Issue #18, September 2024

August Gladstone is a 24 year old Los Angeles based Writer, Poet, Clown, Musician and Performer. He’s placed in numerous screenwriting competitions and has performed across the country as a comic, actor, clown and poet. He was part of the Netflix is a Joke Comedy Festival as an ensemble member of the critically acclaimed, internationally touring clown troupe Stamptown. Most recently, he headlined a poetry reading at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton, NY. August is currently seeking publication for his debut book of poetry which is represented by 3 Arts Entertainment.
 

Diane Hueter lived in Texas for over 20 years before recently returning to the Pacific Northwest. This move follows her retirement from Texas Tech University where she was the librarian for the Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World. Her work has been published in Nelle, Burningwood Literary Review, and Midwest Review, among others.
 

Robert W. Hill was born in Anniston, Alabama. Reared in Charlotte, NC. Poems in 32 Poems, Appalachian Journal, Ascent, Birmingham Poetry Review, Broad River Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, Chants, Cold Mountain Review, Davidson Miscellany, EMRYS Journal, Grand Central Review, Greenhouse Literary, Main Street Rag, McNeese Review, North Carolina Literary Review, Old Red Kimono, Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Shenandoah, South Carolina Review, Southern Poetry Review, Southern Review, Tar River Poetry, and others. Professor, Clemson and Kennesaw State.
 

Aaron Beck is a trans poet and pianist living in Portland, Oregon.
 

Mary Elizabeth Birnbaum was born, raised, and educated in New York City. Mary’s translation of the Haitian poet Felix Morisseau-Leroy has been published in The Massachusetts Review, the anthology "Into English" (Graywolf Press), and in "And There Will Be Singing, An Anthology of International Writing" by The Massachusetts Review, 2019. Her work has appeared in Lake Effect, J Journal, Spoon River Poetry Review, Soundings East, Barrow Street, and other literary journals. Mary has received two nominations for a Pushcart Prize.
 

Natasha N. Deonarain is the author of two chapbooks, "50 études for piano" (Assure Press Publishing) and "urban disorders" (Finishing Line Press). She’s the winner of the 2020 Three Sisters Award by NELLE magazine and Best of the Net Nominee by Rogue Agent Journal. Her work has been featured in numerous print and online poetry journals. She was born in South Africa, grew up in Canada and now lives in Arizona.
 

JeFF Stumpo is a survivor of psychosis and PTSD, husband to a PhD chemist, father to an amazing trans child, author of five chapbooks of poetry and a spoken word album, and recent won or placed in poetry contests from Cutthroat, Subnivean, and The Plaza Prizes. These pieces come from a manuscript in which he, an avowed agnostic, treats all spiritualities as True. Still not real, but True.
 

Eugenie Carabatsos is a playwright and occasional poet. Her poems are published in BarBar and SWWIM. Her plays can be found through Concord Theatricals, Heuer Publishing, Original Works Publishing, Next Stage Press, and Brooklyn Publishers or through the New Play Exchange. When she’s not writing, she teaches at Dartmouth College.
 

Tom Laughlin is a Professor of English and Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at Middlesex Community College in Massachusetts where he coordinates the MCC Visiting Writers Series; open readings for students; and the publication of the online literary magazine Dead River Review. He was a volunteer staff reader for many years for Ploughshares and has taught literature classes in two Massachusetts prisons. His poetry has appeared in Green Mountains Review, Ibbetson Street, Hare’s Paw Literary Journal, Drunk Monkeys, Sand Hills, Blue Mountain Review, Pensive, The Main Street Rag, Superpresent Magazine, The Lowell Review, Molecule, and elsewhere. His poetry chapbook, "The Rest of the Way," was released by Finishing Line Press in 2022. His website is www.TomLaughlinPoet.com
 

Sara McAulay is the author of 3 novels and numerous works of short fiction. She has received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Art and the NJ State Arts Council for prose. In recent years she has turned to poetry and flash, with work published or forthcoming in The Atlanta Review, Brooklyn Review, Hole In the Head Review, RiseUp Review, and Sand Hills among others, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Liz Baxmeyer is a writer, artist, musician, audio artist, composer and lecturer living in Northern California. She holds an MA in music from Bangor University, Wales, UK, and an MFA in Writing and Contemporary Media from Antioch University, Santa Barbara. Her creative work often examines themes at the intersections of nature, folklore, trauma, and feminism. Her prose, poetry, and art have been published in Wild Roof Journal, The Examined Life Journal, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Syncopation Literary, Luna Station Quarterly, and more. Baxmeyer is Founding Editor-in-Chief of The Calendula Review: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Her debut hybrid chapbook, "Root & Bone," is out November 2024 with Finishing Line Press. @lizbaxwrites
 

Asha Cook is a Creative Writing student at Hamilton College and has been published in the WEIGHT Journal and is currently working on a full poetry collection. As a person, she enjoys gardening, playing music, traveling, and generally discovering the crevices of nature.
 

Stephen Barile is an award-winning poet, and was a long-time member of the Fresno Poet’s Association. He attended Fresno City College, Fresno Pacific University, and California State University, Fresno. His poems may be found in numerous publications, both print and on-line. He taught writing at Madera College, and CSU Fresno.
 

Lisa Lewis has published eight collections of poetry, most recently "Taxonomy of the Missing" (The WordWorks, 2018) and a chapbook, "The Borrowing Days" (Emrys, 2021). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in New Letters, Puerto del Sol, Cream City Review, National Poetry Review, Diode, Agni Online, and elsewhere. She teaches in the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University and serves as editor-in-chief of the Cimarron Review.
 

Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. Since turning his attention from math to poetry in 2012 he has published poems in numerous journals and in five poetry collections and has won one book and two chapbook awards. Two new collections are in press. His Erdős number is two.
 

Robbie Gamble (he/him) is the author of "A Can of Pinto Beans" (Lily Poetry Review Press, 2022). His poems have appeared in Cagibi, Post Road, RHINO, Salamander, and The Sun. He divides his time between Boston and Vermont.
 

Joshua Kulseth earned his B.A. in English from Clemson University, his M.F.A. in poetry from Hunter College, and his Ph.D. in poetry from Texas Tech University. His poems have appeared and are forthcoming in Tar River Poetry, The Emerson Review, The Worcester Review, Rappahannock Review, The Windhover, and others. His poetry manuscript, "Leaving Troy," was shortlisted for the Cider Press Review Publication Competition. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Franciscan University of Steubenville.