Contributors

Alabama Stone

Alabama Stone is not from Alabama—she is from the swampy wetlands of North Carolina. Raised on the humidity of the South, she relies on her family name for inspiration. Her work has appeared in Crab Fat Magazine; along with and forthcoming in, Voicemail Poems, The Found Poetry Review, The Corradi, The Voice, and featured in (parenthetical): words on pages. She feels grateful. Very grateful. Always grateful. Alabama enjoys bourbon, strangers, words, and lamplight—she is disenchanted by most other things. She is pursuing an MFA in Poetry at North Carolina State University.  

Anders Carlson-Wee

Anders Carlson-Wee is a 2015 NEA Fellow and the author of Dynamite, winner of the 2015 Frost Place Chapbook Prize. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, New England Review, AGNI, Poetry Daily, The Iowa Review, Best New Poets, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Narrative Magazine, which featured him on their “30 Below 30” list of young writers to watch. Winner of Ninth Letter’s Poetry Award and New Delta Review’s Editors’ Choice Prize, he was runner-up for the 2016 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. He’s received fellowships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Camargo Foundation, Ucross Foundation, The Frost Place, and Vanderbilt University. He lives in Minneapolis, where he’s a 2016 McKnight Foundation Creative Writing Fellow.  

Elisabeth Murawski

Elisabeth Murawski is the author of Zorba’s Daughter, winner of the 2010 May Swenson Poetry Award, Moon and Mercury, and two chapbooks: Troubled by an Angel and Out-patients. Hawthornden fellow, 2008. Publications include The Yale Review, The Southern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, et al. Currently residing in Alexandria, VA, in her heart she has never left the “city of the big shoulders” where she was born and raised.  

Anne Riesenberg

Anne Riesenberg, an acupuncturist and meditation instructor from Portland, Maine, holds a recent MFA from Lesley University. Her work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in The Maine Review, Monkeybicycle and Solstice Literary Magazine. She is a founding board member of Hewnoaks Artist Colony in Lovell, Maine.

Naomi Washer

Naomi Washer held a Follet Fellowship in Nonfiction at Columbia College Chicago where she earned her MFA in Creative Writing. Her essays, poems, fictions, and Cambodian translations have appeared in TYPO, wigleaf, Maudlin House, Ampersand Review, Essay Daily, Poor Claudia, and St. Petersburg Review, among other places. She is the co-founder, Editor-in-Chief, and publisher of Ghost Proposal.  

Sara Marinelli

Sara Marinelli is a writer from Naples, Italy, and lives in San Francisco. Like her heart, her writing is split between English and Italian. Her work has appeared in many Italian publications and in New American Writing. She has a PhD in English from the University of Rome, and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University; she teaches Comparative Literature at the University of San Francisco. She was awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Byrdcliffe Art Colony, and BANFF. She is working on a novel about family grief, set in a religious and superstitious Naples.

Alec Osthoff

Alec Osthoff grew up in Ely, Minnesota. His work has previously appeared in The Atticus Review and Midwestern Gothic. He is a current MFA student at the University of Wyoming, where he is working on his first novel.

Cady Vishniac

Cady Vishniac is a Distinguished University Fellow and an MFA in fiction at The Ohio State University. Her stories have won contests at New Letters, Mid-American Review, and New Millennium Writings, placed in Glimmer Train, and appeared inNew Ohio Review. Her poetry can be found in Sugar House Review and has been featured on Verse Daily.  

Debbie Vance

Debbie Vance’s fiction has appeared in The Conium Review Online Compendium, Flyway, Alligator Juniper, and elsewhere. She is a 2015 Pushcart Prize nominee and an MFA candidate at Colorado State University, where she teaches composition and research.  

Matt Tompkins

Hossein Abbaszadeh

Hossein Abbaszadeh was born in Mashhad, Iran on September 20th, 1979. In addition to photography, they have written three books of fiction in Iran.  

Morvarid Ebadi

Morvarid Ebadi was born in Tehran, Iran on April 18th 1999. They are a student in the field of News Photography. One of their photos won 3rd place in the Photography Festival of Tehran.

Thomas Gillaspy

Thomas Gillaspy is a northern California photographer. His photography has been featured in numerous magazines including the literary journals: Compose, Portland Review and Brooklyn Review. His work can be viewed at http://www.thomasgillaspy.com.

Fabio Sassi

Fabio Sassi makes photos and acrylics using tiny objects and what is considered to have no worth by the mainstream. Fabio is also a sometime poet living in Bologna, Italy. His work can be viewed at www.fabiosassi.foliohd.com

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