Contributors

Alison Turner

Alison Turner grew up in the mountains of Colorado, where she learned to endure large amounts of time in inclement weather waiting for buses. She is a PhD candidate in Literary Studies at the University of Denver interested in community literacy, historical fiction of the American Old West, community-engaged scholarship and archives. She is the co-host and co-creator of the When you are homeless podcast miniseries, and her creative work appears in Wordrunner eChapbooks, Little Patuxent Review, Meridian, and Bacopa Literary Review, among others.

Natalie Wee

Natalie Wee is a queer Peranakan community-builder. She has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology. Born in Singapore to Malaysian parents, she is currently a settler in Tkaronto (Toronto).

Toni Muñoz-Hunt

Toni Muñoz-Hunt is a PhD student in Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. This self-proclaimed Bordercana remains passionate about the geopolitical and geographical location from where she grew up, and has published works on the Border that have appeared in publications, like Columbia Journal. She has presented at conferences concerned with local and international border issues, from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas to The University Culture Centre at the University of Bialystok in Poland. Muñoz-Hunt currently serves on the board of directors for Texas Women’s Foundation and is the chair of Grants Policy and Programs.

Robin Rozanski

Robin Rozanski’s writing has appeared/is forthcoming in A cappella Zoo, The Austin Review, Thrice Fiction Magazine, Iron Horse Review, and elsewhere. She has an MA in creative writing from the University of Central Florida and is a teaching artist at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Her work explores damaged mind-body connections and has been supported by fellowships and residencies from InterMedia Arts, Tofte Lake Center, New York Mills Cultural Center, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Find her on Twitter @RobinRozanski.

William Harris

After studying at University of Tennessee-Knoxville and DePaul University, William Harris has spent the past three years as an Adjunct Professor in Memphis, Tennessee with his girlfriend, child, and their five cats. He has previously been published in Canyon Voices and Poetry Salzburg Review. He often fantasize about being a centaur, especially in traffic.

Kartika Budhwar

Kartika Budhwar writes about porous borderlands where myth meets history, where the colonizer and colonized come together, where languages spar and fuse, where gender and sexuality collapse upon themselves, where the supernatural and the organic have equal claim.

She has an MFA from North Carolina State University. She is an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing and Environment program at Iowa State University. She was awarded the Hogrefe Grant and the CWE Fellowship. She was the Runner-up for the Indiana Review Fiction Prize, the Arts and Letters Fiction Award and a Finalist for the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize.

Marina Eskeets

Marina Eskeets is a Diné (Navajo) conceptual artist from Naná’áztiin, New Mexico (The Big Curve, NM, Navajo Reservation). Eskeets received a Bachelors in Fine Arts, with a major in Studio Arts at Santa Fe University of Art and design. Her work is stimulated from her childhood herding her grandmothers’ sheep, in a region directly affected by a uranium disaster. Unrestricted to any medium, she allows her ideas to be presented in the most appropriate technique. She has created a performance that interacts with her community, projected video onto a stretched loom, carved patterns onto a mountain side, constructed three-dimensional cardboard masks, and recently sketched illustrations onto deer skin using thread. Currently Eskeets’ work is centered on energy extraction within Dinétah and identity through the unadorned of the everyday.

Vicky Charles

Vicky Charles, based in New York, has a BFA in Photography from SUNY New Paltz. Her work consists of self-portraits that deal with issues about black identity, the body, and relationships with oneself. Vicky achieves her visual effects in camera with such procedures as staged studio work and double exposures. Her photography expresses itself without words, but by showing.

Patricia Joynes

Veronica Scharf Garcia

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