3t3RN4L (pronounced “Eternal”) is a veteran in Pittsburgh’s spoken word community. This performance poet maintains the 3t3RN4L Official YouTube channel which features videos of his work. Using experimental styles, he focuses on the interplay of spiritual and fantastical symbolism with the common human experiences that make up everyday reality.
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Daniel R. Ball holds an MFA from Stonecoast in Maine, where he studied under Rick Bass. His writing has appeared in FLDQ, The Whitefish Review, and elsewhere. He lives with his wife, Melissa, in New York.
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Christie B. Cochrell's work has been published by Catamaran, Orca, Cumberland River Review (with a Pushcart Prize nomination), Lowestoft Chronicle, Tin House, and a variety of others. Chosen as New Mexico Young Poet of the Year while growing up in Santa Fe, she’s traveled far and wide since then, and recently published a volume of collected poems, Contagious Magic. Living and writing by the ocean now in Santa Cruz, California, she loves especially the play of light, the journeyings of time, things ephemeral and ancient.
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Katharine Coles’ recent books include Wayward (poems, Red Hen Press, 2019) and, from Turtle Point Press, Look Both Ways (memoir, 2018) and The Stranger I Become: essays in reckless poetics (2020). A Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, she has received awards from the NEA, the NEH, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
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R.C. Davis is a fiction writer and poet, living and writing in Iowa. While he grew up in the rolling hills that form the western banks of the Mississippi River, his interests in people, places, and genres are cosmopolitan in scope. Writing will always be R.C.’s first, true love.
Read Morecast list; I learn this from my lover; A WOMAN sleeps fitfully on the temple floor ripe with fruit & snow; from Circe, or Can No One Accurately Portray My Majesty? - series of three
Kathryne David Gargano (she/hers) hails from the Pacific Northwest, but isn't very good at climbing trees. She received her MFA from the University of Nevada - Las Vegas, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Her work has been published in Rust Moth, Pithead Chapel, Phoebe, Colorado Review, and others. She won an AWP Intro Award in Poetry in 2020, and F(r)iction’s Summer Poetry Contest in 2019.
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John Hazlett is the author of My Generation: Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics (1998). He has published essays on travel, first-person narratives, and American literature, as well as book, theater, and film reviews. He lives in New Orleans and works as a guide for Louisiana Lost Lands Environmental Tours, a swamp and wetlands educational organization.
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Tiffany Higgins is a poet, translator, and a journalist writing on the environment and Brazil. Her writing appears in Granta, Guernica, Poetry, Mongabay, and elsewhere. She was the 2020 Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah, and will be a 2021 Fulbright scholar to Brazil’s Amazon.
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Michelle Menting’s flash nonfiction has appeared in New South, Punctuate: A Nonfiction Magazine, Superstition Review, New Delta Review, and Quarter After Eight, among others. She is the author of Leaves Surface Like Skin (Terrapin Books) and two poetry chapbooks. Originally from the upper Great Lakes, she now lives in Maine.
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A poet and a father, Kushal Poddar, edited the magazine, Words Surfacing, authored seven volumes of poetry including The Circus Came To My Island, A Place For Your Ghost Animals, Eternity Restoration Project:Selected and New Poems, and Herding My Thoughts To The Slaughterhouse: A Prequel. Find and follow him on Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter.
Read MoreBestiary; Do You Know How to Dispose of a Body?; First, There Was a House We Built; Summer with or without
Sreshtha Sen is a poet from Delhi, India and one of the founding editors of The Shoreline Review, an online journal for & by south asian poets. She studied Literatures in English from Delhi University and completed her MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. Her work can be found in Arkansas International, bitch media, BOAAT, Hyperallergic, Hyphen Magazine, The Margins and elsewhere. She was the 2017-18 Readings/Workshops Fellow at Poets & Writers and currently lives and teaches in Las Vegas where she’s completing her PhD in poetry.
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