poetry

Anne Champion is the author of The Good Girl is Always a Ghost (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), Reluctant Mistress (Gold Wake Press, 2013), and The Dark Length Home (Noctuary Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Verse Daily, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Crab Orchard Review, Epiphany Magazine, The Pinch, The Greensboro Review, New South, and elsewhere. She was an Academy of American Poet’s Prize recipient, a Barbara Deming Memorial grant recipient, a Best of the Net winner, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She currently teaches writing and literature in Boston, MA.

Audra Puchalski lives and dabbles in esoteric fiber arts in Oakland, California. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan.

Brandon Amico lives in North Carolina. He is the recipient of a Regional Artist Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council and the winner of Southern Humanities Review’s Hoepfner Literary Award for Poetry. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Awl, Booth, The Cincinnati Review, Kenyon Review, New Ohio Review, and Verse Daily, among other publications.

Dana Alsamsam is a queer, Syrian-American poet from Chicago and an MFA candidate at Emerson College. Dana's chapbook (in)habit is now available from tenderness, yea press and her poems are published or forthcoming in Gigantic Sequins, Poetry East, Hobart, DIALOGIST, The Collapsar, Blood Orange Review, Tinderbox Poetry, Cosmonauts Avenue, Fugue, BOOTH and others.

Deborah Bogen has four prize-winning collections of poetry. The latest, In Case of Sudden Free Fall, came out from Jacar Press in 2017. These days she’s primarily a political activist in Pittsburgh PA where she writes songs, plays ukulele and sings in The Highland Park Mini-band.

Grady Chambers is the author of North American Stadiums, chosen by Henri Cole as the winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in June. Poems of his will appear or have appeared in Diode Poetry Journal; Nashville Review; The Adroit Journal; Forklift, Ohio; Ninth Letter; Midwestern Gothic; New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. He was born in Chicago, and currently lives in Philadelphia.

Jack Martin lives in Fort Collins, CO. His poems have appeared in many journals including Ploughshares, Agni, Georgia Review, and Matter; and his poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Ghost Town, North American Review, Wisconsin Review, Rust+Moth, HCE Review, Diagram, and Tupelo Quarterly. 

Jane Satterfield has received awards in poetry from the NEA, Bellingham Review, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Mslexia, and more. Her books of poetry are Her Familiars, Assignation at Vanishing Point, Shepherdess with an Automatic, and Apocalypse Mix, winner of the 2016 Autumn House Poetry Prize selected by David St. John. Recent nonfiction is out or forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, Superstition Review, Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine, and Diagram. She is married to poet Ned Balbo and lives in Baltimore where she is an associate professor at Loyola University Maryland.

Jennifer Martelli is the author of The Uncanny Valley (Big Table Publishing Company, 2016) and My Tarantella (forthcoming, Bordighera Press). She is also the author of After Bird from Grey Book Press. Her work has appeared in Thrush, [Pank], Glass Poetry Journal, Cleaver, The Heavy Feather Review, Italian Americana, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal.  Jennifer Martelli has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net Prizes and is the recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry. She is a book reviewer for Up the Staircase Quarterly as well as the co-curator for The Mom Egg VOX Folio.

Jessica (Tyner) Mehta is a Cherokee poet, novelist, and storyteller. She’s the author of ten books including the forthcoming Savagery (poetry), the forthcoming Drag Me Through the Mess (poetry), and You Look Something (literary fiction). She’s also the author of the poetry collections Constellations of My Body, Secret-Telling Bones, Orygun, What Makes an Always, and The Last Exotic Petting Zoo as well as the novel The Wrong Kind of Indian. She’s been awarded the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Prize in Poetry, the Potlatch Award for Native Artists, and numerous poet-in-residencies posts around the world.

JR Tappenden is the founding editor of Architrave Press and poetry editor for december magazine. She earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Missouri – St. Louis where she also served as the university’s first Poet Laureate. Her poems have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Flyway, Euphony, Ithaca Lit and elsewhere. Her chapbook Independent City is out now from Wells College Press.

Kate Fetherston is an artist and poet living in Montpelier, Vermont. Kate’s first book of poems, Until Nothing More Can Break, was released in 2012. Her poems and essays in numerous journals including North American Review, Hunger Mountain, and Third Coast. Kate’s received grants from the Vermont Council on the Arts and Vermont Studio Center. Her art is an intuitive interpretation of the visual world explored through color, texture, and layering. Kate’s shown in Vermont and California and her work is in private collections around the country.

Kathryn Merwin is a poet from Washington, DC. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Carve, CutBank, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, and Sugar House Review, among others. She has been awarded the Nancy D. Hargrove Editors' Prize, the Blue Earth Review Annual Poetry Prize, the 2017 Sixfold Award, and has been nominated for a Pushcart. She is currently living in the Pacific Northwest while pursuing her MFA at Western Washington University and serving as Poetry Editor for the Bellingham Review.

Kristin George Bagdanov received her MFA in poetry from Colorado State University and currently studies 20th c. American poetry and ecocriticism in the literature PhD program at U.C. Davis. Recent and forthcoming poems can be found in Boston Review, Ninth Letter, and Puerto Del Sol. She is the poetry editor of Ruminate Magazine.

Michael Schmeltzer was born in Japan and eventually moved to the US. His most current book (co-authored with Meghan McClure) is “A Single Throat Opens,” a collective memoir and lyric exploration of addiction. His full-length poetry debut “Blood Song” was a Washington State Book Award Finalist in Poetry. His writing has been published in various journals such as Black Warrior Review,Water~Stone Review, and Split Lip Magazine, among others. Schmeltzer serves as President of Floating Bridge Press and is the co-founder of One Great Things, a micro-length, macro-lensed review site.

Ryan Dzelzkalns has work appearing with Assaracus, DIAGRAM, The Offing, The Shanghai Literary Review, Tin House, and others. He completed an MFA at New York University and a BA at Macalester College where he received the Wendy Parrish Poetry Award. He works for the Academy of American Poets and is the tallest man in New York.

Sara Quinn Rivara is the author of the forthcoming collection, Animal Bride (Tinderbox Editions, 2018) and Lake Effect (Aldrich Press, 2013). Her work has appeared recently in West Branch, Tahoma Literary Review, Blackbird, Poemeleon, Tinderbox Poetry Journal and numerous other journals. A native Midwesterner, she now lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

Todd Dillard's work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Best New Poets, Electric Literature, Split Lip Magazine, Sundog Lit, and Barrelhouse.