Issue One Hundred and Fifteen
Brandon Amico is the author of Disappearing, Inc. (Gold Wake Press, 2019). A 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, his poems have appeared in publications including 32 Poems, Best American Poetry 2020, Blackbird, The Cincinnati Review, Kenyon Review, and The Rumpus.
Ellie Anderson has published mostly short fiction. However, she has poems in the most recent issues of Caesura, Glimpse, The San Pedro River Review, Deep Wild, and 3rd Wednesday. She is a Canadian living in Bellevue, Washington with her husband Shane and a stray cat named Mooch.
Laurie Blauner is the author of eight books of poetry, and five novels. Her first book of nonfiction, I Was One of My Memories, won PANK’s 2020 CNF/Hybrid Book Contest and is forthcoming. Her new novel Out of Which Came Nothing was recently published by Spuyten Duyvil Press.
Anney Bolgiano lives in Washington, DC, where she teaches at Howard University and George Washington University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, the Nashville Review, Salamander, The Figure One, Frances House, Bending Genres, Funny Looking Dog Quarterly, A Velvet Giant, District Lines Anthology, and elsewhere. Her debut chapbook, Flat-Pack, won the 2021 DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press chapbook contest and is forthcoming winter 2022.
Brian Conn is the author of the novel The Fixed Stars, and of numerous short stories. He co-founded, and for seven years co-edited, the literary journal Birkensnake. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University.
Jessica Cuello’s Liar was selected by Dorianne Laux for the 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize and her manuscript Yours, Creature is forthcoming from JackLeg Press in spring of 2022. Cuello is also the author of Hunt (The Word Works, 2017) and Pricking (Tiger Bark Press, 2016). Cuello has been awarded The 2017 CNY Book Award, The 2016 Washington Prize, The New Letters Poetry Prize, a Saltonstall Fellowship, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. She is a poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches French in CNY.
David Donna's poems have appeared in Radar Poetry, The Shore, Ibbetson Street, and elsewhere. Donna lives in eastern Massachusetts, where they write code and poetry by turns.
Joan Kwon Glass is the author of Night Swim, winner of the 2021 Diode Editions Book Contest as well as the chapbooks How to Make Pancakes For a Dead Boy (Harbor Editions) and If Rust Can Grow on the Moon (Milk & Cake Press), both forthcoming in 2022.
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.
Jenny Irish is from Maine and lives in Arizona. She is the author of the collections Common Ancestor and I Am Faithful, and the forthcoming collections Tooth Box and Hatch.
Jody Kennedy's work has appeared in Bennington Review, Fugue, Fairy Tale Review, DIAGRAM, and Tin House Online, among other publications. She lives in Provence, France.
Evan Lavender-Smith is the author of From Old Notebooks and Avatar. His writing has been published by BOMB, The Believer, Lit Hub, Longreads, New England Review, New York Tyrant, The Southern Review, The Sun, The White Review, and others. A founding editor of Noemi Press, he teaches literature and creative writing at Virginia Tech.
Kevin Lichty was born and raised in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. He now lives in Arizona with his wife and two daughters where he is a writing instructor at Arizona State University. His work has appeared in Yemasee, Hawaii Pacific Review, Ponder Review, Green Briar Review, Palooka, 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.
Ron Riekki's books include My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction (Loyola University Maryland's Apprentice House Press), Posttraumatic (Hoot 'n' Waddle), and U.P. (Ghost Road Press). Riekki has edited eight books, including Here (Michigan State University Press, Independent Publisher Book Award) and The Way North (Wayne State University Press, Michigan Notable Book) and has published poetry in Rattle and Poetry Northwest, fiction in Threepenny Review and Bellevue Literary Review, nonfiction in River Teeth and New Orleans Review, and more. Right now, Riekki's listening to The Joel Plaskett Emergency's "Waiting to be Discovered."
Laurie Rosenblatt is the author of In Case (Pecan Grove Press, 2013), and two chapbooks, Blue (University of Toledo Press, 2012) and A Trapdoor, A Rupture, Something with Kinks (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Individual poems appear in New Ohio Review and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College.
Shya Scanlon is the author of the novel The Guild of Saint Cooper, and of the poetry collection In This Alone Impulse. "Two Different Names" is from a collection titled Creative Nonfiction. He lives in Woodstock, NY.
D.W. White is a graduate of the M.F.A. Creative Writing program at Otis College in Los Angeles and is at work on his first novel. He was a Fellow at Stony Brook University's BookEnds program for the 2020-2021 year. He serves as Fiction Editor for the West Trade Review literary arts journal, has short fiction published in Tulane Review and Trouvaille Review, and contributes regularly to the Chicago Review of Books. A Chicago ex-pat, he has lived in Long Beach, California for seven years, where he frequents the beach to hide from writer’s block. Find him on Twitter @dwhitethewriter.
S.L. Wisenberg's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Sun, Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly Review, The New England Review and many other journals as well as anthologies. She is the author of an essay collection, Holocaust Girls: History, Memory & Other Obsessions; a chronicle, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch; and a story collection, The Sweetheart Is In. She lives in Chicago, where she fights envy and despair, and edits Another Chicago Magazine.