Angie Macri is the author of Underwater Panther (Southeast Missouri State University), winner of the Cowles Poetry Book Prize. Her recent work appears in The Cincinnati Review, Quarterly West, and South Dakota Review. An Arkansas Arts Council fellow, she lives in Hot Springs and teaches at Hendrix College.
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Donna Mendelson lives in Missoula, Montana, and serves as a faculty affiliate in the Davidson Honors College at the University of Montana. Her poetry has appeared in Blueline and Rendezvous and is forthcoming in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.
Read MoreMan in Provincetown
Native of Boston and Martha's Vineyard, MA., Stelios Mormoris is CEO of EDGE BEAUTY, Inc. He has published work in The Fourth River, Gargoyle, Humana Obscura, Midwest Poetry Review, the Nassau Literary Review, Press, Spillway, Sugar House Review, Verse, the Whelk Walk Review and other literary journals.
Read MoreIn Juanita's Garden
Ruth Mota lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California where she writes verse and sometimes leads poetry circles in the community to veterans and men in jail. Her poems have been published in various online and print journals including: Terrapin Books, Passager Books and Black Mountain Press.
Read MorePlanting Season
Gathondu Mwangi is a geographer who occasionally dabbles in poetry. He spends his time between Massachusetts and Kenya, his home country.
Read MoreDaughter, Becoming
Dayna Patterson is the author of Titania in Yellow (Porkbelly Press, 2019) and If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020). Her creative work has appeared recently in The Carolina Quarterly, Passages North, and Whale Road Review. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Psaltery & Lyre and a co-editor of Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. She was a co-winner of the 2019 #DignityNotDetention Poetry Prize judged by Ilya Kaminsky. daynapatterson.com
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Beth Peterson is the author of Dispatches from the End of Ice. A wilderness guide before she began writing, Beth’s essays and poems appear in The Pinch, Fourth Genre, Terrain.org, and other publications. Beth lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan where she is an associate professor at Grand Valley State University.
Read MoreRope into String; Bless
Ayesha Raees identifies herself as a hybrid creating hybrid poetry through hybrid forms. Raees currently serves as an Assistant Poetry Editor at AAWW's The Margins and has received fellowships from Asian American Writers' Workshop, Brooklyn Poets, and Kundiman. Raees's first book of poetry, "Coining The Wishing Tower" won the Broken River Prize hosted by Platypus Press and judged by Kaveh Akbar, and will be forthcoming in March 2022. From Lahore, Pakistan, Raees is a graduate of Bennington College, and currently lives in New York City. Her website is: www.ayesharaees.com
Read MoreNine Months in Midwest Wheat Country—
Mervyn R. Seivwright has appeared in AGNI Literary Magazine, The Trinity Review (Canada), African American Review, Griffel Literature Review (Norway), Cape Cod Poetry Review, Burningword Literary Journal, INNSÆI Journal (India), Mount Island’s Lucy Terry Prince poetry contest 2nd Runner-Up, and Santa Fe Literary Review 2021 Pushcart Nominee. https://www.clippings.me/mervynseivwright
Read MoreBrief Guide to North Star Transfer Station; Fast Eddie
Brody Lane Shappell is a poet based in Fairbanks, Alaska and is currently studying long-distance as a PhD student at Texas Tech University in the creative writing program. Brody’s work has been published in journals such as Cirque and Southwest Review, and has work forthcoming in Antipodes.
Read MoreEl Dios de Los Cuchumatanes
Chris Shorne holds an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles and has work published or forthcoming in Utne, Bennington Review, Portland Review, and Duende. Shorne spent a year as an international human rights accompanier with NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala), living part-time with Ixil genocide survivors in the Cuchumatan mountains.
Read MoreAfter Apple Picking, Late Anthropocene; Swampland; and Words like salsuginous
Martha Silano’s most recent collection is Gravity Assist (Saturnalia Books, 2019). Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, The Cincinnati Review, Cimarron Review, Carolina Quarterly, Sugar House Review, Image, Sixth Finch, North American Review, and elsewhere. Martha teaches at Bellevue College and Hugo House in Seattle.
Read MoreWeminuche Cartogram
MK Sturdevant's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Orion, Newfound, X-R-A-Y Lit Mag, Tiny Molecules, The Lily Poetry Review, The Nashville Review, The Westchester Review, About Place Journal and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the Montana Prize in Fiction and was recently nominated for a Pushcart. She lives in the Midwest.
Read MoreZig :: Zag
Tori Grant Welhouse’s poems have appeared most recently in HerWords and Chestnut Review, and she was a runner-up for the Princemere Prize. She won Skyrocket Press's 2019 novel-writing contest for her YA fantasy The Fergus and Etching Press’s 2020 poetry chapbook competition for Vaginas Need Air. More at www.torigrantwelhouse.com.
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Sharon Whitehill is a retired English professor from West Michigan now living in Port Charlotte, Florida. In addition to poems published in various literary magazines, my publications include two biographies, two memoirs, two poetry chapbooks, and a full collection of poems. I love literature, I loved teaching, but the richness of retirement is getting to do what I yearned to do during the years of reading student writing: devoting myself to my own. Now that's my "work"--all day, every day apart from meetings, appointments, and social pastimes.
Read MoreI Too Take Shelter in the Body; Postscript for a Flyover Country
John Sibley Williams is the author of The Drowning House (Elixir Press Poetry Award), As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize), and Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize). A twenty-six-time Pushcart nominee and winner of various awards, John serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and founder of Caesura Poetry Workshop.
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