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Contributors
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Jessica Ankeny‘s poems can be found in Beaver Magazine, Missouri Review, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Albuquerque, she currently lives in Los Angeles with her cat, Ms Dolores Parton.
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Sofia Bagdade is a poet from New York City. Her work appears in One Art, The Shore, and Roi Fainéant Press, among other publications. More of her work can be found at sofiabagdade.weebly.com, or on Instagram @sofiabagdade. She finds joy in smooth ink, orange light, and French Bulldogs.
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Daniel Barbiero is a writer, double bassist, and composer in the Washington DC area. He writes about the art, music, and literature of the classic avant-gardes of the 20th century as well as on contemporary work; his essays and reviews have appeared in Arteidolia, Heavy Feather Review, periodicities, Rain Taxi, Word for/Word, Otoliths, Offcourse, Utriculi, London Grip, and elsewhere. He is the author of As Within, So Without, a collection of essays published by Arteidolia Press; his score Boundary Conditions III appears in A Year of Deep Listening (Terra Nova Press).
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Marie-Eve Bernier has published internationally online and in print. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand, with her husband but she often returns to her native Québec. Read more of her work here: marieevewrites.wixsite.com/publications.
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Karen Elizabeth Bishop is a UK/US poet, translator, essayist, and scholar. Her poetry collections include the deering hour (Ornithopter, 2021) and Si|If, written in Spanish and offered in a self-translated bilingual edition. She has translated work by Susana Thénon, Lucía Boscà, Blanca Varela, and is translating Raúl Zurita’s selected work in prose. Recent creative work can be found in the Tahoma Literary Review, Poetry Northwest, The Lincoln Review, Lana Turner, Bennington Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, and New Writing Scotland. She is a 2025 New Jersey State Council of the Arts Fellow in Poetry and 2023 recipient of the inaugural Community Megaphone Fellowship from the Woodberry Poetry Library at Harvard in support of her work with The Elegy Project, which she founded with David Sherman.
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Daniel Carden Nemo is a writer, poet, and translator. His work has been long-listed for the Best Literary Translations (Deep Vellum) and has appeared or is forthcoming in The Common, Southword, Atlanta Review, RHINO, Full Stop, Magma Poetry, Sontag Mag, Exchanges, and elsewhere.
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Irish poet Jane Clarke has published three collections with Bloodaxe Books: The River (2015), When the Tree Falls (2019), and A Change in the Air (2023). She edited Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect (Hachette Books Ireland, 2023) and co-authored The Hare’s Corner: Making Space for Nature (New Island Books, 2025). Her third collection A Change in the Air was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize 2023 and the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023. Her fourth collection Coracle will be published by Bloodaxe in October 2026. Jane lives with her wife in the Wicklow uplands.
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Daniel Clausen has published stories and articles in such magazines as Slipstream, Black Petals, Aphelion, Spindrift, Zygote in my Coffee, and Leading Edge Science Fiction (among many others). His recent novel Statues in the Cloud is available on Amazon.
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Patrick Cotter lives in Cork City, Ireland. He is editor of the literary journal Southword. His latest book is Quality Control at the Mircle Factory (Dedalus 2025) More at www.patrickcotter.ie
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Antonio Devicienti, born in Salento (south east of Italy), is a writer and literary critic.
His websites are Via Lepsius (www.vialepsius.wordpress.com) and Via Lepsius Asemic (www.vialepsiusasemic.wordpress.com). |
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Sharon Dolin is the author of seven poetry books, most recently Imperfect Present; a memoir entitled Hitchcock Blonde; and two books of translation, most recently Late to the House of Words: Selected Poems by Gemma Gorga. Her new book of translations of Gemma Gorga, Voyage to the Center, will be published in 2027. Dolin is Associate Editor of Barrow Street Press and teaches poetry workshops in New York City. https://sharondolin.com
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Anna Evas’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Birmingham Poetry Review, Worcester Review, Long Poem Magazine, and others. She is a recording pianist and an award-winning contemporary classical composer.
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Mirjam Frosth is a Swedish-American poet, artist, and litter collector. Her poetry has been published by the likes of Harvard Review, B O D Y, and Ghost City Press. Her M.A. research at Stockholm University explored Frank O’Hara’s poetry, investigating the influences of post-WWII food technology and art on his practice. She is currently based in Stockholm, Sweden, where she can be found walking her dog and scanning the ground for old receipts.
