Contributor Index

is a Philadelphia-based poet and writer whose work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Shō Poetry Journal, Pirene’s Fountain, Midway Journal, and others. She is the author of Self-Portrait as a Sinking Ship and is a poetry editor for Variant Literature. She is currently pursuing her MFA at Randolph College, where she is the assistant managing editor and lead poetry editor for Revolute. Visit her website at erica-abbott.com.

is a Mexican-born, Scotland-based poet and translator working in English and Spanish. Her work has appeared in publications such as Words Without Borders, Asymptote, and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection was named by Reforma as one of the best poetry books published in 2014. In 2016 she was named one of the ‘Ten New Voices from Europe’ by Literature Across Frontiers.

is an East Coast transplant to California, currently writing her MFA thesis at UC Davis. Her fiction has appeared in issue 4.2 of The Maine Review, and online in The Eunoia Review and Storychord. She has supported her writing by serving sushi, tweeting about designer furniture, booking events in a basement bowling alley, and copy writing Dutch press releases.

is a writer and scholar working at the intersections of feminist, queer, and race studies. She is the author of Living a Feminist Life, The Promise of Happiness, and others. Her articles have appeared in New Formations, Lamda Nortica, and Borderlands. She now lives on the outskirts of Cambridgeshire with her partner and dog.

has published nine collections of short stories and eleven novels in Serbian, including Leeches (novel, 2005) and Shadows (short stories, 2006). He won the Ivo Andrić award for the best book of short stories published in Yugoslavia in 1982 , and the NIN award for the best novel published in Yugoslavia in 1996, as well as the Balcanica Award and Berlin Bridge Prize.

poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in literary outlets such as Pirene’s Fountain, Poet Lore, TAB Journal, and Huizache. A Macondista, she graduated with an MA in Creative Writing & Literature from Harvard University’s Extension School. Eneida’s poetry draws inspiration from her young daughter as well as her Chilean-Puerto Rican roots and the places she has called home. Learn more at www.eneidaescribe.com.

is an American-Trinidadian poet and creative nonfiction writer. She graduated from New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study and holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. Her publications include work that has appeared in the journals Salt Hill and Puerto del Sol. She is a poet in residence with the Chicago Poetry Center and the recipient of the Furious Flower 2024 Poetry Prize.

has served as Poetry Editor for The Lindenwood Review and she directed River Styx’s Hungry Young Poets Series. She is the recipient of the 2018 Magpie Award for Poetry, the Etchings Press Prize, the Damfino Press award, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

is a black transmasculine poet, actor, performance artist and educator, born and raised in Chicago. They have been a poet in residence with the Chicago Poetry Center, a Watering Hole ‘23 fellow, and a Periplus Collective ’24 fellow. Their work has received support and fellowships from Tin House, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. As a Great Migration baby with roots in Jackson, Mississippi, their work can be described as “queer Southern Gothic” with Afrofuturist influence. Amari is the founder of Crossroads Writers Collective, a communal writing group for Black queer folks based in Chicago. As a 2025 Pushcart Prize and 2025 Best Small Fictions Nominee, they are currently at work on their debut poetry collection, with poems published in beestung magazine, Verse Daily, and Callaloo Journal. Find out more about the multidisciplinary artist at www.amariamai.com

is a major contemporary Kazakh writer. Born in 1969 in the Qarqaraly region in the northeast of Kazakhstan, he later moved to Almaty to study Philosophy at the Kazakh State University and later, Film Dramaturgy at the Theatre and Cinema Institute. He worked as a reporter, editor, and manager at various newspapers, magazines, and television studios, eventually becoming a long-time chief editor at Kazakhfilm, the principal Kazakh national film company. He has written many short stories, novellas, novels, essays, as well as film and documentary scripts, the most notable of which are Қастерле мені (Cherish Me, 2000, a collection of novels, novellas, stories, and essays), Гүлдер мен кітаптар (Flowers and Books, 2003, a novel), Қарқаралы басында (On Top of Qarqaraly, 2010, the first volume of his collected works), and Махамбет философиясы (Mahambet’s Philosophy, 2014, the second volume of his collected works). Didar Amantay is a recipient of the 1999 Daryn Prize in Literature, a Kazakh national award for emerging artists, and of the 2007 Tarlan-Umit Prize in Literature, awarded by the Kazakh Philanthropist Club. He was recognized by a title of an Honored Worker of Kazakhstan in 2013 and of a Distinguished Citizen of Qarqaraly region in 2014. His short stories and the novel Flowers and Books have been translated into several world languages.

has published three novels, Hidden Latitudes, Darwin’s Wink, and The Summer Guest. In addition, since 2008 she has been working as a full-time literary translator. She has translated over ninety novels from French, including Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog and works by Nobel laureate JMG Le Clézio. She is currently living in a village in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

is a poet living in Austin, Texas. She is the editor of Come as You Are, an anthology of writing on ’90s pop culture (Anomalous Press), and Hysteria: Writing the female body (Sable Books, forthcoming). She is the author of nine chapbooks of poetry, and an assistant poetry editor at The Boiler and an editorial assistant at Sugared Water. Once upon a time she worked nights at The New Yorker.

is the author of the poetry collections Receipt (Milkweed Editions) and Punish honey (Carolina Wren). Her work has most recently appeared in Pleiades, Little Star, Alaska Quarterly Review, ZYZZYVA, The Best American Poetry, and other journals and anthologies; her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and she is the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Grant.

was born and raised outside Philadelphia and completed her B.A. in Biology and Creative Writing at Colgate University in 2018. She is currently a Global Health Corps fellow living in Lusaka, Zambia, where she works in malaria elimination and writes a travel blog.

is a poet as well as a visual artist and editor. Her poems have appeared in a long list of journals including San Francisco Peace and Hope, The New Verse News, Spillway, the MacGuffin, and Rattle. She has won numerous prizes and her work has been nominated for Best of the Net, a Pushcart Prize, and Best Small Fictions. Her two chapbooks, Looking Glass Heart and Road Worrier, were published by Finishing Line Press in 2016 and 2018. Xylem Highway, a full-length collection, was published by Main Street Rag in 2019. Finishing School is her 2023 chapbook from Kelsay Books. Rara Avis, her fifth collection, was published by Kelsay Books in July, 2024. After careers as a reference librarian and elementary school teacher, Sandra taught for ten years with California Poets in the Schools. She is the founder and current co-host of Rivertown Poets, a monthly reading series, in Petaluma, California. Learn more at www.sandeanfangart.com/poetry.

(双) is currently attending the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. She interned at Epiphany magazine and was reader for Palette Poetry. She has work featured in The Margins and The Rumpus.

is the author of Neighborhood of Gray Houses, which will be released by Lost Horse Press in March, 2020. Derek lives in Spokane, Washington, and holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University. Their poems have appeared in The Account, ColoradoReview, Epiphany, The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review Online, Spillway, Third Coast, and many other journals.

earned her BA at the University of California, Berkeley—where she studied with Denise Levertov—and she earned her MA at San Francisco State University. She won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and a 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award. She has received fellowships and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the California Arts Council, the Rockefeller Center, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

was awarded a Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in part in Esquire, Epiphany, and The Gettysburg Review. Fiction and nonfiction works of his have appeared in Esquire, The Mantle, The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, Mayday, Monkeybicycle, Epiphany, The Literary Review, and other journals and anthologies. Currently pioneering Global War on Terror Studies as a PhD candidate at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, M. C. lives in Greensboro, NC with Yorick the Corgi.

also known as Ashante J. Ford (they/she) is a queer multidisciplinary artist residing in Oakland, California. Her artistic expression becomes a spiritual odyssey, each poem a metaphysical dance with the surreal as she focuses on themes of healing, growth, and community. She creates offerings for the powers that be. The expansiveness of their poetry has led them to two galleries so far. Two of her poems, “The Navigator” and “Furiously shaking my hips,” were displayed in the Multi-Cultural Center in Berkeley, California and a piece titled “Obatala offers peace” was displayed in San Francisco at the Drawing Room Annex. Aside from that, they have been published in SKEW Magazine, the 1619 Speaks Anthology, Anti Fragile Magazine, Pensive Magazine, Petrichor Magazine, and more. You can visit her writing on her website ashanteswrite.blog.

received her MFA in fiction from the Columbia University School of the Arts. She was raised in Arizona by her Jewish mother and Palestinian father. Sonora is her debut novel, and won the 2018 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Awards and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. She lives in Brooklyn.

is an award-winning Lebanese-American poet whose debut poetry collection Set to Music a Wildfire won the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She is the recipient of a 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Poem-a-Day, The New Republic, Pleiades, The Rumpus, The Missouri Review Poem of the Week, Epiphany, BOAAT Journal, and elsewhere.

is a poet with Choreic Cerebral Palsy from Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. He is the author of The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon. His work appears in Poetry Magazine, Poem-a-Day, and many other publications. His newest collection, The Choreic Period, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in January, 2025.

has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and is on the board of directors of the South Carolina Writers Association. Her work has appeared in Epiphany, Post Road, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2018 Breakout 8 Writers Prize sponsored by The Author’s Guild and a Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

is the author of Thus Spake Gigolo published by New York Quarterly Books. He holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Florida State University. A former writer-in-residence for the Mississippi Arts Commission and the Valparaiso Foundation in Spain, Bailey has taught writing courses at Brown University, New York University, and elsewhere.

is a New York based photographer. She earned her MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and her BA in Art and Art History from Brown University. Selected grants and residencies include the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the NARS Foundation, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil.

work has been published in The Cincinnati Review, Post Road, Juked, The Rumpus, and elsewhere, and been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, the AWP Intro Journals Prize, and the Pushcart Prize. Originally from Connecticut, she earned her MFA from The Ohio State University in 2024 and is currently a PhD student at University of Cincinnati.

is a poet and photographer from New Rochelle, New York. He currently attends New York University where he studies Media, Culture, and Communication with a focus on visual cultures, along with creative writing. His work can be found in Muzzle, SHŌ, Chronic, and elsewhere. Keep up with him @thecoreybaron and at coreyqbaron.com.

is a software engineer who lives in New York City. He earned his BA and MFA in Fiction from Columbia and writes every day. He is the co-founder of the Webby-nominated video reading series The HENRY Review.

is the author of the chapbook A Finely Calibrated Apocalypse (Bottlecap Press, 2024). His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in places like Peach Magazine, The Plenitudes, Hotel, Vlad Mag, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Knoxville, TN.

is the author of a number of novels and story collections. She was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction; and her work was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize, and longlisted for the Story Prize. She has won two pushcart prizes. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.

is a British-American professor at Columbia University and is the author of seven previous novels, six books of nonfiction, and a play. Her newest novel, The Good Deed, came out in April 2024 from Red Hen Press. The Good Deed, set in a refugee camp in Greece, comes out of the research Helen conducted for her 2022 nonfiction book, Map of Hope and Sorrow, co-authored with Syrian writer and refugee, Eyad Awwadawn and endorsed by Jessica Bruder (Nomadland), Dina Nayari (The Ungrateful Refugee) and Christy Lefteri (The Beekeeper of Aleppo), among others. That book earned PEN’s Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History in 2021 and praise from The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, and elsewhere.

writes fiction. Epiphany is his debut publication and he is currently working on a collection of short stories. He grew up on the fringes of London and now lives in Nashville with his wife and cat.

is a Los Angeles-based writer and teacher who believes humor is a path to liberation. She received her MFA from San Francisco State University and her work has most recently appeared in the Los Angeles Press, Stonecoast Review, and Interlude Docs. She is currently working on a book of speculative short stories that focus on class, eco-anxiety, and the future. She can be reached via IG @ekjourdan.

poetry won an International Merit Award in the Atlanta Review 2023 International Poetry Competition, and was long-listed for the 2024 Fish Poetry Prize Judged by Billy Collins. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany, Chestnut Review, Burningword Literary Journal, and The American Journal of Poetry, among others.

is an Indian writer based in New York. Her work has appeared or is upcoming in Gone Lawn, Pinch Journal, West Trestle Review, Sky Island Journal, The Los Angeles Review and elsewhere. Most recently, her poems have received Honorable Mention for the Paul Violi Prize, nominated for Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize and shortlisted for The Prose Poem’s Spring Short Prize. She is a TIN House alum and holds an MFA from The New School.

has also published six additional novels, three collections of poetry, numerous plays (produced off-Broadway and regionally), and the well-known family memoir, Passion and Prejudice (Knopf, 1989). Her short stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, New Letters, Plainswoman, Plainsong, Greensboro Review, Negative Capability, The Connecticut Review, and Southwest Review, among others, and have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Forty Best Stories from Mademoiselle, Prize Stories and others.

has published fiction with McSweeney’s, Tin House, and Epiphany. Her poems, creative nonfiction essays, and stories have appeared in Denver Quarterly, BOMBlog, The Laurel Review, and other literary journals. Her critical articles have been published in The Emily Dickinson Journal, The Henry James Review, Studies in the Literary Imagination, and Women’s Studies, and in the book Insane Devotion. She currently lives in Washington Heights with her husband and her bloodthirsty cat.

is a writer and activist in Miami. Her work has been published in Epiphany Magazine, Meniscus Literary Journal, Soliloquies Anthology, and elsewhere.

is a Filipina American writer. Her debut, Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet, won the Trio Award and is forthcoming from Trio House Press in July 2025. A Saltonstall fellow, a Sewanee scholar, a Tin House Summer Workshop alum, and a Community of Writers alum, her work can be found or is forthcoming in Narrative, AAWW, Mercury Firs, Honey Literary, Couplet, Beloit, Copper Nickel, Adroit, and elsewhere. She edits poetry at The Brazenhead Review, and serves on the advisory board for the87press.

has had poems have appear The Paris Review, BOMB, and Southwest Review (where his long poem, "Wedgwood," won an award for the best poem the quarterly published in 1994). Thomas Bolt's awards and fellowships include the Rome Prize for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, The Peter I. B. Lavin Younger Poet Award of the American Academy of Poets, an Ingram Merrill Fellowship. He lives in New York City.

is the author of the collection Inside Medeleine, and Nine Months which received exuberant reviews in The Atlantic, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Minneapolis Star Tribune and elsewhere. Her collection, Baby and Other Stories (Word Riot Press, December 2010), received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. She also is the publisher of Sententia Books and edits Sententia: The Literary Journal.

is a librarian and writer based in Cleveland, Ohio. She has facilitated poetry writing workshops for bereavement and outpatient groups in partnership with local hospitals. Her work reflects on themes of place, grief, and childhood.

is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories, a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he was also the Carol Houck Smith Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University.

debuted in Barrelhouse in 2016, and her work has been published in Vol 1 Brooklyn, The Millions, and Tincture Journal, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her debut novel, Sad Janet, is forthcoming from Riverhead Books in 2020. She lives in Higham Ferrers, England.

has written fiction and essays for The Paris Review Daily, The Last Magazine, The Morning News, and Volume 1 Brooklyn, among others, and has taught creative writing at NYC and The New School. She lives in a yellow house on the bank of the Hudson.

lives in Arlington, Texas, and works at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. His work has been published in North of Oxford, Hole in the Head Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, New Ohio Review, TriQuarterly and 2River View among others. He is the author of A Thursday in June (2024), a collection of poems about his son’s suicide, and more of his poetry can be found at brianbuilta.com.

is a United States Marine Corps infantry officer, photographer, film director, and actor. His writing has been featured in Harper's and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His memoir, Dust to Dust, published to critical acclaim in 2012. He has also appeared as a guest commentator on NPR's All Things Considered. He lives on a farm in Michigan with his wife and two daughters.

has published nonfiction in The Rumpus, The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and elsewhere. As a musician, she has released albums with the acoustic duo Mark Rogers & Mary Byrne (Important Records) and the rock trio Hot Young Priest (Two Sheds Music). She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College and teaches writing and reading at Hostos Community College’s CUNY Start program.

is a poet, translator, and editor based in Istanbul. He has seven poetry books in Turkish, eleven in translation, and his poems have been translated into 30 languages. He is the editor of the Turkish magazine Çevrimdışı İstanbul (İstanbul Offline) and co-editor of the Turkish domain of Poetry International.

is the author of Hour of the Ox which won the 2015 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and the 2016 Florida Book Awards bronze medal. She currently serves as poetry editor for Hyphen Magazine. Cancio-Bello is the recipient of a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship, and two Academy of American Poets Prizes. Her writing and translations have appeared in The New York Times, the Best American Poetry blog, The Georgia Review, and more.

is the daughter of immigrants: A Spanish father and Irish mother. She is the author of two poetry collections: This Tangled Body (FlowerSong Press/Letras Latinas, 2024) and In the Company of Spirits (Press 53, 2012), a runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award. Her poetry has recently appeared in POETRY Magazine, Rogue Agent, Tahoma Literary Journal and Verse Daily. She is a Larry Neal Award Winner, a Best of La Bloga winner, and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop.

writes poetry, edits fiction, plays the banjo, and knits obsessively in Tampa, Florida. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Nimrod, Tar River Poetry, Cider Press Review, SWWIM, Valparaiso, As It Ought to Be, and New Ohio Review. Sarah’s poems have received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and she is a finalist for the 2023 John Ridland Poetry Prize. Her first collection, Notes from the Girl Cave, was published in 2020 by Kelsay Books.

is a second-year undergraduate at the University of California-Berkeley studying literature in Spanish, English, and French. Prior to attending UC Berkeley, he studied at the University of Alabama, where he placed first in the University's Creative Writing Contest as a first-year.

is the award-winning author, with most works written in Spanish and some in Galician. She has published five novels, coming in as a finalist for the Premio Herralde for her first novel. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study film at NYU and Columbia, has served for many years as a director of the Instituto Cervantes in Naples and Bordeaux, and has been a frequent contributor to major Spanish and Galician newspapers.

is the author of a number of works. She was a 2009 Academy of American Poet’s Prize recipient, a Barbara Deming Memorial grant recipient, a 2015 Best of the Net winner, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She holds degrees in Behavioral Psychology and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University and an MFA in Poetry from Emerson College. She currently teaches writing and literature in Boston, MA.

is from the San Gabriel Valley, California. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica, North American Review, The Southampton Review, Okay Donkey, and elsewhere.

has received an NEA Fellowship in Literary Translation. She founded the Emerging Literary Translators’ Network in America and has served on the board of the American Literary Translators Association. Her translations have been published by Restless Books, the New York Times, Words Without Borders, and others. She currently resides in New York with her husband, son, and two cats.

is a Cave Canem fellow from the Chicago suburbs. His debut collection, Telepathologies, won the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by D.A. Powell. His poetry is a marriage between art and activism. In 2017, Charleston was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He currently serves as poetry editor at The Rumpus.

has received the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Giono, and the Bourse Goncourt de la nouvelle, as well as the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire for his latest novel. His stories have appeared in Words Without Borders, AGNI Online, Epiphany, and The Café Irreal, and elsewhere. He is a founding member of the movement La Nouvelle Fiction [The New Fiction].

is an urban researcher and writer currently living in France. She is particularly interested in transnational stories that explore everyday life. Home for her is situated between Singapore and Lusaka, Zambia.

is a writer based in New York City. Originally from Shanghai, she is currently a candidate for New York University’s MFA program in Poetry. Her writings can be found or forthcoming in Asian American Writers Workshop, The Common, Florida Review, Sinetheta Magazine, Poetry Lab Shanghai, and elsewhere. Her work has also been supported by the Community of Writers, Beijing Poetry Festival, and Push the Boat Poetry Festival. She is the poetry editor at Washington Square Review.

