Claire Peckham

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Claire Peckham Artist Bio: Claire Peckham (she/they) is a photographer, writer, and collage artist from Seattle, WA. She holds a BA in English, a BFA in Photomedia from the University of Washington, and an MFA in Fine Art from the University of Oxford. Her work has been exhibited and published at Photographic Center Northwest, Outskirts: feminisms along the edge, Art Review Oxford, and many more. Grounded in the aesthetics of formal photography, Claire’s work explores negative space and how it manifests across landscapes, language, memory, and the human body. She currently lives and works in Seattle. Website: clairepeckham.com Instagram: @clairepeckham.art

Adrienne Elyse Meyers

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Adrienne Elyse Meyers Artist Statement: I am drawn to images and scenes that linger, that sit suspended in time and continually resurface, that moments we return to over and over. My practice centers on creating paintings that offer glimpses into daily life, that reflect on the sweetness of sapphic intimacy and tenderness, and engage with a sense of transcendence or strangeness that seeps through the everyday as it is lived and remembered. A lover stretches out in the morning light, an empty train station sits silent, charcoal embers glow at the end of the evening, smoke from fireworks hovers over the lakefront, and shadows flicker on the wall. Paintings produce the sensation of film stills, suspended between voyeurism and intimacy. Soft tones, brushy layers, and deliberately unfinished elements invite viewers into scenes in soft focus, when the eyes flutter, the sun fades, and the curtains are drawn. Warm tones peek through thin washes of paint, establishing a sense of warmth and closeness. Embracing the atmospheric, the tender, and the strange, these works tell stories of how we build connection, embrace awe, and find comfort amid apprehension and precarity. Artist Bio: Adrienne Elyse Meyers (b. 1994, Houston, TX) is a visual artist who was born and raised in Southeast Texas and currently lives and works in Chicago. Meyers studied in Houston and Boston before earning an MFA from the University of Chicago, and she has exhibited nationally and internationally. Meyers’s current practice centers on composing paintings that bring together scenes of daily life, the tenderness of sapphic intimacy, and a sense of awe or strangeness that seeps through the everyday. Website: adrienneelyse.com Instagram: @adrienneelyse

Talia Bergman

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Talia Bergman Artist Bio: Talia Bergman is an artist from a small town outside Spokane, Washington. Growing up there, she often felt isolated and alone, which caused her to turn to video games and T.V. She found her love of art in an art class and continued to teach herself how to draw during the 2020 pandemic. She went on to study art at Washington State University and graduated in 2025.

Mark Yale Harris

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Mark Yale Harris Artist Statement: The purpose of my artwork is to invoke an awakening of the sensual. Stimulating a perceptual, internal, and intellectual response for the viewer: a visual that speaks to life’s experiences. Creating symbols of universal connection underscores the relationship that one has to another and to nature. Art conveys my nonverbal view of life. An ongoing portrayal of myself, my behavior, adventure, exploration, risk taking, and non-acceptance of convention and the status quo. Constantly in search of the new and different – I am fascinated with the unconventional. Life has a hard, aggressive side, as does much of my work, represented by rigid, angular lines. However, the soft side is also apparent, visible as curves and soft forms. Combining different elements, I bring forth a duality in the sculptures that I create. Using the invaluable experience of the mentorship of Bill Prokopiof and Doug Hyde, along with my own vision, I have created an evolving body of work in alabaster, marble, limestone, and bronze. I was recently working on a commissioned piece and, while working, reflected on why I carve stone, a very primitive art form. The client had sent me a photo and specific dimensions. My process is to first draw it out dimensionally and then make a small clay model before beginning to sculpt. Then I start my work, in this case on a block of white marble. I measure and measure, then cut, then measure and then cut again, then recheck my drawing – and repeat. Finally, hopefully having made no mistakes, the figure begins to emerge. It is a great feeling of accomplishment! It is that mental challenge that inspires me to carve in stone. I thoroughly enjoy the cerebral exertion and concentration that is crucial to bringing something out of the stone, something that you really cannot do with clay or any other medium. Artist Bio: Sculptor Mark Yale Harris realized his true passion – stone carving – in the 1990s. In Santa Fe, he was mentored by Bill Prokopiof and Doug Hyde. Harris’ alabaster, marble, limestone and bronze works express the inherent duality in mans’ essence. Prior to this shift, Harris spent many successful years in the real estate/hotel business. Harris’ 250+ recent/upcoming exhibitions: Museum of Western Art; Musée de Peinture de Saint-Frajou, France; Coos Art Museum; Royal Scottish Academy of Art; Cape Cod Museum; Yellowstone Art Museum; Booth Western Art Museum; National Sculpture Society; and Ventana Fine Art. 120+ publications include Abstract: Contemporary Expressions; Artwork Gallery Magazine (Kyiv); MVIBE Magazine (Athens); Modern Renaissance Magazine; American Art Collector; Fine Art Connoisseur; Sculpture News; ART UP MI (Milan); Southwest Art; LandEscape Art Review; and Magazine 43. Represented by 18 galleries (US/UK), he has works in museum, state public art venues, hotel and hospital permanent collections.

Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Sarah Fawn Montgomery Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of the craft text Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice and Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir, which The Atlantic says, “Exemplifies a nuanced approach to life with mental illness” and The Paris Review describes as “The wakeup call we need.” Fathom, a poetry collection on chronic pain and invisible disability is forthcoming from the Propel Disability Poetry Book Series. She is also the author of the essay collection Halfway from Home, winner of a Nautilus Book Award for lyric prose, the flash collection Abbreviate, and three poetry chapbooks. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Nerve to Write, a magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers, and an Associate Professor at Bridgewater State University. Website: sarahfawnmontgomery.com/ Curation

Cathy Allman

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Cathy Allman Cathy Allman writes from Naples, FL and Norwalk, CT where she lives with her husband. She has been widely published in dozens of literary journals, including Cimarron Review, Moon City Review, The Potomac Review, and Terminus. She has her MFA from Manhattanville University. Her poem Not in the Wonder Box was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her debut collection All Those Windowed Rooms is coming out from Finishing Line Press in late May 2026. Class Reunion, Homecoming

Kris Willcox

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Kris Willcox Kris Willcox has published fiction and essays in Kenyon Review on-line, swamp pink, Portland Review, Rappahannock Review, Cleaver Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in the Boston area with her spouse, two teenagers, and a poorly-trained but affable labradoodle. Carp of Surprise

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

Lilith Smith

Menu Current Volume Archive About Us Submit Categories Lilith Smith Artist Statement: Central to my studio practice is the profound impact images wield in arresting and seducing viewers. In my work, I integrate vibrant hues, beaded embellishments, and tactile surfaces to beckon observers into immersive visual narratives often veiled in collaged motifs of intimacy. Simultaneously, my work reflects an intricate web of my lived experiences as a woman of trans experience navigating the complexities of current culture through a poetic language of abstraction. Artist Bio: Lilith Smith is a visual artist who earned her MFA from the University of Cincinnati College of DAAP in 2012. Her artistic practice includes works on fabric, drawings, paintings, collage and video art. Lilith’s work has been showcased internationally in London, England; St. Petersburg, Russia; Brisbane, Australia, as well as in various venues across the United States. Currently, she serves as Faculty of Painting and Drawing at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, NE. Website: lilithsmith.com

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