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Our Contributors
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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 // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010 |
Gene AUPREY is a retired construction manager presently 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 North Eastern States. His poems have appeared in journals including Worm, Soundzine and Shit Creek Review.
>> Lost // Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2008 |
Tom BAILEY studied English Literature at Cambridge University, graduating in 2019. He will be joining the MFA program at Boston University in the fall. His poems have been published in The Kindling, Lighthouse, Notes, The Cambridge Student, Agenda, and other places.
>> early crocuses // Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2019 |
Deb BAKER is director of a community college library. She blogs about what she's reading at bookconscious.wordpress.com.
>> Lines Written After Reading... // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
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 // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010 |
Annabelle BONEBRAKE is from Los Angeles. Her work weaves the landscapes of Southern California with the historical and personal 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 previously appeared in Cathexis Northwest Press and Tiny Seed.
>> Painted Ladies // Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2019 |
Israel A. BONILLA lives in Guadalajara, Jalisco. His work has appeared in Able Muse, Brickplight, Ágora, and Letralia.
>> Seasons // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
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 // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
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 north suburban St. Paul with his wife and two children.
>> The God of Our Farm Had Blades // Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2008 |
Elena BOTTS grew up in the DC area, and has lived in New York, Berlin and Johannesburg. She is a poet, writer, and artist. She has been published in over a hundred literary magazines. She 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, 2011) and epochs of morning light (Mwanaka, 2018). Find her tracks through Lumberton Trading Company and her multimedia art at Rhizome. (website)
>> Cultural Productions // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
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 // Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2008 |
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 // Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2012 |
Mary BUCHINGER is the author of the collections Navigating the Reach (forthcoming), e i n f ü h l u n g (2018), Aerialist (2015) and Roomful of Sparrows (2008). 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, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. (website)
>> Old Wasp Nest // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
Simmons B. BUNTIN is the founding editor of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments. He is the author of two books of poetry published by Ireland's Salmon Poetry: Riverfall (2005) and Bloom (November 2010). He is also a recipient of a Colorado artists' fellowship for poetry and an Academy of American Poets prize. He lives in Tucson, Arizona. (website)
>> Bosque // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010
>> Safehouse // Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2012 |
Janet BUTLER and her dog Rocky returned to Italy this past February. Her poetry for the last few years has focused on the tanka form, which she finds extremely congenial. She is, however, inching towards less compression and more divulgation, although being an Imagist at heart, even her long poems are rather short.
>> Night // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
Blake CAMPBELL lives in Salem, Massachusetts and works as an editor. He is the recipient of the 2015 Academy of American Poets College Poetry Prize for Emerson College, and his poem “Bioluminescence” won the 2015 Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets. 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 also forthcoming in Pen & Anvil's chapbook series.
>> Cold April // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
Chris CANTER is a poet and Dutch-to-English translator, currently based in Madrid, Spain.
>> Leaving Amsterdam, Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2012 |
Helen Marie CASEY's chapbooks include Fragrance Upon His Lips and Inconsiderate Madness, a finalist for the Julia Ward Howe Award of the Boston Authors Club. Her chapbook Zero Degrees, a collection of poetry of witness, has just been released by Finishing Line Press. 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 of The MacGuffin, and the Frank O'Hara Prize from The Worcester Review. Her work appears in journals including The Laurel Review, Louisiana Literature, and The Paterson Review. (website)
>> And So I Watch // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
C.E. CHAFFIN edited and published The Melic Review for eight years prior to its hiatus. He has written criticism, fiction, essays, and poetry, for publications including The Alaska Quarterly Review, Byline, The Cortland Review, Envoi, Kimera, Magma, and Rattle. For more of his work visit www.cechaffin.com.
>> The Proper Sound // Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2008 |
Catherine CHANDLER is a teacher, translator and university financial administrator. She holds a MA in Culture and Values in Education from McGill University, and a BA in French Literature and Spanish. Her poems and translations of Spanish and French formal poetry have been published in numerous print and online journals and anthologies. She has been a Pushcart Prize nominee and finalist in the Howard Nemerov Sonnet competition, and is the author of For No Good Reason (The Olive Press, 2008). She lives in Saint Lazare, a small equestrian town in southwestern Quebec, and winters in Punta del Este, Uruguay.
>> Dandelion // Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2008 |
Ann CHANDONNET grew up in Masschusetts where she graduated from Lowell State College. She and her husband spent more than thirty years in Alaska. She is the author of seven collections including At the Fruit-Tree's Mossy Root, Auras, Tendrils and Ptarmigan Valley. She has worked as a college instructor in prisons, a cops and courts reporter and a bank secretary. She and her husband reside in Missouri.
>> Boring Room // Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2020
>> Marginalia // Vol. 6, No. 1, Summer 2021
>> Buzzard Song // Vol. 6, No. 1, Summer 2021 |
Jennifer COLLINS is a tattooed writer from Virginia. Having wandered up and down the East Coast, landing in various spots to write and teach, she now works as a full-time 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 // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
Alicia COLLURA lives in Bradley Beach, New Jersey, with her husband, Jake, and their cat, Franki. She is a professional cook and spends her personal time developing recipes, putting pen to paper, and exploring her local beach community. (Instagram, Twitter)
>> Sparrow // Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2019 |
Marco COLOMBO reads, writes and makes music in Edinburgh, Scotland. He claims his body is better at folding proteins than folding clothes. (Twitter)
>> Strip of Land // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
Temple CONE is the author of five chapbooks of poetry, the most recent of which, Eurydice & Orpheus, is due out from Finishing Line Press this year. He is an assistant professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy.
>> Cord // Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2008 |
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 currently a doctoral student and part-time instructor in English Education at Columbia University, and a board member for Hudson Valley Seed. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Camas and Bird’s Eye ReView. She lives in Beacon, NY with her partner and daughter.
>> Here in the High Desert // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
Hannah CRAIG lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 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 // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010 |
David R. CRAVENS won the 2008 Saint Petersburg Review Prize in Poetry, and the 2011 Bedford Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in literary 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 // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
Holly DAY’s poetry has recently appeared in The Cape Rock, New Ohio Review, and Gargoyle. Her newest poetry collections are A Perfect Day for Semaphore (Finishing Line Press), In This Place, She Is Her Own (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press), A Wall to Protect Your Eyes (Pski’s Porch Publishing), I'm in a Place Where Reason Went Missing (Main Street Rag Publishing), and The Yellow Dot of a Daisy (Alien Buddha Press).
>> The Catch // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
Michael DAY is an avid naturalist who loves the eyepiece: insects in microscope, birds in binoculars, and 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 // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
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 (2006), won a Jane Kenyon Award and a Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award.
>> Paisano // Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2008 |
Anna DUPREY is a reference librarian and resident of Western Massachusetts where she lives with her husband, three children and a flock of chickens and ducks. Her work has appeared in Silkworm and The Weekly Avocet.
>> Block Island, October 2003 // Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2019 |
Anthony ETHERIN is an experimental formalist poet, a publisher, and a musician. His next book, Slate Petals (and Other Wordscapes), will be published in July 2021 by Penteract Press. (Twitter, website)
>> Wildflower // Vol. 4, No. 2, Winter 2020 |
Blake EVERITT was born in 1989 and lives in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, UK. His poems have appeared in Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts, Time of Singing, Harbinger Asylum, The Dawntreader, The Poetry Village, Littoral Magazine, Eye Flash Poetry, Black Lives Matter: Poems for a New World, Quarr Abbey Newsletter, The Recusant, Dead Beats, and the anthology Book of Christian Poems, as well as in audio form on This is a Good Place to Kiss and The Blue Morphosis.
>> View from Monks Bay, Bonchurch// Vol. 4, No. 2, Winter 2020 |
Kelly Madigan ERLANDSON is the author of Getting Sober: A Practical Guide to Making It Through the First 30 Days (McGraw-Hill). Her poems and essays have appeared in Barrow Street, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Best New Poets 2007, and Crazyhorse. She is the recipient of the 2009 International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize and a 2008 NEA Fellowship.
