ISSUE 115 CONTRIBUTORS
Camilo Loaiza Bonilla (he/him/él) is a Latine writer working to unwind generational silence as a queer, trans, first-generation immigrant. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of South Florida, and, with support from Macondo Writers Workshop, Tin House, Graywolf Press, and Black Lawrence Press, his work is in or forthcoming from Hayden's Ferry Review, Frontier Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. Exploring the intersection of poetry and visual art, he is the 2025-2026 Eleanor Merritt Fellow at The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art and the inaugural Poet-in-Residence at Hillsborough Community College’s Art Galleries.
Daniel Bourne’s collections of poetry include The Household Gods, Where No One Spoke the Language, and Talking Back to the Exterminator, the recipient of the 2022 Terry L. Cox Poetry Prize from Regal House Publishing. His poems have also appeared in Quarterly West, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Guernica, Salmagundi, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Field, Michigan Quarterly Review, Yale Review, Plume, Pleiades, and others. The founding editor of Artful Dodge, and the translation editor for its current online incarnation The Dodge, since 1980 he has lived in Poland for several periods of time, including in 1985-87 on a Fulbright for the translation of younger Polish poets, and most recently in 2024 for work on an anthology of Baltic Coast poets. His translations of Polish poets appear in a number of journals, including Quarterly West, Field, Colorado Review, Partisan Review, Plume, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boulevard, and Prairie Schooner. A collection of his translations of Bronisław Maj, The Extinction of the Holy City, was published in 2024 by Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press.
Brandel France de Bravo’s third collection of poems, Locomotive Cathedral, was chosen in the Backwaters Press contest for publication by the University of Nebraska Press (March 2025). Her poems have recently appeared in Best American Poetry, 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, The Southern Review and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the DC Commission for the Arts, the Hermitage Artist Retreat and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Brandel divides her time between Washington, D.C., where she was born and raised, and Mexico. She teaches a meditation course developed at Stanford University called Compassion Cultivation Training.©
Ian Cappelli's work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in Best New Poets, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Image Journal, The Iowa Review, Smartish Pace, Blackbird, The Florida Review, West Branch, RHINO, The Cincinnati Review, and Palette Poetry, among others. His chapbook "Another Longue Durée" won the 2025 Vallum chapbook contest. He is a creative writing (poetry) PhD student at the University of Denver and a Poetry / Translations editor at Denver Quarterly.
Chloe Cook's work is featured or forthcoming in The New Criterion, The Southeast Review, The Madison Review, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Florida and has received support from Community of Writers and Poetry by the Sea. A former editorial intern for Subtropics and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, she was named a 2025 Helen Degen Cohen Fellow at RHINO. Her website is chloecookwrites.com.
Anna Davis-Abel is a 2020 graduate of West Virginia University's MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing. She currently teaches at the University of Alabama and in Alabama's Department of Corrections. When not teaching or writing, Anna spends her time trying to befriend the crows around her neighborhood and reading low-brow fantasy romance novels. To read more of her work, visit her website at AnnaDavisAbel.com
Sarah Destin is a Ph.D. candidate in Creative Writing at Florida State University, where she is the recipient of the Edward H. and Marie C. Kingsbury Fellowship Award. Her work has recently appeared in Bridge Eight, Bennington Review, Mid-American Review, The Pinch, and other journals.
Bobby Elliott’s debut collection of poems, The Same Man, was selected by Nate Marshall as the winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Raised in New York City, he earned his B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and his M.F.A. from the University of Virginia, where he was a Poe/Faulkner Fellow. His writing has recently appeared in BOMB, The Cortland Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest, RHINO, and elsewhere. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and sons.
