Issue One Hundred and Twelve
James Tadd Adcox's work has appeared in Granta, The Rumpus, and X-R-A-Y, among other places. He's the author of a novel, Does Not Love, and a novella, Repetition, and is a founding editor at the literary magazine Always Crashing.
Paul Albano is from Milwaukee, WI. His work can be found in cream city review, Paper Darts, and Whiskey Island Magazine. He teaches English at the University of Alabama.
Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese-American hybrid writer, community organizer and teacher. They are author of The Heart's Traffic and recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry) as well as how to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Leslie Scalapino Award Finalist). Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities and Here Is a Pen: an Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets. They are currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell.
Sarah D'Stair received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her poetry chapbook One Year of Desire is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2021, and her cross-genre novel Central Valley was published by Kuboa Press in 2017. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in Waxing and Waning, Burningword, Hypertrophic, Gertrude Press, IndigoLit and many other publications. She lives and teaches in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
KT Herr (they/she) is a queer poet, songwriter, and curious person with work appearing in Barrow Street 4x2, Frontier, Dream Pop, and as a winner of the 2020 Sweet Lit Poetry contest. KT holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, where they were a Thomas Lux Scholar and Jane Cooper Fellow. Currently a resident of Seattle, WA, they work as a ghostwriter, educator, writing mentor, and sound engineer.
Colleen Hollister's work has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, DIAGRAM, Conjunctions, Mid-American Review, Quarterly West, and other journals. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Laura Krughoff is the author of the novel My Brother's Name (2013), the minibook of short fiction Wake in the Night (2018), and short stories and essays that have appeared in a wide range of literary journals and magazines including Threepenny Review, Printers Row Journal, Seattle Review, Washington Square Review, qu.ee/r Magazine, and Masque&Spectacle. She is currently an associate professor of English and the director of the Gender and Queer Studies Program at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.
Born in Asheville, Grey Wolfe LaJoie is currently a Prison Arts & Education Fellow at the University of Alabama. Their work appears or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Shenandoah, Copper Nickel, Salt Hill, Mid-American Review, and The Carolina Quarterly, among other journals. Thank you for visiting their bio.
Michael Lang is a writer and Army veteran living in New York. His poetry has been published in Operation Homecoming, an anthology of American military writing edited by Andrew Carroll. He has an MFA in fiction writing from Sarah Lawrence College and is writing his first book. You can find him on Twitter @byMichaelLang.
Christine Ma-Kellams is a social psychologist and college professor at San Jose State University. Her other fiction and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Southern Humanities Review, Catapult, ZYZZYVA, Kenyon Review, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.
Ravi Mangla's essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Quarterly West, Puerto del Sol, and The Paris Review Daily. He lives in Rochester, NY.
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.
An interdisciplinary artist, technologist, and curator, Cassie Mira explores human interaction and transitional experience. Born and raised in a southeast Wisconsin hay field, she currently lives in the pacific northwest contemplating material and sound.
JD Pluecker is a language worker from the settler-colonial conglomeration of Houston, Texas (ancestral lands of the Karankawa and numerous other tribes). Forthcoming book-length works include Between Language and Justice by Antena Aire (a collaboration co-founded by JD & Jen/Elena Hofer in 2010) from The Operating System and JD's translation of Escribir con Caca / Writing with Caca by Luis Felipe Fabre from Green Lantern Press.
Monica Rico is a Mexican American CantoMundo Fellow, Macondista, and Hopwood Graduate Poetry Award winner who grew up in Saginaw, Michigan. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program and works for the Bear River Writers' Conference.
Samantha Paige Rosen’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, Post Road Magazine, Lumina Journal, Hypertext Magazine, and the anthology My Body, My Words: A Collection of Bodies, among others. She earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College.
Leslie Contreras Schwartz is the Houston Poet Laureate, whose fourth book, Black Dove / Paloma Negra (FlowerSong Press, 2020), is a finalist for the 2020 Best Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her work has appeared in Missouri Review, IowaReview, [PANK], Verse Daily, Pleiades, Zocalo Public Square, and Xicanx: 21 Mexican American Writers of the 21st Century (University of Arizona, 2022), edited by ire’ne lara silva, among other publications. She is a member of the Macondo Writers’ Collective.
Aliah Lavonne Tigh's poems have been featured in Guernica, The Texas Review, Matter Monthly, Storyscape, and other journals. Tigh has joined other writers for the Tin House Summer Workshop, read for Houston's Poison Pen Reading Series and Hess Reading Series, contributed work for a Gulf Coast Journal and Texas Contemporary ekphrastic collaboration and was a grateful Recipient of Idyllwild Arts' 2017 Bentley-Buckman Writing Fellowship and a Neal Marshall Creative Writing Fellowship. She holds poetry and philosophy degrees from the University of Houston and an MFA from Antioch Los Angeles.
Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal lives as a rhyming-slogan creative activist. She is a Generation 1.5 poet (mexicanx and Xicanx), a translator, a sonic-improv collaborator, and an instructor of English. Her poetry can be found in the Rio Grande Review, Texas Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Acentos Review, Defunkt Magazine, Good Cop/Bad Cop, and elsewhere. She has published translations of poetry, including Postcards in Braille by Sergio Pérez Torres (Nueva York Poetry Press, 2021). She is the recipient of the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry.