Contributors

Francesca Allegra

Frankie Allegra is a California native currently living in New York City. Her essays have been published in The Briar Cliff Review and Prompt Literary Magazine. Her one-act play “The Auction” was performed in Vivarium Theatre Company’s Lost and Found Festival in Chicago. She a graduate of Northwestern University’s nonfiction program, where she studied under John Bresland and Eula Biss.

mud howard

mud howard is a non-binary trans poet from the states. mud is co-editor of the blackout queer zine project pnk prl. they write about queer intimacy, interior worlds and the cosmic joke of the gender binary. their work has been published in THEM journal, The Lifted Brow and Cleaver Magazine, for which their poem was selected for The Best of the Net 2017. they are currently enrolled in a Creative Writing MA abroad, but you can find more of their work at www.mudhoward.com.

Jean-Marie Saporito

Jean-Marie Saporito received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and is a recipient of the AWP WC&C Scholarship and the UNM Taos Resident Award. Her fiction and creative non-fiction has been published in the Bellevue Literary Review, Ilanot Review, Numero Cinq, and in the anthology The Notebook: A Grassroots Women’s Project Publication.

Jessica Yen

Jessica Yen’s work explores the intersection of memory, family, culture, language, identity, and history. Her work has appeared in Oregon Humanities, The Drum Literary Magazine, and 1001 Journal, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a book of creative nonfiction. By day, she writes grants for safety net clinics and edits academic manuscripts for scholars seeking to address health inequities. You can find her online at www.jessicayen.com.

George Such

George Such recently graduated from University of Louisiana with a Ph.D. in English, a significant change from his previous incarnation as a chiropractor for twenty-seven years in Washington State. His creative writing has appeared in Arroyo Literary Review, Barely South Review, The Cape Rock, Dislocate, and many other literary journals. His poetry collection Where the Body Lives was selected as winner of the 2012 Tiger’s Eye Chapbook Contest. George enjoys cooking, hiking, traveling, and learning more about the world, which presently includes studying Spanish and personal fitness training. Occasionally he will fast, which is how he got to know Hambre.

Mario Giannone

Mario Giannone holds an MFA from Cornell University, where he is currently a lecturer. He is currently at work on a novel.

Tresha Faye Haefner

Tresha Faye Haefner’s poetry appears, or is forthcoming in several journals and magazines, most notably Blood Lotus, The Cincinnati Review, Hunger Mountain, Pirene’s Fountain, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Radar, Rattle and TinderBox. Her work has garnered several accolades, including the 2011 Robert and Adele Schiff Poetry Prize, and a 2012 nomination for a Pushcart.

Joseph Heathcott

Joseph Heathcott is a writer, photographer, and educator based in New York, where he teaches at The New School.

Pat Tompkins

Pat Tompkins is an editor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her photos have appeared in the Stonecoast Review, the New Southern Fugitives, and Sunlight Press.

Tarun Cherian

Holly Day

Holly Day’s published books include the nonfiction books Music Theory for Dummies, Music Composition for Dummies, Guitar All-in-One for Dummies, and Piano All-in-One for Dummies, and the poetry books Ugly Girl (Shoemusic Press) and The Smell of Snow (ELJ Publications). Her needlepoints and beadwork have recently appeared on the covers of Your Impossible Voice, Sinister Wisdom, and QWERTY Magazine.

Anna Davidson

With roots from the Pacific Northwest, Anna Davidson lives in the love of Oakland, CA as a queer female-identifying artist, teacher, mentor, and believer of dreams. She practices in mixed-media collage, photography, and poetry—which has taken life on both the stage and page and most recently, the covers of her first chapbook, Phases of Bone. At twenty-seven, her art and writing is most inspired by women, relationships, connections in nature, and the journey to see strength in every emotion. She is most passionate about invoking spiritual healing, self-love, and confidence within at-risk youth and young women of undermined/oppressed identities and communities through the use of artistic expression. She sees herself one day living amongst the trees and implementing these practices into countless corners of the world. Website: www.adcreativespaces.com. Email: davidsonanna90@gmail.com. Instagram: annnnnajee.

Jen Kindbom

Jen Kindbom is the author of CADBBRA, a collection of poems from Cascadia Publisging House and the chapbook A NOTE ON THE DOOR from Finishing Line Press. Her work has appeared in Adroit Journal, Connotation Press, and others. Originally from Cleveland, Jen lives in Wooster, Ohio and works as as a high school teacher and designer. Oates has had solo shows in NYC at Susan Eley Fine Art, The Arsenal Gallery, The Center for Book Arts, The Brooklyn Public Library and the MTA Arts & Design Light Box Project at 42nd Street.

Leah Oates

Oates has been part of group shows in NYC at The Pen and Brush Gallery, Nurture Art Gallery, Momenta Art, and at Denise Bibro Fine Art. Works on paper by Oates are in numerous public collections including The Brooklyn Museum, The Smithsonian Libraries and the Franklin Furnace Archive at MoMA, NYC. Oates is a Fulbright Fellow for study a Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland.

David Rodriguez

David Rodriguez is from Spain and considers himself a lover of photography. He loves surreal photography and fashion photography. His main influences are Man Ray, Erwin Blumenfeld and above all Guy Bourdin. Growing up in the Canary Islands, water has always been a source of inspiration for Rodríguez. His last series is “Bathers” (2018) and it is inspired by a photograph of Horst P. Horst of the same name and represents on a summer day in which we can see two bathers enjoying the sun and the sea. This series is formed by a series of photographs of minimalist character, in which the simple compositions stand out, where blue and white are the predominant colors. The bathers show sensual and elegant poses under a backdrop of surrealist air. The funds are simple to give greater prominence to the subjects that appear in the photographs.

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