Issue One Hundred and Thirteen
Roberta Allen is the author of nine books, including three micro/short fiction collections, a novella, a novel and a travel memoir. Her latest is The Princess of Herself: Stories. Over 300 of her micro and short stories have appeared in journals such as Conjunctions, Guernica, BOMB, and previous issues of The Rupture. Also a conceptual artist, she has work in the permanent collections of MoMA and The Met Museum and has exhibited worldwide.
Louis Armand is the author of the novels The Garden (2020), Vampyr (2020) & The Combinations (2016). In addition, he has published collections of poetry, including East Broadway Rundown (2015) & Monument (with John Kinsella, 2020), & the collage-hybrid Glitchhead (2021). He lives in Prague.
Laurie Blauner is the author of eight books of poetry and four novels. Her first book of hybrid non-fiction won the 2020 PANK Book Contest and is called I Was One of My Memories and she has a new novel Out of Which Came Nothing from Spuyten Duyvil, both forthcoming in 2021.
Alex Chertok has poems published or forthcoming in The Kenyon Review Online, The Missouri Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, and Best New Poets 2016, among others, and essays on his prison teaching published in Ploughshares and forthcoming from Alaska Quarterly Review. He currently teaches through the Cornell Prison Education Program.
Melissa Crowe is the author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019), and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Adroit Journal, Four Way Review, New England Review, POETRY, and Thrush, among other journals. She's the coordinator of the MFA program at UNCW, where she teaches courses in poetry and publishing.
Sarah D’Stair is a poet and literary critic. She is the author of One Year of Desire (forthcoming from Finishing Line Press) and Central Valley (Kuboa Press, 2017). She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She lives and teaches in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Anne Graue is the author of Full and Plum-Colored Velvet, (Woodley Press, 2020) and Fig Tree in Winter (Dancing Girl Press, 2017). Her poetry has appeared in SWWIM Every Day, Rivet Journal, Mom Egg Review, New Verse News, Into the Void, and in numerous print anthologies, including The Book of Donuts (Terrapin Books, 2017) and Coffee Poems (World Enough Writers, 2019). Her reviews of poetry collections have been published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Rupture, Whale Road Review, Green Mountains Review, and The Rumpus. She is a poetry editor for The Westchester Review.
Keith Kopka is a former touring punk musician and the author of Count Four (University of Tampa Press, 2020), which won the 2019 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. His poems and criticism have appeared in Best New Poets, Mid-American Review, New Ohio Review, and 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 (GRL, 2018) and a recipient of the International Award for Excellence from the Books, Publishing, & Libraries Research Network. Kopka is currently a Senior Editor at Narrative Magazine, the Director of Operations for Writers Resist, and an Assistant Professor at Holy Family University in Philadelphia.
Elizabeth Langemak lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Michael Jeffrey Lee is the author of Something in My Eye, a story collection, and is the vocalist for Budokan Boys. His fiction has appeared in DIAGRAM, N+1, and BOMB, as well as other issues of The Rupture. He lives in Berlin.
Matt MacFarland has been a finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize, Grist Journal's ProForma contest and the New Issues Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Southern Review, December, Third Coast, Memorious, Fugue, Mid-American Review and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia MFA program and lives in Charlottesville.
Lip Manegio is a Pushcart & Best of the Net nominated poet, bookmaker, designer, & dyke. Their work has appeared in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Puerto del Sol, Gordon Square Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. They serve as editor in chief/jack-of-all-trades at Ginger Bug Press & are the author of We’ve All Seen Helena (Game Over Books, 2019).
Abigail Oswald is a writer whose work predominantly examines themes of celebrity, crime, and girlhood. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Wigleaf, Matchbook, Cheap Pop, Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and Split Lip, and her short fiction was selected for Best Microfiction 2021. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and currently resides in Connecticut.
Pamela Ryder is the author of two novels and a short story collection. "With Two Rivers Behind Me" is part of a flash collection about the young desperado, Billy the Kid.
Katie Smith is a Philadelphia-based writer and immigration advocate. Her work has appeared in Allure, Bustle, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Adroit Journal, and Book & Film Globe. Find her on Instagram at @saddy_yankee for pictures of her cat.
Tania Pabón Acosta is a Puerto Rican writer now based in New York. She holds an M.A. from the University of Puerto Rico, and an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. A finalist for the DisQuiet Prize, her work has appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, The Los Angeles Review, The Rumpus, Entropy, Catapult, and Medium, among others.
Pablo Piñero Stillmann has been the recipient of Mexico's two top grants for young writers: The Foundation for Mexican Literature and The National Fund for Culture and Arts. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in, among other journals, Bennington Review, Sycamore Review, Notre Dame Review, and Washington Square Review. He is the author of a novel, Temblador (Tierra Adentro, 2014) and a short story collection, Our Brains and the Brains of Miniature Sharks (Moon City Press, 2020).
Jill Talbot is the author of The Way We Weren’t: A Memoir and Loaded: Women and Addiction, the co-editor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non)Fictions Come Together, and the editor of Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in journals such as AGNI, Brevity, Colorado Review, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, LitMag, The Normal School, and The Paris Review Daily and has been recognized four times in The Best American Essays. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.
Debbie Urbanski’s fiction and essays have appeared in The Sun, Conjunctions, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and the Kenyon Review. Her first novel, What Comes After The End, will be published by Pantheon Books in 2022.
Rob Walsh's stories have appeared in Conjunctions, NOON, The Rupture, BOMB, and elsewhere. He lives in Seoul.