MAXIME BERCLAZ is a first-year candidate for an M.F.A. in Poetry at the University of Notre Dame and an Editorial Intern at Action Books. He has been published in Poems for Freedom, an anthology of poems put together in support of the anarchist bookstore Freedom after its firebombing, has had review in PANK, and will have one in Tarpaulin Sky.
TAM(SIN) BLAXTER is a non-binary trans woman and historical linguist based in Cambridge. She works on language in medieval Norway and language on twitter. Her poetry has recently appeared in Menacing Hedge, DATABLEED, and Sijo—an international journal of poetry and song. She can be found online at www.icge.co.uk and on twitter @what_really_no.
NATHAN WADE CARTER (he/him) is a queer, grey-a, non-binary poet, musician, and artist living in Portland, Oregon. His chapbook is ROYGBIV (Ursus Americanus Press 2017). His poetry can be found in Hobart, Fugue, Gramma Poetry, Poor Claudia, The Fem, and others. He is the editor and founder of SUSAN / The Journal. He writes and performs songs under the name Purrbot. He co-facilitates the generative writing salon Creation Island with Zulema Renee Summerfield. Find him online at nathanwadecarter.com.
JULIET COOK’s a grotesque glitter witch medusa hybrid brimming with black, grey, silver, purple, and dark red explosions. She is drawn to poetry, abstract visual art, and other forms of expression. Her poetry has appeared in a peculiar multitude of literary publications. You can find out more at www.JulietCook.weebly.com.
DARREN C. DEMAREE is the author of ten poetry collections, most recently Lady, You Shot Me, which was published by 8th House Publishing. He is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louis Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
ADAM EDELMAN’s poems have appeared in Narrative Magazine; Forklift, Ohio; decomP; Bridge; Metazen; and Barnhouse. His chapbook, Outpost, was a semi-finalist for the 2017 Verse Magazine Tomaž Šalamun Prize. He holds an MFA in poetry from the New Writers Project at the University of Texas at Austin, where he received a fellowship from the Michener Center for Writers. He lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he is a Ph.D. student in creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
CAITLIN FARRUGIA is a writer and producer from Melbourne, Australia. Her pieces embrace themes of feminism, social class, motherhood, sexuality and the social worlds of children. Her work has previously appeared in Verity La, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Squawk Back, and Pink Cover Zine.
BRANDON FREELS has a MS in Writing/Publishing from Portland State University. His poems have appeared in The Bitter Oleander, Exquisite Corpse, Hobart, and other publications. He can be found at brandonfreels.com and @koalacanth.
CAROLYN GUINZIO is the author of six collections, most recently How Much Of What Falls Will Be Left When It Gets To The Ground? (Tolsun, 2018) and Ozark Crows (Spuyten-Duyvil, 2018). Among her earlier collections is Spoke & Dark (Red Hen, 2012), winner of the To The Lighthouse/A Room Of Her Own Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Agni, Harvard Review, Bomb and many other journals. Her website is carolynguinzio.tumblr.com.
j/j hastain is a collaborator, writer and maker of things. j/j performs ceremonial gore. Chasing and courting the animate and potentially enlivening decay that exists between seer and singer, j/j hopes to make the god/dess of stone moan and nod deeply through the waxing and waning seasons of the moon.
JEFFREY HECKER is the author of Rumble Seat (San Francisco Bay Press, 2011) & the chapbooks Hornbook (Horse Less Press, 2012), Instructions for the Orgy (Sunnyoutside Press, 2013), & Before He Let Them Guide Sleigh (ShirtPocket Press, 2013). Recent work has appeared in Mascara Literary Review, La Fovea, Zocalo Public Square, LEVELER, Spittoon, decomP, Entropy, BOAAT & Dream Pop Journal. He holds a degree from Old Dominion University. He’s a fourth-generation Hawaiian American and he currently resides in Norfolk, Virginia.
DAVID HUR is a Comparative Literature PhD Candidate at UC Santa Barbara. He is writing a dissertation on Korean American poetics, reading avant-garde poetry and verbal arts in hip-hop and spoken word. David has previously published in elimae.
SARA KACHELMAN’s first collection is forthcoming in 2019, and her stories have appeared in DIAGRAM, Portland Review, New South, and many other journals. She is a student of prose and bookmaking at the Independent Publishing Resource Center in Portland, Oregon.
TOSHIYA KAMEI holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Arkansas. His translations of Latin American literature include books by Claudia Apablaza, Carlos Bortoni, and Selfa Chew.
JENNIFER MACBAIN-STEPHENS lives in Midwest and is the author of four full length poetry collections: Your Best Asset is a White Lace Dress, (Yellow Chair Press, 2016) The Messenger is Already Dead, (Stalking Horse Press, 2017,) We’re Going to Need a Higher Fence, tied for first place in the 2017 Lit Fest Book Competition, and The Vitamix and the Murder of Crows, is recently out from Apocalypse Party. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. She is also the author of ten chapbooks. Recent work can be seen at or is forthcoming from The Pinch, Black Lawrence Press, Quiddity, Prelude, Cleaver, Yalobusha Review, decomP, and Inter/rupture. Visit: http://jennifermacbainstephens.wordpress.com/
JULIANNE NEELY received her MFA degree from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, where she received the Truman Capote Fellowship, the 2017 John Logan Poetry Prize, and a Schupes Prize for Poetry. Her writing has been published in VIDA, The Rumpus, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Hobart and more. She currently teaches college English and her chapbook The Body Beside Herself is available from Slope Editions.
OKSANA NORIEGA is a genderqueer Latina and slavery survivor. Her work has been published in Utterance and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives with others. Visit her here: oksananoriega.tumblr.com
KEVIN SAMPSELL lives in Portland, Oregon, where he sells books at a bookstore (Powell’s), makes collages in a garage (kevinsampsellcollages.tumblr.com), publishes books out of his bedroom (Future Tense Books), and writes on his porch when the weather permits. Recent work of his can be found at The Elephants, Hobart, Joyland, Longreads, Ohio Edit, and Big Muddy.
A retired high school science teacher, YOSHIRO TAKAYASU lives with his wife and fellow poet Mitsuko in Togane, Chiba. He is the author of several poetry collections, including Mukashi mukashi (1982) and Jigenkyo (1987). English translations by Toshiya Kamei of Yoshiro's fiction and poetry have appeared in various journals, including The Broken Plate, The Dirty Goat, Gargoyle Magazine, Metamorphoses, Nebo, and Visions International.
DANIEL UNCAPHER was a Sparks Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, where he received his MFA. His work has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Tin House Online, Baltimore Review, Penn Review, and others.
Born in 1952 in Jauja, Peru, JAIME URCO currently lives in Lima, where he is an Associate Professor at the Universidad de Lima. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2005. He is the author of the poetry collections Silbando una canción feliz (1985), Retrato en blanco y negro (1986), and Poca luz en el bar y otros poemas (1995).
SCARLETT ELIZA WARDROP is an MFA Candidate in Poetry at the University of Notre Dame where she serves as an editorial assistant at the Notre Dame Review and Re:Visions. While an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, she won a Hopwood Undergraduate Award in Poetry.
ENGRAM WILKINSON's work has appeared in Lana Turner, Deluge, SUSAN, Black Sun Lit, The Offing, Figure 1, Vassar Review and Cordite Poetry Review. Born and raised in central Alabama, he lives in San Francisco where he studies law. He is online at engramwilkinson.info.
TAM(SIN) BLAXTER is a non-binary trans woman and historical linguist based in Cambridge. She works on language in medieval Norway and language on twitter. Her poetry has recently appeared in Menacing Hedge, DATABLEED, and Sijo—an international journal of poetry and song. She can be found online at www.icge.co.uk and on twitter @what_really_no.
NATHAN WADE CARTER (he/him) is a queer, grey-a, non-binary poet, musician, and artist living in Portland, Oregon. His chapbook is ROYGBIV (Ursus Americanus Press 2017). His poetry can be found in Hobart, Fugue, Gramma Poetry, Poor Claudia, The Fem, and others. He is the editor and founder of SUSAN / The Journal. He writes and performs songs under the name Purrbot. He co-facilitates the generative writing salon Creation Island with Zulema Renee Summerfield. Find him online at nathanwadecarter.com.
JULIET COOK’s a grotesque glitter witch medusa hybrid brimming with black, grey, silver, purple, and dark red explosions. She is drawn to poetry, abstract visual art, and other forms of expression. Her poetry has appeared in a peculiar multitude of literary publications. You can find out more at www.JulietCook.weebly.com.
DARREN C. DEMAREE is the author of ten poetry collections, most recently Lady, You Shot Me, which was published by 8th House Publishing. He is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louis Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
ADAM EDELMAN’s poems have appeared in Narrative Magazine; Forklift, Ohio; decomP; Bridge; Metazen; and Barnhouse. His chapbook, Outpost, was a semi-finalist for the 2017 Verse Magazine Tomaž Šalamun Prize. He holds an MFA in poetry from the New Writers Project at the University of Texas at Austin, where he received a fellowship from the Michener Center for Writers. He lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he is a Ph.D. student in creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
CAITLIN FARRUGIA is a writer and producer from Melbourne, Australia. Her pieces embrace themes of feminism, social class, motherhood, sexuality and the social worlds of children. Her work has previously appeared in Verity La, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Squawk Back, and Pink Cover Zine.
BRANDON FREELS has a MS in Writing/Publishing from Portland State University. His poems have appeared in The Bitter Oleander, Exquisite Corpse, Hobart, and other publications. He can be found at brandonfreels.com and @koalacanth.
