SubscribeJonathan B. Aibel
Jonathan B. Aibel is a recovering software engineer living in Concord, MA, traditional homelands of the Nipmuc. His poems have been published in Barrelhouse, Chautauqua, Pangyrus, Lily Poetry Review, Cider Press Review, and elsewhere.
Eneida P. Alcalde
Eneida P. Alcalde immigrated to the US as a child, transplanting her Chilean-Puerto Rican roots into Pennsylvanian soil. Her writing explores questions of belonging and displacement, memory, and resilience. Her debut poetry chapbook The Wealth We Surrendered was published by Ethel.
Sarah C. Baldwin
Sarah C. Baldwin’s has appeared in Pangyrus, Cleaver Magazine, In Short, Salon, The Rumpus, OxMag, Autofocus, and elsewhere, as well as in numerous university magazines. She earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from the Stonecoast Creative Writing program.
Christy Lee Barnes
Christy Lee Barnes is an educator originally from Los Angeles who now lives in Seattle with her husband and toddler son. Her writing can be found in Prairie Schooner, Plume, Cream City Review, Cagibi, Spillway, The Comstock Review, Tin House’s “Broadside Thirty,” The Seattle Times, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Her first chapbook, Commodore Rookery, is forthcoming Fall 2025.
Eben E. B. Bein
Eben E. B. Bein is a biology-teacher-turned-climate-justice-educator, activist, and multi-disciplinary artist. They were a 2022 Writing By Writers Fellow and winner of the 2022 Writers Rising Up “Winter Variations” poetry contest. Their poems can be found in the likes of PINCH, Nimrod, New Ohio Review, three anthologies, and their chapbook Character Flaws (Fauxmoir lit, 2023). They live on Pawtucket land (Arlington, MA) near the Mystic River in a house they co-bought with their husband and poet friends.
Emma Bolden
Emma Bolden is the author of a memoir, The Tiger and the Cage (Soft Skull), and the poetry collections House Is an Enigma, medi(t)ations, and Maleficae. Her fourth poetry collection, God Elegy, is forthcoming from BOA Editions.
Kate Lister Campbell
Kate Lister Campbell was raised in Kansas City and lives in New York. Her fiction has appeared in Granta Online, Indiana Review, Witness, and NorthAmerican Review, among others. Her essay “Body Work,” published in Southern Humanities Review, was recognized as a Notable in Best American Essays 2023. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College and is at work on a story collection and a novel.
Laura Cesarco Eglin
Laura Cesarco Eglin’s (Uruguay) latest poetry collection is Between Gone and Leaving—Home (dancing girl press, 2023). She is the translator of Claus and the Scorpion by the Galician poet Lara Dopazo Ruibal (co.im.press), longlisted for the 2023 PEN Award in Poetry in Translation and the 2023 National Translation Award in Poetry. Cesarco Eglin is the translator of Hilda Hilst’s Of Death. Minimal Odes (co.im.press), winner of the 2019 BTBA.
Acie Clark
Acie Clark is a writer from Florida and Georgia. He teaches at the University of Central Arkansas and as an Instructor at Interlochen Center for the Arts. Recent work is forthcoming in Shenandoah, Quarterly West, and The Arkansas International.
Gemma Cooper-Novack
Gemma Cooper-Novack’s debut poetry collection We Might As Well Be Underwater (Unsolicited Press, 2017) was a finalist for the CNY Book Award. She’s published chapbooks with Warren Tales and The Head & the Hand. Gemma was a winner of Syracuse University’s 2023 All University Doctoral Prize for her hybrid poetic dissertation exploring the writing lives of LGBTQ+ teenagers.
Bizzy Coy
Bizzy Coy’s work appears in multiple publications, including The New Yorker. She is the author of the short humor collection Personal Space. Recent fellowships include Fulbright, MacDowell, and NYSCA/NYFA. Bizzy received her MA in creative writing from Dublin City University, Ireland, and she hails from upstate New York.
Hana Damon-Tollenaere
Hana Damon-Tollenaere lives in Northern California with her girlfriend and their five pet frogs. Her writing has appeared in Takahē, Rat World, Cordite Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
Jackie Delaney
Jackie Delaney is a writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Emerge Literary Journal, Hole In The Head Review, and Dream Pop Journal, among others. She lives in Stockholm.
