Contributors
- Contributors
Jasmine V. Bailey is the author of Alexandria (2014), winner of the Central New York Book Award, and Sleep and What Precedes It (2009), winner of the Longleaf Press Chapbook prize.
Lisa Lynn Biggar received her MFA in fiction from Vermont College and is currently marketing her first novel, “We Were Here.” Her short fiction has appeared in the Dickinson Review, Main Street Rag, Bluestem Magazine, Roadside Fiction, and Little Patuxent Review. She currently teaches English at Chesapeake College and co-owns and operates a cut-flower farm on the eastern shore of Maryland with her husband.
Lauren Annette Boulton holds an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Booth, Paper Nautilus, Bayou, 3288 Review, Philadelphia Stories, Gingerbread House, and others.
John F. Buckley and Martin Ott began their ongoing games of poetic volleyball in the spring of 2009. Since then, their collaborations have been accepted into more than seventy journals and anthologies, including Barrow Street, Drawn to Marvel, Map Literary, Rabbit Ears: TV Poems, Redivider, and ZYZZYVA, and gathered into two full-length collections from Brooklyn Arts Press: Poets’ Guide to America (2012) and Yankee Broadcast Network (2014). They are now writing poems for a third manuscript, American Wonder, about superheroes and supervillains.
Justin Carter is a PhD student and teaching fellow at the University of North Texas. His poems appear in The Collagist, cream city review, The Journal, Redivider, and Sonora Review.
Michael Deagler lives in Philadelphia. His fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, New England Review, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. [End Page 123]
Cody Ernst is an instructor at The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. His work appears in Best New Poets 2015, Drunken Boat, Forklift Ohio, and elsewhere. He serves as a poetry editor for the Adroit Journal.
Chelsea Lemon Fetzer holds an MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University. Her work has also appeared in journals such as Stone Canoe, Callaloo, Tin House, Mississippi Review, Sugar Mule, and the Mom Egg Review. A selection of her poetry received the honor of finalist for the 2015 Venture Award, and her first pamphlet (chapbook) is upcoming in 2016. Fetzer was born and raised in Minnesota, then on to Brooklyn and Syracuse, New York. She currently lives in Baltimore with her wife and two daughters. She facilitates writing workshops in all kinds of community spaces for people who, like herself, need to breathe that way.
Crystal S. Gibbins is an assistant professor of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is the author of Sea/Words (2014) and the founding editor of Split Rock Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Prairie Schooner, H_NGM_N, Free Verse, and Poetry City.
Jackson Holbert’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in BOAAT, Muzzle, Tupelo Quarterly, Radar, Parcel, and Thrush Poetry Journal. He studies English and creative writing at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Taylor Johnson is a poet from Washington, DC. They are a Callaloo Fellow and a docent at the National Museum of African Art.
Patrick Kindig is a dual MFA/PhD candidate at Indiana University. His micro-chapbook, Dry Spell, is forthcoming in early 2016, and his poems have appeared in CutBank Online, Fugue, BLOOM, Court Green, and elsewhere.
Michael Levan is assistant professor of English at the University of Saint Francis. He has published work in recent issues of Hobart, Hunger Mountain, Indiana Review, and Mid-American Review. [End Page 124]
Wendy Neale Merry is a poet and essayist from San Diego. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Raleigh Review, Spork, Nano Fiction, decomP, Hobart, and others. She lives in downtown Manhattan with her family, where she manages a collective of street artists. Read more of her work at wendymerry.com.
Emily O’Neill edits poetry for Wyvern Lit and teaches writing at the Boston Center for Adult Education. Her debut collection, Pelican (2015), is the inaugural winner of the Pamet River Prize.
Monica Pacheco lives in Toronto, where she works as a literary agent. Her work has previously appeared in Room Magazine, and in 2013 she was a runner-up...
