Issue 111 Contributors
Atom Cheung curates Atomic Heart, a weekly radio show on CFMS 105.9 featuring Hong Kong’s poetry and indie sounds. His writing can be found in Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology, The Dillydoun Review, and Canto Cutie. He hovers between Hong Kong, Toronto, and Fukuoka. He is seeking a publisher for his first full-length collection Forty-One Frames, written during his four-year stay at the heritage building Mei Ho House. www.atomcheung.com
Alexa Doran completed her PhD in Poetry at Florida State University in 2021 and is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Tallahassee Community College. Her full-length collection DM Me, Mother Darling won the 2020 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize and was published in April 2021 (Bauhan). She is also the author of the chapbook Nightsink, Faucet Me a Lullaby (Bottlecap Press 2019). You can look for work from Doran in recent or upcoming issues of Pleiades, Witness, Massachusetts Review, and NELLE, among others. For a full list of her publications, awards, and interviews please visit her website at alexadoran.com.
H.E. Fisher is the author of the collection STERILE FIELD (Free Lines Press, 2022) and chapbook JANE ALMOST ALWAYS SMILES (Moonstone Arts Center Press, 2022). H.E.’s poems have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Pithead Chapel, DMQ Review, Ligeia Magazine, and Whale Road Review, among other publications. H.E. was awarded City College of New York’s 2019 Stark Poetry Prize and has received nominations for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize.
Susan Grimm has been published in Sugar House Review, The Cincinnati Review, Phoebe, and Field. Her chapbook Almost Home was published in 1997. In 2004, BkMk Press published Lake Erie Blue, a full-length collection. In 2010, she won the inaugural Copper Nickel Poetry Prize. In 2011, she won the Hayden Carruth Poetry Prize and her chapbook Roughed Up by the Sun’s Mothering Tongue was published. In 2021, she received her third Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant.
Marcy Rae Henry is a multidisciplinary Latina/e artist and author of We Are Primary Colors (DoubleCross Press, 2023), the body is where it all begins (Querencia Press, 2024), and dream life of night owls (Open Country Press, 2024). Her work has received a Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, a Pushcart nomination and first prize in Suburbia’s Novel Excerpt Contest. She is an associate editor for RHINO. marcyraehenry.com
Taelor Jurmu is a student at Michigan Technological University where she works toward graduating with a BS in Psychology and a Minor in Creative Writing. She has been writing poetry, short stories, and essays for around 4 years, choosing to base most of her work on personal emotional experience, as well as deriving much of her inspiration from other artists across many genres. Find her on Instagram @taelxr.
Jennifer Martelli is the author of The Queen of Queens and My Tarantella, both named “Must Reads” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Her work has appeared in Poetry and The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day. A Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow, Martelli is co-poetry editor for MER.
Rita Maria Martinez is the daughter of Cuban immigrants. Her current poetry raises awareness about triumphs and challenges when navigating life with chronic daily headache (CDH) and migraine. Her Jane Eyre-inspired poetry collection—The Jane and Bertha in Me (Kelsay Books)—was a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Martinez’s poetry appears in publications like The Best American Poetry Blog, Ploughshares, Pleiades, Tupelo Quarterly, and SWWIM. Follow Rita on Instagram @rita.maria.martinez.poet or visit https:// comeonhome.org/ritamartinez.
Karol Olesiak is a queer, disabled, poet, writer, and activist. He attended Eugene Lang Liberal Arts College at The New School and an MFA graduate of The University of San Francisco using GI Bill. In 2011 Karol headlined The Bowery Poetry Club in New York. That same year he became involved in The Occupy Wall Street Movement and became entrenched in the Occupy network of affinity groups. He lives in San Francisco. Visit him on the internet at www.karololesiak.com.
Lindsay Oliver writes poetry, short stories, and longer fiction. Her poems have been published online and in print. She reads regularly at online open mics and competes in poetry slams. Her poem ‘How to Be a Feminist Poet’ won first place in the Glasgow Women’s Library’s Calm Slam 2023.