POETS
Jacqueline Berger (Website) is the author of four books of poetry, including The Day You Miss Your Exit, published by Broadstone Books in 2018, and The Gift That Arrives Broken, winner of the 2010 Autumn House Poetry Prize. Selected poems have been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writers Almanac. She is a professor emerita of English at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California.
Alecia Beymer is an Assistant Professor - Educator in the English Department at the University of Cincinnati. Her poems have been published in Bellevue Literary Review, The Inflectionist Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, and Sugar House Review. Her research is focused on literacies formed by space and place, considerations of the interconnected resonances of teachers and students, and the poetics of education.
Rivka Clifton (Website, Twitter, Instagram) is the author of Muzzle (forthcoming JackLeg Press) and the chapbooks MOT and Agape (from Osmanthus Press). They have work in: Pleiades, Guernica, Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Colorado Review, The Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, and other magazines. Being trans is the least exciting thing about them.
Luke Eldredge (Instagram) holds an MFA from Colorado State University where he received the Crow-Tremblay Poetry Fellowship. His work is forthcoming in Spoon River Poetry Review, the Concrete Desert Review, Figure 1, and elsewhere. He has worked on the Colorado Review as well as the Colorado Prize for Poetry. He lives in the Colorado Rockies with his wife and dog.
Stephen Lackaye’s (Website, Twitter) collection, Self-Portrait in Dystopian Landscape, won the Unicorn Press Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and Eric Hoffer Prize. Recent poems have appeared in Southern Review, Southern Indiana Review, The Shore, One Art, and Los Angeles Review. Stephen lives with his family in Oregon, where he works as a bookseller.
Lisa Lewis (Website, Twitter) has published eight collections of poetry, most recently Taxonomy of the Missing (WordWorks, 2018) and a chapbook, The Borrowing Days (Emrys, 2021). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in National Poetry Review, Cream City Review, Puerto del Sol, Southern Florida Poetry Journal, Florida Review, Isele, Diode, and elsewhere. She directs the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University and serves as editor of the Cimarron Review.
Carlos A. Pittella (he/him) (Website, Twitter) is a Latinx poet & the recipient of a Frontier 2022 Global Poetry Prize. Born on traditional lands of the Tupi, Guarani, & Goitacá (Rio de Janeiro), he lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. His writing is haunted by borders, having recently appeared in Frontier, Acentos, HAD, & Jacket2.
Phoebe Reeves (Website, Twitter, Instagram) earned her MFA in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and now is Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. She has three chapbooks of poetry, most recently The Flame of Her Will (Milk & Cake), and her first full length collection, Helen of Bikini (Lily Poetry Review) was published in March, 2023. Her poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Best New Poets, Grist, Forklift OH, and The Chattahoochee Review, and she has been awarded fellowships by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Cincinnati, OH with her husband Don Peteroy, amidst her unruly urban garden.
Liz Robbins’ (Website, Instagram) fourth full-length collection, Night Swimming, won the 2023 Cold Mountain Press Annual Book Contest. Her collaborative chapbook on mental health, Fire Carousel (with three poets and a photographer), is newly out from Main Street Rag Press (2023). Her third collection, Freaked, won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award, judged by Bruce Bond; her second collection, Play Button, won the Cider Press Review Book Award, judged by Patricia Smith. Her first collection is Hope, As the World Is a Scorpion Fish (U Nebraska), and her chapbook, Girls Turned Like Dials, won the 8th Annual YellowJacket Press Prize.
Lindsay Rockwell is poet-in-residence for the Episcopal Church of Connecticut and hosts their Poetry and Social Justice Dialogue series. She’s recently published, or forthcoming, in CALYX, EcoTheo Review, Gargoyle, River Heron Review, among others. Her first collection, GHOST FIRES, was published by Main Street Rag, April 2023. She has received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center and Edith Wharton/The Mount residency. Lindsay holds a Master of Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of Arts and is an oncologist.
Molly Tenenbaum’s (Website) recent books include The Arborists (MoonPath, 2023), Mytheria (Two Sylvias, 2017), The Cupboard Artist (Floating Bridge, 2012), and the artist book, Exercises to Free the Tongue. Her banjo recordings are Instead of a Pony and Goose & Gander. She lives in Seattle, having taught writing at North Seattle College, and currently teaching music in the backyard and at Dusty Strings Music School.
Theodora Ziolkowski (Website) is the author of On the Rocks, winner of a 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Award, and Mother Tongues. She teaches creative writing as an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Visual Artists
David Boyle (Artist Website, Instagram) has painted many oil paintings since the mid-nineties which have sold well in Wellington, Palmerston Nth and has sold sculptures from Hastings City Gallery, New Zealand.
Kiley Brockway is an obsessive storyteller, and that is displayed through her work. Capturing images that demand an audiences attention and teases their imagination is always her goal. It is her belief that even the simplest of stories are begging to be told, and it is up to the artist to make the ordinary extraordinary. More of her work can be found @kileypluscamera on Instagram.
Adam Dahlstrom (Artist Website) is from West Michigan and lives in Muskegon with his partner, 3 daughters, 2 cats, and a dog. He studied at Columbia College (Chicago), Kingston University (Kingston-upon-Thames, England), and received his BFA in printmaking from Grand Valley State University. He has lived and worked mainly in West Michigan with time spent in Chicago, London, New Haven (CT), and two years in New York City. He has exhibited frequently in West Michigan, as well as multiple shows in NYC. Adam has collaborated with multiple New York artists on projects, including an exceptionally brilliant series of drawings done with NY artist Dov Talpaz depicting scenes from some of their favorite books, Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck, The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien and Dune by Frank Herbert. His work is included in many private collections both in West Michigan and New York City. See more of his work @ adamdahlstrom.com.
Armando Jaramillo Garcia (Instagram) is a Colombian-American artist. He’s the author of The Portable Man, published by Prelude Books. His visual work has been exhibited at Westbeth Gallery and Transcender.
Jim Ross jumped into creative pursuits in 2015 after a rewarding career in public health research. With graduate degree from Howard University, in eight years he's published nonfiction, fiction, poetry, photography, hybrid, interviews, and plays in nearly 200 journals on five continents. Photo publications include Barnstorm, Bombay Gin, Blood Orange, Burningword, Camas, Columbia Journal, DASH, Ellipsis, Feral, Marathon, Memoryhouse, Phoebe, SPRR, Saw Palm, Stoneboat, Stonecoast, The Ignatian, Typehouse, UU World, and Whitefish, with Allegory Spoon, Glassworks, and Peatsmoke forthcoming. Photo-essays include Amsterdam Quarterly, Barren, DASH, Friends Journal, Kestrel, Ilanot Review, Litro, NWW, Paperbark, Slant, Sweet, Typehouse, and Wordpeace, with Pilgrimage Magazine forthcoming. He recently wrote and acted in a one-act play and appeared in a documentary limited series, I Sniper, broadcast internationally. Jim and his wife—parents of two nurses and grandparents of five little ones—split time between city and mountains.
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