CONTRIBUTORS

O-Jeremiah Agbaakin is the author of The Sign of the Ram (Akashic, 2023), selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the New Generation African Poets Chapbook Box set. His poems are featured/forthcoming in Kenyon Review, POETRY, Poetry Society of America, Transition, and elsewhere. He’s received scholarship and fellowship from Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts, Bread Loaf, Tin House, Key West Literary Seminar; and was a finalist for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. A graduate at the MFA program at the University of Mississippi, he’s currently a doctoral student of Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.

Carrie Chappell is the author of Loving Tallulah Bankhead (Paris Heretics 2022) and Quarantine Daybook (Bottlecap Press 2021). Some of her recent poems have been published in Birdcoat Quarterly, Iron Horse Literary Review, Nashville Review, and SWIMM. Her essays have previously appeared in DIAGRAM, Fanzine, New Delta Review, The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, and The Rupture. Currently, she teaches English as a Foreign Language at Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM) and is working as a doctoral student in French Literature at CY Cergy Paris University on a research-creation project around the poetic novels of Hélène Bessette.

Jessica Guzman is the author of Adelante (Switchback Books, 2020), selected by Patricia Smith as winner of the Gatewood Prize. Her poems have appeared in 32 Poems, DIALOGIST, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere. She chairs Poetry and Poetry Studies for the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association, serves on the masthead of Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction, and teaches at Widener University. She lives in Philadelphia.

Mitchell Jacobs is a writer from Minnesota, currently living in Los Angeles, where he is a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California and serves on the editorial board of Ricochet Editions. His work has appeared in journals such as the Cincinnati Review, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, and Southern Review, as well as the Best New Poets anthology and The Slowdown podcast through American Public Media.

Dabin Jeong (they/them) is a poet and translator from Seoul, South Korea. Their works have appeared or are forthcoming in The Rumpus, DIALOGIST, Salt Hill Journal, The Maine Review, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Chogwa zine. You can find them on twitter @dabinjeong___ or on Instagram @verymanybins.

Mason Koa has fiction published or forthcoming in The Penn Review, The Round, Vestal Review, Westwind, XRAY, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for Best Microfiction 2024. He is a graduate of the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Creative Writing Program. He is Filipino- and Chinese-American and writes from Northern California. He is fifteen years old.

Christopher Brean Murray’s book, Black Observatory (Milkweed Editions), was chosen by Dana Levin as the winner of the 2022 Jake Adam York Prize and was included on the New York Public Library's list of Best Books of 2023. Murray served as online poetry editor of Gulf Coast, and his poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Washington Square Review, and other journals. He lives in Houston, TX.

Gabriella Navas is a Puerto Rican writer hailing from Jersey City, NJ. Her work has previously appeared in [PANK], Storm Cellar, GASHER, and The Masters Review. She is easily distracted, frequently smitten, and always willing to talk about the healing powers of Chavela Vargas’s discography. She currently lives in Columbus, OH. You can find more of her words @gee.navas on Instagram.

Tobenna Nwosu is a recipient of an Andrew Mellon Foundation Award for Creative Writing, a finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. His stories have been published or accepted for publication in Black Warrior Review, Columbia Journal, Carve, Consequence Forum, DIAGRAM, Redivider, South Dakota Review, Eclectica, and elsewhere.

Tim Richardson received his MFA in poetry from Old Dominion University, his PhD in English from Loyola University Chicago, and is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he teaches courses in writing, rhetoric, and media. His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, North American Review, Western Humanities Review, and Barely South Review, among others.

Natalie Tombasco is a poet from Staten Island, NY. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate at Florida State University and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Southeast Review. Recent work can be found in Best New Poets, Verse Daily, Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Diode Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, and The Cincinnati Review, among others. Her debut collection MILK FOR GALL has been selected as the winner of the 2023 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and will be published in Fall 2024 by Southern Indiana Review.

Tyler Wagner’s poems have appeared in BOOTH, Salt Hill, Sycamore Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.