poetry

Anastacia-Reneé (She/They) is a queer writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, playwright, former radio host, TEDX speaker, and podcaster. She is the author of Here In The (Middle) Of Nowhere, Side Notes From The Archivist, (v.) and Forget It. Sidenotes from the Archivist was selected as one of “NYPL Best Books of 2023,” and, The American Library Associations (RUSA) “Notable Books of 2024.” Anastacia-Renee served as Seattle Civic Poet during Seattle’s inaugural year of UNESCO status as well as Hugo House Poet-in-Residence, and Jack Straw Fellowship Curator. Her work has been anthologized and published widely.

CD Eskilson is a trans poet, editor, and translator living in Arkansas. They are a recipient of the C.D. Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize, as well as a Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Their debut poetry collection, Scream / Queen, is forthcoming from Acre Books.

Ian C. Williams is an Appalachian poet and the author of Every Wreckage (2024 Fernwood Press). His work has been included in Fourteen Hills, Moon City Review, Salamander, and Appalachian Review, among others. He is the editor-in-chief for Jarfly: A Poetry Magazine. Williams lives with his wife and two sons in Fairmont, West Virginia.

Lindsey Schaffer is the author of City of Contradiction (Selcouth Station) and Witch City (dancing girl press, forthcoming). Her work has appeared in the Eunoia Review, Reservoir Road Literary Review, and elsewhere. Lindsey has received scholarships and fellowships from the Indiana Writers Workshop, AWP, the City of Bloomington, and the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University. She serves as a poetry editor for Variant Literature.

Manuel A. Melendez is a multi-genre writer born and partially raised in Camagüey, Cuba. He has been published in Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine, WayWords Literary Journal, Apricity Magazine, Dream Noir Magazine, and Superstition Review. He has received several awards for his writing (across multiple genres), including The 3rd Annual Derick Burleson Poetry Contest Award, the E. L. Bartlett Contest for Literary Criticism Award, and The Farthest North Fiction Contest Short Story or Single Chapter Award. He will forever be proud of his freshman thesis: the first screenplay adaptation of Call Me by Your Name.

Martha Silano’s most recent poetry collection is Gravity Assist (Saturnalia Books, 2019). Previous collections include Reckless Lovely and The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, also from Saturnalia Books. A forthcoming collection, This One We Call Ours, won the 2023 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry, and will appear in the fall of 2024 from Washington State University Press. Martha’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, The Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She taught college English for thirty years, primarily at Bellevue College. 

Mary B. Moore’s forthcoming book is Amanda Chimera (Madville Publishing). Previous poetry books include Dear If (Orison Books 2022); Flicker, Dogfish Head Award 2016; The Book Of Snow, Cleveland State U 1998, and prize-winning chapbooks Amanda and the Man Soul and Eating the Light. Poems are forthcoming or have appeared in POETRY, Quartet, Catamaran a Literary Reader, South Dakota Review, Artemis, Birmingham Poetry Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, NELLE, Terrain, Calyx, & more. Major awards include NELLE’s Three Sister’s Prize, Birmingham Poetry Review’s Collins’ Award, and the second place award in Nimrod’s 2017 Pablo Neruda Prize.

Megan J. Arlett was born in the UK, grew up in Spain, and now lives in New Mexico. The recipient of two Academy of American Poets Prizes, her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2019, Best New British and Irish Poets, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Passages North, and Prairie Schooner, among others.

Ori Fienberg’s poetry is forthcoming this year in Cimarron Review, The Dallas Review, Ploughshares, Smartish Pace, and Superstition Review. Ori is the author of the chapbooks Old Habits, New Markets, available from elsewhere press, and Interim Assistant Dean of Having a Rich Inner Life from Ghost City Press. A collection of prose poems, Where Babies Come From, is forthcoming this fall 2024 from Cornerstone Press. Ori teaches poetry for Northeastern University.

Patricia Davis-Muffett (she/her) holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota. Her chapbook, Alchemy of Yeast and Tears, was published in spring 2023. Her work has won honors including Best of the Net nomination and second place in the 2024 Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest (selected by Marge Piercy), and appears in Best New Poets, Atlanta Review, Whale Road Review, Calyx and About Place, among others.

Rachel Mallalieu is an emergency physician and mother of five. She is the author of the chapbook A History of Resurrection (Alien Buddha Press 2022). Some of her recent work is featured or forthcoming in Nelle, Chestnut Review, Whale Road Review, and DIALOGIST.

Sara E. Hughes is a Massachusetts-born poet. She received an honorable mention for the American Poets College & University Prize in 2022. She is a 2022 Wild Seeds Writer’s Retreat Fellow and a 2022 Aspen Words participant. Sara is the recipient of the 2021 Elaine V. Beilin, Howard Hirt, and Marjorie Sparrow Awards of Framingham State University. Sara’s work is forthcoming in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. Sara is a fellow at Randolph College’s MFA program

Tatiana Dolgushina is a Soviet immigrant, born in Soviet Russia and raised in Ukraine, Argentina, Chile, and the United States. This multilingual and multicultural identity is central to her work. Her chapbook, carried/in our language was a finalist for the Vinyl 45 Chapbook Prize and is forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2025. A graduate of the Oregon State MFA, her writing is forthcoming or has been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, Rattle, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hunger Mountain, New Farmer’s Almanac, The Other Side of Hope, Collateral, and elsewhere.