CONTRIBUTORS

Kelli Russell Agodon is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press where she works as an editor and book cover designer in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of six books including her most recent Hourglass Museum and The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice she coauthored with poet Martha Silano. Her next collection of poems, Dialogues with Rising Tides, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2021. More information can be found at www.agodon.com.

Julianna Baggott is the author of over a dozen novels, including Pure and Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders, which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Agni, Poetry, Best American Poetry, Conjunctions, at Tor.com, the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and on NPR. She teaches at the Florida State University Film School.

Award-winning songwriter Bett Butler’s poetry and short fiction have appeared in Weave, Feathertale, Voices de la Luna, AMP, and Fabula Argentea. Find her at www.bettbutler.com.

Alex Carrigan is an editor, writer, and critic. He has edited and proofed the anthologies CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing (C&R Press, 2018) and Her Plumage: An Anthology of Women’s Writings from Quail Bell Magazine (Quail Bell Press & Productions, 2019). He has had fiction, poetry, and literary reviews published in Quail Bell Magazine, Lambda Literary Review, Empty Mirror, Passionate Chic, Whale Road Review, Stories About Penises (Guts Publishing, 2019), and Closet Cases: Queers on What We Wear (Et Alia Press, 2020). 

Michael and Sara Chaney’s visual poetry has appeared in Redivider, Puerto del Sol, Florida Review, New Delta Review, among others. Find them at www.michaelandsarachaney.com.

Tim Conrad’s fiction has appeared with journals such as Willow Springs, Quarter After Eight, Natural Bridge, and Puerto del Sol, and it won the 2019 Hamlin Garland Prize from Beloit Fiction Journal. He currently lives in Michigan, where he is a fiction editor with Third Coast and a visiting assistant professor at Kalamazoo College.

Morri Creech is the author of four collections of poetry, the most recent of which are The Sleep of Reason (Waywiser 2013), a finalist for Pulitzer Prize, and Blue Rooms (Waywiser 2018). A recipient of NEA and Ruth Lilly Fellowships, as well as grants from the North Carolina and Louisiana Arts councils, he is the Writer in Residence at Queens University of Charlotte.

Rebecca Cross holds an MA in creative and critical writing from the University of Sussex. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, Beloit Poetry Journal, Harpur Palate, and Image, among other journals. Two of her poems from 805 Lit + Art and Always Crashing were nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2019. She lives in Vermont with her husband and cat.

Bassist/composer/producer Joël Dilley’s original music is heard on television, film, web, and ambient settings worldwide, including HBO, Discovery Channel, Food Network, and more. Find him at www.joeldilley.com.

em fowler grew up outside of Baltimore, Maryland. Their work has appeared in online and print publications including Sycamore Review, Homology Lit Mag, Glittermob and elsewhere. They are a Chichimec artist living in Kumeyaay territory.

Kim Garcia is the author of The Brighter House (White Pine Press), DRONE (The Backwaters Press), Madonna Magdalene (Turning Point Books), and a chapbook, Tales of the Sisters. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, and Mississippi Review, and have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac. Newer poems (2019-2020) have appeared or are forthcoming in New Ohio Review, The Antioch Review, IMAGE, Tupelo Quarterly (winner of the 2019 Broadside Prize), Summerset Review, Mid-American Review, and Colorado Review. Garcia teaches creative writing at Boston College.

Alice Hall is a poet and teacher currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo. Her poems can be found in Prelude, Heavy Feather Review, Dream Pop, and DIAGRAM, among others. She is the author of the chapbook One Million Nude Women (Industrial Lunch).

Hannah Han is from Los Angeles, California. She has received recognition for her writing from the National YoungArts Foundation, the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Bennington College, and Columbia College Chicago, and her work has been published in The Jet Fuel Review and Sine Theta, among others. Additionally, she is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Stirling Spoon.

Janis Butler Holm has served as Associate Editor for the film journal Wide Angle. Her prose, poems, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.

