Abby McCord

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Abby McCord Abby McCord earned her bachelor’s degree in English/creative writing in 2022 and is now a full-time writer based in St. Louis. Her work has been published in Atticus Review. When she’s not writing, Abby can be found tending to her many plants and enjoying the company of her two pets. Yellowfin

Wendy Fontaine

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Wendy Fontaine Wendy Fontaine’s work has appeared in dozens of literary journals and magazines including Pithead Chapel, Hippocampus Magazine, Longridge Review, Sweet Lit and Under the Sun, as well as Creative Nonfiction‘s Sunday Short Reads. She’s received nonfiction prizes from Hunger Mountain Review and TIFERET Journal and nominations to the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthologies. A native New Englander, she lives in southern California. Something So Simple

Lauren ODonoghue

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Lauren O’Donoghue Lauren O’Donoghue is a writer, game designer and PhD researcher based in Yorkshire. Her short fiction has been featured in Mslexia, Northern Gravy, Horror Library, Volume 8, ergot, Atlas & Alice, and Planet Scumm. She is a writer for a US-based text game developer, a Curtis Brown Creative Breakthrough candidate, and a freelance arts workshop facilitator. Website Link: laurenodonoghue.itch.io Twitter/X: @LHODonoghue In Eternal

Matthew Williams

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Matthew Williams Matthew Williams is a teacher and poet from Sacramento, CA. He earned an MFA from NYU and received a Galway Kinnell Memorial Scholarship from The Community of Writers. His poems are forthcoming from or have appeared in The Banyan Review, California Quarterly, No, Dear, Gulf Stream Magazine, Qu Literary Magazine, the Under Review, Pangyrus, Switchback, Dryland, and as part of The Center for Book Arts Poetry Broadside Reading Series. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for No, Dear and lives with his husband in Brooklyn where he teaches in New York City Public Schools. Twitter: @emmdubb88 Instagram: @emmdubb88 And After, No One Lowered Their Flag

Kayla Jessop

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Kayla Jessop Kayla Jessop is an MFA candidate at Lindenwood University. Her nonfiction has been published in Tempo, Harpur Palate, Broad River Review, You Might Need To Hear This, Lindenwood Review, Variant Literature, Welter, Press Pause Press, Chapter House Journal, Newfound, Coffin Bell, Chaotic Merge Magazine, Ignatian literary magazine, West Trade Review, Eastern Iowa Review, and Blood Orange Review. She does her best writing while sitting in coffee shops and daydreaming about possibilities. In her free time, when she’s not teaching, she enjoys cross-stitching and watching New Girl. Fears, Explained

Briel Felton

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Briel Felton Briel Felton was born and raised in Portsmouth, Virginia. She received her BA in English from Old Dominion University and her MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Her poems have appeared in various publications including Laurel Moon, Firewords, Rigorous, and the Barely South Review. She is also a librettist creating the libretto for A Midsummer Night’s Musicale and A Sermon on the Mount with composer John Bunge which premiered in Ithaca, NY. She is currently pursuing her Master’s in Library and Information Studies at ODU and will be graduating in May of 2024. When she is not writing she is rereading A Rock Against the Wind, an anthology of Black love poems, over and over again, thrifting and trying to find places for all the clothes in her closet, or picking up a new crafting hobby (this week she is into making beaded bracelets). Twitter: @brickhouse6000 Instagram: @brieljfelton The More We Go The More We Don’t Know a Thing Biological Speculation

Daniela Naomi Molnar

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Daniela Naomi Molnar Daniela Naomi Molnar is an artist, poet, and pigment worker collaborating with the mediums of language, image, paint, pigment, and place. She is also a wilderness guide, educator, and eternal student. An entry in the Oregon Encyclopedia states, “Molnar pioneered the notion that art can speak to climate change.” Her work is the subject of a front-page feature in the Los Angeles Times, an Oregon Art Beat profile, and a feature in Poetry Daily. Her visual work has been shown nationally, is in public and private collections internationally, and has been recognized by numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies. Her book CHORUS is a finalist for the 2024 Oregon Book Award and was selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of Omnidawn’s 1st/2nd Book Award. Her work will be anthologized in the forthcoming The Ecopoetry Anthology and is anthologized in Breaking the Glass: A Contemporary Jewish Poetry Anthology. Her next books are PROTOCOLS (Ayin Press, 2025), and Light / Remains (Bored Wolves, 2024). She founded the Art + Ecology program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and helped start and run the backcountry artist residency Signal Fire. A 3G Jew and the daughter of immigrants, she is a diasporic student of the earth. Website: www.danielamolnar.com Instagram: @daniela_naomi_molnar Kaddish 9 Kaddish 2

Anne-Sophie Balzer

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Anne-Sophie Balzer Anne-Sophie Balzer is a poet, journalist, translator, and PhD candidate in English Literature from Germany. She graduated from Humboldt University in Berlin, worked as a journalist for some years, then exchanged her career in Berlin for rural farm-life in Norway. Her plan to become an agrarian-poet and environmentalist, basically a modern Wendell Berry, didn’t quite work out in the end. What remained of this life is her persistent fondness for birds and composting, and for making her own yoghurt. Anne-Sophie lives and works in Germany but spent the fall semester of 2023 as a Fulbright visiting researcher at WSU. Her PhD is called Writing with Glaciers and interrogates contemporary North-American poetry about glaciers and the cryosphere. Poems of hers have appeared in Plant-Human Quarterly, Amberflora, Maiden Magazine, and Tilted House Review. Website: annesophiebalzer.com Instagram: @cryopoesis nothing is more sad than a waning moon

Sirka Elspass

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Sirka Elspass Sirka Elspaß, born in Oberhausen, Germany, in 1995, studied creative writing and cultural journalism in Hildesheim and Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 2010 and 2011, she was winner at the Young Writer’s Conference (Treffen junger Autor:innen) and won the Postpoetry prize for young writers in 2013. Sirka co-edited BELLA triste (no. 41-45) which remains one of the most influential poetry magazines in German-speaking countries. Her work has been published in magazines and anthologies, including STILL, Edit, and Lyrik von Jetzt 3. The poetry collection ich föhne mir meine wimpern (i blow dry my eye lashes), published by Suhrkamp in 2022, is her debut and was shortlisted for the debut prize of the Austrian Book Prize 2022. Website: https://sirkaelspass.de/ Instagram: @sirkaelspass nothing is more sad than a waning moon

Anuradha Kumar

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Anuradha Kumar Anuradha (Anu) Kumar lives in New Jersey with her family. She lived in various places in India before moving to Singapore and later the US. She has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) and has degrees in history and management as well. Her stories have won awards from the Commonwealth Foundation, UK, and the Little Magazine, India. As Adity Kay, she wrote three bestselling works of historical fiction published by Hachette India: Emperor Chandragupta, Emperor Vikramaditya and Emperor Harsha. She writes regularly for Scroll.in. Her stories and essays have appeared in places like The Missouri Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, The Common, The Maine Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Litro magazine, South Dakota Review, The Dalhousie Review (Canada), and other places. She has written for younger readers as well. Her most recent novel is a work of historical mystery called, The Kidnapping of Mark Twain, published by Speaking Tiger Books, India, available as a paperback in South Asia, and digitally worldwide. Message in a Romance Novel