>> Catamount // Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2012
>> May That Light Be My Authority // Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2012 |
Sean FERRIER-WATSON teaches writing and literature at Collin College. He has pieces published or forthcoming in Borderlands, Better Than Starbucks, Forces, and Illumen. He has published academic articles in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, the Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas, and the Journal of Children’s Literature Studies. His book The Children’s Ghost Story in America was published in 2017. (Website)
>> Caprock Canyon // Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2020 |
Shawn FISHER has been an educator for over fifteen years, primarily helping non-traditional students access and succeed within higher ed. Her poems have appeared in Spiritus, The Wayfarer, and Plainsongs, among other publications. She lives in Beverly, MA, in an 18th-century apartment with incredibly low ceilings.
>> The Starling // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
Linda M. FISCHER made her debut in Fine Gardening magazine with "Memorial Day Weekend," a narrative poem about long-distance gardening for her mother. She has a chapbook, Raccoon Afternoons (Finishing Line Press), and publishes in a variety of venues. She is among the winners of Atlanta Review's "Poetry 2010" international competition. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2007 and 2008.
>> The Red Fox // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010 |
Erica A. FLETCHER works in biomedical 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 has played in the rock band Nurse & Soldier since 1997.
>> There Are So Many Things // Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2020 |
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 // Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2019 |
Melissa GREEN is the recipient of both 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, 1995), and Fifty-Two (Arrowsmith, 2007). She has recently finished Akeldama, a book-length lyrical work about Heloïse and Abélard. Her poems have appeared in journals including The New Republic, AGNI and the inaugural issue of Little Star.
>> from Akeldama // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010 |
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 // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010 |
Ilya GUTNER was born in Russia and at the age of ten became an immigrant to the United States. 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 // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010 |
Colleen S. HARRIS works as a librarian at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Author of God in My Throat: The Lilith Poems (Bellowing Ark, 2009) and These Terrible Sacraments (forthcoming in November 2010), she is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in The Louisville Review, Wisconsin Review, River Styx and various others. (website)
>> Violet Petals // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010 |
Michael HEALY is a writer and reader in Boston. He has been previously published in The Charles River Journal.
>> Island in Milton Cemetary Pond // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010 |
Leonore HILDEBRANDT is the author of the poetry collections Where You Happen to Be, The Work at Hand, and The Next Unknown. Her poems and translations have appeared in The Café Review, Cerise Press, Cimarron Review, Denver Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Harpur Palate, Poetry Daily, and Sugar House Review, among other venues. Winner of the 2013 Gemini Poetry Contest, she has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Maine Community Foundation, and the Maine Arts Commission. She has been nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize. A native of Germany, Leonore lives off the grid in Harrington, Maine, and spends winters in Silver City, NM. She teaches writing at the University of Maine and serves on the editorial board of Beloit Poetry Journal.
>> Tinnitus // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
Crystal HOFFMAN is a storyteller, poet, adventurer, and co-owner of the METTĀ Healing Arts Community. She has published poetry and prose 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 various institutions of higher learning, including the American University of Beirut, and the University of Pittsburgh. (website, Facebook)
>> The Nature of Garbage // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
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 // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
Katherine HOLMES has published poetry, short stories, and plays 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. (website)
>> How a Vine Staves Off Eviction // Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2019 |
Elisabeth HORAN is an imperfect creature from Vermont. She is an advocate for animals, children and those suffering alone and in pain, especially those ostracized by disability and mental illness. She has work up at Moonchild Magazine, Terse, Blanket Sea, and Milk & Beans. Her chapbook Pensacola Girls, written in collaboration with Kristin Garth, is forthcoming at Bone & Ink Press. (Twitter, website)
>> The Pact // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
Juleigh HOWARD-HOBSON was a finalist for the 2006 Morton Marr Poetry Prize. Her work has been nominated for both a Pushcart and the Best of the Net. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Mezzo Cammin, The Raintown Review, The Barefoot Muse, 14 by 14, The Chimaera, Soundzine, and many other print and online journals.
