CONTRIBUTORS

Gauri Awasthi is an Indian poet and sustainability activist. An MFA graduate from McNeese State University, she has won awards from Sundress Academy For The Arts, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Louisiana Office of Cultural Development, and Kundiman. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in Aurora Poetry Journal, Notre Dame Review, The Wire, Buzzfeed, and others. She is currently teaching the Decolonizing Poetry Workshop with Catapult and working as an Editorial Assistant with The Offing. When not writing, she runs The Vegan Wardrobe and practices Bharatanatyam. You can find her on Instagram: @gauriawasthi.

C Dylan Bassett has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poems are published in Yale Review, Gulf Coast, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at UC Santa Cruz.

Lisa Bickmore's second book, flicker (2016), won the 2014 Antivenom Prize from Elixir Press (Denver, CO), and she won the 2015 Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize for the poem 'Eidolon.' Her third collection, Ephemerist, was published summer of 2017, by Red Mountain Press. She is the founder and publisher of the new independent nonprofit Lightscatter Press (lightscatterpress.org). She lives in Salt Lake City.

C. P. Boyko, the author of four collections of fiction, lives and writes in Vancouver, and online at cpboyko.com.

Helena Chung is a Korean American poet currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia. Her poems have appeared in Pleiades, CutBank, The Journal, and elsewhere.

Silvia Guerra (1961, Maldonado, Uruguay) is an Uruguayan poet, critic and editor whose books include Un mar en madrugado (2018); Pulso (2011); Nada de nadie, (2001); Idea de la aventura (1990); De la arena nace el agua (1986) and Fuera del relato (2007), a fictionalized biography of Lautréamont. In 2012, she was awarded the Morosoli Prize in Poetry for her career. Un mar en madrugada/ A Sea at Dawn is forthcoming from Eulalia Books.

Jesse Lee Kercheval is a writer and translator, specializing in Uruguayan poetry. Her translations include The Invisible Bridge: Selected Poems of Circe Maia for which she was awarded an NEA Fellowship in Translation, and Love Poems by Idea Vilariño, which was long listed for the 2020 PEN Best Translated Poetry Book Award.

Nancy Chen Long is the author of Wider than the Sky (Diode Editions, 2020), which was selected for the Diode Editions Book Award, and Light into Bodies (University of Tampa Press, 2017), which won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. Her work has been supported by a National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry and the Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Award. You’ll find her recent work in Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She is a poetry reader for Guesthouse and works at Indiana University in the Research Technologies division. Nancychenlong.com

james mckenna is a writer in Alabama. They are Poetry Editor for Black Warrior Review, and their poems have appeared in Adroit, Hobart, & elsewhere.

Alexander Ortega is a Salt Lake City-based fiction writer currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing from Eastern Oregon University. He seeks to explore absurdism, realism, and the interstices therein to fabricate his own dimensions on the page. When he's not writing or reading, Ortega may occasionally be found playing in a punk band in SLC.

Jeannine M. Pitas's most recent translations include Carnation and Tenebrae Candle by Marosa di Giorgio (Cardboard House Press 2020) and We Do Not Live In Vain by Selva Casal (Veliz Books 2020). She is an editor at the Song Bridge Project and Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry. She lives in Iowa and teaches at the University of Dubuque.

Esteban Rodríguez is the author of the poetry collections Dusk & Dust, Crash Course, In Bloom, (Dis)placement, and The Valley. He is the Interviews Editor at the EcoTheo Review, an Assistant Poetry Editor at AGNI, and a regular reviews contributor to Heavy Feather Review. He lives with his family in Austin, Texas.

Ambrose Tardive is a recent graduate from the Creative Writing MFA at Randolph College. His work has appeared in The Roadrunner Review and an anthology by Bone & Ink Press.

Alice Turski received her MFA from Cornell University, where she also taught creative writing and literature. A finalist for the 2021 Gatewood Book Prize, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in places such as Verse Daily, The Iowa Review, The Greensboro Review, Copper Nickel, and Iron Horse Literary Review. Alice is currently a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of British Columbia.

Lesley Wheeler’s forthcoming essay collection is Poetry’s Possible Worlds; previous books include The State She’s In, her fifth poetry collection, and Unbecoming, her first novel. Her work has received support from the Fulbright Foundation, Bread Loaf, Sewanee Writers Workshop, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Wheeler’s poems and essays appear in Kenyon Review Online, Poetry, Ecotone, and Massachusetts Review, and she is Poetry Editor of Shenandoah. Find her at https://lesleywheeler.org/ and @LesleyMWheeler.

Lucy Zhang writes, codes and watches anime. Her work has appeared in The Portland Review, The Suburban Review, Orca, Milk Candy Review, and elsewhere, and is anthologized in Best Microfiction 2021 and Best Small Fictions 2021. She edits for Barren Magazine, Heavy Feather Review and Pithead Chapel. Find her at https://kowaretasekai.wordpress.com/ or on Twitter @Dango_Ramen.