CONTRIBUTORS

Jennifer Bartlett is the author of four books of poetry and Sustaining Air: The Life of Larry Eigner. 

Caleb Braun earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington, where he received the Harold Taylor Prize. He is a PhD candidate in creative writing at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. His poems have appeared  in Best New Poets 2022, The Gettysburg Review, Blackbird, 32 Poems, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. He can be found online at calebbraun.com.

Gaius Valerius Catullus (84–54 BCE) was a Neoteric Latin poet of the Late Roman Republic. One hundred and thirteen poems of his survive.

Dante Di Stefano is the author of four poetry collections: Midwhistle (2023), Lullaby with Incendiary Device (2022), Ill Angels (2019), and Love Is a Stone Endlessly in Flight (2016). He is the co-editor of the anthology Misrepresented People (2018). He lives in Endwell, NY with his wife, Christina, their children, Dante Jr. and Luciana, and their goldendoodle, Sunny.

Saddiq Dzukogi is a Nigerian poet and Asst. professor of English at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), winner of the 2021 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, and the 2022 Julie Suk Award. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships from the Nebraska Art Council, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Pen America, and Ebedi International Residency. His poetry is featured in various magazines including POETRY, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Poetry London, Guernica, Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, and Prairie Schooner. Saddiq lives and writes from Starkville, Mississippi.

Guillermo Rebollo Gil (San Juan, 1979) is a writer, sociologist, translator, and attorney. His publications include poetry in Fence, Poetry Northwest, Second Factory and Whale Road Review; literary criticism in Annulet and The Smart Set; scholarly articles in the Journal of Autoethnography and Liminalities. He serves as editor at The Autoethnographer and associate CNF editor at JMWW.  In 2020, the Spanish publisher Ediciones Liliputienses published a selection of his poetry under the title Informe de Logros: poemas 2000-2019. He is the author of Writing Puerto Rico: Our Decolonial Moment (2018) and Whiteness in Puerto Rico: Translation at a Loss (2023).

Candace Hartsuyker has an MFA in Creative Writing from McNeese State University. Her work has been published in Fiction Southeast, Southern Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.

Aiden Heung (He/They) is a Chinese poet born in a Tibetan Autonomous Town, currently living as a traveling coating salesman. If he is not on the road selling water-repellent solutions, you can always find him writing poems in one of the Costa Cafes in Shanghai. His poems written in English have appeared in The Australian Poetry Journal, The Missouri Review, Poetry International, Tupelo Quarterly, Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review among other places. He can be found on Twitter @aidenheung.

Kim Hoyeonjae (김호연재 / 金浩然齋) (1681-1722) is one of the few prolific, well-documented Korean women poets from the Joseon dynasty, and one of the few whose work survived the 17th century at all. She wrote over 200 poems, which her daughters-in-law copied and preserved to hand down generations. Despite her aristocratic background, Kim had to cope with an impoverished life because of her absent husband who kept failing kwageo (Joseon’s civil exam at the time, and the only way to achieve any professional accomplishments for his class) and national unrest. She wrote a number of poems about such financial challenges, including “Begging the Magistrate for Rice.”

Carrie Johnson is an MFA candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Ecotone and Flash Fiction Online.

Sneha Subramanian Kanta is a recipient of The 2022 Digital Residency from The Seventh Wave and The 2021 Robert Hayden Scholarship at Stockton University. She is the recipient of the inaugural Vijay Nambisan Fellowship 2019 and was the Charles Wallace Fellow writer in residence (2018 - 19) at The University of Stirling. Her work has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Cream City Review, UBC's PRISM International, and elsewhere. She is the founding editor of Parentheses Journal. Website: http://www.snehasubramaniankanta.com.

Ann Keeling holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She was Editor-in-Chief of the Pitkin Review and is a fiction/poetry reader for Wild Roof Journal. Her writing has been published in such journals as Jellyfish Review, defunct magazine, Lucky Jefferson, Commuter Lit, and was short-listed for the 2022 Force Majeure flash contest. She teaches writing on the central coast of California. Find her on Instagram: @ann.keeling.writes.

Arah Ko is a writer from Hawai'i. Her work is published or forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Threepenny Review, Palette Poetry, New Ohio Review, Salt Hill, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. She has been nominated twice for Best New Poets 2023 and is the recipient of the 2023 Academy of American Poets Arthur Rense Prize. Arah received her MFA in creative writing from the Ohio State University where she served on the staff of The Journal. When not writing, she can be found tending to a jungle of houseplants with her cat, Anakin. Catch her at arahko.com.

Dimitra Kolliakou (b. 1968) grew up in Athens and she lives and works in Paris. She has been awarded many prizes for her works of fiction, including the Short Story State Literary Award and the Anagnostis literary prize for Insect Alphabet, (Αλφαβητάρι Εντόμων, Patakis Publishers, 2018). Her most recent book is the novel Αταραξία (Ataraxia, Patakis Publishers, 2022).

