Garin Cycholl’s recent work includes Country Musics 20/20, a collection of shorter poems on Kafka’s “Great Wall” and the 2016 Inaugural Address (Locofo Press 2017), as well as the one-act play, Ms. Liberty and Her Chastity Belt.
James Davis lives in Denver. His poetry has appeared in Gargoyle, Defenestration, Copper Nickel, Best New Poets, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. He is a 2019 Mastheads Resident, a graduate of the University of Florida's MFA program, and director of the Denver/Boulder Scrabble Club.
Henrietta Goodman is the author of All That Held Us (BkMk Press, 2018), Hungry Moon (Colorado State University, 2013), and Take What You Want (Alice James Books, 2007). Her poems in this issue are from a collaborative manuscript of dual acrostic alphabets contemplating the intersections of the human and non-human animal worlds.
Karen Holmberg is the author of two previous poetry collections, The Perseids (University of North Texas Press) and Axis Mundi (BkMk Press), which was named one of the top ten poetry titles of 2013 by Slate Magazine. My poems and nonfiction have been published in such journals as Black Warrior Review, New England Review, Poetry East, New Madrid, and At Length, among others.
Alyse Knorr is an assistant professor of English at Regis University and co-editor of Switchback Books. She is the author of three poetry collections, three poetry chapbooks, and a non-fiction book. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, The Greensboro Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others.
Varun Ravindran was born in India and lives presently in Pittsburgh.
Nicole Robinson’s poems have appeared in Connotation Press, Tahoma Literary Review, Great River Review and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an Individual Excellence Award in poetry from the Ohio Arts Council and is the Narrative Medicine Coordinator at Akron Children’s Hospital.
Laura Vrcek has an MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University. She mostly writes nonfiction essays and prose poetry about triumphant family love. Her work has appeared in Apple Valley Review, Brevity's Nonfiction Blog, Entropy Magazine, The Red Clay Review, sPARKLE & bLINK, and KQED public radio’s broadcast segment Perspectives.
