SubscribeShane Allison
Shane Allison is a writer and artist living in Tallahassee, FL. He is the author of four collections of poetry, Sweet Sweat being his most recent. His new collection Turbulent is forthcoming from Hysterical Books. When he’s not at a café writing, he’s making art.
William Archila
William Archila was awarded the 2023 Jack Hauser Fellowship. He is the author of The Art of Exile and The Gravedigger’s Archaeology. His poems have appeared in Agni, American Poetry Review, Pleiades, Los Angeles Review, Prairie Schooner, and Poetry Magazine. He lives in Los Angeles, on Tongva land.
Karin Aurino
Karin Aurino writes poetry and fiction. Her work appears in Red Rock Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Constellations, The Satirist, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been anthologized in Gathering: A Women Who Submit Anthology.
Adrienne Marie Barrios
Adrienne Marie Barrios writes whenever Margot is sleeping. She misses writing Too Much Tongue (Autofocus, 2022) with Leigh Chadwick, but the world is different now. She is often ill and always autistic. She edits Reservoir Road Literary Review when energy permits. Every day is a struggle, as is evident in her widely published work, which you can find in The Massachusetts Review, HAD, No Contact, trampset, and Passages North, among other literary publishers.
Craig Blais
Craig Blais is the author of two collections of poems, Moon News (2021) and About Crows (2013). His work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Yale Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He is an associate professor of English at Anna Maria College in Paxton, MA.
Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer
Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer is the author of the poetry collection Bad Animal (Riot in Your Throat, 2023) and the chapbook Small Geometries (Ethel, 2023.) The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, they attend Syracuse University’s MFA program and serve as Director of Development & Publicity at BOA Editions.
Jenny Browne
Jenny Browne’s latest book is Fellow Travelers: New and Selected Poems and new work has been recently published or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, and Prairie Schooner. She teaches at Trinity in San Antonio, TX, and will be the 2023-24 Distinguished Fulbright Scholar in Irish Literature at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Mary Buchinger
Mary Buchinger, whose recent books include Virology (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2022), Navigating the Reach (Salmon Poetry, 2023), and The Book of Shores (Lily Poetry Review Books, forthcoming), teaches in Boston and serves on the New England Poetry Club board.
Rebecca Kirk Connors
Rebecca Kirk Connors (she/her) is the author of the chapbook Split Map (Minerva Rising Press, 2019). Her poems can be found in Nixes Mate, Stone Circle Review, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal, among others. She is the co-founder of the virtual literary space, The Notebooks Collective, and received her MFA in poetry from the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program, now at Lasell University. She lives in Massachusetts with her family and two cats.
Elizabeth Crowell
Elizabeth Crowell grew up in northern New Jersey and has a BA from Smith College in English Literature and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. She taught college and high school English for many years. Her work has been published in such journals as Bellevue Literary Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Paterson Literary Review, Epoch, and others. One of her poems, originally published in the Tipton Review, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives outside of Boston with her wife and teenage children.
Monica Cure
Monica Cure is a Romanian-American poet, writer, and translator currently based in Bucharest. Her poems have appeared in Plume, RHINO, Boston Review, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.
Darren C. Demaree
Darren C. Demaree is the author of twenty poetry collections, most recently Tongues Out in the Garden of Spectacle (Newcomer Press, August 2023). He is the recipient of a Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and the Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, OH, with his wife and children.
Morgan Eklund
Morgan Eklund’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Poet Lore, North American Review, Hippocampus Magazine, New Orleans Review, and Sequestrum. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best New Poets anthology.
William Fargason
William Fargason is the author of Velvet (Northwestern University Press, 2024) and Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara (University of Iowa Press, 2020). He has an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and a PhD in poetry from Florida State University.
Gary Fincke
Gary Fincke’s collections of poetry have won prizes from Arkansas, Ohio State, Michigan State, Stephen F. Austin, and Jacar. His next collection, For Now, We Have Been Spared, will be published in 2024 by Slant Books.
Jan Freeman
Jan Freeman is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Blue Structure (Calypso Editions). She completed a new collection of poems, The Odyssey of Yes and No, during a 2023 MacDowell fellowship. She directs the MASS MoCA Writing Through Art Poetry Retreats and workshops.
