POETS
Bay Area native and poet, Marissa Ahmadkhani (Recurrence) holds an M.A. in English from Cal Poly SLO. Her work has been published in Southern Indiana Review, the minnesota review, Radar Poetry, The West Review, and poets.org, where she received the Academy of American Poets Prize in 2015 and 2017. Currently, she is pursuing an M.F.A. at the University of California, Irvine. Learn more at mahmadkhani.com.
Lauren Camp (Order) is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Took House (Tupelo Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Witness, and other journals. Winner of the Dorset Prize, Lauren has also received fellowships from The Black Earth Institute and The Taft-Nicholson Center, and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, the Housatonic Book Award, and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. Learn more at laurencamp.com.
Patrick Deeley (Unscheduled Stop) is a poet, memoirist and children’s writer from Galway. His seventh collection, The End of the World, recently appeared from Dedalus Press. He is the 2019 recipient of the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award. His best-selling memoir, The Hurley-Maker’s Son, was shortlisted for the 2016 Irish Book of the Year Awards.
Dante DiStefano (High Water) is the author of Ill Angels (Etruscan Press, 2019) and Love Is a Stone Endlessly in Flight (Brighthorse Books, 2016). His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in American Life in Poetry, Best American Poetry 2018, Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, The Sewanee Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere.Along with María Isabel Álvarez, he co-edited the anthology Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump’s America (NYQ Books, 2018). He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Binghamton University and is the poetry editor for DIALOGIST.
Sarah Dravec (The Bird In The Ambulance) is a graduate of the NEOMFA. She has been awarded a University and College Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and her work has appeared in Gold Wake Live, jubilat, Pinwheel, and others. Sarah lives in Northeast Ohio with her wife.
Maggie Graber's (Self-Portrait As Hammer) poems have appeared or are forthcoming in BOAAT, The Louisville Review, Yemassee, The Adroit Journal, Southern Indiana Review, RHINO, Hobart, Nashville Review, and elsewhere. Originally from the Midwest, in the fall of 2020, she'll be attending the University of Mississippi as a Ph.D. student in creative writing. Find her online at maggiegraber.com.
Strummer Hoffston (Untitled) is a poet living in New York City. She received her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Fence, Salt Hill, and Epiphany, where she was winner of the Epiphany Magazine Emerging Writers Contest judged by Vijay Seshadri. Learn more at strummerhoffston.com.
Jen Jabaily-Blackburn (Love Poem for Seven Starlings) lives with her family in Western Massachusetts, where she works for the Poetry Center at Smith College. Twice named to Best New Poets (2014, 2016), her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Indiana Review, cream city review, Rattle, Subtropics, The Common, Banshee Lit, Bear Review, and Massachusetts Review, among others.
Author of two poetry collections, Any God Will Do and The End of Spectacle (Carnegie Mellon, 2018 and 2020); a collection of short stories, Anatomical Gift (Noctuary Press, 2017); and four chapbooks, as well as coeditor (with Sarah Giragosian) of Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (University of Akron Press, 2022), Virginia Konchan’s (Hard Night) creative and critical work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Believer, Boston Review, and elsewhere. Learn more at virginiakonchan.com.
Peter Leight (The Problem With Patience) lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has previously published poems in Paris Review, AGNI, Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, FIELD, Matter, and other magazines.
Martha McCollough (Like This, Like That) lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. She has an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Pangyrus, Tammy, Tampa Review, and Salamander, among others. Her chapbook, Grandmother Mountain, was published by Blue Lyra Press in October 2019. You can see more poems, as well as videos, at marthamcc.net. For collages, random nature photos, and occasional cats, follow her on Instagram @marthamccollough.
Caely McHale (The Rabbit Loses His Outline) is a poet from Northern Virginia. She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from George Mason University, where she was awarded the Heritage Fellowship in Poetry. Her poetry strives to be lush, tactile, and environmentally aware. You can find her work in the Heavy Feather Review and BlazeVOX, among other publications.
Jessica Morey-Collins (Selves, Here, Are Irrelevant) is a poet and city planner. She earned her MFA at the University of New Orleans, and her MCRP at the University of Oregon. Her poems can be found in Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Sycamore Review, and elsewhere.
Visual Artists
Michael Boehnker (Untiled, 2017) is a visual artist living in Southern California. He received a B.F.A. studying Photography at San Jose State University and practices freelance illustration. His photographic and illustrated work explores the complex and blurry boundaries between natural and constructed systems. Learn more at michaelboehnker.com or follow him on Instagram: @photosforbugs and @ahouseforbugs.
Fine artist, illustrator, and graphic designer Danielle Kerese (The Bird In The Ambulance) lives in St. Petersburg, FL, with her husband, cat, and chihuahua. Danielle has been working in the graphic arts field since 2000. Learn more at kerese.design.
Honour Mack (Clitoria Ternatea) resides, teaches, and maintains a studio practice in Portland, Maine. She has exhibited her work in New Englandand in various venues across the United States, including The Center for Maine Contemporary, Colby College, and Pacific Northwest College of Art. Mack has received Fellowships to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Vermont Studio Colony, and Chautauqua Institution. She graduated from Skidmore College and Yale University School of Art. Honour is currently a Professor and Program Chair for the Painting Department at Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine. Learn more at honourmack.com.
Karyna McGlynn (By The Light Of Hectate) is a writer and collagist living in Memphis, TN. She is the author of four books of poetry, including, most recently, Hothouse, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice. The recipient of the 2020 Rumi Prize in Poetry from Arts & Letters, her poems have recently appeared in The Kenyon Review, Poet Lore, Ninth Letter, Georgia Review, New England Review, and The Academy of American Poet’s Poem-A-Day. Karyna is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Christian Brothers University. With Erika Jo Brown, she's currently co-editing the anthology Clever Girl: Witty Poetry by Women. Find her at www.karyna.io or on Instagram and Twitter: @karynamcglynn.
Rebecca McHale (Untitled, 2020) is an artist from Northern Virginia. She graduated in 2019 from the College of William and Mary, where she was the artistic director of Rocket Magazine. Rebecca recently returned from serving with the Peace Corps in Kyrgyzstan.
Gail Spaien (Cover Art) has been the recipient of numerous fellowships including the Varda Artist Residency Program, Millay Colony for the Arts, the Djerassi Foundation Resident Artists Program, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has received grant funding from the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Artist Advancement Grant, and the Maine Arts Commission. Her solo and group exhibitions include the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME; Nancy Margolis Gallery, NY; the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento,CA; the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; and Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME. A Professor in the MFA program at the Maine College of Art, Spaien received her BFA from the University of Southern Maine and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Crossing two generations, Spaien was born at the tail-end of the Baby Boomer decades, raised by parents who grew up in the 50’s. Both generations reached for idealist paradigms in different ways and shaped her ongoing inquiry into ideas about place, utopia, and how to give form to life’s poetry and paradox. Learn more at gailspaien.com.
Don Stahl (Death Valley) is a fine art and portrait photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more at donstahl.com.
Isaac Fletcher Weiss (Metal 2) hails from the countryside near the California High Sierra. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Long Beach State University and his Master of Fine Arts from Portland State University. His work is grounded in classic observational drawing and sculpture, and explores contemporary boundaries of the urban-natural space. His work has been shown internationally in the U.K., Italy, and the United States. Find him on Instagram: @isaacfletcherweissdidthis.
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