Contributors

J. David

J. David is from Cleveland, Ohio and serves as poetry editor for Flypaper Magazine.

Maritza N. Estrada

Maritza N. Estrada was born in Toppenish, Washington, and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. She is Mexican-American, bilingual, and is working on a literary translation certificate in Spanish. She earned her BFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of Nebraska Omaha, where she received a full academic scholarship as a Buffett scholar. Estrada is currently residing in Tempe as an MFA candidate in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Arizona State University and is an associate editor at Hayden’s Ferry Review. Her honors and awards include the 2019 Virginia G. Piper Creative Research Fellowship, winner of the Mabelle A. Lyon Poetry Award, Swarthout Award in Poetry, and alumna in Winter Tangerine’s workshop at Poets House. Her work can be found in Río Grande Review, The Flat Waters Stirs: An Anthology of Emerging Nebraska Poets, Misbehaving Nebraskans Anthology, and 13th Floor Magazine.

Vince Tweddell

Vince Tweddell is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Murray State University. He has published several short stories, most recently in Alligator Juniper. He currently lives in China where he teaches English at an international school. He and his wife, He Chang Yu, have two daughters, Sarah Anne and Laura.

henry 7. reneau jr.

henry 7. reneau, jr. writes words of conflagration to awaken the world ablaze, an inferno of free verse illuminated by his affinity for disobedience, like a chambered bullet that commits a felony every day, an immolation that blazes from his heart, phoenix-fluxed red & gold, exploding through change is gonna come to implement the fire next time. He is the author of the poetry collection, freedomland blues (Transcendent Zero Press) and the e-chapbook, physiography of the fittest (Kind of a Hurricane Press). He has self-published a chapbook entitled 13hirteen Levels of Resistance, and his collection, The Book Of Blue(s) : Tryin’ To Make A Dollar Outta’ Fifteen Cents, was a finalist for the 2018 Digging Press Chapbook Series. His work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of the award-winning Descanso For My Father: Fragments of a Life and Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams. His personal essays, lyric essays and prose poems have appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing Programs at Colorado State University and Vermont College of Fine Arts and is currently at work on a book-length essay exploring liminal spaces and hybridity. A native New Mexican, he lives in Fort Collins with his wife and two children.

Kent Kosack

Kent Kosack is a writer and MFA candidate at the University of Pittsburgh where he teaches composition and creative writing. He is working on a novel and a collection of short stories. His work has been published, or is forthcoming, in Sonora Review, Tin House (Flash Fidelity), the Cincinnati Review (miCRo series), Columbia Journal, Hobart and elsewhere. See more at his website: www.kentkosack.com

Catharine Wright

Catharine Wright is an eighth generation Vermonter who teaches courses such as Outlaw Women and Writing Gender and Sexuality at Middlebury College. She has published fiction, nonfiction and poetry in a variety of magazines including The Feminist Wire, Negative Capability, Praxis, Hurricane Alice, Narrative Northeast, and Children, Churches and Daddies, and has collaboratively written/edited two nonfiction books, Social Justice Education: Inviting Faculty to Transform Their Institutions, and Vermonters At Their Craft. She and her partner raised a queer blended family together and she is currently writing a lesbian love story.

Jury S. Judge

Jury S. Judge is an internationally published artist, writer, poet, photographer, and political cartoonist. Her Astronomy Comedy cartoons are published in Lowell Observatory’s quarterly, The Lowell Observer. Her works have been widely featured in literary magazines such as, Permafrost, The Ignatian Literary Magazine, Blue Moon Review, and Amsterdam Quarterly. She has been interviewed on the television news program, NAZ Today for her work as a political cartoonist. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA from the University of Houston–Clear Lake in 2014.

Mohammad Ali Mirzaei

Haylee Massaro

Sasha Burshteyn

Sasha Burshteyn is fourteen years old and has lived in Brooklyn her entire life. She attends Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, one of New York’s most prestigious schools, and is one of the photographers for its newspaper. Both of her parents are photographers, which is what interested and inspired her to do it as well. She takes photos both digitally and on film, and especially enjoys taking portraits and photos of cityscapes. Beside photography, she is interested in music, academics, and cultural places around New York City.

Jenn Powers

Jenn Powers is a writer and artist from New England. Her work is published or forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Jabberwock Review, The Pinch, Calyx, Spillway, Thin Air, Star 82 Review, among others. Her stories have been anthologized with Scribes Valley Publishing, Kasva Press, and Running Wild Press. Please visit www.jennpowers.com for information.

Timothy F Phillips

Timothy F Phillips was born on a bitter cold day in January 1963 in the hills of a Northern Pennsylvania in an old coal town. He was coloring on paper before he learned how to read and write, his drawings consisting of the surrounding mountains, valley, and streams with farmhouses. He is now represented at ArtFusion/Fusion Art Gallery in Wynwood Design District of Miami and Artlink Gallery. He has recently been featured in several art magazines like A5 Art Magazine, The Open Arts Forum, The High Shelf Press, ArtDex Art Magazine, Strawlitter Productions, Castabout Art & Literature, and The Oakland Review. He was digitally feature at Musee du Louvre in Paris on July 13th, 2015. He has developed a unique style which is recognized by artists & collectors the world over.

Emily Tarnawa

Emily is a 21 year old queer emerging artist located in Massachusetts. Currently they are pursuing an undergraduate degree at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Their focus in art is primarily using pencil, ink, and digital means to create. Themes often found in their art are all things creepy, nature, and human body related.

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