetry collection The Dirt Riddles received the Miller Williams Prize in Poetry from the University of Arkansas Press as well as the 2011 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His poems have appeared in publications such as This American Life, The Writer’s Almanac, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, The Cincinnati Review, and Prairie Schooner.