>> Twilight // Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2008 |
Marcel INHOFF is completing a doctoral dissertation at the University of Bonn. He is the author of the collection Prosopopeia (Editions Mantel, 2015), numerous poems and essays in German and English, and a chapbook, Our Church Is Here (Pen & Anvil, 2018). He is currently working on his first novel.
>> Gonyeshk // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
Frank IZAGUIRRE is a writer and scholar of environmental writing currently pursuing a PhD in English literature at West Virginia University. A birder and naturalist, he's been published in popular magazines like Birding and scholarly journals like ISLE. (Twitter, Instagram)
>> Leaf Litter Toad, Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
George KALOGERIS is the author of a book of poems, Camus: Carnets (Pressed Wafer, 2006). He teaches humanities and classics at Suffolk University in Boston.
>> "Tentava la Vostra Mano la Tastiera", translated from the Italian of Eugenio Montale, Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2008 |
William KEENER is a writer and environmental lawyer in the San Francisco Bay Area. His chapbook Gold Leaf on Granite was winner of the 2008 Anabiosis Press Contest. His poems appear in journals inlcuding Appalachia, Atlanta Review, Margie, and Terrain.org. In August 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, Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2012 |
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, Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2012
>> Ode to Rialto, Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2012
>> Frost Heave, Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2012 |
Caleb KLACES is originally from Birmingham, England, and now lives in Austin, TX. His poems have appeared in print journals including Poetry, Oxford Poetry and Modern Poetry in Translation, and online at Hand and Star. He is editor of the online poetry project Like Starlings, and of The Bat City Review at the
University of Texas, Austin.
>> Trusted Sources // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010 |
Sandra KOHLER's third collection, Improbable Music, appeared in May 2011 from Word Press. Her second collection, The Ceremonies of Longing, winner of the 2002 AWP Award Series in Poetry, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in November 2003. An earlier volume, The Country of Women, was published in 1995 by Calyx Books. Her poems have appeared in journals including PMS, Prairie Schooner, The New Republic, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, and The Colorado Review. After living in Pennsylvania for most of her adult life, she lives in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
>> Transformations // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010
>> Three on March // Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2012
>> Waters // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
George KOROLOG is a Bay Area poet and writer whose work has appeared in over 100 literary journals, including The Los Angeles Review, The Southern Indiana Review, The Bookends Review, Tar River Review, and Pithead Chapel. He has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and twice for Best of the Net. His first book of poetry, Collapsing Outside the Box, was published by Aldrich Press in 2012; his second, Raw String, was published in 2013 by Finishing Line Press. He is working on his third collection, The Little Truth.
>> Three Dimensions // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
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 // Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2008 |
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 various newsletters.
>>Three Cows in Quito // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
Abhay K. has authored seven collections of poems. He is the editor of CAPITALS and 100 Great Indian Poems. His poems have appeared in over fifty literary journals including Poetry Salzburg Review, Asia Literary Review, The Stony Thursday Book 2015, The Missing Slate, Eastlit, Gargoyle, The Caravan, and Indian Literature. His poem-song "Earth Anthem" has been translated into thirty languages. He received the SAARC Literary Award in 2013. (website, Twitter)
>> Mustang // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
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 // Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2008 |
Elizabeth Joy LEVINSON lives, teaches, and writes on the west side of Chicago. She has an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University in Oregon. 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. (Instagram)
>> Domicile // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
Nora Clark LIASSIS is a professor of English literature at the European University Cyprus. Her research interests and publications include 19th- and 20th-century poetry, comparative poetry studies, poetry and heritage, and prose poetry in translation.
>> Memorial Service // Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2008
>> Eurydike, translated from the Greek of Theoklis Kouyialis // Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2008 |
D.A. LOCKHART originally hails from southern Ontario and is currently teaching creative writing in Bloomington, IN where he daydreams of fly fishing and baseball. His work has recently appeared in Front Range, Naugatuck River Review, San Pedro River Review, and Zaum. He is currently working on a short story collection tentatively titled Light Will Hit the Mountains.
