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Eric ANDERSON lives in Rochester, MN. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Diagram, SIR!, and Vertebrae. | The Ontology of Sight, v2#1
Gene AUPREY is a retired construction manager living in rural Maine. An avid outdoorsman and life-long New Englander, much of his poetry deals intimately with the culture and environment of the Northeast. His poems have appeared in journals including Worm, Soundzine and Shit Creek Review. | Lost, v1#1
Tom BAILEY studied English Literature at Cambridge University, graduating in 2019. He will be joining the Boston University MFA program in the fall. His poems have been published in The Kindling, Lighthouse, Notes, The Cambridge Student, Agenda, and other places. | early crocuses, v4#1
Deb BAKER is director of a community college library. She blogs about what she's reading at her BookConscious blog. | Lines Written After Reading..., v3#2
Ryan BAYLESS lives in Austin, Texas and teaches writing at Texas State University and fine arts courses at Texas A&M-Central Texas. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Willows Wept Review, Alba, and Right Hand Pointing. | The Forest's Daughter, v2#1
Annabelle BONEBRAKE is from Los Angeles. Her work weaves the landscapes of Southern California with the terrains of the mind. She teaches high school English in the San Fernando Valley and studied Creative Writing at California State University - Northridge. Her poems have appeared in Cathexis Northwest Press and Tiny Seed. | Painted Ladies, v4#1
Israel A. BONILLA lives in Guadalajara, Jalisco. His work has appeared in Able Muse, Brickplight, Ágora, and Letralia. | Seasons, v3#2
Arno BOHLMEIJER (website) is a poet and novelist writing in English and Dutch. Winner of a PEN America Grant, his work has been published in six countries, including in the United States by Houghton Mifflin, and in Universal Oneness: Anthology of Magnum Opus Poems from around the World. His novel Narrowly was published in 2025. | Moving On and Filmic, v4#2
Zachary BOS is a long-time participant of the annual plein air poetry program at Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard, MA. He directs Pen & Anvil Press, publisher of Hawk & Whippoorwill. | Raztsvet, v3#2
Todd BOSS’s first full-length poetry collection, Yellowrocket, was published by W. W. Norton in November 2008. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. His MFA is from the University of Alaska-Anchorage. For the past five years, he has been the director of external affairs at The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. He lives in suburban St. Paul with his wife and two children. | The God of Our Farm Had Blades, v1#2
Elena BOTTS (website) grew up in the DC area, and has lived in New York, Berlin and Johannesburg. She has been published in over a hundred literary magazines and has won four poetry contests. Her poetry has been exhibited at galleries in the Hudson Valley, in DC, and elsewhere. Her books include a little luminescence (Allbook-Books) and epochs of morning light (Mwanaka). Find her tracks through Lumberton Trading Company and her multimedia art at Rhizome. | Cultural Productions, v3#1
Peter BRANSON is a poet, songwriter, and traditional-style singer whose work has appeared in journals including Agenda, London Magazine, The Warwick Review, The Curlew, The Columbia Review, and Other Poetry. His collections include Red Hill: Selected Poems, 2000–2012 and Hawk Rising (Lapwing). He has received prizes or commendations in several competitions, including the Grace Dieu and Envoi International. | Boy, Gizz, Dog-eared Book, v4#2
George BROOKS teaches writing, literature and adult literacy in central Utah where he lives with his wife, daughter and garden. | The Foxes Have Holes, or, Escalante, v1#1
H. D. BROWN lives on the bank of Chico Creek in California. He is a parent, musician, wine maker, guitar maker, boat builder and writer of poems. In his spare time, he is a professor of American literature and culture at the California State University, Chico. | Sisters, v2#2
Mary BUCHINGER (website) is the author of poetry collections including Navigating the Reach, e i n f ü h l u n g, Aerialist and Roomful of Sparrows. She is President of the New England Poetry Club and Professor of English and Communication Studies at MCPHS University. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Diagram, Gargoyle, Nimrod, PANK, Salamander, Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. | Old Wasp Nest, v3#1 | Mushroom Hunting, v4#2
Simmons B. BUNTIN (website) is the founder of Terrain.org. He is the author of two books of poetry published by Salmon Poetry: Riverfall and Bloom). He is also a recipient of a Colorado artists' fellowship and an Academy of American Poets prize. He lives in Tucson, Arizona. | Bosque, v2#1 | Safehouse, v2#2
Janet BUTLER and her dog Rocky returned to Italy this past February. Her poetry of late has focused on the tanka form, which she finds extremely congenial. She is inching towards less compression and more divulgation, though being an Imagist at heart even her long poems are rather short. | Night, v3#2
