Issue #17, July 2024

Harley Anastasia Chapman holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia College Chicago. Her poems have been published in Nimrod International Journal, Atlanta Review, Fatal Flaw Literary Journal, Superstition Review, & Bridge Eight Press, among others. Harley’s first chapbook, "Smiling with Teeth," is available through Finishing Line Press.
 

Charles Malone works with writers in the community around Kent, OH through the Wick Poetry Center. He is the author of three collections of poetry, "After an Eclipse of Moths" (Moonstone Arts), "Questions About Circulation" (Driftwood Press), and "Working Hypothesis" (Finishing Line Press). He edited the anthology "A Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park" with Wolverine Farm Publishing and a new anthology for Cuyahoga Valley National Park forthcoming with Kent State University Press. He has work recently published or forthcoming in Cagibi, Dark Mountain: Abyss, Hotel Amerika, The Best of Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac, The Sugar House Review, The Dunes Review, and Saltfront.
 

Katie Ellen Bowers is a writer living in the rural Southeast with her husband and daughter. Her debut collection of poetry "This Earthly Body" through Main Street Rag is out now. Other works of her poetry and fiction can be found in literary journals and magazines such as Kakalak, Qu Literary Magazine, and Good Printed Things. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for poetry twice.
 

Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith was born in Merida, Yucatan, grew up in Tucson, Arizona and taught English at Tucson High School for 27 years. Much of his work explores growing up near the border, being raised biracial/bilingual and teaching in a large urban school where 70% of the students are American/Mexican. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, his writings will appear in Clockhouse, and Workhorse Journal and have been published in Sky Island Journal, Cool Beans Journal, Discretionary Love and other places too. His wife, Kelly, sometimes edits his work, and the two cats seem happy.
 

M. E. Silverman published "The Floating Door" (Glass Lyre Press) and co-edited Bloomsbury’s Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry, New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust, and 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium.
 

Mark Dunbar is a former teacher and writer originally from Columbus, Ohio, and now living outside Chicago. He attended Kenyon College where he was the recipient of the American Academy of Poets Award. His work has appeared in the Corvus Review, the Tipton Poetry Journal and Blue Unicorn, among others.
 

Mads Nguyen (Nguyen Thi Anh Thu) is an experimental poetry writer from California. They have a Bachelor of Arts in Gender and Women Studies and are currently an MA Candidate at NYU in the Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement department. Nguyen is the senior poetry editor for NYU’s Caustic Frolic, a literary magazine from the XE department. They are currently writing their first novel, an experimental hybrid poetry novel in conversation with queer theory and immigration scholarship.
 

TJ Prizio is a Connecticut-raised poet and MFA student at the University of New Hampshire. He enjoys bass music and regurgitating Alan Watts. His work has appeared in CausewayLit, where it won the 2021 Winter Poetry Contest. Instagram: @tprizio
 

Ellen ZB is a mystery in Lakewood, Ohio. Her poetry and fiction have been published in journals including The Closed Eye Open, Waxing & Waning, io Literary Journal, and Fauxmoir.
 

John Dos Passos Coggin is a writer based in Alexandria, Virginia. His poetry has appeared in Pangyrus, Cathexis Northwest Press, and Half and One. He co-manages the John Dos Passos literary estate.
 

John Dorroh has never fallen into an active volcano, nor has he caught a hummingbird. However, he did manage to bake bread with Austrian monks and drink a healthy portion of their beer. Five of his poems were nominated for Best of the Net. Others have appeared in over 100 journals, including Feral, North of Oxford, River Heron, Wisconsin Review, Kissing Dynamite, and El Portal. He had two chapbooks published in 2022.