Contributors

Jihyun Yun

Jihyun Yun is a Korean-American Poet from California. A graduate of the MFA program at New York University, she is also the recipient of a Fullbright Research Fellowship in the arts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bat City Review, Poetry Northwest, Adroit and elsewhere. She currently resides in Ann Arbor and is working on her first poetry collection Some are Always Hungry.

Nicole Cuffy

Nicole Cuffy is a proud Brooklyn emigrant who enjoys yoga, ballet, and writing literary fiction. Her work can be found in Mason’s Road and The Masters Review Volume VI, and her chapbook, “Atlas of the Body,” was an editor’s choice and a finalist for the Black River Chapbook Competition, and winner of the Chautauqua Janus Prize.

Nicole holds a BA in Writing from Columbia University, and an MFA in Fiction from the New School. She does her best writing when she’s writing by hand, and she is a high-functioning book addict. When she isn’t reading, writing, or yogaing, she is most likely dancing. She can be found muddling her way through Twitter and life in general here: @nicolethecuffy.

Margaret Adams

Margaret Adams is the author of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and essays. Her work has appeared in Joyland Magazine, The Pinch Journal, Monkeybicycle, and The Baltimore Review, among other publications. She won the Pacifica Literary Review 2017 Fiction Contest and was a Finalist for the 2017 Glimmer Train Very Short Story Award. She is a fiction editor for JMWW. She currently lives on the AZ/NM border in the Navajo Nation.

Ivanna Baranova

Ivanna Baranova is a Brooklyn-based poet. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Montreal Review of Books, Hobart, The Puritan, Poetry Is Dead, Peach Mag, Prism international, SAD Mag, Metatron (ÄLPHÄ), and elsewhere. In 2017, she earned a BA in Philosophy, Gender Studies, and Creative Writing from The University of British Columbia. In 2018, she was selected as a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship Finalist, and awarded the Adele Wiseman Endowment toward the Poetry Writing Studio at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

She currently works as a Poets House intern and is on the editorial team at Witch Craft Mag / Sad Spell Press and The Maynard.

Laura Price Steele

Laura Price Steele is a writer and editor. Though originally from Colorado, she now lives in Wilmington, North Carolina where she earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her work has been named a finalist in Moment Magazine’s Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest, a runner-up in Flyway’s Sweet Corn Short Fiction Contest, and the winner of Ploughshares’s Emerging Writer Contest in nonfiction. Currently she is working on a novel.

Austyn Gaffney

Austyn Gaffney’s essays are published or forthcoming in Brevity, Prairie Schooner, onEarth, The Offing, and elsewhere. As a freelance writer, she reports on the South for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Scalawag, and Southerly. She has received funding from Brush Creek Arts, PLAYA, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, Writing by Writers, and the Kentucky Arts Council. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Kentucky.

Mauricio Novoa

Mauricio Novoa is from Glenmont, MD, the son of Salvadoran refugees. He received his MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and has had his work published in The Acentos Review, The Petigru Review, and the anthology The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States.

Fabio Sassi

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

Morgan Stephenson

Tonya Russell

Britnie Watson

I am a traditional and abstract artist, focusing on energy and peace through color, rhythm, and texture. As a result, I want the painting to be an experience for the viewer. I am from a small town on the Eastern Shore, where I spent a lot of time in nature. I really enjoy being in and painting nature, especially sunsets. When I paint landscapes, it is my way of escaping, and helps me relive those memories.

The thing that I enjoy the most about art is how I can incorporate my own feelings and emotions into it. Although I do love painting landscapes, I most recently began venturing into the wonderful world of acrylic fluid painting. It provides the same feeling that painting landscapes gives me; the feeling of expression, freedom and liberation. I also enjoy the experimentation of colors and chemicals, which give varying results. I love the mystery and surprise of it all.

Julia Wang

Julia Wang is a senior at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, CA. She is an aspiring concept artist hoping to work at companies such as Pixar and Bandai Namco one day. Find her online at http://juumeithings.tumblr.com.

Roger Camp

Roger Camp is the author of three photographic books including Butterflies in Flight, Thames and Hudson, 2002.

Alexis Avlamis

Alexis Avlamis (b.Athens 1979) received an early art instruction from Bennington College, Vermont and later on earned a BFA(hons) in Painting from the Athens School of Fine Arts. By tapping into a stream of consciousness, he creates dreamlike mindscapes aiming at a unified whole, where existing and fabricated visuals co-exist symbiotically. Avlamis is a laureate of the International Emerging Artist Award (Drawing and Illustration category), as well as a recipient of the 2018 American Art Awards (Naive-Other Category) and will soon land his Cosmographies solo show series at the CICA Museum, Seoul, S.Korea. He has exhibited internationally and works may be found in private and museum collections.

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