Contributors

Marcos Santiago Gonsalez

Marcos Santiago Gonsalez is a PHD candidate in English and Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and teaches writing courses at Baruch College. His short fiction can be found in Latino/a Rising: An Anthology of U.S. Latino/a Speculative Fiction, and Duende Literary. He is currently seeking representation for his first novel, and is working on a memoir about trauma, racism, and growing up with undocumented Mexican parents in rural New Jersey. He currently lives in New York City.

Myriam Lacroix

Myriam Lacroix writes and translates and answers a lot of tweets about hamburgers from her little loft in Victoria, BC. Next fall, she’s going to leave the mild and moss-covered Pacific Northwest for snowy Upstate New York, where she’ll spend three years studying fiction with some of her favorite writers at Syracuse University. She was a finalist in the 2015 Gigantic Sequins Flash Fiction Contest, and her work is upcoming in a sweet new publication called AADOREE.

Liz N. Clift

Liz N. Clift holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Iowa State University. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Rattle, Hobart, The National Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Colorado.

Leeanna T. Torres

Leeanna T. Torres is a native daughter of the Great American Southwest, with deep cultural roots in New Mexico. She has spent the last fifteen years as an environmental professional working throughout the West. Her essays have been published in regional literary magazines such as Pilgrimage, and Bosque. Her work is also forthcoming in The New Mexico Review.

Mario J. Gonzales

Mario J. Gonzales’ short fiction has appeared in the New England Review, the Sonora Review, the Rio Grande Review and other literary journals. He has participated in writers conferences in Taos (2012) and Bread Loaf (2016). He is currently putting together a short story collection called Descansos. Born in Fresno, California, he was raised in a small farm-worker community, Parlier, located in the middle of California’s San Joaquin Valley. He has a PhD in cultural anthropology from Washington State University. Currently he lives and works in Santa Fe, NM.

Robin Cedar

Robin Cedar is an MFA candidate at Oregon State University, where she teaches English composition and serves as poetry editor and social media manager for 45th Parallel. She has been published in The Fem, Leveler, Moonsick Magazine, Wildness, and elsewhere. She’s currently working on her first book of poetry.

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is an American poet of Palestinian, Syrian, and Jordanian heritage. Her first book of poems, Water & Salt, is published by Red Hen Press. She is the winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Prize for her chapbook Arab in Newsland. Her most recent poetry publications appear or are forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Crab Creek Review, Barrow Street, Drunken Boat, and Massachusetts Review. She is an alum of Hedgebrook and an MFA candidate at the Rainier Writing Workshop of Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in Redmond, Washington. You can learn more about her work at www. lenakhalaftuffaha.com

Kyle Hemmings

Christopher Ursini

Gregg Chadwick

Klaus Hu

Sanya Verma

Deborah Singer

David Rubenstein

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