Elizabeth Bernays grew up in Australia, became a British Government Scientist in London, a Professor in Berkeley, and Regents' Professor at the University of Arizona. She has published forty nonfiction stories and her memoir, Six Legs Walking, won the 2020 Arizona/New Mexico Book Award.
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Vivian I. Bikulege is a Pushcart nominee and Gilbert-Chappell poet in western North Carolina. Her work appears in Presence, Broad River Review, The Petigru Review, Pinesong, and the upcoming storySouth. Her essay, “Cuttings,” will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in Reading as a Writer by Erin Pushman. She holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte in non-fiction.
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Christina Rivera Cogswell's essays are published or forthcoming at Orion, Kenyon Review, Terrain.org, Bat City Review, Catapult, and elsewhere. She credits the fragmentation of her writing to her young children and is currently finishing her first book of essays—a collection of ecofeminist reflections on motherhood in the face of climate crisis. You can follow Christina on Instagram @seekingsol.
Read MoreMy Body is Home to My Great-Grandparents: An American Sonnet
Todd Copeland is the author of Like All Light (2022), winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press. His other works include the poetry chapbook The Book as Knife (Ravenna Press, 2021), and his poems have appeared in The Journal, Southern Poetry Review, Lake Effect, and Sugar House Review, among other publications. A native of Ohio, he lives in Waco, Texas. More information can be found at toddcopelandwriter.com.
Read MoreTrailer Park Stew; Detroit Dreams
Jim Daniels’ latest book of poems is Gun/Shy, Wayne State University Press. Other recent books include The Perp Walk and RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music (2020), co-editor, M. L. Liebler. A native of Detroit, he lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program.
Read MoreThe Cat in the Study, Looking Out
William Virgil Davis’s most recent book of poetry, his sixth, is Dismantlements of Silence: Poems Selected and New. His first, One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His poetry has been published widely worldwide.
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Emma DePanise’s poems have appeared recently in journals such as The Los Angeles Review, The National Poetry Review, The Minnesota Review, Passages North and elsewhere. Currently an MFA candidate in poetry at Purdue University, she is a poetry editor for Sycamore Review and a co-editor of The Shore.
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Tom Farrell is a lawyer who lives and works in Pittsburgh. He writes and teaches about criminal practice, ethics, and the lives of the individuals with whom his work intersects.
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Danielle Fleming is a social worker, dog mom, and writer living in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband. Her work has been featured in Bellarmine Magazine, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Tiger Moth Review and The Hopper. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She can be found on Instagram as @havendf or twitter @danismalley10
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John Gifford is a writer and photographer based in Oklahoma City. His books include Red Dirt Country, a literary meditation on the Oklahoma landscape and the rich biodiversity of the southern Great Plains, and Pecan America, immersion reporting on the industry, ecology, and culture of America's indigenous tree nut. johngifford.net.
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Peyton Harvey is a writer currently based in NYC, and is a second-year nonfiction candidate at Columbia University. Her publications include Reed Magazine's Gabriele Rico award for nonfiction, and numerous book reviews for ZYZZYVA literary magazine's online blog, where she was an editorial intern. She is currently working on a hybrid biography- memoir, exploring her fascination with the actress Liv Ullmann. @peytonlharvey
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Elia Hohauser-Thatcher is the author of The Prophet’s Toothbrush, a chapbook of poetry published by Finishing Line Press. Currently, Elia is a PhD Candidate in Rhetoric & Composition at Wayne State University and teaches creative writing in Detroit Public Schools as a Writer-in-Residence with InsideOut Literary Arts.
Read MoreWhen Stella D'oro Ruled the Airwaves; On Whatever Day in Whatever Summer of Nineteen Sixty Something
Ken Holland has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and has work widely published in such journals as Rattle, Tulane Review, Southwest Review, North Dakota Quarterly, The MacGuffin, and Tar River, as well as a number of anthologies. He lives in the mid-Hudson Valley of New York. www.kenhollandpoet.com
Read MoreReturn to the Land of Giant Suns
Munashe Kaseke is a Zimbabwean woman living in California. Her debut short story collection, Send Her Back and Other Stories is available in July 2022 and is available for pre-order. The collection offers an awfully intimate, fresh telling of the immigrant experience of Black women in the United States.
www.munashekaseke.com
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Originally from Louisiana, Brandon Kilbourne is a biologist and poet living in Berlin, Germany. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poet Lore, Ecotone, Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere, with his work also being translated into Estonian. In 2021, he received a nomination for a Pushcart Prize from Ecotone.
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Born in 1979, Rania Mamoun is a Sudanese author, journalist, and activist. She has published two novels in Arabic—Green Flash (2006) and Son of the Sun(2013)—as well as a short story collection Thirteen Months of Sunrise, which will be published in English by Comma Press in 2018. Her short stories have been published in various magazines and anthologies, including The Book of Khartoum (Comma Press, 2016), the first ever anthology of Sudanese short fiction in translation. She has also worked as culture page editor of Al-Thaqafi magazine, a columnist for Ad-Adwaa newspaper and presenter of the ‘Silicon Valley’ cultural programme on Sudanese TV.
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Ambrose Massaquoi is a Sierra Leonean writer and author of Along the Peal of Drums. He has also been published in The Iowa Review, Kalashnikov in the Sun, Leoneathology and elsewhere. Massaquoi is an alumnus of University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. He currently lives in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Kevin McLellan—author of: Ornitheology (2019 Massachusetts Book Awards recipient); Tributary; Hemispheres (resides at the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center and other special collections); [box] (resides in the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University and other special collections); and Round Trip—makes videos as Duck Hunting with the Grammarian. https://kevmclellan.com
Read MoreBalladeer Tercets
John A. Nieves has poems forthcoming or recently published in journals such as: North American Review, Copper Nickel, 32 Poems, American Literary Review and Massachusetts 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. He received his M.A. from University of South Florida and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri.
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Dr. Ping Wang came from Shanghai, earned her BA in Beijing University, PhD at NYU, published 15 books of poetry and prose: My Name Is Immigrant, Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi, among others. She’s recipient of NEA, Bush, Lannan and McKnight Fellowships, director of Kinship of Rivers project. She’s also a dancer, photographer and installation artist. Her multi-media installations were shown at colleges, galleries, museums, river confluences and mountains around the world. She’s the Emerita Professor of Poetry, Macalester College. www.wangping.com
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