Category: Contributor

Sushant Malhotra is a writer based in Oakland who enjoys experimenting with different forms of storytelling. Writing for him is a way to explore the world outside and the world within. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Prose Poem, The Offing, Bending Genres, Unbroken Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine and other publications. You…

Kimmy Chang is a Texas-based poet and computer-vision engineer. A 2026 WLT Fellow and Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in trampset, ONE ART, and Sky Island Journal, among others. Read more at https://www.kchang.xyz/.

Michael Alcée’s work has appeared in Aphor, Black Iris, Eunoia Review, and Lines + Stars, and is forthcoming in Inflectionist Review and Panorama. In addition to being a poet, he is a psychologist and author of Therapeutic Improvisation (Norton, 2022) and The Upside of OCD (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024).

Alexander Ameen is a playwright and actor from San Diego, CA. He’s an MA candidate at San Diego State University, where he also received a BS in TV, Film, and New Media Production. Alexander wrote and directed the short film War Torn, which received the Kathleen Kennedy Grant. His play, Affected Place, was developed through…

P. Q. R. Anderson’s poetry collections include Litany Bird, Foundling’s Island, In a Free State: A Music, and Night Transit. He is the recipient of South Africa’s Thomas Pringle Prize for Poetry and the Sanlam Literary Award. His work has appeared in The London Magazine, Denver Quarterly, TEXT, The Rialto, New Contrast, New Coin, Stanzas,…

Khushi Bajaj (she/her) is a multilingual poet and writer from Lucknow, India. Her work has previously been published by Penguin Random House, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Feminism in India, and more. She has won the international Briefly Write Poetry Prize, and been highly commended for the Disabled Poets Prize and the erbacce-prize. Her debut chapbook…

Maya O. Chien is an emerging Asian-American writer, currently a second-year MFA student enrolled in Sarah Lawrence College’s fiction program. She serves as a fiction editor for Lumina Journal. A New York City native, Maya writes contemporary literary fiction with an emphasis on themes of grief and desire. She loves her dog, eating good food,…

Madeleine French lives in Florida and Virginia. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and appears in various journals including The MacGuffin, Schuylkill Valley Journal, The Waxed Lemon, Gone Lawn, ONE ART, and West Trade Review. You may find her on Bluesky, @madeleinepoet.bsky.social.

Marisa P. Clark is the author of BIRD, a finalist for several 2025 New Mexico Book Awards (Poetry, First Book, and LGBTQIA+ Author or Subject). Her prose and poetry appear in Shenandoah, Cream City Review, Nimrod, Epiphany, Foglifter, Prairie Fire, Rust + Moth, and elsewhere. The Best American Essays 2011 recognized her creative nonfiction among…