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Contributors
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Linda Anderson’s first collection, The Station Before, was published by Pavilion Poetry in 2020 and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney first collection prize in 2021. She has published academic books and articles on autobiography and on Elizabeth Bishop. She is Chair of Bloodaxe Books and founded the Newcastle Poetry festival which she still helps to organize.
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Aleksi Barrière is a French-Finnish writer and theater director working mostly, in both capacities, for the stage and in collaboration with musicians. His texts harvest images and narratives in haunted gray areas between media and languages. In print he is also a translator, most recently of poetry collections by Eeva-Liisa Manner into French.
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Sarah B. Cahalan (she/her) writes about natural history, hope/grief/faith, the layers of places and how those correspond with our own layers as people moving through time and place. She has poems, current or forthcoming, in Dark Mountain, Image, Trampoline, and others. Sarah is from Massachusetts and is currently based in Dayton, Ohio (USA).
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Daniel Carden Nemo is a poet and translator. His work has appeared in RHINO, Full Stop, Magma Poetry, Off the Coast, Sontag Mag, and elsewhere.
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Lilah Clay writes books, walks beaches, embraces miracles. This is an excerpt from her manuscript Monk Passage. Her work has been published here or there. She does not own a cell phone; the only screen she wants to be near is the screen door.
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Kelvin Corcoran lives in Brussels. His first book was published in 1985 and his Collected Poems in 2023, drawing upon the fifteen books published subsequently. His work has been commended by the Poetry Society, the Forward Prize committee and commissioned by the Arts Council and Medicine Unboxed. It is the subject of a study edited by Professor Andy Brown, The Writing Occurs as Song. Corcoran has edited an account of Lee Harwood’s poetry in Not the Full Story: Six Interviews with Lee Harwood, 2008. He is co-editor with Robert Sheppard of the New Collected Poems of Lee Harwood.
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Darren C. Demaree’s poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear, in numerous magazines/journals, including Hotel Amerika, Diode, North American Review, New Letters, Diagram, and Colorado Review. He is the author of 22 poetry collections, most recently blue and blue and blue (Fernwood Press). He is the Editor in Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
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Harrison Fisher served a term as Writer-in-Residence with the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. He published twelve collections of poems from 1977 to 2000, four of them book-length: Blank Like Me, Curtains for You, UHFO, and Poematics of the Hyperbloody Real. After a 20+-year hiatus from writing and publishing poems over the beginning of the 21st century, Fisher returned in 2022 with new work in magazines. In 2024, his poems have appeared in BlazeVOX, Book XI, MIDLVLMAG, Misfitmagazine, Rundelania, and Transom.
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Kevin Grauke has published work in such places as The Threepenny Review, The Southern Review, Quarterly West, Ninth Letter, and Cimarron Review. He’s the author of the short story collection Shadows of Men (Queen’s Ferry Press), winner of the Steven Turner Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. He lives in Philadelphia.
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Hazel J. Hall is a writer and poet powered by caffeine and insulin. Right now, she is pursuing an English degree while working on her first novel. More of Hazel's work can be found in Bending Genres, Vocivia Magazine, and CLOVES Literary, with other pieces forthcoming or visible at her site, hazeljhall.com.
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Tytti Heikkinen is a Finnish visual artist, who has graduated from Turku Art Academy. She has participated in exhibitions in Finland and Denmark. In the USA, her latest visual pieces have appeared (or will be appearing) in Arkana, Lumina Literary Journal, Miracle Monocle, Mayday, The Ana, and Memezine. Heikkinen's works combine photographs, painting, and sometimes sculpture with the possibilities of Photoshop and other digital tools, such as vector graphic and animation programs. She is interested in both abstract and figurative art. While doing her artwork, she enjoys listening to art history lectures.
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Nicholas Hogg is the author of A Sacrifice, inspiration for the Ridley Scott film starring Eric Bana and Stranger Things' Sadie Sink. In 2021 he won the Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Prize, and in 2023 the Liverpool Poetry Prize. His poems have featured in The Guardian, Poetry Ireland, and London Magazine. His debut collection, Missing Person, is published by Broken Sleep Books.
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Jessica Hughes is an artist, art educator, and writer currently living between North Carolina and Connecticut. She graduated from Montserrat College of Art in 2008 with a BFA in Painting. In 2013, she graduated from Salem State University with a Master’s in Art Education. Her work can be seen at agirlcalled672.com, or on Instagram @agirlcalled672.
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At 27, verging towards a doctorate at Harvard, Elly Katz went to a doctor for a mundane procedure to stabilize her neck. Upon waking from anesthesia, she searched in vain for the right half of her body. Somehow, she survived what doctors surmised was unsurvivable: a brainstem stroke secondary to a physician’s needle misplacement. Her path towards science, amongst other ambitions, came to a halt. As a devout writer, she feared that poetry, too, fell outside what was possible given her inert right fingers. However, in the wake of tragedy, she discovered the power of dictation and the bounty of metaphor.
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Stefanie Kirby is the author of Fruitful (Driftwood Press, 2024), winner of the Adrift Chapbook Contest, and Remainder, forthcoming from Bull City Press. Her poetry has been included in Best of the Net and Poetry Daily, and appears in West Branch, Pleiades, The Massachusetts Review, The Moth, SAND, and elsewhere. She lives along Colorado’s Front Range with her family.
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Brian Kirk has published two poetry collections with Salmon Poetry, After The Fall (2017) and Hare’s Breath (2023) and a short fiction chapbook It’s Not Me It’s You (Southword Editions, 2019). His novel Riverrun was chosen as a winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2022.
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Annaliese Kunst is a poet from Milwaukee. Her work focuses on images of the body, themes of devouring, the agency of women, and the complexity of mother-daughter relationships.