Suzanne Frischkorn
Suzanne Frischkorn’s most recent poetry collection is Fixed Star (JackLeg Press, 2022). She is an editor at $ - Poetry Is Currency, and serves on the Terrain.org editorial board. Her fourth book of poems, Whipsaw, is forthcoming in 2024 from Anhinga Press.
Reuben Gelley Newman
Reuben Gelley Newman is the author of the chapbook Feedback Harmonies (Seven Kitchens, 2023). He works, writes, and makes music in New York City, and coedits for Couplet Poetry. Find recent poems in Ninth Letter, Fairy Tale Review, and Afternoon Visitor.
Maryam Ghafoor
Maryam Ghafoor is a queer Muslim Pakistani-American poet from Illinois. Her work has been published in Vassar Review, American Poetry Review, Spry, The South Carolina Review, SOFTBLOW, and elsewhere.
Joan Kwon Glass
Joan Kwon Glass is the author of Night Swim (Diode Editions, 2022). She serves as Editor-in-Chief for Harbor Review, and her poems have been featured or are forthcoming in The Slowdown, Poetry Northwest, Ninth Letter, Rattle, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.
Andrea Gregory
Andrea Gregory is a former journalist and world traveler. Her fiction has appeared in The Sun, The Masters Review, New South, Consequence, and North Dakota Quarterly. Her creative nonfiction essays have been published by Arrowsmith Press where, as a columnist, she has written about living with MS while drawing on larger social issues and a love of literature. She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Steph Grossman
Steph Grossman’s fiction has appeared in Joyland and CRAFT and has been recognized by The Masters Review’s 2020 Flash Fiction contest (shortlisted), CRAFT’s 2020 Elements: Conflict contest (finalist), and Fractured Lit’s 2023 Flash Fiction OPEN contest (longlisted). Her narrative nonfiction has appeared in Paste Magazine and in The Masters Review. She lives in the Austin area and works as a composition and creative writing lecturer in the English department at Texas State University, and co-hosts the Basement Girls podcast with poet Bianca Pérez, where they take an academic, craft-oriented approach to reviewing film and literature across the horror and mystery genres.
Daniel Gunn
Daniel Gunn lives in New Sharon, ME. His work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, The Ohio Review, Rustica, The James Joyce Quarterly, and other journals. His French translations of Doug Rawlings’ poetry, La fille dans la photo et autres poèmes, was published by Kellscraft Studio last year.
Myronn Hardy
Myronn Hardy is the author of, most recently, Aurora Americana. His poems have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, POETRY, The Georgia Review, The Baffler, and elsewhere. He lives in Maine.
Stephanie L. Harper
Stephanie L. Harper is a proudly neurodivergent poet, mother, and Oregonian transplant now living in Indianapolis, IN, where she earned her MFA from Butler University. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Night Heron Barks, The Dodge, Laurel Review, Crab Creek Review, Taos Journal of Poetry, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere.
Ali Hintz
Ali Hintz is a queer neurodivergent Appalachian poet, farmer, and educator. Their poetry appears in Ecotone, Salt Hill, and more. They are the former book reviews editor for The Arkansas International and teach at the University of Arkansas.
Cynthia Marie Hoffman
Cynthia Marie Hoffman is the author of four collections of poetry: Exploding Head (forthcoming 2024), Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, Paper Doll Fetus, and Sightseer, all from Persea Books. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Wisconsin Arts Board. Poems have appeared in Lake Effect, Smartish Pace, The Los Angeles Review, The Believer, and elsewhere.
Rachael Inciarte
Rachael Inciarte (she/they) is the author of What Kind of Seed Made You, published by Finishing Line Press and a 2022 Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention. Their poems feature in Poetry Northwest, Spillway, Juked, and others. Rachael lives in California with family.
Mara Jebsen
Mara Jebsen is Brooklyn poet originally from Philadelphia and West Africa. A NYFA award winner, Mara has published in Sixth Finch, The American Poetry Review, Jet Fuel Review, and other fine journals. She teaches essay writing to young artists at New York University.