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Amy Gordon’s poems have appeared in Antique Magazine, Ekphrastic Review, The Massachusetts Review, Slant, Clarion, and others. She is the author of two chapbooks: Deep Fahrenheit (Prolific Press), The Yellow Room (Finishing Line Press), and Leaf Town is forthcoming with Slate Roof Press, (winner of the 2023 Elyse Wolf Chapbook Prize.) Amy Gordon lives in western Massachusetts.
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Robert Hedin is the author, translator, and editor of more than two dozen books of poetry, most recently At the Great Door of Morning: Selected Poems and Translations (Copper Canyon Press) and, as translator, The Mountains of Kong: New & Selected Prose Poems of Dag T. Straumsvag (Assembly Press). He is co-founder and former director of the Anderson Center, a residential artist retreat in Red Wing, Minnesota.
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Theodore Heil is a writer living in New York. He is the author of Movements (Bottlecap Press, 2026), excerpts of which are featured in Hobart, ExPat Press, and Poet’s Row.
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W.J. Herbert’s debut collection, Dear Specimen, (Beacon Press, 2021) was selected by Kwame Dawes as a winner of the 2020 National Poetry Series and awarded a 2022 Maine Literary Award for Poetry. Winner of the 2022 Arts & Letters/Rumi Prize for Poetry, Herbert’s work also appears in The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Atlantic, Best American Poetry 2017 & 2024, The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Portland, Maine.
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Susan Irvine teaches a studio project on using smell as material at the Royal College of Art in London. She also lives in Scotland when she can. She is the author of a novel, Muse, and a collection of short stories, Corpus, both published by Quercus.
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Jacqueline Knirnschild is a writer from northeast Ohio, who is currently based in Tokyo. Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Poetry South, Full Stop, MORIA, and The Cleveland Review of Books, among other publications. Her fiction received first place in the 2025 Steve Grady Prize. She holds an M.A. in English from the University of Maine. You can find her on Instagram @JacqKnirn and read her published writing at https://linktr.ee/jacquelineknirnschild.
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Tom Laichas is author most recently of Three Hundred Streets of Venice California (FutureCycle Press, 2023). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in High Window Review, Prairie Schooner, MacQueen’s Quinterly, The Los Angeles Times, Plume, The Moth (Ireland), The Irish Times, and elsewhere. He lives in Venice, California.
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Grace Lynn is an emerging painter who lives with a chronic illness. Her work explores the intersections between faith, the natural world, art and the body. In her spare time, Grace enjoys listening to Bob Dylan, reading suspense novels and investigating absurd angles of art history.
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Harry Martinson (1904-1978) was one of Sweden’s most distinguished twentieth-century writers, producing numerous books of poetry, novels, essays, autobiographies, plays, and radio dramas. He was the first poet of the Swedish working classes to be elected to the esteemed Swedish Academy, and in 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, sharing it with Swedish novelist Eyvind Johnson.
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Eric Melbye is an associate professor of creative writing at Miami University Regionals, a writer, and former editor of Segue online literary journal. He has published fiction and poetry in several online and print venues, as well as a novel, Tru (Flame Books, 2007).
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Savannah S. Miller (she/her) is a writer across genre and form. Her work has been published or is forthcoming with the Rappahannock Review, Jelly Bucket, Modern Language Studies, Watershed Review, and others. She is the author of the poetry collection Route 460 (Red Rook Press). Her play The House will receive its world premiere production in 2026. Read more at savannahsmiller.com.
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Dian Parker has been published in New Critique, Yolk, 3:AM Magazine, Assay, The Rupture, Anomaly, Epiphany, Tiny Molecules, Event, among others, and nominated for a number of Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net. She also writes about art for Observer, Art & Object, ArtNet, and other arts publications.
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The latest of Ken Poyner’s twelve collections of poetry and flash fiction is Science Is Not Enough, speculative poetry. He lives in the lower right-hand corner of Virginia, and is married to a world champion female power lifter. He spent 33 years herding computers. See him in Analog, Asimov’s, Café Irreal, Blue Unicorn and another hundred or so places. www.kpoyner.com.
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Khadijah Queen is the author of eight books of poetry and prose, including Anodyne (Tin House 2020), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. In 2025 the Foundation for Contemporary Arts recognized Queen’s work with the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, a memoir about her time in the U.S. Navy alongside short histories of maritime women, was published by Legacy Lit/Hachette in August 2025.
