Issue #3, January 2022

Maria Hiers is an MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Houston. She has previously been published in the Tampa Bay Times and Ethos Literary Journal. 
 

Sarah Butkovic is a prospective MA student at Loyola University in Chicago. She loves any and all things literary: writing, reading, teaching, editing etc. Sarah's favorite genre to read and write in is fiction, but poetry is more or less her persistent mistress.
 

William Pattee is a writer and Master’s student at the University at Albany. His work has appeared in Albany Poets, and he published a short collection, The Rain, As It Knows Us, in November 2020. His work closely focuses on the plights of toxic masculinity, identity, and contemporary expressions of poverty.
 

David Banach teaches philosophy in New Hampshire, where he tends chickens, keeps bees, and watches the sky. He has published poems in Symmetry Pebbles and the Poets' Touchstone, and was a Pushcart nominee. He also has a poem, “Resurrection,” in the forthcoming COVID Spring II anthology published by Hobblebush Books. He is also a Poetry Reader at Passenger’s Journal.
 

Anastasia Vassos is the author of Nike Adjusting Her Sandal (Nixes Mate, 2021). Her chapbook The Lesser-Known Riddle of the Sphinx was a finalist in Two Sylvias Press 2021 Chapbook Contest. She is a reader for Lily Poetry Review, speaks three languages, and is a long-distance cyclist. She lives in Boston.
 

Wendy Drexler's third poetry collection, Before There Was Before, was published by Iris Press in 2017. She is a four-time Pushcart-Prize nominee, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Cider Press Review, Ibbetson Street, J Journal, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Pangyrus, RHINO, Salamander, Solstice, Sugar House, The Atlanta Review, The Comstock Review, The Lily Poetry Review, The Hudson Review, The Mid-American Review, The Threepenny Review, and the Valparaiso Poetry Review, among others; featured on Verse Daily and WBUR’s Cognoscenti; and in numerous anthologies. Wendy is the Programming Co-Chair for the New England Poetry Club and, since 2018, the poet in residence at New Mission High School in Hyde Park, MA.
 

Jessica Willingham is a Lighthouse Writer's Workshop graduate. She is a former editor at Bustle and current fiction reader for Five South magazine. Her work has appeared in Thought Erotic. She lives and writes in Oklahoma, where she calls home. You can find her @jesswcreative.
 

Margaret D. Stetz, author of "Shadow Rabbit," is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware. Although she has spent most of her life teaching and writing about literature, she still finds it hard to reconcile academia with the world that she knew as a working-class child growing up in Queens, New York. Many of her poems reflect this class-based tension and disjunction, along with issues such as domestic violence and abuse.
 

Amelia Díaz Ettinger is a Latinex BIPOC poet and writer. Her published books include Learning to Love a Western Sky by Airlie Press, Speaking at a Time /Hablando a la Vez by Redbat Press. and a chapbook, Fossils in a Red Flag by Finishing Line Press. Her poetry and short stories appear in many literary journals and anthologies. She resides in Eastern Oregon.
 

Michael Jemal has traveled the road for years and now is settled in Rhode Island, where he raises his son who has become Michael's greatest teacher. Along the way Michael has studied with Stephen Dunn and BJ Ward. They have been great mentors.
 

Casey Killingsworth has work in The American Journal of Poetry, Two Thirds North, and other journals. His first book of poems, A Handbook for Water was released by Cranberry Press in 1995 and his new collection is A nest blew down (Kelsay Books 2021). Casey has a Master’s degree from Reed College.
 

Christopher Riesco is a graudate of the MMU Writing School. He lives and works in Manchester, UK, and reviews poetry books on substack under the name of Lord Minimus. His own attempts at poetry sometimes turn up in the more tolerant journals.
 

Amanda Erin Miller is a Brooklyn-based writer and performer who earned her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, The Blue Mountain Review, Freerange Nonfiction, Sylvia Magazine, JewishFiction.net, Poetry in the Time of Covid-19, Cratelit, So Long: Short Memoirs of Loss and Remembrance, Underwired Magazine and other publications. She is the co-editor of Words After Dark: A Lyrics, Lit & Liquor Anthology (2020) and author of One Breath, Then Another: A Memoir (2012). Since 2012, she has produced Lyrics, Lit & Liquor, an NYC literary and performance series. www.lucidriverpress.com.
 

Mary Ann Honaker is the author of Becoming Persephone (Third Lung Press, 2019). Her poems have appeared in Euphony, JMWW, Juked, Little Patuxent Review, Rattle.com, Sweet Tree Review, and elsewhere. Mary Ann holds an MFA from Lesley University. She currently lives in Beaver, West Virginia.
 

Subhaga Crystal Bacon the author of two volumes of poetry, Blue Hunger, 2020 from Methow Press, and Elegy with a Glass of Whisky, BOA Editions, 2004. A Queer Elder, she lives, writes, and teaches on the east slope of the North Cascade Mountains in Twisp, WA. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in Queer Southeast Asia: A Journal of Transgressive Art, Queer Toronto Literary Magazine, River Heron Barks, and the Indianapolis Review. Her work can be found on www.subhagacrystalbacon.com.
 

Michelle McMillan-Holifield is a recent Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee. Her work has been included in or is forthcoming in Boxcar Poetry Review, Nelle, Sky Island Journal, Stirring, The Collagist, The Main Street Rag, Whale Road Review and Windhover among others. She hopes you one day find her poetry tacked to a tree somewhere in the Alaskan Wild.