Blake CAMPBELL lives in Salem and works as an editor. He is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets College Poetry Prize at Emerson College, and his poem “Bioluminescence” won the Perroti /Frank Young Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets at Emerson College. His work has appeared on poets.org, in The Emerson Review, and in The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry. His poems are forthcoming in Pen & Anvil's chapbook series. | Cold April, v3#2
Chris CANTER is a poet and Dutch-to-English translator based in Madrid. | Leaving Amsterdam, v2#2
Helen Marie CASEY (website) is the author of chapbooks including Fragrance Upon His Lips, Zero Degree, and Inconsiderate Madness, a finalist for the Julia Ward Howe Award of the Boston Authors' Club. She is the author of a biography, My Dear Girl: The Art of Florence Hosmer, and of a monograph, Portland's Compromise: The Colored School 1867-1872. She is the winner of the National Poet Hunt (The MacGuffin), and the Frank O'Hara Prize (Worcester Review). Her work appears in journals including The Laurel Review, Louisiana Literature, and The Paterson Review. | And So I Watch, v3#2
C.E. CHAFFIN (website) published The Melic Review for eight years. He has written criticism, fiction, essays, and poetry, for publications including The Alaska Quarterly Review, Byline, The Cortland Review, Envoi, Kimera, Magma, and Rattle. | The Proper Sound, v1#1
Catherine CHANDLER is a teacher, translator and university financial administrator. She holds a MA from McGill University. Her poems and translations have been published in numerous print and online journals and anthologies. She has been a Pushcart Prize nominee and a finalist in the Howard Nemerov Sonnet competition, and is the author of For No Good Reason (The Olive Press). She lives in Saint Lazare, a small equestrian town in southwestern Quebec, and winters in Punta del Este, Uruguay. | Dandelion, v1#2
Ann CHANDONNET grew up in Masschusetts where she graduated from Lowell State College. She and her husband spent more than thirty years in Alaska and now reside in Missouri. She is the author of collections including At the Fruit-Tree's Mossy Root, Auras, Tendrils and Ptarmigan Valley. She has worked as a college prison instructor, a cops and courts reporter, and a bank secretary. | Boring Room, v5#2 | Marginalia, v6#1 | Buzzard Song, v6#1
Jennifer COLLINS is a tattooed writer from Virginia. Having wandered up and down the East Coast, she now works as a freelance book editor specializing in horror, fantasy, the paranormal, and suspense. Her poetry has been published in journals including Puerto Del Sol, Redivider, The Potomac Review, Chelsea, and 34th Parallel, and has been nominated for a Pushcart. Her first chapbook, Oil Slick Dreams, is available from Finishing Line Press. She's looking forward to publication of her first novel this fall. She lives in Florida with her husband and their five rescues—one neurotic hound dog, and four spoiled cats. | Modern Tears, v3#1
Alicia COLLURA (Instagram) lives in Bradley Beach, NJ, with her husband Jake and their cat Franki. A professional cook, she spends her personal time developing recipes when not putting pen to paper or exploring her local beach community. | Sparrow, v4#1
Marco COLOMBO (Twitter) reads, writes, and makes music in Edinburgh. He claims his body is better at folding proteins than folding clothes. | Strip of Land, v3#2
Temple CONE is the author of five chapbooks, the most recent of which is, Eurydice & Orpheus, is due out from Finishing Line Press this year. He teaches at the U.S. Naval Academy. | Cord, v1#1
Jess CONWAY has worked and written alongside high school-age youth, English teachers, and teacher candidates in Arkansas, New Mexico, and New York. She is a doctoral student and instructor at Columbia and a board member for Hudson Valley Seed. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Camas and Bird’s Eye ReView. She lives in Beacon, NY with her partner and daughter. | Here in the High Desert, v3#1
Hannah CRAIG lives in Pittsburgh. Her work has recently appeared in Fence, Columbia Review, and American Poetry Journal. She is an assistant editor of the poetry magazine Anti-. | Another Engine, v2#1
David R. CRAVENS has won the Saint Petersburg Review Prize in Poetry and the Bedford Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in journals in England, Ireland, Canada, Croatia, Australia, New Zealand, and throughout the United States, as well as in the anthologies Resurrection of a Sunflower and Just Like Peer Gynt. He lives near the Saint Francis River. | Twelvemile Creek, v3#1
Holly DAY’s poetry has recently appeared in The Cape Rock, New Ohio Review, and Gargoyle. Her collections include A Perfect Day for Semaphore, In This Place, She Is Her Own (Vegetarian Alcoholic), A Wall to Protect Your Eyes (Pski’s Porch), and The Yellow Dot of a Daisy (Alien Buddha). | The Catch , v3#2
Michael DAY is an avid naturalist who loves the eyepiece: insects in microscope, birds in binoculars, stars in telescope. His chapbook Three Crows Yelling, co-authored with poet-naturalists Bill Noble and William Keener, was published in 2000 by Pudding House. Recently he has been hiking Big Rock Ridge, looking for mountain lion. | Dunlin at Sunset, v3#1
Maggie DIETZ was born and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She earned a BA at Northwestern University and an MA in creative writing at Boston University. Her debut collection Perennial Fall won a Jane Kenyon Award and a Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award. | Paisano, v1#1
