CONTRIBUTORS

Diya Abbas is a first-generation Pakistani poet from the Midwest. Her poems are featured or forthcoming in Poetry Daily, RHINO, Foglifter, diode, The Offing, and others. Find more of their work at diyabbas.com.

Maddie Barone is a queer writer from South Carolina. Their work has been featured in The Madison Review, Miracle Monocle, and Pedestal Magazine, and is forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Penn Review, Birdcoat Quarterly, and elsewhere.

Acie Clark is a writer from Florida and Georgia. He received his MFA from the University of Alabama where he worked for Black Warrior Review as the online editor. He teaches in the Film, Theatre, and Creative Writing Department at the University of Central Arkansas and as a summer instructor at Interlochen Center for the Arts. He is a 2024-2025 Fine Arts Work Center fellow in poetry. Recent work is forthcoming in Salamander, Passages North, and the Arkansas International.

Irena Datcu-Romano is an artist of Romanian descent studying Religions & Cultures and Writing at the University of Victoria. She was raised on the unceded territories of the Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Stz’minus, Sto:lo, and Semiahmoo First Nations. Her poetry has been published in Work in Progress Mag, VOICES/VOIX, yolk, EVENT, and The Warren. Her poetry zine, Chess Game, was shortlisted for Broken Pencil’s Canzine Awards in 2021. She serves as a poetry editor for This Side of West magazine.

Audrey Hall is a poet, literature scholar, and megafauna enthusiast from Mississippi. Her poems appear and are forthcoming in Raleigh Review, Okay Donkey, Atlanta Review, Cola Literary Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She was featured in Texas Review Press's 2023 Southern Poetry Anthology Volume X: Alabama. She serves as a poetry reader for Kitchen Table Quarterly. In 2022, her poetry was nominated for a Best of the Net Award.

Sophie Hoss loves the ocean and is in bed by 9 pm every night. She has received a Pushcart Prize and was nominated for Best Microfiction 2025. Her words are scattered around in BOMB, The Baffler, Split Lip, Ninth Letter, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. Also, she has a small dog named Elmo who likes to wear little sweaters. You can read more of her work at sophiehosswriting.com.

Julia Juster is a writer from Cleveland living in Oakland. She received an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College, and serves as managing editor at Arrowsmith Press. Additional excerpts from her book about mustangs, myths & land management have been featured in Conjunctions.

Marasha Love's work has appeared in The Ex-Puritan, Culture Clash, Litbreak, The Santa Fe Reporter, Santa Fe Literary Review, Ragazine, and Wards among others. She received her MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives between the Navajo Reservation and Southern New Mexico where she writes and heals from chronic illness. 

Court Ludwick is the author of These Strange Bodies (ELJ Editions, 2024) and the founding editor-in-chief of Broken Antler Magazine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in EPOCH, Denver Quarterly, Hawaii Pacific Review, Oxford Magazine, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. Read more at www.courtlud.com.

Meghan B. Malachi is a Bronx-born, Chicago-based poet and educator. She is an Associate Editor at RHINO and the Programming Coordinator at the Guild Literary Complex. Meghan is the first-place winner of the Spoon River Poetry Review 2022 Editor's Prize Contest, runner-up of the 2024 Princemere Poetry Contest, and a 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominee. She has also been a finalist for the 2024 Hillary Tham Capital Collection as well as the 2024 Lois Cranston Memorial Prize. Her work is published in Milly Magazine, Rabid Oak, Juked, NECTAR Poetry, Writers With Attitude, and NewCity. Her first chapbook, The Autodidact, was published by Ethel Zine & Micro Press in 2020.

Bo Hee Moon is a South Korean adoptee. Born in South Korea, she was adopted at three-months-old. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, swamp pink, The Margins, and others. Omma, Sea of Joy and Other Astrological Signs, published by Tinderbox Editions, is her debut collection of poems. She previously published under a different name. She has received the Inprint Brown Foundation Fellowship. You can find her at boheemoon.com.

T. R. Poulson, a University of Nevada alum and proud Wolf Pack fan, supports her writing habit by delivering for UPS in Woodside, California.  Her work has appeared in various publications, including Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, American Literary Review, and Booth.  She is currently seeking a publisher for her first manuscript, tentatively titled At Starvation Falls.  Find her at www.trpoulson.com and on social media as @trpoulson. 

Marie Scarles is a writer, maker, and movement worker from Mystic, Connecticut, living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been published in The Believer, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, About Place Journal, and elsewhere. She earned an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University. Say hello at mariescarles.com.

Othuke Umukoro Othuke Umukoro is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he won the Academy of American Poets University Poetry Prize. His debut poetry collection, Fenestration, was selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Diane Seuss as the 2024 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize winner and will be out from Texas Review Press September 15, 2025.

Jane Wong is the author of the memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City (Tin House, 2023), winner of the 2024 Washington State Book Award. She also wrote two poetry collections: How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James, 2021) and Overpour (Action Books, 2016). She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Harvard's Woodberry Poetry Room, Artist Trust, Hedgebrook, Ucross, Loghaven, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and others. An interdisciplinary artist as well, she has exhibited her poetry installations and performances at the Frye Art Museum, Richmond Art Gallery, and the Asian Art Museum. She grew up in a Chinese American take-out restaurant and is an Associate Professor at Western Washington University.

Iris Yu is from Cleveland, Ohio. Her work can be found in GASHER Journal, Sine Theta Magazine, and HAD, among others. She is currently an undergraduate at Columbia University. Recently, she has been pickling watermelon rinds.