Issue #23, July 2025
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Poetry
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Brandy Reinke is currently living in Phoenix, Arizona. They have published pieces in: The Redrock Review, Esthetic Apostle, Tulane Review, Big Muddy Review, Microfiction Monday Magazine, Moonstone Arts, and the HCE Review. Brandy was a finalist in Alternating Current Press’ 2024 Luminaire Poetry Award, semi-finalist in Midway Journal’s 2024 Poetry contest, was awarded an Honorable Mention in short -fiction in Glimmer Train’s final publication, as well as a piece short-listed in the Fish Anthology. Their novel was short-listed as a finalist for Unleash Press’ Inaugural 2022 Book Prize.
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Morgan Ziegenhorn (she / they) is a bioacoustician focused on animal conservation who moonlights as a poet. Their work has previously appeared in The Jarnal, 805 Literature and Arts, and You Might Need to Hear This, among others. When they aren’t writing poetry, you can often find them writing code, or trying to identify birds based on their vocalizations alone. They are from Sacramento, California.
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Rose Strode is a poet, essayist, rehabilitator of overgrown gardens, and naturalist. Her work appears in New Ohio Review, Terrain.org, The Gettysburg Review, and The Ecopoetry Anthology: Volume II from Trinity University Press. When not writing or helping others with their writing she wanders around in the woods with her dog. Read more of her work at rosestrode.com
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Elizabeth Rae Bullmer has been writing since the age of seven. She draws on life experience and trauma recovery to harness the healing power of poetry. Her poetry explores memory, how it shapes our definition of truth and seeks to tell stories that reflect a collective understanding of our humanity: our faults, our grace, our survival. Bullmer’s work has appeared in Pensive, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Cloudbank, Sky Island Journal, Her Words, Anacapa Review and The Awakenings Review. Her most recent chapbook is "Skipping Stones on the River Styx". She’s a licensed massage/sound therapist, facilitates writing/healing workshops, serves on two community poetry boards and is the mother of two phenomenal humans, living with three fantastic felines in Kalamazoo.
Prose
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Alan Brickman writes short stories and creative nonfiction. In his day job, he consults to nonprofit organizations on strategy and organizational development. Raised in New York, educated in Massachusetts, he now lives in New Orleans and can't imagine living anywhere else. Alan's fiction has appeared in Literary Heist, Variety Pack, SPANK the CARP, and Sisyphus Magazine, among others. His story, "My First Gun," appears in the anthology "Southern Truths" published by B Cubed Press in 2024. He can be reached at alanbrickman13@gmail.com.
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Catherine Shukle teaches English at Purdue University. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as From the Depths, Brushfire, Unbroken, and Hoxie Gorge Review. She lives in Indiana with her husband and three kids, Jack, Max, and Eleanor.
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Xandra Kaste is a writer living in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She’s the founder of the very serious Peepee Poopoo Press and The Pottymouth Review.
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Rosie Beech is a writer and performer from Scotland. They produce the literary podcast Yorick Radio Productions and have created and directed several audio dramas including. "I will Wait for You" (StAR Radio, 2019), "Communicable" 2020, and "Secret Saint" 2022. Their short stories include, "I Curled with Bauchans" (Crab Apple Literary), "Salvage Me" (The Selkie) and "Wood Woes" (Gramarye).
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A. Z. Foreman is a linguist, poet, short story author and/or translator currently pursuing a doctorate at the Ohio State University. His work has been featured in the Threepenny Review, ANMLY, the Los Angeles Review and elsewhere including two people's tattoos but not yet the Starfleet Academy Quarterly or Tattooine Monthly. He wants to pet your dog.
Music
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Christopher Carter Sanderson (composer, ASCAP) learned music theory and composition from noted composer and cellist Portia Sonnenfeld at Princeton Public High School where his early works were played by the school orchestra under her direction and he has written music ever since for orchestra, ensembles, musical theater, and theatrical incidental music. While at NYU studying acting and directing, he scored productions for his fellow students and for faculty productions including Steve Waugh’s Ubu Roi. His performed music includes scoring for musicals produced by FringeNYC, The Times Square International Theater Festival, Gorilla Rep NYC, NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing, and Kentucky Rep in the US, as well as at EFTN in Norway supported by a Fulbright grant. Incidental music for Shakespearean productions featured in dozens of successful and celebrated (New York Times, Village Voice, American Theater Magazine) productions by Gorilla Rep in New York City. Compositions for Talking Jazz (for which he also played acoustic bass) spoken word and jazz repertoire played clubs and benefits in NYC, Talking Jazz also world premiered Bradford Morrow’s A Bestiary in this style at Triad Theater in NYC. His Ordinary Time No. 3 for organ, clarinet, and bassoon is featured in Red Ogre Journal. Duet for flute and accordion arrangement of Ordinary Time Number One accepted for repertoire by Duo Artina. BFA, NYU, Acting. MFA Yale School of Drama. Fulbright grantee.
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Joshua Kepfer lives in California, where he enjoys exploring the wilderness of the mountains and ocean with his wife and daughter. Much of his inspiration to write prose, music, and poetry comes from nature and his faith in Jesus. He has work published in Stories and Symmetries, Abstract Magazine, Tiny Seed Journal, Merganser Magazine, IHRAM, Press Pause Press, Azure: A Journal of Literary Thought, and more.