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Kelly R. Samuels is the author of two poetry collections and four chapbooks—the most recent Oblivescence (Red Sweater Press, 2024) and Talking to Alice (Whittle Micro-Press, 2023.) She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee with work appearing in The Massachusetts Review, River Styx, Sixth Finch, Denver Quarterly, december, and RHINO. She lives in the Upper Midwest.
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Klara Seddon is a New York-based writer. Her work has appeared in Women & Performance and other publications. She has taught literary history and craft at The Morgan Library & Museum and currently works on a literacy development project at the Center for Advanced Study in Education at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
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Rene Seledotis (he/him) is a fiction and poetry writer from the Metro-Detroit area. He earned his BA in creative writing at Oakland University and served as a poetry editor on the Oakland Arts Review, which he enjoyed so much that he started his own literary journal, 25:05 Magazine. His work has seen publication in Turtle Way Journal and Variety Pack.
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© Penelope Massouri
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Born into a family of tree workers, bohemians, poets, ne'er-do-wells, visionaries, and smalltime sort-of hustlers, Eleni Sikelianos is a poet, writer, collaborator, and "master of mixing genres." As a student of the poets of Naropa, she is a lineage-holder in the Outrider poetics family tree. Deeply engaged with ecopoetics, her work takes up urgent concerns of environmental precarity and ancestral work. She has published ten books of poetry (most recently, Your Kingdom, 2023) and two unclassifiable hybrid works, sometimes called nonfiction, sometimes memoirs, sometimes fiction: The Book of Jon and You Animal Machine. Among other honors, she has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Fulbright Artists fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Award in nonfiction. She grew up in Goleta, California, and now lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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© Laynie Browne
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Maria Sledmere is a poet-scholar based in Glasgow, Scotland. She is managing editor of SPAM Press and Senior Lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde. Recent books include an ambient novella, The Indigo Hours (Broken Sleep, 2025), experimental monograph Midsummer Song (Hypercritique) (Tenement Press, 2024), and the poetry collection Cinders (Krupskaya, 2024). Poems can be found in Fallow, b l u s h, Berlin Lit, DELEUZINE, Ludd Gang, The Stinging Fly, and elsewhere. She is one half of the performance duo Project Somnolence.
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Barnaby Smith is a poet, critic, journalist and musician living on Darug and Gundungurra land in New South Wales, Australia. Recent work has appeared in journals or anthologies such as Stand, Blackbox Manifold, 3AM, Best Australian Poems, Tentacular and Ranger, as well as Cordite, Southerly, Australian Poetry Journal, Australian Poetry Anthology, and more. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney.
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Nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, twice for the National Book Award and three times for the Pulitzer Prize, J.R. Solonche is the author of more than 50 books of poetry and coauthor of another. He lives in the Hudson Valley.
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Robin Lindsay Wilson is a lecturer in acting and drama at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland. He is an award-winning playwright and poet. His poems have appeared in many UK poetry and literary magazines, including The Rialto, Magma, Acumen, Dream Catcher, and Agenda. He has three collections of poetry published by Cinnamon Press. His last book Rehearsals for the Real World is a collection of short monologues and microfiction. It is being used in actor training in North America, UK, China, and Australia.
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© Pepe Torres
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Raúl Zurita is the author of numerous works of poetry, including Purgatorio (1979; trans. Anna Deeny Morales), Song for His Disappeared Love (1985; trans. Daniel Borzutsky), INRI (2003; trans. William Rowe), and Zurita (2011); numerous collections of essays, including Sobre el amor, el sufrimiento y el nuevo milenio (On Love, Suffering, and the New Millenium, 2000) and Son importantes las estrellas (The Stars Are Important, 2017); a founding member of Chile’s political Colectivo de Acción de Arte (Arts Action Collective, or CADA); and author of verse in skywriting over Queens, NY (1982) and bulldozed into Chile’s Atacama Desert (1993).
He has received, among many other recognitions, the Chilean National Prize for Literature (2000), the Pablo Neruda Iberoamerican Prize in Poetry (2016), the Queen Sofía Prize for Iberoamerican Poetry (2020), the García Lorca Poetry Prize (2023), and has been a Guggenheim fellow (1984). He has been Chile’s cultural attaché to Rome, visiting speaker at leading international universities, was in 2024 the guest of honor at Madrid’s literary Festival Eñe, and recites his work around the world. |
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Jane Zwart’s debut poetry collection is Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best (Orison Books, 2026). She teaches literature and writing at Calvin University and serves as co-editor for book reviews at Plume. Her poems have appeared widely in periodicals, including Poetry, The Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and Threepenny Review.
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