Korbin Jones graduated from Northwest Missouri State University with a degree in Spanish and in Writing. He is currently pursuing his MFA at the University of Kansas. His debut book, SFO: Pictures and Poetry about San Francisco, was published by Tolsun Books in 2019. Also published in 2019 was his first collection of original poems, songs for the long night. (QueerMojo). His most recent publication, MOONSICK, is a chapbook-length epic poem published by Finishing Line Press. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction, and has been reprinted in Best Small Fictions Anthology.

Matthew Kelsey is from Glens Falls, NY, and currently lives in Chicago. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Copper Nickel, Pinwheel, Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, Beloit Poetry Journal, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a teaching fellowship from the Kenyon Review Young Writers Program, and an Idyllwild Arts Writers Week Fellowship.

Douglas Koziol is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Oklahoma State University. His writing has appeared in The Millions, Lunch Ticket, and Driftwood Press, among other places.

M.L. Krishnan originally hails from the coastal shores of Tamil Nadu, India. She is a 2019 graduate of the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop, and she currently lives and works in the Midwest. Follow her on Twitter @emelkrishnan.

Angie Macri is the author of Underwater Panther (Southeast Missouri State University), winner of the Cowles Poetry Book Prize. Her recent work appears in Cherry Tree, Denver Quarterly, and Zone 3. An Arkansas Arts Council fellow, she lives in Hot Springs.

James Davis May lives in Macon, Georgia, where he directs the creative writing program at Mercer University. His first poetry collection, Unquiet Things, was published by Louisiana State University Press in 2016 and selected as a finalist for the Poets’ Prize.

Christopher Brean Murray’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bennington Review, Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, Epoch, jubilat, New Ohio Review, and other journals. He lives in Houston.

Joe Sacksteder is the Director of Creative Writing at Interlochen Center for the Arts and a PhD Candidate at the University of Utah. His books are Make/Shift (Sarabande Books) and Driftless Quintet (Schaffner Press), and recent publications include Salt Hill, Ninth Letter, New South, and Trnsfr. 

A recipient of an NEA fellowship in poetry and an Edgar in fiction, D. James Smith’s work has appeared widely in magazines such as Blackbird, The Malahat Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry International, & Stand.  His books include two collections of poems, Sounds The Living Make (S. F. Austin State Univ.) and Prayers for the Dead Ventriloquist, with an introduction by Dorianne Laux (Ahsahta), the novel My Brother’s Passion (Permanent Press), as well as four novels in YA lit (Atheneum).

E.M. Stormo has recent work in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Thrice Fiction, and Pure Slush. For complete works, visit emstormo.wordpress.com.

Chris Vanjonack is an M.F.A. candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a reader at Ninth Letter, and a former language arts teacher from Fort Collins, Colorado. His work has appeared in One Story, The Rumpus, Carve Magazine, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter @chrisvanjonack and read more stories at chrisvanjonack.com. 

Matthew Valades has had poems published in Subtropics and Carolina Quarterly. He has also had a book review published in PN Review (UK). 

Kathleen Winter is author of Transformer (The Word Works, 2020). Her second collection, I will not kick my friends, won the Elixir Poetry Prize, and her debut, Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, won the Texas Institute of Letters Bob Bush Award and the Antivenom Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in New Republic, New Statesman, Poetry London, The Cincinnati Review, and Agni. She was granted fellowships at Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Dora Maar House, James Merrill House, and the Dobie Paisano Ranch. An associate editor for 32 Poems, Winter teaches creative writing at Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College.

Born in Puerto Rico, John Yohe grew up in Michigan and lives in Oregon. He has worked as a wildland firefighter, deckhand/oiler, runner/busboy, bike messenger, wilderness ranger and fire lookout. Currently, he serves as Fiction Editor for Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry. Find his work at www.johnyohe.com.

Kim Zumpfe is an artist, writer, and educator who works in Los Angeles. Zumpfe has exhibited at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Diverseworks Houston, Gallery TPW Toronto, Audain Gallery Vancouver, CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Human Resources Los Angeles, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), Torrance Art Museum, and several public and online sites.