CONTRIBUTORS

Faiz Ahmad is a recent graduate in Biological Sciences from IIT Madras, India. Apart from having received multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart nominations, his work appears in Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, Salamander, and others.

Austin Araujo is a writer from northwest Arkansas. His poems have recently appeared in Poetry, TriQuarterly, and the Missouri Review. He is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Tyler Boyd earns a living as a line cook in Pittsburgh, PA, and is a recent alum of the Tin House Winter Workshop.

[sarah] Cavar is a PhD student, writer, and transgender-about-town. They are editor-in-chief of Stone of Madness and swallow::tale presses, and their writing can be found in CRAFT Literary, Split Lip Magazine, Electric Lit, and elsewhere. Cavar's debut novel, Failure to Comply, is forthcoming with featherproof books (2024). More at www.cavar.club, @cavarsarah on twitter, and at librarycard.substack.com.

Katie DeLay (she/her) is a poet from Tennessee. Katie is currently in her second year at the University of Alabama’s MFA program, where she is Black Warrior Review’s Editor in Chief.

Mackenzie Schubert Polonyi Donnelly is a Pushcart-nominated diasporic Hungarian poem maker battling dysautonomia and autoimmunity. Her work may be found in Barrelhouse Magazine, Crab Creek Review, Palette Poetry, and Hayden’s Ferry Review, among others. Mackenzie is a Cornell University 2022 MFA Poetry Graduate, Lecturer, and 2021 Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Prize winner. She is currently completing her debut poetry collection entitled Post-Volcanic Folk Tales and training her own service dog prospect.

Hannah Ensor is the author of Love Dream With Television (Noemi Press, 2018). They won the 2019 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers from Lambda Literary, and their writing has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Essay Daily, JUPITER88, and Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre. Hannah is currently at work on a novel about watching The L Word called If You Can Never Love It Enough. They live in Ypsilanti, Michigan. 

Max Kruger-Dull holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Litro Magazine, Roanoke Review, The MacGuffin, Hunger Mountain Review, and others. He lives in New York with his boyfriend and two dogs. For more, please visit maxkrugerdull.com.

Rosa Lane is the author of four poetry collections, including Called Back, forthcoming from Tupelo Press and selected from the 2022 Summer Open Reading Period; Chouteau’s Chalk, winner of the 2017 Georgia Poetry Prize; Tiller North, winner of the 2014 Sixteen Rivers Poetry Manuscript Competition; and Roots and Reckonings, a chapbook partially funded by the Maine Arts Commission. Her work won the 2018 William Matthews Poetry Prize, among other prizes, and has appeared in the Asheville Poetry Review, Cutthroat, Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, RHINO, Southampton Review, and elsewhere. She splits her time between coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her wife.

Julie Lee (she/her) is a Korean-American artist from Alabama working primarily in photography and collage. She holds a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and is residing in Pittsburgh, PA. Through the family album, her lens-based works explore themes of ancestry and the photograph as existential affirmation, with a particular focus on the matrilineal lineage that comes with her and the women around her. Her work has been exhibited in Woman Made Gallery, Columbia University's PostCrypt Gallery, the Curated Fridge, the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Filter Space, the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh International Airport. Her work has also been featured in publications such as the Journal of Art Criticism, Yale University’s Asterisk* Journal of Art and Art History, Hyperallergic, and Fraction Magazine.

Alexa Luborsky is a writer of Western Armenian and Eastern European Jewish descent. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Guernica, and West Branch, among others. She is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Virginia and reads for Poetry Northwest and Meridian. You can find more of her work at alexaluborsky.com.

Hera Naguib is a doctoral candidate in creative writing at Florida State University and an editorial assistant at Guernica. She is the recipient of Gasher Press’ First Book Scholarship, a VIDA Residency Fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholarship. A finalist for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, Hera’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Wasafiri, New England Review, World Literature Today, The Cincinnati Review, Poem-a-Day by the American Academy of Poets, and elsewhere. Hera lives between Tallahassee and Lahore.

David Sheskin made his first work of art at the age of 40. His initial efforts were pen and ink drawings. He then began to paint in acrylics and subsequently utilized sculpture, mixed media, collage and digital technology to create a large but diverse body of art. Sheskin’s images have been published in magazines and exhibited in both galleries and museums.

Ani Kayode Somtochukwu is an award-winning Nigerian writer and queer liberation activist. His work interrogates themes of queer identity, resistance, and liberation, and has been shortlisted for the 2020 ALCS TOM-Gallon Trust Award and the 2022 Toyin Falola Prize. He won the 2021 James Currey Prize for African Literature for his debut novel, And Then He Sang a Lullaby, which will be published by Roxane Gay Books in June 2023.

Theresa Sylvester is a Zambian writer based in Western Australia. She is the winner of the 2022 Black Fox Writing Contest. Her stories have been published by Black Warrior Review, Midnight and Indigo, and in Australia's Rockingham Writers Centre 2019 anthology. She is an alumna of the Stuyvesant Writing Workshop taught by Nicole Dennis-Benn.

Christina Tang-Bernas lives in Southern California with her family. Her work has appeared in Coastal Shelf, Soft Cartel, and Dark Matter Journal, as well as placing first in the Whole Life Soaps annual haiku contest. Find out more at http://www.christinatangbernas.com.

Anna Tomlinson’s poems have appeared in THRUSH, Ploughshares, The Adroit Journal, Frontier Poetry, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia’s MFA program and lives in Salt Lake City. Her work can be found at annatomlinsonpoet.com.

Maria Zoccola is a queer Southern writer with deep roots in the Mississippi Delta. She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere.