Contributors

Ari Laurel

Ari Laurel is a fiction writer in Seattle who writes about radicalism, orientalism, climate, and the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Passages North, Blue Mesa Review, The Conium Review, The Toast, Duende, and more. You can learn more about her work at arilaurel.com.

B. Tyler Lee

B. Tyler Lee is the author of With Our Lungs in Our Hands (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016) and the winner the 2021 Orison Anthology Award for poetry and the 2020 Talking Writing Prize for hybrid essay. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in 32 Poems, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. She can be found online at www. btylerlee.com. A Texas native, she now lives in the Midwest with her partner and two sons. 

Tess Fahlgren

Tess Fahlgren is a nonfiction writer based in rural Montana. In past lives she directed the Montana Book Festival, taught K-12 art, and drove an Art Mobile across Montana. Her work has appeared in Joyland, Blue Mesa Review, Permafrost and elsewhere. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Minnesota and is currently at work on a memoir. 

Justin Anderson

Justin Anderson is a writer who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. He earned his bachelor’s from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He’s interested in how technology and humanity shape one another, so he enjoys the wild (and mild) possibilities explored in speculative fiction. 

Deya Bhattacharya

Deya Bhattacharya is a freelance writer and former business development manager from India who started writing fiction during the Covid-19 lockdown. Her stories have been published or are forthcoming in Eclectica, Litro Magazine, Beloit Fiction Journal, Blackbird, and elsewhere. Her work has received support from the 2021 Sewanee Writers’ Conference and has been nominated for a Best Of The Net award. Deya holds a Bachelor’s in Economics from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and an MBA in Marketing from Management Development Institute, Gurgaon. She really, really loves cats.

S. N. Rodriguez

S. N. Rodriguez is a writer and photographer in Austin, Texas. She is a Writers’ League of Texas Fellow, and her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, River Teeth, and elsewhere.

Marvin Contreras

Marvin Contreras is a poet, editor, and outdoor enthusiast. He was raised in the San Gabriel Valley, and he has since graduated from the University of California – Riverside with a bachelor’s degree in English. When not working, reading, or writing, he is outside watching the sparrows. He currently lives in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. 

Kasey Peters

Kasey Peters has been a small-scale farmer and occasional school teacher for a decade. She is pursuing her MA in Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her work can be found in Pinch, McNeese Review, and North Dakota Quarterly and her book reviews are forthcoming with The Chicago Review of Books and Nashville Review. She co-hosts a podcast with poet Katie Marya called “The Tell Don’t Show.”

Gardiner Allen Brown

Gardiner Allen Brown (he/him) is a queer essayist and environmental writer from Texas. He holds an MS in Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah and currently works as a writing instructor. Much of his writing and research is about disasters, our relationship to more-than-human nature, and queer perspectives. His work has previously appeared in Edge Effects, the Boiler Journal, and elsewhere.

David A. Goodrum

David A. Goodrum lives in Corvallis, Oregon. His photography has been juried into many art festivals in cities such as St. Louis Missouri, Columbus and Cincinnati Ohio, Ann Arbor Michigan, Bloomington and Indianapolis Indiana, and Madison Wisconsin. Additional work can be viewed at www. davidgoodrum.com and www.instagram.com/goodrum/.

C. R. Resetarits

C. R. Resetarits is a writer and collagist/artist. Her collage art has appeared on the covers and in the pages of dozens of magazines and book covers. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi. 

Janus

Visual artist. He studied Graphic Design at the University of the Gulf of California in Baja California Sur. His worldview comes from figurative and abstract art along with his experiences as a resident in the cities of Mexico, Puebla, Tijuana, Los Cabos, and, for a long period of his childhood and adolescence in Tennessee, United States. An innate inclination for the arts, a family environment that fostered a culture, as well as a revealing visit to a painting workshop at the age of six, defined his vocation as an artist.

Ronald Walker

Rainy Batroff

Kristina Erny

Kristina Erny is a third-culture poet who grew up in South Korea. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona. Her poetry has been the recipient of the Tupelo Quarterly Inaugural Poetry Prize and the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award, as well as a finalist for the Coniston Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Yemassee, Blackbird, and Tupelo Quarterly, among other journals. After over a decade of living as an alien abroad, she currently lives and works in central Kentucky with her family.

Reem Rashash-Shaaban

Reem Rashash-Shaaban is a poet, writer, and photographer. After spending thirty-three years teaching at the American University of Beirut, she decided to go back to her passion: art. Reem uses her original photographs to reconstruct a new view of life and cities and mixes collage, pastel, ink and paint in her effort to keep the culture, thoughts and traditions of people alive.

Kelwin Coleman

Raised in New York City, Kelwin Coleman is a well rounded traveler. As a queer multi-racial cis male, he champions new discussions of social narratives rather than the regurgitation of racial and sexual traumas often found in contemporary art. Coleman attended Purchase College (BFA)and received his MFA from Tulane University. From private to public print shops and galleries, he has been able to work with/ for a wide range of artists. He has also curated several grassroots shows of artists he feels are under-represented in the aft world. Coleman currently lives in New York City. 

Catherine Eaton Skinner

Catherine Eaton Skinner illuminates the balance of opposites and numerical systems – ranging from simple tantric forms to complex grids, reflecting mankind’s attempts to connect to place/each other. Skinner’s creativity stems from growing up in the Pacific Northwest, her Stanford biology degree and Bay Area Figurative painters Nathan Oliveira and Frank Lobdell’s painting instruction. Between Seattle and Santa Fe studios, she concentrates on painting, encaustic, photography, printmaking and sculpture. 

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