SubscribeJosé A. Alcántara
José A. Alcántara is the author of The Bitten World. His poetry has appeared in American Life in Poetry, Ploughshares, Bennington Review, Rattle, Poetry Northwest, and The Slowdown. José lives in Western Colorado and wherever he happens to pitch his tent.
Sara Backer
Sara Backer’s first book of poetry, Such Luck, follows two chapbooks: Scavenger Hunt, and Bicycle Lotus, which won the Turtle Island Chapbook Award. Recent publications include Lake Effect, Slant, CutBank Online, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Ireland, and Kenyon Review. She lives in New Hampshire and reads for The Maine Review.
Michael Beard
Michael Beard (he/him) holds an MFA in Poetry from Bowling Green State University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Baltimore Review, BOOTH, and Puerto Del Sol, among others. He currently lives in Tennessee and teaches Dual Enrollment English at local high schools.
Lizzy Beck
Lizzy Beck lives with her family in Western Massachusetts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Grist, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Laton Carter
Laton Carter’s fiction recently appears in The Boiler, Invisible City, The MacGuffin, and Necessary Fiction. Carter is a middle school teacher in Western Oregon.
Sean Cho A.
Sean Cho A. is a Visiting Professor of Instruction at a Regional University in the Midwestern United States.
Rob Macaisa Colgate
Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled bakla poet and playwright from Evanston, IL. He is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025). He received an MFA in Poetry and Critical Disability Studies from the New Writers Project at UT Austin and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta and poet-in-residence at Tangled Art + Disability.
Aliyah Cotton
Aliyah Cotton is a queer poet of color from Reston, VA. She earned her MFA from Boston University where she was a recipient of the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Adroit, Emerson Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, South Carolina Review, and Southern Humanities Review. She is a 2024 Gregory Djanikian Scholar and was nominated for the 2024 Best of the Net Anthology.
Stephanie Yue Duhem
Stephanie Yue Duhem is writing out of Austin, TX. She was a 2021 and 2023 Pushcart nominee. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Bennington Review, Southern Humanities Review, and many other journals.
Lindsey Godfrey Eccles
Lindsey Godfrey Eccles lives on an island near Seattle, spending as much time as she can on the water and occasionally practicing law. Her fiction has appeared in Ninth Letter and MONKEYBICYCLE, among other places, and is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review.
Jannie Edwards
Jannie Edwards is a poet, essayist, teacher, and artistic collaborator based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on Treaty 6 and Métis Region 4 lands. Her latest publications are Learning Their Names: Letters from the Home Place (Collusion Books, 2022) and Blues for a Rare Moon (Alfred Gustav Press, 2023).
CD Eskilson
CD Eskilson is a trans poet, editor, and translator living in Arkansas. They are a recipient of the C.D. Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize, as well as a Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and Pushcart Prize nominee. Their debut poetry collection, Scream / Queen, is forthcoming from Acre Books in 2025.
Christa Fairbrother
Christa Fairbrother, MA, has had poetry in Arc Poetry, Pleiades, Stoneboat, and Sunlight Press, among others. She’s been a resident with Sundress Academy for the Arts and the Bethany Arts Community. She is currently the poet laureate of Gulfport, FL, and is a Pushcart Prize nominee.
Jules Fitz Gerald
Jules Fitz Gerald grew up on North Carolina’s Outer Banks and now lives in Oregon. Her fiction appears or is forthcoming in The Common, A Public Space, Wigleaf, Witness, and other journals. She is working on several books, including a novel-in-stories from which this story comes.
Ella Flores
Ella Flores is a poetry PhD candidate at SUNY Binghamton, is the Poetry Co-Editor of Harpur Palate, and has had recent work appear in Hunger Mountain, The Summerset Review, and South Carolina Review.
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of Mud In Our Mouths (forthcoming from Northwestern University Press) and Look Alive (winner of the 2019 Cowles Poetry Book Prize from Southeast Missouri State University Press), along with numerous chapbooks. Her poetry can be found in Fugue, Five Points, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She serves as a Poetry Editor for the Whiting Award–winning LGBTQIA2S+ literary journal and press Foglifter.
D. Dina Friedman
D. Dina Friedman has published widely in literary journals and received four Pushcart Prize nominations. She is the author of two young adult novels, a short-story collection: Immigrants (Creators Press), and two chapbooks: Wolf in the Suitcase (Finishing Line Press) and Here in Sanctuary—Whirling (Querencia Press).
Caylee Gardner
Caylee Gardner (she/they) is a queer writer from Salt Lake City, UT. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Canticle, The Shore, and others. When she’s not writing about nature, queerness, and (sometimes) resilience, she enjoys exploring mountainous terrains and spending time with friends.
Bernadette Geyer
Bernadette Geyer is the author of The Scabbard of Her Throat (The Word Works) and editor of My Cruel Invention: A Contemporary Poetry Anthology (Meerkat Press). Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Bennington Review, The MacGuffin, and elsewhere.
Kristin Ginger
Kristin Ginger holds an MFA in Creative Fiction from Boston University. Her essays and short stories have appeared in publications such as Slice, Mount Hope, Ruminate, and Shelterforce. She lives in Chicago with one husband, two daughters, and three cats.
Andrew Hemmert
Andrew Hemmert is the author of Blessing the Exoskeleton (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Sawgrass Sky (Texas Review Press). His poems have recently appeared in magazines such as Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, and West Branch. He lives in Thornton, CO.