Anna DUPREY is a reference librarian and lives in Western Mass with her husband, their three children, and a flock of chickens and ducks. Her work has appeared in Silkworm and The Weekly Avocet. | Block Island, October 2003, v4#1
Anthony ETHERIN (website) is an experimental formalist, a publisher, and a musician. His book Slate Petals (and Other Wordscapes) will be published in July by Penteract Press. | Wildflower, v4#2
Blake EVERITT was born in 1989 and lives in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, UK. His poems have appeared in Plumwood Mountain, The Dawntreader, The Poetry Village, and Littoral Magazine, among other places; in the anthology Book of Christian Poems; and in audio form on This is a Good Place to Kiss and The Blue Morphosis. | View from Monks Bay, Bonchurch, v4#2
Kelly Madigan ERLANDSON is the author of Getting Sober: A Practical Guide to Making It Through the First 30 Days (McGraw-Hill). Her work has appeared in Barrow Street, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Best New Poets, and Crazyhorse. She is a recipient of the Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize and of an NEA Fellowship. | Catamount, v2#2 | May That Light Be My Authority, v2#2
Sean FERRIER-WATSON (website) teaches at Collin College. He has work forthcoming in Borderlands, Better Than Starbucks, Forces, and Illumen and has published articles in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas, and Journal of Children’s Literature Studies. His book The Children’s Ghost Story in America was published in 2017. | Caprock Canyon, v5#2
Shawn FISHER has been an educator for many years, primarily helping non-traditional students access and succeed in higher ed. Her poems have appeared in Spiritus, The Wayfarer, and Plainsongs, among other mags. She lives in Beverly, Mass., in an 18th-century apartment with low ceilings. | The Starling, v3#2
Linda M. FISCHER made her debut in Fine Gardening magazine with a narrative poem about long-distance gardening for her mother. She has a chapbook, Raccoon Afternoons (Finishing Line), and publishes in a variety of venues. She is among the winners of Atlanta Review's Poetry 2010 competition. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2007 and 2008. | The Red Fox, v2#1
Erica A. FLETCHER works in biomed research in Boston. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Uppagus, Silkworm, Whatever Keeps the Lights On, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, and The Writer's Cafe Magazine. She plays in the band Nurse & Soldier. | There Are So Many Things, v5#2
Giles GOODLAND is a British poet who works as a lexicographer. He is the author of the collection The Masses, published by Shearsman Books. | The Slow Worms, v4#1
Melissa GREEN is a recipient of the Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets. She is the author of three books: The Squanicook Eclogues (Norton, 1988; Pen & Anvil, 2010), Color is the Suffering of Light (Norton), and Fifty-Two (Arrowsmith). She recently finished a book-length work about Heloïse & Abélard. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, AGNI, the inaugural issue of Little Star, and elsewhere. | from Akeldama, v2#1
John A. GRIFFIN is a poet living in Ireland. He received his B.A. in Literature & Philosophy from St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, and his MA and PhD from Washington University, St. Louis. He occasionally posts new writing and commentary at Odradek. | from Stations Against Ruins, v2#1
Ilya GUTNER was born in Russia and at the age of ten became an immigrant to the US. He writes: "For a year and a half my family lived in Brooklyn and then made one more move across the water, this time to Staten Island, where I have lived ever since. I began making poetry without noticing so myself, simply as a part of growing up and without anyone's significant prompting; the first ten years of my efforts were scattered over aging hard drives and have since disappeared forever." | from End of June 2010, v2#1
Colleen S. HARRIS (website) works as a librarian at the Univ. of Tennessee. She is author of God in My Throat: The Lilith Poems (Bellowing Ark) and These Terrible Sacraments (forthcoming in 2010) and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in Louisville Review, Wisconsin Review, River Styx and elsewhere. | Violet Petals, v2#1
Michael HEALY is a writer and reader in Boston. He has been previously published in The Charles River Journal. | Island in Milton Cemetary Pond, v2#1
Kathleen HELLEN (website) is the author of The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin and the award-winning collection Umberto’s Night, as well as the chapbooks The Girl Who Loved Mothra and Pentimento. Her work has been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily and has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Massachusetts Review and West Branch, among others. She has received the Thomas Merton Poetry Prize and awards from The H.O.W. Journal and Washington Square Review. | pieta and horseandrider one, v4#2
Ernest HILBERT is the author of Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Last One Out, and Caligulan, which was selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize. He lives in Philadelphia where he works as a rare book dealer and book reviewer for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. His poem “Mars Ultor” appears in Best American Poetry 2018. | She Abides with Me Still, v4#2
