Shawn Anto is from Delano, California. He's originally from Kerala, India. His writing has been featured or are forthcoming in Reed Magazine, El Portal, Sierra Nevada Review, and elsewhere.
Aileen Bassis is a visual artist and poet in New York City working in book arts, printmaking, photography and installation. Her use of text in art led her to explore another creative life as a poet. She was awarded two artist residencies in poetry to the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her poems have been nominated for Pushcart prizes and two poems appear in anthologies on the subject of migration. Her journal publications include B o d y Literature, Spillway, Grey Sparrow Journal, Canary, The Pinch Journal and Prelude.
David Carlson is Professor of English at California State University San Bernardino, where he has taught for nearly twenty years. David is founding co-editor of Transmotion (an on-line, open access journal of indigenous studies hosted by the University of Kent). He is also an amateur painter, working primarily in watercolor.
Soo Yeon Chun is currently a rising junior at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. Besides writing into the midnight hours, she enjoys listening to music and practicing drums. Previously, her works have been recognized by Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Jack London Writing Contest, Sheila-Na-Gig, and other online publications. She is currently building a creative writing portfolio for university enrollment in America.
Carol Dorf has three chapbooks available, Given (Origami Poems,) Some Years Ask (Moria Press), and Theory Headed Dragon (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry appears in Shofar, About Place, Great Weather For Media, Slipstream, The Mom Egg, Sin Fronteras, Heresies, Feminist Studies, Scientific American, and Maintenant. She is poetry editor of Talking Writing. She is interested in the intersections between poetry, disability, science and parenting.
Frankie Drayus lives in Los Angeles. She has recent work in Crosswinds Poetry Journal and Passager, and past poems and short-shorts in a number of other small, beautiful places.
Lillie Franks is a trans author and teacher from Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with the best cat. She has been published at venues such as Nonbinary Review, Enchanted Conversations and Awkward Mermaid. You can follow her on Twitter at @onyxaminedlife, but she really is like that all the time. Under no circumstances should she be trusted with your True Name.
Richard Garcia's poetry books include The Other Odyssey (Dream Horse Press, 2014), The Chair (BOA, 2015), and Porridge (Press 53, 2016). His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. He has won a Pushcart prize and has been in Best American Poetry. He lives in Charleston, S.C. [Author photo credit: Sarah Poe]
Jules Gibbs is the author of the full-length poetry collections Snakes & Babies (forthcoming, 2020) and Bliss Crisis (2012), both published by the Sheep Meadow Press, as well as chapbooks from Dancing Girl Press — The Bulk of the Mailable Universe (2011) and Songuary (forthcoming).
Gary Glauber is a widely published poet, fiction writer, teacher, and former music journalist. He champions the underdog, and strives to survive modern life’s absurdities. He has two collections, Small Consolations (Aldrich Press) and Worth the Candle (Five Oaks Press), and a chapbook, Memory Marries Desire (Finishing Line Press). A new chapbook of surreal work, The Covalence of Equanimity, a winner of the 2019 James Tate International Poetry Prize, is now available from SurVision Books.
David Graham’s most recent of seven poetry collections is The Honey of Earth (Terrapin Books). He also co-edited (with Kate Sontag) the essay anthology After Confession, and (with Tom Montag) Local News, an anthology of poems on small town America. Currently retired from teaching, he writes a column, Poetic License, for the online journal Verse-Virtual.
Karen Greenbaum-Maya, retired clinical psychologist, former German major, two-time Pushcart nominee and Best of the Net nominee, and, occasional photographer, is having so much fun she can just barely stand it. Her first full sentence was, “Look at the moon!” She co-curates Fourth Sundays, a poetry series in Claremont, California.
Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is a multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominated poet. His works are appearing or forthcoming in various publications, including Baltimore Literary Review, Bryant Literary Review, Kweli Journal, Longleaf Review, Ploughshares, The Radical Teacher, Rise Up Review, Rigorous, Rhino, Spillway, Tahoma Literary Review and 3Elements Literary Review. The author of Teaching While Black (Main Street Rag, 2020), MEH is an educator who received his MFA from Seattle Pacific University, yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education. His work can be found on MEHPoeting.com.