is the author of Mouth and received a 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. She was recently a resident with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Program, and an Emerging Writing Fellow at the Center for Fiction. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Brick, The Common and AGNI. She was born in Taipei and now lives in Brooklyn.

received a BA in creative writing from Baruch College and is a graduate of Hunter College's MFA program. Born and raised in Queens, New York, he currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife. SOUTHERN CROSS THE DOG is his first novel.

work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Epiphany, them., Condé Nast Traveler, Longleaf Review, LitHub, and Shenandoah where their essay examining violence and labor was named a notable Best American Essay in 2023. In summer 2021 they were named a Tin House scholar.

is a poet. A semifinalist for the 2023 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, their poetry has appeared/is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, Sine Theta, among other places. Their prose has appeared/is forthcoming in the Adroit Journal, Seneca Review, among other places. She holds an MFA in poetry from Rutgers University-Newark.

is an associate professor of creative writing at Eckerd College. He received his BA and MA in American History from SUNY Oswego and his MFA from The Ohio State University. His work has appeared in Glimmer Train, Hotel Amerika, Post Road, Epiphany, The Southampton Review, and elsewhere. He is the winner of the 2017 Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction for his collection Veterans Crisis Hotline, It also won the Foreward Indie Silver Medal for Adult Fiction in Military and War.

is a writer with a day job in politics. Her work has been published in HAD, Anodyne, The Belladonna, Kingfisher Magazine, and more. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

divides his time between Illinois and New Hampshire. He recently won 1st place in the 93rd Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition for nonfiction essay and is a finalist for the 2024 Witness Literary Awards for poetry and shortlisted in the 2024 Bridport Prize for poetry. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Writer’s Digest, Sweet Lit, Superstition Review, Full House Literary and many others.

is the daughter of two English teachers and the eldest of three sisters. Often reading, Malia studies English and Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she is the lucky beneficiary of amazing teaching. Malia first discovered poetry in high school, and she has spent much of her time since then in the world of writing, revising, and reading.

earned a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Georgia State University. Winner of the Agnes Scott College Prize in both fiction and nonfiction, Marisa has also served as assistant fiction editor of Five Points and an editorial board member for Blue Mesa Review and Amethyst. In addition to teaching creative writing, she directs UNM's ESL Writing Program.

is a black, trans writer from Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in Short Edition, Soundings East, Perceptions Journal, and others. He holds an M.A in English & M.F.A in Creative Writing from Monmouth University. Tony was a 2024 Poet-Author Fellow at the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.

most recent poetry collection, Hospice House, was published by MoonPath Press in 2023. Her volume, The Fates, won Bright Hill Press’ annual contest and appeared in 2017. Clarkson has Masters Degrees in English and Library Science, has taught and worked as a professional librarian. After caring for her mother through a long illness, she re-careered as a Hospice RN. Now retired, she lives on the Salish Sea in Port Townsend, WA. Her current project is teaching classes to writers of all ages at a farm for retired and rescued horses.

is the author of Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm (Knopf, 2024). Her writing has appeared in publications including The Paris Review, The Nation, The Yale Review, The New York Times Magazine, and The Washington Post, and her chapbook Toxic was published by Choo Choo Press in 2022. She is an editor at Triangle House Review and teaches at Columbia University's School of the Arts.

is a Brooklyn-based writer and a 2019 Emerging Writers Fellow at the Center for Fiction. Her work has appeared in The Colorado Review, Epiphany, and The American Literary Review, among others. She is a recipient of the Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction, and has been awarded residencies with the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts; Good Hart Artist Residency; and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

is an independent translator born in England, raised in Israel, and living in Denver. She translates contemporary Hebrew prose and other creative work. In 2017, she shared the Man Booker International Prize with David Grossman, for her translation of A Horse Walks Into a Bar. She has also translated works by major Israeli writers including Amos Oz, Etgar Keret, Ronit Matalon and Maya Arad. She is a Guggenheim Fellow (2021).

is a fiction writer whose work has previously appeared in The Literary Review. He holds an MFA from Colombia University, where he received the Felipe P. De Alba Fellowship. He lives in Deep Cove, BC, with his wife and daughter.

is a 2018-2019 Creative & Performing Arts Fulbright Scholar in Poland, and in the fall she will be a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. She has received a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and two Pushcart Prizes. Her fiction has appeared in a compilation of the best of the last twenty-five years of the Pushcart Prize and in Tin House, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Narrative Magazine and elsewhere.

is a mixed media artist based in New York City. He works with stories, images, Greek Bronze Age logograms and languages thought to be lost to time. His visual art has been part of recent exhibits in New York, Berlin, London, and Paris. A series of six works based on the Finnish epic, Kalevala, is part of the permanent collection at the State Museum of Urban Sculpture in St. Petersburg. A prolific translator from several modern and classical languages, Constantine is a Guggenheim Fellow and was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann, and the National Translation Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov. He is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Connecticut and the publisher of World Poetry Books.

received her BFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Boise State University and is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Her work has previously appeared in Burningword Literary Journal and 45th Parallel Magazine. She is a poet who lives in Minnesota and writes about people.

is a finalist for the 2025 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. A VONA/Voices and Tin House alum, he is the winner of a PEN America / Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and a Manuel G. Flores Prize from the Philippine American Writers and Artists. His work can be found in The Georgia Review, Epiphany Magazine, Best Debut Short Stories: The PEN America Dau Prize and elsewhere. He is One Story magazine's 2022 Adina Talve-Goodman Fellow.

is a Massachusetts-born writer and graduate of SUNY Purchase’s creative writing and literature programs. He has received honors such as the Ginny Wray Poetry prize, Thayer Fellowship For the Arts, and Patricia Kerr Ross Award. His work has appeared in Italics Mine, The Gandy Dancer, and Gravitas. Never been the type of guy to ruin a sleek futon, he’s your dad’s problematic fav.

has published poems and reviews of poetry collections in many journals, including Prairie Schooner, Ashville Poetry Review and Rain Taxi. He is a Pushcart Nominee, a Best of Net Nominee, the winner of the 2019 New Millennium Award for Poem of the Year and was a finalist in the 2022 Great Midwest Poetry Contest. His debut volume of poems Midwest Hymns, launched in April, 2023. It is a finalist in the 2023 Best Book Awards for Poetry. He lives in Edmond, Oklahoma.

(born in Scotland, 1967) is a Tel Avivian writer, essayist, and writers’ mentor. She has published in Hebrew – her first writing language – 10 books of essays and stories to date.  After 20 years of writing cultural criticism for Israeli newspapers (Haaretz Daily and others), Coussin has been facilitating writing workshops in narrative nonfiction for the past 15 years. Coussin received the Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works (2009) and an Excellence in Teaching award at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2020), where she has been teaching critical writing for more than a decade. Orna Coussin lives in Tel Aviv with her Partner Michal Rinott and their two teenage daughters, Naomi and Yaeli.

is a graduate of the NYU Creative Writing Program, where she served as a Goldwater Fellow. Her writing has appeared in the New Republic. She lives in New York City.

lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was named a 2019 Breakout 8 Writer by Epiphany and The Authors Guild. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Brian’s work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Arts & Letters, Epiphany, Carve, New South, and elsewhere.

was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1978. He published the poetry books Abejas (2009), Chesterton (2013), Once personas (2015), Francisco -un monólogo dramático (2017), and Quiero (2023). He also published an annotated translation of Dante’s Inferno (2020), the Chronicle Final (2022), co-written with his brother Marcos Crotto, and Los Porqués de la Rosa (2024), a collection of essays about poetry. He teaches poetry and poetry translation at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Universidad Nacional de las Artes. He has directed the journal Hablar de Poesía since 2017.

holds an MFA from the University of Southern Maine, Stonecoast. Her writing has appeared in The Southern Review, Nimrod, Los Angeles Review, Arts and Letters, The Maine Sunday Telegram, and on Maine Public radio. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and earned the International Human Rights Arts Festival’s Creators of Justice Award. She lives in Washington, D.C.

is a short story writer, novelist, and translator. Her collection Varieties of Disturbance (2007) was nominated for the National Book Award. She has translated novels and works of philosophy from French. Her honors and awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation, as well as the Man Booker International Prize. She is professor of English and writer-in-residence at SUNY Albany.

has work published or forthcoming in Rattle, Tar River Poetry, Epiphany, Nimrod International Journal, Cider Press Review, & elsewhere. She was nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize and in 2022 was selected as a semi-finalist in the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest. She is the recipient of the 2021 Colie Hoffman Prize in Poetry and the Bishop Kelleher Award. She graduated from Hunter College with a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry. She lives in New York. You can find more of her work at christinedegenaars.com.

(he/him) is a native New Yorker and poet. A child of the Filipino diaspora, Deleon has an ongoing love affair with language, food, and film.

is a Filipino poet and author of And Yet Held (Bull City Press, 2024). Her poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in Waxwing, Pleaides, Bellingham Review, The Los Angeles Review, and Small Orange Journal, among others. She is the designer of Nowruz Journal and the founder of Read A Little Poetry. She lives and writes in Manila, Philippines. Read more of her work at tdelosreyes.com.

is a daughter of Mexican immigrants and Xicana poet. She is a current Creative Writing MFA candidate for poetry at the University of Minnesota. Sandra's work has been published in various journals and anthologies like Lake Words, In the Garden, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, and the upcoming collection Microbialite Manifestos from Torrey House Press.

is a writer based in Los Angeles by way of New Jersey. She studied English and Film & Media Studies at Tufts University. Her non-fiction writing has appeared in NYLON, Vulture, and SPIN, among other outlets.

taught literature and creative writing at Duquesne University, edited technical manuals at Westinghouse, helped revive and repurpose a neglected one-room schoolhouse as a venue for readings/music/community programs, raised a family that now raises itself, and writes poems. His work has appeared in Cider Press Review, Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, Midwest Quarterly, New American Writing, Poet Lore, and South Carolina Review.

is the author of the poetry collection Historians of Redundant Moments (Agape Editions, 2016). She is an associate professor of literary studies at OP Jindal University in India.

is the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel One Pill Makes You Smaller, a New York Times Notable Book. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she has contributed to publications including The Boston Globe, Glamour, The New York Observer, The New York Times Book Review, People, O, and Time Out New York. Her fiction has appeared in The Baffler, Black Book, Cimarron Review, and New Letters, among others.

is the author of three collections of short stories—The Long White, Women Drinking Benedictine, and Two Sides, Three Rivers—as well as two novels, Year of The Ginkgo and My Riviera. Sharon has won a National Endowment for Fiction grant, a Pushcart Prize in Fiction and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant. Her new novel, To Be Marquette takes place in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and will be published in Spring of 2024. She is a professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University.

is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her first book, The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism, was published in 2016. Her essays can be found in n+1, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Harper’s, the London Review of Books, and The Painted Bride Quarterly. At MacDowell, she worked on a draft of a nonfiction book titled How to Quit, an expansion of an essay that first appeared in n+1.

was born in Ufa, Bashkiria (U.S.S.R.), in 1941. He dropped out of the University of Leningrad after two years and was drafted into the army, serving as a guard in high-security prison camps. In 1965 he began to work as a journalist, first in Leningrad and then in Tallinn, Estonia. After a period of intense harassment by the authorities, he emigrated to the United States in 1978. He lived in New York until his death in 1990.

edits, runs, and dances in New York City, and is a 2020 MFA candidate studying Nonfiction/Poetry at The New School. She is the first writer in residency at The Phaistos Project. She believes all art is collaboration, and is honored to interact with the work of designers from all over the world.

is a Filipina/white poet in Central Florida. She is the author of Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026) and Beauty Talk (Noemi Press, 2026), winner of the 2024 Noemi Press Book Award. Her chapbook, One Way to Listen (Gold Line Press), is the winner of a 2023 Florida Book Award. A National Poetry Series finalist, she is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, Storyknife, Sundress Publications, Tin House and Idyllwild Arts. Her poems can be found on The Slowdown Podcast, The American Poetry Review, and Poetry Daily.

is a writer and visual artist, author of INTERSTATE (dancing girl press) IDIOM (Harbor Review) MISSPENT YOUTH (rinky dink press) and ARRANGEMENT (Southernmost Books.) Winner of the Beulah Rose poetry prize from Smartish Pace, the Elizabeth Sloane Tyler Memorial Award Woven Tale Press, judged by Ann Beattie and the Drama prize from Arts and Letters at Georgia University. She’s a member of Blackfish Gallery, an artist-owned cooperative in Portland. Writing, projects, works at www.merridawnduckler.com

holds a B.A. in Biology from Colby College, a M.S. in Botany from Oregon State University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Montana. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Rebecca’s writing has appeared in Orion Magazine, Epiphany Magazine, Pilgrimage Magazine, and elsewhere.

is a born and raised Iowan from a long line of preachers, teachers, farmers, and engineers. She’s in her first year of studying Journalism & Mass Communication and English & Creative Writing at the University of Iowa and has been scribbling poems in her notebooks since she could hold a pencil. Her senior year of high school she had the honor to serve as the Iowa Student Poetry Ambassador and received gold and silver national medals in poetry from the Scholastic Art and Writing competition. On any occasion that she isn’t putting pen to paper, she’s reading, hammocking or serving at her local church in Iowa City. “Where I Learned the Word Woman” is a true story, every word lovingly dedicated to Johnnie’s grandmother.

is the author of the novels From Rockaway, Kiss Out, and Swell. Other work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Vogue. Jill has taught at the Bennington College and at The New School. She is the recipient of a Columbia University Writing Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Grant, and others. She lives in Brooklyn.

lives on Vancouver Island, where most of her short stories are set. You can find her work in Narrative, Grain, The Lascaux Review, Juked, and others. Two of her stories were listed in the CBC Short Story Prize and she is very grateful to have been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council. angieelliswriter.com

is a Palestinian freelance photojournalist. An award-winning journalist, Abu Elouf covers events where she lives, including stories about gender, women’s and children’s lives, and the consequences of war. Since 2010, she has worked as a freelance photojournalist on assignment for Reuters, The New York Times, and other news outlets. Abu Elouf documented the 2018–2019 Gaza border protests, also known as the Great March of Return. She also worked with ZUMA Press to cover stories related to the COVID-19 pandemic for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and news agencies. In May 2021, on assignment for The New York Times, she covered the 11 days of fighting between Israel and Hamas that destroyed essential infrastructure and killed more than 230 people, including several of her own relatives. Most recently, Samar covered the 2023 Israeli bombardment of Gaza in the aftermath of Hamas October 7th attacks for The New York Times. Her images, both intimate and shocking, convey both the anguish and dignity of her subjects.

is a Toronto-based artist, poet, and firm believer in the power of art to connect us. When she is not collaging, writing, or collaborating with friends, you’ll likely find her working creatively with people living with dementia. She writes extensively on themes of relationality and creativity on her Substack: Relate/Create, and shares her art occasionally on Instagram at @katiaengell_

is a Vienna-born, New Orleans–raised queer Black writer. His work appears in Chicago Review, Common Place, Cotton Xenomorph, The Glacier, Ki, Oxford Poetry, The Poetry Review, and Quarter Notes. He is an alumnus of Tin House Winter Workshops, VCFA's Postgraduate Writers’ Conference, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. (IG/BS/X: @yungwerther)

is co-author, with poets Susan Berger-Jones & Gale Batchelder, of the collaborative book of poems Chalk Song—inspired by paleolithic cave paintings—Lily Poetry Press, Boston, 2022, and author of Gear—his book in collaboration with videographer Ray Klimek—Meshwork Press, Wilkinsburg, PA., 2021, as well as one of the authors of what weathers/ what remains: An Anthology of the Broadmore Haiku Collective, edited by Kristen Lindquist, Red Moon Press, 2023. He teaches full-time in the Liberal Arts & Sciences Dept. at Berklee College of Music, and co-Editor (with Lew Watts ) of Haibun for the Haiku Society of America journal Frogpond. He was chosen as an ‘Emerging Poet’ by John Yau for The Academy of American Poets in 2007. His poems have appeared in American Poet, Folio, Volt, CutBank, and Laurel Review.

MA, is the current poet laureate of Gulfport, Florida. Her poetry has appeared in Med Lit Messenger, Pleiades, Rogue Agent, and The Muse. She’s been a finalist for The Pangea Prize, The Prose Poem Competition, the Leslie McGrath Poetry Prize. She's also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

poems have been published or are forthcoming in The North American Review, Epiphany, Palette Poetry, Pleiades, The Journal, The New Orleans Review, The Saint Ann’s Review, Denver Quarterly, Salamander, and Seventh Wave, among others. Her manuscript, Elegies for One Small Future, was a semi-finalist for Autumn House Press' Poetry Prize, a finalist for Write Bloody Publishing’s Jack McCarthy Book Prize and a finalist for The Waywiser Press Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.

is the winner of the 2019 Hurston/Wright College Writers Award, a winner of the 2019 92Y Discovery Contest, winner of The Cincinnati Review’s 2019 Robert and Adele Schiff Poetry Prize, winner of The 2019 Breakwater Peseroff Poetry Prize, winner of the 2019 Nâzım Hikmet Poetry Prize, and an Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholar. They have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), New York Foundation for the Arts, NYU’s Creative Writing Graduate Program, NYU’s Global Research Initiative, and New York City’s Writers in the Public Schools. They and their writing have been featured, published or forthcoming in The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Times, The New Yorker, VICE News, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Academy of American Poet’s Poem-A-Day, and Winter Tangerine, and anthologized in US Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World (Milkweed Editions, 2024) and Best New Poets 2017, among others. They teach creative writing at New York University and The New School. They hope you tell them all about your wonder.

is the author of a number of fiction works which have been made into films. The four volumes known as the “Neapolitan quartet” (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) were published in America by Europa between 2012 and 2015. The first season of the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in 2018.

has published music writing in The Source, Centric TV, Vibe, allhiphop.com, okayplayer.com, and has been mentioned in the Best Music Writing 2011. His short story “Dangerous Deliveries” was published in Epiphany. He received a B.A. In English from Columbia University and recently completed an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. Stories From Our Tenants Downstairs (Scribner) will appear in 2021. He lives in New York City where he teaches high school English.

was born in Boulder, Colorado, and educated at Harvard College and Columbia University. He is the author of Snake Train: Poems 1984–2013 and the editorial director of the NYRB Classics series.

is a performer, poet, and new dad. His poems have appeared in Pleiades, Fugue, The Journal, Sonora Review, and others. He is a Poetry Editor at Bear Review, and received his MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. His acting work can be seen on TV, on- and off-Broadway, and in regional theaters across the country. Quinn lives in Brooklyn.

has an MFA in creative writing from The New School. A former modern dancer, he lives in Brooklyn and was born in Detroit.

is an award-winning performance poet, graphic designer, and the author of the book Broken Calypsonian (2014). He was the first poet to represent all four New York City poetry venues at the National Poetry Slam, of which he was Grand Slam Champion in 2010 and 2012. His poems, artistic work, and films have been featured in the New York Times, Muzzle, No Dear Magazine, The Big Apple Film Festival, and elsewhere. He is a Trinidadian transplant living in New York City.

won the 2019 Lawrence Prize for Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in many literary magazines, and she has translated four books from German. Gaffney graduated with honors from Vassar College and holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Brooklyn College; she also studied philosophy and German at Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich. She has been a resident artist at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and the Blue Mountain Center. She also teaches fiction and serves as the editor at large of the literary magazine A Public Space.

