CONTRIBUTORS
Helene Achanzar is a Filipina Canadian poet and educator. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Oxford American, jubilat, New England Review, and elsewhere. She is an associate editor for Poetry Northwest, the Midwest chair for Kundiman, and the programs manager at the Chicago Poetry Center.
Conor Bracken is the author of Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour (Bull City Press), as well as the translator of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Scorpionic Sun (CSU Poetry Center) and Jean D’Amérique’s forthcoming No Way in the Skin without this Bloody Embrace (Ugly Duckling Presse). His work has earned support from Bread Loaf, the Community of Writers, the Frost Place, Inprint, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and has appeared in places like BOMB, jubilat, New England Review, The New Yorker, and Ploughshares, among others. His first book of poems, The Enemy of My Enemy is Me, is out now with Diode Editions.
Samuel Rafael Barber is 0.00000001272566% of the population and the author of the chapbook Thousands of Shredded Scraps of Paper Located across Five Landfills, That if Pieced Together Form a Message (The Cupboard, 2019). He has degrees from Brown, the University of Arizona, and Columbia, and is a PhD candidate in English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. His fiction has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, DIAGRAM, Green Mountains Review, Puerto del Sol, The Rupture, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. According to life expectancy tables, he will live another 53.2 years. Twitter: @SamRafBarber
Kyce Bello is the author of Refugia (University of Nevada Press, 2019), which won the Test Site Poetry Prize and received a 2020 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award. Her poems have most recently appeared in Sycamore Review, Qwerty, and Raleigh Review. She works as a nurse at a community hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Kevin Boyle is the author of two books—A Home for Wayward Girls (New Issues Poetry Prize) and Astir (Jacar Press)—as well as a chapbook, The Lullaby of History. His poems have appeared in journals, including Hollins Critic, North American Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He grew up in Philadelphia and now teaches writing and literature at Elon University in North Carolina.
Thomas Dai is a writer most recently based in Providence, Rhode Island, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in American Studies at Brown. His essays have appeared recently in The Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, City Lab, and elsewhere. You can find out more about him and his work at thomasndai.com. Instagram: @tn.dai
Jean D’Amérique, born in Côte-de-Fer (Haiti) in 1994, is a poet, playwright, and novelist who splits his time between Paris, Brussels, and Port-au-Prince. Author of two plays—Avilir les ténèbres (2018, finalist for the prix RFI Théâtre) et Cathédrale des cochons (éd. Théâtrales, 2020, prix Jean-Jacques Lerrant des Journées de Lyon, finalist for the prix RFI Théâtre)—he has also published three noteworthy collections of poetry: Petite fleur du ghetto (Atelier Jeudi soir, 2015 ; special mention for the prix René Philoctète, finalist for the prix Révélation poésie de la SGDL), Nul chemin dans la peau que saignante étreinte (Cheyne éditeur, 2017 ; winner of the prix de la Vocation de la fondation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, finalist for the prix Fetkann de poésie) and Atelier du silence (Cheyne éditeur, 2020). His first novel, Soleil à coudre, is out now from Actes Sud.
Kindall Fredricks is a practicing registered nurse and an MFA candidate at Sam Houston State University, focusing on both poetry and the intersection of literature and the medical sciences. Her work has appeared in NELLE, New Letters, The Coachella Review, WomenArts Quarterly, The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Badlands Literary Journal, and The Academy of American Poets.
Augusta Funk has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and the Helen Zell Writers' Program. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, The Massachusetts Review, The Offing, Colorado Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, and The Cortland Review. Originally from Ohio, she divides her time between Montana and California, where will begin her PhD in English at UC-Davis this fall. You can read more of her work at augustafunk.wordpress.com.
Sean Hooks was born and raised in working class New Jersey, about ten miles west of New York City. He holds a BA from Drew University, an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and an MA from Loyola Marymount University. Presently, he resides in Los Angeles. He has published fiction, essays, reviews, articles, and interviews in various venues. His website is www.seanhooks.com.
Korey Hurni was born and raised in Lansing, MI, and earned his MFA at Western Michigan University where he served as a poetry editor for Third Coast. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.
