Issue 117 Contributors
Stella Brice’s poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Chaos Dive, Right Hand Pointing, Gingerbread House, B O D Y, Improbable Worlds, & No, Achilles. She is a Pushcart nominee; a winner of the John Z. Bennet Prize; & the author of five books of poetry, most recently, Urged (VAC/Purple Flag Press); & Creatures (INKira Press). For several years, Stella served as a mentor & literary advisor for the PEN Prison Writing Program.
Courtney LeBlanc is the author of Her Whole Bright Life (winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize); Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart; and Beautiful & Full of Monsters. Her next collection, Her Dark Everything is forthcoming in April 2025. She is the Arlington County Poet Laureate and the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press. She loves nail polish, tattoos, and a soy latte each morning. Find her online at www.courtneyleblanc.com.
Jaylani Loveday (she/they) is a queer writer, photographer, woodworker and disability support worker, living the simple life in southern Tasmania, Australia with her family and a plethora of native animals. Her writing has featured in literary journals, radio documentaries and art installations, both nationally and internationally. She is currently learning how to grow vegetables, write novels and build furniture. Words have saved them more than once.
Karen McPherson is a post-academic, wokeproud, elderqueer poet and literary translator, is the author of Skein of Light (Airlie Press, 2014) and the chapbooks Sketching Elise (Finishing Line, 2012) and Long for This World (Seven Kitchens, 2024). Her work has appeared in literary journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, Cincinnati Review, and The Women’s Review of Books. She previously worked as an editor in the Airlie Press poetry collective.
Kathy Nelson, James Dickey Prize winner, MFA graduate of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, and Nevada Arts Council Fellow, is author of The Ledger of Mistakes (Eric Hoffer Book Award, Honorable Mention). Her work appears in About Place, New Ohio Review, Pedestal Magazine, Rogue Agent, Tar River Poetry, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse Daily and elsewhere.
Autumn Newman writes poetry and book reviews. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Colorado Review, CALYX Press, Pleiades, The Rising Phoenix Review and others. You can find her on Instagram where she discusses poetry: @autumnnewman36.
Whitney Rio-Ross is the author of the chapbook Birthmarks (Wipf & Stock) and poetry editor for Fare Forward. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Whale Road Review, SWING, Sweet Tree Review, Stone Circle Review, The Pinch, and elsewhere. She lives with her family in Nashville, TN.
Alana Torrez (she/her) is a poet and editor from Austin, Texas. Her work has been published in Rio Review, Texas Poetry Calendar, and Bearing the Mask: Southwestern Persona Poems. She holds an MFA from Texas State University and is currently reading and web designing for Little Free Lit Mag. Her obsessions (poetical and otherwise) include loneliness, tree houses, and the hidden lives of squirrels.
Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan. Credits include 15 chapbooks, 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and 2079 other publications across 51 countries. Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022, with his first (hybrid) novel Detaching due out in September.
Su Zi is a disabled poet, and the poem “ ]D[ " was actually written for a Disability Pride performance. A Zoeglossia 2023 Fellow, she is also the EIC of the art-book, poetry chapbook series Red Mare.