>> Pool Beneath the Old Bathhouse // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010
>> A Natural Violence , Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2012 |
Stan LONG cares for a fourteen-year old daughter, yet he’s a writer in solitary whose sundry pieces of prose and verse have been published here and there over the years. However, having conditioned himself to live mostly in his head, he often wrestles with the idea of virtual reality that presents itself when his screen and his mind go blank. To safeguard himself from the invasiveness of his imagination when these conditions exist, he has adopted this line from Aesop to remind himself of what he is up against : ‘Beware you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.’
>> Cathedral Grove // Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2008 |
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 from Haven Books and Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems from Ragged Sky Press.
>> Coastsiders // Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2008 |
Amit MAJMUDAR's first book, 0°,0°, was released by Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly Books in late 2009. His second manuscript, Heaven and Earth, won the 2011 Donald Justice Award. His first novella, Azazil, was serialized recently in The Kenyon Review. His first novel, Partitions, will be published by Henry Holt/Metropolitan in 2011. His poetry has been featured on Poetry Daily, Poetry magazine, and The Best American Poetry 2007.
>> Contemplating Adam // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010 |
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 // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
Michael P. MCMANUS has published in publications 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. He is also the recipient of an Artist Fellowship Award from the Louisiana Division of the Arts. He has work forthcoming in Soundings East and Raintown Review, among others.
>> Watcher // Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2008 |
Jacob Kobina AYIAH MENSAH is the 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, The 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 // Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2008 |
John MILLER teaches classes in British literature, Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, and nature writing at National University in California.
>> To the Apartment Complex Laundry Room // Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2008
>> Marginal // Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2008 |
David MILLEY has published verse since the 1970s, 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 New Jersey with his husband of four decades, Warren Davy, who's
made his living as a farmer, woodcutter, nurseryman, beekeeper, and cook. These days, Warren tends his garden and keeps honeybees, while David walks and writes. (Twitter, Website)
>> Deer Season // Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2020
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Ed MINUS is the author of the novel Kite (Viking, 1985). His short 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 // Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2008 |
Eugenio MONTALE was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature.
>> Tentava la Vostra Mano la Tastiera, translated from Italian by George Kalogeris // Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2008 |
Elizabeth MOURA lives in a converted factory on a river, and works with elders. She has had poetry, flash fiction or photographs published in The Heron’s Nest, Chrysanthemum, Atlas Poetica, Presence, Shamrock, Flash, Paragraph Planet, Flash Fiction Magazine, Occulum and O:JA&L.
>> Mother // Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2019 |
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 // Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2008 |
Sally NACKER was a recipient of the Edwin Way Teale Writer-in-Residence award at Trail Wood in the summer of 2020. Her poems appear in numerous journals, most recently The Orchards Poetry Journal, ONE ART, Blue Unicorn, Your Daily Poem, HOOT, and The Sunlight Press. She has two collections-Vireo (2015) and Night Snow (2017)-published by Kelsay Books. Her third collection- Kindness in Winter-is due out in May 2021. She earned her MFA at Fairfield University, and lives in Connecticut with her husband and two cats. (Website)
>> Kindness in Winter // Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2020 |
Jefferson NAVICKY is the author of the story collection, The Paper Coast, the poetic novel, The Book of Transparencies, and a collection of modern parables, Antique Densities (forthcoming 2021). 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 English at Southern Maine Community College. He lives with his wife and dog on the coast of Maine.
>> Salamanders // Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2020
>> Rat Kings // Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2020
>> Encounter in Orange // Vol. 6, No. 1, Summer 2021
>> Storm Chasers // Vol. 6, No. 1, Summer 2021
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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, 2003) and Between Worlds (Foothills, 2003). He writes poems and book reviews, and he teaches in Syracuse, New York with his wife and dog.
>> Anniversary // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010
>> Resurrection Bay, Alaska // Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2012 |
Matthew NIENOW is the author of Two Sides of the Same Thing, winner of the 2007 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 2007. (website)
>> What the Tundra Has to Offer // Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2008 |
Anita OUELLETTE writes poetry about the everyday. She writes: "Each snowfall and sunrise, each new bird at the feeder, each disappointment, each sin, each challenge is remarkable especially 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 // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
D. Eric PARKISON received his MA in English at the University 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 completed his MFA in Poetry at Boston University in 2016. He lives in Boston, MA, where he teaches English and literature.