Mike Lala is a poet and performance writer living in New York. He's the author of the collections The Unreal City (Tupelo Press, 2023) and Exit Theater (Colorado Prize for Poetry, 2016), several chapbooks including Points of Return (Ghost Proposal, 2023), and a contributing translator to Tales of Dionysus (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2022). His installations, performance, and libretti include Whale Fall (2021-2), Madeleines: Tell Me What It Was Like (2020, with Iris McCloughan), Oedipus in the District (2018–19), and Infinite Odyssey (2018). www.mikelala.com

Denise Leto is a multidisciplinary poet, writer, and dance dramaturge. Currently she is collaborating on the poetry/dance/video installation, home (Body), which premiered at Santa Cruz Art Museum. She co-created the San Francisco Baylands Eco-Poetry Project. Recently her work appeared in The Self-Elegy Anthology with Southern Illinois University Press, Jacket2, Orion, The Poetry Foundation, and a broadside with Woodland Pattern Book Center and Belladonna Press. Her Chapbook with Amber DiPietra, Waveform, was published by Kenning Editions. She does disability culture work with the international art collective, Olimpias.

Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa is an independent writer, scholar, editor, translator, companion, and never-ending apprentice who stands for Puerto Rican and Caribbean emancipations. She is the author of the monograph Affect, Archive, Archipelago: Puerto Rico's Sovereign Caribbean Lives. Her poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Hunger Mountain Review, Interim Poetics, Hayden's Ferry Review, Quarterly West and Flyway. 

Katie Naughton is the author of the chapbooks Study (Above/Ground Press, 2021) and A Second Singing (forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press, 2023). Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Fence, Bennington Review, Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review and elsewhere. She is an editor at Essay Press, the HOW(ever) and How2 Digital Archive Project (launching in 2023), and founding editor of Etcetera, a web journal of poetry and poetics (www.etceterapoetry.com). She is a doctoral candidate in Poetics at the University at Buffalo - SUNY.

Suphil Lee Park (수필 리 박 / 秀筆 李 朴) is the translator of If I’m Going to Live to One Hundred, I May As Well Be Happy by Rhee Kun Hoo, forthcoming in 2024 from Union Square Books (U.S.) and Ebury (Penguin UK). She wrote the poetry collection, Present Tense Complex, winner of the Marystina Santiestevan Prize (Conduit Books & Ephemera 2021), and a forthcoming poetry chapbook, Still Life, selected by Ilya Kaminsky as the winner of the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. She also won for her fiction Indiana Review Fiction Prize and received a fiction prize from Writer’s Digest. Born and raised in South Korea before finding home in the States, she holds a BA in English from NYU and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Texas at Austin. Her translations of Korean literature have appeared or are forthcoming in the Cincinnati Review, the Los Angeles Review, and New England Review, among others. You can find more about her at: https://suphil-lee-park.com.

Kimberly Ramos is a queer Filipina writer from Missouri. Their work has been published in Southern Humanities Review, Jet Fuel Review, and West Trade Review, among others. Their first chapbook is set for publication with Unsolicited Press in 2023. They dream of becoming a cryptid and haunting the Midwest.

Originally from Honolulu, Hawai`i, Mariah Rigg is a writer and editor who now resides in Knoxville, where she is pursuing her PhD at the University of Tennessee. Her work can be found in Oxford American, The Cincinnati Review, Joyland, and elsewhere. This summer, her debut chapbook, All Hat, No Cattle, will be published as part of the Inch series at Bull City Press. She has an MFA from the University of Oregon and has received support for her work from Oregon Literary Arts and VCCA. Mariah is a fiction editor at TriQuarterly and the nonfiction editor for Grist, A Journal of the Arts.

Madeline Simms is a poet and creative living in Tuscaloosa, AL where she is pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama. Madeline is a winner for the 2023 AWP Intro Journals Project in Fiction and her poetry can be found in The Journal, Yalobusha Review, The Tangerine and elsewhere.

Eleni Theodoropoulos grew up in Athens, Greece. She writes essays and translates from Modern Greek. Her writing can be found on Lit Hub, CrimeReads, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She is currently translating Insect Alphabet by Dimitra Kolliakou whose first chapter "Louse" is forthcoming from ANMLY magazine. She is a PhD student in comparative thought & literature at Johns Hopkins University.

Kieron Walquist is a queer autistic writer + hillbilly from Mid-Missouri. Author of the poetry chapbook LOVE LOCKS (Quarterly West, 2023), his other work appears / is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2022, The Missouri Review, Oxford American, Pleaides, Third Coast, + elsewhere. He holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis + was a 2022-2023 Poetry Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Heather Whited is a teacher and writer from Nashville living for the last decade in Portland, Oregon, where she is the only person to not like hiking. She graduated from Western Kentucky University with a BA in 2006, then lived in Japan and Ireland for two years to avoid the inevitability of graduate school, which she succumbed to in 2009. She has been fortunate to have been published in over two dozen literary magazines, but still doesn’t have her driver’s license. Her favorite authors are Kazuo Ishiguro and Susanna Clark. She is an adjunct at Portland State University and lives above a pizza parlor with an ancient black cat whose favorite show is Taskmaster.

Xiadi Zhai is from Boston, Massachusetts. She is an Iowa Arts Fellow and MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with recent writing in Court Green, Reed Magazine, and The Harvard Advocate, among others. She fills her time by trail-running and brewing kombucha.