Issue 90 Contributors
Laura Goldin is a publishing lawyer in New York. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in One Art, Club Plum, Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag, Tiny Wren, Blue Heron Review, and Driftwood.
Jen Gayda Gupta is currently on the run from responsibility, living nowhere at all with her husband and their dog. She enjoys big mountains and tiny spoons. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Dodging the Rain, Jellyfish Review, Sky Island Journal, The Shore, Wrongdoing and others. You can find her @jengaydagupta and jengaydagupta.com.
Originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Hilary King is a Pushcart-nominated and Best of the Web-nominated poet now living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Her poems have appeared in TAB, Salamander, Minerva Rising, Belletrist, Fourth River, The Cortland Review, SWIMM, and other publications.
Victoria Lau is currently working on her MFA degree at Lindenwood University. She was 3rd place poetry winner for the Random House Creative Writing Competition in 2013. Her work has also been published in The Olivetree Review. She was also the 1st place winner for the Nancy Dean Medieval Prize in 2020. She is a poetry reader for GASHER Journal and one of the marketing coordinators for The Adroit Journal. She has taught poetry at Sadie Nash Summer Institute. She is a writing assistant at the Borough of Manhattan Community College Writing Center and an adjunct English lecturer at Queens College.
Seattle poet Susan Rich is the author of five poetry books, including Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry). Also, Cloud Pharmacy (shortlisted for the Julie Suk Prize), Alchemist’s Kitchen (Finalist for the Washington State Book Award) Cures Include Travel and The Cartographer's Tongue (PEN USA Winner). She has earned a Fulbright Fellowship, and the Times (of London) Literary Supplement Award. Prior publications include: the Harvard Review, New England Review, and World Literature Today. Her 6th collection, Blue Atlas is forthcoming from Red Hen Press.
Sunday T. Saheed is the author of Rewrite The Stars, a recipient of the Nigerian Prize for Teen Authors award, 2021, is a 17 year old poet and reviewer. He has his works published/forthcoming in Rough Cut Press, Brittle Paper, Salamander Ink, Aster Lit, Lumiere Review and elsewhere. You can reach on Instagram @poetsundaysaheed.
Abdulrazaq Salihu is a Nigerian 17 year old poet, spoken word artist, and writer. He was the winner of most valuable contestant (male) at HIASFEST 2021, first runner up for spoken poetry and second runner up for on the spot poetry contest. He is a member of the hilltop creative arts foundation and also an organizer of HIASFEST (The biggest teen literary event in Africa). He has some of his poems published/upcoming in SHAGAZ anthology; an Indian Anthology that won fastest compiled anthology, Konya Shamsrumi magazine, Christmas tide, Waah re kisan, stories from the heart, Amulet poetry magazine, Icefloe magazine, and more.
Hannah Siden is a writer and filmmaker living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, BC). She can be found on Twitter @hannah_siden or at https://www.hannahsiden.com.
Sarah Stockton is the Editor-in-Chief of River Mouth Review. Her own poems can be found in EcoTheo Review, About Place Journal, and Crab Creek Review among many others, and she is the author of the chapbooks Time's Apprentice (dancing girl press, fall 2021) and Castaway (Glass Lyre Press, Fall 2022). Sarah lives in the Pacific Northwest, by the Salish Sea.
Jen Yáñez-Alaniz iis a Texas-based Chicana poet and activist. She is the co-creator of Loving, Grieving, & Surviving /Chicanas Read the Poetry of Healing and her work, “Matrilineal Poetics: Toward an Understanding of Corporeality and Identity” was featured in Latinas in Hollywood Herstories. Her latest and forthcoming publications are included in The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century, Mom Egg Review, I Sing: The Body, and more.