Artwork
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received her MFA from San Jose State University in 2001.She currently resides in Pocatello, Idaho, where she is an associate professor ofart at Idaho State University. Originally from northern Minnesota, Ahola-Younghas been influenced by landscapes, winters, ice and resilience. She is currentlydeveloping work that incorporates scientific research and personal narrative. |
Poetry
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Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio is a poetry fellow at the University of Texas atAustin’s Michener Center for Writers, where she currently serves as the poetryeditor for Bat City Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from GulfCoast, phoebe, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. In 2018, she received an Academyof American Poets prize (selected by Dorothea Lasky). Arbus-Scandiffio has twolesbian moms, and is originally from New Jersey. |
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poems have appeared in New England Review, AGNI, ColoradoReview, 32 Poems, and The Yale Review Online, among other journals. She lives inLubbock, Texas. |
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is the winner of the Austin Film Festival’s AMC TV PilotAward (2021). He is the author of Bermuda Ferris Wheel, winner of the 42 MilesPress Poetry Award (forthcoming 2022). His writing has appeared in Best NewPoets, New Poetry from the Midwest, The Missouri Review, The Sewanee Review, andother publications. Berkowitz teaches at Butler University. |
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is the managing editor of The Iowa Review. Her poems haveappeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Cincinnati Review, KenyonReview Online, Prairie Schooner, The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, andBlack Warrior Review, among other magazines. You can find her book reviewsin The American Poetry Review, West Branch, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, andelsewhere. She has received a residency from Millay Arts, fellowships from theVermont Studio Center and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing,and an Iowa Review Award. |
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Ashley Colley ’s poems have appeared in Orion, Colorado Review, Black WarriorReview, Prelude, The Spectacle, and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in Memphis. |
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Chiyuma Elliott is assistant professor of African American studies at theUniversity of California, Berkeley and the author of At Most, California WinterLeague, and Vigil. A former Stegner Fellow, Elliott has published poems in theAfrican American Review, Notre Dame Review, PN Review, and Callaloo, amongothers. She has received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society,Cave Canem, and the Vermont Studio Center. |
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Katherine Yee jin Hur is a Korean American writer from Atlanta, Georgia.Her writing has appeared in and won awards from Black Warrior Review, TheSouthern Review, Best New Poets, Hayden's Ferry Review, and elsewhere. Hur iscurrently at work on her first novel. You can find her on Twitter @_khur_. |
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work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets’Poem-a-Day, The New Republic, New England Review, and The Poetry Review. Herthird collection of poems is forthcoming from Alice James Books and previouscollections have won the Crab Orchard Review First Book Prize and The MillerWilliams Poetry Prize. Khanna is a poetry editor at The Los Angeles Review. |
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Hannah Loeb is an English PhD candidate at the University of Virginia. Sheearned her BA from Yale in 2012 and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshopin 2015. Her poetry has appeared in Booth, Ninth Letter, Sequestrum, ApricityPress, Ornery Quarterly, Plainsongs, American Chordata, Prodigal, and elsewhere. |
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is a bilingual Ukrainian-American poet, scholar,and literary translator. Her poetry appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, TheCincinnati Review, The Irish Times, The Poetry Review, and other journals. She isthe author of poetry collections Xenia and Lovy and a recipient of Bohdan-IhorAntonych and Smoloskyp prizes, two of Ukraine’s top awards for younger poets.Maksymchuk holds a PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University. Based inLviv, Ukraine, she currently resides in Poland. |
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Jeffrey Morgan is the author of two collections of poetry, Crying Shame andThe Last Note Becomes Its Listener, winner of the Mind’s on Fire Prize. Recentlypoems have appeared in Copper Nickel, Kenyon Review Online, Ninth Letter, PoetryNorthwest, and Verse Daily. |
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is the author of four books of poetry: Again; The Body IsNo Machine; In the Human Zoo; and No Confession, No Mass. Perrine’s recentpoems, stories, and essays appear in The Missouri Review, New Letters, The SeventhWave Magazine, Buckman Journal, and The Gay & Lesbian Review. A resident ofPortland, Oregon, Perrine co-hosts the Incite: Queer Writers Read series, teachescreative writing, and serves as a wilderness guide. |
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is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection I'm Always SoSerious (Sarabande Books, 2023). Her work has appeared in POETRY, Four WayReview, Wildness, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She has received fellowshipsfrom Cave Canem and New York University, was a finalist for the 2019 ManchesterPoetry Prize, and awarded The 2020 J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize fromThe Poetry Foundation. Price is from New Orleans, Louisiana, and holds an MFAin poetry from New York University. She is currently an assistant professor ofpoetry at Tulane University. |
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is a Black poet and literary program coordinator fromDetroit, Michigan, and an advocate for the amplification of Black voices. WithInsideOut Literary Arts, Rogers coordinates after-school intensive creative writingprogramming. His work is published in Tinderbox, Verse Daily, The Metro Times,Detroit Action and on display at Scarab Club Detroit. Rogers is the author ofNostalgia As Black Matilda and Black, Matilda. |
