poetry

Glenn Shaheen is the author of four books, most recently the flash fiction collection Carnivalia (Gold Wake Press 2018). He is the Executive Director of the Radius of Arab American Writers and teaches at Prairie View A&M University.

Grace Q. Song is a Chinese-American writer residing in New York City. Her poetry and fiction have been published or are forthcoming in PANK, Waxwing, The Journal, The Offing, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She attends Columbia University. 

Gretchen Rockwell is a queer poet currently living in Pennsylvania. Xe is the author of the chapbooks body in motion (perhappened press) and Lexicon of Future Selves (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press) as well as two microchapbooks; xer work has appeared in AGNI, Cotton Xenomorph, Whale Road Review, Palette Poetry, and elsewhere. Gretchen enjoys writing about gender, science, space, and unusual connections. Find xer on Twitter at @daft_rockwell.

Javeria Hasnain is a poet from Karachi, Pakistan. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Aleph Review, Bending Genres, Lumiere Review, Anatolios magazine, and elsewhere. She currently volunteers as a Poetry Reader for The Adroit Journal. 

Kevin McIlvoy lives in Asheville, North Carolina. His first poetry manuscript, The River Scratch, includes poems that appear in Willow Springs, The Georgia Review, Scoundrel Time, Consequence, Your Impossible Voice, River Heron Review, Barzakh, The Night Heron Barks, JMWW, and other magazines. His novel, One Kind Favor, was published by WTAW Press in 2021; he has published seven other works of fiction.

Leah Falk is the author of To Look After and Use (Finishing Line Press, 2019). Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, FIELD, Electric Literature, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and daughter, and directs programming at the Writers House at Rutgers University--Camden.

Liz Marlow's debut chapbook, They Become Stars, was the winner of the 2019 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition. Additionally, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Bitter Oleander, The Greensboro Review, Nimrod International Journal, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

Preeti Vangani is the author of the poetry collection, Mother Tongue Apologize (RLFPA Editions, 2019), winner of the RL India Poetry Prize. Her work has been published in The Threepenny Review, Gulf Coast, and Cortland Review, among other places. A graduate of University of San Francisco's MFA Program, Preeti has received fellowships and support from Djerrasi, UCross, Tin House, Napa Valley Writers' Conference, Pen America, and the California Center for Cultural Innovation. She currently teaches in the MFA (Writing) program at University of San Francisco.

Ronda Piszk Broatch is the author of Lake of Fallen Constellations, (MoonPath Press). Ronda’s current manuscript was a finalist with the Charles B. Wheeler Prize and Four Way Books Levis Prize. She is the recipient of an Artist Trust GAP Grant. Ronda’s journal publications include Fugue, Blackbird, 2River, Sycamore Review, Missouri Review, Palette Poetry, and Public Radio KUOW’s All Things Considered.

Vanessa Couto Johnson (she/they) is the author of the full-length Pungent dins concentric (Tolsun Books, 2018) and three poetry chapbooks, most recently speech rinse (Slope Editions’ 2016 Chapbook Contest winner). Dialogist, Foundry, Thrush, TERSE. Journal, and others have published their poems, and their creative nonfiction appears in The Account and FEED. A Brazilian born in Texas (dual citizen), VCJ has taught at Texas State University since 2014.