Category: Contributor

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…

Steven Fromm is a Detroit native currently living in New Jersey. His work has appeared in several publications, including Terrain. org, Salamander, The Saturday Evening Post, Columbia Journal, The Summerset Review, Permafrost and Sonora Review. His short play, “Sister Bea’s Full Branzino,” recently received a stage presentation in London and his short story, “Six Carp,”…

Charity Gingerich’s first full-length collection of poems, After June, won The Hopper Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, Girl Escaping with Sky was published by Dancing Girl Press (2014). Currently, she teaches ESL to international business persons and their families. Gingerich has received a poetry scholarship from the Sewanee Writer’s Conference and a residency from the Vermont…

Elizabeth J. Wenger is a queer writer from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her works have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology. She is the winner of the Baltimore Review Winter Prize in flash nonfiction and was shortlisted for the Breakwater Review Fiction Prize. Her essay collection was selected as a finalist…

February Spikener (they/she) is a Black femme poet from Detroit. Her work has been published in Black Warrior Review, Muzzle Magazine, and Poet Lore, among others. Ever inspired by their loved ones, their poems reflect how they navigate through the world and what it means to love and be loved. She believes that love is…

Michael C. Roberts is a retired professor of pediatric/clinical child psychology who now explores his creative side. His images have been published in The Canary, Burningword, Cantos, Right Hand Pointing, Door is a Jar, Straylight, Thimble, Ponder, Closed Eye Open, Alchemy Spoon, Cardinal Sins, and elsewhere. He is chuffed to have his photograph on the…

Matthew Moore is a playwright and poet. Their work has been featured in the Coachella Review, Esoterica, and Cola Review. Their plays have been presented at the Chain Theater, the Fresh Fruit Festival, and the Toronto Fringe Festival.

Emily Mathis is a writer and dancer. Her essay, “Men Smoking,” was the 2024 nonfiction winner of Sonora Review‘s The Erotic contest. Additional essays have recently appeared in Sonora Review, Hunger Mountain, Epiphany, Los Angeles Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and others. Her debut essay collection was long-listed for the 2024 Miami Book Fair’s Emerging Writers’…

Darby Myr is a queer writer, textile artist and tree planter. Their journalism has been previously published in CultMTL and Le Devoir. They are based out of Montreal when they are not stuck in the teeth of the northern Rockies.