Darren C. Demaree
Darren C. Demaree is the author of twenty-four full-length poetry collections, most recently Now Flourish Northern Cardinal, (Small Harbor Publishing, 2025). He is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal.
Mk Smith Despres
Mk Smith Despres writes, teaches, and makes art in western Massachusetts. Their poems appear or are forthcoming in Frozen Sea, Hunger Mountain, Thimble, Radar, and texts to their best friend.
Jane Donohue
Jane Donohue is a writer of poetry and prose living in Maine. Her work has appeared in the American Literary Review, RHINO, LEON Literary Review, and elsewhere.
Jehanne Dubrow
Jehanne Dubrow is the author of three books of nonfiction and ten poetry collections, including most recently Civilians (Louisiana State University Press, 2025). She has also published a craft book, The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma (University of New Mexico Press, 2025). She is a Distinguished Research Professor and a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.
Ansel Elkins
Ansel Elkins is the author of Blue Yodel, which won the 2014 Yale Younger Poets Prize. Her poems have appeared in The American Scholar, The Atlantic, The Believer, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, The New York Review of Books, Ploughshares, and others. She was awarded the 2025–2026 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship.
Dina Folgia
Dina Folgia is a poet and author living in Richmond, VA. Her work, which has been nominated for Best of the Net, a Pushcart Prize, and the AWP Intro Journals Project, has or will be appearing in Poetry Northwest, Gigantic Sequins, Ninth Letter Web Edition, Foglifter, the minnesota review, and others. She graduated with her MFA in Creative Writing from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2025, where she served as the poetry editor for Blackbird from 2023–2024.
Rebecca Foust
Rebecca Foust’s books include YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems (Backbone Press, 2024) and ONLY (Four Way Books, 2022). Her poems won the James Dickey Prize in 2024, and in recent years, the New Ohio Review, Pablo Neruda, James Hearst, and Poetry International prizes. Other recognitions include fellowships from The Frost Place, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee, and a Marin County Poet Laureateship.
Kristina Garvin
Kristina Garvin lives in Philadelphia. Her writing has appeared in North American Review, The Forge Literary Journal, Pithead Chapel, Eclectica Magazine, and elsewhere. She works in public health.
Daniel Gaughan
Daniel Gaughan is a poet and undergraduate writing student from Baltimore, MD. His work is also available through The Academy of American Poets.
Catherine Graffam
Catherine Graffam is an artist and educator based in Portland, ME. She creates paintings, video games, and produces videos on issues in the art world and retro art creation devices.
Jonathan Greenhause
Jonathan Greenhause’s poetry collection, Cupping Our Palms (Meadowlark Press, 2022), won the 2022 Birdy Poetry Prize, and he has won the Teignmouth Poetry Festival Open Competition, the Ledbury Poetry Competition, Aesthetica Magazine’s Creative Writing Award in Poetry, and the Telluride Institute’s Fischer Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Barrow Street, The Believer, New York Quarterly, Poetry Ireland Review, The Poetry Society, and Subtropics.
Shana Hill
Shana Hill’s poetry has appeared in Redivider, Solstice, Breakwater Review, and elsewhere. She is a co-editor on Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology (WVU Press, July 2023). Her work is forthcoming in Plume.
Allie Hoback
Allie Hoback is a poet from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia. She earned her MFA from Syracuse University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Boiler, among others.
Hanaa Ahmad Jabr
Hanaa Ahmad Jabr’s collections include Where Do You Live? (with American poet Jennifer Jean), My Sorrow’s Reward from His Collar, and Zahr (Flowers). Critical books include: The Dialectic of Poetry and Prose in Modernist Poetry and The Poetics of the Prose Poem. Hanaa teaches poetry at the University of Mosul.
Jennifer Jean
Jennifer Jean’s collections include Where do you live? (with Iraqi poet Hanaa Ahmad Jabr), VOZ, and Object Lesson. She edited Other Paths for Shahrazad: a Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Arab Women. Jennifer teaches at Solstice MFA and is a senior program manager at the Fine Arts Work Center.
Andrew Joseph Kane
Andrew Joseph Kane’s fiction has appeared in Arts & Letters, Blue Mesa Review, Chicago Review, CutBank, Denver Review, Eckleburg, Failbetter, Greensboro Review, Grist, Juked, Pembroke Magazine, and Vassar Review. He has an MFA from Warren Wilson College.
