Contributors
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Mark Belair works as a drummer in New York City. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Alabama Literary Review, Atlanta Review, the Cincinnati Review, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry East, and the South Carolina Review. His most recent collection is Breathing Room (2015). Previous collections include Night Watch (2013); While We’re Waiting (2013); and Walk with Me (2012). He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize three times. For more information, please visit www.markbelair.com
Elise Berrier is a sexuality educator in New York. Her book He Calls Me Sheryl is forthcoming.
Michael Catherwood is a lecturer in English at Creighton University. He is the author of Dare (2006). His second book of poems, If You Could Turn Around Quickly, was published during the summer of 2016, and his third book, Projector, will be published in 2017. He has recently published work in The Common, Plainsongs, New Plains Review, and Louisiana Literature. He has poems forthcoming in Bluestem, Measure, and The Backwaters Press—Twentieth Anniversary Anthology. He lives in Omaha.
Susan Taylor Chehak is the author of several novels, including Smithereens (1995), The Great Disappointment: A Confession (2012), and The Minor Apocalypse of Meena Krejci (2015), as well as a collection of short stories, It’s Not about the Dog (2015). Her stories have appeared widely in journals.
Dorsey Craft recently graduated with an MFA in poetry from McNeese State University. Her poems have appeared in Deep South Magazine, Cactus Heart, and Barn Owl Review.
Adam Day is the author of Model of City in Civil War and is the recipient of a PSA Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, and of a PEN Emerging Writers Award. His work has appeared in the Boston [End Page 183] Review, Lana Turner, APR, Poetry London, AGNI, the Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He coordinates the Baltic Writing Residency in Sweden, Scotland, and Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest.
Diane DeCillis’s poetry collection, Strings Attached (2014), was honored as a Michigan Notable Book for 2015 and is the winner of the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award for poetry. She is a finalist for the Forward Indie Fab Book Award for poetry. She’s been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and Best American Poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in calyx, Evansville Review, Nimrod International Journal, Connecticut Review, Gastronomica, Rattle, Slipstream, Southern Indiana Review, William and Mary Review, and numerous other journals
Allison Donohue holds degrees from Virginia Tech and Texas Tech University. Currently, she is an MFA candidate at the University of Oregon. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Whiskey Island, Hotel Amerika, the Cortland Review, and elsewhere.
Rachel Michelle Hanson holds a PhD in nonfiction from the University of Missouri (2016). Her most recent essays and poems are published or are forthcoming in the Iowa Review, American Literary Review, Entropy Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, Corium Magazine, and the Best of the Net Anthology, among others. She lives and teaches in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Rachel Heng is originally from Singapore and currently lives in London. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, the Emerson Review, and Lunch Ticket.
Sara Henning is the author of A Sweeter Water (2013), her debut collection of poetry, as well as two chapbooks, Garden Effigies (2015) and To Speak of Dahlias (2012). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Quarterly West, Witness, Green Mountains Review, Crab Orchard Review, and rhino. Winner of the 2015 Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, she is a visiting assistant professor of English at Stephen F. Austin State University and serves as an associate editor for Sundress Publications.
Dennis Scott Herbert is dangerous. He is a current MFA candidate at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where he hosts the Writer’s [End Page 184] Bloc Reading Series and serves as managing editor for the Blue Earth Review. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Smokelong Quarterly, Profane, Hobart, and Cardinal Sins, among others.
Rage Hezekiah is a MacDowell Fellow who earned her MFA at Emerson College. Her poems are published in many journals and anthologies, including Fifth Wednesday, Columbia Poetry Review, Blue Lyra Review, and a collection...
