SubscribeCynthia Atkins
Cynthia Atkins (she/her), originally from Chicago, IL, is the author of Psyche’s Weathers, In the Event of Full Disclosure, and Still-Life With God (Saint Julian Press 2020), and Duets, a collaborative chapbook from Harbor Editions. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, BOMB, Cider Press Review, Diode, Cimarron Review, Gargoyle, Indianapolis Review, Lily Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review, Rust + Moth, North American Review, Permafrost, Plume, Tinderbox, and Verse Daily.
Andrew Bertaina
Andrew Bertaina is the author of the essay collection, The Body Is A Temporary Gathering Place (Autofocus 2024), and the short-story collection, One Person Away from You (Moon City Press Award Winner 2021). His work has appeared in The ThreePenny Review, Orion, Prairie Schooner, Witness Magazine, and elsewhere.
Despy Boutris
Despy Boutris is a writer and artist. She is the author of the fiction chapbook Burials (Bull City Press, 2022) and also has work in Ploughshares, Guernica, Agni, Copper Nickel, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. Currently, she lives in Los Angeles.
Lindsay Clark
Lindsay Clark is a resident physician of Family Medicine. She lives in California with her family.
Moriah Cohen
A 2023 New Jersey Council on the Arts poetry fellow, Moriah Cohen is the author of the chapbook Impossible Bottle (Finishing Line Press). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Adroit Journal, Narrative, Gulf Coast, and RHINO, among others. Cohen lives in New Jersey, where she teaches creative writing at a local high school.
Gillon Crichton
Gillon Crichton’s fiction has appeared in Epiphany, Pembroke Magazine, and Consequence Journal. As a Marine Corps officer, he is obligated to notify readers that his writing does not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.
Julie Danho
Julie Danho’s poetry collection, Those Who Keep Arriving, won the 2018 Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press. Her chapbook, Six Portraits, received the 2013 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Award, and her poems have appeared in publications such as Alaska Quarterly Review, Bennington Review, Pleiades, and Poetry Daily. She has been awarded fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the MacColl Johnson Fund.
James Davis
James Davis is the author of the poetry collection Club Q and the winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize. He teaches English at the University of North Texas.
Anthony DiPietro
Anthony DiPietro, the author of kiss & release (Unsolicited Press, 2024), is a gay sex poet and arts administrator originally from Providence, RI. He earned his MFA at Stony Brook University and now serves as deputy director of Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. He resides in Worcester, MA.
Caroline Fleischauer
Caroline Fleischauer’s work appears in various publications, including MAYDAY and Redivider, and was shortlisted in Fractured Literary’s 2021 Micro Contest. She earned her MFA from the University of Wyoming. Originally from Ithaca, NY, she currently resides in Bloemfontein, South Africa, where she teaches English as an English Language Fellow at the University of the Free State.
Jason Fraley
Jason Fraley is a native West Virginian who lives, works, and periodically writes in Columbus, OH. Current and prior publications include Barrow Street, Jet Fuel Review, Quarter After Eight, West Trade Review, and Pine Hills Review.
John Gallaher
John Gallaher’s most recent collection of poems is My Life in Brutalist Architecture (Four Way Books, 2024). Gallaher lives in northwest Missouri, and co-edits the Laurel Review.
Justin Groppuso-Cook
Justin Groppuso-Cook is a poet, musician, and healing artist from Detroit, MI. His work has appeared in Best New Poets, Hooligan Mag, The Pinch, Iron Horse Review, and Witness. He is a writer-in-residence at InsideOut Literary Arts Project and poetry reader for West Trade Review.
Cecelia Hagen
Cecelia Hagen is the author of Entering (Airlie Press) and the chapbooks Among Others (Traprock Books), and Fringe Living (26 Books Press). Her poems have appeared in more than fifty periodicals, including New Ohio Review, Guesthouse, Zócalo Public Square, On the Seawall, High Desert Journal, EcoTheo, and Zyzzyva.
Marcy Rae Henry
Marcy Rae Henry is a multidisciplinary Xicana artist from the Borderlands and author of We Are Primary Colors (DoubleCross Press), dream life of night owls (Open Country Press), the body is where it all begins (forthcoming from Querencia Press), and red delicious (forthcoming from dancing girl press). She recently won the May Sarton NH Prize for Poetry for death is a mariachi, which will be published in 2025. Her work has received a Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, a Pushcart nomination, and first prize in Suburbia’s Novel Excerpt Contest. MRae is a digital minimalist with no social media accounts and an associate editor for RHINO.
Gabrielle Grace Hogan
Gabrielle Grace Hogan (she/her) received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a team writer for Autostraddle and an assistant poetry editor for Foglifter.
Kate Hubbard
Kate Hubbard teaches creative writing to children in East Haven, CT, where she lives with her family. She has an MFA in poetry from New England College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Sun, The Florida Review, New Ohio Review, North American Review, Hole in the Head Review, among others.
Danny Lang-Perez
Danny Lang-Perez is a writer from the West Coast. His fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Hobart, and the 2025 Pushcart Prize Anthology. He received his MFA from Vanderbilt University and is pursuing a PhD at the University of Southern California.
