Issue One Hundred and Ten
Deborah Bacharach is the author of Shake and Tremor (Grayson Books, 2021) and After I Stop Lying (Cherry Grove Collections, 2015). She received a 2020 Pushcart honorable mention and has been published in journals such as Poetry Ireland Review, Sweet, The Carolina Quarterly, and The Southampton Review among many others. She is an editor, teacher, and tutor in Seattle.
Katie Berta lives in Tempe, Arizona, where she works as the Supervising Editor of Hayden's Ferry Review. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, Blackbird, The Rumpus, Massachusetts Review, Sixth Finch, and Redivider, among other magazines. You can find her book reviews in American Poetry Review, West Branch, Harvard Review, the Ploughshares blog, and elsewhere. She has received a residency from the Millay Colony, fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and an Iowa Review Award.
Paul Guest is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Because Everything Is Terrible, and a memoir, One More Theory About Happiness. His writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Paris Review, Tin House, Slate, New England Review, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Western Humanities Review, Ploughshares, and numerous other publications. A Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award winner, he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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.
Thomas Hrycyk lives in Nashville and his work has been published in or is forthcoming from Tin House, Adroit Journal, Harpur Palate, Gargoyle, and many others.
Robert Lopez is the author of five books, of which the most recent are Good People and All Back Full. A Better Class Of People will be published by Four Way Books in late 2021.
DS Maolalai has been nominated eight times for Best of the Net and four times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden (Encircle Press, 2016) and Sad Havoc Among the Birds (Turas Press, 2019).
Hillary Moses Mohaupt is a listmaker: she's a writer, social media strategist, communications consultant, museum enthusiast, and wanderer. Her work has appeared in Brevity's blog, Dogwood, The Writer's Chronicle, Barrelhouse, Split Lip, Lady Science, the Journal of the History of Biology, and elsewhere. Originally from the Midwest, she lives outside of Philadelphia.
Jane Morton is a poet and MFA Candidate at the University of Alabama and an assistant poetry editor for Black Warrior Review. More of their poetry can be found or is forthcoming in The Offing, Redivider, Muzzle Magazine, Passages North, and elsewhere.
John A. Nieves has poems forthcoming or recently published in journals such as: North American Review, Crazyhorse, Southern Review, Harvard Review, and Massachusetts Review. He won the Indiana Review Poetry Contest and his first book, Curio, won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award Judge's Prize. He is associate professor of English at Salisbury University and an editor of The Shore Poetry. He received his M.A. from University of South Florida and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri.
Alejandro Pérez is a student at Columbia University in New York. He is a 2019 Pushcart Prize nominee whose poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Boulevard, The Missouri Review, Passages North, DIAGRAM, and Spanish-language magazines in Venezuela, Chile, and Spain.
Glen Pourciau's third story collection, Getaway, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2021. His stories have been published by AGNI Online, failbetter, Green Mountains Review, New England Review, New World Writing, The Paris Review, Post Road, The Rupture, and others.
Alyssa Quinn is the author of the chapbook Dante's Cartography (The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2019) and a creative writing PhD student at the University of Utah. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, Third Coast, Ninth Letter, The Pinch, Indiana Review, Hobart, Meridian, and elsewhere.
David Leo Rice is a writer and animator from Northampton, MA. He's the author of the novels A Room in Dodge City, ANGEL HOUSE, and, most recently, A Room in Dodge City: Vol. 2, coming in January 2021. His debut story collection, Drifter, is coming in June 2021.
Joseph Scapellato is the author of the novel, The Made-Up Man, and the story collection, Big Lonesome. He earned his MFA in Fiction at New Mexico State University and teaches creative writing at Bucknell University. His work appears in North American Review, Kenyon Review Online, No Tokens, Post Road, and other places. He lives in Lewisburg, PA, with his wife, daughter, and dog.
Laurel Shimasaki lives in New Orleans. Her work appears in Catapult, Salon, New Delta Review, Hobart, Jellyfish Review, and elsewhere.
Erin Slaughter is editor and co-founder of The Hunger, and the author of I Will Tell This Story to the Sun Until You Remember That You Are the Sun (New Rivers Press, 2019). Her writing has appeared in Black Warrior Review, PANK, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. Originally from north Texas, she is pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at Florida State University, where she serves as Nonfiction Editor for the Southeast Review and co-hosts the Jerome Stern Reading Series.
Chris Via is a book reviewer based in North Carolina. His work appears in Rain Taxi Review of Books, Splice, 3:AM, and The Arts Fuse. He recently contributed introductions and afterwords to several novels; and in 2018 he won honorable mention for Grove Atlantic's national review competition, featured on LitHub. He is also the host of the growing literature-obsessed YouTube channel Leaf by Leaf. Chris holds a B.A. in computer science and an M.A. in literature and writing.
Sara Moore Wagner lives in West Chester, OH with her husband and three small children. She is the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award, and the author of the chapbooks Tumbling After (forthcoming from Red Bird Chapbooks, 2021) and Hooked Through (2017). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, Rhino, Waxwing, The Cincinnati Review, and Nimrod, among others. She has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart prize, and Best of the Net.
Brooke Juliet Wonders is an Associate Professor at the University of Northern Iowa. Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, The Dark, and Black Warrior Review, among others. She serves as nonfiction editor at the North American Review and is a founding editor of Grimoire Magazine.