Issue One Hundred and Eleven
E. Kristin Anderson is a poet and glitter enthusiast living mostly at a Starbucks somewhere in Austin, Texas. She is the editor of Come as You Are, an anthology of writing on 90s pop culture (Anomalous Press), and her work has appeared in many magazines. She is the author of nine chapbooks of poetry including Pray, Pray, Pray: Poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night (Porkbelly Press), Fire in the Sky (Grey Book Press), 17 seventeen XVII (Grey Book Press), We're Doing Witchcraft (Porkbelly Press), and Behind, All You've Got (Semiperfect Press). Kristin is a poetry reader at Cotton Xenomorph and an editorial assistant at Porkbelly Press. Find her on Twitter at @ek_anderson.
David Blanton's fiction has appeared most recently in the Denver Quarterly. He is currently a visiting instructor teaching writing at the University of North Florida.
Eric Blix is the author of the story collection, Physically Alarming Men. His writing has appeared in 3:AM, Best Small Fictions, Fiction International, and other publications. His latest manuscript, The Prodigious Earth, was a finalist for the Noemi Press Book Award and long-listed for the Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction. "The Principles of the Park" is excerpted from The Salubrious Earth, a web-based work in progress about human perceptions of space, the intersections of human and machine cognition, and the real materials needed to sustain a complex information society.
Kyle Coma-Thompson is the author of the short story collections The Lucky Body, Night in the Sun, and most recently 926 Years, written in collaboration with Tristan Foster. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Daniel Davis-Williams lives in El Cerrito, California. His work has appeared in Fourteen Hills, Ninth Letter, Outside Online, and other places.
Katherine Ann Davis is a writer from Wisconsin who serves as Senior Prose Editor for 3Elements Review. Her work has been published by Sycamore Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Pinch, Passages North, Gigantic Sequins, and other journals. She earned an MFA from the University of Maryland and a PhD from the University of Tennessee, and she recently completed her first novel.
Quinn Forlini has been published in The Journal, The Greensboro Review, The Vassar Review, and Milk Candy Review. She received her MFA from the University of Virginia and teaches creative writing at Ursinus College.
John David Harding is an associate professor of writing/research in the Cannon Memorial Library at Saint Leo University. He serves as assistant director of the Sandhill Writers Retreat and co-edits the literary journal Orange Blossom Review. Recent scholarly work includes a chapter published in Understanding the Short Fiction of Carson McCullers (Mercer University Press, 2020). His creative work includes publications in fiction, poetry, and visual art.
Rick Henry has lived across the United States but always returns to the sensibilities, landscapes, and histories of upstate New York. His recent publications are the novella, Colleen's Count (Finishing Line Press) and the epistolary novel Letters (1855) (Ra Press). His other books include Snow Fleas (a Reverie) and Then (54 text blocks), both from ANC. Recently completed is Paper Dolls, a handmade book/textual assemblage in eight parts with twenty-eight movements. A fairy tale. Paper, fabric, mirrors.
John Hodgen won the AWP Prize in Poetry and serves as Writer-in-Residence at Assumption University. His most recent book is The Lord of Everywhere from Lynx House/University of Washington Press. He edits poetry for New Letters Magazine at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
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 also 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 a Senior Editor at Narrative Magazine and the co-founder and the Director of Operations for Writers Resist.
Matt McBride's poetry has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from Court Green, The Cortland Review, Guernica, Rust + Moth, and Zone 3 among others. His first book, City of Incandescent Light, was published by Black Lawrence Press. His most recent chapbook, The Mourners Forget What Funeral They're At, is forthcoming from Greying Ghost.
Travis McDonald is a writer and community college English instructor. His work has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Atticus Review, The Adirondack Review, and elsewhere.
Dev Murphy's writing and illustration have appeared in The Guardian, The Cincinnati Review, Arcturus Magazine, Passages North, The Rumpus, ANMLY, and elsewhere. Her chapbook The Not Getting It Ages Like Wine, or a Mythos was a semifinalist in CutBank's 2020 chapbook contest. She lives in Pittsburgh with her cat, Nick. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @gytrashh.
Aimee Parkison is the author of five books of fiction, including Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, which won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. Parkison has been published in numerous literary journals and is Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at Oklahoma State University. Her historical novel, Sister Séance, is forthcoming from KERNPUNKT Press.
Andrea Pérez is an English Writing graduate of the University of Colorado Denver. She grew up in a bilingual-bicultural family, spending long stretches of her childhood in Guatemala, Spain, and the U.S. Currently, she is an assistant editor at Copper Nickel and a poetry screener for The Malahat Review. When she is not reading or writing, she can be found singing in an acapella choir or planning her next trip to some far-off land.
Jessica Lee Richardson is the author of It Had Been Planned and There Were Guides, which won the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Prize and was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award. She's an Assistant Professor of fiction at Coastal Carolina University where she coordinates the creative writing program. Stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Adroit, The Commuter at Electric Lit, New Delta Review, Slice, the South Carolina Review, Willow Springs and other places.
Jenny Sadre-Orafai is the co-author of Book of Levitations and author of Malak and Paper, Cotton, Leather. She is co-founding editor of Josephine Quarterly, a Professor of English at Kennesaw State University, and Executive Director of Georgia Writers Association.
Kelly R. Samuels is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. She is the author of Words Some of Us Rarely Use (Unsolicited, 2019). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Salt Hill, The Carolina Quarterly, The Pinch, RHINO, and The Massachusetts Review. She lives in the Upper Midwest.