Contributors
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Beachfront Gathering, 2015. Oil on found canvas. 16 x 20 in. ∫ Kirkland Bray
Kirkland Bray has been painting on found surfaces for more than twenty years. In 2012, he began exploring "found" through collage. Everything he creates has a found element, whether it's a rejected scrap of partially dyed canvas, a page of a book that was oxidized by a note placed inside decades before, or the horsehair bristles from an architect's brush. He is inspired by the hunt to find new materials and new subject matter and the challenge of executing and editing. Kirk-land lives and works in Jersey City, NJ.
prose
Itoro Bassey is a storyteller and creative who has received fellowships and awards for her work as a writer. You can find her work in YES! Magazine, Catapult, Slice Magazine, and the Book Smugglers. She tweets @ltoroflower.
Jackie Connelly's creative explores the intersections of query identity, unstable bodies, constructions of language, and mental illness. Their essays have received honors including a Notable in the Best American Essays 2019 and the 2018 Pinch Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in the Rumpus, Zone 3, Iron Horse Literary Review, and more.
Charlie Fiset is from northern Ontario, Canada. Her work has appeared four times in the Fiddlehead and twice in the Journey Prize anthology. She recently completed her first novel.
Enyeribe Ibegwam was brought up in Lagos, Nigeria. He has been awarded a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and was a finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He has received grants from the Vermont Studio Center and the Elizabeth George Foundation. His fiction has appeared in Auburn Avenue, the Southampton Review, and Kweli Journal. He's a Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives in Iowa City.
Linda Kunhardt's poems have appeared in Poetry, APR, New Letters, the New Yorker, Hotel Amerika, the Penn Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. She lives in New Hampshire.
Kristopher Jansma is the author of the novels Why We Came to the City (Penguin) and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards (Penguin) He is the winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award and received an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His work has been noted as distinguished in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best American Short Stories 2016, and Best American Essays 2014. Jansma writes the popular "Unfinished Business" column for Electric Literature, and he has also written for the New York Times, ZYZZYVA, the Sun, Real Simple, the Believer, and Slice Magazine. He is an Assistant Professor of English and the Director of Creative Writing at SUNY New Paltz College.
Madeline Kearin is an archaeologist and writer. Her work has been featured in Conjunctions and the Beloit Fiction Journal.
Janelle M. Williams received her ba from Howard University, her mfa in creative writing from Manhattanville College, and a 2017 fellowship from Kimbilio Fiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kweli, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, SmokeLong Quarterly, Split Lip Magazine, Lunch Ticket, midnight & indigo, the Feminist Wire, and elsewhere. She tweets @janelleonrecord.
poetry
Linette Marie Allen is earning an mfa in creative writing and publishing arts at the University of Baltimore. She is the recipient of a Turner Research and Travel Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Notre Dame Review, the Tishman Review, and elsewhere.
Idris Anderson has published two collections of poems, Mrs. Ramsay's Knee (Utah State UP), selected by Harold Bloom for the May Swenson Award, and Doubtful Harbor (Ohio UP) selected by Sherod Santos for the Hollis Summers Prize. She has won a Pushcart Prize and the New York Yeats Society Poetry Prize. She was born and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area two decades ago. Visit www.silvertrout.net.
Katie Berta lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where she works as the supervising editor of Hayden's Ferry Review. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Kenyon Review Online, Blackbird, Sixth Finch, Indiana Review, Salt Hill, and Washington Square Review, among other journals. You can find her book reviews on the Ploughshares blog...
