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
Alice Stone-Collins
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Alice Stone-Collins Alice Stone-Collins is an artist living in Atlanta, GA where she is a faculty member at Georgia Gwinnett College. Her intricate hand-painted collages highlight the tensions between the mundane, the everyday, and the apparent dead. Alice earned her MFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee and has exhibited her work regionally and nationally. She has been a resident artist at KMAC (Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft) based out of Louisville, Kentucky and the David and Julia White Artists’ Colony in Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica. Alice has been featured on Studio Break and The Artist/Mother Podcast, and her work was published as the cover art for Aurora, The Allegory Ridge Poetry Anthology. She was also a finalist for the Jean-Claude Reynal Scholarship, among other honors and awards. Statement: We are constantly coming home and leaving. We lose; we add; we change. There is a commonness and uniqueness of these experiences. Stale spaces—the mall parking lot, an empty community pool, a neighborhood cul-de-sac at dawn—are subjects that come to life by exploring their contrasting energies of boredom and beauty, stasis and comfort. Places close to home yet tinged with certain mythic qualities of wondering how you arrived here. These are the places my eyes have always been drawn to. And with an alert eye, I try to capture what is arriving and what is taking flight. Here, There Devils Details Maintain an Even Temperature
Rashad Ali Muhammad
Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Rashad Ali Muhammad Rashad Ali Muhammad is a multidisciplinary collage artist known for creating vivid and captivating works reflecting the vast complexities of our human existence. With a formal graphic design and photography education, Muhammad blends his acquired skills to create art that fascinates and expands the mind. His love for innovation and continued experimentation fuels his whimsical and enchanting artistic sensibilities. He works primarily in mixed media analog and digital collage. For him, collage combines intention, investigation, and invention, dissecting established references and reassembling them to create new compelling visions. The limitless opportunities to incorporate unconventional elements fulfill his passion for exploration and continued learning. Muhammad’s ongoing journey to expand his emotional intelligence ignited his desire to explore the intricacies of the human experience — the expansive intersections that shape our lives and how we can relate to each other beyond the surface. As a queer, gender-nonconforming person of the African diaspora, he resonates with the ability to deconstruct and reform reality — a method of thinking and creation that can counter society’s hierarchies and binaries. Through his art, he cultivates open space for healing and rejuvenation from our chaotic world — where individuals can explore their authenticity through self-love, vulnerability, and connection. Muhammad is a resident artist at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA. His art has been exhibited extensively throughout the Washington Metropolitan area (DC, Maryland, Virginia) with various national and international exposures. Website: www.ramcreates.com Instagram: @ramcreates Noir
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