Carolene Kurien
Carolene Kurien is a Malayali-American poet from South Florida. Her work has received support from MacDowell and Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and has been published in Bennington Review, Passages North, Sixth Finch, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere.
Julia Lisella
Julia Lisella’s latest poetry collection, Our Lively Kingdom (Bordighera Press), was a 2023 Paterson Book Prize Finalist and Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Her other collections are Always, Terrain, and Love Song Hiroshima. She co-curates the Italian American Writers Association reading series in Boston and teaches English and creative writing at Regis College.
Francis Lunney
Francis Lunney has published poems in the Beloit Poetry Journal, The Southern Review, Southern Poetry Journal, Sugar House Review, and Tar River Poetry. He works as an elementary school reading specialist and lives in Salem, MA.
Richard Lyons
Richard Lyons has published four books of poems. The most recent is titled Un Poco Loco (Iris Books, 2016). He has published three chapbooks of poems, including Heart House (Emrys Press, 2019) and Sleep on Needles (Finishing Line Press, 2023). He has been a recipient of a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets and a Discovery Prize from The Nation. Recent work has appeared in Cloudbank, Nine Mile, and Midwest Quarterly.
Angie Macri
Angie Macri is the author of Sunset Cue (Bordighera), winner of the Lauria/ Frasca Poetry Prize, and Underwater Panther (Southeast Missouri State University), winner of the Cowles Poetry Book Prize. An Arkansas Arts Council fellow, she lives in Hot Springs.
Sandra Marchetti
Sandra Marchetti is the 2023 winner of The Twin Bill Book Prize for Best Baseball Poetry Book of the Year. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: DIORAMA (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2025), Aisle 228 (SFA Press, 2023), and Confluence (Sundress Publications, 2015). Sandy is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays.
Michelle Matz
Michelle Matz’s debut collection of poetry, Acoustic Shadow, was published last year. Michelle is a high dean and lives on a hill in San Francisco where the neighbors gather every Wednesday evening to sip wine on a neighbor’s front steps. She has been published in numerous journals, including The Lascaux Review, Mud Season Review, and Verse Daily.
Jillian McKelvey
Jillian McKelvey writes narrative nonfiction in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada. When she is not working on I’m Losing My Mountains, a memoir, she loves experimenting with Flash CNF. Her work has appeared in Memoir Magazine, Shift, Ravensperch, and River Teeth, among others.
Jeff McRae
Jeff McRae lives in Vermont. He earned graduate writing degrees from the University of New Hampshire and Washington University, St. Louis. His collection The Kingdom Where No One Dies will be published by Pulley Press in late 2025.
Jill Michelle
Jill Michelle is the author of Underwater (Riot in Your Throat, 2025) and Shuffle Play (Bottlecap, 2024) and winner of the 2023 NORward Prize for Poetry. Her newest work is forthcoming in Here: a poetry journal, I-70 Review, and The South Carolina Review. She teaches writing and literature at Valencia College in Orlando, FL.
Gwen Niekamp
Originally from Louisville, KY, Gwen Niekamp is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. She holds a Ph.D. from Florida State and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her recent essays have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Boulevard, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere, and her chapbook By Way of Buenos Aires won the 2025 Prose Chapbook Prize from Etchings Press (University of Indianapolis).
Kunjana Parashar
Kunjana Parashar is a poet and editor who lives in Mumbai. Her debut poetry collection, They Gather Around Me, the Animals, won the Barbara Stevens Poetry Book Award, judged by Diane Seuss.
Christian Paulisich
Christian Paulisich was raised in the Bay Area, CA, but currently lives in Maryland where he works as a psychotherapist. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University, he pursued poetry by working for the Hopkins Review and later Palette Poetry. His work was recently chosen as an honorable mention for the 2024 Gulf Coast Prize for Poetry and a finalist for Frontier Poetry’s 2024 Nature & Place Contest, and has been published in or is forthcoming from The Southeast Review, Frontier, Literary Matters, Crab Orchard Review, Denver Quarterly, and other magazines.
