Issue 88 Contributors
Liz Ahl is the author of Beating the Bounds (Hobblebush Books, 2017) as well as several chapbook-length works of poetry. Individual poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in New Verse News, Limp Wrist, One Art: A Journal of Poetry, Able Muse, Lavender Review, and West Trestle Review. Her latest collection, A Case for Solace, is forthcoming in 2022 from Lily Poetry Review Books. She lives in New Hampshire.
Elena Bentley (she/her) is a disabled, bi, Métis/settler poet, writer, editor, and book reviewer from Saskatchewan, Canada. She is a Citizen of Métis Nation-Saskatchewan. She holds an MA in English from the University of Toronto. Her poetry has appeared in various journals and magazines such as Arc Poetry, The Malahat Review, Room Magazine, and PRISM international. You can find her @_elenabentley_.
Sudhanshu Chopra is a poet, wordsmith and pun-enthusiast. 31 and rootless, he is fascinated by nature and frustrated by its incomprehension. He wishes we had evolved better or not at all. It is the midway that causes Catch 22 situations, which are quite troubling, mentally and otherwise. He tweets at @artofdying_.
Jen Frantz is a college dropout from Ohio. Her poems have been published in Pinwheel and Sporklet and are forthcoming in Washington Square Review. She is currently a student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she is poetry editor of The Iowa Review.
Emily Hockaday’s first full-length collection, Naming the Ghost, will be out with Cornerstone Press in September 2022. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Starting a Life, What We Love & Will Not Give Up, Ophelia: A Botanist’s Guide, and Space on Earth. Her poems have appeared in a variety of print and online journals. You can find Emily on the web at www.emilyhockaday.com or @E_Hockaday.
Kei Vough Korede (he/they) is a bi/queer poet from Nigeria. A reader of poetry for Tyrian Ink Press, they have works published across journals including Agbowo, Ethel Zine, Rogue Agent, PANK magazine and elsewhere. He tweets humor @KayVough, and debauchery @brooklynjoybird.
Julia Lisella’s books include Always (WordTech Editions, 2014), Terrain (WordTech Editions, 2007), and a chapbook, Love Song Hiroshima (Finishing Line Press, 2004). Her poems are widely anthologized, and are forthcoming or appear in Pangyrus, Lily Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Paterson Literary Review, Mom Egg Review, Nimrod, Exit 7, Ocean State Review and others. She is a professor of English at Regis College, and co-curates the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) Reading Series in Boston. Her newest collection, Our Lively Kingdom, was named a finalist in the Lauria/Frasca poetry prize and will be published by Bordighera Press in 2022.
Natalie Eleanor Patterson is a half-Cuban femme lesbian poet and editor from Georgia with a BA in English and Creative Writing from Salem College. She is the author of the chapbook Plainhollow (dancing girl press, 2022), editor of Dream of the River (Jacar Press, 2021), and has work featured in Sinister Wisdom, Hunger Mountain, Yes Poetry, and more. She is the assistant editor of Jacar Press and an MFA candidate in poetry at Oregon State University.
Marcella Remund is from South Dakota, where she taught at the University of South Dakota. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals. Her chapbook, The Sea is My Ugly Twin, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2018. Her first full-length collection, The Book of Crooked Prayer, was published by Finishing Line in 2020. Find more info and links to her books, at www.marcellaremund.com.
Melissa Strilecki has been recently published in Gordon Square Review, Faultline, Volume Poetry, and The Shore. She lives in Seattle and is working on her first novel.