Sharon Lin
Sharon Lin is a poet and essayist. Her work appears in The New York Review of Books, DIAGRAM, The Kenyon Review, Sine Theta, The Offing, and elsewhere. She lives in London.
Katrina Madarang
Katrina Madarang is a poet based in Manila, Philippines. Her work has been published in the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, among others. When not writing, she plays the bass.
Taylor Melia Elyse Mahone
Taylor Melia Elyse Mahone is a fiction writer from Central Florida and a recent graduate of the McNeese State University MFA/MA program. Her fiction deals with the sublime, Floridian landscapes, relationships, and reptiles.
Alexandra Malouf
Alexandra Malouf is a poet and multimedia artist. Her work has received an award from the Academy of American Poets and been featured in numerous publications, including: Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Poets.org, Poetry Wales, The Summerset Review, The Indianapolis Review, and Poetry Ireland Review.
Mary Rose Manspeaker
Mary Rose Manspeaker is currently an English PhD student at West Virginia University. Their first manuscript, Vernacular Geography, was named a finalist for the Akron Poetry Prize and the Autumn House Poetry Prize. Recent poems appear in Dreginald, Dream Pop Press, and Western Humanities Review.
A. Molotkov
A. Molotkov is an immigrant writer. His poetry collections are The Catalog of Broken Things, Application of Shadows, Synonyms for Silence, and Future Symptoms. His novels A Slight Curve and A Bag Full of Stones are forthcoming in 2025. He co-edits The Inflectionist Review.
Jane Newkirk
Jane Newkirk is an occupational therapist and writer living in Mississippi. Her poems have appeared in Empty House Press, The Shore, The Night Heron Barks, Intima, and others. Her creative nonfiction has received a Pushcart Prize nomination.
John A. Nieves
John A. Nieves’ poems appear in journals such as the Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, and Hopkins Review. A 2024 Pushcart Prize winner, his first book, Curio, won the Elixir Press Prize. He is an associate professor at Salisbury University and an editor of The Shore Poetry.
Benjamin Paloff
Benjamin Paloff’s books include the poetry collections And His Orchestra and The Politics and several works of nonfiction, including Bakhtin’s Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning and Worlds Apart: Genre and the Ethics of Representing Camps, Ghettos, and Besieged Cities, both forthcoming in 2025. He lives in Michigan, where he makes a living as an academic.
R.S. Powers
R.S. Powers is an assistant professor of English at Fairmont State University where they also serve as the fiction editor of the literary journal Kestrel. Their fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, Grist, Juked, X-R-A-Y, Sou’wester, and elsewhere. They are currently working on a novel that concerns fracking, social-media doppelgangers, post-disaster exploitation, and other dystopian realities.
Amy Roa
Amy Roa is the author of the poetry collection Radioactive Wolves (Steel Toe Books, 2023).
Dale Rogers
Dale Rogers is a metal sculptor from Massachusetts. He designs both large-scale metal sculptures for individual installation with private collectors and temporary public exhibits full of multiple pieces. He strives to create thought-provoking work that is sophisticated, easily recognized, and will serve as a mental postcard.
Susannah Sheffer
Susannah Sheffer’s latest poetry collection, The Stone Tries to Understand the Hands, will be published by Cornerstone Press in January 2025. Her previous collections include Break and Enter (2021) and This Kind of Knowing (2013). She lives in Western Massachusetts.
Lisa Summe
Lisa Summe is the author of Say It Hurts (YesYes Books, 2021). She earned her BA and MA at the University of Cincinnati, and her MFA at Virginia Tech. You can find her running, playing baseball, or eating vegan pastries in Pittsburgh, PA.
Lindsay Younce Tsohantaridis
Lindsay Younce Tsohantaridis writes from Ohio, though she has lived most of her life in the Pacific Northwest. Her poetry and prose appear and are upcoming in Dappled Things and Soul Garden.
Leah Umansky
Leah Umansky is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently, Of Tyrant (Word Works Books 2024.) She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has curated and hosted the Couplet Reading Series in NYC since 2011. Her poems have been widely published and this poem is a part of her new manuscript, Ordinary Splendor, poems on wonder, joy and love.
Donna Vorreyer
Donna Vorreyer is the author of Unrivered (forthcoming, 2025), To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. Her poetry, fiction, and essay work have appeared in Ploughshares, Cherry Tree, Poet Lore, Salamander, Harpur Palate, Booth, and elsewhere. A retired middle school teacher, she lives and creates in the Chicago area where she hosts the monthly online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey and is a co-founder/editor of the new journal Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters.
Sara Watson
Sara Watson is a feminist writer and educator. Her chapbook, Our Imaginary Childhood, is available from Finishing Line Press. She lives with animals in Pittsburgh.
Michael Welch
Michael Welch is the Editor-In-Chief of the Chicago Review of Books. His work has appeared in Electric Lit, Los Angeles Review of Books, Scientific American, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, and elsewhere. He is also the editor of The Great Lakes Anthology, forthcoming from Belt Publishing in 2026.
Alice White
Alice White is a poet from Kansas City who lives in rural France. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, The Poetry Review, and The Threepenny Review, and has been featured on the podcast The Slowdown.
