CONTRIBUTORS

Erin Adair-Hodges is the author of Let’s All Die Happy, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Recipient of The Sewanee Review’s Allen Tate Prize and the Loraine Williams Prize from The Georgia Review, her work has been featured in such places as PBS NewsHour, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus and more. Born and raised in New Mexico, she is now an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Central Missouri and the co-editor for Pleiades. 

Bruce Bond is the author of twenty-five books including, most recently, Gold Bee (Helen C. Smith Award, Crab Orchard Award, SIU Press, 2016), Sacrum (Four Way, 2017), Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015 (L.E. Phillabaum Award, LSU, 2017), Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Book Prize, Elixir Press, 2018), Dear Reader (Free Verse Editions, 2018), Frankenstein’s Children (Lost Horse, 2018), Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave, 2019), and Words Written Against the Walls of the City (LSU, 2019).  Presently he is a Regents Professor of English at the University of North Texas.

Gary Fincke’s latest collection of essays, The Darkness Call, won the Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose (Pleiades Press, 2018). Earlier nonfiction books are from Michigan State and Stephen F. Austin.

Emily Kiernan is the author of a novel, Great Divide (Unsolicited Press). Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Pank, The Collagist, Redivider, and other journals, and she has received support from The MacDowell Colony, The Ucross Foundation, The Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and other organizations. She is a prose editor at Noemi Press and a fiction editor at Rivet: The Journal of Writing that Risks. She lives in Pittsburgh with her man and her dog. More information can be found at emilykiernan.com.

Kathryn de Lancellotti is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a former recipient of the Cowell Press Poetry Prize and the George Hitchcock Memorial Poetry Prize. Her poems and other works have appeared in Chicago Quarterly Press Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, The American Journal of Poetry, Rise Up Review, The Bind, Cultural Weekly, Bending Genres, Rust + Moth and others. Her debut chapbook Impossible Thirst will be forthcoming with Moon Tide Press in 2020. Kathryn resides in Harmony, California, with her family.  

Christopher Lowe is the author of a story collection, Those Like Us (SFASU Press), and three prose chapbooks. His writing has appeared widely in journals including Third Coast, Greensboro Review, Brevity, and Permafrost Magazine. He is the editor of The McNeese Review and a faculty member in the MFA program at McNeese State University. He lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana, with his family.

Michael McGriff is the author of several books, most recently the poetry collection Home Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2017) and the linked story collection Our Secret Life in the Movies (A Strange Object/Deep Vellum, 2014), which was an NPR Best Book of 2014. He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Idaho.

Trenton McKay Judson grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the Department Chair of Humanities and Fine Arts for Jarvis Christian College. He writes character-driven fiction, poetry, performance poetry, plays, and music. He lives in Texas with his wife Prapasiri and their daughter Isabelle.

Matthew Minicucci’s most recent collection, Small Gods (New Issues), won the 2019 Stafford/Hall Oregon Book Award in Poetry. His poetry and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from numerous journals including The Believer, POETRY, The Southern Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including the Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and a Writer-in-Residence fellowship from the James Merrill House. Last summer, he served as the 43rd Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence. 

Henk Rossouw’s book-length poem Xamissa, published by Fordham University Press in 2018, won the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize. Wesleyan University Press's Best American Experimental Writing 2018 featured an excerpt. Akashic Books included his chapbook The Water Archives in the 2018 boxed set New-Generation African Poets. Poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Boston Review, among other publications. An assistant professor, Henk teaches creative writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is from South Africa. 

Aaron Samuels is the author of Yarmulkes & Fitted caps, released by Write Bloody Publishing.  He is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Asylum Arts, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.  Samuels is a founding member of the Dark Noise Collective and ranked 3rd place at the Individual World Poetry Slam.  He currently lives in Los Angeles where he serves as Co-Founder and COO of Blavity Inc.