Poetry

Ernest HilberT

Ernest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, and Caligulan, which was selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize. His fourth collection, Last One Out, appeared in March 2019. He lives in Philadelphia where he works as a rare book dealer and book reviewer for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. His poem “Mars Ultor” was included in Best American Poetry 2018, and his poems appear in Yale Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Parnassus, Sewanee Review, Hudson Review, Boston Review, The New Republic, American Scholar, and the London Review. Visit him at www.ernesthilbert.com

Angelo J. Letizia

Angelo J. Letizia is currently a professor of education. His true passion however is poetry. Angelo’s works have appeared in a number of literary outlets including Bewildering Stories, AHF Magazine of Speculative Fiction, Cajun Mutt Press, Transcendent Visions, Tales from the Moonlit Path and New American Legends. He lives in Northern Maryland with his wife and three children.

Joan Mazza

Joan Mazza worked as a medical microbiologist, psychotherapist, and taught workshops nationally with a focus on understanding dreams and nightmares. She is the author of six books, including Dreaming Your Real Self, and her poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, The MacGuffin, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Italian Americana, and The Nation. She lives in rural central Virginia. www.JoanMazza.com

Aaron Sandberg

Aaron Sandberg has appeared or is forthcoming in West Trade Review, Sporklet, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Abridged, Unbroken, The Racket, Writers Resist, Neologism, Yes Poetry, perhappened mag, Right Hand Pointing, Monday Night, and elsewhere. He lives and teaches in Illinois. You might find him—though socially-distant—on Instagram @aarondsandberg.

Carla Sarett

Carla Sarett’s recent work appears or is forthcoming in Prole, Third Wednesday, Halfway Down the Stairs, Deracine, The Virginia Normal and elsewhere; her essays have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essay. Her debut novel, A Closet Feminist, will be published in 2022. Carla has a Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania, and lives in San Francisco.

Prose

Heidi Espenscheid Nibbelink

Heidi Espenscheid Nibbelink grew up in northern Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan, where one summer she had the joy of working downwind from a pickle factory. Her short stories have been published in journals such as Drunk Monkeys, Defenestration, Fiction Southeast, and the Saturday Evening Post’s Great American Fiction Contest 2020 Anthology. She earned an MFA at the Sewanee School of Letters in Tennessee. Links to her published work can be found at heidinibbelink.com. For a good time, follow her on Twitter @AnnoyedOboist.

Kirsten Kaschock

Kirsten Kaschock, a 2019 Pew Fellow in the Arts, is the author of five poetry books: Unfathoms (Slope Editions), A Beautiful Name for a Girl (Ahsahta Press), The Dottery (University of Pittsburgh Press/winner of AWP Donald Hall Prize), Confessional Science-fiction: A Primer (Subito Press), and Explain This Corpse (forthcoming winner of Blue Lynx Prize from Lynx House Press). Coffee House Press published her debut speculative novel—Sleight. She teaches at Drexel University.

Dale Stromberg

Dale Stromberg grew up not far from Sacramento before moving to Tokyo, where he had a short-lived music career. Now he lives near Kuala Lumpur and makes his living as an editor and translator. His work has been published here and there. 

Brendan Costello Jr.

Brendan Costello Jr. teaches creative writing at The City College of New York, where he earned his MFA. His writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Open Letters Monthly, Smokebox.net, and Epiphany Magazine. He is the Vice President of Irish American Writers and Artists, and is also the former producer and host of "The Largest Minority" on WBAI radio.

Chris DeStefano

Chris DeStefano has been fascinated with horror and the macabre since reading a story of spontaneous human combustion as a child. He currently lives, works and writes in New York, NY with his wife and two black cats.