Issue 116 Contributors
Kris Becker lives and writes in Port Townsend, Washington. An alumna of Willamette University, she also holds an MFA from Syracuse University. Her poems and translations have appeared in Terrain.org, The Madrona Project, Calyx, Willow Springs, Two Lines, and elsewhere.
Jay Brecker walks and writes in southern California. His poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Dialogist, Panoply, Poor Yorick, Sonora Review, The MacGuffin, Rattle Poets Respond, Birdcoat Quarterly, The Shore, Permafrost, Lily Poetry Review, Ocean State Review, RHINO Poetry, and elsewhere. His manuscript, blue collar eclogue was awarded the 2024 Marsh Hawk Press Rochelle Ratner Prize.
Juliet Cook’s poetry has appeared in many print and online publications. She's the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, recently including red flames burning out (Grey Book Press, 2023), Contorted Doom Conveyor (Gutter Snob Books, 2023), and Your Mouth is Moving Backwards (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, 2023). Another new one, REVOLTING, is forthcoming from Cul-de-sac of Blood in fall 2024. Her most recent full-length book, Malformed Confetti was published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2018.
Gillian Cummings has previously published a poem in Rogue Agent. She is the author of two books of poetry, The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter (CLP at Colorado State University, 2018) and My Dim Aviary (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). She lives in Catskill, New York. You can find out more about her at: https://gilliancummingspoet.com.
J.I. Kleinberg lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and on Instagram @jikleinberg. An artist, poet, and freelance writer, her poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide. Chapbooks of her visual poems, How to pronounce the wind (Paper View Books) and Desire’s Authority (Ravenna Press Triple Series No. 23), were published in 2023; She needs the river (Poem Atlas) was published in 2024.
Lea Marshall’s poetry is forthcoming in The Ecopoetry Anthology Volume III, and has appeared in Cider Press Review, Rust & Moth, A-Minor, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Diode, Thrush, and elsewhere. Her first collection, The Slow Hammer of Roots, is forthcoming from Broadstone Books in 2025. She lives in Virginia.
Nina Richard is a queer, POC graduate student and a writer. Living in Knoxville, Tennessee, Nina spends nights working on her craft so in the day she can take her beloved naps. Nina has a publication in orange juice.
Susanna Rich is an Emmy nominee, Fulbright Fellow, and Distinguished Professor of English at Kean University (NJ). As founding producer of Wild Nights Productions, LLC, she tours her musical Shakespeare’s *itches: The Women v. Will, and Shout! Poetry for Suffrage. “Losing my Hands,” appears in Still Hungary, her manuscript about her immigrant family. Susanna is author of five poetry collections, most recently Beware the House. Visit at www.wildnightsproductions.com.
Amanda Rosas is a mother, poet and teacher originally from San Antonio. She draws strength and creativity from her Mexican roots, and from her husband and three daughters. Her poetry and essays have been published by The Latino Book Review, Calyx, Anti-Heroin Chic and The San Antonio Review, among others. She served as a 2023-2024 Voices of Change Writing Fellow with Edsurge, an online news and research platform dedicated to giving voice and story to teachers and education.
Sibani Sen’s poetry has appeared in a variety of publications including Saranac Review, Off the Coast, J Journal, Tampa Review, and SWWIM. She has done collaborative projects at the Harvard Hutchins Center, the Concord Museum, the Beacon Street Arts Studios in Somerville, the former Green Street Studio in Cambridge, and at the Public Theater in NYC. Current projects based on migration, feminism and the pre-modern poet Bharatchandra are forthcoming.
Glenn Taylor is the author of There Isn't Enough Dark in a Room (Red Flag Poetry, 2019). His work has most recently appeared in The Laurel Review; Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose; and The McNeese Review. He lives in the metro Detroit area and writes the owner’s manual in your glove compartment or on your head unit that you never read; he judges you because of this.