Issue 113 Contributors
Michael Balili is a poet from the Philippines. His poems have appeared in jubilat, magma poetry, & elsewhere. He co-founded Gacha Press, a small, plucky, independent poetry press (www.gacha.press) & horde: a journal of poetry & ideas (hordepoetry.substack.com). His first book of poems, Kaiju, was published by Ateneo de Manila University in 2023.
Christy Lee Barnes is a Seattle-based educator whose writing has been featured in Prairie Schooner, Plume, Cream City Review, Cagibi, Spillway, Stirring, Tin House's "Broadside Thirty," McSweeney's, and elsewhere. This year she received two Best of the Net nominations at Literary Mama and MER.
Mary Elizabeth Birnbaum was born, raised, and educated in New York. Mary’s translation of poet Felix Morisseau-Leroy has been published in The Massachusetts Review, the anthology Into English (Graywolf Press). Her work is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Lake Effect, Spoon River Poetry Review, Barrow Street, and elsewhere.
Angie Ebba is a queer disabled writer, artist, educator, and performer. She is a published poet and essayist, teaching and performing across the US. Angie believes in the power of art, writing, and performance to help us better understand ourselves, build community, and create change. Find Angie at rebelonpage.com.
Jessica Furtado is a multi-passionate artist whose visual work has been featured in Grub Street, Muzzle Magazine, Waxwing, & elsewhere, and whose writing has appeared in Qwerty, Stirring, & VIDA Review, among others. Jessica’s poetry was a finalist in Best of the Net (2020), and her debut chapbook A Kiss for the Misbehaved (2023) is available from BatCat Press. To see what she’s up to next, visit Jess at www.jessicafurtado.com.
Khai Q. Nguyen is a queer writer and poet living in the northern mountains of Vietnam. His work has been published by Akéwì Magazine, CounterPunch, Eunoia Review, great weather for MEDIA, Mal de Ojo, Mekong Review, and Porch LitMag, among others. He holds master’s degrees in literature and cultural studies from the universities of Perpignan, St Andrews, and Santiago de Compostela. Twitter: @ToruMoe.
Kevin Roy is a professor of Family Science in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland in College Park. For twenty years, he has taught, mentored, conducted community-based life history interviews, and published more than fifty articles and book chapters. He has been writing poetry for even longer, published in Kestrel, The Shore, Broadkill Review, Slant, and Summerset Review (nominated for Best of the Net).
Theadora Siranian’s poetry has appeared in Best New Poets, Ghost City Press, and Atticus Review, among others. In 2014, she was shortlisted for both the Mississippi Review Prize and Southword’s Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize. In 2019, Theadora received the Emerging Woman Poet Honor from Small Orange Journal. Her chapbook, She, was released by Seven Kitchens Press in May 2021. More of her work can be found at theadorasiranian.com.
Jennifer K. Sweeney is the author of four books of poetry, including Foxlogic, Fireweed (Backwaters) and How to Live on Bread and Music (Perugia). A collaborative chapbook, Dear Question, authored with L.I. Henley is forthcoming in 2024 from Glass Lyre Press. Honors include a Pushcart Prize, the James Laughlin Award, and the Terrain Poetry Prize. Her poems have recently appeared in About Place, American Poetry Review, Birdcoat Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Sixth Finch, The Shore, Thimble, and Waxwing.
M. Benjamin Thorne is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at Wingate University. Possessed of a lifelong love of history and poetry, he is interested in exploring the synergy between the two. His poems appear in multiple journals including Autumn Sky Poetry, Drunk Monkeys, Sky Island Journal, Cathexis Northwest, and The Westchester Review, among others. He lives and sometimes sleeps in Charlotte, NC.