spent his formative years in India, has lived in Britain, & now resides in the United States. His writings have been published in Iowa Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Mid-American Review and Santa Monica Review. He was a fellow at the Hawthornden International Writers Retreat, Scotland, in 2017.

is the recipient of a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony and earned her MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her fiction, essays and interviews have appeared in, among others,Tin House, Vice, Poets & Writers, and Brooklyn Magazine. Recycle, a book of her collages and text co-authored by Sarah Gerard is out now from Pacific Press.

is the author of the novel Youngblood, published in February 2016 by Atria/Simon & Schuster and a finalist for the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, and Wired, among other places. A graduate of Wake Forest University, Matt also holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. He lives with his wife in Brooklyn and works as a writing instructor at Words After War, a literary nonprofit devoted to bringing veterans and civilians together to study conflict literature.

is a Brooklyn-based writer, artist, and immigrant rights activist currently working with the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice. Originally from Moscow, Yev received a dual B.A. from Fordham University in Theatre Directing and Creative Writing, and plans to continue building an artistic practice that centers public art and activism with an emphasis on migration justice and queer/trans liberation. When not working, writing-working, making-art-working, or hanging out with his loved ones, Yev enjoys reading, biking, and eating tomatoes from his garden. His work has previously been published in several magazines, including the Shore Poetry, engine(idling, and Peach Fuzz. In the Fall of 2025, he will begin pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Rutgers University

is the author of Holdfast (C&R Press, 2017) and Wilmot Here, Collect For Stella (WordTech, 2014). Gerard has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Prague Summer Program, Pushcart Prize nominations, an Academy of American Poets Award, and the 2013 Iron Horse Literary Review Discovered Voices Award. He holds an M.F.A from Old Dominion University and a Ph.D in English from the University of Tennessee.

has had work appear in, among others, The New York Times, T Magazine, Granta, The Baffler, The Believer, and Vice. Her essay collection Sunshine State (Harper Perennial, 2017) was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her novel True Love is forthcoming from Harper Books in 2020.

moved to Brooklyn after graduating from Williams College in 2015, when she was awarded the Hubbard Hutchinson Memorial Fellowship for writing. She interned at Poets & Writers, and received a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship this year for a summer workshop with Patricia Spears Jones. She currently works in the New York office of arts publisher Artbook | D.A.P.

is a poet living in Portland, OR, who holds a Ph.D. in English Lit. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, which explains why he works as a door to door salesman. A Prism Review Poetry Contest winner, he has served as the Poetry Editor of Witness Magazine and Book Review Editor of Interim. A Cleveland State University First Book Award finalist, his work has appeared in various journals and magazines, most recently in The Bombay Gin, Omniverse, and Colorado Review.

is a trans writer, filmmaker, sex worker, and educator. Feature films she has written and directed have screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, Rooftop Films, The International Film Festival of India, and all over the world. June was a finalist for the 2023 Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest, an editor's selection for CRAFT Literary's 2023 Flash Prose Prize, and is a current nominee for Best Small Fictions. She was a 2025 Tin House Winter Workshop scholar. June lives in Brooklyn and Santa Fe and is managed by Anonymous Content.

is an editor at The New Yorker. She has translated works by, among others, Elena Ferrante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Alessandro Baricco, and is the editor of The Complete Works of Primo Levi in English. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, the PEN Renato Poggioli prize, and awards from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

is a Colombian American poet from New York City. His poetry collection Fractures (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020) was selected by Pulitzer Prize winner and 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the Felix Pollak Prize. Winner of the Foreword INDIES Gold Medal and the International Book Award, Gómez has been published in The Nation, New England Review, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, The Yale Review, Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World (W.W. Norton & Co., 2022), and elsewhere. Carlos is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He can be found @CarlosAGLive or CarlosLive.com. Photo credit: Shawn Hudgins.

is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Harvard Review, Hyperallergic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. A graduate of Yale University and the New York University M.F.A. program, she has received fellowships from the Kingsley Trust Association, the Norman Mailer Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Fulbright Program.

received their MFA at Western Michigan University. They have published poems in Atlanta Review, Passages North, and Lake Effect. Their collection Neither Kind of Body was a semi-finalist for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize at BOA Editions and the Pamet River Prize at Yes Yes Books. They live in Madison, Wisconsin with Molly Grue (the dog) and Garrett Merz (the human).

has had fiction read on NPR's All Things Considered, and has appeared in The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA program and recipient of a fellowship at the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers. He is a proud member of the Sunrise Movement. He lives some of the time in LA and some of the time in Maine.

was born and raised in Moscow, and graduated from Moscow State Linguistic University. She received an M.A. in English from Radford University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins University. Her work appeared in Prairie Schooner, Bayou, The Southern Review, Rosebud, and elsewhere. Her short fiction was selected as a finalist for multiple awards, including five Pushcart Prizes.

short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Foglifter, and Chelsea Station. His nonfiction on media and Turkish queer activism has been published in the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Enculturation, Reflections, and Computers and Composition Online. His book Grassroots Literacies: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet in Turkey (SUNY Press, 2014) won the 2015 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Book Award. Originally from Turkey, he is an associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut in Stamford.

is a fiction writer and speechwriter living in Brooklyn. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College, where she was a Truman Capote fellow.

writing has appeared in The Nation, Rolling Stone, GQ, The Believer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Newsday, Jewish Currents, and Fantastic Man, among other publications. He served as a monthly columnist for Epiphany in 2019. A native of Chicago, Zack currently lives in New York, where he is at work on a collection of short stories and a novel.

is a literary translator and bike mechanic who lives in Bristol, UK. She enjoys the poetry of bicycles and the mechanics of language equally.

is a poet, translator, and educator, living in New York City. In addition to the poems of Varlam Shalamov, he is working on an anthology of visual translations of Dmitri Prigov, known as a central figure in the Moscow Conceptualist art movement, as well as working on a manuscript of his own.

is a writer, filmmaker, and translator from Spanish based in Brooklyn. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2016 with a BA and high honors in history. She works at Words Without Borders, and she is a contributing writer to the magazine’s blog, WWB Daily. Her writing and translations have also appeared in Literary Hub, Ramona: revista de artes visuales, and Epiphany Magazine.

was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was a youthful runaway, a merchant seaman, and a soldier during the Korean War, after which his writing talent burst into print. His novel, The Ancient of Days, was a best-seller for six weeks and Tagget was made into a film for TV. his work has appeared in a variety of media, but, of all his works, Only the Dead Speak Russian is his masterpiece.

third book of poems, Live in Suspense, was published in 2023. His previous book, Clay, was chosen by Michael Waters for the Louise Bogan Award. His first collection, Theory of Devolution, was selected by Mark Doty for the National Poetry Series. He is the coeditor of the anthologies Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS and Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners. An independent book editor, he teaches poetry, nonfiction, and publishing in the MFA creative writing program at the City College of New York. www.davidgroff.com

An editor, writer, and poet, Charles Grosel grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. After stints on both the West and East Coasts, he now lives in Arizona with his wife and their Chiweenie pup. He studied English literature at Yale University and fiction writing at the University of California, Davis, where he was a Regent’s Fellow. Grosel has published stories in journals such as Western Humanities Review, Fiction Southeast, Water-Stone, and The MacGuffin, as well as poems in The Threepenny Review, Nimrod, Cream City Review, and Harpur Palate. His chapbook of poems is The Sound of Rain Without Water.

holds an MFA at the University of Florida. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany, Best New Poets 2018, Concho River Review, Summerset Review, October Hill, The Tishman Review, and elsewhere. She has a chapbook, Polishing Silver, and is now teaching English at Harding University.

was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and grew up in Miami, Florida. They are currently pursuing a PhD in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, where they also received an MFA in creative writing. Their work has appeared in Best New Poets 2017, and elsewhere.

is the author of ten books of poetry. She is the winner of the and the Shelley Memorial Award, and others. She has been award fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

is a disabled poet and retired educator based in Southeast Michigan. She enjoys exploring questions of what does, and doesn’t, connect our world. She has poems published or forthcoming in Corporeal, The Patterson Literary Review, Tension Literary, JAKE and HNDL Mag: Highlighted Neurodivergent & Disabled Life, among others, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. She can be found on IG @jenshaines77.

is a poet and educator from Ohio. She is the author of Acoustic Shadows (Broadstone Books) and two chapbooks: Automotive (Finishing Line Press), fields drawn from subtle arrows (Co-winner of the 2022 Midwest Chapbook Award). Her work has appeared in TriQuarterly, Pembroke Magazine, The Cincinnati Review, Craft, Poet Lore, and other journals. You can find her at www.ceridwenhall.com.

is a documentary photographer and writer. He was born in Palestine, raised in the American suburbs of Michigan, and is currently based in the occupied West Bank. Maen has had his images exhibited in New York, Paris, Dubai, Florence, and elsewhere. He also has work in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Maen has had his thoughts and images published in TIME, i-D., The New Yorker, and Caravan Magazine.

was a staff writer for the Berlin section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and contributed a chronicle to Merkur Magazine (summer 2000 – summer 2008). In 2006, She was awarded the Hans Fallada Prize, and in 2008 she was named to the the shortlist of the German Book Prize. In 2010 she won the European Union Prize for Literature and in 2011 the prize of LiteraTourNord.

is Managing Editor of Poetry Northwest. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in: RHINO, Pleiades, West Branch, Image Journal, Harvard Review Online, Four Way Review, The Cortland Review, Vallum, Southern Humanities Review, Northwest Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle with her family.

graduated from Beijing Normal University and became known as a proponent of the “Bottom-Half Body” movement that sought to do-away with many of the taboos regarding explicit content in poetry, instead embracing an animalistic approach to forbidden subject areas. His most recent collection of poetry Command Me to be Silent and many of his recent work has received critical acclaim. He lives in Beijing and runs the Motie Group.

won the 2012 Cave Canem/Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for Autogeography. Recipient of Individual Artist Awards for poetry and fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council, and Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for 10 Tongues, his work has appeared in various journals, anthologies, and online including African-American Review, Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, BuzzFeed, Poetry, and This is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets. He lives with his partner in Brooklyn.

is a short-story writer, poet, essayist, and playwright. He is the illustrator of his own books. He is also one of the founders of Palatinus Books, Budapest. The short piece “Lou’s Last Letter to Feri’s Wife” is taken from the short story anthology Házasságon innen és túl (Marriage Seen Inside and Out, Magvető, 2007).

is a Latina born and raised in Mexican-America/The Borderlands. She has lived in Spain, India and Nepal and once rode a motorcycle through the Middle East. Her writing has received a Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. Ms. M.R. Henry is a digital minimalist with no social media accounts. She is working on a collection of poems and two novellas.

lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Emerge Literary Journal, Rust & Moth, The Shore, Parentheses, River Heron Review, One Art, Stone Circle Review and others.

is a West Virginian by birth and a poet by faith. They live in Texas with their wife, best friend, and a menagerie of clingy pets. You can find more of their poetry, nonfiction, and visual art at kalehens.com.

(they/them) is the author of fiction works and poetry, in addition to being widely published in journals and anthologies including BOMB, cream city review, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books). Aimee is a queer writer and educator and a founding member alongside David Lawton in the poetry band, Hydrogen Junkbox.

is the author of ten books, most recently the essay collection If You Say So. She taught for many years at Ohio State, where she was a founder of the MFA program in creative writing. She also founded and directed, for nearly 20 years, a graduate interdisciplinary program in the arts, and in her retirement from her academic position she has embraced her own late-in-life identity as a multidisciplinary artist—a writer/dancer. She also writes a popular family advice column for Slate.

Patrick Hicks is the author of fifteen books, including The Collector of Names, This London, Adoptable, In the Shadow of Dora, and Across the Lake—he also wrote the critically and popularly acclaimed novel, The Commandant of Lubizec. His work has appeared on NPR, The PBS Newshour, American Life in Poetry, and his first novel held company among only 20 books selected for National Reading Group Month. Hicks has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Prize, won the Glimmer Train Fiction Award, he has been a finalist for the High Plains Book Award, the Steinberg Essay Prize, the Screencraft Cinematic Book Award, and an Emmy. Aside from being a Visiting Fellow at Oxford, he has won a number of grants, including ones from the Bush Artist Foundation, The Loft Literary Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. After living in Europe for many years, he now lives in the Midwest where he is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana University as well as a faculty member in the MFA program at the University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe. His latest book is Greater Minnesota.

is a queer poet, and has a BA in English from Florida State University and an MFA in Poetry from Hunter College. She was one of the recipients of the 2016 Miriam Weinberg Richter Award for Conspicuous Ability in English, and has also received support from the 92nd Street Y, Vermont Studio Center, and Brooklyn Poets. She teaches writing to public high school students and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

is a northwest writer who grew up hiking through old-growth conifer forests. She teaches Special Education by day and is a major astronomy enthusiast at night. Her poems have appeared in New Plains Review, Avocet, Camas, Topology Magazine, Timberline Review, and various others. She currently lives in Sherwood, Oregon.

teaches at the Writers Studio and his fiction has appeared in Epiphany, Fiction Now, The Brooklyn Review, The Writers Studio 30th Anniversary Anthology, and is forthcoming in the North Atlantic Review.

was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2008. He has received the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from NYU, and a National Book Critics Award. Hirsch is also the author of five prose books, including A Poet’s Glossary (2014), Poet’s Choice (2006) and the national bestseller How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999). He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

is a graduate student in genomics and computational biology at UPenn. Her work has appeared in various journals in print and online—most recently phoebe and Longleaf Review. When not sciencing, writing, or editing poetry for West Trestle Review, she enjoys dancing and taking naps. You can find her on ex-Twitter @Katabolical and on Instagram @kata_bolical.

has published 2 books from Knopf, and was named a Best Young American Novelist by Granta. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, McSweeney’s, BuzzFeed, and others. His honors include PEN/Hemingway Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship, and the Sue Kaufman Prize. He has taught at Princeton University, Yonsei University, and Columbia University.

(1926–1992) was one of the originators of The Paris Review and the author of two novels, The Underground City and Men Die. His third novel, The Memoirs of Dorsey Slade, was never completed. He lived in Paris and Greenwich Village.

is a retired professor of mathematics. In a past century, he attended a one-room country school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. His poems appear in numerous journals, recently in The Journal and The Penn Review, and he is the winner of the 2016 Gambling the Aisle chapbook contest. His forthcoming books will be published by Lynx House, Willow Springs, and After The Pause.

is a Puerto Rican actor, director and writer from Milwaukee, WI, living in Brooklyn, NY. His poetry can be read in The Florida Review, RHINO, The Brooklyn Review, The Madison Review, The Hong Kong Review, The Chicago Reader and The Academy of American Poets' POEM-A-Day, to name a few. Karl is the author of the poetry chapbooks CATCH A GLOW and THE BOUNCE—both available on Finishing Line Press. Hip Hop.

is from Brooklyn, NY, where she was a social worker with immigrant and homeless youth. She is currently a Delaney Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA for Poets & Writers. A VONA/Voices alumna, she is currently working on a novel about the AIDS crisis in New York City.

is author of four books—most recently The Violence Almanac (finalist for several awards, including the Grace Paley and Robert C Jones Book Prizes) and the novel American Gospel, finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award—and is co-editor of the anthology Home is Where You Queer Your Heart. Work can be seen in StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, The North American Review, Anomaly, DIAGRAM and many others. Miah is co-founder of Whiting Award-winning queer and trans literary collaborative, Foglifter Press, and teaches writing, decolonial studies and cultural theory at Santa Clara University.

is a Brooklyn-based writer whose work has been featured in Glamour, Brooklyn Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, Epiphany, and others. She serves as the contributing features editor for Epiphany.

translations of short stories by classic and contemporary Kazakh writers have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Electric Literature, The Massachusetts Review, Gulf Coast, Words Without Borders, and other publications. She received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and a PEN Translates award for her translation of Baqytgul Sarmekova’s To Hell with Poets, a short story collection published by Tilted Axis Press in March 2024. She holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow.

has work in Calyx, Epiphany, Juked, Salt Hill, The Florida Review, The Normal School, and other journals. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice, and the Best of the Net Anthology, and has been awarded the Gish Jen Emerging Writer’s fellowship by the Writers’ Room of Boston. She grew up in south India and live in Boston.

Christopher Kang earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD in English from the University of California-Irvine. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in LitHub, jubilat, Massachusetts Review, Gulf Coast, The L Magazine, Verse Daily, Cimarron Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Epiphany, Open City, and Faultline. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the College of Wooster.

is a Palestinian-Syrian documentary photographer and filmmaker based in Beirut. He graduated in Visual Arts from the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts in Syria in 2023 and is now a member of the Al-Ayoun collective, ADPP, Magnum Foundation, and Prince Claus Fund. His work explores personal surroundings and survival amidst societal challenges and unstable environments. By reflecting on the long-lasting crises in the region that impact individuals, Ameen sheds light on how these issues create toxic lifestyles. In 2023, he won the POY Asia for his first project, “How was everything before all this ruin?”, funded by AFAC, and received a grant from Ettijahat for his second project, “My Short-Term Memory.” After securing support from Südkulturfonds for his debut short film, he was awarded the ADPP Fellowship for the co-authored photo book, “A Song from Diaspora,” in 2024.

lives and writes in Toronto, Canada. His fiction and nonfiction can be found in Passages North, The Rumpus, Catapult, The Malahat Review, Wigleaf, The Walrus, Bellevue Literary Review, Four Way Review, The Minnesota Review, Emrys Journal (for which he won 2019 Sue Lile Inman Fiction Award), and The Fiddlehead. To learn more about him, visit his website.

likes to write stories and poems about the conflict between our identities, as we perceive them, and how the world responds to, validates, or destroys those self-conceptions. He is from Northampton MA and now lives in Scottsdale AZ, where he is a professor at Arizona State University. His poetry and fiction have appeared in the 34th Parallel, BoomerLitMag, and other venues. Mazi's academic research and teaching are completely unrelated to his creative writing.

is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television.

was born and raised in northern California, and currently lives in Maryland. His work has appeared in several anthologies including Best American Short Stories, New Sudden Fiction, The Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology, and The Future Dictionary of America, and in more than eighty magazines including McSweeney's, Subtropics, The Georgia Review, American Short Fiction, The Iowa Review, and Ninth Letter.

