CONTRIBUTORS

Brady Brickner-Wood is from New Hampshire. He is currently an MFA candidate at Texas State University, where he is the Managing Editor for Porter House Review. He is at work on a collection of short stories and a novel.

Adam Crittenden holds an MFA in poetry from New Mexico State University where he was awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize. His writing has appeared in Barrelhouse, Bayou Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, Barn Owl Review, Whiskey Island, and other journals. Blood Eagle is his first full-length book of poetry and is available from Gold Wake Press. Currently, he teaches writing in Albuquerque at Central New Mexico Community College.

L.M. Davenport is a third-year MFA student at the University of Alabama, where she also serves as fiction editor for the Black Warrior Review. Her work has previously appeared in Booth, Shimmer, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and elsewhere.

Michelle Donahue is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah, where she is a Steffensen-Cannon Fellow. She is Prose Editor for Quarterly West and her work can be found in Sycamore Review, CutBank, Arts & Letters, and elsewhere.

Naoko Fujimoto was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan. She studied at Nanzan Junior College and received BA and Master’s degrees from Indiana University. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Seattle Review, Diode Poetry Journal, and PANK. Her poetry collections include Where I Was Born (Willow Books 2019), Glyph:Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory (Tupelo 2020), and three chapbooks: Mother Said, I Want Your Pain (Backbone Press 2018), Silver Seasons of Heartache (Glass Lyre Press 2017), and Home, No Home (Educe Press 2016). naokofujimoto.com.

Patricia Hartland is a doctoral student of Comparative Literature at UMass Amherst, currently studying in Pakistan. Her translation of Monchoachi's 'MISTRY is forthcoming with The Operating System.

Cheyenne Marco holds a PhD in creative writing and enjoys writing about the challenges facing the Northern Plains. She grew up on a poultry farm in southwest Minnesota, and her rural upbringing has greatly influenced her writing. Marco currently serves as a Lecturer of English at the University of South Dakota and performs outreach for Friends of the Big Sioux River. Her works have appeared in Lake Region Review, Rathalla Review, Turk’s Head Review, Prairie Winds, and others.

Terrance Owens has an MFA from Eastern Washington University. His poems have appeared in PANK, The Literary Review, The Adirondack Review, and Lake Effect, among others. He lives in Seoul, South Korea.

Jessica Reed’s chapbook, World, Composed (Finishing Line Press), is a dialogue with the ancient poet Lucretius, who first explored atoms in verse. Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, North American Review, Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Bellingham Review, New American Writing, Waxwing, Diagram, PANK, 111O, Exposition Review, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the Omnidawn Revealed Identity Poetry Book Prize and a semifinalist for the Cleveland State University First Book Prize. She has degrees in poetry and physics, and teaches a university seminar on physics and the arts. She lives in Indiana with her husband and chickens. 

Catherine Theis is the author of MEDEA (Plays Inverse, 2017) and The Fraud of Good Sleep (Salt Modern Poets, 2011). She is an Endowed Fellow and PhD Candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.

Duncan Whitmire lives in South Portland, Maine. His short stories and essays have appeared in Colorado Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Hobart. Find more of his work at www.duncanwhitmire.com.

Adele Elise Williams is a poet from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She is winner of the 2019 Emily Morrison Poetry Prize, finalist for the 2019 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, and a Hindman Settlement School poet. Her poetry can be found or is forthcoming in SANDCrab Creek ReviewBeloit Poetry Journal, Still: The Journal, and elsewhere. Her current goings on can be found at adeleelisewilliams.com.