Sara Backer‘s first book of poetry, Such Luck (Flowstone Press 2019) follows two poetry chapbooks: Scavenger Hunt (dancing girl press) and Bicycle Lotus which won the 2015 Turtle Island chapbook award. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Art and reads for The Maine Review. Recent and forthcoming publications include Tar River Poetry, Slant, CutBank, Lake Effect, Poetry Northwest, and Kenyon Review.
Daniel Blackston‘s work has appeared or will appear in: California Quarterly, The Cape Rock, The Santa Clara Review, Plainsongs, and The MacGuffin, among many others.
Simon Collings lives in Oxford, UK. His poetry, short fiction, translations, reviews and essays have appeared in a wide range of magazines including Stride, Fortnightly Review, Café Irreal, Litter, International Times, Junction Box, The Long Poem Magazine, Ink, Sweat & Tears, PN Review and Journal of Poetics Research. A collection of his prose poems and short fiction, Why are you here?, was published by The Fortnightly Review in November 2020. His third chapbook, Sanchez Ventura, was published by Leafe Press in spring 2021. He is a contributing editor at The Fortnightly Review. Read more from Simon here.
William Doreski has published three critical studies and several collections of poetry. His work has appeared in many print and online journals. He has taught at Emerson College, Goddard College, Boston University and Keene State College. His most recent books are Water Music and Train to Providence, a collaboration with photographer Rodger Kingston.
Michael Estabrook has been publishing his poetry in the small press since the 1980s. He has published over 20 collections, a recent one being The Poet’s Curse, A Miscellany (The Poetry Box, 2019). He lives in Acton, Massachusetts.
Avital Gad-Cykman, the author of Life In, Life Out (Matter Press), and the upcoming Light Reflection Over Blues (Ravenna Press) has published stories in Iron Horse, Prairie Schooner, Ambit, Calyx Journal and McSweeney’s Quarterly among others. Her work has been anthologized in W.W. Norton’s International Flash Fiction, Best Small Fictions 2020 and elsewhere. She grew up in Israel and lives in Brazil.
Matt Gillick is from Northern Virginia. Check out his other published work on his website: mattgillick.com.
Howie Good is the author of Failed Haiku, a poetry collection that is the co-winner of the 2021 Grey Book Press Chapbook Contest and scheduled for publication in summer 2022.
Ceridwen Hall is a poet and book coach. She is the author of two chapbooks: Automotive (Finishing Line Press) and Excursions (Train Wreck Press). Her work has appeared in TriQuarterly, Pembroke Magazine, Tar River Poetry, The Cincinnati Review, and other journals. You can find her at www.ceridwenhall.com.
Overcomer Ibiteye is a Nigerian poet and writer. She’s also an alumnus of the SprinNG Writing Fellowship. Her works have appeared in anthologies like BPPC, Iskanchi, Scrawl Place Mag and others. She was also shortlisted for the African Writers Awards 2021.
Maggie Nerz Iribarne practices writing in a yellow house in Syracuse, New York. This year, she won first and finalist prizes from Dead Fern Press, Zizzle, and Honeyguide Literary Magazine. She keeps a portfolio of her published work at maggienerziribarne.com.
Nathan Alling Long‘s work has appeared on NPR, and in journals such as Tin House, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, and Story Quarterly. His collection of fifty short fictions, The Origin of Doubt, was a 2019 Lambda Literary Award finalist. He grew up in a log cabin in rural Appalachia, worked for several years on a queer commune in Tennessee, and now lives in Philadelphia.
Lorette C. Luzajic writes prose poems and small stories, usually inspired by visual art. Her work has appeared in Axon, Ghost Parachute, Citron Review, Unbroken, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and more. She is the founder and editor of The Ekphrastic Review, a journal devoted to literature inspired by art. She is also a visual artist, with collectors in over thirty countries so far.
Christi Nogle‘s short stories have appeared in publications such as Hermine Annual, Vastarien: A Literary Journal, and Three-lobed Burning Eye. Her debut novel Beulah, a dark coming-of-age story set in small-town Idaho, releases on January 25, 2022. Follow Christi at christinogle.com or on Twitter @christinogle.
Meg Pokrass is the author of 7 collections of flash fiction and prose poetry, and her work has appeared in hundreds of literary publications and best-of anthologies, including the Best Small Fictions and the Wigleaf Top 50, and forthcoming in a 2023 Norton anthology “Flash Fiction America” edited by Sherrie Flick, James Thomas, and John Dufresne. Meg is the Founding Editor of the Best Microfiction anthology series. She lives in Northern England and wears many hats.
Rikki Santor‘s poems have appeared in various publications including Ms. Magazine, Poetry East, Heavy Feather Review, Slab, Slipstream, [PANK], Crab Orchard Review, RHINO, Grimm, Hotel Amerika and The Main Street Rag. Her work has received many honors including six Pushcart and three Ohioana book award nominations as well as a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her tenth collection, How to Board a Moving Ship, has just been released by Lily Poetry Review Books.
Graham Robert Scott grew up in California, resides in Texas, owns neither surfboard nor cowboy hat. His stories have appeared in Hobart, Necessary Fiction, Barrelhouse, Pulp Literature, and others.