(all pronouns) is a queer disabled writer, scholar, and editor of SWANA descent. Their creative work appears or is forthcoming in Meridian, Indiana Review, Zoeglossia, The Seventh Wave, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, and beyond. Tala holds a PhD in ethnic studies from UC Berkeley and currently serves as a first reader for Split This Rock.

earned a BA at Fordham University and an MA at SUNY-Stony Brook. Killian’s poetry collections include Argento Series (2001), Action Kylie (2008), Tweaky Village (2014). He was also the author of Selected Amazon Reviews (2006); the novels Shy (1989), Arctic Summer (1997), and Spreadeagle(2012); the short-story collections Little Men (1996), which won the PEN Oakland award.

is an instructor, writer, and editor based in the San Gabriel Valley. Michelle has taught most recently at California State University, Los Angeles. Her first Watanabe manuscript is now complete, a Spanish-to-English translation of the poet’s only illustrated book of poetry, Historia Natural (1996). Natural History is a collaboration with Eduardo Tokeshi.

is a Pakistani-Korean American poet from New York, currently based in Chicago. Her work spans across nations, generations, to discuss cyclicality, violence, tenderness, and the everyday. Khan holds an MFA from Columbia University, and has been featured in Tupelo Quarterly, Passengers Journal, The Margins, and more. Her debut collection, night shift in perfect english, is forthcoming with Gasher Press (Spring 2026). You can read her work at www.mina-khan.com

(Ph.D., Yale) is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center. His research is focused on book history, Russian and East European émigré literatures and cultures, urbanism and literary representation of cityscapes, multilingualism and translation, and Gulag narratives. He is the author of Joseph Brodsky in Lithuania (St. Petersburg: Perlov Design Center; in Russian), Poets in New York: On City, Language, Diaspora (Moscow: NLO, 2016; in Russian), Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era (Cornell, 2023; NLO 2024). He is also a co-translator of Tamara Petkevich’s Memoir of a Gulag Actress (Northern Illinois UP, 2010). In 2022, he co-founded Tamizdat Project, a public scholarship initiative and a nonprofit organization for the study of banned books from the Cold War to the present, which then became a small press specializing in books on exile and cultural displacement.

has been accepted by The Blue Lyra Review, The Hayden’s Ferry Review, The AAWW, The Margins, The Literary Review, Columbia Journal, Epiphany, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities, Litro Magazine, and elsewhere. She was long listed for the Home is Elsewhere Anthology 2017 Berlin Writing Prize. She lives with her husband and child in New York.

has published two kids' books: Welfy Q. Deederhoth: Meat Purveyor, World Savior, and The Adventures of Erasmus Twiddle: Grmkville's Famous & Talented Not-Detective, courtesy of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Welfy Q. won a 2014 Mom's Choice award. He lives in Los Angeles, where he pens fiction and provides writing and editing services to publishing and marketing clients.

is an NYC illustrator, painter and art instructor. She created 3 covers for The New Yorker Magazine, and currently has illustration clients including The Washington Post, The LA Times, Penguin Random House, Nob Hill Gazette, Athens Voice, The Highly and more.

is an award-winning disabled author of books for children and adults. His first book, The Outsider, which takes as its subject his late father's struggles with schizophrenia and homelessness, was published by Broadway Books. Nathaniel has forthcoming/recently published poems, stories and essays with Potomac Review, About Place Journal, Permafrost, Berkeley Poetry Review, Breakwater Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Full Bleed, and DIAGRAM. His short story ‘The Soloist’s Rehearsal’ was nominated for a Pushcart in 2023. Nathaniel lives outside Atlanta with his family. www.NathanielLachenmeyer.com.

grew up in China where she developed a love-hate relationship with crowds, artificial lawn ornaments, and Chinese food for breakfast. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Pacific University. Her work has appeared in Epiphany, Tahoma Literary Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and others. She has been named a recipient of the 2019 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. He is the author of Wonderful Wasteland and other natural disasters, published by the University of Kentucky Press in 2019 and shortlisted for the Juan Felipe Herrera Poetry Prize. His poetry collection Aguacerando (Downpour) earned him a shortlist nomination for the 2022 Paz Prize for Poetry, sponsored by the National Poetry Series and the Miami Book Fair. Also, in 2022, he published his neo-noir novel Correr tras el viento (Chasing the Wind) with Editorial Verbum, Madrid.

grew up in New Zealand and is now in her final year at Colorado College. She is pursuing a bachelor's degree in English with a concentration in creative writing.

is a queer poet. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Foglifter, Waxwing, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, OnlyPoems, Salamander, and Greensboro Review. He holds an M.S. in Special Education from Pace University and B.A. in Creative Writing and Fashion Journalism from San Francisco State University. He is a candidate in the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Randolph College. He teaches drop in and virtual workshops for Brooklyn Poets.

is a poet and writer from South Carolina. She is an MFA candidate at Indiana University, and her work has appeared in Pleiades, Bat City Review, The Harvard Advocate, and online in The Atlantic.

is the author of the linked story collection What My Last Man Did, published by Indiana University Press. Her stories, essays, and flash fiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Catamaran Literary Reader, Raleigh Review, Flash Frog, and many others. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

is a poet, educator, and mother living in northern New Jersey. Her poetry can be found in such journals as Inch, Salt Hill, Cherry Tree, terrain.org, and RHINO, among others.

holds an MFA in fiction writing from the Pan-European program at Cedar Crest College, an MA in literature from Northwestern University, and a BA in English, journalism and psychology from the University of Iowa. She was named one of Epiphany’s Breakout 8 Writers in 2018. Her writing also appears in Foglifter, Off Assignment, Adroit, Gertrude, and other publications. She currently works as a Senior Communications Specialist at Aon.

was born in Singapore and now lives somewhere in the United States out of a 2006 Toyota 4Runner.

was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and lived in the US as an undocumented immigrant for 21 years. A 2020 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown, 2017–19 Wallace Stegner Fellow, author of The Ghost Wife (Poetry Society of America, 2017), and winner of the Crab Orchard Review’s 2018 Richard Peterson Prize, she organizes for Undocupoets, which promotes the work of and raises consciousness about undocumented poets.

is a Chinese American writer, AAWW Margins Fellow, and winner of the Breakout 8 Writers Prize. Her writing has appeared in Poetry, The Washington Post, The Southern Review, Epiphany, and elsewhere. She graduated magna cum laude from Davidson College and received her MFA from New York University, where she was a Lillian Vernon Fellow. She lives and teaches in New York.

has been awarded fellowships and scholarships to the Vermont Studio Center, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Ragdale Foundation, and elsewhere. Recently, he has published essays in The Millions on Best American Short Stories, literary podcasts, and contributors’ notes, and other subjects in The Good Men Project, and elsewhere. Recent fiction is in The Notre Dame Review, Fiction International, Grain, Hotel Amerika, and elsewhere.

is the author of four novels, and two story collections, one of which is forthcoming by Four Way Books in 2021. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in dozens of publications, including Bomb, The Mississippi Review, and The Norton Anthology of Sudden Fiction – Latino. He teaches at a number of programs including The New School, and Pratt Institute. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

is a Taiwanese-American poet and essayist. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets (2019), The Rumpus, Washington Square Review, The Offing, The Margins, and elsewhere. She is currently a Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and holds an MFA in Poetry from Rutgers University-Newark. She lives in Brooklyn.

has poems in Interim, Common Ground Review, Permafrost, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Palebound, was published by Flutter Press, 2017. She holds an MFA from Saint Mary's College of California and a BA in English from San Francisco State University. In 2007-8 she was a member of Playground SF's Writers Pool. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

is a Chicana poet and author of the chapbook (in)different math (Dancing Girl Press, 2013). Her work has been nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net and a Pushcart, and published in Sixth Finch, Wildness, Frozen Sea, Maudlin House, HAD, and elsewhere. She writes and reads poems at theanimaleats.com.

attended Stanford, where he majored in computer science and minored in creative writing, and went on to earn a master’s degree in computer science. Over time, he came to the realization that fiction is really about helping people “understand themselves and others, and hopefully building better relationships between people and ultimately a healthier, more equitable world.” Fiction does that, he says, through two key components: psychology and education.

Born and raised in Tokyo, M.E. Macuaga is a Japanese Bolivian storyteller and escape room addict whose diverse work can be found in The Seventh Wave, HAD, Oyster River Pages, Superpresent, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. A finalist for the SmokeLong Quarterly Fellowship, the NYC Midnight competitions, and The Florida Review Editors’ Award in Creative Nonfiction, M.E.’s communities include Tin House, Ragdale, Hedgebrook, Jentel Arts, Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, International Thriller Writers, Sisters in Crime, and Storyknife. Find her at curiousstoryprods.com, @memi_writes, and @memi-writes.bsky.social.

is the author of the story collections Body Language and The Neighborhood, as well as several collaborative books of poetry and prose. Recent work has appeared (or will soon) in River Styx, Triquarterly, Waxwing, Cutbank, Fiction Southeast, and others. She teaches creative writing and queer studies at Western Washington University.

is the author of three novels, a New York Times Notable Book of 2013, as well as a finalist for the William Saroyan Prize and Le Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. Maksik’s writing has appeared in many publications including Best American Nonrequired Reading, Harper’s, Tin House, Harvard Review, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of A Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize and The Andrew Lytle Prize.

is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher who works in the intersection between poetry, dramaturgy, visual arts, performance, and criticism. Author of the award-winning poetry collection haverá festa com o que restar (Urutau, 2018) and the chapbook língua pele áspera (7Letras, 2019), he is artist-in-residence at Casa Selvática, editor of Bocas Malditas, member of the International Association of Theatre Critics, and coordinator of the Department of Temporary and Itinerary Exhibitions at the Curitiba Holocaust Museum.

is a Puerto Rican-American writer, worker, survivor, cultivator, educator, advocate, auntie, and occasional musician. Her poems have appeared in Impakter Magazine, The Grief Diaries, The Boston Review, Day One Journal, and The Mississippi Review. She holds degrees in writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Columbia University, and currently lives in Philadelphia.

is an editor and translator, and former Director of the Scottish Poetry Library. She lives in Glasgow.

is a bilingual writer and translator. She worked as a foreign correspondent and critic for Argentine outlets La Nueva and Perfil and as an editor and staff writer at Asymptote. She was a 2023-24 Fellow at the Writers’ Institute (CUNY), where she explored the link between translation and faith. She holds a bachelor's in philosophy from Stanford and a master's in creative writing from Universidad Pompeu Fabra.

is a Mexican-American author best known for his memoirs. The Boy Kings of Texas was a finalist in the non-fiction category in the 2012 National Book Award contest. Martinez found writing these books cathartic and used the writing as a healing process to deal with his feelings and emotions.

is the author, most recently, of Aflame (White Pine Press, 2020), winner of the 2019 White Pine Press Poetry Prize. His other books include Caesura: Essays (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2017); Mysteries in a World that Thinks There Are None (Burnside Review Press, 2016), winner of the 2014 Burnside Review Book Award; Weeping at a Stranger’s Funeral (Dream Horse Press, 2014); and American Amen (Dream Horse Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Orphic Prize for Poetry. He's also the co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice (Rose Metal Press, 2010). His poems and essays have appeared recently in The American Poetry Review, The Nation, Gulf Coast, Southern Review, Ploughshares, and others. He lives in Nashville, TN where he is Professor of English at Belmont University.

Becka Mara McKay is a poet and translator. She directs the Creative Writing MFA at Florida Atlantic University, where she serves as faculty advisor to Swamp Ape Review. Recent work has appeared in Witness, Bennington Review, Bombay Literary Journal, and Tar River Poetry. Her newest book of poems is The Little Book of No Consolation (Barrow Street Press).

has had poetry appear in APR, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, and A Public Space, and her essays have appeared in LA Review of Books, ESPN, and the anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture. A former fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars, she currently teaches poetry at Columbia University and the 92Y, and works with saferLIT.

has had fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, Pushcart Prize anthology, and elsewhere. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Buzzfeed, Vice, and elsewhere. He is the co-editor of Gigantic Worlds, an anthology of science flash fiction, and Tiny Crimes, an anthology of flash noir. He teaches fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn.

is the author of the short story collection It's No Fun Anymore (Apprentice House Press, 2025) and the chapbook a litany of words as fragile as window glass (Bottlecap Press, 2024). Her poetry and short stories have been published in Ninth Letter, Witness Magazine, CALYX, and elsewhere. She lives with her family in Bellingham, WA.

worked as a journalist and translator for the Baghdad Observer. She has won the Arab American Book Award. The Iraqi Nights (translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid) and 15 Iraqi Poets (editor). The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq (co-translated with Max Weiss), finalist for PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith award in non-fiction and long-listed for the National Book Award, selected by The New York Times as one of 8 recommended books of the week. She currently works as a special lecturer of Arabic at Oakland University in Michigan.

is a Jersey-born, Florida-raised poet and writer currently based in West Virginia. She is the author of FINAL GIRL from Big Lucks Books. When she isn’t crafting sad poems about sex, she’s either writing or shouting into the void about film, TV, and all things pop culture.

(they/them) writes experimental prose and literary criticism. Milks is the recipient of the 2019 Lotos Foundation Prize for Excellence in Fiction Writing. Their stories and criticism have been published in three anthologies, as well as many journals including Fence, LIT, 4Columns, and Bookforum. They teach writing at The New School, and Pace University. They received their Ph.D. in English Studies from the University of Illinois and their M.A. from Temple.

was born in Washington D.C. to a Salvadoran mother and a Jewish-American father. Various music and poetry festivals have featured his multi-disciplinary work including Different Kind of Dude Fest, Positive Youth Fest, and Split this Rock. His work has appeared in The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, Origins Journal, and Border Crossing. He holds an MFA in poetry from New York University.

Celeste is a lawyer, writer, and native of Trinidad and Tobago. In 2016 she graduated from Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction). Her work has appeared in The New England Review, Epiphany, The Rumpus, Kweli Journal, among other places. She is the recipient of a 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She was also awarded the 2019 Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction, and the 2017 John D Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction.

is an immigrant writer. His poetry collections are The Catalog of Broken Things, Application of Shadows, Synonyms for Silence, and Future Symptoms. His novels are A Slight Curve and A Bag Full of Stones (forthcoming in October). His memoir A Broken Russia Inside Me is the winner of Trail to Table Book Award from Wandering Aengus and will be out in 2026. He co-edits The Inflectionist Review. Please visit him at AMolotkov.com.

is the author of Brace for Impact (2022), which chronicles her time skating for Arch Rival Roller Derby. She earned her Bachelors in mathematics and studio art at Kalamazoo College and her MFA at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been published in places like Huff Post, LA Times, Lit Hub, Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Electric Literature, and Brevity. She has been granted artist residencies from Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City and Storyknife in Homer, Alaska. In 2023, she captured the inaugural title of Mx Pride St. Louis and is at work on a second memoir about bipolar disorder and her time performing drag. Author photo credit Zachary Steele.

is a Tucson-born interdisciplinary scholar, facilitator, & emerging writer living in Lenapehoking with her two cats. Her writing approach grounds in liberation & honors the curious rhythms that shape disobedience & devotion to our shared humanity. She was a 2023 Periplus Fellow under the mentorship of Ingrid Rojas Contreras, and is working on her first book.

is an Afro-Latina poet & a daughter of immigrants. Her poetry has appeared in the Chapbook For the Crowns of Your Head, The Gulf Coast, and others. She received her MFA from Drew University in Poetry and Poetry in Translation & is a 2014 CantoMundo Fellow. Her first collection was Longlisted for a PEN award in 2016. She lives in Harlem NY.

has had work in French, Norwegian, Spanish, and Chinese, and her stories have been published in English in Granta, Words Without Borders, Tender, and elsewhere. Motoya won the Noma Prize for New Writers for Warm Poison in 2011; the Kenzaburo Oe Prize for Picnic in the Storm in 2013; the Mishima Yukio Prize for How She Learned to Love Herself in 2014; and Japan’s most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize.

is a creative writing PhD candidate and teaching fellow at the University of North Texas. He holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine and a BS from the University of Virginia. His work appears in Arts & Letters, The New York Times, Oxford Poetry, The Pinch, and elsewhere. Outside of school, he works as a data engineer. In his free time, he enjoys writing songs and playing chess.

is a fiction writer, poet, ghostwriter, and writing coach whose work has been published in Newsweek, The Washington Post, Odet Journal, The Peauxdunque Review, and other publications. She has taught writing at American University, SUNY Buffalo, Union County College, and the University of Tampa.

Naivoharisoa Patrick Ramamonjisoa, who goes by Naivo, published his first novel, Beyond the Rice Fields, which is the first Malagasy novel ever translated into English. Naivo is also the author of several short stories, including “Dahalo,” which received the RFI/ACCT prize in 1996, and “Iarivomandroso,” which was adapted for a theatrical production in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

is an artist and educator. She co-runs The Void Academy, an organization that helps independent artists thrive. She lives in New York City.

owns a consulting firm that helps nonprofit organizations. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Witness, Southeast Review, Obsidian, The Baltimore Review, and others. An avid squash player, Robert lives in New York City with his wife, son and three cats.

received her BA from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, and her PhD from Princeton University. She is the author of several collections of poetry, and has receveived a number of awards including the Witter Bynner Prize, several prizes from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

is the author of poems which were chosen by Adrian Matejka for the 2015 Wick Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in the Southern Review, the Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, and Quarterly West. She is the poetry editor of Raleigh Review. Originally from Massachusetts, she holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

is the current New York State Poet Laureate and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Jewish Book Award, Paterson Poetry Prize, San Francisco State Poetry Center Award, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, William Carlos Williams Award, and fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations.

Born on Oahu, Derek N. Otsuji is the author of The Kitchen of Small Hours (SIU Press, 2021), featured in Honolulu Magazine’s “Essential Hawaii Books You Should Read.” He is a 2023 Longleaf Fellow in Poetry and a 2019 Tennessee Williams Scholar. Recent work has appeared in 32 Poems, Southern Review, and The Threepenny Review.

is an Iranian-American writer with short stories and poems in Farsi and English. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Isele Magazine, Hamilton Stone Review, Fugue, and Joyland. She is an Emerging Writer Fellow at Smokelong Quarterly, as well as a writing and editorial fellow at Roots, Wounds, Words.

is a Brooklyn-based writer and urban planner. She is the recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, and a winner of the TAR chapbook contest. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, LUMINA, Catapult, and other publications. Her writing is represented by Meredith Kaffel Simonoff of DeFiore & Company.

