Issue 97 Contributors
J. Angel Aparicio is an undergraduate Creative Writing student at Stockton University and is simultaneously pursuing a minor in Visual Arts. They are a non-binary queer artist located in South Jersey. When they are not writing or creating art, you can find them wandering around looking for obscure treasures to add to their collection of curious objects. They are just beginning to send work out for publication. [You can find them on Instagram @astro.cutie and on Twitter @astr0cutie]
Cayenne Bradley is a writer and artist living on the unceded territory of the Lkwungen peoples in Victoria, BC. They won first place in Event’s 2021 Nonfiction Contest and Room’s 2020 Short Forms Contest, and were a finalist for CBC Books’ 2022 Nonfiction Prize. Their work can be found in publications such as Contemporary Verse 2, Plenitude, and the Temz Review. They have a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia.
Anna Gayle is a poet still trying to decide where she is from. She is an MFA candidate at Oregon State University whose work has appeared in The Mantle, Thimble Lit Magazine, Empty House Press, Identity Theory, and The Roadrunner Review. Anna writes about black womanhood, collective femininity, and chronic illness. Most of her free time is spent baking, painting, and FaceTiming her niece.
Raza Ijaz is a writer based in Lahore, Pakistan. His poems have appeared in The Aleph Review, The Collidescope, and Clade Song.
Merie Kirby grew up in California and now lives in North Dakota. She teaches at the University of North Dakota. She is the author of two chapbooks, The Dog Runs On and The Thumbelina Poems. Her poems have been published in Mom Egg Review, Whale Road Review, SWWIM, FERAL, Strange Horizons, and other journals. You can find her online at www.meriekirby.com.
Stefanie Kirby is a poet residing along Colorado’s Front Range. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and appears in Passages North, Portland Review, QWERTY, Pidgeonholes, DIALOGIST, and elsewhere.
Cameron Morse (he, him) is Senior Reviews editor at Harbor Review and the author of eight collections of poetry. His first collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. His book of unrhymed sonnets, Sonnetizer, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books. He holds an MFA from the University of Kansas City-Missouri and lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife and three children. For more information, check out his Facebook page or website.
Gretchen Rockwell is a queer poet who can frequently be found writing about gender, science, space, and unusual connections. Xe is the author of the chapbooks body in motion (perhappened press) and Lexicon of Future Selves (VA Press) and two microchapbooks; xer work has appeared in AGNI, Cotton Xenomorph, Whale Road Review, Palette Poetry, and elsewhere. Find xer at www.gretchenrockwell.com or on Twitter and Instagram at @daft_rockwell.
Bracha K. Sharp was published in the American Poetry Review, the Birmingham Arts Journal, Sky Island Journal, ONE ART: a journal of poetry, and Wild Roof Journal, among others. She placed first in the national Hackney Literary Awards, was a finalist in the New Millennium Writings Poetry Awards and received a 2019 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards Silver Medal for her debut picture book. She is a current reader for the Baltimore Review. www.brachaksharp.com
Anna Swanson is a queer writer and librarian living in St. John’s, NL/Ktaqmkuk. Her writing is interested in themes of chronic illness, concussion, embodiment, queerness, and survival joy. Her first book, The Nights Also, won the Gerald Lampert Award and a Lambda Literary Award. Her writing appears in various journals and anthologies including Impact: Women Writing After Concussion and Best Canadian Poetry. She is a poetry editor with Riddle Fence, and loves wild swimming in all seasons.