CONTRIBUTORS

Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c.1698-c.1770) was a Scottish Gaelic poet, lexicographer, military officer, and Gaelic language tutor to Charles Edward Stuart, popularly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie. Little of his life can be confirmed aside from his role as a teacher in Scotland’s Ardnamurchan peninsula, and as a captain in the Clanranald regiment of the 1745 Uprising. His only volume of poetry, the self-published Aiseirigh na Seann Chànain Albannaich (1751), was the first secular work to be published in any of the Celtic languages. As a teacher, he compiled and published the first Gaelic-English dictionary. Alasdair’s reputation has stirred controversy, his book reputedly having been burnt in Edinburgh after its publication.

Maggie Blake Bailey has poems published or forthcoming in Rust & Moth, Foundry, The Rappahannock Review, and elsewhere. Her full-length collection, VISITATION, is available from Tinderbox Press, and her chapbook, BURY THE LEDE, is available from Finishing Line Press. She has been nominated for The Pushcart and also for The Best of the Net. For more work, please visit www.maggieblakebaileypoetry.com.

Rick Barot was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.  His fourth book of poems, The Galleons, was published by Milkweed Editions and was longlisted for the National Book Award.  His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and The New Yorker.  He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Stanford University.  He lives in Tacoma, Washington and directs The Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University.  His newest book of poems, Moving the Bones, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2024. 

Daisy Bassen is a poet and community child psychiatrist who graduated from Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program and completed her medical training at The University of Rochester and Brown. Her work has been published in Salamander, McSweeney’s, Smartish Pace, Plume, Interim, New York Quarterly, and [PANK] among other journals. She was the winner of the So to Speak 2019 Poetry Contest, the 2019 ILDS White Mice Contest, the 2020 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, and the 2022 Erskine J Poetry Prize. She was nominated for the 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2024 Best of the Net Anthology and for a 2019, 2020, and 2022 Pushcart Prize. She is a reader for The Maine Review. Born and raised in New York, she lives in Rhode Island with her family. Her fiction is represented by Jennifer Lyons of Jennifer Lyons Agency.

Chen Chen is the author of two books, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (2022) and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (2017), both published by BOA Editions and by Bloodaxe Books in the UK. His latest chapbook is Explodingly Yours (Ghost City Press, 2023). His work appears in many publications, including three editions of The Best American Poetry and two editions of The Forward Book of Poetry. His honors include the Thom Gunn Award, two Pushcart Prizes, the National Book Award longlist, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and United States Artists. He lives in Rochester, NY and teaches for the low-residency MFA program at New England College.

Andrew Cominelli’s fiction has appeared in Guernica Magazine, Ellipsis Zine, Ruminate, and SHUN, and has been included on Wigleaf’s 2024 Top 50 Longlist. He is working on a novel, an excerpt of which was awarded the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society’s prize for Best Novel-in-Progress in 2023.

Dorsey Craft is the author of A Brief History of Accidental Inventions (Texas Review Press, forthcoming 2026) and Plunder (Bauhan Publishing, 2020). Her recent poems have appeared in Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. She serves as Assistant Poetry Editor at Agni and co-organizes the Dreamboat Poetry Series in Jacksonville, FL. She teaches creative writing and composition at the University of North Florida.

Jordan Hamel is an Aotearoa New Zealand writer and performer. He is currently at the University of Michigan on a Fulbright Scholarship. His debut poetry collection Everyone is Everyone Except You, was published in New Zealand by Dead Bird Books in 2022 and by Broken Sleep in the UK in July 2024. He is also the co-editor of No Other Place to Stand, an anthology of NZ climate change poetry from Auckland University Press (2022). He is the winner of the 2023 Sonora Review Poetry Competition, judged by Maggie Smith and the 2023 New Writers UK Poetry Prize. He was the runner-up in the 2023 American Literary Review Poetry Contest and a finalist for the 2024 BOMB Poetry Contest. Recent work can be found or is forthcoming in POETRY, Electric Literature, Pleiades, The Adroit Journal, American Literary Review, Gulf Coast and elsewhere.

