Issue 115 Contributors
Sonia Beauchamp (she/her) is a healing artist and writing coach on the North Shore of O‘ahu. Her writing often examines multiracial feminist queer identity and has appeared in Typehouse Literary Magazine, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Bamboo Ridge, and elsewhere. Find out more at http://www.soniakb.com.
Geraldine Connolly has published a chapbook and four poetry collections including Province of Fire and Aileron. She has taught at the Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland, The Chautauqua Institution and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland Arts Council, and Breadloaf Writers Conference and her work appears in many anthologies including Poetry 180: A Poem A Day for High School Students, A Constellation of Kisses and The Sonoran Desert: A Field Guide. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. Her website is www.geraldineconnolly.com.
Andrea Janelle Dickens is originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains and now lives in the Sonoran Desert, where she resides among the sunshine and saguaro cacti. Her work has appeared in New South, Ruminate, and The Wayfarer, among others. When not writing poems, she's making pottery in her ceramics studio or tending hives of bees.
Ziggy Edwards lives in Pittsburgh and edits the online zine Uppagus. Ziggy's own poems and short stories have appeared in publications such as 5 AM, Tower Poetry, Grasslimb, and Dreams & Nightmares. Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange published her first chapbook, Hope's White Shoes, in 2006.
Jennah Figueroa is full of kindness, wistfulness, and yearning—at least according to their Spotify Aura analysis, which is further affirmed by her writing. She is currently an MFA Poetry candidate at Emerson College and is a recipient of the 2024 Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize.
Lynn McGee’s forthcoming poetry collection is SCIENCE SAYS YES (Broadstone Books); others include Tracks (Broadstone Books, 2019), Sober Cooking (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016) and two prize-winning chapbooks: Heirloom Bulldog (Bright Hill Press) and Bonanza (Slapering Hol Press). Lynn McGee and José Pelauz co-authored the children's book Starting Over in Sunset Park (Tilbury House Press, 2021). Her recent work appears in Westchester Review, Slant, the anthology Braving the Body, Atlanta Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Lascaux Review and others. Her website is www.lynnmcgee.com.
Lisa Rhoades is the author of two full length collections of poetry, The Long Grass, (Saint Julian Press, 2020) and Strange Gravity, (Bright Hill Press Poetry Award Series, 2004), Currently a pediatric nurse in Manhattan, she lives on Staten Island with her spouse. Individual poems have appeared widely including in Calyx, Nimrod, Cider Press Review, Boulevard and The Southern Review.
Bailey Sims is a writer and editor from Pittsburgh, PA. She is a recent graduate from Chatham University’s MFA in Creative Writing program, where she specialized in fiction, taught first-year writing, and acted as Head Copy Editor for The Fourth River literary journal. She also runs a freelance copy editing business (baileysims.com). Her poetry has been published in Last Leaves Magazine and The Field Guide Magazine. Her fiction appears in Your Impossible Voice, and her nonfiction is published in BULL.
Allison Thung is a Singaporean poet and project manager. She is the author of Reacquaint (kith books, 2024), Molar (kith books, 2024), and Things I can only say in poems about/to an unspecified 'you' (Hem Press, 2025). Her poetry has been published in ANMLY, Heavy Feather Review, Cease, Cows, and elsewhere, and nominated for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and Best Small Fictions. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @poetrybyallison, or at www.allisonthung.com.
Donna Vorreyer is the author of Unrivered (forthcoming, 2025), To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. Her poetry, fiction, and essay work have appeared in Ploughshares, Cherry Tree, Poet Lore, Salamander, Harpur Palate, Booth, and elsewhere. She lives and creates in the Chicago area and hosts the monthly online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey.