CONTRIBUTORS

Kanika Ahuja is a poet, performer, and educator based in New Delhi, India. She holds a Master’s Degree in English Literature from Ambedkar University Delhi and was a Jijivisha Fellow for Poetry at Slam Out Loud (2018-2020). A Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, her work appears, or is forthcoming, at The Medley, Funicular Magazine, Sidereal Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter and Instagram: @kanika0326.

Linette Marie Allen is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts at the University of Baltimore. Her work has appeared in Pleiades, Western Humanities Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. A Best of the Net nominee, she enjoys translating work into diverse languages, typically over shrimp-seared Pad Ka Praw and an ice-cold cider.

Gustavo Barahona-López is a writer and educator from Richmond, California. In his writing, Barahona-López draws from his experience growing up as the son of Mexican immigrants. His micro-chapbook 'Where Will the Children Play?' is part of the Ghost City Press 2020 Summer Series. A member of the Writer's Grotto and a VONA alum, Barahona-López's work can be found or is forthcoming in Iron Horse Literary Review, Puerto del Sol, The Acentos Review, Apogee Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, among other publications.

Jacquelyn Bengfort is a writer and collagist living in rural Maryland. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the University of Oxford, she has received poetry fellowships from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Jacquelyn is the author of the Ghost City Press micro-chapbooks Navy News Service and Suitable for All Methods of Communication. Find her on the web at JaciB.com.

Despy Boutris's work has been published or is forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Southeast Review, Crazyhorse, The Journal, and elsewhere. Currently, she teaches at the University of Houston and serves as Editor-in-Chief of The West Review.

C.S. Carrier is the author of After Dayton and Mantle. His poem, “The Natural State,” won the 2018 Omnidawn Single Poem Broadside Contest. Other poems appear in Bateau, The Hunger, and The Laurel Review, among other journals. He has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a PhD from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He grew up in western North Carolina and currently lives in northwestern Arkansas.

Erika Goodrich's poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Permafrost, Nashville Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Meridian, The Pinch Journal, The Boiler Journal, and CALYX Journal, among others. She was nominated for Best New Poets 2020 and currently resides in Syracuse, NY.

Jakob Konger is from Tampa, Florida. He writes short stories about history and reality, and is a graduate of the Michener Fellowship program at the University of Miami.

Willie Lin lives and works in Chicago, IL. She's the author of the chapbooks Lesser Birds of Paradise and Instructions for folding.

Aaron Magloire hails from Queens, NYC and is a sophomore at Yale University, where he's had the privilege of studying poetry under Emily Skillings and Claudia Rankine. You can find other works of his in Whale Road Review, Kissing Dynamite, and Empty House Press, and if you really want to, you can find him on Instagram as @a.magloire.

Nath Oddson works on antennas in the deep deep south.

Nnadi Samuel (he/him/his) holds a B.A in English & literature from the University of Benin. His works have been previously published in Suburban Review, Seventh Wave Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, Quarterly West, Blood Orange Review, Uncanny Magazine, PORT Magazine, The Cordite Poetry Review, Gordon Square Review, Rough Cut press, Trampset, Beestung Magazine, Rigorous Magazine, Blue Nib journal, Stonecrop Review, The Elephant Magazine, Birmingham Arts Journal, Lunaris Review, Inverse Journal, Canyon Voices, Journal Nine, Liquid Imagination, Silver Blade Journal, Star*Line Science Fiction & Poetry, Zoetic Press, Subterranean blue poetry, The Quills, Eunoia Review & elsewhere. Winner of the Canadian Open Drawer contest 2020. He won the Splendor of Dawn Poetry Contest April 2020, won the Bkpw Poetry Workshop Contest 2021, got shortlisted in the annual Poet's Choice award & was the second-prize winner of the EOPP 2019 contest. A finalist of the Inaugural Lumiere Contest 2021, NSPP 2020 prize & Pushcart Nominee. He is the author of "Reopening of Wounds" & "Subject Lessons" (forthcoming). He reads for U-Right Magazine. He tweets @Samuelsamba10.