Issue 112 Contributors
Sarah Browning is the author of Killing Summer (Sibling Rivalry) and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The Word Works). Co-founder and past Executive Director of Split This Rock, the poetry and social justice organization, she now teaches with Writers in Progress. Browning received the Lillian E. Smith Award and fellowships from DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, VCCA, Yaddo, Porches, and Mesa Refuge. She holds an MFA in poetry and creative nonfiction from Rutgers Camden and lives in Philadelphia. More at www.sarahbrowning.net.
Aimee Bungard is an artist living and working in the hills of Appalachia just outside Pittsburgh with her guitar player husband, 3 freerange children, 2 Suessian mutts and 1 perfect Torti kitty. She considers Giacometti, Vincent, Frida, Hilma Af Klint, Tascha Tudor, Bukowski, Dylan, Townes Van Zandt and RamDass to be of the highest inspiration.
Eric Cline is a poet. His chapbooks include his strange boy eve (Yellow Chair Press, 2016), something farther across the ocean (Throwback Books, 2017), cicada shell: life in a queer body (Tenderness Lit, 2018), and The Temporary (forthcoming from Glass Lyre Press). A more extensive bibliography can be found at https://ericclinepoet.neocities.org/.
Will Cordeiro has work published or forthcoming in 32 Poems, AGNI, Bennington Review, Penn Review, Pleiades, and The Threepenny Review. Will won the 2019 Able Muse Book Award for Trap Street. Will is also coauthor of Experimental Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2024). Will received an MFA and Ph.D. from Cornell University, coedits Eggtooth Editions, and currently lives in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Casey L. Ford is director of the Lamar University Writing Center in Beaumont, Texas, where she has also taught first-year composition and creative writing since 2015. She recently earned an MFA from Fairfield University, and her poems have been published in Delta Poetry Review, Ocotillo Review, Amarillo Review, Concho River Review, and Last Stanza Poetry Journal, the latter of which honored her with a 2022 Pushcart Prize nomination.
Elizabeth Galoozis’s debut full-length collection, Law of the Letter, won the Hillary Gravendyk Prize from the Inlandia Institute and will come out in 2025. Her poems have appeared in Air/Light, Pidgeonholes, RHINO, Witness, Sinister Wisdom, and elsewhere. She serves as a reader for The Maine Review and Abandon Journal, and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and for Best of the Net. Elizabeth was selected by Claire Wahmanholm for AWP's Writer to Writer Program in 2022. She works as a librarian and lives in southern California. Elizabeth can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @thisamericanliz, and at her website https://elizabethgaloozis.wordpress.com/.
Margaret Anne Kean received her BA in British/American Literature from Scripps College and her MFA from Antioch University/Los Angeles. Her chapbook collection, Cleaving the Clouds, was published by Kelsay Books in 2023. Her work has appeared in various journals including Eunoia Review, San Antonio Review, EcoTheo Review, Anti-Heroin Chic and Tupelo Quarterly.
Meredith Kirkwood lives and writes in the Lents neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Variant Literature, ONE ART, The Atlanta Review, The Eastern Iowa Review, Right Hand Pointing, and others. In addition to poetry, she also writes children’s books about lemurs. She holds an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and teaches writing and literature at Clark College. Find her on the web at www.meredithkirkwood.net.
Anoushka Kumar (she/her) is a student and writer from India, with work forthcoming or published in Poetry Northwest, DIALOGIST, Jet Fuel Review, and elsewhere. She likes wood-panelled flooring and Phoebe Bridgers, and serves as a poetry reader for Variant Literature. Find more of her at anoushkakumar.carrd.co.
Marilyn McCabe’s collections of poems include Being Many Seeds, Glass Factory, Perpetual Motion and Rugged Means of Grace. Videopoems have appeared in festivals/galleries. She talks about writing at Owrite: marilynonaroll.wordpress.com and the podcast Whirled Through a Poem's Eye.
Jennifer Saunders is the author of Self-Portrait with Housewife (Tebot Bach, 2019) and co-editor of Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation (Querencia Press, 2023). Jennifer is a Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Orison Anthology nominee whose work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Ninth Letter, Poet Lore, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. Jennifer lives in German-speaking Switzerland and teaches skating in a hockey school.