Pace has a short Flash fiction piece coming out in Ravens Chronicles this year (2026), plus was was just notified that her short story (published summer of 2025) received first place in the Timberline Review journal and they have submitted it for a Pushcart publication. Over the years Pace has had around 200 pieces of prose, poetry and personal essays published in the UK, Australia and the USA. Pace is a grandmother, a volunteer but, as she often says, "Writing is the most selfish thing I do."

is the author of a number of collections and has published numerous scholarly articles on American literature in such journals as Criticism, Studies in Short Fiction, Poe Studies, Literature Interpretation Theory (LIT), and elsewhere. Pahl received a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. He holds a Ph.D from the University at Buffalo.

is the author of Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here (Graywolf Press 2016). Riverine is an Indie Next selection, winner of the 2014 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a Kirkus Best Book of 2016, and a Powerful Memoir by Powerful Women selected by Oprah. Her work has been published in Ecotone, Creative Nonfiction, At Length Magazine, Brevity, and elsewhere.

is a writer from New Jersey. She is currently pursuing her MFA at Columbia University via the Rajam Family Foundation Scholarship. She is a 2024 De Alba Fellow, and is currently working on a novel. You can follow her on instagram @jesuswasajock.

is the author of the story collection The Blind Writer, which was longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. He is also the recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship. His work has appeared in, among others the Atlantic, Salon, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, and Narrative Magazine. He teaches creative writing and South Asian and Asian American literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

is a writer from Lake Elsinore, California, where the IHOP is next to the graveyard. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Hunger Mountain Review, Barren Magazine, and other publications. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Texas Tech University and is currently working on a novel inspired by her hometown. She splits her time between the San Bernardino mountains and the inland desert where she was raised.

first full-length poetry collection Her Mouth A Palace of Lamps (Milk & Cake Press) is forthcoming in October 2025. She is the author of poetry chapbooks, Atlas of Lost Places (Milk & Cake Press) and Breath Fire Water Song (Ghost City Press). Her poems have appeared in West Branch, Poetry Northwest, Waxwing, Tupelo Quarterly among other places, and she serves as editor of Inch micro chapbooks published by Bull City Press,. She has an MFA in Poetry from Antioch University, LA and has received support from the Vermont Studio Center, VONA/Voices, Community of Writers, Tin House, and Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. A recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship by the NJ State Council on the Arts, her work has been nominated for Best New Poets and has been a finalist for Frontier Poetry’s Global Poetry Prize (South Asia).

publications include four poetry collections, The Oriole & the Ovenbird (Kelsay Books 2021), In Praise of Usefulness (Wind Ridge Books 2014), Reliquaries (Salmon Poetry, Ireland 2007) and Still Listening (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 1999), and a prose memoir, High Tea at a Low Table: Stories From An Irish Childhood (Wind Ridge Books 2013). Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies. Born and raised in Dublin, she maintains dual citizenship in Ireland and the United States, where she has lived since 1977. She is a Senior Lecturer Emerita in the English Department at the University of Vermont.

poetry has appeared in Crab Creek Review, Hobart, Hole In The Head Review, Main Street Rag, Rise Up Review and many other unique journals. Garth was a finalist for Bellingham Review’s 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, and Mudfish Magazine’s Poetry Prize. He earned a BA in Creative Writing and Literature from the New School, and has worked as a guitar instructor, ESL teacher, advertising consultant, grant writer, and as a road/construction laborer. You can find him on Instagram @garth_and_the_unwieldys.

is an emerging writer, researcher, and physical therapist in Tucson, Arizona. His poems are in Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, Ninth Letter, The Pinch, RHINO, and elsewhere. He was recently a finalist for the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Contest and the John & Eileen Allman Prize.

is the bestselling author of the novel Disappearing Earth, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year. A 2024 Guggenheim fellow, she lives with her family in Brooklyn.

has written books including Person, The No Hellos Diet, Hurt Others, Rontel, Witch Piss, and The Garbage Times/White Ibis. His writing has been published widely in print and on the Internet and translated into other languages. He currently lives in Michigan.

is a poet and the author of A Little Book of Blooms (2020). Her recent poems appear in Gulf Coast, Passages North, Poet Lore, Tupelo Quarterly, New Orleans Review, Epoch, Greensboro Review, Black Warrior Review, and others. She is the Managing Editor at River & South Review, a Guest Editor at Palette, and a Poetry Reader at Psaltery & Lyre. Find more of her work at lizzykepolishan.com or on Instagram @dizzymiss.lizzy.

has had translations of her work published in many of the world’s leading poetry journals, such as World Literature Today and Poetry Review. The English translation of her work was shortlisted for the 2005 Corneliu Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation and 2014 Best Translated Book Award and for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.

writes fiction. He is a graduate of the Hunter College MFA program. He was shortlisted for the Paris Literary Prize and was published by Plume. He releases a weekly podcast, and is working on a new piece of fiction.

is attending Ohio University to pursue her PhD in English with an emphasis in Poetry. She is a graduate of the MFA poetry program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She has been published in The Shore and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Originally from Michigan, you can find her work at mm-porter.com.

is a writer in Northern California. Her short stories have been published or are forthcoming in X-R-A-Y, The Offing, Hobart, and more. She was nominated for a Pushcart, ranked as a Top Humor Writer on Medium, and won a Silver Anthem Award.

was born in Amuda, Rojava, and earned a degree in Philosophy. He writes in both Kurmanji and Arabic, and works as both a translator and journalist. He is the Kurmanji-language editor of the publications Şar and Rê Cultural Magazine. His Arabic-language collection Look at Her, How Exhausted You Are won the Prose Poem Forum Prize in Cairo in 2010.

is a writer from Seattle, Washington and a recent graduate of Yale University.

is a writer and college counselor from New Jersey. He is an MFA candidate at Monmouth University.

identifies herself as a hybrid creating hybrid art through hybrid forms. Raees is the Assistant Poetry Editor of The Margins, she was the 2018-2019's Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and 2019's Brooklyn Poets Fall Fellow. She and her work has been endorsed by Millay Colony for the Arts, University of Findlay, Bennington College, Newburgh Community Photo Project, and elsewhere.

is a writer, editor, and researcher from Seattle, living in New York. She is an editor at The Creative Independent and a contributor for The New York Review of Architecture. Her essays, criticism, and interviews have appeared in publications including Interview, The Guardian, and Los Angeles Review of Books.

is a California-based writer. Her prose appears in ¡Pa’lante!, The Plentitudes, Press Pause Press, among other places, and she has been awarded the Harriet Williams Emerging Writer prize. She is fiction editor for The Plentitudes. An MFA candidate at UC Davis, Marilyn is currently at work on her first book.

is a poet, academic and singer-songwriter who holds degrees from Louisiana State University, Oxford University, Harvard University and Miami University of Ohio and whose writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany, Five [Quarterly], HTMLGIANT, The Oklahoma Review, petrichor, Poetry Foundation, The Puritan, Western Humanities Review and elsewhere. Honors and awards include Poet Laureateship from Miami University Men’s Glee Club, Established Faculty Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Kent Gramm MFA Award for Literary Nonfiction and Betty Jane Abrahams Memorial Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets.

has published fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in such journals as Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, The Volta, Rookie, Adroit, PANK, and Revolver. She has won numerous awards for her writing, including the 2016 Adroit Prize for Prose, the 2015 Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Award from the Poetry Society of America. She’s represented by Vicky Bijur Literary Agency.

(they/them) is a queer, nb/trans, crip/disabled, brown/Colombian, writer, scholar, educator, and cultural worker. They are author of the poetry collection, The Inheritance of Haunting (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019) and the chapbook, Ephemeral (Ecotheo Collective, 2024). They are a 2023 recipient of the Creative Capital Award, a VONA Alum, and have received poetry fellowships from Zoeglossia, CantoMundo, Radar, and Yale’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Their poetry and creative non-fiction have been published in American Poetry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry, and Waxwing, among other places. They currently live in California.

Former director and faculty member of The Frost Place’s Conference on Poetry, Martha Rhodes is the author of five poetry collections: The Thin Wall (forthcoming in 2017). She has directed the Conference on Poetry since 2010 and is a former member of the board of trustees of The Frost Place. She teaches at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the director of Four Way Books in NYC.

(Haifa, 1994) is a translator of Galician prose and poetry. His translations have appeared in PRISM International, Cagibi, Your Impossible Voice, Nashville Review, The Brooklyn Rail InTranslation, and the Portico of Galician Literature, and elsewhere. His translation of Carlos Casares' novel, His Excellency, came out from Small Stations Press in 2017.

is the author of the novels First, The Raven: a Preface and Thin Rising Vapor. His shorter work has appeared in many journals, including BODY, Cagibi, and Epiphany. He has received grants from Duke University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the University of Amsterdam. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing in Berlin, Germany, and currently lives in Prague.

was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives. She received a BA in engineering from MIT and an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. She was named a “Writer on the Verge” by The Village Voice Literary Supplement in 2001. Her novel Song of the Water Saints won the 2002 PEN Open Book Award.

(she/her) is a Black Dominican poet, teacher, and mama of two who was born and raised in Washington Heights, NYC. She is currently studying in the Brooklyn Poets Mentorship Program while writing for her monthly newsletter and designing seasonal workshops.

was selected for the 2024 Best New Poets anthology. She earned her BA in Mathematics and completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of South Florida (USF). She has guest lectured at USF and served as an art and poetry editor for Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in SLAB, Sweet Lit, Arts Coast, Halfway Down the Stairs, Good River Review, Epiphany, and Poetry Magazine.

(she/her) is a writer & educator. She's currently working on a novel about a woman who builds an amusement park from memory, inspired by Roller Coaster Tycoon. Contact her at jennarosepoet@gmail.com.

is an American poet and translator of Polish-language writers such as Tomasz Różycki, Małgorzata Lebda and Krystyna Dąbrowska. Her work has received the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and the Found in Translation Award, among other recognitions, and twice has been nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize as well as for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, the National Translation Award, and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She is the author of Territorial, a Pitt Poetry Series selection, and The Local World, winner of the Wick Poetry Prize. Other honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, two Fulbright Fellowships, and residencies at Hedgebrook, MacDowell and the Jan Michalski Foundation.

is an emerging French-American poet, currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University while raising three children. She is a recipient of the SFSU William Dickey Fellowship in Poetry, Assistant Poetry Editor at Fourteen Hills literary magazine, and a cancer survivor. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in North American Review, New American Writing, Empty House Press, Last Syllable, and Transfer. Her work was finalist for the Kenyon Review Poetry Contest and the Rhonda Gail Williford Poetry Prize, and recently named an Honorable Mention in the Art of Unity Literary Award. For more, visit her website at: www.amyderouvray.com

is the author of seven collections of poems and a long epic poem, Dwanaście stacji, for which he was awarded the Kościelski Prize. Różycki’s work has been translated into numerous languages. Among his awards are the Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński Prize, the Joseph Brodski Prize from Zeszyty Literackie, and two nominations for the Nike Prize. He teaches at Opole University.

is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and literary translator from Iran whose memoir excerpt, “My Mom Told Me,” was selected by Robert Atwan as a Notable Essay for the 2023 Best American Essays series. His short stories, personal essays, and works of translation have appeared in Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, and New England Review, among many other journals. His translations of contemporary Persian prose and poetry have been nominated for the 2024 and the 2025 Best Literary Translations anthology. He is the winner of the 2024 McNally Robinson Booksellers Creative Nonfiction Prize, the 2024 Susan Atefat Creative Nonfiction Prize, the 2023 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize, and the 55th Cole Swensen Prize for Translation. Saadlou’s writing has received support from Vermont Studio Center, and he is a member of PEN Canada’s Writers in Exile program. He is currently editing his debut collection of short fiction titled Think of the Sea.

is a forthcoming graduate of Princeton (Class of 2020). She is a Breakout 8 Writer with Epiphany. She is a fiction writer who has studied with Neel Mukherjee, Angela Flournoy, and Kirstin Valdez Quade. In addition to majoring in English she is pursuing certificates in Creative Writing and Spanish.

is an award-winning poet born and raised in Western Sydney to Lebanese Muslim and Turkish Muslim migrants. He is the author of These Wild Houses (Cordite Books, 2017) and The Lost Arabs (Andrews McMeel, 2020). In 2019, Omar was the recipient of the Edward Stanley Award for Poetry.

was born and raised in Los Angeles. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gargoyle Magazine, Sou'wester, Atticus Review, Into the Void, Bending Genres, and elsewhere. His story "How My Brother and I Diverged," first published in the Atticus Review, has been nominated for the Best Small Fictions 2020 anthology.

is the Books Editor at The Brooklyn Rail and a contributor to The New York Times Book Review. His fiction has appeared in The Collagist, Dossier Journal, Epiphany, H.O.W. Journal, New York Tyrant, Open City, and others. His criticism has appeared in The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture, Angels of the Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing, and The Believer Logger. He is an associate professor of writing and literature at The New School in New York City.

is a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, selected for his second book, It’s Not Magic (Beacon Press, 2019). He is the facilitator of the Emotional Historians workshop, a series of generative writing classes you can find out more about on IG at @iAmJonSands. His work has been featured in The New York Times, published in The Rumpus, The Millions, Cortland Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Muzzle, and many others. He is a curator for SupaDupaFresh, a monthly reading series in Brooklyn, and has received residencies and fellowships from the Blue Mountain Center, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Jerome Foundation, and the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. Photo credit Quinn Warton

was born in Dakar in 1990. He studied literature and philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Brotherhood, his first novel, won the Grand Prix du Roman Métis, the Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, and the French Voices Grand Prize, in Alexia Trigo’s translation. He won the 2021 Prix Goncourt for his novel La plus secrète mémoire des hommes, becoming the first Sub-Saharan African to do so and was named Chevalier of the National Order of Merit by the president of Senegal.

grew up in New Jersey and Delaware. His poems can be found currently at RHINO, The Paris-American, The Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Birdfeast Magazine, Reservoir Journal and elsewhere.

is the author of, Swallowing the Light (2022), a Pinnacle Best Book Poetry winner, NYC Big Book Distinguished Favorite, International Book Awards winner, and Hoffer Award nominee, and And Our Bodies Again Make Sense, forthcoming in 2025. His non-fiction book, Dreaming and Being Dreamt, was published by Routledge in 2023. A multiple award winning poet, most recently winner of the Milton Kessler Prize for Poetry, and finalist for the Steve Kowit Prize, as well as the The Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition, and the Rash Award and Crosswinds Poetry Contest. He resides in Berkeley, California.

new poetry collection, Enormous Morning, will be out winter 2026; his memoir, Comforts of the Abyss, came out in 2022. Failure won the 2008 Pulitzer for poetry. His writing school, The Writers Studio, has branches in Manhattan, Tucson, San Francisco, Rome and online.

is a Brooklyn based poet. He hopes to one day know what all the pieces of a car engine do.

has received the Clifton Fadiman Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and a grant from the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities. Her short stories have been included in Best American Short Stories. Her reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review and her stories in the The New Yorker.

is a writer from Yorba Linda, California. Find her at rachelseo.com.

(1907-1982) was a Russian Soviet writer best know for his Kolyma Stories set in the labor camp of Kolyma, part of the GULAG prison system in which he was imprisoned three times throughout his life. The author’s extensive body of poetic works, while celebrated in Russia, have largely gone unnoticed by international audiences.

is a writer with a focus on literature, theater, and culture at large. She's pursuing an MFA in non-fiction writing at Columbia University and working on a manuscript about her family’s exile from Cuba during the Cuban Revolution. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Vogue among numerous other publications. She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English.

has had work appear in the Beloit Poetry Journal, among other publications, and his third and latest collection of poems, HANDS, was published by Lynx House Press. In his living and in his writing, he is thankful for a mother who wrote sonnets and a daughter who danced.

is a poet, translator, and editor who recently returned to California after spending a year and a half in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The most recent of their 14 book-length translations are Jorge Eduardo Eielson’s Room in Rome and Pablo d’Ors’ The Friend of the Desert.

is a Bay Area-born, Filipino-American poet and linguist. She holds a degree in Linguistics from UC Santa Cruz and uses both her scientific and artistic love of language to inform her writing. Rachelle's work has appeared in Frozen Sea, FeelsZine, Stone Circle Review, and more. She can be found on Instagram @rachellesierra37 and Bluesky @rachellesierra.bsky.social

has had work in the Michigan Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, Kenyon Review Online, The Color of Life, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Susquehanna University.

is the author of the poetry collection Fort Not (The Song Cave, 2017), which Publishers Weekly called a “fabulously eccentric, hypnotic, and hypervigilant debut.” Her recent poems can be found in Poetry, Harper’s, Granta, FOLDER, The Drift, and The New York Review of Books. Tantrums in Air is forthcoming in June 2025. Skillings is the editor of Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works by John Ashbery, which was published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2021. She is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist poetry collective, small press, and event series. Her work has been supported by residencies and fellowships from the T.S. Eliot Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Skillings currently teaches creative writing at Yale, NYU, and Columbia. She lives in Brooklyn. Photo credit: Sarah Wagner Miller.

is a Queer poet and performer, and has won poetry prizes from the Crab Creek Review, Mikrokosmos Journal, and Epiphany. Duncan's poems are appearing or forthcoming in BOAAT Journal, Palette Poetry, among others. Duncan has performed at venues such as the Orpheum Theater, the Walker Art Center, Poets House NYC, & the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, among others.

is a poet, musician, video producer, and educator. He produces poetry videos for the series Poeta. His poetry has been recognized by grants and fellowships from Kettle Pond and Art Farm, and he’s worked as an associate editor for Alice James, Futurepoem, and Narrative. Evan received his MFA from Rutgers-Newark, and currently teaches writing and tutors in the CUNY system.

is the author of seven books of poetry, including Incendiary Art (2017), winner of an NAACP Image Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (2012), which won the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; She is a 2014 Guggenheim fellow, a 2012 fellow at both MacDowell and Yaddo, a two-time Pushcart Prize winner, recipient of a Lannan fellowship and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam.

is a translator whose work has appeared in Anomaly, Asymptote, InTranslation, Journal of Italian Translation, New Poetry in Translation, and Two Lines.

is the author of the collection You Will Never Be Forgotten (FSG). A graduate of Northwestern and Columbia University’s MFA program, and an editor at NOON, her writing has appeared in The Believer, BOMB, The Collagist, Conjunctions, Electric Literature, Words Without Borders, and The New Yorker. Maile Meloy awarded her story "Not Setsuko" an honorable mention in the Zoetrope: All Story fiction contest. She lives in NYC.

is the art director of Milkweed Editions. She co-founded and curated the Triptych Poetry Series in the East Village, and while studying for her MFA in poetry at Indiana University, she taught creative writing and edited the Indiana Review. She has published two collections of poetry and edits a chapbook review column for Rain Taxi as well as a series on poetry and power called Society Editions. She has been designing books for Milkweed in a freelance capacity since 2013.

features and profiles appear frequently in the New York Times. A contributor to Art In America, she is a member of the International Association of Art Critics. Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories About Flying (Open City/Grove Atlantic 2009), an anthology of short fiction and personal essays, attests to Dorothy’s lifelong love of literature. Her personal essays have been published in the New York Times, and on mrbellersneighborhood.com. She lives and works in New York.

is a writer currently based in Oakland, CA. Her work has been published in Hobart, FORTH, Potluck Mag, Ghost City Press, and elsewhere.

earned her PhD in Modern Art from New York University and was the recipient of the NYU Excellence in Teaching Award and the Outstanding Graduate in Fiction at Johns Hopkins University. She will complete her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University in May 2019. She lives in New York City with her husband and their two boys.

is a writer and actress based in Boise, Idaho. Her work is published in Ekstasis, Mudfish Magazine, Fathom, and others, along with several anthologies, including An Homage to Soren Kierkegaard: A Poetry Anthology, edited by Dana Gioia and Mary Grace Mangano. Her poem, “You, Moved,” appears as text in the chamber music piece, To the Invisible Listener, by composer Jacob Beranek. She is the recipient of the 16th Annual Mudfish Magazine Poetry Prize, judged by Marie Howe. For more, visit her website at www.alyssastadtlander.com.

is a writer, editor, curator, cultural worker, producer and poet born, raised and living in Los Angeles, on unceded Tongva land. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in BuzzFeed, 45th Parallel, the Northridge Review, and elsewhere. Bri is a former poetry editor at the now-disbanded Hecate Magazine, and served as the Managing Editor of Issue 04 of SKEW Magazine. Her debut chapbook, “A Throat Full of Forest-Dirt,” was published in late-2023 by Bottlecap Press. Earlier in 2023, she was longlisted for Thin Air Magazine’s “The Bird In Your Hands” prize for poetry. In 2018, she was awarded "Best Short Story" by the El Camino College Myriad for her speculative fiction piece, "Pr(e)y." Bri is an editorial assistant at HINCHAS Press, a 2024 Voodoonauts Fellow, and a member of The Seventh Wave Magazine's 2024 Digital Residency cohort. More information about Bri's work and artistry can be found at her website, bristokes.com.

s a writer and journalist from Texas. His short stories have appeared at Pithead Chapel, Porterhouse Review, and Five South, among others. He's the author of three nonfiction books, including the forthcoming You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave (Melville House 2025).

was born in Western Mass and grew up on Cape Cod. After living in Boston for three years he traveled all over the States. He settled in NYC for eight years before taking to the road again, driving across the country to his current home on the steps of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. His work has appeared in The Fictional Café, Joyland, The New School Blog, and PANK.

