CONTRIBUTORS
Sarah Ghazal Ali is the author of Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024), selected as the Editors' Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award. An incoming Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University, she currently serves as editor for Palette Poetry. Find her at sarahgali.com.
Ryan Bollenbach is a writer and musician living in Houston, Texas. He formerly served as the poetry editor for Black Warrior Review in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He is the online fiction editor for Gulf Coast and reads for Heavy Feather Review. More poems from this body of work are forthcoming or have appeared in Bennington Review, Quarterly West, Colorado Review, smoking glue gun, and elsewhere. Reach out on twitter @SilentAsIAm or through his website.
Sarah Elkins lives in southern West Virginia. Her poetry has recently appeared in The Rappahannock Review, Passengers Journal, Rust + Moth, and The Shore; critical analysis in Kestrel. She holds an MFA from Pacific University.
Mrinalini Harchandrai was a finalist for the Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize 2019 and received an Honourable Mention for the CID Pearlman Performance Project 2021. Her unpublished novel manuscript is longlisted for the McKitterick Prize 2021 and was selected as Notable Entry for the Disquiet International Literary Prize 2019. Her short fiction has been longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2018 and shortlisted for Columbia Journal Spring 2020 Contest. Her work has been anthologized in RLFPA Editions’ Best Indian Poetry 2018, The Brave New World of Goan Writing (2018, 2020) and The Yearbook of Indian Poetry 2020-2021. She is Deputy Editor at Poetry at Sangam, an online journal based in India dedicated to poetry worldwide.
Onyekachi Iloh is a writer, poet and visual artist exploring photography as a means of documentation, and the re-examination of sight. He has been a winner of the Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Frontier Award for New Poets. He has been nominated for a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Barren Magazine, Off The Coast, Welter, Singapore Unbound, Blue Marble Review, Palette Poetry and elsewhere. When he isn't playing pretend guitar or dancing before mirrors, he reads poetry or mourns his country.
Shih-Li Kow lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her writing has been published in Mekong Review, The Arkansas International, Short Fiction Journal, Mud Season Review, and elsewhere. Her short story collection Ripples and Other Stories was shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. In 2018, the French translation of her second book The Sum of Our Follies (tr. Frederic Grellier) won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger.
Suzanne Langlois is a poet and teacher from Portland, Maine. Her collection Bright Glint Gone won the 2019 Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance chapbook award. Her work has appeared most recently in Rust + Moth, Whiskey Tit, Menacing Hedge, and Cider Press Review, and has been nominated for both a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She holds a MFA from Warren Wilson College.
Michael Jeffrey Lee is a Berlin-based writer and musician. His first story collection, Something in My Eye, received the Mary McCarthy Prize and was published by Sarabande. Recent work has appeared in DIAGRAM, The Rupture, and The Southern Review, among others. He's also the vocalist for Budokan Boys, whose latest album, So Broken Up About You Dying, was released on Ever/Never Records. He teaches fiction for The Reader Berlin.
Su-Yee Lin is a writer from New York. Her work has been published in Strange Horizons, Day One, Bennington Review, The Offing, Electric Literature, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and other literary journals. She was a 2012 Fulbright Fellow to China and a 2014 fellow at the Center for Fiction; she has also received grants and residencies from Jentel, Seoul Art Space, Art Omi, and others. She is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA fellow in fiction, and is currently working on a collection of short stories and a novel about sea creatures, islands, and identity.
Nora Claire Miller is a poet and multidisciplinary artist based in Western Massachusetts. They are the author of the chapbook LULL (2020), and their work has appeared in Bennington Review, Bat City Review, TYPO, Tagvverk, Hobart, and other places. Nora is the editor in chief of Ghost Proposal. They hold an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
O. Neace is a poet and translator who has appeared in DIAGRAM, Gigantic Sequins, Hunger Mountain and elsewhere.
Colleen Rothman lives in New Orleans. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Literary Hub, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. She is working on a collection of short stories set in south Louisiana. Learn more at colleenrothman.com.
Julie Marie Wade is the author of 13 collections of poetry, prose, and hybrid forms, including Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, Small Fires, Postage Due: Poems & Prose Poems, When I Was Straight, SIX, Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing, and Skirted. With Denise Duhamel, she wrote The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, and with Brenda Miller, Telephone: Essays in Two Voices. A winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, Julie teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University. She is married to Angie Griffin and lives in Dania Beach.