Issue 87 Contributors
Elizabeth Burk is a psychologist who divides her time between New York and southwest Louisiana. She is the author of three collections: Learning to Love Louisiana, Louisiana Purchase and Duet—Poet & Photographer, a collaboration with her photographer husband. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, Rattle, Calyx, Louisiana Literature, Passager, PANK and elsewhere.
Andrés Castro, a PEN member, is listed in Poets and Writers Directory. He keeps a personal blog, The Practicing Poet: Dialogue to Creativity, Poetry, and Liberation. He blogs at https://thepracticingpoet.edublogs.org/ .
Melissa Eleftherion is a cis queer human, a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. She is the author of field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), & ten chapbooks, including trauma suture (above/ground press, 2020), & abalone (poems-for-all, 2021). Her work has been widely published in various journals including The Berkeley Poetry Review, La Vague, & On the Seawall, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net. Born & raised in Brooklyn, Melissa created, developed, and co-curates The San Francisco State Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange with Elise Ficarra. She now lives in Northern California where she manages the Ukiah Library, curates the LOBA Reading Series, and serves as the Poet Laureate of Ukiah. Recent work is available at www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com.
Carrie George is an MFA candidate for poetry at the Northeast Ohio MFA program. She is the graduate fellow at the Wick Poetry Center where she teaches poetry workshops throughout the community. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her work has appeared in Peach Mag, Cosmonauts Avenue, The Indianapolis Review, and elsewhere.
Gigi Guizado is an actor, writer, and theatre translator from Spanish. She is the Resident Playwright at The Asylum Theatre in Las Vegas. She plays “The Boar'' in the audio drama We’re Alive: Descendants. Her micro-play, Letter to a Clone Manufacturer, has been translated into Hungarian. Her poetry has been published in The Emerson Review, Salamander Ink Magazine, The Bluebird Word, Adelaide Literary Magazine, and Poet’s Choice. Her translations have been published in Another Chicago Magazine, Asymptote Journal, and featured on Performing International Plays. Her translation of the award-winning play, The Therapist by Gabriela Yepes, is forthcoming from Inti Press. Her website is www.gigiguizado.com.
Dane Lyn s a nuerodivergent, poet, and glitter enthusiast with an MFA from Lindenwood University. Find them in L.A. with their partner, constructing blanket forts, caring for their menagerie of teens, snakes, lizards, dogs, rabbits, and cats, and ridding their shoes of beach sand. Dane’s work can be seen in Quillkeepers, Gutslut, and Imposter. @punkhippypoet is where you will find them on Instagram and Twitter. Links to all published writing found at DaneLyn.net.
Sheila McMullin is a poet, writing coach, and community herbalist. She is the author of daughterrarium from Cleveland State University Poetry Center and Advisory Board Member of CIACLA Contemporary Irish Arts Center Los Angeles. Through her love for words, herbs, and composting, she crafts handmade paper out of herbal marc, seeds, and recycled materials as an act of devotion to the natural world. She is based in Los Angeles on the traditional lands of the Chumash, Kizh and Tongva Nations. www.sheilamcmullin.com.
Tracie Nichols writes poetry and facilitates group writing experiences from under the wide reach of two old Sycamore trees in southeastern Pennsylvania. She is the co-founder of the women's writing group Embodied Writers, and a Transformative Language Artist dedicated to the potential of language to heal and transform people and communities. Her poems have been published in several anthologies.
Shelby Poulin is an English professor at a private college in Florida. Her works have appeared and are forthcoming in publications such as the Curator, the Other Journal, the Christian Century, Ekstasis Magazine, and The Windhover. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Liberty University.
Jeri Theriault’s poetry collections include Radost, my red and the award-winning In the Museum of Surrender. She is the editor of Wait: Poems from the Pandemic. Her poems and reviews have appeared in many publications, including: The Rumpus, The Texas Review, The Asheville Poetry Review, and Plume. A Fulbright recipient and three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Jeri was the third place winner of the 2020 Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize and winner of the 2019 Maine Literary Award for poetry. She lives in South Portland, Maine. www.jeritheriault.com