Authors

Ciara Alfaro

Ciara Alfaro is a Chicana writer, romantic, and descendant of magicians from Lubbock, Texas. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Passages North, Mid-American Review, Water~Stone Review, Swamp Pink, Best American Essays, and more. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Minnesota and a BA in English from Colgate University. She lives in Minneapolis.

Katharine Beebe

In the past, Katharine Beebe’s outdoor column appeared in the Albuquerque Journal, along with articles in Mirage, New Mexico Wildlife, New Mexico Business Journal, and other magazines and newspapers; her fiction has appeared in The Pinon Review and Permafrost. Past awards include the D. H. Lawrence Award in Short Fiction (winner) and the Lena Todd Award in Short Fiction (finalist). More recently, her fiction appeared in the 2016 Santa Fe Literary Review. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in the central mountains of New Mexico.

Elizabeth Cohen

Elizabeth Cohen is a mama, dog mama, memoir coach, and writer who lives in Albuquerque, NM. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, is the author of the poetry books Bird Light and The Patron Saint of Cauliflower, and the chapbooks Wonder Electric and Martini Tattoo, among other works.

Tolu Daniel

Tolu Daniel is a writer and editor. His essays and short stories have appeared on Catapult, Olongo Africa, Lolwe and a few other places.

Craig Foster

Craig M. Foster’s writing has appeared in Jabberwock Review, J Journal, and The MacGuffin. He was the recipient of the 2021 Nancy D. Hargrove Editors’ Prize for Fiction and his work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Bob Hicok

Bob Hicok is the author of Water Look Away (Copper Canyon Press, 2023). He has received a Guggenheim and two NEA Fellowships, the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, nine Pushcart Prizes, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in nine volumes of the Best American Poetry.

Terri Lewis

Terri Lewis has been accepted to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and into juried workshops with Rebecca Makkai, Laura Van Den Berg, and Jill McCorkle. She was a finalist for The Jeffrey E. Smith Editors Prize (Nonfiction) and shortlisted for LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction. She has been published in Embark, Hippocampus, Denver Quarterly, and Chicago Quarterly Review among others. Her reviews for The Washington Independent Review of Books have been excerpted in LitHub.

Katey Linskey

Katey Linskey is a writer with poetry out and forthcoming in The West Review, Emerson Review, The McNeese Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Cobra Milk and elsewhere. She spent eight years working in public health which continues to inform her work as a writer.

Guarina Lopez

Guarina Lopez is from the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and grew up the Southwest and San Francisco. She currently resides on Piscataway territory in Washington, D.C. Guarina is a visual artist, storyteller, athlete, mother, and founder of Native Women Ride & The Indigenous Cycling Collective. Guarina’s work explores the intersections of Indigeneity, Environment, Politics and Culture. She is the co-director of Running is Prayer and the recently released Carlisle 200, a short documentary that shares the history of Indian Boarding Schools. Guarina’s writing has been published in magazines, poetry reviews, museum journals and zines. She is currently working on a book of short stories based on her life as an Indigenous woman living in the “white man’s world”.

Kristi D. Osorio

Kristi D. Osorio is a writer and editor living in Arizona. She is the winner of the 2023 Indiana Review Creative Nonfiction Prize and the 2023 Sonora Review Mercy Contest in Nonfiction. She is at work on a memoir that blends cultural criticism around violence in popular culture and her personal story as the survivor of a violent crime. She enjoys running, watching baseball, and spending time in nature.

Allen Price

Allen M. Price won Solstice Literary Magazine’s 2023 Michael Steinberg Nonfiction Prize (chosen by Grace Talusan), and a finalist in Black Warrior Review’s 2023 Nonfiction Contest. He won Blue Earth Review’s 2022 Dog Daze Flash Creative Nonfiction Contest and Columbia Journal’s 2021 Nonfiction Winter Contest (chosen by Pamela Sneed). A 2024, 2023 and 2022 Pushcart Prize nominee, his work appears or forthcoming in Five Points, december, Cutthroat, Forge Literary Magazine, African Voices, Zone 3, Post Road, Sweet, North American Review, The Masters Review, Terrain.org, Shenandoah, Hobart, Transition, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, River Teeth, The Coachella Review, Pangyrus, and others. He has an MA from Emerson College.

Michael Vargas

Michael Vargas is a queer chicano from Southern California. He comes from a family of field laborers, mechanics, and other blue collar workers. He is a first generation college student, holding a BA degree in English and anthropology. He currently works as a Letter Carrier for the US Postal Service. His work has been published in The Fairy Tale Review and Ink & Voices.

Jeff Corwin

Over 40+ years as a successful award-winning commercial photographer, Jeff Corwin has taken photos out of a helicopter, in jungles, on oil rigs and an aircraft carrier. Assignments included portraits of famous faces and photos for well-known corporate clients. Corwin has turned his discerning eye to fine art photography. He still creates photographs grounded in design. Humble shapes, evocative lines. Eliminate clutter. Light when necessary. Repeat. His fine art photography has garnered awards, national and international museum exhibitions, gallery shows, work in permanent collections, features in numerous fine art publications, radio and newspaper interviews and representation by several contemporary galleries.

Hiokit Lao

Hiokit Lao is a 29-year-old self-taught artist from NYC. Through surreal, abstract, and vibrant pieces, she aims to create meaningful art that instills hope and positivity.Her art is a kaleidoscope of surrealism and abstract expression, a vibrant fusion echoing the various cultures that have shaped her worldview. Inspired by her diverse upbringing and a deep fascination with the world, her work resonates with the colors, traditions, and social causes around the globe. Each piece is a homage to cultural diversity, intertwining social narratives and her own artistic vision. Employing different techniques, she creates pieces that offer dual perspectives, presenting dichotomous yet harmonious narratives based on the viewer’s orientation. When the canvas is inverted, a different narrative surfaces — a testament to the multifaceted nature of culture and perception. 

Ana Prundaru

Claudia Santos

Claudia Santos (@claudiaexcaret) is a Mexican English Major, poet, photographer, and cultural gestor. Her photographs have been published in Azahares Literary Magazine and L’Esprit Literary Review.

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