>> Lessons from the Greek // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
Abagail PETERSEN is a rock climber, novice bookmaker, and recent graduate from Boston University. She is a past art editor of Burn Magazine. (Instagram, Twitter)
>> No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
Kathryn PETERSON is a native of Upper Michigan. She has previously been published in U.P. Magazine and on Subtletea.com.
>> DNA // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
TR POULSON, a University of Nevada alum and proud Wolf Pack fan, lives in San Mateo, California. Her work has appeared in journals including Rattle, Booth, Alehouse, Verdad, J Journal, The Raintown Review, and The Meadow.
>> Dairy Farmer's Daughter Considers Climate Change // Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2020
>> God, in the Cretaceous // Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2020
>> Cain Did Not Kill First // Vol. 6, No. 1, Summer 2021 |
Joy RAAB-FABER studies English and creative writing at the University 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 this spring and summer in Unlikely Stories and Slow Trains.
>> Walk Lake // Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2008 |
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, The Bangalore Review, The Magnolia Review, and Vita Brevis.
>> Lost at Sea // Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2019 |
Connie RESNESKI, a Pushcart Prize nominee, resides in Doylestown, PA. Her work has been published in numerous magazines and journals. She writes for the Bucks County Herald and is a past participant in the Making Magic: Beauty In Word And Image exhibition at the Michener Museum. Her collections include Watching Over My Shoulder (2015) and As I Was Saying (2018).
>> Ant Tree // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018
>> Full Moon on a November Night in the Woods of Hickory Run // Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2019
>> A Plethora of Punchdrunk Crows Roosting in the Venerable Ash // Vol. 5, No. 1, Summer 2021 |
Robert RICHE is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Connecticut Foundation for the Arts grant, Advanced Drama Research grant; winner of the Stanley Drama Award, and a Breadloaf Writers Conference scholar. He has published one novel, The Permanent Press, and several short stories, including one most recently in Commentary. His plays have been performed in numerous LORT regional theaters and at the Bristol Old Vic in England. Foothills Publishing released a chapbook of his poems last July entitled Eternity and Other Mundane Matters. A new chapbook, On the Line, will be published by Pudding House this summer.
>> Psalm // Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2008 |
Susan Edwards RICHMOND is the author of Before We Were Birds (Adastra Press, 2017) and the forthcoming children’s book, Bird Count (Peachtree Publishers, 2019). She works at Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary and enjoys hiking with her husband and two daughters. (website)
>> Snowy // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
Paul S. ROWE is co-editor of The Charles River Journal and Rhythm of the Bones: Dark Marrow. His words appear in Literary Imagination, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Moonchild Magazine, Literary Matters, Salamander Magazine, and Boston Hassle. He is the editor of The Taletellers by Peter Caputo and The Selected Poems of Ted Richer, both forthcoming from Pen & Anvil.
>> caldera // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
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 // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
Don RUSS is the author of Dream Driving (Kennesaw State University Press, 2007) and the chapbook Adam's Nap (Billy Goat Press, 2005).
>> The Bridegroom // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010 |
James SACKETT, Jr., was born in Seoul, South Korea, though now he calls Las Vegas home. He will be moving to Scotland to pursue postgraduate literary studies in September. His poems have recently been published, or are due to be published, in The Chaffey Review, Memewar, and Poetry Quarterly.
>> Intimating Snow // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010
>> Rebirthing // Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2012 |
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 Press, 2017) and Asking the Form (to be published by Červená Barva Press). She teaches reading and writing to adult learners in Somerville, MA, and serves as vice-president of the New England Poetry Club.
>>City Garden // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
Andrew SALTARELLI lives with his wife in Stevensville, Montana. He wrote this poem on a blueberry farm.
>> The Broken Rose // Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2008 |
Joel SATTLER, writing as Satnrose, 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, he has been published in journals including Evergreen Review, Apparatus, and Counterpunch.
