Category: Contributor

D. Keali‘i MacKenzie is the author of the chapbook From Hunger to Prayer (Silver Needle Press). A queer poet of Kanaka Maoli, European, and Chinese descent; his work appears in or is forthcoming from: Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures, homology lit, Fahmidan Journal, foglifter, and The Operating System Experimental Speculative Poetics. A past member of the…

Amie Whittemore is the author of the poetry collections Glass Harvest (Autumn House Press), Star-tent: A Triptych (Tolsun Books, 2023), and Nest of Matches (Autumn House, 2024). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg…

Clayton Adam Clark lives in St. Louis, his hometown, where he works as a mental health counselor. His debut poetry collection, A Finitude of Skin, won the Moon City Poetry Award and was published by Moon City Press. He earned the MFA in poetry at Ohio State University and a master’s in clinical mental health…

Adrian Matias Bell is a writer and musician living on Chochenyo Ohlone land (Oakland, CA). His work has appeared in Winter Tangerine and is forthcoming in Qwerty. He also makes music as Nightjars.

Joel Fishbane’s novel, The Thunder of Giants, is now available from St. Martin’s Press. His short fiction has been published in a variety of magazines, including Ploughshares, Witness, New England Review, and the Saturday Evening Post. For more information, you are welcome to visit www.joelfishbane.net

Katherine Joshi teaches academic writing at the University of Maryland, where she received her MFA in fiction writing in 2014. Her fiction has previously appeared in Big Muddy, Glasschord, and Journey, under her maiden name Kipp. Originally from Tennessee, she now live in Northern Virginia with her husband, son, and nearly toothless cat.

Cristina Legarda was born in the Philippines and spent her early childhood there before moving to Bethesda, Maryland. She is now a practicing physician in Boston. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in America magazine, The Dewdrop, Plainsongs, FOLIO, HeartWood, Ruminate, Smartish Pace, The Good Life Review, and others.

Brian A. Salmons writes in Orlando, Florida. His work is in The Ekphrastic Review, Autofocus Lit, Stereo Stories, Arkansas International, Memoir Mixtapes, Sunlight Press, Poets Reading the News, O:JA&L, and YellowJacket Press and TL;DR Press anthologies. He also edits and reads for Autofocus Lit. Find him on IG @teacup_should_be and Twitter @brianasalmons

Sophia Naylor’s plays include All-One!, Blood and Dolly, Boxed, My Little Big Brother, The Sermon, and Play-Bot. Her works have been produced and/or developed by the Pear Theatre, Women in SOLOdarity, PCSF, MN Fringe Festival, and Local Color. Sophia co-founded the murder mystery theater company The Clue Collective, for which she wrote and customized shows.…