Tiffany Promise
Tiffany Promise (she/her) is a writer, poet, chronic migraineur and the lead vocalist of the poetry-punk band, SNATCHWITCH. She holds an MFA from CalArts and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Redivider, CALYX, 45th Parallel, Narrative Magazine, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Epiphany, Okay Donkey, and elsewhere. A lifelong punk and horror fiend, Tiffany’s work skews gritty.
Wadaq Qais
Wadaq Qais received a degree in accounting in 2021 and is completing her degree in Translation Studies at the University of Basra. She’s co-translated the collaborative and bilingual collection Where Do You Live? (Arrowsmith Press) with Iraqi poet Hanaa Ahmad Jabr and American poet Jennifer Jean.
Dimitri Reyes
Dimitri Reyes is a Puerto Rican multidisciplinary artist, content creator, and educator from Newark, New Jersey. He has been named one of The Best New Latinx Authors of 2023 by LatinoStories for his most recent book, Papi Pichón (Get Fresh Books, 2023) which was a finalist for the Omnidawn chapbook contest and the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Dimitri’s work has been featured on NPR and PBS as well as Poem-a-Day, Verse Daily, Até Mais: Latinx Futurisms, and elsewhere.
Cecil Sayre
Cecil Sayre’s poetry has appeared in Main Street Rag, Naugatuck River Review, Two Thirds North, and many other literary journals. He has received two Pushcart Prize nominations.
Emily Schulten
Emily Schulten is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Easy Victims to the Charitable Deceptions of Nostalgia, the 2023 White Pine Press Poetry Prize winner, and the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship and the 2025-2026 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award. Her work can be found in publications including Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Five Points, and Best American Poetry 2025. She is the current Poet Laureate of Key West, where she’s a professor of English and creative writing and the director of CFK Poetics at The College of the Florida Keys.
Sonya Schneider
Sonya Schneider is a poet and playwright whose poetry can be found in The Penn Review, Potomac Review, Rattle, Raleigh Review, Rust & Moth, Tar River, and elsewhere. A graduate of Stanford and Pacific University’s MFA in Poetry, she lives in Seattle with her family.
Ivan Suazo
Ivan Suazo is a Dominican American fiction writer from New York City. He received his BFA in Dramatic Writing from SUNY Purchase and is now working toward an MFA in Creative Writing at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, where he serves as the Lead Assistant Editor for the Hopkins Review. His fiction has been supported by the Kenyon Writers Workshop and has appeared in The Pinch and elsewhere.
Javen Tanner
Javen Tanner’s most recent collection of poems is The God Mask. He is the Artistic Director of The Sting & Honey Company (theater), and the Theater Department Chair at The Waterford School.
Jeffrey Thompson
Jeffrey Thompson is an attorney and writer living in Phoenix, AZ. His poems have appeared in journals including North Dakota Quarterly, Hole In The Head Review, The Dodge, New World Writing, and Action, Spectacle. His hobbies include reading, hiking, and photography.
David Thoreen
David Thoreen’s poems have appeared in The Flint Hills Review, The Greensboro Review, Kestrel, New Letters, New Ohio Review, Paterson Literary Review, and elsewhere. He teaches writing and literature at Assumption University in Worcester, MA.
Bunkong Tuon
Bunkong Tuon is a Cambodian American writer, Pushcart Prize–winning poet, and professor who teaches at Union College in Schenectady, NY. He is the author of several poetry collections. In 2024, he published What Is Left, a Greatest Hits chapbook from Jacar Press, and Koan Khmer, his debut novel from Northwestern UP/Curbstone Books. He lives with his wife and children in Upstate New York.
Anastasia Vassos
Anastasia Vassos is the author of Nostos (2023) and Nike Adjusting Her Sandal (2021). Her poems about the Greek-American diaspora have been translated into Greek. She speaks three languages and lives in Boston.
Hope F. Wabuke
Hope F. Wabuke is the author of the chapbooks Movement No.1: Trains, The Leaving, and her, as well as the full-length collection The Body Family. Her next full-length poetry collection, Blood on the Leaves, will be published in 2026. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, she is Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Connemara Wadsworth
Connemara Wadsworth has been published in Poet Lore, Lily Review, Chautauqua, Belleview Literary Review, among others. She won a prize for an ekphrastic poem from the Griffin Museum and a prize for The Possibility of Scorpions, about living in Baghdad as a child.