Marilyn A. Johnson
Marilyn A. Johnson is the author of The Dead Beat, about obituary writers, and other nonfiction books. Her poetry has appeared in Field, Inkwell, North American Review, and On the Seawall, and is forthcoming in Plume and Rhino. She is an associate editor of Hole in the Head Review.
Abbie Kiefer
Abbie Kiefer is a poet from New Hampshire. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Boulevard, The Cincinnati Review, The Common, Ninth Letter, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She has twice been a semifinalist for the 92Y Discovery Prize and is on the staff of The Adroit Journal.
Christine Kwon
Christine Kwon lives in a yellow shotgun house in New Orleans. Her first book, A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue, won the Cowles Poetry Book Prize and was published in 2023 by Southeast Missouri State University Press.
Seth Leeper
Seth Leeper is a queer poet. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Sycamore Review, River Styx, The Journal, Epiphany, and The Account. He lives and teaches in Brooklyn, NY.
Ashlee Lhamon
Ashlee Lhamon received her MFA from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA, though now she calls the San Francisco Bay Area home. Her work has previously appeared in Hunger Mountain, Grist, Nightmare, Cotton Xenomorph, Every Day Fiction, and more.
Chip Livingston
Chip Livingston is the author of three books of poetry, a novel, and a story and essay collection. He’s the editor of Love, Loosha: The Letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie. Chip teaches in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Temple R. Loveli
Temple R. Loveli (he/they) is a writer, figure model, and gremlin of chaotic, mischievous joy. When not creating art, Temple is working with radioactive cats and deciding how to convey gender through daily memes.
Oksana Maksymchuk
Oksana Maksymchuk is the author of the poetry collections Xenia and Lovy in Ukrainian. Her English-language poems have appeared in AGNI, The Irish Times, The Paris Review, The Poetry Review, and many other journals. She co-edited Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine, an award-winning anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry.
Sue McMillan
Sue McMillan is a writer and attorney living in Boise, ID. While the law is how she’s made her living, writing is how she’s sustained her creativity and perspective.
Laura McPherson
Laura McPherson is a student in the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop Online MFA. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including The Deadlands, Paperbark, and Five South. Her hybrid chapbook inVISIBLE is out with Alien Buddha Press.
Lenna Mendoza
Lenna Mendoza is a poet from Texas. She lives in Oxford, MS, where she is an MFA candidate at the University of Mississippi. Her work has appeared in Foglifter and The Hudson Review.
Kasia Merrill
Kasia Merrill is a writer based in Appalachian Maryland. Her work has previously been published in Fiction International, Breadcrumbs Mag, Quarter After Eight, The Ekphrasis Review, and The Appalachian Review. She has received support for her work from the Peter Bullough Foundation, Disquiet International, and the Kenyon Writer’s Workshop.
Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of Halfway from Home (Split/Lip Press), Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir (The Ohio State University Press), and three poetry chapbooks. She is an associate professor at Bridgewater State University.
Rita Mookerjee
Rita Mookerjee is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Worcester State University. She is the author of False Offering (JackLeg Press, 2023). Her poems can be found in CALYX, Copper Nickel, New Orleans Review, The Offing, and Poet Lore.
Bee Morris
Bee Morris is the author of Notes on Qualia (Bottlecap Press, 2023). Their published work can be found in various online and print journals, including Poet Lore, Wax Nine, Underblong, and Landfill. They reside in San Francisco.
Ashunda Norris
Ashunda Norris is a Black feminist multidisciplinary artist with creative work that encompasses film, poetry, archiving, and her own theoretical frameworks. Ashunda’s writing has been featured or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Torch Literary Arts, Obsidian, Taint Taint Taint, Root Work Journal, Fence, and other noteworthy publications. Born and raised in the heart of rural, red clay Georgia, Ashunda is now a bonafide, citified bitch living and creating in Los Angeles.
Madari Pendas
Madari Pendas is a Cuban-American writer and visual artist. She received her MFA from Florida International University, where she was a Lawrence Sanders Fellow. Her work has appeared in Craft, The Masters Review, PANK, and more. She is the author of Crossing the Hyphen (2021).
Farah Peterson
Farah Peterson’s work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, and The Threepenny Review, and has been collected in The Best American Magazine Writing. She is a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago.
