Issue One Hundred and Eighteen
Alyssa Witbeck Alexander (she/her) is a creative nonfiction MFA candidate at the University of Montana and holds an MS and BS in writing from Utah State University. She currently teaches college composition and is a reader for Cut Bank. She won First Prize in the essay category of the 2021 Utah Original Writing Competition and has work published/forthcoming in Chestnut Review, Salt Hill, Door is a Jar, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter @lyswalexander.
Gustavo Adolfo Aybar is the author of We Seek Asylum and Between Line Breaks. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in !Manteca!: An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets, Primera Página: Poetry from the Latino Heartland, NINE: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture, Salem Press, ABC-CLIO, Asymptote, EZRA, InTranslation, and other journals and anthologies. His newest manuscript in-progress (Ambush) is an interactive, hybrid collection related to his law enforcement experience; recent work from that collection can be found in SpanglishVoces, Space on Space Magazine, and forthcoming via Glint Literary Review. Aybar is also working on a father/son collection of essays, a travelogue about the trips they’ve taken while also on their karate black belt journey.
Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise and writes poetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in Medium Chill, Your Fire, and The High Window Journal, among others.
Kerry Carnahan is the author of the chapbook The Experience of Being a Cathedral (Lettuce Run Books, 2021). Her poems can be found in Boston Review, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, and FIVES: A Companion to Denver Quarterly.
Devon Halliday is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer, with short stories appearing in Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, and Indiana Review. She is also a singer, songwriter, and guitarist in a local band, and has released several albums independently on Spotify. For several years she has been working as a literary agent at the Transatlantic Agency. She studied Comparative Literature at Brown University and now lives in Athens, Ohio, where she moonlights as a cashier at her husband's bakery.
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 edits the journal Orange Blossom Review. His creative work includes publications in fiction, poetry, and visual art.
Nathan Knapp was born in a town called Talihina and now lives in another one called Nashville. His writing has appeared in The Point, 3:AM, Music & Literature, and The TLS. Other Schopenhauer stories may be found here and here.
Kent Kosack is a writer living in Pittsburgh, PA. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh where he teaches composition and creative writing. He also serves as the Director of the Educational Arm at Asymptote, a journal of world literature in translation. His work has been published in Tin House (Flash Fidelity), the Cincinnati Review, the Normal School, Hobart, and elsewhere.
Rachel León is a writer, editor, and social worker. She serves as Fiction Editor for Arcturus and Reviews Editor for West Trade Review. Her work has appeared in Fiction Writers Review, Necessary Fiction, Split Lip Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, and elsewhere.
Anthony Thomas Lombardi is a Pushcart-nominated poet, organizer, activist, and educator. He is the founder and director of Word is Bond, a community-centered reading series partnered with AAWW that raises funds for transnational relief efforts, bail funds, and mutual aid organizations, and currently serves as assistant poetry editor for Sundog Lit. A recipient of the Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship, his work has appeared or will soon in the Poetry Foundation’s Ours Poetica, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, North American Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn with his cat, Dilla. Find him on Instagram @prettytoneywrites.
JSA Lowe's poems have appeared in such publications as AGNI, American Scholar, Black Warrior Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Hobart, Michigan Quarterly Review's Mixtape, Q/A Poetry, Salamander, Salt Hill, Screen Door Review, Sinister Wisdom, Superstition Review, Third Coast, and Versal. She has published two chapbooks, DOE and Cherry-emily. She is a lecturer in English at the University of Houston, where she received her PhD; she lives on Galveston Island.
Janice Northerns is the author of Some Electric Hum (Lamar University Literary Press, 2020), winner of the Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award from the University of Kansas, the Nelson Poetry Book Award, and a WILLA Literary Award Finalist in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Ploughshares, The Laurel Review, and Southwestern American Literature. She lives in southwest Kansas.
Remi Recchia, author of Quicksand/Stargazing (Cooper Dillon Books, 2021), is a trans poet and essayist from Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is a Ph.D. candidate in English-Creative Writing at Oklahoma State University. He currently serves as an associate editor for the Cimarron Review and Reviews Editor for Gasher Journal. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Remi's work has appeared or will soon appear in Best New Poets 2021, Columbia Online Journal, Harpur Palate, and Juked, among others; he holds an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University.
Forrest Roth is the author of a novel, Gary Oldman Is A Building You Must Walk Through (2017), and a forthcoming collection, Skeletal Lights from Afar (2022), both from What Books Press. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Marshall University in West Virginia.
Pamela Ryder is the author of two novels and a short story collection. Her fiction has been published in many literary journals. “The Apache Ponies Do Not Answer” is from a collection in progress about the young desperado, Billy the Kid.
Joe Sacksteder is the author of Make/Shift (Sarabande Books) and Driftless Quintet (Schaffner Press). Recent publications include Michigan Quarterly Review, DIAGRAM, West Branch, and Salt Hill. He will be teaching at Sweet Briar College in the fall.
Tiffany Troy is a critic, translator, and poet. Her interviews and reviews are published/ forthcoming from The Adroit Journal, The Cortland Review, The Los Angeles Review, EcoTheo Review, and Tupelo Quarterly, where she serves as an associate editor.
Will VanDenBerg's short fiction has been published in Threadcount, Denver Quarterly, Sleepingfish, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the Literary Arts MFA program at Brown University. He volunteers as a clinic escort at PPGNY and lives with his wife in Sunnyside, NY. Their dog is no longer afraid of wind.
Madeline Vosch writes fiction and essays, and is currently working on a memoir. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Redivider, The Offing, and Puerto del Sol, among others. She is the 2021 winner of the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Contest in Nonfiction and was an Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow in 2020 and 2021.
C. Dale Young is the author of a novel The Affliction (2018) and five collections of poetry, the most recent being Prometeo (2021). He practices medicine full-time and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.