Issue One Hundred and Six
Erik Anderson is the author of four books of nonfiction, including Bird, forthcoming from Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series in 2020. He teaches creative writing at Franklin & Marshall College, where from 2014-2019 he directed the annual Emerging Writers Festival.
Deborah Bacharach is the author of After I Stop Lying (Cherry Grove Collections, 2015) and has published in journals such as Adroit, Poetry Ireland Review, Vallum, Pembroke Magazine, Cimarron Review, and Poet Lore among many others. She is an editor, teacher and tutor in Seattle.
Levi Bentley is a 2019 LAMBDA Literary Fellow, Director of Pedagogy for Blue Stoop, and 2017 Leeway Art and Change grantee. Bucolic Eclogue was released from Lamehouse Press in July 2016. Chapbooks Obstacle, Particle, Spectacle, &parts, and Stub Wilderness were released from 89plus/LUMA Foundation, Damask Press, and Well Greased Press, respectively. Vitrine released their tape Red Green Blue. Poems have appeared through Apiary, Bedfellows, BlazeVOX, Elective Affinities, Fact-Simile, Gigantic Sequins, Madhouse, Maestra Vida, Magic Pictures, Painted Bride Quarterly, Stillwater Review, The Wanderer, and other venues.
Chase Burke's stories can be found in Glimmer Train, Sycamore Review, Salt Hill, Yemassee, Western Humanities Review, and DIAGRAM, among other journals. He is the 2020 winner of the Cecilia Joyce Johnson Award for the short story from the Key West Literary Seminar, and his chapbook of very short stories, Lecture, is forthcoming from Paper Nautilus Press as a winner of their 2019 Debut Series Chapbook Contest. He has an MFA from the University of Alabama, where he was the fiction editor of Black Warrior Review. He lives in Northeast Florida and is working on a novel and a collection of short stories.
Lisa Favicchia is a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Kansas and is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of LandLocked. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Midwestern Gothic, Peregrine Journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Watershed Review, among others.
Naoko Fujimoto was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, Kenyon Review, Seattle Review, North American Review, Quarterly West, Diode Poetry Journal, and PANK. Her poetry collections include Where I Was Born (Willow Books, 2019), Glyph:Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory (Tupelo, 2020), and three chapbooks.
Kate Gorton is a queer writer and reviewer living in Central Massachusetts. Her fiction has appeared in PRISM International and Spry Literary Journal. She has reviewed books for both The Rupture and Autostraddle. She lives with her wife, chickens, cat, and dog in Central Massachusetts.
Isabella Grabski is a PhD student based in Boston, Massachusetts, and she works on statistical methods for public health applications. She has been writing poetry for nearly her whole life, and has previously published work in the Naugatuck River Review and the Nassau Weekly.
Born in Missouri, Edward Helfers now lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. His work appears in Puerto Del Sol, DIAGRAM, Booth, Web Conjunctions, The Nashville Review, and elsewhere. He teaches courses in rhetoric, creative writing, and intellectual property theft out of the Writing Studies Program at American University.
Andrew Kane is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. He writes for the radio show Ask Me Another and reads for the New England Review. His work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Normal School, and elsewhere.
Ainsley Kelly is a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Shipsey Poetry Prize, and an Eleanor B. North Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Passages North, Poets.Org, Fourteen Hills, Hummingbird: Magazine of the Short Poem, Quiddity, and the Santa Clara Review among others. She has received support from the Napa Valley Writers Conference and from the Community of Writers. She grew up in California, earned her MFA from the University of Washington, and now lives in Seattle.
Keith Kopka is the author of Count Four (University of Tampa Press, 2020). His poetry and criticism have recently appeared in Best New Poets, Mid-American Review, New Ohio Review, Berfrois, Ninth Letter, The International Journal of The Book, and many others. He is the author of the critical text Asking a Shadow to Dance: An Introduction to the Practice of Poetry and the recipient of the International Award for Excellence from the Books, Publishing and Libraries Research Network. Kopka is also the co-founder and the Director of Operations for Writers Resist and an assistant professor at Holy Family University in Philadelphia.
Lawrence Lenhart studied writing at the University of Pittsburgh and holds an MFA from the University of Arizona. He is the author of The Well-Stocked and Gilded Cage (Outpost19), Of No Ground (West Virginia University Press), and a book-length essay about the reintroduction of the black-footed ferret to the Colorado Plateau. His prose appears in Creative Nonfiction, Conjunctions, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, Passages North, and Prairie Schooner. He is the Associate Chair of the English Department at Northern Arizona University where he teaches fiction, nonfiction, and climate science narratives. Lenhart is reviews editor for DIAGRAM and founding editor of Carbon Copy.
Tom McAllister is the author of the novels How to Be Safe and The Young Widower's Handbook, as well as the memoir Bury Me in My Jersey. He is the nonfiction editor at Barrelhouse and co-host of the Book Fight! podcast. He lives in New Jersey and teaches at Temple University.
Never Angeline Nørth is a writer and artist living in Olympia, WA. She is the author of Sea-Witch (Inside the Castle, 2020), Careful Mountain (CCM, 2016), and Sara or the Existence of Fire (Horse Less Press, 2014).
Dian Parker's short stories and essays have been published in Anomaly, In the Fray, 3:AM Magazine, Northern New England Review, Woven Tale Press, Cold Lake Anthology, Kingdoms in the Wild, and others. She is currently working on a collection of essays. "Art To Lie For" is based on fact.
Lina Patton is a graduate of George Mason’s MFA program, where she was awarded the Thesis Fellowship in Fiction and served as fiction editor of the literary journal, Phoebe. Her novel excerpt was published in Narrative Magazine after placing as a finalist in its 2017 30 Below Contest and her work has also received an honorable mention from Glimmer Train. She is at work on a novel.
Bezalel Stern's fiction has been published in McSweeney's, The Literary Review, MonkeyBicycle, Another Chicago Magazine, Wigleaf, Barrelhouse, SmokeLong Quarterly, and other places. He lives in Washington D.C. with his family, and has no plans to leave.
Keith Taylor's most recent full-length collection is The Bird-while, published by Wayne State University Press in 2017. He has recently returned from his second appointment as Artist-in-Residence at Isle Royale National Park.
Abby Walthausen's writing has appeared in The Public Domain Review, The Paris Review Daily, The Atlantic, Zocalo Public Square, Atlas Obscura, Common-place, Mutha, Extra Crispy, LARB, and LitHub. Fictional work has been published by Gigantic, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, the Made in LA anthology, and is forthcoming in Sycamore Review and Santa Monica Review. She lives in Echo Park, Los Angeles where she guides a tour about twentieth-century printmaker Paul Landacre, and is at work on a novel, St. Cyr.
Sharon White's book Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia won the AWP award in creative nonfiction. Boiling Lake (On Voyage), a collection of short fiction, is her most recent work. She is also the author of two collections of poetry, Eve & Her Apple and Bone House and a memoir, Field Notes, A Geography of Mourning. Some of her other awards include the Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction, the Neil Shepard Prize, the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction, the Leeway Foundation Award for Achievement, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.