Kaitlin Hoelzer (she/they) is a PhD student in literary and cultural studies at the University of Utah. Their research focuses include contemporary poetry, affect theory, queer studies, and social justice. Her scholarly work has been published (or is forthcoming) in ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment and MELUS: Multiethnic Literature of the United States. In their free time, Kaitlin enjoys walks with her partner and their dog.

Ashley Keyser lives in Chicago and is currently writing a poetry collection about colors and queer desire. Her work has appeared in publications like Adroit Journal, Couplet, Copper Nickel, and Best New Poets. You can find her online at ashleykeyser.com.

Sam Krieg is a translator, educator, and scholar living in North Carolina. He obtained his doctorate in Spanish from the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill in 2020. His translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest and International Poetry Review; other work may be found in Southwest Review, Dieciocho, Ometeca, South Atlantic Review, and elsewhere.

Born in South Korea and raised in Peru, Ae Hee Lee is the author of ASTERISM, selected by John Murillo for the 2022 Dorset Prize, and the poetry chapbooks Bedtime || Riverbed, Dear bear, and Connotary, the last of which was selected as the winner for the 2021 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Ae Hee is a Just Buffalo Literary Center Fellow, Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholar, and a recipient of the James Olney Award by The Southern Review. She has received scholarships and honors from the Academy of American Poets, AWP, Bread Loaf, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference, among others. aeheeleekim.com

Solange Rodríguez Pappe (Ecuador, 1976) has published numerous short-story collections, including La bondad de los extraños (2016), Levitaciones (2017), La primera vez que vi un fantasma (2018), De un mundo raro (2021), and El demonio de la escritura (2024). Her award-winning work has been widely anthologized across the Spanish-speaking world. Currently, she works as a researcher and professor at La Universidad de las Artes de Guayaquil. 

Hanna Reynditskiy is a recent MFA graduate of the College of Charleston where she was selected as a winner for the 2024 AWP Intro to Journals Project prize. This is her first publication. 

Amanda Maret Scharf is coauthor of the collaborative chapbooks Astral Gaze (Dancing Girl Press, forthcoming 2025) and Metal House of Cards (Finishing Line Press) written with Hannah Smith. Her poems can be found in Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, The Iowa Review, Narrative, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Ohio State University where she served as Poetry Editor for The Journal. She teaches at USC and lives in Los Angeles with her wife and their dog, Silver. More at amandamaretscharf.com

Taylor Strickland is the author of Dastram/Delirium, winner of the 2023 Saltire Prize for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year and a PBS Translation Choice. His work is published or forthcoming in New Statesman, The Times Literary Supplement, Irish Pages, Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest and elsewhere. His poem 'Nine Whales, Tiree' was adapted to film by Olivia Booker and selected for Bloomsday and Raleigh Film Festivals, among others, and is currently an installation at Glasgow Cathedral Festival. His poem 'The Low Road' was adapted by composer Andrew Kohn and performed in Orkney. He lives in Glasgow with his wife, Lauren, and daughter, Eimhir.

Angela Woodward is the author of the novels Ink, Natural Wonders and End of the Fire Cult, as well as Afterlife, forthcoming from Fiction Collective Two in 2026. Her short stories and essays have appeared in many journals including the Kenyon Review, Green Mountains Review, Ninth Letter, and the LA Review of Books.

Kenton K. Yee’s recent short prose and poetry appear (or will soon) in Kenyon Review, Threepenny Review, Cincinnati Review, RHINO, Scientific American, Constellations: A Journal of Poetry and Fiction, Fairy Tale Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, Plume Poetry, TAB Journal, Terrain.org, JAMA, and Rattle, among others. Kenton writes from Northern California.

Patrick J. Zhou lives in Washington, D.C. A winner of the 2023 PEN/Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, he has stories published in or forthcoming from The Cincinnati Review, Third Coast, the minnesota review, hex literary, and Carve. There are added notes about those stories at patrickjzhou.com along with a portrait of his gray cat, Bobby Newport.