Issue #15, March 2024

Joan Mazza has worked as a medical microbiologist, psychotherapist, and seminar leader. She is the author of six self-help psychology books, including "Dreaming Your Real Self" (Penguin/Putnam), and her poetry has appeared in Atlanta Review, The Comstock Review, The MacGuffin, Prairie Schooner, North Dakota Quarterly, Poet Lore, Slant, and The Nation. She lives in rural central Virginia.
 

Rachel Stempel is a queer Ukrainian-Jewish poet represented by Danielle Burby at Mad Woman Literary. She is the author of the chapbooks "Interiors," winner of the 2021 Wallace Award from Foundlings Press, "BEFORE THE DESIRE TO EAT" (Finishing Line Press), and "Dear Abbey" (Bottlecap Press), and her work has appeared recently in Denver Quarterly, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Minnesota Review. She lives in Binghamton with her rabbit, Diego.
 

Ronald J. Pelias spent most of his career writing books, e.g., "If the Truth Be Told" (Brill Publications), "The Creative Qualitative Researcher" (Routledge), and "Lessons on Aging and Dying" (Routledge), that call upon the literary as a research strategy. Now he writes for the pleasures and frustrations of putting words to the page.
 

Karen Schnurstein’s poetry can be found in print and online publications such as Bi Women Quarterly, New Feathers Anthology, Steel Jackdaw, and The Dawn Review. She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing and resides in northern Indiana. Find out more about her and her work at https://karenschnurstein.com
 

Esther Sadoff is a teacher and writer from Columbus, Ohio. Her poems have been featured or are forthcoming in Little Patuxent Review, Jet Fuel Review, Cathexis Poetry Northwest, Pidgeonholes, Santa Clara Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, among others. Her debut chapbooks, "Some Wild Woman" and "Serendipity in France," are forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
 

Wendy Drexler is a 2022 recipient of an artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her fourth collection, "Notes from the Column of Memory," was published by Terrapin Books in September 2022. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, J Journal, Lily Poetry Review, Nimrod, Pangyrus, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, South Florida Poetry Review, Sugar House, The Atlanta Review, The Mid-American Review, The Hudson Review, The Sun, The Threepenny Review, and the Valparaiso Poetry Review, among others. Wendy's work has been featured on Verse Daily and WBUR’s Cognoscenti; and in numerous anthologies. She has served as the poet in residence at New Mission High School in Hyde Park, MA, from 2018-2023 and is programming co-chair for the New England Poetry Club.
 

Nadia Arioli is the cofounder and editor in chief of Thimble Literary Magazine. A three-time nominee for Best of the Net, Arioli’s poetry can be found in Cider Press Review, Rust + Moth, McNeese Review, Penn Review, Mom Egg, and elsewhere. Essays have been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize and can be found in Hunger Mountain, Heavy Feather Review, SOFTBLOW, and elsewhere. Artwork has appeared in Permafrost, Kissing Dynamite, Pithead Chapel, and Poetry Northwest. Arioli’s forthcoming collections are with Dancing Girl Press and Fernwood Press. 
 

Paul Ilechko is a British American poet and occasional songwriter who lives with his partner in Lambertville, NJ. His work has appeared in many journals, including The Bennington Review, The Night Heron Barks, deLuge, Stirring, and The Inflectionist Review. He has also published several chapbooks.