Light, Future and Past

Rachel Busse works in the humanitarian field while moonlighting as an essayist and aspiring novelist. She holds her MA in English from the University of St. Thomas, and is published in The Summit Avenue Review, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, and elsewhere. She lives in St. Paul.

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Bagseed

Reilly D. Cox lives in the desert with felines & beloveds. They attended Washington College, the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, & the University of Alabama, where they received their MFA. They are the author of The Death of Sargon the Gardner (Seven Kitchen Press) & have work available w/ Always Crashing, Cosmonauts Avenue, & elsewhere.

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Sublime Long After the End

Caleb Coy is a freelance writer and editor living in Christiansburg, VA with his wife and two sons. He received his M.A. in English and M.A. in Education from Virginia Tech. His work has been published in Harpur Palate, The Common, and Flyway. He is the author of the 2015 novel, An Authentic Derivative.

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Homeostasis

Soramimi Hanarejima is the author of Visits to the Confabulatorium, a fanciful story collection that Jack Cheng said, “captures moonlight in Ziploc bags.” Soramimi’s recent work can be found in Ninth Letter, Atlas and Alice, Fiction Kitchen Berlin, and Tahoma Literary Review.

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Land of Our Fathers

Pamela Herron, California writer and poet, has poetry and flash fiction in various publications. Her nature-based poetry collection, En L'air, debuted in 2013. Recent books include Exploring Ancient China and contributing to Confucianism Revisited (SUNY Press). She researches and teaches Daoism/Confucianism. Current projects include new collection of nature poems and a young adult novel.

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A Long Hour

A. Molotkov’s poetry collections are “The Catalog of Broken Things,” “Application of Shadows” and “Synonyms for Silence.” His work appears in Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review Online and most other quality journals. His prose is represented by Laura Strachan at Strachan Lit; he co-edits The Inflectionist Review. Visit him at AMolotkov.com

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The Tragedy of Space Opera

Holly Painter is the author of Excerpts from a Natural History (Titus, 2015) and My Pet Sounds Off: Translating the Beach Boys (Finishing Line, 2020). She teaches at the University of Vermont and is working on a book of cryptic crossword poems and an interview project about obsolete jobs.

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Bird and Machine

Joyce Schmid's recent work has appeared in Literary Imagination, New Ohio Review, Missouri Review, Poetry Daily, a previous issue of The Fourth River, and other journals and anthologies. She lives with her husband of over half a century in Palo Alto, California.

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First Transmission from the Indestructible Observer; The Indestructible Observer Remembers Sleep; The Indestructible Observer Remembers Summer

Amie Whittemore is the author of the poetry collection Glass Harvest (Autumn House Press) and the 2020 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and her poems and prose have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Nashville Review, Smartish Pace, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She teaches English at Middle Tennessee State University.

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