Issue 105 Contributors
Kelley Beeson is a poet and librarian living in Pittsburgh, PA. Her chapbook, Undress was the winner of the 2023 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award. Her work has been published in Kaliope (where she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize), Pittsburgh City Paper, and The Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange. Beeson has been a librarian for twenty years and has been a member of the Madwomen in the Attic of Carlow University writing workshops since 1992. She received a BA in Creative Writing from Carlow and her MFA in Poetry at The University of Notre Dame.
Ellena Dee is a disabled writer. She was a runner-up in the 2015 Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition and was specially commended in the Welsh Poetry Competition in 2012 and 2014. In addition, she was shortlisted for the Dreich Classics Chapbook Competition in 2023. Her poetry has been published in a number of poetry magazines including Ink, Sweat & Tears, Mslexia, Eunoia Review, and Dreich Magazine.
Edith Friedman admires the ways of people and plants, and tries not to second guess. Recent work can be found in Aôthen, Five Minutes, Nifty Lit Magazine, SugarSugarSalt Magazine, Wild Greens, and the anthology Odes to Our Undoing (Risk Press 2022); or at www.edithfriedman.com. IG: edithword
B.B.P. Hosmillo is the author of Breed Me: a sentence without a subject / Phối giống tôi: một câu không chủ đề (2016) with Vietnamese translation by Nhã Thuyên and Hải Yến. His writings have also been translated into Indonesian, Bulgarian, and Korean. Founder and co-editor of Queer Southeast Asia: a literary journal of transgressive art, his recent work has appeared orforthcoming in The Oxonian Review, The Offing, The Lincoln Review, and Cardiff Review.
Dana Henry Martin’s (she/they/any) work has appeared in Barrow Street, Chiron Review, Cider Press Review, FRiGG, Muzzle, New Letters, Stirring, Willow Springs, and other journals. Martin’s collections include Toward What Is Awful (YesYes Books), In the Space Where I Was (Hyacinth Girl Press), and The Spare Room (Blood Pudding Press).
Terri Lee McCord’s poems have been nominated for four Pushcarts and a Best of the Net. Her latest collection is The Beauts from Finishing Line Press. She has taught painting and drawing, creative writing, and composition. She has earned awards including a juried literary arts fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission. Her work received an honorable mention in the 2023 Porter Fleming Literary (Poetry) Competition, and was a finalist in the 2022 Fall Lines Poetry Competition.
Dion O’Reilly is the author of two poetry collections, Ghost Dogs and Sadness of the Apex Predator. Her work appears in The Sun, Rattle, Cincinnati Review, Narrative, and The Slowdown. She facilitates poetry workshops, hosts a podcast at The Hive Poetry Collective, and is a reader for Catamaran.
Elisabeth Preston-Hsu’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, CALYX, The Sun, MacQueen's Quinterly, and elsewhere. She was a runner-up in North American Review’s Hearst Poetry Prize 2022, judged by Natalie Diaz. She is a physician in clinical practice in Atlanta, Georgia. Find her on Instagram @writers.eatery.
Straddling Chicago and Delhi, Tanima writes poetry, makes theatre, and sometimes works on a PhD. Previous writing can be found in Soundzine, Rise Up Review, Stone Poetry Quarterly, The Passionfruit Review, Sky Island Journal and Indent: The Body and the Performative.
Kenton K. Yee’s recent poems appear (or will soon) in Plume Poetry, Threepenny Review, TAB Journal, I-70 Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Terrain.org, Tipton Poetry Journal, Matter Press, The New Verse News, and Rattle, among others. Hong Kong born and California raised, he writes from Northern California.