>> The Whales Sing an Old Song // Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 2010
>> The Poet Issa and His Lost Children // Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2012 |
E.P. SCHULTZ likes to drive Floyd, his tractor—yanking on dead trees, pushing snow around, or, just taking a ride so to remember. His work has appeared in Chronogram, Sierra Nevada College Review, Heartlands, The Aurorean, and others.
>> Gijik Marsh // Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2008 |
Danial SHARIAT is an essayist, poet, and musician with interests encompassing economics, philosophy, and the arts. He is a student at Boston University, and a co-founding-editor of the Collegiate Economics Forum. (website)
>> Grandma’s Kiwis // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
Tom SHEEHAN has published thirty-two books, and has placed numerous works in Rosebud, Literally Stories, Linnet’s Wings, Copperfield Review, Eastlit, Frontier Tales, Faith-Hope-Fiction, and other journals. He’s received over thirty Pushcart nominations, among other awards.
>> Rubble, Barn Style // Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2008
>> From Nahant, Atlantic Rub, Pacific Skip // Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2008
>> It Is a Mouth, This Dawn // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018
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Walter SMELT studied literature and religion at Boston University, and is now working toward an MFA in poetry at the University of Florida.
>> Mt. Auburn Cemetery // Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2012 |
Nell SMITH is a field biologist and writer currently 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 // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
Michael STUTZ 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. (website, Twitter)
>>Midsummer Threnody // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
Marcela SULAK’s fourth poetry collection, City of Sky Papers, is forthcoming, as is her first memoir, Mouth Full of Seeds. She’s co-edited Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres. A 2019 NEA Translation Fellow, her fourth book-length translation, Twenty Girls to Envy Me: The Selected Poems of Orit Gidali, was longlisted for the 2017 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She hosts the podcast Israel in Translation, edits The Ilanot Review, and is an Associate Professor at Bar-Ilan University.
>>On the other hand, every tree and reed and bird I see this morning is pressing // Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2019 |
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 University and Boston College.
>> Fireflies // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018
>> Janevaran // Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2019 |
Melissa TANTAQUIDGEON ZOBEL is the Medicine Woman of the Mohegan Tribe in Uncasville, Connecticut. (website, Twitter)
>> Autobiography of a Wolf // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
Don THOMPSON has been writing about the San Joaquin Valley for over fifty years, including a dozen or so books and chapbooks. (website)
>> Trouble in Mind // Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2019 |
Jeffrey WARZECHA is a graduate of Eastern Connecticut State University and is currently enrolled in Lesley University's MFA program. He is the recipient of the Connecticut Review's Leslie Leeds Poetry Prize and has had work appear in The Rio Grande Review, The Edison Literary Review, Poetry Midwest, SNReview and Conclave, among others.
>> Looking for Frost’s Woodpile // Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2008 |
Robert WATSON has published poems 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 the year's best book of
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 // Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2020 |
Kristine WILLIAMS 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. Her poem "Jack, Again" was published in Huffington Post in 2014. 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 at a small technical college. (Facebook)
>> Daedalus // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
Cory WILLINGHAM is Editor of Hawk & Whippoorwill. His writing has appeared in Burn, Peach Velvet, Burning House Press, and Hoochie Reader. He is, as well, editor-in-chief of The Emerald Review. Currently he is at work on a chapbook of all the filthiest bits of Catullus. (Twitter)
>> "We’ve gotta get people outside": an interview with Daniel Hudon // Vol. 3, No. 1, Summer 2018 |
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 // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018
>> Full Moon on a November Night in the Woods of Hickory Run // Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2019 |
Ali ZNAIDI (b.1977) lives in Redeyef, Tunisia. He is the author of several chapbooks, including Experimental Ruminations (Fowlpox Press, 2012), Moon’s Cloth Embroidered with Poems (Origami Poems Project, 2012), Bye, Donna Summer! (Fowlpox Press, 2014), Taste of the Edge (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2014), Mathemaku x5 (Spacecraft Press, 2015), Austere Lights (Moria Books, 2017), Gazes of Wrath (Mount Analogue, 2017), and Against Darkness (Pen & Anvil, 2018). (blog)
>> Fireflies Sonnet // Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 2019 |
Jane ZWART teaches literature 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 // Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 2018 |
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