Contributors
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Stine An is a Korean American poet, performer, and stand-up comedian based in Providence, Rhode Island. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in BAX 2018: Best American Experimental Writing, Electric Literature, Black Warrior Review, and Nat. Brut. Stine holds a BA in literature from Harvard College and is an MFA candidate in literary arts at Brown University. Her interests include diasporic poetics, experimental translation, and counterhegemonic performances of identity. She also produces Chat Club PVD, a series of experimental performance and media.
Matthew Barrett has taught college writing at the University of California, Davis, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His writing has appeared in River Teeth, SmokeLong Quarterly, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Maine Review, Wigleaf, and Best New Writing 2018, among others. He holds an MFA in fiction from UNC-Greensboro and a BA in English from Gettysburg College.
Brett Biebel teaches writing and literature at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. His (mostly very) short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Chautauqua, Masters Review, Great River Review, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a short-story collection dealing with football, masculinity, and the American Midwest.
Charles Booth is director of communication at Austin Peay State University. He won the 2017 Alligator Juniper National Writing Contest in Fiction, earned second place in the 2014 Playboy Magazine College Fiction Contest, and received third prize for the 2018 Larry Brown Short Story Award. His fiction has appeared in Alligator Juniper, Greensboro Review, Southampton Review, Pinch, and Gateway Review.
Lauren Annette Boulton is a lead copywriter at Aisle Rocket Studios and holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University. Her work has appeared in apt, Pinch, Muse/A Journal, Booth, and the anthology A Portrait in Blues (2017).
James Braun’s work has appeared and is forthcoming in Zone 3, SmokeLong Quarterly, Atlas and Alice, and elsewhere. His short story “Clay,” forthcoming in The Rectangle, won the Herbert L. Hughes Short Story Award.
Briana Campbell is a graduate of Florida State University, where she majored in creative writing.
RC deWinter’s poetry is anthologized, notably in Uno: A Poetry Anthology (2002), New York City Haiku (2017), Cowboys & Cocktails (2019), Nature In The Now (2019), in print in 2River, Adelaide, Genre Urban Arts, Gravitas, In Parentheses, Night Picnic Journal, Prairie Schooner, Reality Break Press, Southword, Variant Literature among others and appears in numerous online literary journals.
Rodney Gomez is the author of Ceremony of Sand (2019) and Citizens of the Mausoleum (2018). His book Arsenal with Praise Song is forthcoming.
Robin Gow is a professor and MFA student of creative writing at Adelphi University. They currently serve as the editor-at-large for Village of Crickets and the social media coordinator for Oyster River Pages. Their first full-length collection, Our Lady of Perpetual Degeneracy, is forthcoming.
Maggie Rue Hess is a high school English teacher in San Antonio, Texas. Her poetry has appeared in Whilst and Rattle Magazine.
Adam Hughes is the author of four full-length poetry collections, most recently Allow the Stars to Catch Me When I Rise (2017) and Deep Cries Out to Deep (2017). Born and raised in central Ohio, he now resides in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where he is pursuing an MFA at Randolph College. Should you google him, he is not the Adam Hughes who draws near-pornographic depictions of female superheroes. This particular Adam Hughes cannot draw.
Molly Sutton Kiefer is the author of the full-length lyric essay Nestuary (2014). She has published three poetry chapbooks and has work in Orion, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Passages North, The Rumpus, Tupelo Quarterly, Fiddlehead Review, Ecotone, South Dakota Review, and The Collagist, among others. She is publisher at Tinderbox Editions and founder of Tinderbox Poetry Journal.
Phyllis Klein’s work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Chiron Review, Portside, Sweet: A Literary Confection, 3Elements, Poetry Hotel, and I-70. She was a finalist in the Sweet poetry contest in 2017, the Carolyn Forché Prize for Humanitarian Poetry in 2019, and the Fischer Prize in 2019. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2018. She’s very close to publishing...
