Issue One Hundred and Sixteen
Ethan Chatagnier is the author of the forthcoming novel Singer Distance (Tin House, 2022) and a story collection, Warnings from the Future (Acre Books, 2018). His stories have appeared in the New England Review, the Georgia Review, Story, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He lives in Fresno, California.
Daniel D'Angelo's poetry has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Granta, DREGINALD, Pacifica Literary Review, and Apartment, among other journals. He lives and works in Washington, DC.
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.
Kristin Emanuel holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Kansas where she studied speculative ecopoetics and the comics poetry movement. She is now a PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis. Recently, her poems and comics have appeared in The Normal School, Grub Street volume 70, Thrush Poetry Journal, and Shenandoah.
Joachim Glage lives and writes in Colorado. Other samples of his fiction can be found in issues of The Georgia Review, Litmag, Santa Monica Review, Juked, and other periodicals.
Claire Hopple is the author of four books. Her fiction has appeared in Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, New World Writing, and others.
Christine Hume's collection of essays on sex offenders and women's bodies is forthcoming from Ohio State University Press (21st Century Essays series). She is also the author of a lyric portrait of girlhood, Saturation Project (Solid Objects, 2021), which the New York Times says "arrives . . . with the force of a hurricane," as well as three books of poetry, and six chapbooks. She teaches at Eastern Michigan University.
Rogan Kelly is the author of Demolition in the Tropics (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019). His most recent work has appeared in Plume and RHINO. He is the editor of The Night Heron Barks and Ran Off With the Star Bassoon.
Tom Laichas's recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Spillway, Aji, La Piccioletta Barca, Evening Street Review, Monday Night, Ambit, and elsewhere. He is the author of Sixty-Three Photographs at the End of a War (3.1 Press, 2021), Empire of Eden (High Window Press, 2019), and Three Hundred Streets of Venice California (FutureCycle Press, forthcoming 2023).
Rachel León is a writer, editor, and social worker based in Rockford, IL. She's Reviews Editor at West Trade Review and a regular contributor to Chicago Review of Books. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fiction Writers Review, Nurture, Entropy, Necessary Fiction, (mac)ro(mic), and elsewhere.
Julia Lisella is the author of a chapbook, Love Song Hiroshima, and two full-length collections, Always and Terrain. Her poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared in Pangyrus, Lily Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Paterson Literary Review, Mom Egg Review, Nimrod, Exit 7, Ocean State Review, Valparaiso and others. Her next poetry collection, Our Lively Kingdom, was named a finalist for the Lauria/Frasca Prize and is forthcoming from Bordighera Press in fall 2022.
Natalie Marino is a poet and physician. Her work appears in Bitter Oleander, EcoTheo Review, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, Leon Literary Review, Midway Journal, Moria Online, Oyez Review, Shelia-Na-Gig online, and elsewhere. She was named a finalist in Sweet Lit's 2021 poetry contest. Her micro-chapbook Attachment Theory was published by Ghost City Press in June 2021. She lives in California.
Cris Mazza's essay "Camera: A Life Partner" will appear in her 20th book, linked personal essays due in 2023 from Spuyten Duyvil. Her last novel, Yet to Come, was from BlazeVox Books in 2020, concerning male victims of domestic abuse, asexuality, and alternate methods of building a life story. Mazza's other titles of fiction and literary nonfiction include her first novel How to Leave a Country, which won the PEN/Nelson Algren Award for book-length fiction, and the critically acclaimed Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?
Landon McGee earned his MFA in creative writing at the University of Arkansas. He lives in Fayetteville, AR with his partner, writer Mackenzie McGee.
Samantha Paige Rosen's writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, Post Road, Lumina Journal, Necessary Fiction, Hypertext Magazine, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College.
Lynn Schmeidler writes fiction as well as poetry. She has published one poetry book, History of Gone (Veliz Books, 2018) and two poetry chapbooks: Wrack Lines (Grayson Books, 2017) and Curiouser & Curiouser (Winner of the Grayson Books 2013 Chapbook Prize). Her fiction has appeared in KR Online, Conjunctions, Georgia Review, The Southern Review and other literary magazines. She is at work on a story collection.
Zachary Tyler Vickers is the author of Congratulations on Your Martyrdom! [Indiana University Press]. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the recipient of the Kurt Vonnegut Prize, the Richard Yates Prize, and the Grand Prize for Best Television Pilot Script at the 2021 Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, among others. His work has appeared in many journals, including The Saturday Evening Post, Boston Review, and The Iowa Review.
Kellie Wells is the author of four books, most recently God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna, winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize. She teaches in the MFA programs at the University of Alabama and Pacific University.
D.W. White is a graduate of the M.F.A. Creative Writing program at Otis College in Los Angeles and is seeking representation for 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.
Kenton K. Yee has placed fiction & poetry in The Los Angeles Review, Plume Poetry, PANK, Tipton Poetry Journal, Necessary Fiction, and Hobart, among others. After studying at Iowa, MIT, and Stanford, he writes from northern California.