Category: Contributor

Ellen White is a poet, writer, and contemplative arts teacher living in southern Maine. Retired from a career as an information technology manager, she now offers writing workshops and leads retreats that combine meditation, movement, and writing. Ellen holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Lindenwood University and has been twice nominated for the…

Courtney Hitson teaches English at the College of the Florida Keys. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals including About Place, DMQ Review, Emerge Literary Journal, McNeese Review and others. Outside of writing, she enjoys scuba-diving, freestyle unicycling, and philosophy. Courtney and her husband, Tom (also a poet), reside in Key West, Florida with…

Caleb Jagoda is a poet, journalist, and MFA candidate at the University of New Hampshire. He is managing editor at Barnstorm Journal and his work has appeared in Polaris Literary Magazine, Write on the DOT, and Down East Magazine. He lives in Dover, New Hampshire.

Jonathan Greenhause’s poetry collection, Cupping Our Palms (Meadowlark Press, 2022), won the 2022 Birdy Poetry Prize, and he’s won the Teignmouth Poetry Festival Open Competition, the Ledbury Poetry Competition, Aesthetica Magazine’s Creative Writing Award in Poetry, and the Telluride Institute’s Fischer Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in in Barrow Street, The Believer, New York…

Devon Balwit (she/her) edits for Asimov Press and Asterisk Magazine.

Hollie Dugas lives in New Mexico. Her work has been included in Barrow Street, Reed Magazine, Qu, Redivider, Porter House Review, EPOCH, Salamander, Poet Lore, The Louisville Review, The Penn Review, Breakwater Review, Third Coast, RHINO, Sixth Finch, Gordon Square Review, Phoebe, Broad River Review, and Louisiana Literature.  Additionally, “A Woman’s Confession #5,162” was selected…

Midge Hartshorn (he/they) is a poet and astronomer, raised in Idaho. Midge holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College, and is a graduate student at Wesleyan University. His work can be found in Thimble Lit Mag, Tension Literary, Zeniada, and others. Midge was among the 2024 recipients of the Five College Prose & Poetry Prize.…

Mary Donnet Johnson (she/her/hers) grew up in Vermont, earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College, worked for a decade in New York City as a professional actress, and now makes her home in Tennessee and writes plays. She’s had three recent world premieres: “Shanktown,” at Playhouse on the Square in Memphis (2022), “Party of Twelve,”…

Cami Stuckert (they/them) is a Chicago-based playwright, actor, and director. Their works have been featured in several play festivals in the Chicagoland area, and they teach acting at Green Shirt Studio. Their goal as a playwright is to create roles for non-binary actors that humanize and depoliticize this marginalized identity.