Contributors

Jeff Alessandrelli is a writer living in Portland, Oregon.  He is most recently the author of And Yet: A Novel about Sex & Shyness & Society. In addition to his writing he is also an editor at the small press Fonograf Editions. 

Terrence Arjoon is the author of The Disinherited (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025) and Acid Splash, or Into Blue Caves (1080PRESS, 2023). He is a poet, editor, and critic whose work can be found in Annulet, Tagvverk, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and Smooth Friend, among other publications. He is an editor at 1080PRESS and a bookseller.   

Theo Ellin Ballew is half Fresno cowboy and half Baltimore Jew. She grew up on 4-to-11-hour drives between cities in the greater Southwest. All of her poems are fictional; many are sci-fi bedtime stories. An Inch Thick came out last year with Ornithopter Press, and Bedtime Stories for the Worshipped is forthcoming with Wonder Press. Theo also writes code to free and/or fuck with the internet via net.art and sites like Red Calendar. She’s taught computational art/activism in a range of departments, most often NYU’s ITP, and runs the multilingual publication ORAL.pub. Theo’s work (poetry, net.art, etc.) has been featured widely and you can see most of it at theo.land/. 

Tom Barlow is an American writer of novels, short stories and poetry whose work has appeared in many journals including Trampoline, Ekphrastic Review, Voicemail Poetry, Hobart, Tenemos, Redivider, The North Dakota Quarterly, The New York Quarterly, The Modern Poetry Quarterly. See tombarlowauthor.com.  

Joseph Byrd is a 2025 Best Small Fictions winner, a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, and was in the StoryBoard Chicago cohort with Kaveh Akbar. An Associate Artist in Poetry under Joy Harjo at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in West Trade Review, Exposition Review, The South Carolina Review, Stone Canoe, CutBank, Pedestal, South Florida Poetry Journal, DIAGRAM, Novus Literary Arts, and elsewhere. He is the founder and animator of Sundays on the Avenue, a monthly reading series for poets in Portland, Oregon. 

Emily Corwin’s writing has appeared in Salamander, Black Warrior Review, Passages North, DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, New South, and elsewhere. Her books include Marble Orchard (University of Akron Press, 2023), Sensorium (University of Akron Press, 2020), and tenderling (Stalking Horse Press, 2018). She lives and works in Michigan with her husband, Joe and her very pretty cat, Soup.

Anna Drzewiecki (she/they) is a ‘sick’ poet living in Maine. She studied at Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Oxford’s School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. She works in food and hospitality, along with teaching English at a community college. Their poetry and hybrid-genre essays have been published in FENCE, Flaunt, Przekroj, and elsewhere, and their chapbook ‘AQUATICA THE DIARIES FRAGMENTS’ is forthcoming at Bottlecap Press. Website: wrack.zone.   

Simon Eales is a poet and researcher with a PhD from the Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He has published writing in Cordite Poetry Review, The Music, and Don’t Do It Magazine, and has presented at various conferences and events. He has forthcoming articles in the Cambridge History of Australian Poetry and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. He is from Melbourne, Australia and lives in Lisbon, Portugal. 

Aaron Fagan is the author of five poetry collections, including Atom and Void (Princeton University Press, 2025) and A Better Place Is Hard to Find (The Song Cave, 2020). His poems have appeared or are due to appear in Granta, Harper's, The London Magazine, Mutt Art Review, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and Raritan. 

Michael Farrell is a Melbourne-based writer of poems, criticism and fiction. Books include A Lyrebird (Blazevox), and The Victoria Principle (Giramondo), as well as the edited tribute anthology, Ashbery Mode (TinFish). Michael edits a pdf poetry zine, The Chalamet Review.

Will Farris is a poet and yoga teacher. Their work has been published in The Recluse, Poetry Project Newsletter, b l u s h, Poet Tree Magazine, and the anthology Pathetic Literature, edited by Eileen Myles. They live in Brooklyn, New York and work at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church.  

Kelle Groom is the author of four poetry collections, Underwater City (University Press of Florida), Luckily, Five Kingdoms, and Spill (Anhinga Press); a memoir, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster), a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice; and How to Live: A Memoir in Essays (Tupelo). An NEA Fellow, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow, and winner of two Florida Book Awards in poetry, Groom’s work appears in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, New York Times, Ploughshares, and Poetry. 

Kathleen Hellen’s debut collection Umberto’s Night won the poetry prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. She is the author of The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Meet Me at the Bottom, and two chapbooks. Featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, Hellen’s work has appeared in Baltimore Review, DIAGRAM, Diode Poetry Journal, Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, PANK, Sixth Finch, Waxwing, West Branch, Zone 3, and elsewhere. Awards include prizes from the H.O.W. Journal and Washington Square Review.

Paul Ilechko is a British American poet and occasional songwriter who lives with his partner in Lambertville, NJ. His work has appeared in many journals, including The Bennington Review, Bear Review, Atlanta Review, Permafrost, and Free State Review. His book “Fragmentation and Volta” was published in 2025 by Gnashing Teeth Publishing. He reads for Marrow Magazine. 

