Issue #4, March 2022

 Kirsten Meehan was born and raised in Southern New York, growing up in the same house her father grew up in. She received her BFA in Creative Writing from SUNY Potsdam, and then worked in the publishing industry for a time after graduating. Her work has appeared in the Racquette, Blueline Magazine: College Edition, and the Red Fern Review. Currently, she is a student at Arcadia University, studying towards an MA in English and an MFA in Poetry.
 

Peter J. Grieco is former professor of English and retired school bus driver. His poems are widely published in small magazines on-line and in print. His blog "At the Musarium and Other Writings" [https://pjgrieco.wordpress.com/] archives much of this work. His chapbook collection of ekphrastic verse, "The Bind Man's Meal," is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
 

Ruth Mota lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California where she writes or facilitates poetry circles to groups in her community like veterans or men in jail, and has enjoyed studying poetry revision with local poet Ellen Bass. She has a BA in English from Oberlin College and a Masters in Public Health which led to a career in international health training throughout Latin America, Africa and Asia. Her poems have been published in many online and print journals including: Terrapin Books, Gyroscope Review, Fourth River, Cathexis Northwest, High Shelf Press and Tiny Seed Literary Journal among others.
 

Adam P. Davis grew up in Maryland, majored in French at Wesleyan University, and received his masters degrees in both political science at Columbia University and supply chain management at Purdue University. He has taught English at several community colleges and spent a year in Shanghai. Currently, he works in the logistics industry. He has been published in Poets Reading the News, Meniscus, Glassworks Magazine, Free State Review, East by Northeast Literary Magazine, and Silver Rose Magazine.
 

Kat Stubing was born into the sticky heat of summer and has been searching for the right words ever since. She studied at UMBC and went on to take sketch writing classes at Upright Citizens Brigade. Kat lives, works, and plays in New York City.
 

María DeGuzmán is a scholar, conceptual photographer, and music composer / sound designer. Her photographic work has been exhibited at The Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA, USA), Watershed Media Centre (Bristol, England), and Golden Belt Studios (Durham, NC, USA). She has published photography in Abstract Magazine, The Grief Diaries, Coffin Bell, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Map Literary, Two Hawks Quarterly, Harbor Review, The Halcyone, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, Ponder Review, Alluvian, streetcake: a magazine of experimental writing, Galdrar of Tempered Runes Press, The Closed Eye Open, and Gone Lawn; creative nonfiction photo-text pieces in Oyster River Pages, La Piccioletta Barca, and Tiny Seed Literary Journal; photo-text flash fiction in Oxford Magazine, Bombay Gin, Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, and Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts; photo prose poetry in Landlocked Magazine; visual poetry in TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics (forthcoming) and Roanoke Review (forthcoming); poetry in Empty Mirror; and short stories in Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas, Huizache: The Magazine of Latino Literature, Sinister Wisdom, and Obelus Journal. Her SoundCloud website may be found at: https://soundcloud.com/mariadeguzman.
 

Tom Laughlin is a professor at Middlesex Community College in Massachusetts where he teaches creative writing, literature, and composition courses, as well as coordinating a visiting writer series. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Green Mountains Review, Ibbetson Street, Drunk Monkeys, Sand Hills Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. His poetry chapbook, "The Rest of the Way" is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
 

Laurel Benjamin is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, where she invented a secret language with her brother. She has work forthcoming or published in Lily Poetry Review, Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Women's Poetry, South Florida Poetry Journal, Trouvaille Review, One Art, Ekphrastic Review, The Thieving Magpie, Black Fox, Word Poppy Press, California Quarterly, Mac Queens Quinterly, among others. Affiliated with the Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon and the Port Townsend Writers, she holds an MFA from Mills College.
 

Matt Prater is a writer from Saltville, VA. His work has been published in Poet Lore, Spillway, The Hollins Critic, and The American Journal of Poetry, among other publications.
 

T.M. Thomson’s work has been featured in several journals, most recently in You Might Need to Hear This. Three of her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Awards. She has co-authored "Frame and Mount the Sky" (2017) and is the author of "Strum and Lull" (2019) and "The Profusion" (2019).