CONTRIBUTORS

LM Brimmer is an artist & educator living on Dakota land in Minneapolis, MN. Co-editor of the anthology Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose and Pride (MNHS Press 2019), their essays and poetry have appeared in The Alliance of Adoption Studies and Culture Journal, The Public Art Review, La Raza Comíca, Impossible Archetype, Gasher Journal, The B'K' and elsewhere. In 2021, their work made semi-finalist for Newfound Journal's Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize and long-listed for Frontier Poetry's Award for New Poets. In 2022 they were poet-in-residence with Writing The Land, a project of Nature Culture, partnered with Westport Prairie and Groundswell Conservancy in Southern Wisconsin. They attend the low-residency MFA program at Randolph College.

Marissa Davis is a poet and translator from Paducah, Kentucky. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry, Poem-A-Day, Narrative, Rattle, West Branch, Mississippi Review, Muzzle Magazine, and Best New Poets, among others. Her translations are published or forthcoming in Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Mid-American Review, The Common, Rhino, American Chordata, and The Offing. Her chapbook, My Name & Other Languages I Am Learning How to Speak (Jai-Alai Books, 2020) was selected by Danez Smith for Cave Canem’s 2019 Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Prize, and she was the runner-up of the 2021 Narrative 30 Below Contest. Davis holds an MFA from New York University. Her website is marissa-davis.com.

Claudina Domingo (b. 1982) is a poet and storyteller from Mexico City. In 2011, she was named “emerging writer of the year” by the magazine La Tempestad. Her book of poems, Tránsito (Tierra Adentro, 2011), won the 2012 Premio Iberoamericano Bellas Artes de Poesía Carlos Pellicer para Obra Publicada. Her most recent book of poems, Ya sabes que no veo de noche (Ediciones Atrasalante, 2017), won the 2016 Premio Nacional de Literatura Gilberto Owen. In 2017, she also published her first collection of short stories, Las enemigas (Editorial Sexto Piso, 2017). Her most recent book is an “oneiric biography” called La noche en el espejo (Editorial Sexto Piso, 2020). Domingo is a three-time recipient of the Jóvenes Creadores grant from Mexico’s Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. She is currently a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (National System of Arts Creators).

Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick (he/they) is a queer, Latinx writer based in Los Angeles and Barcelona. His fiction has been published by PRISM International, Cosmonauts Avenue, Midnight Breakfast, The Exposition Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and more. He is at work on his first novel. He loves dogs, pét-nat, and short shorts.

Piper Gourley is a ghostwriter from Houston, Texas. Their work has been published in Glassworks Magazine, Etched Onyx, Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape, and more. They are the EIC of The Institutionalized Review.

Ryan Greene (b. 1994) is a translator, book farmer, and poet from Phoenix, Arizona. He's a co-conspirator at F*%K IF I KNOW//BOOKS and a housemate at no.good.home. His translations include work by Claudina Domingo, Elena Salamanca, Ana Belén López, Giancarlo Huapaya, and Yaxkin Melchy, among others. Since 2018, he has facilitated the Cardboard House Press Cartonera Collective bookmaking workshops at Palabras Bilingual Bookstore. Like Collier, the ground he stands on is not his ground.

Alejandro Lucero is a writer from Sapello, New Mexico by way of Denver. A 2022 June poet fellow at the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, his recent work appears or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, The Cincinnati Review, The Offing, Salamander, and Salt Hill, where he was a finalist for the Philip Booth Prize judged by Matt Rasmussen. He serves as an associate editor for Copper Nickel.

Serenity Marshall is a current MFA student residing in Portsmouth, VA by way of New York City. Most weekends she can be found exploring the bookstores of her adopted city or chilling with her two Chiweenies and bossy cat. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Promethean, midnight & indigo, literally stories, and Quarterly West. Find her on Twitter at @WritebySerenity.

Claire Meuschke is the author of Upend (Noemi Press), which was longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award. She received a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University (2019-2021) and has creative writing degrees from the University of Arizona (MFA) and Pratt Institute (BFA). She was born in San Francisco, CA and currently lives in Tucson, AZ where she works to distribute traditional, arid-adapted seeds.

Alyssa Moore is a visual poet and writer based in Chicago. She holds degrees from Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. She was the inaugural winner of Poetry Magazine’s Editors Prize for Visual Poetry and a writer-in-residence for Futurepoem’s future-feed. Their work has appeared in Poetry, Boston Review, Hyperallergic, Tagvverk, and elsewhere. She is an editor for Ghost Proposal, a journal for visual poetry and work that transcends or sits outside of traditional notions of genre.

Danielle Pafunda is the author of nine books of poetry and prose including Spite (The Operating System), Beshrew (Dusie Press), The Book of Scab (Ricochet Editions), and The Dead Girls Speak in Unison (Bloof Books). She teaches at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Mandira Pattnaik's fiction has appeared most recently in Best Small Fictions Anthology 2021, Penn Review, The McNeese Review, Contrary Magazine, Passages North, DASH, Miracle Monocle, Commonwealth Writers, Ilanot Review, Watershed Review, Amsterdam Quarterly, and others. More about her at mandirapattnaik.com

Diane Payne’s most recent publications and forthcoming include: Best of Microfiction 2022, Abandon Journal, Cutleaf, Miramachi Flash, Microlit Almanac, Another Chicago Magazine, Whale Road Review, Pine Hills Review, Tiny Spoon, Ellipsis, Bending Genres, New York Times, Unlikely Stories, Hot Flash Fiction, The BlueNib, anti-heroin chic, X-ray Literary Magazine, Oyster Review, Novus, Notre Dame Review, Obra/Artiface, Reservoir, Southern Fugitives, Spry Literary Review, Watershed Review, Superstition Review, Windmill Review, Tishman Review, Whiskey Island, Quarterly, Fourth River, Lunch Ticket, Split Lip Review, The Offing, Elke: A little Journal, Punctuate, Outpost 19, McNeese Review, The Meadow, Burnt Pine, Story South, and Five to One.

David Joez Villaverde is a Peruvian poet and Helen Zell Fellow at the University of Michigan. His collage poems have appeared in The Rumpus, Guesthouse, Diode, Prolit, and ctrl+v. A CantoMundo Fellow, he lives in Detroit and can be found at schadenfreudeanslip.com