Issue 77 Contributors
Mary Biddinger’s newest poetry collection, Department of Elegy, will be published by Black Lawrence Press in early 2022. She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Akron and NEOMFA program, and serves as poetry editor for the University of Akron Press. Learn more about her work at https://marybiddinger.com/.
Sally Brown is an artist, curator and writer currently based in Morgantown. Her artwork including drawing, painting and performance, explores womanhood, motherhood and the body. She has exhibited her work in spaces nationally and in the UK. She has won two awards for illustration for Intimates and Fools and Leaves of Absence, both with poetry by Laura Madeline Wiseman. Her writing has been published in Hyperallergic, Women's Art Journal and Artslant, among others. She has curated group shows in Omaha, Nashville, Pittsburgh and Morgantown. She holds a Bachelor of Arts-Studio Art, a Master of Public Administration and Master of Arts- Art History and Feminist Theory. She is a member of the College Art Association National Committee on Women in the Arts, edits the online journal Les Femmes Folles, and currently serves as Exhibits Coordinator for West Virginia University Libraries. Find her on the internet at sallyjanebrown.com .
Juliet Cook’s poetry has appeared in a small multitude of print and online publications. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, recently including "Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails" (The Poet's Haven, 2019), "The Rabbits with Red Eyes" (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2020) and "Histrionics Inside my Interior City" (part of Ghost City Press's 2020 Summer Micro-Chapbook Series).
Brittney Corrigan is the author of the poetry collections Breaking, Navigation and 40 Weeks. Daughters, a series of persona poems in the voices of daughters of various characters from folklore, mythology, and popular culture, is forthcoming from Airlie Press in September, 2021. Brittney was raised in Colorado and has lived in Portland, Oregon for the past three decades, where she is an alumna and employee of Reed College. She is currently at work on her first short story collection. For more information, visit http://brittneycorrigan.com/.
Martins Deep (he/him) is a budding African poet, photographer/artist, & currently a student of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. His creative works have appeared on FIYAH, Barren Magazine, The Sandy River Review, Agbowó Magazine, Surburban Review, IceFloe Press, FERAL, Black Lives Matter: Poems for a New World, Kalahari Review, & elsewhere. He loves jazz, adores Amanda Cook, and fantasizes reincarnating as an owl. He tweets @martinsdeep1 .
Andreas Fleps s a 29-year-old poet based near Chicago. He studied theology and philosophy at Dominican University, and his debut collection of poems entitled Well into the Night (via Energion Publications) was released at the end of 2020. Battling Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder since the age of five, he translates teardrops.
Audrey Gidman is a queer poet living in Maine. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in Rust + Moth, Luna Luna, SWWIM, Okay Donkey, The Inflectionist Review, Bear Review, Volume Poetry, Wax Nine, Juke Joint, perhappened, The Shore, The West Review and elsewhere. She serves as Assistant Poetry Editor for Gigantic Sequins and her chapbook, body psalms, winner of the Elyse Wolf Prize, is forthcoming from Slate Roof Press. Twitter // @audreygidman
Kara Lewis is a poet, writer, and editor based in Kansas City, Missouri. Her poems have appeared in SWWIM, Pithead Chapel, Stirring, and elsewhere. She is a weekly contributor to the Read Poetry vertical, as well as a poetry reader for Longleaf Review.
Lindsay Miller is a writer and editor whose creative writing has been published in LA Weekly, Black Heart Magazine, Cleaver, Literary Orphans, and others. She lives and works in LA, most often with her dog Dean McQueen at her feet. "Extra" is her first published poem.
Noël Bella Merriam is a Latina artist and poet from San Antonio, Texas. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Two Hawks Quarterly, Plainsongs, Cloud Women’s Quarterly, Oye Drum, Pecan Grove Review, Cactus Alley, San Antonio Poetry Anthology, and Boundless 2021: The Anthology of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival. A finalist for the 2021 Saguaro Poetry Prize, she spent many years working as an artist and poet in residence across Texas.
Nancy Huxtable Mohr’s poetry has been published in numerous journals and she has published one book, The Well (Butternut Press 2018). She is a member of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and California Teacher in the Schools. She has taught in K-12 private and public schools and the San Mateo County Women’s Jail. She has a B.S from Cornell University and a California State Teacher’s Credential as well as Independent Study at Stanford University’s Creative Writing Department. She resides in Northern California. Her work can be seen on her website: www.NancyHuxtableMohr.org.