Leonore HILDEBRANDT is the author of the collections Where You Happen to Be, The Work at Hand, and The Next Unknown. Her poems and translations have appeared inCimarron Review, Denver Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Harpur Palate,and Sugar House Review, among other venues. Winner of the Gemini Poetry Contest and several times nominee for a Pushcasrt, she has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Maine Community Foundation, and the Maine Arts Commission. A native of Germany, Leonore lives off the grid in Maine and spends winters in Silver City, NM. She teaches at the University of Maine and serves on the board of Beloit Poetry Journal. | Tinnitus, v3#1
Crystal HOFFMAN (website) is a storyteller, poet, adventurer, and co-owner of the METTĀ Healing Arts Community. She has published work in dozens of literary journals, magazines, and anthologies, most recently in Blue Earth Review, Pank, and WomenArts Quarterly. She’s taught creative writing, composition, and literature at institutions of higher learning including the American University of Beirut and the University of Pittsburgh. | The Nature of Garbage, v3#1
Erin Coughlin HOLLOWELL lives at the end of the road in Alaska. Boreal Books published her first collection, Pause, Traveler, in 2013, and her second, Every Atom, this year. She has been awarded two Rasmuson Foundation Fellowships, a Connie Boochever Award, and an Alaska Literary Award. Her work has been recently published in Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Sugar House Review, and Rust + Moth. | One Grain, v3#1
Katherine HOLMES (website) has published work in journals including Ginosko, Animal Literary Magazine, ArLiJo, Manhattanville Review, and Agave Magazine. The anthology New Poetry From the Midwest 2017 contains one of her poems. In 2012, her collection Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories was published by Press Americana. | How a Vine Staves Off Eviction, v4#1
Elisabeth HORAN (website) is an imperfect creature from Vermont. She is an advocate for animals, children and those suffering alone and in pain. She has work in Moonchild Magazine, Terse, Blanket Sea, and Milk & Beans. Her chapbook Pensacola Girls, written in collaboration with Kristin Garth, is forthcoming at Bone & Ink. | The Pact, v3#2
Juleigh HOWARD-HOBSON has been a finalist for the Morton Marr Poetry Prize and a nominee for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She has work in or forthcoming in Mezzo Cammin, Raintown Review, The Muse, 14 by 14, The Chimaera, Soundzine, and other journals. | Twilight, v1#1
Marcel INHOFF is completing a doctorate at the University of Bonn. He is the author of the collection Prosopopeia (Editions Mantel), numerous poems and essays in German and English, and a chapbook, Our Church Is Here (Pen & Anvil). He is currently at work on his first novel. | Gonyeshk, v3#2
Frank IZAGUIRRE (Instagram) is a doctoral student at WVU. A birder, naturalist, and scholar of environmental writing, he's published in venues including Birding and ISLE. | Leaf Litter Toad, v3#1
George KALOGERIS is the author of the poetry collection Camus: Carnets (Pressed Wafer). He teaches humanities and classics at Suffolk University in Boston. | Tentava la Vostra Mano la Tastiera, translated from the Italian of Eugenio Montale, v1#1
John KAPRIELIAN, a Slavic linguist by training and a natural history photo editor by day, has been writing poetry for more than thirty-five years. His work has appeared in Five-Two Poetry, New Verse News, The Blue Nib, Minute Magazine, and elsewhere. In 2012 he completed a year-long project writing a poem each day, later published as 366 Poems: My Year in Verse. He lives in Putnam County, NY, with his wife, son, and assorted pets. | Elegy for George and Do You Know Me, Crow?, v4#2
William KEENER is a writer and environmental lawyer in theBay Area. His chapbook Gold Leaf on Granite was winner of the Anabiosis Press Contest. His poems appear in journals inlcuding Appalachia, Atlanta Review, Margie, and Terrain. In 2009, he was invited to be one of the Artists in the Back Country in Sequoia National Park. His chapbook Three Crows Yelling, co-authored with poet-naturalists Bill Noble and Michael Day, was published in 2000 by Pudding House. | Making Fire, v2#2
Matthew KELSEY graduated from Boston University and earned his master’s in creative writing from the University of Washington. He currently lives in Seattle, where he is managing editor of Northwest Poetry and tutors at Everett College. He was co-founding editor (with Jon Wooding) of the New Series of Hawk & Whippoorwill. | On Top of the News, v2#2 | Ode to Rialto, v2#2 | Frost Heave, v2#2
Caleb KLACES is originally from Birmingham, England. His poems have appeared in journals including Poetry, Oxford Poetry and Modern Poetry in Translation, and online at Hand and Star. He is editor of the online project Like Starlings and of The Bat City Review at the
University of Texas. | Trusted Sources, v2#1
Sandra KOHLER's collection Improbable Music appeared in 2011 from Word Press. Her previous collection The Ceremonies of Longing, winner of the AWP Award Series in Poetry, was published by the Univ. of Pittsburgh Press; an earlier volume, The Country of Women, was published in 1995 by Calyx Books. Her poems have appeared in journals including Prairie Schooner, The New Republic, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Missouri Review and Colorado Review. After living in Pennsylvania for most of her adult life, she now lives in Dorchester in Boston. | Transformations, v2#1 | Three on March, v2#2 | Waters, v3#2
