Contributors

Mary Winsor

Mary Winsor has spent most of her life in the American Southwest, the setting for many of her stories and essays. She is a recent graduate of the MFA program at George Mason University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Atticus Review, La Presa, Plougshshares, Longreads and Carve. These days, Mary can be found on a small, urban farm that grows the best tomatoes in Utah.

Kelly Weber

Kelly Weber is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection We Are Changed to Deer at the Broken Place (Tupelo Press) and the forthcoming chapbook The Dodo Heart Museum (Dancing Girl Press). Her work has received Pushcart nominations and has appeared or is forthcoming in The Laurel Review, Brevity, The Missouri Review, Cream City Review, Palette Poetry, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Colorado State University and lives in Colorado with two rescue cats. More of her work can be found at kellymweber.com 

Shoshana Tehila Surek

Tess Fahlgren was born and raised in rural Montana. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Joyland, Permafrost, Five on the Fifth, The Missoula Independent and more. She was the recipient of Montana Quarterly’s 2016 Big Snowy Prize for Nonfiction. 

A graduate of the University of Montana, she is currently an MFA candidate in nonfiction at the University of Minnesota, where she was awarded the College of Liberal Arts Travel Grant, the Gesell Fellowship, and twice the O’Rourke Travel Grant. Previously, she co-directed the Montana Book Festival and taught art in rural Montana with the Art Mobile of Montana and in the town of Nashua. She lives in Minneapolis with her partner and dog and is at work on a memoir.

Khanh Ha

Khanh Ha is the author of Flesh and The Demon Who Peddled Longing. He is a seven-time Pushcart nominee, finalist for the Mary McCarthy Prize, Many Voices Project, Prairie Schooner Book Prize, The University of New Orleans Press Lab Prize, a twice finalist of The William Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Award, the recipient of the Sand Hill Prize for Best Fiction, Greensboro Review’s Robert Watson Literary Prize in Fiction, the William Faulkner Literary Competition, and The Orison Anthology Award for Fiction. His new novel, Mrs. Rossi’s Dream, was named Best New Book by Booklist and a 2019 Foreword Reviews INDIES Silver Winner and Bronze Winner. 

Stephanie Chang

Stephanie Chang (she/they) is a Sino-Canadian writer and rising freshman at University College London. Her work appears in The Kenyon Review, Adroit Journal, Waxwing, Penn Review, Diode Poetry Journal, and Berkeley Poetry Review. She has been recognized by the Adroit Prize for Poetry, Anthony Quinn Foundation, and Poetry Society of the UK. Stephanie has participated in the Kenyon Young Writers Workshop, Adroit Mentorship Program, and Speakeasy Project. Currently, she edits for Sine Theta Magazine, a print-based publication by and for the Sino diaspora. 

Jeremy Mata Kinter

Jeremy Mata Kinter is a writer from Silver City, New Mexico and currently resides in Albuquerque. He has written and edited for the arts and culture online publication Pyragraph. He earned his degree from Western New Mexico University with a Bachelor’s in English Literature. He draws inspiration from his rural Southwestern upbringing, as well as American Southern Gothic influences. 

Guilherme Bergamini

Reporter, visual artist, and photographer Guilherme Bergamini is Brazilian and graduated in journalism. For more than two decades, he has developed projects with photography and the various narrative possibilities that art offers. The works of the artist dialogue between memory and socio-political criticism. He believes in photography as the aesthetic potential and transforming agent of society. Awarded in national and international competitions, Guilherme Bergamini has participated in collective exhibitions in 31 countries. 

Despy Boutris

Despy Boutris’s writing has been published in Copper Nickel, American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Colorado Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Currently, she serves as Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast, Guest Editor for Palette Poetry and Frontier, and Editor-in-Chief of The West Review.

E.E. King

E.E. King is an award-winning painter, performer, writer, and biologist – She’ll do anything that won’t pay the bills, especially if it involves animals. Ray Bradbury called her stories “marvelously inventive, wildly funny, and deeply thought-provoking. I cannot recommend them highly enough.” She’s been published widely, most recently in Clarkesworld, Flametree, and On Spec. Check out paintings, writing, musings, and books at www.elizabetheveking.com and amazon.com/author/eeking.

Frederick Nitsch

Jocelyn Ulevicus

Jocelyn Ulevicus is an artist and writer with work forthcoming or published in magazines such as the Free State Review, The Petigru Review, Quince Magazine, and Humana Obscura. Working from a female speculative perspective, themes of nature and the unseen; and exit and entry are dominantly present in her work. She resides in Amsterdam and is currently working on her first book of poems. To see her artwork and her cute cat, Pilar, visit her on IG @beautystills. 

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