Contributors
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Cover
Straying, from the series "Roaming Under the Streetlamp," 2010. © Wen-Han Chang.
Wen-Han Chang, an mfa student of photography, video, and related media at School of Visual Arts, NY, aims to discover the possibilities of photography. His works are mostly abstract with attention to time and space. He was a medical photographer for years and attempts to interweave physics, philosophy, and photography. Visit wenhanphoto.com.
Prose
Anita Gill is a writer and teacher based in Los Angeles. She serves as the West-side LA Chapter lead for Women Who Submit, an organization that encourages women and non-binary writers to send work to literary journals. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, the Rumpus, Hippocampus Magazine, the Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2018 Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction, and she has attended residencies through Vermont Studio Center and Anaphora Literary Arts. Visit www.anitagill.ink.
James Tate Hill is the author of Academy Gothic (Southeast Missouri State UP), winner of the Nilsen Prize for a First Novel. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Literary Hub, Writer's Digest, Story Quarterly, Sonora Review, and Waxwing, among others. He serves as fiction editor for the literary journal Monkeybicycle and writes a monthly audio books column for Lit Hub. A native of West Virginia, he lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife.
John Kinsella is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, plays, and fiction, including, most recently, Insomnia (Picador). Kinsella's awards include the Western Australian Premier's Book Award and the John Bray Award for Poetry from the Adelaide Festival as well as fellowships from the Literature Board of the Australia Council. Kinsella has taught at universities in Australia and at Kenyon College in the United States. Founding editor of the journal Salt in Australia, he serves as international editor at the Kenyon Review.
E. J. Koh is the author of A Lesser Love, winner of the Pleiades Editors Prize, and her memoir The Magical Langauge of Others is forthcoming from Tin House. Her poems and translations have appeared in Boston Review, Columbia Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, PEN America, and World Literature Today. She has accepted fellowships from the American Literary Translators Association, Kundiman, and the MacDowell Colony.
Cam Rentsch is a Chicano anthropologist, writer, and ultramarathon runner studying at Ohio State. His work has previously appeared in Entropy Mag and the Indiana Review Online.
Natalie Storey's work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Guernica, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Common, the Rumpus, and others. She is a former Peace Corps volunteer and Fulbright scholar. She holds an mfa from Pennsylvania State University. She currently teaches English in Livingston, MO.
Juan Alvarado Valdivia was born to Peruvian parents and raised in Fremont, CA. His fiction has been published in the Acentos Review, the Cortland Review, Label Me Latina/o, Origins Journal, and Somos en escrito. His first book, ¡Cancerlandia!: A Memoir, received an honorable mention for the 2016 International Latino Book Award for Best Biography in English. His short story collection, Ballad of a Slopsucker, was recently published by the University of New Mexico Press.
Diana Wagman is the author of six novels. Her short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Electric Literature, Conjunctions, Salon, and other journals and anthologies. She is an occasional contributor to the LA Times. She currently teaches fiction for Writing Workshops LA.
Poetry
Margo Berdeshevsky, born in New York City, often writes and lives in Paris. Her newest collection, Before the Drought (Glass Lyre Press), was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She is also author of Between Soul & Stone and But a Passage in Wilderness (Sheep meadow Press). Her book of illustrated stories, Beautiful Soon Enough, received the first Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Award for Fiction Collective Two (University of Alabama Press). Other honors include the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America, a portfolio of her work in the Aeolian Harp Anthology #1 (Glass Lyre), inclusion in the & Now Anthology of the Best Innovative Writing, and numerous Pushcart Prize nominations. She's been published widely in American...
