Contributors

Ellery Beck is a graduate of Salisbury University with a BA in creative writing. They are a winner of the 2019 AWP Portland Flash Contest, a Pushcart Prize nominee, the founding interview editor for The Shore, and a poetry reader for Poet Lore. They have poems published or forthcoming in Passages North, Colorado Review, Zone 3, Sugar House Review, Fugue, and elsewhere. Ellery is also one of the cofounders of Beaver Magazine.Sara Borjas is a self-identified Xicanx Pocha and an award-winning Fresno poet who teaches creative writing and English courses. Her work can be found in Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, and The Offing, among others. Her first collection, Heart Like a Window, Mouth like a Cliff, was published in 2019. She believes that all Black lives matter and will resist white supremacy until Black liberation is realized.Jed Phillip Cohen is a writer based in Durham, North Carolina. His work has appeared in the Iowa Review and Moment Magazine. He is currently at work on his first novel.Dana Curtis is a poet who has four published collections, The Body's Response to Famine (2000), Camera Stellata (2011), Wave Particle Duality (2017), and Directed by Lilly Obscure (2023). Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, Colorado Review, and Poetry Northwest.Dina Folgia is an MFA candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University. She was an honorable mention for the 2021 Penrose Poetry Prize and a 2020 AWP Intro Journals Project nominee. Her work, which has been nominated for Best of the Net, Pushcart, and the AWP Intro Journals Project, has appeared in Foglifter, Ninth Letter, Grub Street Literary Review, and others. She is the poetry editor for Blackbird. Keep up with her work at https://dinafolgia.com/.Dylan Foy is a Dublin-born writer currently living in Victoria, British Columbia. You can find him on X @duillleog.Sarah Gzemski is a poet. She is the executive director of Noemi Press and the business coordinator at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She is an editor and book designer living and working in Tucson, Arizona, the ancestral and current home of the Tohono O'odham and Pascua Yaqui people. Her current manuscript about growing up as an evangelical pastor's daughter grapples with fundamentalism's effects on her girlhood/womanhood and confronts its nationalist rhetoric and roots. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Bone Bouquet, Four Chambers, and Cartridge Lit, among others.Alexandria Juarez is a Chicanx lesbian writer, editor, and pop culture enthusiast from Southern California. They have a BFA in writing from the Pratt Institute and have published work in Electric Literature, Catapult, Autostraddle, and elsewhere. They are the founding editor of Moot Point magazine and runner-up of the 2022 Indiana Review Fiction Prize.Mickie Kennedy (he/him) is a gay writer who resides in Baltimore County, Maryland, with his family and two feuding cats. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee, whose work has appeared in the Bangalore Review, Pinch, Plainsongs, Portland Review, Wisconsin Review, and elsewhere. He earned an MFA from George Mason University.Mariem Khaled is an Egyptian writer studying English language and literature.Lily Levin recently left her job at the Charleston City Paper to pursue a Fulbright research documentary grant in Chile. Her creative poetry and prose have been published in Eunoia Review, Moist Poetry Journal, West Trade Review, and Nassau Literary Review. Lily earned her BA in English at Duke University. You can read more of her work at www.lily-levin.com.Chrissy Martin is an assistant professor of English at Centenary College of Louisiana. She received a PhD in poetry from Oklahoma State and an MFA in poetry from Columbia College Chicago. She is the poetry editor and a founding editor for Arcturus. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Harpur Palate, Cherry Tree, Crab Creek Review, and Carve Magazine. Find her at chrissymartinpoetry.com.Emily Pegg is a writer based in Vancouver, BC. Her short fiction has appeared in PRISM International, Iron Horse Literary Review, CAROUSEL, West Trade Review, and elsewhere. In 2023, her story “Trick Walls” was runner-up for the Jacob Zilber Short Prize for Short Fiction. She is currently working on her first novel.Katelyn Pike is a writer based in St. Louis, Missouri, with stories published in Orca, Parhelion, and Poet's Choice Phobia anthology. Pike was also a winner in the 2022 Writer's Digest ninety-first annual literary fiction competition.Virginia Reeves is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Behavior of Love (2019) and Work Like Any Other (2016), which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. She teaches writing and literature at Helena College and lives with her partner, two daughters, and three-legged pit bull in a house that has survived a major earthquake and a fire.Yvanna Vien Tica is a Filipina writer with a hearing impairment who grew up in Manila and a suburb near Chicago. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Verse Daily, Poet Lore, Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, The Rumpus, and Salt Hill, among others. She reads for Muzzle Magazine, tweets @yvannavien, and attends Yale University. In her spare time, she can be found thanking God for another day.Lydia Weinberger (she/they) is an East Coast poet who loves her partner, her family, and her cats, Stevie Nicks and Bobble. They have been previously published in Cellar Door, Southern Culture, TAB: The Journal of Poetry and Poetics (for which she was nominated for a Best of the Net award), the Daily Tarheel, and the Internationalist; she is also proud to have contributed her visual art to local shows. Lydia completed her Honors Thesis in Creative Writing at UNC at Chapel Hill and was awarded the Ann Williams Burrus Prize/Academy of American Poets Prize in recognition of her work. Find her @lydiaweipoetry on Instagram.Patrick J. Zhou writes from Washington, DC, where he lives with his wife Joy, newborn daughter Naomi, and their cat Bobby Newport. Zhou is a 2023 winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, and his short stories can also be found in Carve and hex.Maria Zoccola is the author of Helen of Troy, 1993 (forthcoming). She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University. Her work has previously appeared in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. She lives in Memphis.Susan Hegeman is professor of English at the University of Florida. She is the author of two books on the concept of culture, and her most recent publications are on topics related to critical university studies, culture wars, and Indigenous studies.Rebecca M. Herzig is professor of gender and sexuality studies at Bates College. Herzig's recent writings on higher education also appear in boundary 2, Feminist Studies, and The Gender of Things (2023), a collection edited by Maria Rentetzi.Gregory Jones-Katz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg. He works in the fields of American intellectual and cultural history, the history of capitalism, the history of higher education, and the global history of the humanities. He is author of Deconstruction: An American Institution (2021).Courtney Moffett-Bateau, PhD, teaches African American studies at Wayne State University and has lectured at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Her research areas include Black literary aesthetics and visual cultures. Her book Disappearing Blackness: Black Creative Writing in the Age of the Program Era is forthcoming.Pierre-Héli Monot is professor of American studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His next book, titled Hundert Jahre Zärtlichkeit: Surrealismus, Bürgertum, Revolution, 1924–2024, is forthcoming.Florian Zappe is a cultural critic and interdisciplinary scholar based in Berlin who works on, among other things, literary and visual culture. He is the author of Das Zwischen schreiben—Transgression und avantgardistisches Erbe bei Kathy Acker (2013) and Control Machines’ und ‘Dispositive’—Eine foucaultsche Analyse der Machtstrukturen im Romanwerk von William S. Burroughs zwischen 1959 und 1968 (2008). His most recent edited collection, ReFocus: The Films of Abel Ferrara, is forthcoming. More on his work can be found online at https://www.florianzappe.xyz.

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