Issue One Hundred and Eight
Kristin Bock is the author of Cloisters, published by Tupelo Press. Her poems have appeared in The Black Warrior Review, Columbia, Crazyhorse, FENCE, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, VERSE, and others. She teaches in the Business Communication Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her second collection, Dear Life Form, is forthcoming next year.
Lauren Camp is the author of five books of poems, including One Hundred Hungers, which won the Dorset Prize, and Took House (Tupelo Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Slice, DIAGRAM and other journals. She has received fellowships from The Black Earth Institute and The Taft-Nicholson Center and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, the Housatonic Book Award and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award.
Catharina Coenen is a first-generation German immigrant to the northwestern 'chimney' of Pennsylvania, where she teaches biology at Allegheny College. Her essays are featured or forthcoming in The American Scholar, The Southampton Review Online, The Christian Science Monitor, Chattahoochee Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2020 Hedgebrook Residency.
Joanne Diaz is the recipient of fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She is the author of My Favorite Tyrants and The Lessons, and with Ian Morris, she is the co-editor of The Little Magazine in Contemporary America. She teaches in the English Department at Illinois Wesleyan University.
John Henry Fleming's most recent book is Songs for the Deaf, a story collection. He directs the creative writing program at the University of South Florida and is the advisory editor for Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art. "Apocalypse" is the first published piece of a planned collection of apocalyptic fictions.
John David Harding is an associate professor of writing/research in the Cannon Memorial Library at Saint Leo University. He serves as the assistant director of Sandhill Writers Retreat and coedits the literary journals Lightning Key Review and Orange Blossom Review. His creative work includes publications in fiction, poetry, and visual art.
Keith Kopka is the recipient of the 2019 Tampa Review Prize for his collection of poems, 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 2017 International Award for Excellence from the Books, Publishing & Libraries Research Network. Kopka is also the Director of Operations for Writers Resist and a Senior Editor at Narrative Magazine.
Shane Kowalski lives outside of Philadelphia. He has an MFA in fiction from Cornell University. Work of his appears or is forthcoming in Electric Literature, SLICE, Puerto del Sol, Tammy, Juked, Wildness, and other places. He works for the United States Postal Service.
Kent Leatham's poems and translations have appeared in dozens of journals, including Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Fence, Softblow, Able Muse, and Poetry Quarterly. He received an MFA from Emerson College and a BA from Pacific Lutheran University, served as an associate poetry editor for Black Lawrence Press, and currently teaches writing at California State University Monterey Bay.
Jun-long Lee is the author of the chapbook Two/Ought and several short films; he also paints. His recent work has appeared in Conjunctions, The Malahat Review, Riddle Fence, and Contemporary Verse 2.
Michael Levan has work in recent or forthcoming issues of Waccamaw, Painted Bride Quarterly, Arts & Letters, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Copper Nickel. He is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Saint Francis and edits and writes reviews for American Microreviews and Interviews. He lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with his wife, Molly, and children, Atticus, Dahlia, and Odette.
Bridget Lillethorup is a creative nonfiction writer in Nebraska currently working on a collection of essays about saints and femininity. She is a graduate student and teaching assistant in the English department at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her work is forthcoming in Atticus Review. She is a blog editor at Literary Mama.
Amy Gong Liu is a Chinese-American writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has been published / is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Hobart, Empty Mirror, Foglifter, Ruminate Magazine, RHINO Poetry, and others. She thinks too much (or perhaps too little).
Helen McClory is a writer from Scotland. Her books include On the Edges of Vision, Mayhem & Death, and The Goldblum Variations. A second novel, Bitterhall, is forthcoming in 2021. There is a moor and a cold sea in her heart.
Cameron Morse lives with his wife Lili and two children in Blue Springs, Missouri. His first collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press's 2018 Best Book Award. His latest is Baldy (Spartan Press, 2020).
Dayna Patterson is the author of Titania in Yellow (Porkbelly Press, 2019) and If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020). Her creative work has appeared recently in POETRY, Sugar House Review, Ruminate, and Tupelo Quarterly. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Psaltery & Lyre and a co-editor of Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry.
Harry Readhead is a journalist, book critic, and poet. His work has appeared in publications including the Guardian, the Spectator and The Times. He is a staff writer at The Cardiff Review and blogs at Guilt and Industry.
Seth Rogoff is the author of the novels First, the Raven: A Preface (Sagging Meniscus Press 2017) and Thin Rising Vapors (SMP 2018). He is a professor of academic studies at Maine College of Art and a faculty member in the history department at the University of Southern Maine. He lives in Prague.
David Schuman's fiction and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Fence, Colorado Review, Catapult, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, and other magazines. His work has been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and in Walking on Lava, Selected Works For Uncivilized Times. A prose chapbook, Best Men, is forthcoming in 2021 from Tammy Journal. He teaches and directs the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis.
Adam Tavel's third poetry collection, Catafalque, won the Richard Wilbur Award (University of Evansville Press, 2018). The former reviews editor for Plume, his reviews have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Colorado Review, Rain Taxi, The Rumpus, and CutBank, among others.
Jessie Van Rheenen is the Associate Editor of The Greensboro Review and Assistant Director of the MFA Creative Writing Program at UNC Greensboro. She currently lives in Durham, North Carolina, and is at work on a novel set in her home region of Northern California. This is her first short fiction publication.
Lavanya Vasudevan is an engineer-turned-writer who lives in the Seattle area and reviews children's books for Kirkus. Her writing has been published in Wigleaf, Paper Darts, The Masters Review Anthology, and elsewhere. Find her online @vanyala.
Matthew Vollmer is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Permanent Exhibit. He teaches in the English Department at Virginia Tech.