Sandrine Letellier finds inspiration in nature, music, and visual arts. From Montreal, she has self-published her first collection Aftermath in 2022, and her second collection Surges in 2024. Her work has been published in Sontag Mag, shadow and sax, Sky Island Journal, Wild Roof Journal, Free Verse Revolution, Querencia Press, Bitter Melon Review and others. She is the founder and EIC of Azarão Lit Journal. 

Court Ludwick is the author of These Strange Bodies and the founding editor-in-chief of Broken Antler. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, and Best Microfiction, and can be found in EPOCH, Washington Square Review, Denver Quarterly, Hawaii Pacific Review, Oxford Magazine, Potomac Review, and elsewhere. Court is the recipient of a Sioux Falls Arts Council Artist Grant and has taught workshops on hybrid writing and experimental form, most recently for The Dakota Writing Project and Vermillion Literacy Project. Court holds an MA from Texas Tech University and is a PhD candidate at the University of South Dakota. She is currently based in Minneapolis, where she is working on a novel, a poetry collection, and ongoing experiments in new media.

Steven Manuel lives in Providence, RI, where he edits and publishes from a Compos't. He is currently at work on a critical edition of Ronald Johnson's ARK: The Foundations.  

Lenore Myers’s award-winning poems and essays have appeared in Southern Indiana Review, LIT, The Massachusetts Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Her first full-length collection, Afterimages, will come out in 2026 from Sixteen Rivers Press. She lives in Northern California, where she teaches ESL, Citizenship Preparation, and writing.  

Anna Rahkonen is a writer from Alabama. 

Caroline Rayner wrote THE MOAN WILDS (Shabby Doll House, 2023) and, with Miri Karraker, DAWN NOON DUSK MIDNIGHT (Spiral Editions, 2025). She grew up in Virginia and currently lives and works in western Massachusetts. 

Ulyses Razo [bio pending]

Bernd Sauermann was born in Hof, Germany, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1968. He is a Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Hopkinsville Community College in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and currently serves as Associate Editor at Posit Journal of Art and Literature. He has published two books of prose poems, Seven Notes of a Dead Man’s Song with Mad Hat Press, and Redshift with Lit Fest Press; two chapbooks, Diesel Generator with Horse Less Press and Diagram and Nomenclature with White Knuckle Press; as well as many other poems, stories, and photographs in various national and international journals. 

Brett Shaw is a poet living in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Poetry Online, the tiny journal, and elsewhere.  

Danae Sioziou (b. 1987) is a multilingual poet, translator, and cultural worker. Her first poetry collection received the Hellenic Writers’ Association Jannis Varveris Literary Award and the State Prize for Young Writers. Her second book was shortlisted for the 2022 National Prize for Poetry; in 2024, she published her third collection, Epistles. Her work has been translated into over thirteen languages, featured in international journals and anthologies and presented at major literary events internationally. She curates the Purple Medusas Literature Festival and works for the Book History Lab at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Willa Smart was born in Idaho and is the author of numerous fantasies, insofar as one can claim to be the author of her own fantasies.

Kevin Stack lives in Los Angeles. He is a regular contributor to Skullcrushing Hummingbird, the International Arts and Lit Zine. He has been published by Password (the journal of very short poetry), the Altadena Poetry Review and others. He studied Creative Writing at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. His chapbook, Who Harvests These Detours, was released in August of 2024. His next chapbook, Yoga Cult, is forthcoming.   

Panagiota Stoltidou (b. 2000) is a writer and translator from modern Greek. Her translations of Danae Sioziou’s Probable Landscapes have been awarded a sample translation grant from the Hellenic Foundation for Culture. Her reviews and translations have appeared at Hopscotch Translation, Sarka Journal, The Columbia Review, Asymptote Blog and elsewhere. She is the editor-in-chief of Filmpost. 

Matt Turner [Bio pending]

Theodora Vaxevanou is a poet and social anthropologist from Greece, currently based in Berlin. Her work explores human intimacy, memory, and the emotional legacies we inherit. She writes in both Greek and English, and her poetry has also appeared in musical form through Segbroek, a darkwave album she co-created by contributing her poems and voice.

Tyler Wilson is a songwriter & early childhood educator living in Brooklyn, NY. His poems have been featured in Black Fox Literary Magazine & Stone of Madness Press.

Marshall Woodward is a writer and researcher from the Gulf Coast whose work appears in or is forthcoming from Annulet, Fence, The Indiana Review, The Indianapolis Review, postmedieval, The Seneca Review and Waxwing. He recently graduated from the U. of Houston's Creative Writing Program (MFA) where he was a Mitchell Interdisciplinary Fellow and worked as a poetry editor for the journal Gulf Coast.

Alicia Wright is a writer from Appalachia whose work appears or is forthcoming in SWING, APARTMENT Poetry, As It Ought To Be, New Croton Review, and elsewhere. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Pictura Journal, and her first poetry collection will be published by Pulley Press in 2026. She currently resides in West Virginia.   

Bie Yining (b. 2005) is a poet and artist living in Guangdong, China. Her work explores contemporary experimental poetry, physical and video game fictions, and conceptual installations, concerned with the im/possible link between expression and connection.