Jonathan Winston Jones's work has appeared in Ploughshares and Ruminate. One of his essays was notable in Best American essays 2019. His news journalism has appeared in The Advocate and elsewhere. He holds a masters in human rights from the University of Manchester and a masters in public policy from the University of Chicago. He is completing an MFA at Northwestern University. Twitter: @JwinstonJones
Kalyn McAlister is a member of the Chickasaw Nation who lives and writes in Oklahoma with two hounds and a ghost.
Taylor McGill is a someone from New Jersey with an MFA from the Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work has appeared in DIAGRAM, littletell, Spork, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn. Instagram: @she_biscuit
Kara McMullen is a writer and research scientist currently based in Portland, OR. Her work has been featured in DIAGRAM, The Offing, and elsewhere. Find her at karamcmullen.com.
Aram Mrjoian earned his PhD in creative writing at Florida State University. He is an editor-at-large at the Chicago Review of Books. His writing has appeared in Cream City Review, Boulevard, Gulf Coast online, The Rumpus, The Millions, Joyland, Longreads, and many other publications. Find his work at arammrjoian.com Twitter: @amrjoian575
Corbin Muck grew up in the Pacific Northwest and currently lives in Seattle with his partner, Mariska. This will be his first publication credit, with other work forthcoming in the journals Cirque and Crannog.
A.F. Ore is a second-year MFA fiction candidate at the University of Montana. She takes her inspiration from noir literature, horror cinema, and the mythology of the American West, where she grew up. Instagram: @western.son
Benjamin Paloff is the author of the poetry collections And His Orchestra (2015) and The Politics (2011), both from Carnegie Mellon, and of an award-winning critical volume, Lost in the Shadow of the Word (Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe), and he has translated about a dozen books from Czech, Polish, Russian, and Yiddish, most recently Dorota Masłowska's novel Honey, I Killed the Cats. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Conduit, Guesthouse, New American Writing, The New England Review, The New York Review of Books, and others. Twice a fellow of the NEA, he is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Michigan, where he is also director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Nome Emeka Patrick is a Nigerian poet. His works have been published or forthcoming in POETRY, AGNI, Hayden's Ferry Review, TriQuarterly, Poet Lore, Black Warrior Review, Kahini Quarterly, and elsewhere. A Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and Pushcart prize nominee, he emerged third place in Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets, 2020. His manuscript We Need New Moses. Or New Luther King was a finalist for the 2019 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. He writes from Lagos, Nigeria. Say Hi on Twitter @nome__patrick
Ayesha Raees identifies herself as a hybrid creating hybrid poetry through hybrid forms. Raees currently serves as an Assistant Poetry Editor at AAWW's The Margins and has received fellowships from Asian American Writers' Workshop, Brooklyn Poets, and Kundiman. Raees's first book of poetry, Coining A Wishing Tower won the Broken River Prize hosted by Platypus Press and judged by Kaveh Akbar, and will be forthcoming in March 2022. From Lahore, Pakistan, and currently lives in New York City. Her website is: www.ayesharaees.com
Maya Salameh is a poet fellow of the William Male Foundation and a 2016 National Student Poet, America's highest honor for youth poets. She is the winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Prize, through which her debut poetry collection, HOW TO MAKE AN ALGORITHM IN THE MICROWAVE, will be published in 2022. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Rumpus, Asian American Writer’s Workshop, and The Brooklyn Review, among others. Maya is the author of rooh (Paper Nautilus Press 2020). She can be found on Twitter @mayaslme.
Zubair Ibrahim Siddiqui is a poet based out of Karachi, Pakistan. He received his BA in literature from Bennington College. His work was featured on the O’Gah Po’Geh Altar Project at the Santa Fe Railyard from September 2020 to March 2021.
Callie Smith is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Before moving to the deep south, she received her MFA from the University of Central Arkansas. Her current research interests and poetry is concerned with ekphrasis and animal studies. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Blue Earth Review, Sugar House Review, Santa Clara Review, among others.
Ma Yan was born in Chengdu, China in 1979 and graduated from Beijing University. Her poetry has been published in Today, Foreign Literature, Big River South North, Book City, Chinese Poetry Criticism, Southern Weekend, Shanghai Culture, Limits, and In Chengdu. She also organized literary festivals and events, and worked as editor of and contributor to Felicity Troup. She passed away in December 2010.
Winnie Zeng is a poet and translator from Zhejiang, China. She received a BA in English and Communication from University of Washington, and currently tutors middle and high school English. Her work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, 45th Parallel, and elsewhere.