Issue 80 Contributors
Kierstin Bridger is a Colorado writer. She is author of two books: All Ember (Urban Farmhouse Press) and the the chapbook Demimonde (Lithic Press). Demimonde won the Women Writing The West's 2017 WILLA Award for poetry. She earned her MFA at Pacific University. Find her in Painted Bride Quarterly, Sugar House Review, Twenty Bellows and Prairie Schooner, and at kierstinbridger.com.
Shuly Xóchitl Cawood’s poetry collection, Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the Beginning (Mercer University Press, 2021) won the Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Sun, and Brevity, among others. Learn more at www.shulycawood.com.
Tamiko Dooley studied Latin and French at New College, Oxford. When there's no pandemic, she's hired as a wedding pianist from time to time.
Chelsea Fanning is a writer, poet, editor, feminist, witch from New Jersey. She has an MFA from Drew University and is the poetry editor at Fatal Flaw Magazine. Previous work has appeared or is forthcoming in From Whispers to Roars, OyeDrum, Mom Egg Review, Phantom Drift, Ethel Zine, They Call Us, Flora Fiction, Literary North, and Cauldron Anthology. Her poetry delves into themes of redefinition, reclamation, wholeness, muchness, womanhood, religion, identity, gender, rebirth, and regeneration.
Justin Goodman (He/They) is an Ace writer based in New Haven, CT. His work—published, among other places, in Cleaver Magazine, Prospectus, and Prairie Schooner—is accessible from justindgoodman.com.
Halsey Hyer is currently earning their MFA in Poetry from Florida International University where they teach in the Writing & Rhetoric program. They're an Editorial Assistant for Seven Kitchens Press and Associate Editor of Pittsburgh Poetry Journal. Their work can be found or is forthcoming in North American Review, Watershed Review, The Blue Nib, Santa Clara Review, Yinz Mad?, Rappahannock Review, and elsewhere.
Leah Mueller is an indie writer and spoken word performer from Bisbee, Arizona. Her most recent books, Misguided Behavior, Tales of Poor Life Choices (Czykmate Press), Death and Heartbreak (Weasel Press), and Cocktails at Denny's (Alien Buddha) were released in 2019. . Leah’s work appears in Rattle, Midway Journal, Citron Review, The Spectacle, Miracle Monocle, Outlook Springs, Atticus Review, Your Impossible Voice, and elsewhere. Visit her website at www.leahmueller.org.
Cyndie Randall’s poems appear or are forthcoming in minnesota review, DIAGRAM, Frontier Poetry, Crab Creek Review, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, and elsewhere. She works as a therapist in a small town near Lake Michigan and is also a poetry contributing editor at Barren Magazine. Find her on Twitter @CyndieRandall or at cyndierandall.com.
Louis Schnaithmann is the author of Plague Love (Moonstone Press, 2021). Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Gargoyle, Rogue Agent, and The Broadkill Review, among others. She is the consulting editor for ONE ART: a journal of poetry and lives in Philadelphia.
J.B. Stone is a neurodivergent/autistic slam poet, writer, and literary critic from Brooklyn, now residing in Buffalo, NY. He is the author of A Place Between Expired Dreams And Renewed Nightmares (Ghost City Press 2018) and INHUMAN ELEGIES (Ghost City Press 2020). He is the Editor-In-Chief/Reviews Editor at Variety Pack. His work has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Frontier Poetry, Peach Mag, Noctua Review, Maudlin House, among other places. He tweets @JB_StoneTruth.