Category: Contributor

Alicia Bones is a second-year MFA student at the University of Montana. Previously, she earned her master’s degree in literature from the University of Iowa. Her work has been published in Maudlin House, Spry, Hello Horror, Matador Network, and elsewhere.

Jason Lasky is an American playwright and actor. His plays have been performed on three continents.  He is the co-founder of Shanghai’s critically-acclaimed independent theater, 5th Wall Theater, and he launched J. Lasky Productions in 2014 with an international collaboration for the first Shanghai Soundpainting Ensemble, of which he is its live composer.   Mend the…

Margaret McGowan has a BA in English Education from SUNY Albany. She has worked as a newspaper reporter, a copyeditor, and as a writing teacher. Currently she runs a small business.

Judith Skillman’s recent book is House of Burnt Offerings, Pleasure Boat Studio. Her work has appeared in Cimarron Review, J Journal, Seneca Review, Tampa Review, Prairie Schooner, FIELD, The Iowa Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. Awards include an Eric Mathieu King Fund grant from the Academy of American Poets. Visit http://www.judithskillman.com

José Angel Araguz is a CantoMundo fellow and winner of RHINO Poetry’s 2015 Editor’s Prize. He is pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Cincinnati. Author of the collection, Everything We Think We Hear, he runs the poetry blog The Friday Influence: https://thefridayinfluence.wordpress.com/

Paige Sullivan is currently an MFA candidate in the creative writing program at Georgia State University, where she also serves as the poetry editor of New South. Her poetry appears or will soon appear in Terminus, American Literary Review, Mead, and others. She also works as a freelance food and travel writer.

Sagirah Shahid is a Minneapolis, Minnesota based writer. Primarily a poet, her work often seeks to make sense of the complexities surrounding the human experience. A 2015-2016 winner of the Loft Literary Center’s Mentor Series Award in poetry, Sagirah’s work has been published or is forthcoming in: The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Mizna, Bluestem,…