George KOROLOG is a Bay Area writer whose work has appeared in journals including The Los Angeles Review, The Southern Indiana Review, Bookends Review, Tar River Review, and Pithead Chapel. He has twice been nominated for a Pushcart and twice for Best of the Net. His first book, Collapsing Outside the Box, was published by Aldrich Press; his second, Raw String, was published by Finishing Line. He is working on his third collection, The Little Truth. | Three Dimensions, v3#1
Theoklis KOUYIALIS was born in Deftera, Cyprus, in 1936. He has published eleven collections of poems and three anthologies of Cypriot poetry (two of them in English). He has held a variety of positions in Cypriot education. | Eurydike, translated from Greek by Nora Clark Liassis, v1#1
Lavinia KUMAR is a member of the Delaware Valley and US1 poetry workshops. Her poetry has appeared in venues including Waterways, Thatchwork, and Orbis. She has written a periodic column for her local weekly newspaper, and for various newsletters. | Three Cows in Quito, v3#1
Abhay K. (website) has authored seven collections of poems. He is the editor of CAPITALS and 100 Great Indian Poems and recipient of the SAARC Literary Award. His poems have appeared in literary journals including Poetry Salzburg, Asia Literary Review, The Stony Thursday Book, The Missing Slate, Eastlit, Gargoyle, The Caravan, and Indian Literature. His poem-song "Earth Anthem" has been translated into thirty languages. | Mustang, v3#1
Jane LEVIN is a former psychologist. She is the recipient of a Jerome Foundation/Intermedia Arts Poetry Mentorship and a Howard B. Brin Jewish Arts Endowment grant. If you live near Minneapolis or Tucson, contact her at jjkiwi@gmail.com to make a connection. | Devotion, v1#1
Elizabeth Joy LEVINSON (Instagram) teaches and writes on the west side of Chicago. She has an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University. Her work has appeared in journals including Grey Sparrow, Hobble Creek Review, Up the Staircase, and Apple Valley Review. Her chapbook As Wild Animals is available through Dancing Girl Press. | Domicile, v3#2
Nora Clark LIASSIS is a professor of literature at the European University Cyprus. Her research interests include 19th- and 20th-cent. poetry, comparative poetry studies, poetry and heritage, and prose poetry in translation. | Memorial Service, v1#2 | Eurydike, trans. from the Greek of Theoklis Kouyialis, v1#1
D.A. LOCKHART hails from southern Ontario and is currently teaching creative writing in Bloomington, IN where he daydreams of fishing and baseball. His work has recently appeared in Front Range, Naugatuck River Review, San Pedro River Review and Zaum. He is working on a short story collection tentatively titled Light Will Hit the Mountains. | Pool Beneath the Old Bathhouse, v2#1 | A Natural Violence , v2#2
Stan LONG (though he cares for a teen daughter) is a writer in solitary whose sundry works of prose and verse have been published here and there over the years. To safeguard himself from the invasiveness of his imagination when his screen and mind go blank, he has taken to hear this line from Aesop: ‘Beware you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.’ | Cathedral Grove, v1#2
George LOONEY is the author of books of poetry including What Light Becomes: The Turner Variations (winner of the Red Mountain Press Poetry Prize), Meditations Before the Windows Fail, and The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels (winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize). His fiction includes the novel Report from a Place of Burning, winner of the Leapfrog Press Fiction Award. He founded the BFA in Creative Writing Program at Penn State Erie, where he is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing. He is editor of the literary journal Lake Effect, translation editor of Mid-American Review, and a co-founder of the Chautauqua Writers’ Festival. | Two Poems from Kinsale, v4#2
Amy MACLENNAN has been published or has work forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, River Styx, Pearl, Linebreak, Cimarron Review, Folio, and Rattle. Her poems are forthcoming in the anthologies Not a Muse (Haven Books) and Eating Her Wedding Dress (Ragged Sky). | Coastsiders, v1#2
Amit MAJMUDAR's first book, 0°,0°, was released by Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly Books in 2009. His second manuscript, Heaven and Earth, won the Donald Justice Award. His novella Azazil was serialized recently in Kenyon Review. His novel Partitions, will be published by Metropolitan. His poetry has been featured on Poetry Daily, Poetry, and Best American Poetry. | Contemplating Adam, v2#1
Kevin J. MCDANIEL lives in Pulaski, VA, with his wife and daughters, and their menagerie of pets. To date, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Artemis Journal, Broad River Review, Cloudbank, Common Ground Review, Floyd County Moonshine, Free State Review, IO Lit, Gravel, Sand Hills, Temenos, The Cape Rock, The Main Street Rag, The Ocean State Review, The Offbeat, and others. He teaches English composition at Bluefield College.