Folklorist and recently retired university teacher Madronna Holden is taking advantage of her retirement to focus on her poetry. That focus has resulted in the publication of over forty poems in the last two years, in Equinox Poetry and Prose, Cold Mountain Review, Puerto del Sol, About Place, Leaping Clear, The Clackamas Literary Review, the Slippery Elm Literary Review, and many more.
Monica Kidd's fourth book of poetry, Chance Encounters with Wild Animals, was published by Gaspereau Press in 2019. She lives in Calgary, Alberta.
Richard Krause has had two collections of fiction published titled Studies in Insignificance (Livingston Press 2003) and The Horror of the Ordinary (Unsolicited Press 2019). A third collection, Crawl Space & Other Stories of Limited Maneuverability, will be published by Unsolicited press in 2021. EyeCorner Press in Denmark published Optical Biases, his first collection of epigrams in 2012, and Propertius Press published his second collection, Eye Exams, in 2019. His prose poems have recently appeared in Courtship of Winds, Offcourse, Poesis, Shot Glass Journal, and are upcoming in Triggerfish Critical Review and Menacing Hedge. He lived for nine years in Japan and currently lives in Kentucky where he is retired from teaching at a community college. His website is: richardkrausewriting.com
Catfished from Honolulu, Hawai’i with a disgustingly generous financial aid package, Albert Lee 李威夷 is a senior at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Their work interrogates broader questions about Japanese imperial postmemory, diasporic intimacy in the Sinosphere, and the intersections of disability, queerness, and Taiwanese American identity. Their first poetry chapbook, “SP溢LL,” is available for sale at tammyjournal.com. If you feel so inclined, you can find more of their work in Bullets into Bells, Driftwood Press, radical trans poetry, Storm Cellar, and The Poached Hare.
Originally from Chisinau, Moldova, Romana Iorga lives in Switzerland. She is the author of two poetry collections in Romanian. Her work in English has appeared or is forthcoming in Bellingham Review, Lunch Ticket, American Literary Review, and others, as well as on her poetry blog at clayandbranches.com.
Christina Lovin's prose and poetry has appeared in over one hundred literary journals and anthologies, as well as six volumes of poetry: God of Sparrows (forthcoming from Blue Lyra Press), Echo, A Stirring in the Dark, Flesh, Little Fires, and What We Burned for Warmth. She is the recipient of numerous poetry awards, writing residencies, fellowships, and grants, most notably the AWP Kurt Brown Scholarship, the Al Smith Fellowship from Kentucky Arts Council, Kentucky Foundation for Women Artist Enrichment Grants, and an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant.
DS Maolalai has been nominated four times for Best of the Net and twice for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden (Encircle Press, 2016) and Sad Havoc Among the Birds (Turas Press, 2019).
Ann E. Michael's latest chapbook is Barefoot Girls (Prolific Press), and her next collection will be The Red Queen Hypothesis (2021). She lives in Pennsylvania's rapidly-less-rural Lehigh Valley with her husband and two cats, and she blogs on poetry, gardens, books, and philosophy at www.annemichael.wordpress.com.
Sara Lynne Puotinen earned an M.A in ethics and a Ph.D in women’s studies. In 2016 she was diagnosed with cone dystrophy which has destroyed nearly all of her central vision. She experiments with poetic forms to try to understand and describe how she sees the world.
Diana Raab, MFA, PhD, is a poet, memoirist, and blogger, speaker, and award-winning author of nine books. Her work has been published and anthologized in over 1000 publications. Raab blogs for Psychology Today, Thrive Global, and Wisdom Daily and is a guest blogger for many others. She has four poetry collections, including Lust. Her latest books are Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Program for Telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life and Writing for Bliss: A Companion Book. Visit her at: dianaraab.com.
Ron Riekki’s books include U.P. (Ghost Road Press), Posttraumatic (Hoot ‘n’ Waddle), and My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction (Loyola University Maryland’s Apprentice House Press).
Laura Jan Shore’s poetry collections include: Breathworks (Dangerously Poetic Press, 2002) and Water over Stone (IP Picks Best Poetry 2011, Interactive Press). Her latest book, Afterglow, will be published by Interactive Press in July, 2020. She lives on the far North Coast of NSW, Australia.
CP Wilson has an MFA in poetry from Virginia Tech, where he currently teaches rhetoric and composition. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Panoply, Penultimate Peanut, and [peculiar].