Anna Laura Reeve
Winner of the 2022 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, Anna Laura Reeve’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Terrain.org, and others. Her debut collection, Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility, is available from Belle Point Press and elsewhere.
Phoebe Reeves
Phoebe Reeves is Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. Her first full-length collection, Helen of Bikini, was published in March 2023. She lives in Cincinnati with her husband Don, amidst her unruly urban garden.
Leticia Priebe Rocha
Leticia Priebe Rocha earned her bachelor’s deegree from Tufts University, where she was awarded the 2020 Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, she immigrated to Miami at the age of nine and currently resides in the Greater Boston area. Her work appears in Rattle, Pigeon Pages, Protean Magazine, and elsewhere.
A.J. Rodriguez
A.J. Rodriguez is a Chicano writer born and raised in Albuquerque, NM. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon’s MFA program and the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo. His stories have won CRAFT’s Flash Fiction Contest, the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, and the Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction from Pleiades, judged by Jonathan Escoffery. His fiction also appears or is forthcoming in Passages North, New Ohio Review, Fractured Lit, and The Common.
Liana Roux
Liana Roux has an MFA from the University of Minnesota. Her work appears in Hole In The Head Review, The Experiment Will Not Be Bound anthology (Unbound Edition Press, 2022), The Rupture, The Queer South anthology (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), and elsewhere. She lives in North Carolina with her wife and son.
Javier Sandoval
Javier Sandoval grew up in the Chihuahuan Desert of Mexico and studied creative writing under Forrest Gander and John Wideman at Brown University. He now teaches at the University of Alabama where he also serves as Poetry Editor of Black Warrior Review. His own cross-genre work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Narrative, Indiana Review, Salt Hill, and FOLIO, and his first poetry chapbook, Blue Moon Looming, will be published by CutBank in 2024.
Stephanie Staab
Stephanie Staab is an American poet living in the Black Forest, Germany. Her chapbook, Letterlocking, is available now from Alternating Current Press.
Nina Sudhakar
Nina Sudhakar is a writer, poet, and lawyer based in Chicago. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Matriarchetypes (Bird’s Thumb, 2018) and Embodiments (Sutra Press, 2019) and her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Witness, Ecotone, The Offing, and elsewhere.
Tola Sylvan
Tola Sylvan is a poet and writer from Massachusetts. She is currently pursuing an MFA at Washington University in St. Louis.
Ginny Threefoot
Ginny Threefoot’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Ploughshares, Plume, Poetry Daily, VOLT, and West Branch, among others. Her work has been exhibited in collaboration with artist Anne Lindberg at Carrie Secrist Gallery, Haw Contemporary, and the Figge Art Museum.
Lillian Emerick Valentine
Lillian Emerick Valentine (she/her) is a poet and organic farmer from Oregon. She lives in Missoula where she’s an MFA candidate at the University of Montana. She received a Fishtrap fellowship for her poetry, which has been published in Ecotone, The Fjords Review, and other literary journals.
Julie Marie Wade
Julie Marie Wade is a professor of English & Creative Writing at Florida International University in Miami. A winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, her newest collections are Fugue: An Aural History (Diagram/New Michigan Press, 2023) and Otherwise: Essays (Autumn House, 2023), selected by Lia Purpura as the winner of the 2022 Autumn House Nonfiction Book Prize. Wade makes her home with Angie Griffin and their two cats in Dania Beach.
Zhihua Wang
Zhihua Wang’s work has appeared in Last Leaves, Across the Margin, Eunoia Review, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Arkansas and is currently a doctoral student in Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island.
Cassandra Whitaker
Cassandra Whitaker (she/they) is a trans writer from Virginia whose work has been published in Michigan Quarterly Review, Beestung, Conjunctions, and other places. They are a member of the National Book Critics Circle and an educator. Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf is forthcoming from Jackleg Press in 2025.
Beth Oast Williams
Beth Oast Williams is the author of the chapbook Riding Horses in the Harbor. Her poetry has been accepted for publication in Nimrod, MAYDAY, Leon Literary Review, and Rattle’s “Poets Respond,” among others, and has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize.