In addition to his previous chapbook, Family Talks, published by Finishing Line Press, he has two major publications forthcoming in 2019: another chapbook, At the Foot of a Mountain (Old Seventy Creek Press) and a collection, Rubbernecking (Main Street Rag Publishing). | Wasteland, v3#2
Michael P. MCMANUS has published in venues including Texas Review, Atlanta Review, and Prism International. He has received The Ocean's Prize from Sulphur River Literary Review and the Virginia Award from The Lyric, and is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts. He has work forthcoming in Soundings East and Raintown Review, among others. | Watcher, v1#2
Jacob Kobina AYIAH MENSAH is author of the hybrid works Conductor 5, The Sun of a Solid Torus, Genus for L Loci and Handlebody. His poems have appeared in journals including Rigorous, The Meadow, Juked, North Dakota Quarterly, Cathexis Northwest Press, Sandy River Review, Strata Magazine, Atlas Poetica, and Modern Haiku. An algebraist and artist, he divides his time between Ghana, Spain, and the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota. | Best into the Void , v1#2
John MILLER teaches classes in British lit, Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, and nature writing at National University in California. | To the Apartment Complex Laundry Room, v1#2 | Marginal, v1#2
David MILLEY (website) has been publishing verse since the 70s while building a career as a technical writer and web applications developer. His work has appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Christopher Street, and Bay Windows. Retired now, David lives in southern NJ with his husband of four decades (who himself has made a living as a farmer, woodcutter, nurseryman and cook). These days, husband Warren tends his garden and keeps honeybees while David walks and writes. | Deer Season , v5#2
Ed MINUS is the author of the novel Kite (Viking). His stories have been published in literary magazines and his book reviews and theater chronicles appear regularly in The Sewanee Review. | Two Views, from Some Distance, of a Deciduous Tree, v1#1
Eugenio MONTALE was a poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. | Tentava la Vostra Mano la Tastiera, trans. from Italian by George Kalogeris, v1#1
Elizabeth MOURA lives in a converted factory on a river, and works with elders. She has had poetry, fiction and photographs published in Heron’s Nest,Atlas Poetica, Presence, Shamrock, Flash, Paragraph Planet, Chrysanthemum, Flash Fiction Magazine, Occulum and O:JA&L. | Mother, v4#1
Samantha Mineo MYERS lives and writes in the suburbs of southeastern Massachusetts. She teaches writing at Boston University, and her work has appeared in New Orleans Review, Washington Square, and other journals. | Viburnum, v1#2
Sally NACKER (website) is a past recipient of the Edwin Way Teale Writer-in-Residence award at Trail Wood. Her poems appear in numerous journals, most recently The Orchards, ONE ART, Blue Unicorn, HOOT and The Sunlight Press. She has two collections with Kelsay Books, Vireo and Night Snow. Her third collection, Kindness in Winter, is due out in 2021. She earned her MFA at Fairfield University, and lives in Connecticut with her husband and two cats. | Kindness in Winter, v5#2
Jefferson NAVICKY is author of a story collection, The Paper Coast; a poetic novel, The Book of Transparencies; and a collection of modern parables, Antique Densities (forthcoming). His work has appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Electric Literature, Fairy Tale Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal. He is the archivist for the Maine Women Writers Collection and teaches at Southern Maine Community College. He lives with his wife and dog on the coast of Maine. | Salamanders, v5#2 | Rat Kings , v5#2 | Encounter in Orange, v6#1 | Storm Chasers, v6#1
William NEUMIRE's poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Los Angeles Review, Sugar House Review, Front Porch, Toucan, Worcester Review, and Cloudbank. His chapbooks include Resonance of Kin (Pudding House) and Between Worlds (Foothills). In Syracuse, NY, he teaches, writes poems and book reviews, and lives with his wife and dog. | Anniversary, v2#1 | Resurrection Bay, Alaska, v2#2
Shelby NEWSOM (Instagram) is a writer and editor in Pittsburgh. She is Assistant Editor for Autumn House Press and a Fact Checker for the Creative Nonfiction Foundation. She received her MFA in Poetry from Chatham University. Her work has been featured in Flyway, Pilgrimage Magazine, Deep Wild, and The Hopper; her chapbook Flesh Memory will be published by Gasher Press in 2026. | Confluence of Thirst, v9#1
Matthew NIENOW (website) is the author of Two Sides of the Same Thing, winner of the Copperdome Chapbook Award. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in American Literary Review, Poet Lore, Pebble Lake Review, Nimrod and Best New Poets. | What the Tundra Has to Offer, v1#1
Anita OUELLETTE writes poetry about the everyday. She writes: "Each challenge is remarkable when life’s journey is accompanied by the ones we love. My husband and sons, my daughters-in-law, my grandson, my parents and all the others who have sustained me meet me in my garden and in the remote places which we have found together." | On an Unfamiliar Path, v3#2
D. Eric PARKISON received his MA in English at the Univ. of Rochester where he studied literature and poetry. His poetry has appeared in Zyzzyva, American Chordata, Columbia Review, and Crab Creek Review, among others. He earned his MFA in Poetry at Boston University. He lives in Boston now, where he teaches English and literature. | Lessons from the Greek, v3#2
Abagail PETERSEN (Instagram) is a rock climber, novice bookmaker, and recent graduate of Boston University. She is a past art editor of Burn. | No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red), v3#1
