Issue 96 Contributors
Lisa Baird (she/her) is a queer writer and community acupuncturist living on the territories of the Attawandaron/Chonnonton/Neutral peoples, which is also the treaty land of the Mississaugas of the New Credit and part of Dish with One Spoon territory (Guelph ON). Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Room Magazine Poetry Contest and longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. Her first book, Winter’s Cold Girls (Caitlin Press, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 Relit Award for poetry. Find her at www.lisabaird.ca and on Insta @eramosageese.
Nicole Callihan’s This Strange Garment will be published by Terrapin Books in 2023. Her other books include SuperLoop and the poetry chapbooks: The Deeply Flawed Human, Downtown, and ELSEWHERE (with Zoë Ryder White), as well as the novella, The Couples. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Conduit, The American Poetry Review, and as a Poem-a-Day selection from the Academy of American Poets. Find out more at www.nicolecallihan.com.
Lynne Ellis (she / they) writes in pen. Their words appear in Poetry Northwest, Sugar House Review, The Shore, Barzakh, Pontoon Poetry, and elsewhere. Winner of the Missouri Review's 2021 Perkoff Prize, and a nominee for the 2023 Pushcart Prize, Lynne believes every poem is a collaboration. More on Instagram @stagehandpoet. Ellis is co-editor at Papeachu Press, supporting the voices of women and nonbinary creators.
Sarah Esmi (she/her) is an Iranian-American mother, writer, collage artist and lawyer. Her writing has been published in Calyx, Dime Show Review, The Rising Phoenix Review, The San Pedro River Review, Soundings East, and Papeachu Press, and produced at venues such as Dixon Place and Abrons Arts Center. After receiving a Fulbright award, she dedicated seven years to public interest law, including representing clients in immigration court, on death row in Louisiana, in Brooklyn criminal court, and later in psychiatric units throughout New York City. Sarah is co-founder of counterclaim and currently leads the More Art fellowship program, for which she offers writing workshops, open studios and moderation of artist talks to public and socially engaged artists. Guest speaking credits include NYU and CUNY.
Jaime Jacques is an itinerant writer who currently calls the east coast of Canada home. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Birdcoat Quarterly, Cagibi, Anti-Heroin Chic, Brazos River Review and others. She is the author of Moon El Salvador and her reporting and travel writing can be found in Salon, NPR, Narratively, and Roads and Kingdoms among others. Find her on Instagram @calamity__jaime.
Alison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer, nonbinary, mixed-race femme whose life work (aside from wordsmithing) has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices, and sometimes even poetry, to young people. Their work has been nominated for both the Pushcart & Best of the Net, and they’re the author four chapbooks: Philosophers Know Nothing About Love (Thirty West Publishing House, 2022), queer feast (Bottlecap Press, 2022), sweet euphemism (CLASH!, 2023), and It Skips a Generation (Stanchion, 2023). You can find out more at http://www.alisonlubar.com/ or on Twitter @theoriginalison.
Marilyn McCabe’s poetry has won awards through A Room of Her Own Foundation, The Word Works, Grayson Books, the NYS Council on the Arts, and Adirondack Center for Writing. Her books of poems include Perpetual Motion and Glass Factory, and chapbooks Rugged Means of Grace and Being Many Seeds. Poems and videopoetry have been published in print and online, and videopoems have appeared in festivals and galleries. She blogs about writing and reading at Owrite:marilynonaroll.wordpress.com.
Sam Moe is the first-place winner of Invisible City’s Blurred Genres contest in 2022, and the 2021 recipient of an Author Fellowship from Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Her first chapbook, “Heart Weeds,” is out from Alien Buddha Press and her second chapbook, “Grief Birds,” is forthcoming from Bullshit Lit in April 2023. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram as @SamAnneMoe.
William Palmer’s poetry has appeared recently in Braided Way, Innisfree, JAMA, J Journal, One Art, On the Seawall, and Poetry East. He has published two chapbooks: A String of Blue Lights, and Humble. A retired professor of English at Alma College, he lives in Traverse City, Michigan.
Ian Schoultz’s poems have appeared in Wild Roof Journal, Vagabond City, Autofocus, New Note Poetry, FEED, Dream Pop, Landlocked, and other journals. He holds an MFA in Poetry from Louisiana State University and teaches writing at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.