Issue 102 Contributors
Yael Valencia Aldana is a Caribbean Afro-Latinx writer and poet. She is a descendant of the indigenous people of modern-day Colombia. She is the author of the chapbook, Alien(s). Her work has also appeared or is upcoming in Stone Coast Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, and Cutbank Literary Journal, among others. She teaches creative writing in South Florida, where she lives with her son and too many pets. You can find her online at YaelAldana.com.
Lorelei Bacht (she/they) is a middle-ageing embodiment, currently located in Asia. Their recent writing has appeared and/or is forthcoming in Feral, Anti-Heroin Chic, Sinking City, SWWIM, Corporeal, Barrelhouse, Hecate, and elsewhere. They are also on Instagram: @lorelei.bacht.writer and on Twitter @bachtlorelei .
Anne Champion is the author of She Saints & Holy Profanities (Quarterly West, 2019), The Good Girl is Always a Ghost (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), Book of Levitations (Trembling Pillow Press, 2019), Reluctant Mistress (Gold Wake Press, 2013), and The Dark Length Home (Noctuary Press, 2017). Her work appears in Verse Daily, diode, Tupelo Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, Salamander, New South, Redivider, PANK Magazine, and elsewhere. She was a 2009 Academy of American Poets Prize recipient, a 2016 Best of the Net winner, and a Barbara Deming Memorial Grant recipient.
Jillian Clasky is a writer from Toronto. She currently lives in Ottawa, where she is studying English and creative writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as PRISM international, Rust & Moth, and Vagabond City.
Fox Henry Frazier is the author of The Hydromantic Histories, Raven King, and several other collections. She created and co-runs the literary press Agape Editions, the arts & lit magazine Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself, and the Favorite Poems reading series. Fox holds a PhD from the University of Southern California and an MFA from Columbia University. She lives in upstate New York. Instagram: @chansondemelusine .
Vanessa Couto Johnson (she/they) is the author of the full-length poetry books pH of Au (Parlor Press, Free Verse Editions Series 2022) and Pungent dins concentric (Tolsun Books, 2018), as well as three poetry chapbooks. Most recently, VCJ's poems have appeared in Ballast, L=Y=R=A, The Broken City, and Rough Cut, among others.
The winner of the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award for Inheritance with a High Error Rate (January 2024), Jen Karetnick is the author of 10 additional poetry collections. The co-founder/managing editor of SWWIM Every Day, she has forthcoming work in Cimarron Review, Cold Mountain Review, Harpur Palate, Shenandoah, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. See jkaretnick.com or visit her on Instagram at Jen Karetnick or on Twitter @Kavetchnik.
Lisa Marie Oliver is the author of Birthroot (forthcoming, Glass Lyre Press.) Recent poems can be found in Tupelo Quarterly, The River Heron Review, and Parentheses Journal. She lives and writes in Portland, Oregon.
Monique Quintana is a Xicana from Fresno, CA, and the author of Cenote City (Clash Books, 2019). Her work has appeared in Wildness, Lost Balloon, The Acentos Review, and other publications. She has been supported by Yaddo, the Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and the Community of Writers. You can find her at moniquequintana.com. Instagram and Twitter: @quintanagothic
Simone Stoll was born in 1967 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Her interest lies in the understanding of human mind and body connection; in form of painting, drawing, she has since focused on digital work. She has participated in video festivals, group and solo shows internationally. In 2007, she was part of the Biennale of Québec and received the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. In 2011, she took part in the Bienal Internacional de Fotografía de Tenerife and was given the Fotonoviembre Award.
Kristin Camitta Zimet is the author of Take in My Arms the Dark, a full-length collection of poems, and the long-time editor of The Sow's Ear Poetry Review. Her poetry is in journals and anthologies in eight countries. It has been performed in concert halls and museums and has hung on the walls of art galleries. She is also a Reiki healer, hospital volunteer, surreal photographer, and master naturalist.