Poetry

Nate Maxson

Nate Maxson is a writer and performance artist. The author of several collections of poetry, he lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Bernadette McComish

Born in a blizzard with powerful premonition, Bernadette McComish earned an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence, and an M.A. in TESOL from Hunter. She lives and teaches in LA. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and her chapbook, The Book of Johns, was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2018.

Michele Mekel

Living in Happy Valley, Michele Mekel wears many hats of her choosing: writer and editor; educator and bioethicist; poetess and creatrix; cat herder and chief can opener; witch and woman; and, above all, human. Her work has appeared in various academic and creative publications, including having her poetry selected and read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac. She is also a co-principal investigator for the Viral Imaginations: COVID-19 project (viralimaginations.psu.edu). Michele can be found on Instagram @ShaktiEnergy.

Amy Kinder Moore

Amy Kinder Moore (she/her/hers) is the Assistant Fiction Editor at Bodega Magazine and is an incoming MFA candidate at Hunter College. She lives in Jersey City.

Geoffrey O’Brien

Geoffrey O'Brien's eight books of poetry include Floating City (Talisman House, 1996), Red Sky Cafe (Salt, 2004), Early Autumn (Salt, 2010), In a Mist (Shearsman, 2015), and The Blue Hill (Marsh Hawk Press, 2018). He has also published prose books including Hardboiled America (1981), Dream Time: Chapters from the Sixties (1988), The Phantom Empire (1993), The Times Square Story (2000), Sonata for Jukebox (2004), The Fall of the House of Walworth (2010), and Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows (2013).

Mark Olival-Bartley

Mark Olival-Bartley is reappraising the sonnets of E. A. Robinson for his dissertation at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich’s Amerika-Institut, where he tutors composition and edits @poetrytuesday. Mark also teaches at Münchner Volkschochschule and Amerikahaus.

Sujash Purna

Sujash Purna is a graduate student at Missouri State University. He serves as an assistant poetry editor to the Moon City Review. His poetry appeared in Naugatuck River Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, English Journal, Stonecoast Review, Red Earth Review, Emrys Journal, Gyroscope Review, and others.

Abigail Sayre

Abigail Sayre is a writer and educator living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She teaches writing to 5th grade students during the day and spends her evenings scribbling poetry and going to readings around New York City. She can often be found at the Brooklyn Poets YAWP or working with the Sweet Action Poetry Collective.

Laura Shovan

Laura Shovan is former editor of Little Patuxent Review. Her books include Mountain, Log, Salt and Stone, winner of the Harriss Poetry Prize, Life in Me Like Grass on Fire: Love Poems, and Voices Fly: An Anthology of Exercises and Poems from the Maryland State Arts Council Artists-in-Residence Program (co-edited with Virginia Crawford). Laura is a longtime poet-in-the-schools. Her children’s books include the award-winning novel-in-verse The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, Takedown, and A Place at the Table, co-written with Saadia Faruqi.

Allya Yourish

Allya Yourish lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is owned by two cats. Her poems have appeared in Crab Fat Magazine, the Rising Phoenix Review, and Poetica Magazine. She is the Managing Editor at Bomb Cyclone Magazine.

Louis Zieja

Louis Zieja (he/him) is a cinematographer, collage artist and writer originally from Philadelphia. His poetry has been recently published in the Ghost City Review, Rogue Agent, the Neologism Poetry Journal, and the Rat’s Ass Review and is upcoming in Gone Lawn and the Triggerfish Critical Review. His comic book series “The Subliminals”, a collaboration with artist Anton Blake, will be published in late 2020.

Twitter/Instagram: @IDriveACampfire

Prose

Heather santo

Heather Santo is a development chemist living in Pittsburgh, PA with her husband and newborn daughter. In addition to writing, her creative interests include photography, painting and collecting skeleton keys.

Follow her on Instagram and Twitter @Heather52384

Vikram Ramakrishnan

Vikram Ramakrishnan is a Tamil-American writer who was born in Bangalore, India and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied physics, mathematics, and computer science. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Newfound, SAND Journal, and AE - The Canadian Science Fiction Review. He currently lives in New York City.

Simon Johnston

Simon Johnston is a writer who lives in Brooklyn. He graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Dramatic Writing. He's written for Funny Or Die, Above Average, and Points in Case. He writes screenplays, novels, and short stories. 

Jean Li Spencer

Jean Li Spencer is a rising senior at Wellesley College based in New York, NY. She started writing fiction in her freshman year and will be concentrating in English and Education Studies. In her free time, she enjoys watching international horror films and chasing the world. For now, she is content writing from home until she graduates.