Kathryn PETERSON, a native of Upper Michigan, has previously been published on Subtletea.com and in U.P. Magazine. | DNA, v3#1
TR POULSON, a Univ. of Nevada alum and proud Wolf Pack fan, lives in San Mateo, CA. Her work has appeared in journals including Rattle, Booth, Alehouse, Verdad, J Journal, Raintown Review, and The Meadow. | Dairy Farmer's Daughter Considers Climate Change, v5#2 | God, in the Cretaceous, v5#2 | Cain Did Not Kill First, v6#1
Zara RAAB grew up in a remote part of Northern California; nature seems to find its way into much of her writing. Her books are Swimming the Eel; Fracas & Asylum; The Book of Gretel; and Rumpelstiltskin, or What's in a Name? Her work appears in The Hudson Review, Dark Horse, West Branch, River Styx, and other venues, with reviews in Poet Lore and elsewhere. She is completing another degree, and lives north of Boston. | Lee-Latch, v4#2
Joy RAAB-FABER studies English and creative writing at the Univ. of New Mexico. She earned an Associate of Applied Science in metals technology through Albuquerque CNM. She is also a recycling artist. Her first short stories will be published in Unlikely Stories and Slow Trains. | Walk Lake, v1#1
Robin RAY is the author of the books Wetland and Other Stories, Obey the Darkness: Horror Stories, Murder in Rock & Roll Heaven, Commoner the Vagabond, and You Can’t Sleep Here: A Clown’s Guide to Surviving Homelessness. His works have appeared in magazines including Red Fez, Underwood Press, Scarlet Leaf Review, Neologism Poetry Journal, Spark, Aphelion, Picaroon Poetry, Bangalore Review, Magnolia Review, and Vita Brevis. | Lost at Sea, v4#1
Connie RESNESKI, a Pushcart nominee, resides in Doylestown, PA. Her work has been published in many magazines and journals. She writes for the Bucks County Herald and is a past participant in the Making Magic: Beauty In Word And Image exhibit at the Michener Museum. Her collections include Watching Over My Shoulder and As I Was Saying. | Ant Tree, v3#2 | Full Moon on a November Night in the Woods of Hickory Run, v4#1 | A Plethora of Punchdrunk Crows Roosting in the Venerable Ash, v5#1
Robert RICHE is the recipient of an NEA grant, a Connecticut Foundation for the Arts grant, an Advanced Drama Research grant; the Stanley Drama Award, and a Breadloaf Writers Conference scholarship. He has published one novel, The Permanent Press, and several short stories, including one most recently in Commentary. His plays have been performed in LORT regional theaters and at the Bristol Old Vic in England. Foothills Publishing released a chapbook of his poems last year titled Eternity and Other Mundane Matters. A new chapbook, On the Line, will soon be published by Pudding House. | Psalm, v1#1
Susan Edwards RICHMOND (website) is the author of Before We Were Birds (Adastra Press) and the forthcoming children’s book Bird Count (Peachtree). She works at Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Sanctuary and enjoys hiking with her husband and two daughters. | Snowy, v3#1
Paul S. ROWE is an editor of The Charles River Journal and of the anthology Rhythm of the Bones: Dark Marrow. His words appear in Literary Imagination, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Moonchild Magazine, Literary Matters, Salamander, and Boston Hassle. He is the editor of The Taletellers by Peter Caputo, forthcoming from Pen & Anvil. | caldera, v3#2
Lenore ROWNTREE lives beside a heron rookery in Vancouver. Her novel Cluck, about life as an outsider who finds a way in, was recently published. This year she was honoured to be included in the anthology The Best of the Best of Canadian Poetry. | Blowdown, v3#1
Don RUSS is the author of Dream Driving (Kennesaw State Univ. Press) and the chapbook Adam's Nap (Billy Goat Press). | The Bridegroom, v2#1
James SACKETT, Jr., was born in Seoul and now calls Las Vegas home. He will move to Scotland to commence postgrad literary studies in September. His poems have recently appeared or are due to appear in The Chaffey Review, Memewar, and Poetry Quarterly. | Intimating Snow, v2#1 | Rebirthing, v2#2
Hilary SALLICK’s poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Whiskey Island, The Inflectionist Review, Ibbetson Street, Two Cities Review, and other journals. She is the author of Winter Roses (Finishing Line) and Asking the Form (to be published by Červená Barva). She teaches reading and writing to adult learners in Somerville and serves as vice-president of the New England Poetry Club. | City Garden, v3#1
Andrew SALTARELLI lives with his wife in Stevensville, MT. He wrote the poem which was published in Hawk & Whippoorwill while on the premises of a blueberry farm. | The Broken Rose, v1#1
Joel SATTLER is a well-known antiquarian bookseller, and formerly a not-so-secret messenger in the innermost depths of Capitol Hill and K Street. Under his pen name Satnrose he has been published in journals including Evergreen Review, Apparatus and Counterpunch. | The Whales Sing an Old Song, v2#1 | The Poet Issa and His Lost Children, v2#2
E.P. SCHULTZ likes to drive Floyd, his tractor—yanking on dead trees, pushing snow around, or just to take a ride so to remember. His work has appeared in Chronogram, Sierra Nevada College Review, Heartlands, The Aurorean, and elsewhere. | Gijik Marsh, v1#2
Wesley SEXTON (Instagram) is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His work has appeared in The Indianapolis Review, The Greensboro Review, StorySouth, Connecticut River Review, and Atticus Review. | Mother Nature Learns Economics, v4#2
Danial SHARIAT (website) is an essayist, poet, and musician; a student at Boston University; and a co-founder of the Collegiate Economics Forum. | Grandma’s Kiwis, v3#1
