Issue 74 Contributors
From rural Michigan, Nicholas Alti is an optimistic depressive with trigeminal neuralgia, no known future career paths, and a modest criminal record. Recent poems live at Grimoire, FRiGG, Into the Void, DREGINALD, and Always Crashing. He is an assistant editor with Black Warrior Review, an MFA Candidate at UA, and grateful for your reading.
Cynthia Bargar’s poems have appeared in LUMINA, Comstock Review, Gargoyle, Driftwood Press, Sonic Boom, Stoneboat Literary Journal, and Poems2Go, among other journals. Her debut collection, Sleeping in the Dead Girl's Room, is forthcoming from Lily Poetry Review Books in 2022. She is Managing Editor of Pangyrus LitMag and lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Willa Carroll is the author of Nerve Chorus (The Word Works). Her poems have appeared in AGNI, LARB Quarterly Journal, Narrative, The Slowdown, Tin House, and elsewhere. A finalist for The Georgia Poetry Prize, she was the winner of Narrative Magazine’s Third Annual Poetry Contest and Tupelo Quarterly’s TQ7 Poetry Prize. Her poetry video and multimedia work has been featured in Interim, Narrative Outloud, TriQuarterly, Writers Resist, and other venues. She earned her MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars and lives in New York City. Find her on the internet at www.willacarroll.com.
Michael J. Carter is a poet and clinical social worker. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, he holds an MFA from Vermont College and an MSW from Smith. Poems of his have appeared in such journals as Boulevard, Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts Magazine, Western Humanities Review, among many others. He lives with his two hounds and spends his time swimming and knitting.
Kelly Fordon is an award-winning writer and teacher from Michigan. She has published a novel in stories, Garden for the Blind, (Wayne State University Press, 2015) a poetry collection, Goodbye Toothless House, (Kattywompus Press, 2019) and a short story collection, I Have the Answer (WSUP 2020), which was named a 2020 Kirkus Review Indie Next Summer Read. Find her on the internet at www.kellyfordon.com.
Hannah Karpinski is a queer writer based in Tio'tia:ke/Montreal. Her work has appeared in Bad Nudes, Lemon Hound, and Ghost City Press, among others.
In 2020-21 Arden Levine’s poems appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Cream City Review, SWWIM, Zone 3, and the anthology Dead of Winter (Milk & Cake Press). Her work has also been featured in AGNI Online, The Missouri Review Poem-of-the-Week, Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, and NPR’s Radiolab. Arden’s chapbook, Ladies’ Abecedary, is forthcoming from Harbor Editions.
Amy Poague lives in Iowa and holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in SWWIM Every Day, Figure 1, The Indianapolis Review, Riggwelter Press, Kissing Dynamite, Juke Joint, The Mantle, and others. She can be found at amypoague.wordpress.com and on Twitter @PoagueAmy.
Isaura Ren (they/she) comes to you in living color. They are the founding editor of perhappened and the author of INTERLUCENT (2020). Yell at them (nicely) on Twitter @isaurarenwrites.
Enikő Vághy is a poet whose work has been recognized by the Academy of American Poets College Prize in the graduate division. She is a PhD student in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. You can find her on Instagram @perspeheni88.