Contributors
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Prose
Ọlákìtán Aládéṣuyì lives in Lagos, where she writes computer programs, poems,. articles, and stories. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in African Writer, Kalahari Review, and others. Recently, she took part in the Afro young adult workshop organized by Goethe-Institut.
Adrienne Christian is a poet, writer, and fine art photographer. Her work has appeared in CALYX, phoebe, Obsidian, the Los Angeles Review as the Editor’s Choice, and dozens of other journals and magazines. She is the author of two poetry collections, 12023 Woodmont Avenue (Willow Books) and A Proper Lover (Main Street Rag). She is a fellow of both Cave Canem and Callaloo Writing Residencies. In 2007, she won the University of Michigan’s Five Under Ten Young Alumni Award. In 2016, she was a finalist for the Rita Dove International Poetry Award. She is currently pursuing her PhD from the University of Nebraska.
Caitlin Hill is a South Dakota-based writer and teacher. Her work has appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Harpur Palate, and Silk Road Review and was selected as notable in Best American Essays 2018. Excerpts from her memoir-in-progress were longlisted for Stockholm Writers Festival First Pages Prize and have been featured in an anthology of emerging South Dakotan writers. Caitlin recently earned her mfa at the University of Idaho and currently teaches at the Black Hills State University. Visit www.caitlinhillside.com.
Maurine Ogbaa is a graduate of the mfa program at Washington University in St. Louis. Her fiction has appeared in Callaloo, and her nonfiction has appeared in Third Coast, the Elephant (Kenya), and other publications. Currently she is a PhD candidate at the University of Houston, where she recently coordinated a conference about African Women’s Literature and Film.
Claire Polders grew up in the Netherlands and currently roams the world. She’s the author of four novels in Dutch and co-author of one novel for younger readers (A Whale in Paris, Atheneum/Simon & Schuster). Her short work has appeared in Electric Literature, Tin House, TriQuarterly, Denver Quarterly, Fiction International, and previously (online) in Prairie Schooner.
Courtney Sender’s fiction appears or is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, AGNI, Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, the Georgia Review, and others. Her essays appear in the New York Times’s Modern Love and Salon. A fellow of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, she holds an mfa in fiction from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and an mts from Harvard Divinity School.
Tamika Thompson is a writer, producer, journalist, and fiction editor of POC United: Graffiti (Aunt Lute Books), an anthology of works by writers of color. She lives in the North Shore suburbs of Chicago with her husband and two children.
Mykelle Thompson-Graves holds an mfa in fiction writing from Pacific University. She has fiction and poetry published or forthcoming in the Rush, the Molotov Cocktail, the Vignette Review, Fifth Wednesday Plus, and Split Infinitive. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.
Thelma Zirkelbach is a multi-published author of personal essay, memoir, poetry, and romantic suspense. A burn survivor, she currently volunteers at Shriners’ Burn Hospital for Children in Galveston.
Poetry
Liz Ahl is the author of Beating the Bounds (Hobblebush Books) as well as several chapbook-length collections of poetry, including the latest, Song and Scar (No Chair Press). She lives in Holderness, New Hampshire.
Sandra Alcosser’s A Fish to Feed All Hunger and Except by Nature both received numerous awards and honors including awp, the National Poetry Series, and the James Laughlin award from the Academy of American Poets. Montana’s first poet laureate, she directs the mfa for sdsu and edits Poetry International.
Raymond Antrobus is a British-Jamaican poet. He is the author of To Sweeten Bitter and The Perseverance (PBS Winter Choice, a Sunday Times/the Guardian poetry book of 2018, shortlisted for the Griffin poetry prize). He is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Complete Works 3, and Jerwood Compton Poetry. He has an ma in spoken word education from Goldsmiths. His awards include The Geoffrey...