Tom SHEEHAN has published thirty-two books. His work has appeared in journals including Rosebud, Literally Stories, Linnet’s Wings, Copperfield Review, Eastlit, Frontier Tales, and Faith-Hope-Fiction. He’s received over thirty Pushcart nominations, among other awards. | Rubble, Barn Style, v1#2 | From Nahant, Atlantic Rub, Pacific Skip, v1#2 | It Is a Mouth, This Dawn, v3#2
Walter SMELT studied literature and religion as an undergrad at Boston University and is now working toward an MFA in poetry at the Univ. of Florida. | Mt. Auburn Cemetery, v2#2
Nell SMITH is a field biologist and writer based in Northern Arizona. Much of her ecologically-rooted work examines the interplay between people and place. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Entropy, Thin Air Magazine, Sky Island Journal, The Aurorean and Alligator Juniper. | Tidal Desert, v3#2
Michael STUTZ (website) is the author of a three-volume lyrical novel, Circuits of the Wind. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Dark Horse, Hobart, vol1brookyln, Matchbook, Empty Mirror, and elsewhere. | Midsummer Threnody, v3#1
Marcela SULAK’s fourth poetry collection, City of Sky Papers, is forthcoming, as is her memoir Mouth Full of Seeds. A 2019 NEA Translation Fellow, her book-length translation of Twenty Girls to Envy Me: The Selected Poems of Orit Gidali was longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She is host of the podcast Israel in Translation, and editor for The Ilanot Review, and member of the faculty at Bar-Ilan University. | On the other hand..., v4#1
Sassan TABATABAI is the editor and translator of Father of Persian Verse, a collection of poems of the medieval poet Rudaki. He teaches humanities and Persian at Boston Univ. and Boston College. | Fireflies, v3#2 | Janevaran, v4#1 | Arachnifriend, v4#2
Melissa TANTAQUIDGEON ZOBEL (website) is Medicine Woman of the Mohegan Tribe in Uncasville, Connecticut. | Autobiography of a Wolf, v3#1
Don THOMPSON (website) has been writing about the San Joaquin Valley for over fifty years, resulting in a dozen or so books and chapbooks. | Trouble in Mind, v4#1
Caelan TREE (Instagram) is a poet, translator and veterinary nurse living in Western Massachusetts with her wife and cats. She holds an MFA in Poetry & Poetry in Translation from Drew University, and is the author of the chapbook Quiet in the Body (Unthinkable Creatures). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review, The Healing Muse, Clade Song, and others. | Fer-de-Lance and Groundhog, v4#2
Meg TYLER is the author of Poor Earth (2014). Her writing has appeared in journals including The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, Sixty-Six, AGNI, and Slate. She is a faculty member at Boston University. | Docent, v4#2
Jeffrey WARZECHA is a graduate of Eastern Connecticut State Univ. and is currently enrolled in Lesley Universit's MFA program. He is the recipient of the Leslie Leeds Poetry Prize and has had work appear in The Rio Grande Review, The Edison Literary Review, Poetry Midwest, SNReview and Conclave, among other publications. | Looking for Frost’s Woodpile, v1#2
Robert WATSON has published in The New Yorker, Oxford Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and twenty-some other literary journals. His books have been about
Shakespeare; Ben Jonson; the Renaissance roots, in poetry and painting, of modern environmentalism (winner of the ASLE prize for ecocriticism); the transhistorical fear of death; Japanese cinema; and the dysfunctions of cultural evolution. He teaches at UCLA, and is a fanatic for soccer and dogs. | The Museum of Farming Life , v5#2
Kristine WILLIAMS (Facebook) lives and writes in Athens, OH. She has been a contributor to and juror for the Women of Appalachia Project’s Women Speak since 2008 and has poetry published in Huffington Post. She is past managing editor of Riverwind journal. She lives with her husband and an assortment of pets and has two grown children. She recently retired from teaching. | Daedalus, v3#1
Kraz WILLINGHAM (Twitter) is editor of Hawk & Whippoorwill. Their writing has appeared in Burn, Peach Velvet, Burning House Press, and Hoochie Reader. They are editor-in-chief of The Emerald Review and are currently working on a chapbook gathering together all the filthiest bits of Catullus. | "We’ve gotta get people outside": an interview with Daniel Hudon, v3#1
Constance WRZESNIEWSKI lives in Doylestown, PA. She writes for The Bucks County Herald and has been published in several magazines and poetry journals. She participated in Making Magic: Beauty in Word and Image Exhibition in the Michener Museum. Her collections include Watching Over My Shoulder (2015) and As I Was Saying (2018). | Ant Tree, v3#2 | Full Moon on a November Night..., v4#1
Ali ZNAIDI (blog) lives in Tunisia. He is the author of chapbooks including Experimental Ruminations and Bye, Donna Summer! (both Fowlpox Press), Moon’s Cloth Embroidered with Poems (Origami Poems Project), Taste of the Edge (Kind of a Hurricane), Mathemaku x5 (Spacecraft), Austere Lights (Moria), Gazes of Wrath (Mount Analogue), and Against Darkness (Pen & Anvil). | Fireflies Sonnet, v4#1
Jane ZWART teaches at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI, where she co-directs the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing. Her poems have appeared in TriQuarterly, Rattle, Boston Review, Threepenny Review, Poetry Northwest, Antioch Review, and other little magazines and journals. She has published edited versions of onstage interviews with Christian Wiman, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Amit Majmudar. As well, she writes the occasional book review. | Death in the Springtime, v3#2
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