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  • Contributor Biographies

Anna Bernstein is a writer from Brooklyn, where she also works as a historical research assistant and copy editor. She has been published in decomp magazine, Dunes Review, Reed Magazine, Carve Magazine, and others. She enjoys writing about animals and animal behavior.

Michelle Bonczek Evory is the author most recently of the collection The Ghosts of Lost Animals (Gunpowder P), and Naming the Unnamable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations (Open SUNY Textbooks). She teaches writing in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and mentors poets on The Poet's Billow (www.thepoetsbillow.org).

Jennifer Brown has taught creative writing and literature and held residencies at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. Her essays and poems appear in North Carolina Literary Review, Cagibi, Muse/A, Muzzle, and Atticus Review, and are forthcoming in LA Review, Copper Nickel, and Cincinnati Review.

Emma Burcart lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she is an English Instructor at a local community college. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. Her work has been published in The Chattahoochee Review, Pembroke Magazine, and Catapult Magazine.

Prince Bush is a poet in Nashville, TN. He has poetry in The Cincinnati Review, Diode Editions, Frontier Poetry, Hobart, Puerto del Sol, and etc. He was a 2019 Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets Fellow and a finalist for the 2020 Sundress Publications Chapbook Contest for OF TUNEFUL ROT.

Caroline Chavatel is the author of White Noises (Greentower Press, 2019), which won The Laurel Review's 2018 Midwest Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in Sixth Finch, Foundry, Poetry Northwest, AGNI, and Gulf Coast, among others. She is an editor at Madhouse Press and cofounding editor of The Shore. She is currently a PhD student at Georgia State University where she teaches and is Poetry Editor of New South.

Julie A Cox received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, where she received the Edelstein-Keller Fellowship in poetry. A finalist for the Loft Mentorship series and the Writers at Work Competition, her poems have appeared in Hanging Loose, Water~Stone, American Literary Review, Spout Magazine, and elsewhere.

Michael Frazier's poems appear in Construction, Visible Poetry Project, & elsewhere. He is a staff reader for The Adroit Journal, Seventh Wave Editorial Resident, & recipient of Tinderbox's 2020 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize. Based in Kanazawa, Japan, he's working on a poetry collection about his mother & can talk for days about anime & how Christ has changed his life. Follow @fraziermichael.

Leah Fretwell's fiction has appeared in Inscape and online at the Southern Humanities Review. She lives in Utah.

Augusta Funk has poems appearing or forthcoming in Best New Poets, The Massachusetts Review, the Offing, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Ohio, she divides her time between Montana and Michigan, where she teaches preschool.

Amy K Genova is a teacher and poet. She recently published a chapbook of prose poetry, Flavor Box: 7 Words Repurposed. Three poems appeared in the 2020 Ars Poetica show in Washington state. A memoir entitled, "Moving," appeared in Stonecrop Magazine. Poetry publications include 3Elements, Homestead Review, and others.

Stephen Hundley is the author The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First (University of North Georgia Press, 2021). His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Cutbank, Carve, and other journals. He serves as the fiction editor for The Swamp and is a Richard Ford Fellow at the University of Mississippi.

Yuki Jackson is a Black and Japanese poet whose work has appeared in Four Way Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Foundry and other publications. She is also an educator and the founder of The Battleground, a youth program in the Sulphur Springs neighborhood of Tampa, Florida. Her website is YukiJackson.com.

Patrick Kindig teaches writing and American literature at Indiana University. He is the author of the chapbook all the catholic gods (Seven Kitchens Press 2019) and the micro-chapbook Dry Spell (Porkbelly Press 2016), and his poems have recently appeared in Copper Nickel, Shenandoah, Washington Square Review, and other journals.

Ryan Lackey is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley. His writing has appeared with Literary Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, Public...

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