Contributor Biographies
- Contributor Biographies
Ibtisam M. Abujad is an Instructor of Arabic Language and Literature at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. Her poems deconstruct boundaries to explore the fluidity of cultural identity and the influence of memory on notions of belonging and foreignness.
Gail Aronson is a fiction editor for Omnidawn Publishing and her work recently appears or is forthcoming in Nat. Brut, Midwestern Gothic, The Adroit Journal, The Offing, Dream Pop, and elsewhere. She lives and works in Pittsburgh. Find her online @gailaronson.
Rosebud Ben-Oni is a recipient of the 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a 2013 CantoMundo Fellow; her most recent collection, turn around, BRXGHT XYXS, was selected as Agape Editions' EDITORS' CHOICE, and will be published in 2019. Her poem "Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark" was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in NYC.
Daniel Biegelson is the author of the chapbook Only the Borrowed Light (VERSE) and Director of the Visiting Writers Series at Northwest Missouri State University. An Associate Editor for The Laurel Review, his poems have appeared with The Boiler, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, FIELD, Meridian, Painted Bride Quarterly & other places.
Silvia Bonilla lives in New York. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Green Mountains Review, Rhino, Jet Fuel Review, The Acentos Review, Reed Magazine, Cimarron Review, among others. She has received scholarships from The Vermont College of Fine Arts, Tupelo Press and a Colgate Writers Conference Fellowship.
James Butcher has had recent work published in Whistling Shade, The Blotter, Prick of the Spindle, Rivet, and Midwest Review.
Collin Callahan was born in Illinois. His poems have appeared in Blue Earth Review, Denver Quarterly, Hobart, and elsewhere. Collin is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at Florida State University.
David Clark is a Canadian media artist interested in experimental narrative and cinematic use of the internet. He teaches at NSCAD University in Halifax. [End Page 116]
Drew S. Cook lives, works, and eats crawfish in southern Louisiana, where he is a PhD Student at the University of Louisiana Lafayette. He also edits for Trio House Press and is a mentor in a program for neurodivergent writers.
Elizabeth Dodd teaches creative writing and environmental literature at Kansas State University. Her most recent book is Horizon's Lens (University of Nebraska Press). She is the nonfiction editor with Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments.
Emrys Donaldson is an instructor and MFA candidate at the University of Alabama. Their work has appeared in Necessary Fiction, Gigantic Sequins, Fairy Tale Review, and Sundog Lit, among other digital and meatspace venues.
Mariel Fechik lives in Chicago, IL and works in a library. She sings for the band Fay Ray and writes music reviews for Atwood Magazine and Third Coast Review. She is a Best of the Net and Bettering American Poetry nominee and her work has appeared in Hobart, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Cream City Review, Yes Poetry, and others. She is the author of the micro-chapbook An Encyclopedia of Everything We've Touched (Ghost City Press, 2018).
Fluke is a graphic designer, artist and writer. His work has appeared in Creative Quarterly, Art By nature, Birds Piled Loosely and more. His recent exhibitions include CICA Museum (Korea), Gallery MC (New York) and Miranda Kuo Gallery (New York). He currently lives in Silverstream, New Zealand with his amazing wife and child. In 2017 he was voted BEST 100 by Creative Quarterly.
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of the chapbooks Unseasonable Weather (dancing girl press, 2018) and Congress of Mud (Finishing Line Press, 2015). Her work can be found in Third Coast, Granta, Quarterly West, DIAGRAM, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She serves as editor-in-chief of the queer literary journal Foglifter and lives in sunny Oakland, California.
Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the nonfiction books, The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America's Food, Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer, Pot Farm, and Barolo; the poetry books, The Morrow Plots, Warranty in [End Page 117] Zulu, and Sagittarius Agitprop, and 2 chapbooks. His forthcoming nonfiction book, A Brief Atmospheric Future, is due out in 2020 from W.W. Norton...