Ruth Hoberman
Ruth Hoberman lives in Newtonville, MA. Since her 2015 retirement from Eastern Illinois University, she has published poems and personal essays in (most recently) Nixes Mate, Connecticut River Review, RHINO, Constellations, and Ploughshares.
Stephanie Juanillo
Stephanie Juanillo is a Mexican-American artist. She graduated from Linfield University in 2022 with a BA in Studio Arts and a Minor in Psychology and Visual Studies. Through her art, she honors her experience as a first-generation immigrant. Latinx music, memories, people and nostalgia inspire Stephanie’s choice of bold color, pattern, texture, and Mexican iconography. The work centers around the coexistence of grief and joy and how they play an active role in the topics she chooses to investigate, such as migration, community, family, loss, distance and intergenerational healing. Monarch butterflies and flowers have become powerful symbols and reminders of home and hope. The act of creating through painting, printmaking, collage, or installation serves as a way for Stephanie to stay connected to her Mexican roots.
Caroline Kanner
Caroline Kanner is an educator in California. Her poetry has appeared in Dialogist, Peripheries, NECK, Volume, and the math textbook Fractal Worlds: Grown, Built, and Imagined.
Ann Keniston
Ann Keniston is a poet, essayist, and critic interested in the relation of the creative to the scholarly. She is the author of several poetry collections, including, most recently, Somatic (Terrapin, 2020), as well as several scholarly studies of contemporary American poetry. Recent poems and essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Fourth Genre, and Five Points. A professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, she lives in Reno.
Veronica Kornberg
Veronica Kornberg is a poet from the San Francisco Bay area. Recipient of the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, Rattle, Indiana Review, Calyx, and Plume. She is a Peer Reviewer for Whale Road Review.
Vera Kroms
Vera Kroms is the author of the poetry collection The Pears of Budapest (Red Mountain Press, 2020) and the chapbook Necessary Harm (Finishing Line Press, 2010). She worked as a programmer for many years and is now retired and living in Arlington, MA.
Sheree La Puma
Sheree La Puma is a cancer survivor and writer whose work has appeared in The Penn Review, Redivider, Sugar House Review, The Maine Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Lascaux Review, Salt Hill, Stand Magazine, Rust + Moth, Mantis, and Catamaran Literary Reader, among others. She earned her MFA in Writing from CalArts. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of The Net and four Pushcarts.
Jennifer Stewart Miller
Jennifer Stewart Miller is the author of Thief (2021), winner of the 2020 Grayson Books Poetry Prize, and The Strangers Burial Ground (Seven Kitchens, 2020). Her poems have appeared in RHINO, Sugar House Review, Tar River Poetry, Verse Daily, and elsewhere.
Cathlin Noonan
Cathlin Noonan (she/her) is a poet based out of San Antonio, TX. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Meridian, Pidgeonholes, and Small Orange Journal, among others. She is assistant poetry editor for The Night Heron Barks and associate editor for Ran Off With the Star Bassoon.
Michael Quattrone
Michael Quattrone (he/him) is the author of Rhinoceroses (2006 New School Chapbook Award). His work is included in The Best American Erotic Poems (Scribner, 2008), and The Incredible Sestina Anthology (Write Bloody, 2013). Recent poems appear in Bennington Review, New York Quarterly, and Poet Lore.
Marin Sardy
Marin Sardy is the author of the critically lauded memoir The Edge of Every Day (Pantheon, 2019). Sardy’s essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Missouri Review, and many other journals, as well as in two award-winning photography books. Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and three times listed as “notable” in the Best American series. She teaches memoir and personal essay writing for Authors Publish.
Amber Silverman
Amber Silverman is a writer and editor who lives in Connecticut with her husband and two daughters. Her fiction has appeared in Flash Frontier and she recently completed her first novel.
Amy Smith
Amy Smith’s poems have appeared in Waxwing, Poetry Northwest, Stone Canoe, and elsewhere. She serves as an Editorial Assistant for Poetry Northwest and lives and works in Central New York.
Maria Surricchio
Maria Surricchio is originally from the UK and now lives near Boulder, CO. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has been published in Blackbird, Poet Lore, Lily Poetry Review, The Comstock Review, Rust & Moth, and elsewhere. She has a BA in Modern Languages from Cambridge University and is an MFA candidate at Pacific University.
Sonja Vitow
Sonja Vitow is a Philadelphia-based writer, educator, and PhD student. Some of their work can be found in The Pinch, Sugar Hill Review, Rattle, Harvard Review, Fugue Journal, The Rumpus, and Carve Magazine.
Casey Wiley
Casey Wiley’s work has been published in Passages North, Hunger Mountain, Hobart, Ep;phany, Barrelhouse, Gulf Stream, Salt Hill, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. In addition to teaching writing at Penn State, he loves gardening and exploring Pennsylvania with his family.
Kathleen Winter
Kathleen Winter is the author of Transformer (Hilary Tham Prize), I will not kick my friends (Elixir Prize) and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past (Antivenom Prize). Her poems appear in The New Republic, New Statesman, AGNI, Yale Review, and Poetry London.
Nancy Lynée Woo
Nancy Lynée Woo is an eco-centric poet from southern California who has received fellowships from PEN America, California Creative Corps, Artists at Work, Arts Council for Long Beach, and others. She has an MFA from Antioch University.
