Seth Amos is cofounder and former poetry editor of Rivet: The Journal of Writing That Risks. His work has been published in or is forthcoming from Tin House, Blood Orange Review, Cagibi, The Canopy Review, and elsewhere.
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Carol Barrett holds doctorates in both clinical psychology and creative writing. She coordinates the Creative Writing Certificate Program at Union Institute & University. Her books include Calling in the Bones, (Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press), Drawing Lessons (Finishing Line Press), and Pansies (Sonder Press), finalist for the 2020 Oregon Book Award in Nonfiction.
Read MoreSisters at Big Sur; It is February; Mama's Hands
Born and raised in Flowery Branch, Georgia, Brittany J. Barron graduated with her MFA in Creative Writing from Georgia College, where she taught freshman composition and wrote poems about mad girls. Currently, she teaches in the College Composition Program at Florida State University.
Read MoreHometown Air
Rose DeMaris writes poetry, novels, and essays. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published by Random House, The Millions, and Big Sky Journal. She has poems forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cold Mountain Review, and Pine Row Press, and was a finalist for the 2020 Orison Anthology Award in Poetry. A California native, she spent many years in Montana and now lives in Brooklyn.
Read MoreWhale Watch; Like Bait
Vivian Eyre is a New York-based poet, and the author of the poetry chapbook, To the Sound (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have been published and are forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review, The Fourth River, Moon City Review, Quiddity, Pangyrus, Spire, Bellingham Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Buddhist Poetry Journal. She serves as the guest curator for the Southold Historical Society’s Whale House museum.
Read MoreNuclear Cattle
Sharon Hashimoto's first book of poetry, The Crane Wife, the 2003 co-winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, will be reprinted by Red Hen Press in April, 2021. Her second collection, More American, won the 2021 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. Recent work appears in Barrow Street, Permafrost, and North American Review.
Read MoreExhale; Somber Shade
Joddy Murray’s chapbook, Anaphora, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2020. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in over 70 journals, including, most recently, The Adirondack Review, Nude Bruce Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Pembroke Magazine, and Southampton Review. He currently teaches writing and rhetoric in Fort Worth, Texas.
Read MoreWild Hyssop; Diapause
Stella Reed is the co-author of the AZ-NM Book Award winning, We Are Meant to Carry Water, 2019, from 3: A Taos Press. She is the 2018 winner of the Tusculum Review chapbook contest for Origami, and took 3rd place in the Baltimore Review’s writing contest 2020.
Bones
Will Reger serves as the Poet Laureate for the City of Urbana, IL. He has published poems since 2010, including his first book, Petroglyphs (2019). Many of these poems are linked to www.twitter.com/wmreger. When not scribbling poetry, he enjoys playing the nanxiao in the woods.
Read MoreAfter the Madness; Striped Bass
Lenora Steele’s poetry and short prose have been published in Canada, Ireland, and the US, in Event, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Wow, Cranog, The Antigonish Review, among others. She lives where twice a day the tidal bore funnels a hundred billion tonnes of brine up the Bay of Fundy into the Cobequid Bay & the Salmon River reaching her home in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Read MoreGod, You, as Death, are in All Things
Marc Tretin is a retired divorce attorney who is now devoting himself to poetry. During this long lockdown, he has the company of his spaniel and poodle mix with separation anxiety, a 20 Pound cat with a foul disposition, his very sweet wife, and a young adult daughter.
Read MoreOrigin of Water
Lisbeth White is a writer currently residing in the Pacific Northwest, whose work has appeared in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, The Rumpus, Kweli, Blue Mountain Review, Apogee, Split This Rock and elsewhere. She is currently working on an experimental hybrid nonfiction project about elemental medicine and archetypal mythology. You can find her musings on Instagram: @earthmaven or www.lisbethwrites.com
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