Issue One Hundred and Fourteen
Shevaun Brannigan’s work has appeared in such journals as Best New Poets, AGNI, Slice, and Bat City Review. She is a recipient of a Barbara J. Deming Fund grant, and holds an MFA from Bennington College.
Christopher Citro is the author of If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His awards include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for Poetry. He lives in Syracuse, New York.
Sarah D’Stair is a poet, novelist, 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.
Lisa Fishman’s debut fiction collection, World Naked Bike Ride, is forthcoming on Gaspereau Press (Fall 2022). She has stories in recent or forthcoming issues of Duende, Fairy Tale Review, Flash Boulevard and elsewhere. A dual US/Canadian writer, her newest book of poetry is Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition (Wave Books). She is an editor at Poetry Salzburg Review and teaches at Columbia College Chicago.
Greg Gerke has a book of short stories, Especially the Bad Things, published by Splice. Zerogram Press released a new and expanded version of the essay collection See What I See this year.
Karl Taro Greenfeld is a novelist, journalist, and television writer whose short stories have been published in The Pushcart Prize, The O. Henry Prize, and Best American Short Stories anthologies.
Brian Henry is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Permanent State (Threadsuns, 2020). He has translated Tomaž Šalamun's Woods and Chalices, Aleš Debeljak's Smugglers, and Aleš Šteger's Above the Sky Beneath the Earth and The Book of Things, which won the Best Translated Book Award. His work has received numerous honors, including two NEA fellowships, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, a Howard Foundation fellowship, and a Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences grant.
Malinda McCollum is the author of The Surprising Place. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere.
Travis McDonald is a writer and community college English teacher. His work has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Atticus Review, The Adirondack Review, and elsewhere.
Sarah McEachern is a reader and writer in Brooklyn, NY. Some of her recent writing has been published or is forthcoming by The Ploughshares Blog, BOMB, The Believer, The Rumpus, Split Lip Mag, Asymptote Journal, LARB, and Full Stop. Personal essays and fiction have been published or are forthcoming by Entropy, Catapult, Pacifica Literary Review, and Pigeon Pages among others.
Patricia Newbery's work has appeared in a variety of publications and been nominated for a Pushcart. She lives in Egypt.
Dustin Nightingale is the author of Ghost Woodpecker (BatCat Press, 2018). His poetry has been or will be published in journals such as The Florida Review, The American Journal of Poetry, new ohio review, Cimarron Review, and Coal Hill Review. He lives in Hartford, Connecticut.
Dani Oliver's poetry and fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, Barrelhouse, Washington Square Review, The Rumpus, Portland Review, Poet Lore, Shooter Literary Magazine, Origins Journal, and others. She has an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University–Camden, where she received an Interdisciplinary Fellowship, and now works at n+1 in Brooklyn.
Benjamin Paloff's books include the poetry collections And His Orchestra (2015) and The Politics (2011), both from Carnegie Mellon, and many translations from Polish, Czech, Russian, and Yiddish. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Guesthouse, The Laurel Review, The New England Review, The New York Review of Books, and others. Twice a fellow of the NEA, he is professor of comparative literature at the University of Michigan, where he is also director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Glen Pourciau’s third story collection, Getaway, is forthcoming in September from Four Way Books. 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.
Philip Probasco is a Tennesse native who earned his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. He works as an education counselor. His fiction has appeared in Post Road Magazine.
Aleš Šteger has published eight books of poetry, three novels, and two books of essays in Slovenian. Four of his books have been published in English: The Book of Things, which won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award for Poetry; the collection of lyric essays, Berlin; the novel Absolution; and the poetry book Above the Sky Beneath the Earth.
Sarah Anne Strickley is the author of three books of prose: Incendiary Devices (Tolsun Books, forthcoming), Sister (Summer Camp Publishing, 2021), and Fall Together (Gold Wake Press, 2018). She's the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an Ohio Arts grant, and other honors. Her stories and essays have appeared in A Public Space, Witness, Oxford American, Ninth Letter, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. She's the faculty editor of Miracle Monocle and teaches creative writing at the University of Louisville.
Shannon Wolf is a British writer, living in Denver, Colorado. She received a joint MA-MFA in Poetry at McNeese State University and also has degrees from Lancaster University and the University of Chichester. She is the Co-Curator of the Poets in Pajamas Reading Series. Her poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction (which can also be found under the name Shannon Bushby) have appeared in The Forge and No Contact Mag among others. You can find her on social media @helloshanwolf.
William Woolfitt’s poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in AGNI, Blackbird, Tin House, The Threepenny Review, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of three poetry collections, including Spring Up Everlasting (Mercer University Press, 2020).
Jane Zwart teaches at Calvin University, where she also co-directs the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, and TriQuarterly, as well as other journals and magazines.