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  • Contributors

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Angela Bilger is originally from Jacksonville, Florida, and is a classical musician living in the Philadelphia area with her husband and young son. Her work has been published in Rust + Moth and Raleigh Review.

Jackie Braje is a Brooklyn-based writer. Her worked has appeared or is forthcoming in Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Waccamaw: A Journal of Contemporary Literature, Vagabond City Literary Journal, Nottingham Review, Fat Damsel, Rat's Ass Review, Bridge, and elsewhere.

Laniesha Brown is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at McNeese State University in Louisiana where she teaches English composition.

Laton Carter is the author of Leaving (2004), which received the William Stafford–Hazel Hall Book Award. Recent work has appeared in Brooklyn Review, Citron Review, concīs, Sonora Review, and Split Lip Magazine.

Babette Cieskowski is a poet earning her MFA degree from Ohio State University. Her poems have been published in Black Heart Magazine, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Qu, Day One, and others.

Emily Rose Cole is a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati, where she teaches composition and creative writing. She is the author of Love and a Loaded Gun (2017), a chapbook of persona poems in women's voices. She has received awards and honors from Jabberwock Review, The Orison Anthology, Philadelphia Stories, and the Academy of American Poets.

Roselyn Elliott is the author of four poetry chapbooks: Ghost of the Eye (2016), Animals Usher Us to Grace (2011), At the Center (2008), and The Separation of Kin (2006). Her essays and poems have appeared in New Letters, diode, Streetlight Magazine, Florida Review, BLUELINE, and other publications. She is the poetry editor at Streetlight Magazine and teaches at the Visual Art Center of Richmond. [End Page 131]

Ally Glass-Katz is a fiction fellow at the Michener Center for Writers. Her recent work can be found or is forthcoming in Shenandoah, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.

Steven Hamelman edited and contributed to the collection All by Myself: Essays on the Single-Artist Rock Album (2016). Forthcoming are chapters on the Beatles and Lou Reed. His essays on American literature have appeared in Legacy, South Atlantic Review, and other journals. He teaches at Coastal Carolina University and is the book review editor at Popular Music and Society and Rock Music Studies.

Caylie Herrmann is an MFA student at Eastern Washington University. Her recent work can be found in burntdistrict, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and Third Wednesday.

Sarah Jordan is a writer in New York. Her work has appeared or will appear in RHINO, Cosmonauts Ave., and others.

Samantha Lê is a poet and artist residing in San Luis Obispo, California. Her publications include Corridors (2001) and Little Sister Left Behind (2007).

Kyle McCord teaches creative writing at Drake University. He is the author of Magpies in the Valley of Oleanders (2016).

Erin J. Mullikin's poems and short fiction have been published in elsewhere, Ghost Ocean, Arts & Letters, Whiskey Island, Bodega, Spring Gun Press, Spork, and Best New Poets 2014, among others. She is the founding editor of the online literary journal NightBlock and the small literary press Midnight City Books. Formally the Olive B. O'Connor Poetry Fellow at Colgate University and a graduate of Syracuse University's MFA program, she now resides in Philadelphia where she is a brand manager.

Alaina Pepin teaches middle and high school English in Gold Beach, Oregon. Her work has appeared in Dunes Review, Rust + Moth, and Beech Street Review, among others.

Michael Pontacoloni works for a small technology company. His recent work appears in Greensboro Review, Mississippi Review, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. [End Page 132]

Christa Romanosky is a 2017–18 fiction fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center in Massachusetts. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia. Recent works can be found in Missouri Review, Hotel Amerika, Spillway, and other journals.

Eric Roy has poetry forthcoming in Spillway, Tampa Review, RHINO, and Maine Review. He has won awards for his teaching (Teacher of the Year—Virginia College, Austin, 2014), his chili (13th Annual ACCA Cook-Off—1st Place), and poetry (2015 KGB Open Reading "After the AWP" Winner). He is the overnight pit master at Morgan's in...

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