poetry

Adam Day is the author of Left-Handed Wolf (LSU Press, 2020), and of Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande Books), and the recipient of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, and of a PEN America Literary Award. He publishes the literary journal, Action Spectacle.

Ashley Kunsa's recent poetry appears in Massachusetts Review, Southern Humanities Review, Barrow Street, Cream City Review, and Radar Poetry. Originally from Pittsburgh, she is currently assistant professor of creative writing at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, MT, where she lives with her husband and two children.

Chiagoziem Confidence Jideofor is Igbo and Queer. Her poems have appeared or are scheduled to appear in POETRY, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Obsidian, ANOMLY, the minnesota review, Yaba Left Review, Passengers Journal, Rigorous, Untitled: Voices, Versification, and so on.  Also a self-taught illustrator, Agoziem has worked on several book covers and digital art collaborations.

Daniel Biegelson is the author of the book ofbeing neighbors (Ricochet Editions) and the chapbook Only the Borrowed Light (VERSE). Daniel serves as Director of the Visiting Writers Series at Northwest Missouri State University as well as an editor for Laurel Review. Daniel's poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Bayou Magazine, Denver Quarterly, Diagram, The Glacier, Interim, The Shore, & Sycamore Review, among other places. 

LGBTQIA+ artist, NEA and MacDowell Fellow, and former Key West Poet Laureate, Flower Conroy’s books include “Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder,” “A Sentimental Hairpin" and “Greenest Grass” (winner of the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize, forthcoming 2023). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, American Literary Review, The Yale Review and elsewhere.

Heather Truett holds an MFA in poetry and is an autistic author. Her debut novel, KISS AND REPEAT,  released in 2021, and she serves as managing editor for The Pinch.

Jane Zwart teaches at Calvin University, where she also co-directs the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, and Ploughshares, as well as other journals and magazines. She writes book reviews regularly, too, most recently for Plume (where she is co-editor of reviews with Timothy Liu), and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

John A. Nieves has poems forthcoming or recently published in journals such as: North American Review, Copper Nickel, American Poetry Review, 32 Poems and Southern Review. He won the Indiana Review Poetry Contest and his first book, Curio, won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award Judge’s Prize. He is associate professor of English at Salisbury University and an editor of The Shore Poetry.

K.G. Strayer is a trans, non-binary writer and artist from Michigan. Their poems have appeared in Yemassee Journal, Midwestern Gothic, Carve Magazine, and elsewhere.

Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a poet, playwright, and performer based out of the Southwest. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Poetry Northwest, MTV, Teen Vogue, Time, and elsewhere. She recently graduated from Yale University, where she received the J. Edgar Meeker Prize, the Academy of American Poets College Prize, and the Young Native Playwrights Award. She is the winner of the 2022 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize.

Sherre Vernon (she/her/hers) is the award-winning author of Green Ink Wings (Elixir Press) and The Name is Perilous (Power of Poetry). Her debut full-length poetry collection, Flame Nebula, Bright Nova was released in 2022. Sherre has been published in journals such as Tahoma Literary Review and The Chestnut Review, nominated for Best of the Net, and anthologized in several collections including Fat & Queer and Best Small Fictions. Sherre teaches poetry at the Downtown Writers Center for the YMCA of Central New York.

Yael Valencia Aldana is a Caribbean Afro-Latinx writer and poet. Yael and her mother and her mother’s mother and so on are descendants of the indigenous people of modern-day Colombia. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Florida International University (FIU). Her work has appeared or is upcoming in Typehouse, The Florida Book Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Scapegoat Review, Antithesis Blog, and Slag Glass City, among others. She teaches creative writing at FIU, and she lives in South Florida with her son and too many pets.