Issue 119 Contributors
Elisa A. Garza is a poet, editor, and former writing teacher. Her full-length collection Regalos (Lamar University Literary Press) was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Elisa’s chapbooks include Between the Light / entre la claridad, and The Body, Cancerous, forthcoming in 2025 (both from Mouthfeel Press). Her poems have recently appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Ars Medica, and Huizache and one is currently on exhibit at The Health Museum in Houston.
Kim Jensen is a Baltimore-based poet, professor, and translator whose books include The Woman I Left Behind, Bread Alone, and The Only Thing That Matters. Active in transnational social justice movements for decades, Kim’s writings appear in Gulf Coast, MQR, Anthropocene, Boulevard, Modern Poetry in Translation, Transition, Anomaly, Extraordinary Rendition: Writers Speak Out on Palestine, Gaza Unsilenced, Bomb Magazine, and Electronic Intifada, among many others. In 2001, she won the Raymond Carver Award for short fiction.
Lauren Kalstad is a poet, essayist, and author of the children's book, To the Stars in Bumper Cars. Her poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Orchards Poetry Journal, Thimble Literary Magazine, Edible, and World Literature Today. Recently, she was a semifinalist for the Crab Creek Poetry Prize. She received her MFA from New York University and currently teaches at the University of North Texas. She lives in Dallas with her husband, daughter, and dog.
Haley Jinju Marks is a third-year English major at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work appears elsewhere in Sky Island Journal, Blue Marble Review, and Writopia.
Khadijah Queen, PhD, is the author of six books of poetry and hybrid prose, most recently Anodyne (Tin House 2020). Individual works appear in American Poetry Review, Harper’s Magazine, The Poetry Review (UK) and widely elsewhere. Radical Poetics: Essays on Literature and Culture (University of Michigan Press), will appear in January 2025.
Andrea Maxine Recto is a Spanish-Filipino poet living in Manila whose work explores the intricacies of womanhood, grief, love, darkness, and introspection. Her poetry has been featured in One Art: a journal of poetry, Rust & Moth, the Santa Clara Review, the Red Eft Review, and elsewhere, with more forthcoming in the Heimat Review and other places. When she's not writing, you can find her reading love letters in Spanish. She's on Instagram @itsandreamaxine.
Lindsey Schaffer is the author of City of Contradiction (Selcouth Station) and Witch City (dancing girl press). Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Minnesota Review, Superstition Review, Reservoir Road Literary Review, and elsewhere. Lindsey has received scholarships and fellowships from the Indiana Writers Workshop, AWP, the City of Bloomington, and the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University.
V Shank writes, teaches, and velomobiles in Central New York. Their work has appeared in a handful of journals.
Crystal Taylor (she/her) is a poet from Texas. Some recent and upcoming work lives in Rust & Moth, ONE ART, Ghost City Review, Book of Matches, and other sacred spaces. She is active on Twitter/X and BSky Social @CrystalTaylorSA and Instagram under cj_taylor_writes.
Jessica Dawn Zinz is an Ohio writer, artist, and professor. She has a Creative Writing MFA and teaches at Bowling Green State University. Her work, including visual poetry, has been recently published in Diode Poetry Journal, Feral, TAB Journal, ctrl+v journal, and others. Her poetry has been anthologized in Driftwood 2024 Anthology. She is currently working on visual poetry, collage poetry, and other hybrid writing and art related to aging, pregnancy, motherhood, and marriage. Find her on Instagram @jessicadawnzinzart.