Issue One Hundred and Nineteen
Jake Bailey is a schiZotypal experientialist, poet, scholar, and librarian. He has published or forthcoming work in Abstract Magazine, The American Journal of Poetry, The Carolina Quarterly, Constellations, Diode Poetry Journal, Frontier Poetry, Guesthouse, Mid-American Review, Palette Poetry, PANK Magazine, Passages North, Persuasions, Storm Cellar, TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics, and elsewhere. He received his MA from Northwest Missouri State University, his MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles, and his MLIS from Dominican University. Jake is an associate poetry editor for Storm Cellar, a reader for Grist and The Los Angeles Review, and the former poetry editor for Lunch Ticket. He lives in Illinois with his wife and their four dogs. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram @SaintJakeowitz.
Genia Blum is a Swiss Ukrainian Canadian writer, translator, and dancer. Her work has been anthologized, published widely in literary journals, and received numerous Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. "Slaves of Dance," based on excerpts from her memoir in progress, was named a "Notable" in The Best American Essays 2019. Find @geniablum on Twitter and Instagram.
Amy Bohlman is a Minnesota-based writer whose work has appeared in Ellipsis Zine, Minnesota Women's Press, Five Minute Lit, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Hamline University. Find her on Instagram @ashortgirlwrites.
Wendy Brandmark writes short stories and novels. She won the Bridport prize for the short story, and her collection of stories He Runs the Moon: Tales from the Cities was longlisted for the Edgehill Prize in the UK. Her stories have appeared widely in British and American journals, including Lilith Magazine, North American Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Stand Magazine. Her last novel, The Stray American, was shortlisted for the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. She has had residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland and a fellowship at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland. She teaches on the Oxford MA in Creative Writing. She is working on a new collection of short stories.
Joseph J. Capista is the author of Intrusive Beauty (Ohio University Press), which won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. He teaches at Towson University and lives with his family in Baltimore.
Sarah Carson's work has appeared in Diagram, Guernica, The Missouri Review, Nashville Review, and Waxwing, among others. Her book How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan will be published by Persea Books in Fall 2022.
Andrew Farkas is the author of The Great Indoorsman: Essays, The Big Red Herring (novel), Sunsphere (stories), and Self-Titled Debut (stories).
Anne Graue is the author of Full and Plum-Colored Velvet, (Woodley Press, 2020) and Fig Tree in Winter (Dancing Girl Press, 2017) and has poetry in SWWIM Every Day, Verse Daily, Rivet Journal, Mom Egg Review, Flint Hills Review, Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, and in print anthologies, including The Book of Donuts (Terrapin Books, 2017) and Coffee Poems (World Enough Writers, 2019). Her book reviews appear in FF2 Media, Adroit, Green Mountains Review, Glass Poetry Journal, and The Kenyon Review. She is a poetry editor for The Westchester Review.
Rick Henry has lived across the United States but always returns to the sensibilities, landscapes, and histories of upstate New York. His recent publications are the novella Colleen's Count (Finishing Line Press) and the epistolary novel Letters (1855) (Ra Press). His other books include Snow Fleas (a reverie) and Then (54 text blocks), both from ANC. Recently completed are Paper Dolls, a handmade book/textual assemblage in eight parts with twenty-eight movements and an audio production of The Other Daughters, a performance poem featuring the voices of 120 self-identifying daughters.
Kira K. Homsher is a writer from Philadelphia. She holds an MFA from Virginia Tech, serves as Features Editor for Carve Magazine, and reads for X-R-A-Y Lit Mag. The winner of Phoebe Journal's 2020 nonfiction contest and a Pushcart nominee, her writing also appears or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Passages North, Barrelhouse, Hobart, and others.
Matthew Kirkpatrick is the author of The Ambrose J and Vivian T Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art (Acre Books) and Light without Heat (FC2). He lives in Ypsilanti, MI and teaches at Eastern Michigan University.
Sean Lovelace is the chair of the English Department at Ball State University and is working on a history of Adderall.
Kevin McIlvoy lives in Asheville, North Carolina. His newest published works are One Kind Favor (WTAW Press, 2021); At the Gate of All Wonder (Tupelo Press, 2018), 57 Octaves Below Middle C (Four Way Books, 2017), and The Complete History of New Mexico and Other Stories (2007).
J. Alan Nelson, a writer and actor, has poetry, essays and stories published or forthcoming in journals including New York Quarterly, Conjunctions, Stand, Acumen, Pampelmousse, Main Street Rag, Texas Observer, California Quarterly, Connecticut River Review, Adirondack Review, Red Cedar Review, Wisconsin Review, South Carolina Review, Kairos, Ligeia, Strange Horizons, Illuminations, and Whale Road Review. He has received nominations for Best of Net and Best Microfiction. He also played the lead in the viral video "Does This Cake Make Me Look Gay?" and the verbose "Silent Al" in the Emmy-winning SXSWestworld.
Glen Pourciau's most recent story collection, Getaway, was published in 2021 by Four Way Books. His stories have been published by AGNI Online, Green Mountains Review, New England Review, New World Writing, The Paris Review, Post Road, previous issues of The Rupture, and others.
Will Austin Simescu grew up in Northern Michigan and spent six years in the U.S. Air Force. He currently lives in Colorado with his dog, Lily, and studies Ecological Restoration at Colorado State University. Will's poems have also appeared in the Louisville Review, Poetry South, Cathexis Northwest Press, and Slippery Elm, among others.
Julie Marie Wade is the author of 13 collections of poetry, prose, and hybrid forms, including Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, Small Fires, Postage Due: Poems & Prose Poems, When I Was Straight, SIX, Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing, and Skirted. With Denise Duhamel, she wrote The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, and with Brenda Miller, Telephone: Essays in Two Voices. A winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, Julie teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University and reviews regularly for Lambda Literary Review and The Rumpus. She is married to Angie Griffin and lives in Dania Beach.
Abby Walthausen is a writer and teacher living in Los Angeles.
Sasha West is the author of Failure and I Bury the Body, winner of the National Poetry Series, and the forthcoming How to Abandon Ship (Four Way Books). Recent poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Agni, Georgia Review, and the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. She lives in Austin, TX, and teaches at St. Edward's University.
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 Founding Editor for L'Esprit Literary Review and Fiction Editor for West Trade Review, where he also contributes reviews and critical essays. His writing further appears in The Florida Review, The Review of UnContemporary Fiction, Necessary Fiction, and Chicago Review of Books, among several other publications. A Chicago ex-pat, he now lives in Long Beach, California, where he teaches writing and frequents the beach to hide from writer's block. He can be found on Twitter at @dwhitethewriter.