What Did I Do To Deserve This
Born to a Mexican mother and Jewish father, Rosebud Ben-Oni is a recipient of the 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a CantoMundo Fellow. She was a Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan, and a Horace Goldsmith Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of SOLECISM (Virtual Artists Collective, 2013), a contributor to The Conversant, and an Editorial Advisor for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Her poems appear in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Arts & Letters, among others. She writes weekly for The Kenyon Review blog. Find her at 7TrainLove.org.
The Radio is Full
Lindsey D. Alexander lives in East Tennessee, where she produces Story of My Life, a podcast that asks interesting guests over 70 how they came to be who they are and where they are. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Waxwing, and Arts & Letters, among other magazines. For more, visit www.ldalexander.com.
There Are Such Unfortunates
Sean Ennis is the author of the short story collection Chase Us (New Harvest), and teaches writing and literature at the University of Mississippi. More of his work can be found at seanennis.net.
Twenty-One Beginnings for the Same Short Story
Eric Dovigi lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. His work can be found at: Hobart, Westwind Journal, Sourland Mountain Review, Blue Planet Journal, and elsewhere.
Dorothea Lasky, I Wouldn’t Be a Poet Without You: How Black Life Influenced My Poetics by Katie Condon
Katie Condon is a Poetry Editor at Grist. If you would like to see first hand how her poetry has been influenced by Dorothea Lasky, head to www.katiecondonpoetry.com. To get your own copy of Black Life, visit wwww.wavepoetry.com
The Perfect Crime by Hisham Bustani
Hisham Bustani is a Jordanian award-winning author of four collections of short fiction. His fiction has been translated into five languages, with English-language translations appearing in journals across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, including World Literature Today, Los Angeles Review of Books and The Literary Review. In 2009, he was chosen by the German review Inamo as one of the Arab world’s emerging and influential new writers. In 2013, the UK-based cultural webzine The Culture Trip listed him as one of Jordan’s top six contemporary writers. His book The Perception of Meaning won the 2014 University of Arkansas Arabic Translation Award, and was published in 2015 by Syracuse University Press. One of Hisham’s stories was recently chosen to be featured in the inaugural edition of The Best Asian Short Stories anthology, forthcoming in 2017.
When Birds Devour the Breadcrumb Trail by Tessa Mellas
Tessa Mellas received the 2013 Iowa Short Fiction Award for her collection Lungs Full of Noise. She holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. She teaches writing at the University of Maine at Machias, a college so far east it is the first in the nation each morning to see the sun. Figure skater, vermicomposter, vegan and tender of a fierce feline twosome, she relates to soil and snow.
Biography of Orange (An Excerpt) After Maggie Nelson by Chloe Firetto-Toomey
Chloe Firetto-Toomey has an MFA degree from Florida International University, where she currently teaches creative writing. She also teaches nonfiction at Everglades Correctional Institution. She is a two-time finalist in Tupelo Quarterly’s Prose Open Contest and a finalist in Diagram’s chapbook contest. She won the 2017 Christopher F. Kelly Award for Poetry and 2020 Scotti Merrill Award for poetry. Her chapbook of poems, Little Cauliflower, was published in 2019 by Dancing Girl Press.
Some Notes on the Document After 11/8 by Susan Briante
Susan Briante is the author of three books of poetry: Pioneers in the Study of Motion, Utopia Minus, and The Market Wonders all from Ahsahta Press. Recent work has appeared in Guernica, Gulf Coast, as well as The Boston Review’s Poems for Political Disaster. She is an associate professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arizona, where she serves as faculty liaison for the Southwest Field Studies in Writing Program. The program brings MFA students to the US-Mexico border to work with community-based environmental and social justice groups. Briante hosts the radio program Speedway and Swan, an hour of poetry and music on KXCI 91.3 Tucson. She is writing a book on documentary poetics forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2019.
Justin Boening’s Not on the Last Day, But on the Very Last
Review by Emily Corwin // January 9, 2017Milkweed Editions, 2016Paperback, 61 pp. $16 Justin Boening’s Not on the Last Day, But on the Very Last is a book that gives pleasure, a visceral sensation that starts somewhere in the chest and ripples down to the feet. These poems are wild, lush, and dreamy. I even love the […]