CAROLYN GUINZIO is the author of six collections, most recently How Much Of What Falls Will Be Left When It Gets To The Ground? (Tolsun, 2018) and Ozark Crows (Spuyten-Duyvil, 2018). Among her earlier collections is Spoke & Dark (Red Hen, 2012), winner of the To The Lighthouse/A Room Of Her Own Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Agni, Harvard Review, Bomb and many other journals. Her website is carolynguinzio.tumblr.com.
j/j hastain is a collaborator, writer and maker of things. j/j performs ceremonial gore. Chasing and courting the animate and potentially enlivening decay that exists between seer and singer, j/j hopes to make the god/dess of stone moan and nod deeply through the waxing and waning seasons of the moon.
JEFFREY HECKER is the author of Rumble Seat (San Francisco Bay Press, 2011) & the chapbooks Hornbook (Horse Less Press, 2012), Instructions for the Orgy (Sunnyoutside Press, 2013), & Before He Let Them Guide Sleigh (ShirtPocket Press, 2013). Recent work has appeared in Mascara Literary Review, La Fovea, Zocalo Public Square, LEVELER, Spittoon, decomP, Entropy, BOAAT & Dream Pop Journal. He holds a degree from Old Dominion University. He’s a fourth-generation Hawaiian American and he currently resides in Norfolk, Virginia.
DAVID HUR is a Comparative Literature PhD Candidate at UC Santa Barbara. He is writing a dissertation on Korean American poetics, reading avant-garde poetry and verbal arts in hip-hop and spoken word. David has previously published in elimae.
SARA KACHELMAN’s first collection is forthcoming in 2019, and her stories have appeared in DIAGRAM, Portland Review, New South, and many other journals. She is a student of prose and bookmaking at the Independent Publishing Resource Center in Portland, Oregon.
TOSHIYA KAMEI holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Arkansas. His translations of Latin American literature include books by Claudia Apablaza, Carlos Bortoni, and Selfa Chew.
JENNIFER MACBAIN-STEPHENS lives in Midwest and is the author of four full length poetry collections: Your Best Asset is a White Lace Dress, (Yellow Chair Press, 2016) The Messenger is Already Dead, (Stalking Horse Press, 2017,) We’re Going to Need a Higher Fence, tied for first place in the 2017 Lit Fest Book Competition, and The Vitamix and the Murder of Crows, is recently out from Apocalypse Party. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. She is also the author of ten chapbooks. Recent work can be seen at or is forthcoming from The Pinch, Black Lawrence Press, Quiddity, Prelude, Cleaver, Yalobusha Review, decomP, and Inter/rupture. Visit: http://jennifermacbainstephens.wordpress.com/
JULIANNE NEELY received her MFA degree from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, where she received the Truman Capote Fellowship, the 2017 John Logan Poetry Prize, and a Schupes Prize for Poetry. Her writing has been published in VIDA, The Rumpus, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Hobart and more. She currently teaches college English and her chapbook The Body Beside Herself is available from Slope Editions.
OKSANA NORIEGA is a genderqueer Latina and slavery survivor. Her work has been published in Utterance and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives with others. Visit her here: oksananoriega.tumblr.com
KEVIN SAMPSELL lives in Portland, Oregon, where he sells books at a bookstore (Powell’s), makes collages in a garage (kevinsampsellcollages.tumblr.com), publishes books out of his bedroom (Future Tense Books), and writes on his porch when the weather permits. Recent work of his can be found at The Elephants, Hobart, Joyland, Longreads, Ohio Edit, and Big Muddy.
A retired high school science teacher, YOSHIRO TAKAYASU lives with his wife and fellow poet Mitsuko in Togane, Chiba. He is the author of several poetry collections, including Mukashi mukashi (1982) and Jigenkyo (1987). English translations by Toshiya Kamei of Yoshiro's fiction and poetry have appeared in various journals, including The Broken Plate, The Dirty Goat, Gargoyle Magazine, Metamorphoses, Nebo, and Visions International.
DANIEL UNCAPHER was a Sparks Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, where he received his MFA. His work has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Tin House Online, Baltimore Review, Penn Review, and others.
Born in 1952 in Jauja, Peru, JAIME URCO currently lives in Lima, where he is an Associate Professor at the Universidad de Lima. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2005. He is the author of the poetry collections Silbando una canción feliz (1985), Retrato en blanco y negro (1986), and Poca luz en el bar y otros poemas (1995).
SCARLETT ELIZA WARDROP is an MFA Candidate in Poetry at the University of Notre Dame where she serves as an editorial assistant at the Notre Dame Review and Re:Visions. While an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, she won a Hopwood Undergraduate Award in Poetry.
ENGRAM WILKINSON's work has appeared in Lana Turner, Deluge, SUSAN, Black Sun Lit, The Offing, Figure 1, Vassar Review and Cordite Poetry Review. Born and raised in central Alabama, he lives in San Francisco where he studies law. He is online at engramwilkinson.info.
