CONTRIBUTORS

Amber Burke lives in New Mexico. She teaches writing and yoga at UNM Taos, where she also coordinates the Holistic Health and Healing Art program. She is a regular contributor to Yoga International, co-author of Yoga for Common Conditions, and her stories and essays have been published in The Sun, Mslexia, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Superstition Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Raleigh Review, Essays and Fictions, Unlikely Stories, Sky Island Journal, and Barren, among others. She is a graduate of both Yale and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.

James Ciano holds an MFA from New York University, and has received support from the Vermont Studio Center and The Community of Writers. A Pushcart Prize Nominee, his poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, jubilat, The Carolina Quarterly, The Literary Review, Raleigh Review, and Southern Humanities Review. Originally from New York, he lives in Los Angeles, California where he is currently a Provost Fellow at the University of Southern California, pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing.

Thomas Ferriello is a graduate of the University of North Florida where he studied English and creative writing. His work has appeared in Bending Genres and The Talon Review. He co-hosts the literature loving podcast Alive Poets Society with two much smarter and funnier people.

Sydney Goggins is a recent graduate from the Creative Writing MFA program at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. Her work appears in the American Literary Review and in Lake Effect: An International Literary Journal.

Saúl Hernández is a queer writer from San Antonio, TX. He was raised by undocumented parents and as a Jehovah's Witness. Saúl has an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso. He's a finalist for Palette Poetry 2020 Spotlight Award. Also, a finalist for the 2019 Submerging Writer Fellowship, Fear No Lit; semi-finalists for the 2018 Francine Ringold Award for New Writers, Nimrod Literary Journal. His work is forthcoming/featured in PANK Magazine, Pidgeonholes, The Acentos Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Normal School, Rio Grande Review, and Adelaid Literary Magazine. He's part of the Macondo Writers Workshop. He's the Managing Editor for Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review and lives in Austin, TX.

Kandace James’s poems have been published in or are forthcoming in Silk Hollows, Josephine Quarterly, the Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal, and Aunt Chloe. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. James is currently a Web Designer and Social Media Manager for Josephine Quarterly, as well as an Assistant Prose Poetry Editor for Pithead Chapel. She works in Atlanta, Georgia. You can find her work at www.kmeshgallery.com

Chris Kammerud’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Bourbon Penn, Passages North, Strange Horizons, and Shelf Heroes. He is a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, and he holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi, where he studied as a Grisham Fellow. He lives in London with his partner. 

Kirsten Kinnell lives in Columbus, Ohio, where she studied at Ohio State University and currently works as a freelance editor. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Raintown Review,  Slant: A Journal of Poetry, and Dappled Things.

Leonard Kress has published poetry and fiction in Missouri Review, Massachusetts Review, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, etc. His recent collections The Orpheus Complex and Walk Like Bo Diddley. Living in the Candy Store and Other Poems and his new verse translation of the Polish Romantic epic Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz were both published in 2018. Craniotomy appeared in 2019. He teaches philosophy and religion at Owens College in Ohio. www.leonardkress.com

Madison Mainwaring is a writer based in Paris. She contributes regularly to publications such as The New York Times, Harper’s, and The Economist as a journalist, translator, and critic. A PhD candidate in French at Yale, she is currently the Mary Isabel Sibley Fellow of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Her research focuses on feminism, performance, and the archive in nineteenth-century France.

Suphil Lee Park grew up in South Korea and graduated from New York University with a BA in English and the University of Texas at Austin with an MFA in poetry. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Global Poetry Anthology, Image, Michigan Quarterly Review Online, Ploughshares, and the Massachusetts Review, among many others. Her fiction is forthcoming in J Journal, Storm Cellar, and the Iowa Review. A recent finalist for Montreal International Poetry Prize, she has her debut collection of poetry, Present Tense Complex, winner of the Marystina Santiestevan Prize, forthcoming in 2021. Find her online at suphil-lee-park.com.

Erin Slaughter is editor and co-founder of The Hunger, and the author of I Will Tell This Story to the Sun Until You Remember That You Are the Sun (New Rivers Press, 2019). Her writing has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Cincinnati Review, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. Originally from north Texas, she is pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at Florida State University. You can find her online at erin-slaughter.com.

Sarah J. Sloat splits her time between Frankfurt and Barcelona, where she works as a news editor. Her book of visual poetry, Hotel Almighty, was recently published by Sarabande Books. You can keep up with her at sarahjsloat.com and on Twitter at @SJSloat.

Emily Spencer is a poet. Her poetry collection (forthcoming Fall 2021) won the Zone 3 Press First Book Award. Spencer is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work is featured or upcoming in the Kenyon Review, Poetry, and Pleiades. In 2020, she was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. www.emilyjspencer.com

Mia S. Willis is a Black performance poet from Charlotte, North Carolina. Their work has been featured by Palette Poetry, The Offing, The Minnesota Review, homology lit, Narrative Northeast, Slamfind, and others. Mia is also the author of monster house. (Jai-Alai Books), the 2018 winner of the Cave Canem Foundation’s Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize. Their debut full-length poetry collection is forthcoming. Connect with Mia on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram (@poetinthehat).