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has received support from the Chautauqua Writer’sWorkshop, the Allerton artist-in-residence program, and the Illinois Departmentof Dance’s Choreographic Platform. Her work appears or is forthcoming in NewEngland Review, AGNI, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Meridian, and other journals.Currently the operations manager for Beloit Poetry Journal, Smith is at work onher debut collection. |
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is the author of Girl's Guide to Leaving (University ofWisconsin Press, 2022) and the chapbook The Cartography of Sleep. She has beena Stadler Fellow, National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critic, and a DobiePaisano Fellow. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, The American PoetryReview, AGNI, and elsewhere. |
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A Black writer from New Orleans, tries at poems and rideshis bike around Bloomington, Indiana, because Indiana University funds hispresent period of studying with others. He currently serves as the editor-in-chiefof Indiana Review, is a Watering Hole Fellow, and is infatuated with Ed Roberson’squestion, “Can you O.D. on life?” He was recently awarded the 2021 Puerto del SolPoetry Prize and has words in or forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review,Southern Review, Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, and others. |
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is a member of the creative writing faculty at FloridaInternational University in Miami. A winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Seriesand the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, her collections of poetryand prose include Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, Small Fires: Essays, PostageDue: Poems & Prose Poems, When I Was Straight, Same-Sexy Marriage: A Novellain Poems, Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing, and Skirted. Her collaborative titlesinclude The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, written with Denise Duhamel,and Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, written with Brenda Miller. Wade reviewsregularly for Lambda Literary Review and The Rumpus and makes her home inDania Beach with her spouse, Angie Griffin, and their two cats. |
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Hannah Whiteman received her MFA from the University of Florida. Herwork appears or is forthcoming in Nimrod, The Baltimore Review, Poetry South,and North Dakota Quarterly. She lives in Miami Beach where—when she is notteaching literature to middle schoolers—she enjoys the water and the wildlife. |
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Robert Wrigley has won numerous awards for his work, including the KingsleyTufts Award, the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award, and a PacificNorthwest Book Award. He lives in the woods of Idaho with his wife, the writerKim Barnes. Wrigley’s latest book, The True Account of Myself As a Bird, is histwelfth collection of poems. He is also the author of a collection of personalessays, mostly about poetry, called Nemerov’s Door. |
Fiction
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Melissa Benton Barker’s fiction appears in Longleaf Review, Cleaver, BestSmall Fictions, and elsewhere. She is the flash fiction section editor at CRAFT.Barker lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio. |
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stories have appeared in Always Crashing, DIAGRAM,Gone Lawn, On the Seawall, and West Trestle Review. Her most recent book isDepartment of Elegy (Black Lawrence Press, 2022). She teaches at the Universityof Akron and in the NEOMFA program. Biddinger's current project is a flashfiction novella that chronicles the adventures of two graduate school roommatesliving in Chicago in the late 1990s. |
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has been published in Wigleaf, Salamander, and The Los AngelesReview, among others. She also produces the podcast Heavyweight. Whenevershe makes a salad, people say, “Wow, that salad looks great.” You can find her onTwitter @kalilaholt. |
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Scott Lambridis’s stories have appeared in Slice, Fence, Cafe Irreal, and other journals. He completed his MFA from San Francisco State where he received the Miriam Ylvisaker Fellowship. Before that, he earned a degree in neurobiology and co-founded Omnibucket.com, through which he co-hosts the Action Fiction! performance series. He’s currently shopping a novel. Read more at scottlambridis.com. |
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is an MFA graduate of Florida AtlanticUniversity. His work has been published with American Short Fiction, BellevueLiterary Review, Best American Essays, Chicago Quarterly Review, Epiphany, Image,The Southampton Review, and elsewhere. Find him in Pompano Beach, Florida,and at christophernotarnicola.com. |
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A writer from West Virginia, is author of the novel Honeyfrom the Lion and the story collection Allegheny Front. He has received the O.Henry Award, the Mary McCarthy Prize, the Michener-Copernicus Award, andthe Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature from the AmericanAcademy of Arts & Letters. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in OxfordAmerican, Ecotone, Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, Electric Literature, andThe Missouri Review, among other journals, and his books have recently beenpublished in translation in France and Italy. Null is assistant professor of creativewriting at Susquehanna University. |
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is a writer and composer based in Azusa, California. Her shortfiction appears or is forthcoming in failbetter, Santa Fe Writer’s Project Quarterly,Jabberwock Review, and Tupelo Quarterly. Trumbore has also been interviewed inKenyon ReviewOnline for her first book, Staying Composed. |
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Nathan Sindelargrew up in rural Nebraska. His stories have appeared inWigleaf, TheFiddlehead and Mid-America Review. Sindelar lives in Kansas City,Missouri, where he works in the public schools’ autism program. |