Retired from a career in bureaucracy, Kim Suttell carries into art the centrality of paper (as a medium) and a will to make order from pieces. Collage scenes, inspired by offset printing and applique quilts, celebrate paper, tears, bubbles and curls, and play with proportion and perspective, with special attention to negative space. It is important to tell stories with what gets thrown away.

is the author of the short story collection Great American Desert (Mad Creek Books, 2019) and the biography Anything that Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet (Schaffner Books, 2018). Svoboda's poetry collections include When the Next Big War Blows Down the Valley: Selected & New (Anhinga Press, 2015) and Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship (Eyewear, 2016).

is a Best of the Net Finalist and Pushcart Prize Nominee. She has poems most recently appearing or forthcoming from Poet Lore, The Boiler, Northwest Review, The Salthill Journal, and other places, and has a chapbook, The Oranges Will Still Grow Without Us (Ethel).

is a writer and teacher. She has been published in Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Boston Magazine, Boston Globe, The Rumpus, and others. She is the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines and an Artist Fellowship Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is a graduate of Tufts University and the MFA Program in Writing at the University of California, Irvine.

is a Brooklyn-based writer of queer immigrant fiction. His interests lie in representing marginalized experience through allegory and unconventional storytelling. He studies creative writing at Purchase College, SUNY.

fiction has appeared in Witness, Southern Humanities Review, Meridian, Post Road, Zone 3 and is forthcoming in NOON. Greg received support fromVermont Studio Center, the First Pages Prize and has been a finalist for the Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose and the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition.

(she/her) is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, including Lizzie, and Speak (winner of White Stag Publishing’s 2018 manuscript contest). Her newest collection, Motherdevil, is coming soon from White Stag Publishing. She currently teaches courses on horror and Gothic literature at Moravian University. You can find her work featured in Black Warrior Review, Gigantic Sequins, Passages North, Fairy Tale Review, and more. For further information, please visit kaileytedesco.com or follow @kaileytedesco on Instagram.

is the author of 7 books of poetry, 16 chapbooks, 3 artists books, and one play. Journals include The Southern Review, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, and Ploughshares. One of her poems appeared in Pushcart Prize XXXI and one in Best American Poetry 2015. She is the winner of the 2019 Swan Scythe Chapbook Award, editor emerita of Spillway Magazine, and poetry editor at Pedestal.

is the author of the poetry collection Litany for the City (BOA Editions, 2012). His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review, and The Yale Review, and his awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

has a BA in philosophy and works as a journalist for La Nación, La Agenda, Infobae, and other media. She teaches at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Universidad Nacional de las Artes. Her first book of short stories, Nadie vive tan cerca de nadie, was awarded the Concurso Ficciones and will be published by Emecé in October 2019.

is the author of a number of works. She is one of the recipients of the Judith A Markowitz Emerging Writers Award, as well as a Lambda Literary Fellow and a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist. She is one of the publishers of Instar Books.

is a writer, poet, and printmaker who co-runs De Wilgen Farm Stay, a small residency space open in the summer months. Her work has appeared in print and online in Dispatches, Descant, Luna Luna Magazine, Conséquences, Lute & Drum, Magma, and Tripwire. She’s currently writing a non-fiction book about having a body in the world. You can follow her on Instagram @thequietfight.

is the author of two poetry collections, one of which was a finalist for The Gerald. He holds an MFA at New York University, where he taught creative writing in the undergraduate program and at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island. His poems have appeared in publications across Canada, including the most recent edition of The Best Canadian Poetry, as well as in American publications such as Epiphany and Storyscape. He currently lives in Toronto.

is a journalist and author in New York City. He has lived all over the country and was lucky enough to live in Hawaii twice. He also lived in Texas twice. And North Carolina twice. Actually, this is his second stop in New York City, too. He doesn’t do things right the first time.

is a queer writer based in Brooklyn. She received her MFA from Columbia University. You can find her at norarosetomas.com.

is an astrologer and writer exploring the confluence of dreams, magic, and history. Beforehand she worked as a sound artist (under the name ‘Onirologia’), exhibiting works in the U.S., Berlin, and Tokyo. While composing the music for McKinley Dixon's song, Hanif Reads Toni, on which Hanif Abdurraqib narrated an excerpt from Toni Morrison's Jazz, Costantino realized she wanted to pursue writing as a vocation. Costantino’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Ghost City Review and Epiphany Magazine. She currently resides in Florida and chases moths (without harming them) alongside Romoletto, her little cat.

is a writer and professor in New York City. Her fiction has been published in New York Tyrant Magazine, Epiphany Magazine, Egress: New Openings in Literary Arts, and Tweed’s Magazine, among others. Her interviews and reviews are up at Guernica, The Millions, The Rumpus, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Common.

(b.1966) is a Swiss-French painter. She currently lives and works in Trie-Château, France. For 30 years, Tschiegg has been chasing color, capturing people, plants, and landscapes in vibrant acrylic and oil painting. Tschiegg’s paintings defy genre as she toys with abstraction. Allowing her pieces to almost take on minds of their own, she revels in imbalance and spontaneity. Painting is an act of love and preservation, for both painter and subject. In Tschiegg’s words, on each canvas she lives another day. Tschiegg has presented solo shows in Belgium, Germany, and France, and has exhibited throughout Europe and Australia, including two shows at Luxembourg Art Week. She is also represented by Verduyn Gallery in Belgium, Galerie Sabine Bayasli in France, Galerie Albert Baumgarten and Galerie Imke Valentien, both in Germany.

(she/her) is the author of four books: AT THE CENTER (forthcoming, 2027), AMPHIBIANS (winner, Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize), OFF ISLAND (finalist, Housatonic Book Award) and A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. Lara is founder of Swift Ink Stories, a platform for workshops and manuscript development. She is a jazz/folk performer who has traveled the world and a proud member of the Authors Guild, Authors Against Book Bans and the Writers for Democratic Action. laratupper.com @laratupper

is a writer and translator. A graduate of Hamilton College, he is a PhD Candidate at Columbia University in the Slavic Department. His fiction, translations and journalism have appeared in The Forward, Heeb, Harlequin Creature, and other places. Ross is a co-founder of New Vessel Press.

is the author of a number of collections of poetry. She is the host and curator of the COUPLET Reading Series in NYC. She is a graduate of the MFA Program in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College, and a graduate of the MA in English Education - Secondary Education from CUNY- Hunter College. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A Day, USA Today's Pop Candy, and elsewhere.

is a writer and poet from the Bay Area. Author photo credit Maggie Shannon.

work has appeared or is forthcoming in CRAFT, Joyland, BOMB, and the Tiny Nightmares Anthology (Catapult, October 2020), and elsewhere. Her fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and in 2019 she was awarded an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant. She received her MFA in fiction from The New School.

is a pediatrician residing in Auburn, Alabama. She is an MFA candidate in fiction at Warren Wilson. Heidi is the recipient of the Robert Hughes Mount Jr. Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the winner of the Sand Hills Literary Magazine 2024 Poetry Contest, and a finalist in Breakwater Review's Peseroff Poetry Contest. She has been published in The Thread and Passengers Journal, and has a forthcoming poem in Poetry South.

is a writer from the Philippines and the author of the short story collections Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila, Mayor of the Roses, and The Lost Language. She has received creative writing fellowships from Stanford University and the California Arts Council, and received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and Banff Writers Studio. Her fourth story collection, Residents of the Deep, is forthcoming in 2025 from Unsolicited Press, and her fifth collection, Problems with Sleep, is forthcoming in 2026 from Betty Books, an imprint of WTAW (Why There Are Words).

is the author of the collection Beast Meridian, a 2019 Whiting Award recipient, Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist, and 2019 Friends of Literature Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and has also appeared in the New York Times, Boston Review, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere. She is a CantoMundo Fellow and is pursuing her doctorate in English Literature.

is the author of five books of poetry, including most recently The Apollonia Poems (University of Wisconsin Press Four Lakes Prize 2017) and the limited edition volume Black Butterfly (Center for Book Arts). Recent poems and criticism appear in Italian Americana, The Georgia Review, Reading in Translation, and elsewhere.

was born in Mexico and grew up in Guatemala. He’s worked as a journalist in both Spanish and English-language media, including Time Magazine and El Diario-La Prensa. He’s taught in the Master’s Program in Bilingual Journalism at CUNY. He’s also taught courses in politics at Yale University and in the New Jersey prison system. An emerging writer when it comes to fiction, he’s published stories in The North American Review, Arcturus, and Fractured Lit, where his story was anthologized in Fractured Lit Vol. 3. He posts on Instagram @albertovourvoulias and on X @avourvoulias.

is the Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the Humanities, director of the Center for International and Comparative Studies, and dean of the Graduate School at Northwestern University. He is the author or editor of numerous works, including Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia, which has been translated into Serbian, Romanian, and Slovene.

has self-published two volumes of poetry, and has written many plays. His play Dream on Monkey Mountain won the Obie Award for distinguished foreign play of 1971. He founded Boston Playwrights' Theatre at Boston University in 1981. Walcott's honors include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Montale Prize, a Royal Society of Literature Award, and, in 1988, the Queen's Medal for Poetry. In 1992, Walcott became the first Caribbean writer to receive the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.

is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and has a PhD in English Literature from Princeton University. His writing has appeared in The Believer, Boston Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, novelist Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles.

is a translator, editor, and musician based in New York City and Berlin. He translates from French, German, Spanish, and Italian. He was educated at Harvard College and Princeton University. His translation of Viktor Mazin's Freuds Gespenster will be published by MIT Press in the summer.

shared first prize with Antonio Cillóniz in the young poets contest organized by Cuadernos trimestrales de Poesía in 1970, and won the award Young Poet of Peru in 1971 with his first book, Album de Familia. In 2000, he published in Colombia an anthology entitled El Guardián del Hielo and in 2004 he published in Spain Elogio del Refrenamiento, a comprehensive anthology that won numerous accolades. Watanabe died in April 2007.

is a teaching artist and spoken-word performer, with work appearing in This Land Press, Columbia Poetry Review, and others. He lives in Oklahoma, where he enjoys daydreaming about ocean trenches and post-apocalyptic wastelands.

is an award-winning journalist and poet with an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in HAD, Bellingham Review, Epiphany Mag, BRUISER Mag, Fifth Wheel Press, and elsewhere. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

has had a long career writing and teaching fiction. Her short stories have been published in Ploughshares, The Sun, and Epiphany, and her story, “Boyfriends,” was awarded a Pushcart Prize. She is also the assistant director of The Writers Studio in New York City. A Gorgeous Excitement, her first novel, was inspired by her upbringing on New York’s Upper East Side in the 1980s, and particularly by the notorious “Preppy Murder” of 1986. Weiner now lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.

is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. She is the receipient of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and the Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions. Weise’s essays have appeared in A Public Space, Granta, The New York Times and Tin House. She’s been awarded residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Fulbright Program and the Lannan Foundation. She worked in editorial at The Paris Review and The Iowa Review.

believes in enlightened sublimation and its power to save us. Ergo, she’s writing a memoir of her father, a bohemian artist from New York City, who had gender reassignment surgery in 1979. Last year Rachel published “I Want You,” a Pushcart-nominated essay on her father in Epiphany Magazine. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, Audubon, OnEarth, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Observer, and The Phoenicia Times.

has had poems published in Bodega, The Cortland Review, Epiphany, and elsewhere. She is the president of Friends of Writers, is on the board of the Poetry Society of America, and a trustee emerita of the Kenyon Review. She holds degrees from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and the Seminar College at New School for Social Research, and lives in New York City.

a Boca Raton, Florida resident, is a novelist, playwright and freelance writer. Her essays, fiction, and columns have been published by The Sun Sentinel, Writers Journal, Insight for Playwrights, Working Writers, Woman’s World, The Florida Writer, and Senior Scene. She is a frequent fiction contributor to the East Hampton Star. She is also a published poet. She volunteers for the Boca Raton Branch, National League of American Pen Women, a group of professional writers, artists and musicians, and is also their Publicity Chair, and Letters Chair. Carol belongs to the Florida Writers Association.

s the author of a chapbook, Writing Your Name on the Glass (Bull City Press, 2019) and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow. His poems appear in The New York Times, POETRY, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, and Boston Review. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Sewanee: The University of the South. Photo credit: Pauline Whiteside.

is from Lima. She writes regularly for the newspapers El País (Spain) and La República (Peru). She also writes for several American and European magazines, such as Etiqueta Negra (Peru), Anfibia (Argentina), Corriere della Sera (Italy), XXI (France), and Virginia Quarterly Review (United States). In Madrid, she worked as editor of the Spanish edition of Marie Claire.

is the author of the novels Angie, I Says. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Hanging Loose, Dunes Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Silk Road, among other places. For the last ten years, she has led a NY Writerws Coalition workshop at the Center for Independance of the Disabled, New York.

is a graduate of New York University. She teaches creative writing for undergraduates at her alma mater. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the NYC literary reading series and online journal, Pigeon Pages. Her writing has been published in places such as The New York Times, Catapult, and Epiphany. She won the inaugural Breakout 8 Writers Prize. Her memoir, Being Lolita, is forthcoming.

is the author of critically acclaimed novels including Lowboy, The Right Hand of Sleep and Canaan’s Tongue. He was named one of Granta magazine’s Best of Young American Novelists in 2007. The recipient of a Whiting Award, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

holds an MA in literature from the University of Minnesota as well as an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She recently earned a doctorate in Creative Writing at The University of Kansas, where she was the recipient of a Chancellor's Fellowship. Her work can be found in Black Warrior Review, Tarpaulin Sky, The Volta, The Colorado Review, SPORK, and The New Orleans Review.

has current projects include translating Whitman’s Song of Myself into Kurmanji and poets from Rojava into English. He works for Kashkul, the center for art and culture at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. His poems have appeared in World Literature Today and on the Poetry Foundation website.

is the Book Marks assistant editor at Literary Hub. She holds a BA from Bennington College and lives with her rescue dog in Brooklyn.

was born in Osaka, Japan, and lives in Bristol, U.K. She specializes in Japanese Fiction. In addition to Yukiko Motoya, she has translated works by Banana Yoshimoto, Aoko Matsuda, and Natsuko Kuroda.

completed an MA at Wuhan University before going to New Zealand in 2014 as a PhD candidate at Victoria University of Wellington. As a bilingual poet and translator, he has published work in over 60 journals and magazines across the world, including Modern Poetry in Translation, Boston Review, and Westerly. He is the Chinese translator of Best New Zealand Poems 2014.

lives with his wife in Dearborn, Michigan, where he teaches Arab American literature and creative writing at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. His fiction has appeared in The Georgia Review, Witness, Fiction International, Iron Horse Literary Review, and The Common, among other places. He is currently co-editing the creative nonfiction anthology Uncertain Refuge: Voices of Arab Detroit (Wayne State University Press, 2021).

was a writer and visual artist born in Berlin in 1916. Following her stint as a dramaturge during the First World War, her first writings began to appear in German newspapers and magazines. After meeting the German surrealist Hans Bellmer in 1953, she moved with him to Paris, where her writings and illustrations shortly thereafter appeared in the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme. After a crisis in 1957, she spent the rest of her life in and out of mental institutions in Paris and Berlin. In 1970, following Bellmer's paralyzing stroke, which rendered him incapable of caring for her, she committed suicide by jumping from the window of the Paris apartment they shared.

Gillian Thomas is a graduate of New York City’s Hunter College, having received her degree in English and Theater. Thomas’ work has been featured in multiple journals, including Mid-Atlantic Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Gargoyle, Maryland Literary Review, Ligeia Magazine, Pembroke Magazine, and many more. She was recently interviewed in Issue 1 of The Basilisk Tree poetry journal. She lives with her husband, son and a barking Miniature Schnauzer in the suburbs of Washington, DC. You can find her at gilliansalwayswrite.com.

is the author of two poetry collections: Spoke (2026, The Word Works' Hilary Tham Capital Collection), and Ladies' Abecedary (2021, Harbor Editions). Her poems, essays, and reviews have been featured by the Poetry Foundation, Poetry Society of America, and The Missouri Review's Poem of the Week, and have appeared in Harvard Review, AGNI, Barrow Street, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. A member of the National Book Critics Circle and a finalist for the 2024 National Poetry Series, Arden lives in New York City, where her daily work focuses on housing affordability, homelessness prevention, and equitable community development.

is a disabled artist living in Michigan. Her debut poetry collection is FREELAND (Alice James, 2025), and she created and edited That's a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions (New Village Press, 2023). Leigh formerly worked for Rachel Zucker's poetry podcast Commonplace, and teaches workshops and classes when she can, often remotely. She is also a paralegal for a local civil rights attorney. She loves string cheese and her pup, Elmo.

's short fiction has appeared in literary journals such as the Colorado Review, the South Carolina Review, and now Epiphany. She is a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA program where she was the recipient of a Truman Capote Fellowship, a Lainoff Fellowship and the Himan Brown Award.

work is forthcoming in The Rumpus, and has appeared in Runner's World/Apple News Narrated, North American Review, Swamp Pink, Masters Review, Door=Jar, and more. She has an MFA from the University of Arizona and was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She lives on Colorado's Western Slope.

is a Nigerian writer living on the U.S. East Coast. She has been previously published in Strange Horizons, Feign Lit, Thimble Literary Magazine, Brittle Paper and elsewhere. Essien enjoys reading, video game escapism, and surrendering herself to the whims of her cat.

has written five novels: St. Ivo, Swimming, The Outside of August, The German Bride, and A Dual Inheritance. Her work has been published in (among other places) The Yale Review, Granta, The New York Times, One Story, The Virginia Quarterly Review, the anthologies Brooklyn Was Mine, Freud's Blind Spot and was short-listed for the 2007 O. Henry Prize Stories. She teaches in the MFA program at Columbia University and lives with her family in Brooklyn.

is a writer, psychotherapist, and swimmer. Her essays and poetry have appeared in The Dodge, Queer Love Project, Gulf Stream, Cimarron Review, and Santa Fe Literary Review, among other journals. She has completed a memoir that reckons with her family’s inter-generational athletic passion. She’s working on a collection of essays documenting a swimmer’s-eye view of the climate crisis in the ocean and along her home coasts. Asya received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and an MSW in clinical social work from Hunter College in NYC. She is a 2025 Lambda Literary Fellow and a 2025 Monson Arts writer-in-residence. She lives in Long Beach, CA with her wife.

is the award-winning author of six books of fiction and poetry, including the celebrated novel Song of the Shank, which was a front-page review in both The New York Times Book Review and The San Francisco Chronicle. Allen’s other accolades include The Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Fiction, The Chicago Public Library’s Twenty-First Century Award, the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, a grant from Creative Capital, a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, a NYFA grant, residencies at the Bellagio Center, Ucross, The Hermitage, VCCA, Monson Arts, and Jentel Arts, and fellowships at The Center for Scholars and Writers, the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He was a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Allen is the Africa Editor for The Evergreen Review. His latest books are the short story collection Fat Time and the memoir An Unspeakable Hope, the latter co-authored with Leon Ford. Allen is at work on several projects, including a memoir entitled Mother-Wit and the short story collection Try Me. Allen makes his home in Johannesburg and New York. Find out more about him at www.writerjefferyrenardallen.com.

work has appeared in Necessary Fiction, failbetter, Burningword, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, The Stonecoast Review and others. She's the recipient of a 2023 Pushcart Prize and teaches at the Writers Studio in New York. She lives in the Hudson Valley.

is a nonfiction writer from the Midwest. She is an MFA candidate in the University of Minnesota’s Creative Writing Program, where she was a College of Liberal Arts Fellow. Julia lives with her husband in Minneapolis and is working on a memoir about pregnancy loss, adoption, and the fraught complexities of making a family. Her work and progress can be found at juliaoschwaldtilton.com.

is a Boston-area writer using fiction, journalism, and poetry to explore themes of social justice, trauma, and family secrets. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at Randolph College. You can read more of her work at www.laurenjappe.com.

is a writer and poet from the Philadelphia, PA area. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany Magazine, Bellingham Review, HAD, and Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine, among other places. She has an MFA from Randolph College.

is the founder of Poetry Table, a workshop for readers and writers. Her work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in The New York Times Magazine, SIR, and Angel Food. She was raised in the Midwest and lives in New York.

holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University School of the Arts. His work has been featured in numerous literary journals and magazines, and he has won or placed in various literary contests. A Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction nominee, he won Northwestern University Press’s Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize contest in 2023, for which his debut chapbook, This is My Body, was published in 2025. Currently, he serves as a Zoeglossia Fellow and lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Poet, memoirist, and translator, Rajiv Mohabir is the author of five books of poetry, the latest is Seabeast (Four Way Books 2025). His books have been awarded gold in Forward Indies and Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur. His other honors include being finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/America Open Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, and both second place and finalist for the Guyana Prize for Literature. His translations have won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets. Currently he teaches poetry at the University of Colorado Boulder.

is a poet based in Brooklyn by way of China and Michigan. Her work can be found in publications such as The Rumpus, The Margins, and The Seventh Wave. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she received her MFA in creative writing from New York University and is the associate poetry editor at West Branch. She also makes crossword puzzles which have appeared in several major news outlets.

received his BFA in Dramatic Writing from SUNY Purchase and is now working toward an MFA in Creative Writing at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. He was recently named a finalist for the 2025 Swamp Pink Prize in Fiction. His work has been supported by the Kenyon Writers Workshop, is forthcoming in Salamander, and has appeared in The Pinch and elsewhere.

is a writer and recruiter living in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Virginia.

likes critters of all kinds, interior design, and stickers. She is a senior at Connecticut College studying English literature, and she works part time as a florist. This is her first publication.

