This Issue’s Contributors

Poetry

Lily Beaumont 

Lily Beaumont’s poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in publications including Open Minds Quarterly, Ligeia Magazine, and Right Hand Pointing. She holds an MA in English from Brandeis University, and currently lives in Central Texas, where she works as a freelance curriculum and study guide developer.

Jean Gallagher 

Jean Gallagher is the author of This Minute (winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize from Fordham University Press), Stubborn (winner of the FIELD Prize from Oberlin College Press), and Start (Oberlin College Press). She is a Professor of English at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU and lives in Manhattan with her husband and daughter.

Lorraine Schein  

Lorraine Schein is a New York writer. Her work has appeared in VICE Terraform, Strange Horizons, Poetry New York, and Little Blue Marble, and in the anthology Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana del Rey & Sylvia Plath. The Futurist’s Mistress, her poetry book, is available from Mayapple Press: www.mayapplepress.com

Matt Schroeder 

Matt Schroeder is a poet and educator currently living in southern China. His poetry can be found in Thin Air Magazine, Dovecote Magazine, Poetry Lab Shanghai, The Decadent Review, Fearsome Critters Magazine, New World Writing, Art in the Time of COVID-19 from San Fedele Press, and FERAL journal.

 

Laura Shovan 

Laura Shovan is an editor, educator, Pushcart Prize nominated poet, and award-winning children’s book author. Some of her books include the chapbook Mountain, Log, Salt and Stone, winner of the inaugural Harriss Poetry Prize; the anthology Life in Me Like Grass on Fire: Love Poems; and the middle grade verse novel, The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary.

 

Prose

Andrew grace

Andrew Grace holds a PhD in English from the University of Oregon, where he wrote his dissertation on nineteenth-century Gothic fiction. He's published scholarly articles on Dracula and Jane Eyre, and his first short story, "The Trees and the Moon," was recently released in Fterota Logia.

MichaEl Chin

Michael Chin was born and raised in Utica, New York and currently lives in Las Vegas with his wife and son. He is the author of three full-length short story collections, and his debut novel, My Grandfather’s an Immigrant and So is Yours is forthcoming from Cowboy Jamboree Press. Find him online at miketchin.com and follow him on Twitter @miketchin.

Lauren Hunt

Lauren Hunt is a Sales Assistant at Chronicle Books in San Francisco with a BA in English and Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.