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Dorothea Lasky is the author of eight books of poetry and prose, including The Shining and the forthcoming, MEMORY.
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Suphil Lee Park (수필 리 박 / 秀筆 李 朴) is the author of the poetry collection, Present Tense Complex (Conduit Books & Ephemera 2021), winner of the Marystina Santiestevan Prize, and a poetry chapbook, Still Life (Factory Hollow Press 2023), winner of the Tomaž Šalamun Prize, and is the translator of If You're Going to Live to One Hundred, You Might As Well Be Happy by Rhee Kun Hoo. You can find more about her at: https://suphil-lee-park.com/
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Court Ludwick is a writer, artist, and educator currently pursuing her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing. She is the author of These Strange Bodies (ELJ Editions) and the founding editor-in-chief of Broken Antler Magazine. Her work has appeared in EPOCH, Denver Quarterly, West Trade Review, Oxford Magazine, and elsewhere. Find her on socials @courtludwick. Find more of her work at www.courtlud.com.
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Nuala McEvoy is an artist and writer of English/Irish origin. She was 50 when she taught herself to paint during lockdown, and now paints every day. She decided to submit her artwork to magazines in 2024, and her art now appears or is forthcoming in around 50 literary and art publications including Full House, Chestnut Review, Pithead Chapel and Peatsmoke Journal. She has been selected for the cover art for Radar Poetry, Through Lines, Club Plum Literary Journal, Underscore Magazine, Pithead Chapel and Drawn to the Light Press. She has been interviewed by The Madrid Review about her creative process, and has been the featured artist in Does it Have Pockets and Sublunary Review. She has held two exhibitions in Münster, Germany, and is currently exhibiting 40 pieces in Cavendish Venues, London. Nuala is also a published writer and has read her poems on podcasts.
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Julia Nelsen is a translator and researcher of Italian literature based in Berkeley, California. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and a masters in European languages from the University of Milan. Her work has appeared in Circumference, Two Lines, Chicago Review, Firmament, and elsewhere.
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Fernando Pessoa was a Portuguese poet, writer, translator, and critic. He is widely regarded as one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century.
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Douglas Piccinnini is author of Beautiful, Safe & Free (New Books, 2023), Blood Oboe (Omnidawn, 2015) and Story Book: a novella (Cultural Society, 2015) as well as numerous chapbooks. His work has recently appeared in American Poetry Review, Brooklyn Rail, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Hot Pink, Lana Turner, Opt West and Volt.
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Philip Schaefer’s collection Bad Summon (University of Utah Press, 2017) won the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, while individual poems have won contests published by The Puritan, Meridian, & Passages North. His work has been featured on Poem-A-Day, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and in The Poetry Society of America. He runs a modern Mexican restaurant called The Camino in Missoula, MT.
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Leonora Simonovis is a Venezuelan American poet and the author of Study of the Raft,
winner the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry and Honorable Mention at the 2022 International Latino Book Awards. Leonora’s poetry has been featured in The Prose Poem, Whale Road Review, SWWIM, DMQ Review, Verse Daily, and others. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from The Poetry Foundation, VONA, the Vermont Studio Center, Esperimento Sul Respiro and Sundress Academy for the Arts. |
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Marin Sorescu was a Romanian poet, playwright, and novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and 1996. He published over twenty books of poetry.
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Sarah J. Sloat splits her time between Frankfurt and Barcelona, where she works in news. Her work has appeared in The Offing, Shenandoah and Diagram, among other journals. Her book Hotel Almighty was published in 2020 by Sarabande Books, which will publish a second collection of Sarah’s in 2025.
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Alison Stone has published nine full-length collections, including Zombies at the Disco (Jacar Press), Caught in the Myth (NYQ Books), Dazzle (Jacar Press), Ordinary Magic (NYQ Books), Dangerous Enough (Presa Press), and They Sing at Midnight, which won the 2003 Many Mountains Moving Poetry Award; as well as three chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Barrow Street, Poet Lore, and others. She has been awarded Poetry’s Frederick Bock Prize and New York Quarterly’s Madeline Sadin Award. She is also a painter and the creator of The Stone Tarot. www.alisonstone.info
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Bill Suboski is an aspiring fiction writer with a background in computer programming. He is still trying to decide what he wants to be when he grows up. Born in Indiana, Bill is a transplanted Hoosier living as a Buckeye by way of Canada and the Netherlands.
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Kelly Terwilliger is the author of two collections of poetry, A Glimpse of Oranges and Riddle, Fish Hook, Thorn, Key. A new chapbook, Night Maps, is forthcoming. Her work has appeared in journals such as december magazine, Main Street Rag, and Cider Press Review. She teaches and performs as an oral storyteller in public schools in Eugene, Oregon, and elsewhere. She lives with her husband, an occasional bear, and lots of deer.
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Paul Vermeersch is a poet, multimedia artist, literary editor, and educator who lives in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently Shared Universe: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020. He is the senior editor of Wolsak and Wynn Publishers where he created the poetry and fiction imprint Buckrider Books. His next collection of poems, NMLCT, is scheduled to be published by ECW Press in fall 2025.
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Lindsey Wayland is a poet, calligrapher, and researcher. Wayland is a poetry MFA candidate at Pacific University where is a merit scholarship recipient. She was a finalist for the 2024 Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry by New Letters. Her poetry has been published in Southern Humanities Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and the Haiku Society of America. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington with her husband and their three children. Find her online at www.lindseywayland.com.
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Jane Zwart's poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Poetry Review (UK), Moth (IRL), and Threepenny Review, as well as other journals and magazines. Along with Timothy Liu, she is the co-editor of book reviews at Plume.
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