poetry

Brandel France de Bravo is the author of Provenance (Washington Writers Publishing House poetry prize winner), Mother, Loose (Accents Publishing, Judge’s Choice Award) and the editor of an anthology of contemporary Mexican poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Barrow Street, the Cincinnati Review, Conduit, Gulf Coast, Pangyrus, and elsewhere. A public health professional, she currently teaches a meditation program developed at Stanford University called Compassion Cultivation Training.©

Brett Hanley is a Poetry Editor for Southeast Review. She holds an MFA from McNeese State and is a PhD candidate at Florida State. Their work is forthcoming or has recently been published in Gulf Coast, Redivider, Ninth Letter, Puerto del Sol, THE BOILER, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She has received support from The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and American Poetry Journal recently published their debut chapbook, Defeat the Rest.

Carolyn Oliver is the author of Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022), selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize, and two chapbooks, Mirror Factory and Dearling. Her poems appear in The Massachusetts Review, Indiana Review, Shenandoah, Beloit Poetry Journal, 32 Poems, Southern Indiana Review, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. Her awards include the E. E. Cummings Prize from the NEPC, the Goldstein Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Writer’s Block Prize in Poetry. Carolyn lives with her family in Massachusetts, where she is the editor of The Worcester Review.

Christen Noel Kauffman is author of the lyric essay chapbook Notes to a Mother God (2021), which was a winner of the Paper Nautilus Debut Chapbook Series. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays (University of Nebraska Press), Nimrod International Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Willow Springs, DIAGRAM, Booth, Smokelong Quarterly, Hobart, and The Normal School, among others.

Donna Vorreyer is the author of To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Waxwing, Poet Lore, Cherry Tree, Salamander, Harpur Palate, and other journals. She lives in the suburbs of Chicago where she serves as an associate editor for Rhino Poetry and hosts the monthly online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey.

Dorothy Chan (she/they) is the author of BABE (Diode Editions 2021), Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). Chan is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Editor Emeritus of Hobart, Book Reviews Co-Editor of Pleiades, and Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of Honey Literary Inc., a 501(c)(3) literary arts organization. 

Dorsía Smith Silva is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a three-time Best of the Net nominee, Cave Cavem Poetry Prize Semifinalist, Obsidian Fellow, and Full Professor at the University of Puerto Rico. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize Shortlist (2021) and has recently been published or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Poetry Northwest, Cream City Review, The Minnesota Review, The Offing, and Shenandoah. She has attended the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, Tin House Winter Workshop, and the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop. She has a Ph.D. in Caribbean Literature.

Hannah Smith is a writer from Dallas, Texas. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the Ohio State University, where she is the Associate Managing Editor of The Journal. Her poems appear in Meridian, North American Review, and are forthcoming in Muzzle Magazine and Nimrod.

Ja'net Danielo is the author of The Song of Our Disappearing, a winner of the Paper Nautilus 2020 Debut Series Chapbook Contest. A recipient of the Fischer Prize and a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council for Long Beach, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Shore, GASHER, Mid-American Review, Radar Poetry, Gulf Stream, Frontier Poetry, and elsewhere. Originally from Queens, NY, Ja'net teaches at Cerritos College and lives in Long Beach, CA with her husband and her dog.

Joshua Gottlieb-Miller holds an MFA and PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where he has served as Gulf Coast's Digital Nonfiction Editor and Print Poetry Editor. Other poetry from this manuscript appears in Berru Poetry Series, Concision, Jewish Currents, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. Recent prose and hybrid writing can be found in MAYDAY Magazine, miCRo, Bat City Review, Talking Writing, New Delta Review, Pacifica Lit Review, and elsewhere. Joshua has been a Fellow at MacDowell and the Tent Writing Conference at the Yiddish Book Center. Currently Joshua lives in Houston with his wife, Lauren, and son, Owen.

Meghan McClure is author of the chapbook Portrait of a Body in Wreckages (Newfound Press, 2017) and co-author of A Single Throat Opens (Black Lawrence Press, 2017). Her work has  appeared in Black Warrior Review, Tupelo Quarterly, American Literary Review, Pithead Chapel, American Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She lives in California.

Michael Chang (they/them) is the author of several collections of poetry, including Boyfriend Perspective (Really Serious Literature, 2021), Almanac of Useless Talents (CLASH Books, 2022), & Synthetic Jungle (Northwestern University Press, 2023). Tapped to edit Lambda Literary's Emerge anthology, their poems have been nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net, & the Pushcart Prize. They were awarded the Poetry Project's prestigious Brannan Prize in 2021, & serve as a poetry editor at the acclaimed journal Fence.

Nathaniel Rosenthalis is a poet and critic, whose work has appeared in Lana Turner, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, The Chicago Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of two full-length collections, his debut I Won't Begin Again (Winner of the 2021 Burnside Review Press Book Award, 2023) and The Leniad (Broken Sleep Books, 2023). He is also the author of three chapbooks, including 24 Hour Air (PANK Books, 2022). He lives in New York City, where he occasionally teaches at NYU, Baruch College, and Columbia University. He is also a singer and performer who recently made his Off-Broadway debut.

R.J. Lambert (he, him, his) is a queer writer, runner, and cat dad in Charleston, SC. He was chosen by Kaveh Akbar to receive the 2021 Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry from New Letters and is nominated for a 2021 Pushcart Prize by The Worcester Review. Recent poems are featured or forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, Denver Quarterly, The Ilanot Review, and Yalobusha Review, and his debut poetry collection, Mind Lit in Neon, is newly available from Finishing Line Press. R.J. teaches writing at the Medical University of South Carolina and can be found at @SoyRJ.

Sophia Liu lives in Long Island, New York. Her poems and artwork appear or are forthcoming in Gigantic Sequins, Rattle, Storm Cellar, Parentheses Journal, A Velvet Giant, Underblong, and elsewhere.

Taylor Byas is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the 1st place winner of the 2020 Poetry Super Highway, the 2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets Contests, and the 2021 Adrienne Rich Poetry Prize. She is the author of the chapbook Bloodwarm from Variant Lit, Shutter, forthcoming from Madhouse Press, and her debut full-length, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in Spring of 2023. She is represented by Rena Rossner of the Deborah Harris Agency.