Kara Dorris

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Kara Dorris Kara Dorris is the author of three poetry collections: HitBox (Kelsay Books 2024), Have Ruin, Will Travel (2019) and When the Body is a Guardrail(2020) from Finishing Line Press. She has also published five chapbooks, including prose chapbook Carnival Bound [or, please unwrap me] (The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2020). Her poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Redivider, Nine Mile, DIAGRAM, Puerto del Sol, and swamp pink, among other literary journals, as well as the anthology Beauty is a Verb (2011). Her prose has appeared in Wordgathering, Breath and Shadow, The Past Ten, Waxwing, and the anthology The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked (Cinco Puntos Press, 2016). Recently, she edited the poetry anthology Writing the Self-Elegy: The Past is Not Disappearing Ink (SIU Press, 2023). She is currently an Associate Professor of English at Illinois College. Website: karadorris.com You Could Have Gone West, Acknowledgements

Carol Everett Adams

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Carol Everett Adams Carol Everett Adams writes poems about Disney theme parks, UFO’s, organized religion, and other topics. Her poems have been published in California Quarterly, Crack the Spine, Euphony, FRiGG, Hawaii Pacific Review, The New York Quarterly, The Virginia Normal, and many others. She earned her MFA in Writing from the University of Nebraska. You can connect with her at caroleverettadams.com Website: caroleverettadams.com Uber Ride, RDU Edition

Julia Rapp

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Julia Rapp Julia Rapp is a pushcart-nominated poet and songwriter who lives in Norwalk, Connecticut. Her work has been featured in Birdcoat Quarterly, Chaotic Merge, 45th Parallel, Welter, Drunk Monkeys, and others. You can find her on social media: @jujujulife, and on Spotify under the artist name Julia Rapp. Instagram: @jujujulife On the day we meet let’s tell the bartender that we’re freshly divorced

Jacqueline Hughes Simon

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Jacqueline Hughes Simon Jacqueline Hughes Simon’s writing has appeared in the Apricity Magazine, Cal Literature & Arts Magazine, The Cortland Review, El Portal, Flights, Ghost City Review, Mudlark, New South, Okay Donkey, The Rail, Tupelo Quarterly, Vagabond City, and others. Jacqueline received her Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Saint Mary’s College of California. She is a volunteer and board member of an environmental education non-profit, where she works with and trains the donkeys. As to Wonder

Claire Scott

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Claire Scott Claire Scott is an award-winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review and Healing Muse among other journals. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry. Anorexia

Emma Galloway Stephens

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Emma Galloway Stephens Emma Galloway Stephens is a neurodivergent poet and professor from the Appalachian foothills of South Carolina. Her poems have appeared in The Windhover, the Christian Century, Door Is A Jar, Salvation South, and many others. She is a co-founder and the Educational Director of Arbor Institute for the Arts in Greenville, SC. Read more at egstephenspoetry.com. Website: egstephenspoetry.com. Contusion

Jessica Poli

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Jessica Poli Jessica Poli is the author of the poetry collection Red Ocher (University of Arkansas Press, 2023), which was a finalist for the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Blackbird, North American Review, and Poet Lore, among other journals. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska and is the managing editor of Prairie Schooner. Triptych: At the Massage Therapy Clinic

Emma Reilly

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories E.G. Reilly E.G. Reilly is a current MFA candidate in poetry at the University of St. Andrews and a graduate of the University of Virginia. She is the winner of the 2024 Rachel St. Paul Poetry Prize and a commended poet in the 2024 International Troubadour Awards. When not writing poetry, you can find her teaching vinyasa yoga or watching a horror movie with her latest crochet project. More of her writing can be found in Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose and on her Substack, Open Mic. A Peach Tree

Cindy Milwe

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Cindy Milwe Cindy Milwe is a writer and teacher who lives in Venice, CA. Her work has been published in many journals and magazines, including 5 AM, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry East, Poet Lore, Post Road, The William and Mary Review, Flyway, Talking River Review, and The Georgetown Review. She also has poems in three anthologies: Another City: Writing from Los Angeles (City Lights, 2001); Changing Harm to Harmony: The Bullies and Bystanders Project (Marin Poetry Center Press, 2015) and Rumors, Secrets, & Lies: Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion, & Choice (Anhinga Press, 2022). Her first full-length collection, Salvage, was published in 2022 by Finishing Line Press. The Body Center

Neal Allen Shipley

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Neal Allen Shipley Neal Allen Shipley (he/him) is a poet living in Colorado with a modest collection of pets and an unhinged collection of plants. His writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and can be found in recent issues of South Broadway Press, & Change, and Tough Poets Review among others. Despite the horrors, he loves a fancy hot dog. Find him on Instagram @nealio9 Instagram: @nealio9 But, like when did you know?