Issue One Hundred and Seventeen
James Tadd Adcox is the author of a novel, Does Not Love, and a novella, Repetition. His work has appeared in Granta, Barrelhouse, and n+1, among other places, and he is the co-editor of the literary magazine Always Crashing.
Marcia Aldrich is the author of the free memoir Girl Rearing, published by W.W. Norton, and of Companion to an Untold Story, which won the AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction. She is the editor of Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women, published by the University of Georgia Press. Her chapbook EDGE from New Michigan Press is forthcoming.
Will Borger is a fiction writer and essayist. His work has appeared in Marathon Literary Review, Purple Wall Stories, Into the Spine, and Abergavenny Small Press, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Will holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York with his wife, who shares his dream of one day owning a dog.
Charlie Clark studied poetry at the University of Maryland. His work has appeared in The New England Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Smartish Pace, Threepenny Review, West Branch, and other journals. A 2019 NEA fellow and recipient of scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, he is the author of The Newest Employee of the Museum of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2020). He lives in Austin, TX.
Tom DeBeauchamp lives in Portland, Oregon. Some of his recent writing can be found at DIAGRAM, Big Other, and Smokelong Quarterly.
Cole Depuy is the winner of the Academy of American Poets University Prize (Binghamton University) & the Negative Capability Press Spring 2020 Poetry Contest. His poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the minnesota review, The Summerset Review, I-70 Review, The Tipton Poetry Journal, The Offing & other fine journals. He's Poetry Co-Editor for Harpur Palate & Binghamton Poetry Project Co-Director.
Marianne Jay Erhardt teaches writing at Wake Forest University. Her work appears in Oxford American, River Teeth, storySouth, and elsewhere. She is a recent Pushcart nominee and a recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship.
John Hodgen won the AWP Prize in Poetry and serves as Writer-in-Residence at Assumption University. His most recent book is The Lord of Everywhere from Lynx House/University of Washington Press. He edits poetry for New Letters Magazine at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Dustin M. Hoffman is the author of the story collection One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist, winner of the 2015 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His second collection No Good for Digging and chapbook Secrets of the Wild were published by word west press. He painted houses for ten years in Michigan and now teaches creative writing at Winthrop University in South Carolina. His stories have recently appeared in Faultline, Wigleaf, DIAGRAM, Redivider, Fiddlehead, and Alaska Quarterly Review.
Geri Lipschultz has published in The New York Times, Ms., The Toast, Black Warrior Review, College English, The Rumpus and others. Her fiction appears in Pearson’s Literature: Introduction to Reading and Writing and in Spuyten Duyvil’s The Wreckage of Reason II. She teaches writing at Hunter College and Borough of Manhattan Community College. Her one-woman show Once Upon the Present Time was produced in NYC by Woodie King, Jr. Her most recent story in Orca won a Pushcart nomination. She tweets @alicebluegown1.
Katie McMorris received her MFA from Purdue University, where she won an Academy of American Poets prize. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Booth, Quarterly West, and The Minnesota Review, among others. She is currently a PhD student at Oklahoma State University.
Thomas Renjilian is a PhD student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California and managing editor of Ricochet Editions. He received his BA from Vassar College and MFA from Oregon State University. His work appears in Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review Online, Michigan Quarterly Review, Catapult, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles.
The Rupture found Mahmoud Samori walking alongside a dirt road a couple hours outside an army base carrying a book and a dusty duffle. His water was low so we traded him a bit of ours and a lift to the interstate for his history. After dropping him off we found bits of an unpublished chapbook of haiku and an old silk map of the post-apocalyptic cyberpunk kleptocracy in our truck.
Hannah Smart (pen name: Ambrose D. Smart) is a short fiction writer and literary/pop culture critic. Her work appears in SmokeLong, Pif, New Reader, and Blue River Review, among others. She is an MFA fiction creative writing student at Emerson College, volunteer reader for Redivider, and presenter in the 2021 David Foster Wallace Conference.
Lucas Southworth's short stories have recently been published in the Pushcart Prize XLVI, The Southern Review, Conjunctions, AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, and others. His collection of short stories, Everyone Here Has a Gun, won the Association of Writers and Writing Program’s Grace Paley Prize (University of Massachusetts Press). He has received grants, fellowships, and residencies from The Maryland State Arts Council, The Truman Capote Trust, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Jentel Artist Residency Program, Monson Arts, and Arteles Creative Center in Hämeenkyrö, Finland. He lives in Baltimore, where he teaches fiction and screenwriting at Loyola University Maryland.
Natalie Louise Tombasco was selected for the Best New Poets anthology 2021 and as a published finalist for Cutbank Books chapbook contest with her manuscript titled Collective Inventions (2021). She is pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at Florida State University and serves as the Interviews Editor of the Southeast Review. Her work can be found in Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, Hobart Pulp, Plume, Peach Mag, Fairy Tale Review, Yalobusha Review, Southern Indiana Review, among others.
Abby Walthausen is a writer and teacher living in Los Angeles.
D.W. White is a graduate of the M.F.A. Creative Writing program at Otis College in Los Angeles and Stony Brook University's BookEnds Fellowship. Currently seeking representation for his first novel, he serves as Fiction Editor for West Trade Review, where he also contributes reviews and critical essays. His writing further appears in or is forthcoming from Fatal Flaw, Roi Fainéant Press, Twelve Winters Journal, Chicago Review of Books, Southern Review of Books, On The Seawall, and elsewhere. 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. He can be found on Twitter @dwhitethewriter.
Melissa Wiley won the 2019 Autumn House Press nonfiction contest for Skull Cathedral, which was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award and interweaves reflections on the body's vestigial organs with autobiographical fragments. She is also author of the personal essay collection Antlers in Space and Other Common Phenomena (Split/Lip Press, 2017).
Lucy Zhang writes, codes and watches anime. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, EcoTheo Review, Minola Review and elsewhere, and was selected for Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions. Her chapbook HOLLOWED is forthcoming in 2022 from Thirty West Publishing. Find her on Twitter @Dango_Ramen.