Craig M. Foster’s fiction has appeared in The Masters Review, J Journal, Blue Mesa Review, Jabberwock Review, and others. His work has been recognized with the Masters Review Reprint Prize, the Nancy D. Hargrove Editors’ Prize for Fiction, and Honorable Mention in the Pangyrus Fiction Contest. He lives in North Texas with his wife and sons. Find him at craigmfoster.com
Wojciech Kass, born in 1964 in Gdynia (a large port city just north of Gdańsk), is a poet, essayist and literary critic as well as a central member of the editorial board of the literary publishing house Topos. He has received such awards as a Gloria Artis Bronze Metal from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Kazimierza Iłłakowiczówna First Book Award in 2000. He is also the director of the Museum of Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, located in the middle of the woods in the Mazurian Lake District, a forest lodge, where Gałczyński himself found both personal and lyrical refuge during the height of the Stalinist years in the early 1950s. Kass’s many books of poetry include Wiry i Sny (Gyres and Dreams, 2008), Przestwór. Godziny (The Expanse. The Hours, 2015), Pocałuj światło (Kiss the Light, 2016), Trzy poematy (Three Long-Poems, 2018), and Objawy (Symptoms, 2019), in which his poem “Spectacula” appeared. His work has also appeared in Tadeusz Dąbrowski’s Poza slowa: Antologia Wierszy 1976-2006 (Beyond the Word: An Anthology of Poetry 1976-2006). In the U.S., his poetry has previously appeared in Daniel Bourne’s translation in Puerto del Sol, Poet Lore, and Apple Valley Review.
Abbie Kiefer is the author of Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024) and the chapbook Brief Histories (Whittle Micro-Press, 2024). Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in The Atlantic, Copper Nickel, Image, Pleiades, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and other places. She is a poetry editor for The Adroit Journal and lives in New Hampshire. Find her online at abbiekieferpoet.com.
Ellen Kombiyil (she/her) is a visual artist, poet, and educator from the Bronx. She is currently at work on a project of “erasing war” and creating original erasures, collages, and visual art from war ephemera in the Western canon, including LIFE magazine (1942), The Guidebook for Marines (1957), The ROTC Manual, Freshmen Course, First Year Basic (1921), The Iliad (various translations) and archived work at the picture collection from the NYPL. Her latest poetry collection, Love as Invasive Species, a tête-bêche exploring matrilineal inheritances, is just released with Cornerstone Press (University of Wisconsin). Her visual art has been displayed at Emerge Gallery and is published or forthcoming in Bear Review, DIAGRAM, TAB, and The Indianapolis Review and she has new poems appearing in or forthcoming with Sixth Finch and Cherry Tree. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Hunter’s MFA program, she currently teaches writing at Hunter College. Find her at www.ellenkombiyil.com.
Elizabeth Lee is a recent MFA graduate of the University of Michigan. She holds a BA from Columbia University and previously worked as a software engineer. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and can be found or is forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, Electric Literature, and Witness. She is currently working on a novel.
Radha Marcum won the 2023 Washington Prize for her poetry collection Pine Soot Tendon Bone and the New Mexico Book Award in 2018 for her first collection, Bloodline, about her grandfather’s work building the first atomic bombs in New Mexico during World War II. Her poetry has been commissioned by the Clyfford Still Museum and appears in journals including Conjunctions, EcoTheo, North American Review, Pleiades, and Poetry Northwest. Founder of Poet to Poet, Marcum is an award-winning prose writer specializing in health and the environment. Marcum lives in Colorado where she teaches at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and privately.
Lenna Mendoza is a poet from Texas living in Tucson, Arizona. Her work has appeared in Foglifter, Passages North, Four Way Review, and Salt Hill Journal, among others. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Mississippi.
Katie Setzer is a PhD Candidate in Fiction at Western Michigan University. Her work has most recently appeared in the minnesota review and Denver Quarterly. Her ten-minute play, After: Girl Made of Trash was a finalist for the Kennedy Center's Gary Garrison award.
Daniel Shannon is from Templepatrick, Antrim. His work can be found in The Stinging Fly and Icarus.
Ali Shapiro’s work has appeared in Gertrude, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, The Offing, The Rumpus, and Electric Literature, among others. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan, and now teaches writing at the Stamps School of Art & Design. More work is available online at ali-shapiro.com
Seth Simons is a poet and journalist based in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in Adroit, Fugue, Conduit, Rattle, and elsewhere. He has received Fugue's Ronald McFarland Prize for Poetry and New Millennium Writings' New Millennium Award for Poetry. An MFA student at NYU's Creative Writing Program, he writes about labor, inequality, and extremism in the comedy industry at Humorism.xyz.
Adam Spiegelman is a writer based in NY. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Indiana Review, The Evergreen Review, Cake Zine, The Adroit Journal, Electric Lit, and others. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at NYU.
Christopher S. Wilson has recent fiction published in The Harvard Advocate, The Greensboro Review, OxMag, The Florida Review, subTerrain, The Beloit Fiction Journal, and the debut issue of House House. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts and can be found at christopherstetsonwilson.com and on Instagram & Bluesky: @dwicefox.