(She/They) is a fiction writer and literary translator. They are an MFA fiction student at Arizona State Univeristy, now working on a fictional memoir that weaves family history, diasporic experiences, and their father’s involvement in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Their translation work focuses on translating Chinese poetry with an emphasis on works by queer and female poets. You can find their translation on Asymptote.

is a Ghanaian writer and graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

is a poet and literary scout working in New York City. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The White Review, Poetry Ireland, The London Magazine, New Ohio Review, Image, and Anthropocene, among others. She is the author of a debut chapbook, AGNES (Wrong Press, 2023). She has a Poetry MFA from Columbia University and is poetry editor of Angel Food magazine. Nina is from London.

Designer, Artist and Independent scholar of Modern Literature living in NYC.

is a poet living in Tucson, Arizona.

is a white, non-binary writer, dancer, singer, cold water plunger and (self-proclaimed) hot chocolate alchemist hailing from Brooklyn by way of western Massachusetts. They are the author of the poetry chapbook Waterfall of Thanks (Bottlecap Press, 2023), and their work has further appeared in Rattle, The Common, ONLY POEMS, and elsewhere. They are a former Brooklyn Poets Fellow, and are currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at NYU.

is a writer and artist living in New York. Her fiction has appeared in BOMB and Joyland Magazine, and she’s also contributed to ArtForum and Cultured Magazine. A recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist grant, she has performed and exhibited at MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.

is a poet and author based in the UK. In 2025 he has had poems published in The Comstock Review, B O D Y, Poetics, The Passionfruit Review, Humana Obscura, Meniscus Literary, Santa Clara Review, and others, and has received a Best of the Net nomination.

chapbook, Seasick Serenade was published with Bottlecap Press in 2024. His chapbook, The Book of False Rhyme, was published with Finishing Line Press in 2013. He has been published in Field, Beloit Poetry Journal, Spillway, Zyzzyva, Image, Los Angeles Review, Cortland Review, North American Review, and other journals.

Murphy received a Master’s degree in English at California State University Northridge and lives with his family in Los Angeles.

is a poet, painter, and teaching artist from Charlotte, North Carolina, by way of Houston, Texas. A first-generation Nigerian-American Muslim woman, her work explores the intersections of identity, faith, and belonging.

is the author of the autobiographical novel The Fear of Large and Small Nations (Nauset Press, 2023), a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially-Engaged Fiction and a bronze medalist for the Foreword Indies Prize in Multicultural Fiction. Her previous books include Princess Freak (Beyond Baroque Books, 2000), a collection of poetry, and Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter (Aunt Lute Books, 2008), a memoir.

is the author of two novels, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket and What I Did Wrong, and the story collection, Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Queens College CUNY, where he is a member of the faculty in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation.

has studied at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she also received a teaching fellowship. She has work published in or forthcoming in Plume, The Rumpus, Image Magazine, Florida Review, the North American Review, The New Flash Fiction Review, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for Georgia Review’s 2024 Lorraine William’s Poetry Prize, the 2025 North American Review’s James Hearst Prize, and was nominated for a Pushcart this year.

is the author of Rhinoceroses (2006 New School Chapbook Award). His work is included in the Best American Erotic Poems (Scribner, 2008) and the Incredible Sestina Anthology (Write Bloody, 2013). His full-length manuscript, By Morning, was a runner -up for the Poulin Prize. Recent poems appear in Bennington Review, Salamander, and Poet Lore. Michael lives in Tarrytown, New York, where he serves as Board Chair of the Hudson Valley Writers Center.

is a queer tattooer and multidisciplinary artist who believes all bodies are disgusting and holy. Her work meditates on wounds and the unyielding light that pours from them. Her recent publications include Black Warrior Review, The Glass Post, Gone Lawn, Wild Roof, and Suspended Magazine. Her artwork has been showcased at World’s Fair Gallery, Villain Arts, New England Tattoo Convention, and on bodies across the US. She is currently based out of her boyfriend’s Subaru Forester.

You can find more of her work on Instagram @tattoosbyemilyfalkowski

was born in the coastal town of Ondarroa in 1978, into a fishing family. She is the author of several poetry collections in Basque, some of which have been translated into Spanish, by herself and others. Her most recent poetry collection, Home Waters, won the Lauaxeta Prize—a prestigious annual award for a poetry collection in Basque given by the Council of Biscay. She is also a playwright and lyricist. She lives and works in Durango, outside of Bilbao. Between Fish Scales will be her English-language debut.

is a writer and translator who grew up between the Basque Country and the UK. Her debut book of translations, Between Fish Scales: Selected Poems by Leire Bilbao, will appear with World Poetry Books in spring 2026.

is a writer and bookmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. She has received grants for her fiction from the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and three times from the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as fellowships from Yaddo, Saltonstall, Ucross, and Art Omi. Her work has appeared in Joyland and The Kenyon Review, among other publications. Hand, Held, her artist's book about her father's art practice, is forthcoming from Bored Wolves.

is an artist based in Flushing, New York. He was born in Nanchong, China, in 1931, and has lived in Taipei and New York City most of his life, with stints on cargo ships and in Los Angeles. In 2002, once he moved to Flushing in retirement, he was able to pursue painting and drawing full-time.

is a digital artist currently based in Kampala, Uganda. His practice unfolds at the intersection of different media including collage, photography, and emerging technologies. He uses these forms as both an archive and inquiry into memory, heritage, and identity through bodies of work such as “the battle of kagogo”. Through these explorations Evans hopes that his work uncovers the layered and often fragmented ways in which we understand ourselves and each other.

works as a freelance writer and editor in Wisconsin’s Fox River Valley. He earned his doctorate in English from UW-Milwaukee. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several journals, including The Journal, Copper Nickel, Boulevard, Bellevue Literary Review, On the Seawall, Southeast Review, and Southern Poetry Review. His website is josephradke.com

is a Montana poet and writer who
has worked as a Teaching Artist in schools/communities programs throughout the West and Midwest for more than 50 years. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize, and appears in many print and online journals, most recently Plant-Human Quarterly; The Naugatuck River Review; Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts; and december. Her latest books are In January, the Geese, winner of the Comstock Review 35th Anniversary Chapbook Prize; Flyover Country, Pine Row Press 2024, which was the Western Writers of America 2025 SPUR Award Finalist; and Night Music, Finishing Line Press 2024.

is a poet and translator based in New York City. Her work can be found in Asymptote, Words Without Borders, The Believer, Slice Magazine, Portland Review, The American Journal of Poetry, The Scores (UK), and American Chordata, among other publications in the US and abroad. She has read her translations at The British Library’s Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition in London, was selected by The Poetry Society of New York for a residency at the iconic Mid-Manhattan branch of The New York Public Library, and was a 2019 ALTA Travel Fellow. Her manuscript The Errant was a finalist for The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize.

has been translating fiction and non-fiction by Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian writers since the 1980s. The AATSEEL translation award was given to her translation of David Albahari’s short-story collection Words Are Something Else, ALTA's National Translation Award was given to her translation of Albahari's novel Götz and Meyer in 2006. Her book Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working in a Tug-of-War was given the Mary Zirin Prize in 2015.

literary career began with translating contemporary Hungarian plays for the OBIE-winning Threshold Theater Company, including those of János Háy, which led him to Háy's fiction and the irresistible urge to translate some of that as well. Stretch, published herein, is one small result of that endeavor.

is a photographer whose work has appeared in books, magazines, exhibitions and numerous anthologies, exhibition catalogues and a variety of media, digital and motion picture. He got his start in 1969 photographing for alternative/underground newspapers and magazines. His work was widely published in posters, books and hundreds of periodicals.

was born in Germany, grew up in Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and Ghana, and spent 22 very happy years in New York City, before settling for a quieter life in Asturias, Northern Spain. Formerly the owner of a Manhattan fancy cake shop, she now spends most of her time as a freelance illustrator, muralist and surface designer. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, A Cup of Jo, Buzzfeed, and in various books. You can find her murals at Jack’s Wife Freda restaurants in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and her wallpaper in restaurants, homes, and shops all over the world.

is a Costa Rican American poet and prose writer. He is the author of In The Absence of Clocks, which was awarded the 2011 Crab Orchard Series Open Competition, judged by Yusef Komunyakaa. Jacob is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, the Dzanc Books ILP International Literature Award, the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship in Provincetown, the Djerassi Resident Artist’s Fellowship, and the Amy Clampitt residency in Lenox, MA. His second book Paraíso was selected for the inaugural CantoMundo Poetry Prize judged by Aracelis Girmay. He is a 2018/019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, a Lannan Literary Fellow for Poetry, and a current 2024-2025 Rome Prize winner in Literature.

is a writer, artist, and educator living in Fort Worth, TX. His work has appeared in publications such as Brooklyn Rail, Compose Journal, Paste Magazine, Pidgeon Holes, Waxwing, and elsewhere. He is a regular contributor to Chicago Review of Books.

is a Russian-to-English literary translator.

is a Malaysian-Chinese writer who currently lives and writes in Toronto. Her fiction has previously been published or is forthcoming in The Drum Literary Magazine, Necessary Fiction and the Master’s Review Anthology Volume IX. She taught creative writing at the University of Iowa and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

is originally from Wisconsin and attended Carleton College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

lives in Washington, DC. His writing has appeared in Crazyhorse, Foglifter, The Chattahoochee Review, The Millions, The Rumpus, and other publications. His debut novel, Let’s Get Back to the Party, is forthcoming in February 2021 from Algonquin Books.

debut poetry collection is This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021). Her second collection is forthcoming with Four Way Books in 2023. A poet and translator, her honors include a 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize and a Poets & Writers Amy Award. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Purchase College, SUNY and the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Orange Journal.

is the author of ten books—six novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life. Four of these were chosen as New York Times Notable Books, two as New York Times Editors’ Choices. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Best American Short Stories, Tin House, and elsewhere. Her work has been widely anthologized and broadcast on NPR. Her books have been published in England, France, Germany, Holland, and Spain. She is the recipient of many awards, the most recent the Barnes & Noble “Writers for Writers” Award, from Poets & Writers.

is an Iranian-American poet and essayist. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Poem-a-Day, The Georgia Review, Indiana Review, The Journal, Rattle and elsewhere.

nonfiction debut, The Striker and the Clock was published by Riverhead (U.S.) and Bloomsbury (U.K.) in July, 2024. Her other writing can be found in The Yale Review, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, n+1, Defector and Joyland among other places. She holds an MFA from the University of Idaho and is currently the Phillip Renshaw Visiting Author in Residence at Linfield University.

teaches creative writing at Binghamton University, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in English Rhetoric & Creative Writing. She is a recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the Marion Clayton Link Endowment, and has formerly served as director of the Binghamton Poetry Project, a free community workshop program through the Binghamton Center for Writers. She is an assistant editor and reading series curator for New York Quarterly and poetry co-editor of Harpur Palate.

is a Polish-German writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and is currently at work on a collection of short stories. Martyna’s films have been screened at AFI DOCS, Rooftop Films, and One World Film Festival, among others. Her latest film, “Elevator Pitch,” was released by Time Magazine and Field of Vision, and was nominated for a Critics Choice Documentary Award for Best Short Documentary.

fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in New Ohio Review—where Lauren Groff selected her story as the winner of the 2020 NOR Fiction Prize—Shenandoah, New Orleans Review, The Florida Review (Aquifer), and elsewhere. She serves as the fiction/nonfiction book review editor for Colorado Review, is a reader for Ploughshares, and was recently awarded a Tennessee Williams fiction scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She can be found at nicolevanderlinden.com and on twitter @vandanicole.

is the author of four books of fiction: Ofelia and Norma, Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories, Hola and Goodbye: Una Familia in Stories, and When the de la Cruz Family Danced. Her newest book of fiction, Ofelia and Norma, is from Regal House Publishing.

is a writer, painter, and educator, who has lived and worked in Italy for most of the past 30 years. She taught painting and drawing at Temple University, Cornell University, and University of Washington in Rome, amongst other programs. She was Director of the European Honors Program of Rhode Island School of Design and served as Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome. She was Executive Director of Civitella Ranieri for 15 years, until she retired in 2022. Her work was included in the anthology Apple, Tree in 2019 and her poems have been published in the Bennington Review and The Journal for Poetic Research, amongst others. She is the editor of the anthology, Feathers from the Angel’s Wing, a collection of poems inspired by the paintings of Piero della Francesca.

is a Nez Perce writer and author of The Beadworkers: Stories (Counterpoint 2019), which was longlisted for the PEN/Bingham prize for Debut Short Story Collection and the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and shortlisted for the California Booksellers Alliance “Golden Poppy” Prize for Fiction. She is an associate professor of Comparative Literature and Native American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

is a civilian employee of the Department of Defense and an officer in the Marine Corps Reserve. He lives with his wife and dog in Virginia. He is obliged to notify readers that his writing does not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.

received the John S. Simmons/Iowa Short Fiction Award for his book Western Electric. He also won an O.Henry Prize, and one of his stories was cited as a distinguished story of the year in the 2019 Best American Short Stories. He has published widely in literary magazines including Prairie Schooner, The Hopkins Review, New Letters, Fourteen Hills, and The Alaska Quarterly. He has lived in Virginia, Colorado, Missouri, and New Mexico, where he taught at the University of New Mexico. He studied with John Edgar Wideman, Thoreau and Emerson scholar Robert D. Richardson, and John Williams, author of Stoner.

fiction has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, The Normal School, Fiction International, Los Angeles Review, and other publications. He was born in Belarus and lives in Brooklyn.

is a journalist and editor specializing in housing justice, land rights, and gendered violence. She is dedicated to storytelling at the intersection of race, identity, and justice.

was a writer-in-residence in poetry at Bard College for two decades and is currently Special Projects Manager for Bard IWT.

is a poet writing in both English and Chinese, he is the author of Burying the Mountain, a debut poetry collection published by Copper Canyon Press in 2021.

poems have found homes in places like Ploughshares, The North American Review, Third Coast, The Cortland Review, Best New Poets 2023, Waxwing, RHINO, Plume, Ninth Letter, etc. Nicole’s first chapbook was chosen by Rigoberto González as the winner of The New School's Annual Contest and her second chapbook The Next Field Over was published by Tolsun Books in 2022. She is also a a community educator, arts event’s producer, a visual artist, the co-founder of the Brooklyn-based Say Yes Electric Collective (2015-2018). Nicole is the current Poet Laureate of Tompkins County / Ithaca, NY.

holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and received an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers-Newark University. Recipient of a 2013 Fulbright Scholar Grant and a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, he teaches literature and creative writing at Vilnius University.

is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer whose work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Identity Lessons: Learning to Be American, eds. Gillan (1999), Growing Up Ethnic in America, eds. Gillan (1999), The Lifted Brow (2008), World Literature Today and other publications. She received the Yeovil Fiction Award (Somerset, England), for a novel in progress in 2017. She has been awarded fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ledig House/Writers Omi, Hawthornden Castle, Jentel Arts, and Hedgebrook.

holds a PhD in poetics. His chapbook, Licht, is forthcoming from Seven Kitchens Press. He lives in New York.

is a fiction and essay writer based in the American Midwest, where he perennially attempts--and fails--to maintain a garden. His work has been featured in journals stashed under his bed, spare pieces of receipt paper, and in his media and culture podcast, The Navel Gaze.

writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Qu, Baltimore Review, and elsewhere. She’s co-managing editor for The Forge Literary Magazine and eternally at work on a novel. She’s a marathoner with epilepsy and two very stinky dogs.

is a recipient of the Tim McGinnis Award for Fiction, as well as fellowships from Artist Trust and Jack Straw Cultural Center. His stories appear in such journals as AGNI, The Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, and Moss.

is a fiction and creative non-fiction writer and is the author of the forthcoming novel-in-stories, River In The House (Milkweed Editions, 2027) and the critically-acclaimed Mrs. Somebody Somebody, Random House 2010.

is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA Fiction Program, where she served as a Fiction Board Member at the Columbia Journal. Dawn has mentored elementary students for the National Novel Writing competition and worked with underserved high school students to perform at the Len Fest Young Writer’s Present. Dawn was a semifinalist for the inaugural Jesmyn Ward Fiction Prize. She lives in New York, where she’s currently working on a novel about 9/11 survivors and a book of short stories. She teaches at Columbia’s Creative Writing Immersive Program.

is a Filipina-American writer from Newark, New Jersey, currently residing in Chicago, Illinois. Her debut chapbook, Roundtrip, was published by Finishing Line Press in March 2025, named as the second honorable mention in the 2023 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Contest. Her work has been published in BRINK, Atlanta Review, Tampa Review, Tyger Quarterly, and SUSPECT.

is a writer and visual artist from Columbus, Ohio. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and appeared in Barrelhouse and Best Debut Short Stories. In 2021, she was named a winner of the PEN America/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. In 2022, she was named a Tin House Scholar. When she’s not writing or creating art, Lindsay can be found helping nonprofits wrangle their communications.

is a poet and writer from Marietta, Georgia. Her debut poetry collection, I Would Define the Sun (2025), won the inaugural Vanderbilt University Literary Prize. She is the author of the chapbooks Survived By: An Atlas of Disappearance (2023 Host Publications Chapbook Prize) and She Has Dreamt Again of Water (2021 Diode Editions Chapbook Contest). Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Missouri Review, Hopkins Review, Literary Hub, Copper Nickel, Ecotone, and elsewhere.

writing has been supported by Bread Loaf, Storyboard, Lighthouse, Centrum, Writing x Writers, and Fine Arts Work Center. When she’s not writing, she makes large, sculptural pottery you can find in design studios around Denver. She lives with her wife and dog and calls the Rocky Mountain West her home.

is a poet and short fiction writer who daylights as an experienced business leader.

is a queer artist, editor, and educator in New Orleans. Nikki has been published or has work forthcoming with Gulf Coast, The Georgia Review, Black Lawrence Press, and others. She is the 2022 recipient of the Leslie McGrath Poetry Prize and 2023 recipient of the Juxtaprose Poetry Award for her manuscript, Bloom. Swamp Elegies, Nikki’s first full-length collection, won the 2025 New American Poetry Prize and will debut at the end of 2026.

is a poet, editor, writing coach, letterpress printer, and graphic designer who loves to experiment with all forms of art at the intersection of text and image. She is a maker of visual poems & zines, and a designer of broadsides & books. Her poetry collection Catechesis: a postpastoral (2019) won the 2018 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from The University of Utah Press.

is a poet, author, and educator born and raised on the land of the Ohlone, San Francisco, California. She holds an MFA in poetry from New York University. Her poetry has appeared in The Courtland Review, West Trade Review, Southern Indiana Review, Interim, Tahoma Literary Review, The New Republic, and others. She has been nominated for Best New Poets 2022 and Best of the Net 2021 for her work; and is the author of Unearth [The Flowers] (Red Light Lit Press, 2020), which was listed under Kirkus Reviews’ Best Indie Poetry of 2020.

is the author of Falsehood (After Hours Editions, 2020), as well as three poetry chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in BOMB, Fence, LitHub, The Recluse, and Michigan Quarterly Review, and anthologies including Inheriting the War and Brooklyn Poets Anthology. She’s been in residence at Saltonstall Arts Colony and was an Emerging Poets Fellow at Poets House. Emily is a co-founding editor of No, Dear, curator of the LINEAGE reading series at Wendy’s Subway, member of the video art collaborative Temp.Files, and a somatic creative coach. She is of Sicilian, Polish and Ukrainian descent.

is a writer, artist, and musician living in Austin, TX. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Texas. Her stories have been long-listed, short-listed, and finalists for multiple prizes and nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize four times. Her work has appeared in StoryQuarterly, Brink, No Tokens, Southern Humanities Review, Crazyhorse, and more. She is the managing editor at American Short Fiction.

has had three books published, Left to Themselves, Transubstantiation, and Stealing Time. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Antioch Review, and the Mississippi Review, as well as in a number of journals that publish flash fiction, including Helen, The Citron Review, and Tiferet. Currently, she is working on a series of climate change novellas set in past and future Cleveland.

is an emerging writer based in Brooklyn. Her fiction has previously appeared in Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Plain China. She's thinking about cutting her bangs again.

currently teaches at Delta College. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Story Magazine, Tahoma Literary Review, Wigleaf, and The Saturday Evening Post, among others.

lives in San Francisco. Other of his stories can be found at X-R-A-Y, Whiskey Tit, and ergot. Learn more at http://nathangrover.com.

was born in Los Angeles. She currently resides in Jackson Heights, New York, and works as a nurse. She has published short stories in the Georgia Review and TriQuarterly.

Born and raised in China, Zhenglong Yang moved to America after working for 12 years as a host at a state-owned TV station. His work has been published or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s Quarterly, StoryQuarterly, and Best Debut Short Stories 2025, and has received the 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and 2026 Stephen Dixon Award. He holds an MFA from the New Writers Project at UT Austin.

is an LA-based writer who has published four books, including E! Entertainment and Hoarders, which was named a best book of the year by Electric Lit, NPR, and Lit Hub. Her prose has been published in The Baffler, LARB Quarterly, Flaunt, Joyland, Art in America, and elsewhere. Her visual art has been shown or is forthcoming in shows at MOCA Budapest, SF Moma, Picture Berlin, VKBOE in Vienna, and more.

is a fiction writer and a faith development practitioner. Her works sit at the intersection of the Christian faith and the complexities of the human condition, exploring themes of social issues, faith, family dynamics, regressive customs, social malaise, spiritual abuse, and political corruption. She is a 2026 Center for Fiction Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow, a finalist for the 2026 Epiphany Fresh Voice Fellowship, and an editor's selection for the 2024 Masters Review Novel Excerpt.

(1941-2014) published more than 50 books of poetry in Slovenia. Translated into over 25 languages, his poetry received numerous awards, including the Jenko Prize, the Prešeren Prize, the European Prize for Poetry, and the Mladost Prize. Kiss the Eyes of Peace: Selected Poems 1964-2014 appeared from Milkweed Editions in 2024 and was shortlisted for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize.

is the author of three prize-winning full-length books of poetry, Lady Wing Shot (2024), Swan Wife (2022), and Hillbilly Madonna (2022) and three chapbooks. She is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award and a Sustainable Arts Foundation award. Her poetry has been featured recently in North American Review, Post Road, The Journal, and on The Slowdown. She is Managing Poetry Editor of Driftwood Press. Find her at saramoorewagner.com.

has a BA from Williams College and an MFA from Boston University. She was a recipient of a Brooklyn Poets fellowship, and her poetry has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, The Rialto, Guesthouse, the TLS, and other publications. She was co-founder and -editor of Volume Poetry. Originally from North Carolina, she now lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she edits art books. Her website is madelinegilmore.com.

is a fiction reader for Short Story, Long. He has poems and prose in Literary Matters, Poems for Persons of Interest, Lost Balloon, and elsewhere. He sometimes writes at https://inanorchardsoftwithrot.substack.com.

is an international legal academic who writes poetry as therapy in his spare time. He is a fan of wildlife documentaries, Sunday crosswords, hiking, night skies, and all things by the beach.

received her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. She works in publishing and lives in Brooklyn.

lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan where she is an assistant professor of English. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Daily, Witness, and Denver Quarterly Review, among other publications. She edits poetry for Waxwing and coordinates the Poets in Print reading series at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center.

is the recipient of the 2024 Women's Prose Prize from Red Hen Press for her hybrid memoir Mud on the Moon, forthcoming in August 2026. She teaches at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, and is the founder and host emeritus of Sunday Salon, a New York City reading series. Her work has appeared in MĀNOA, Identity Theory, Brink, and The Margins, among others. Originally from Southeast Alaska, she lives in Queens, NY.

is a poet living in Seattle, Washington. She writes about human experiences of loss, of growing up, of aging and being alive in the natural world. The author of the chapbook Naked Rib (Finishing Line Press), her work has also appeared in many journals including The Penn Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Booth, Passager, Rust & Moth, The McNeese Review, Catamaran. You can find her at https://deborrahcorr.com/

is an Iranian-American poet and psychotherapist. She is the author of the poetry collection, Daughter of Salt (Trio House Press, 2026), the Editor’s Selection. She has won The Iowa Review Award, The Cincinnati Review’s Schiff Award, and a PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship. A Pushcart nominee, her poems appear in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, AGNI, Pleiades, among others. Her work can be followed at @Leila_poetry and leilafarjami.com

is from a small town on the shoulder of the San Bernardino Mountains. Her poetry is informed by land that wants to quake and catch fire. She lives in Los Angeles where she co-hosts Briefly Here, a monthly reading series. Aubrey is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in New American Writing, Spillway, and Hole in the Head Review, among other places.

is the author of Reflections While Living in Utah (2020), a poetic exploration of queer self‑acceptance. Based in Boston, they serve as the Culture & Events Producer at JustBook‑ish and read poetry for The Offing. Lin earned their MFA in Poetry from the University of New Orleans in 2025. Their work appears in the Academy of American Poets, Sinister Wisdom, and other journals.

is a German poet whose most recent work is Es beginnt: Trauerrefrain (So the Day Begins: Grief Refrain). She is one of the most significant contemporary German poets; her writing has been recognized with many awards, most recently the Peter Huchel Prize (2024). Her work includes multiple volumes of poetry, translations and essays.

is a writer, performer, and educator. He is the author of The Willies (2021 Midwestern Independent Book Award winner), and his work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, and The Rumpus, among others. Adam has travelled widely as a visiting artist, scholar and facilitator—and was the featured performer at President Obama’s Grassroots Ball at the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. He holds a PhD from Columbia University.

was born in Budapest in 1988.  Her first short stories that appeared in magazines earned her several literary awards and prizes. Her second volume of stories, including this one, came out in September 2023.

is a writer and multimedia artist. She is the author of Semiotics, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She is the Writer-in-Residence at Occidental College and lives in Los Angeles.

is a poet and writer living in Orlando, Florida, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany, Salt Hill, Rust & Moth, The Citron Review, The Indianapolis Review, and other journals. She was the winner of Ashland Poetry Press’s 2026 Poetry Broadside Contest and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. More about her can be found at kiannagreene.com.

is a poet of Hakka-Mauritian descent. Born in outer London and raised in Singapore, she lives in the high desert of North Central Arizona, where she co-edits Shō Poetry Journal. Her poetry appears in wildness, The Georgia Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Southern Review, Best New Poets, South Carolina Review, The McNeese Review, and elsewhere. Find her online at dominiqueahkong.com or @domkeykong.

is a poet and writer. His poems have appeared in ASTRA, Frozen Sea, Narrative Magazine, Brooklyn Poets, among others. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

is at work on We Quit Believing, a book of poems about siblinghood, punk rock, God, and grief. His poems, stories, and essays can be found in Florida Review, Booth, Emerson Review, and others, which he shares on various social media hellscapes @alexisapoet.

is a writer from Michigan. Before pursuing her PhD at Washington University, St. Louis, she taught middle school in North Carolina.

is a London-based disabled poet of Iraqi-Chaldean, Irish, and Ashkenazi heritage. Recent/upcoming publications include The Poetry Review, Magma, Poetry London, PROTOTYPE 7, Gutter Magazine, The Aftershock Review, and the Propel Anthology 2025. His debut collection is due to be published in the UK by Akoya Publishing in 2027.

is the author of two collections of poetry, Enter Invisible and Gin & Bleach. Her poems have been published in such journals as Poetry, The Nation, and The New Republic. She teaches at Kent State University and is honored to be a recipient of a 2026 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award.

is a Southern femme poet and professor with writing in DIAGRAM, West Trade Review, POETRY, Florida Review, BOOTH, and elsewhere. She rides her broomstick between NYC and NC, teaching hybrid-genre writing classes at Lycanthrope Academy while writing two novels at once, and dreams often of bioluminescence and bats. After climbing out from the coffin of monstrous love, get ready for her debut poetry collection Venus In Transit (Red Hen Press) in 2027.

is a Midwest-raised, New York City-living creative with a deep appreciation for the ocean, old and new friends, and sparkling fruit drinks. ​She is currently an MFA in Writing candidate at Columbia University​, with her work appearing and forthcoming in publications like Black Warrior Review, The Georgia Review, and more. Born into a noisy Malaysian Chinese American family, she writes poems, prose, and postcards.

Amalia Melis is a writer/assemblage maker who tells stories with text/found objects. She is creator of the Aegean Arts Circle writing workshops in Andros, Greece. A New Yorker, her heart lives in Andros where her family originates from. Favorite subject to explore is the displaced soul-one who loses a homeland only to get caught longing for home no matter where she lives. She is a reporter, essayist, fiction writer. Stories are all around us.

is a New Zealand painter-poet, author Meat Lovers and editor of Sweet Mammalian. Her illuminated manuscript chapbook HIDE will be published by Ngā Pukapuka Pekapeka in 2026, and her second collection Fool's Spring is forthcoming from Yes Yes Books and Auckland University Press.

is a former fisheries scientist who worked for forty-five years in the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Sitka, and Seattle. Munro has recently earned a poetry MFA at the University of Washington, Seattle. Munro’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in such journals as Poetry, the Beloit Poetry Journal, the Iowa Review, Barrow Street, the Birmingham Poetry Review, Rattle, Fugue, the Painted Bride Quarterly, The Coachella Review, and Poetry Northwest.

is the author of 8 books of fiction and non-fiction, most recently the novel, The Gossip Columnist's Daughter, a New Yorker Best Book of 2025.

is a community organizer, poet, and public librarian living in Brooklyn. Their work is situated in the struggle against imperialism. They have received fellowships at the Poetry Project and Brooklyn Poets. Their poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Protean Magazine, Apogee Journal, and elsewhere. Born in Manila, they have lived by the ocean their entire life.

(1947–1996) was an Iranian novelist and short story writer. A key figure among second-generation Persian women novelists of the 1970s, she helped shape a distinctly Iranian narrative voice rooted in classical literature and mysticism. Her novel The Edrisis’ House received the Twenty Years of Fiction Writing award from Iran’s Ministry of Culture in 1999.

is an Indian poet. An MFA graduate from McNeese State University, she has won awards from Sundress Academy For The Arts, Louisiana Office of Cultural Development, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Hambidge Center, Community of Writers, and Kundiman. Her writing has been published in Quarterly West, Notre Dame Review, Buzzfeed, and others. She is an Associate Editor at The Offing Magazine and teaches the Decolonizing Poetry Workshop. You can find her on Instagram: @gauriawasthi.

writing is usually funny or sad; often both. His stories can be found in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, the Carolina Quarterly, Sequestrum, Bridge Eight, and elsewhere. He also creates and edits video, including music videos for rock icon Nancy Wilson and punk legend Richard Hell. For many years, Jeff was a staple of Manhattan daylife as a Happy Hour bartender. He recently finished a draft of a two-act stage play, a drama about suicide, grief, and blame. (It's hilarious.)

is the author of Songs for the Deaf, a story collection; The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman, a novel; Fearsome Creatures of Florida, a bestiary; and The Book I Will Write, a novel-in-emails originally published serially. His short stories have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The North American Review, Mississippi Review, Fourteen Hills, New World Writing, The Rupture, and elsewhere. He teaches in the creative writing MFA program at the University of South Florida, and he’s the founder and advisory editor of Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art. He has just completed a new novel. Though he was born in Detroit and spent his early years in Michigan, this is his first story set in the state.

is the author of two award-winning poetry books. Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad won an International Book Award and Fatima’s Touch, Poems and Stories of the Prophet’s Daughter, was a finalist. Her new book, Across the Difficult with Rabia of Basra and Others, is published by Albion-Andalus Books.

is a Best of the Net- and Pushcart-nominated poet, educator, editor,

and organizer. He has taught at Borough of Manhattan Community College, Paris College of Art, Brooklyn Poets, Polyphony Lit’s Summer Editorial Apprenticeship Program, and community programming throughout New York City, and currently serves as a poetry editor for Sundog Lit. A recipient of the Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship, his work has appeared in the Poetry Foundation, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their two cats.

is a public health professor and poet. He lives in Portland, OR, where he sips dark roast

and rocks Griffey Max 1 Freshwaters, rain or shine. Alum of UVA, Michigan, and UC Berkeley. #FirstGen.

Still represents The Ville. His poems have appeared in both peer-reviewed public health and traditional

poetry journals, including Health Promotion Practice, International Journal of Epidemiology, Critical

Public Health, Kithe Journal, and Bellevue Literary Review, and have been recognized with a National

Poetry Month Prize, a Paper of the Year Award, and a Pushcart Prize nomination, amongst other honors.

You can find some of his other words/works at www.rjpetteway.com.

is a writer and educator who lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Asimov’s Science Fiction, HAD, and The Pinch, among other magazines. She is a 2023 Anthony Veasna So Scholar in Fiction at The Adroit Journal. Maggie is a founding member of Third Lantern Lit, a community writing collective, and a member of the Nautilus and Wildcat Writing Groups. You can find her online at www.margueritesheffer.com and @mlensheffer on social media.

is the author of poetry and stories found in Epiphany, CRAFT, The Florida Review, Reed Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Permafrost Magazine, Broadkill Review, among others. Her poetry chapbooks are available from Moonstone Press. She has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her short story collection Echoes from The Hocker House can be preordered from The Devil’s Party Press. Visit her at: https://virginiawatts.com/ .

is a poet, translator and visual artist writing in L2 from Hong Kong. He is the author of Crevasse, winner of the Lambda Literary Awards in Gay Poetry, and Besiege Me, also a Lammy finalist. His recent work can be found in Georgia Review, Cincinnati Review, Black Warrior Review, Poetry London and The Rialto. IG: citiesofsameness.

is the the author of the story collection I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat (Santa Fe Writers Project). His fiction has been supported by the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and his writing can be found in places like Poets & Writers, the Nation, Wasafiri, Best Microfictions, and Best Small Fictions, among others. He currently works in book publishing, serves as a fiction editor for Barrelhouse magazine, and lurks most places online @livesinpages. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

is a young, queer, Nigerian storyteller and student. They are currently in their final year of studying Literatures in English at the University of Jos, Plateau state, Nigeria. Chidera has works published or forthcoming in Smokelong Quarterly, Chestnut Review, Brittle Paper and Flame Tree Press amongst others. He can be reached on Twitter at @Dera_writes or via email at chideraanikpe@gmail.com.

is the author of four story collections: There’s So Much They Haven’t Told You (2017), winner of the 2016 Moon City Press Short Fiction Award and Finalist for the 2017 Foreward INDIES Book of the Year Award for Short Stories; Shapeshifting, winner of the 2020 Stillhouse Press Short Story Award (2021); They Kept Running, winner of the 2021 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction (2022); and Don’t Take This the Wrong Way (EastOver Press 2025), which she coauthored with Kim Magowan. Her fifth story collection, Squash, is forthcoming from Moon City Press in 2027.
Her fiction has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, and it has been anthologized in the North Anthology Flash Fiction America; Best Small Fictions 2021 and 2023 (in which it was one of ten spotlighted stories); Best Microfiction 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2026; and the Wigleaf Top 50 2019 and 2022. She is editor of 100 Word Story.

is a proud North Carolina native. She is hard at work on her first novel and is a 2026 Periplus fellow. In 2025, she received the Epiphany Literary Magazine Fresh Voices Fellowship, and in 2024, she was a PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow. Sidney has published short stories in Bodega Magazine and Minerva Rising’s The Keeping Room and Epiphany Magazine. She has built her writing community through the Yale Writers’ Workshop, Tin House’s Winter Workshop, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Sidney is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and currently serves as a contributing editor for Epiphany Literary Magazine.

is a writer and educator whose short stories and nonfiction have appeared in Oxford American, The North Carolina Literary Review, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She was awarded the Doris Betts Fiction Prize and is a Pushcart and O. Henry nominee. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's MFA in Creative Writing, she currently teaches creative writing classes for people with cancer, survivors, and caregivers at Hirsch Wellness Network in Greensboro and is at work on her first novel.

Laura Vitcova was born and raised in Northern California and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She obtained an MFA at Pacific University in Creative Writing, Poetry. In 2025, she was a finalist for the NORward Prize, and her debut chapbook, Felled, was published by FLP. In addition to Epiphany, her poems have appeared in Arts & Letters, New Ohio Review, Gulf Coast Journal and elsewhere.