Contributors

Ari Laurel

Ari Laurel is an Asian American fiction writer and organizer who lives and writes about radicalism, pop culture, orientalism, and the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Passages North, the Conium Review, Yellow Chair, The Toast, Duende, Kartika Review, Kweli Journal, and Hyphen.

Kelly Neal

Kelly Neal is a Ph.D. candidate at Binghamton University, where she studies English. She holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from Georgia State University in Atlanta, and a dual B.A. in Music and English from the Ohio State University. She has previously edited for the literary journals Harpur Palate, New South, and Five Points.

Saúl Hernández

Saúl Hernández is a queer writer from San Antonio, TX, and was raised by undocumented parents. Saúl has an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso. He’s the winner of the 2021 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize chosen by Victoria Chang. He’s a finalist for Palette Poetry 2020 Spotlight Award and the 2019 Submerging Writer Fellowship, Fear No Lit; semi-finalists for the 2018 Francine Ringold Award for New Writers. His work is forthcoming/featured in Poet Lore, Cherry Tree, Atlanta Review, Quarterly West, and more. He’s part of the Macondo Writers Workshop. He’s the Managing Editor for Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review.

Joanna Ng

Joanna Ng is a poet from Fresno, California. She received her BA and MA in English from the University of California, Davis. She is currently an MFA student at the University of Mississippi. She writes poems about the junction of language, labor and place, and the ghosts that live in those spaces. She writes poems to speak to the dead.

Suzanne Martin

Suzanne Martin is a writer from Ohio.

Rowan Lucas

Rowan (they/she) is a marketing editor and adjunct professor of English living in Richmond, VA. They hold an M.A. in English from Virginia Commonwealth University. Their previous work has been published in Amendment, Ghost Parachute, The Boiler, and Pidgeonholes. Rowan’s nonfiction piece “The Water of the Womb,” published in The Boiler, was nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize.

Kathleen Frank

Santa Fe artist Kathleen Frank paints the landscape of the Southwest and West in vibrant hues, capturing light, pattern and a glint of logic in complex terrains. Exhibitions include, among others, High Desert Museum (Curator’s Choice Award), Museum of Western Art, Roux & Cyr, Jane Hamilton Fine Art and La Posada de Santa Fe. Publications include LandEscape Art Review, MVIBE, Art Reveal, Magazine 43 and Southwest Art. Art in Embassies/U.S. State Department selected her work for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Edward Lee

Edward Lee is an artist and writer from Ireland. His paintings and photography have been exhibited widely, while his poetry, short stories, non-fiction have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen and Smiths Knoll. He is currently working on two photography collections: ‘Lying Down With The Dead’ and ‘There Is A Beauty In Broken Things’.

He also makes musical noise under the names Ayahuasca Collective, Orson Carroll, Lego Figures Fighting, and Pale Blond Boy. His blog/website can be found at edwardmlee.wordpress.com

Nina Tichava

Nina Tichava was raised in both rural northern New Mexico and the Bay Area in California. She was influenced by her father, a construction worker and mathematician, and by her mother, who was an artist and designer. The reflections of these dualities—country to city, pragmatist to artist, nature to technology—are essential to and evident in her paintings.

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Valeria Amirkhanyan

Gerburg Garmann

Gerburg Garmann, a native of Germany, is a professor of German and French at the University of Indianapolis. Her scholarly publications appear in English, French, German in international journals. Her artwork and poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies around the world. “Painting is yet another foreign language for me and allows for aesthetic expression in form of color, shape, thought, and passion. It is a language, which can be shared by many, verbally and non-verbally.” Her mission is to inspire joyful resilience.
Currently, the primary focus is on the Río Grande and the Border as well as working on a book on a Ulyssean theme on the Greek and Italian Islands.
Stendhal said that “A novel is like a mirror carried along a road, so it is with photography.”

Randall Stauffer

A designer turned educator, Randall Stauffer is a professor of interior design at Woodbury University. He strives to create space inhabited by people eager to engage the world differently. His drawings, designs and pedagogy explore how space creates meaning in the environment, and how the environment informs informs ways of inhabiting. The material environments transform into educational structures and then into words found in visual abstractions.

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