Phobia, as Pantoum
Meg Eden Kuyatt teaches creative writing at colleges and writing centers. She is the author of the 2021 Towson Prize for Literature winning poetry collection “Drowning in the Floating World” and children’s novels including a 2024 ALA Schneider Family Book Award Honor “Good Different,” and the forthcoming “The Girl in the Wall” (Scholastic, 2025). Find her online at megedenbooks.com.
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A biracial Asian artist and writer, Addie Tsai (any/all) teaches Creative Writing at William & Mary. They collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel, among others. Addie is the author of Dear Twin and Unwieldy Creatures, which was a Shirley Jackson finalist for Best Novel. She is the features & reviews editor, as well as fiction co-editor, for Anomaly, and the founding editor in chief for just femme & dandy.
Slam Dancing at the Dead Milkmen Show in the Nyabinghi Dance Hall, 199two
Claudine Moreau is a physics and astronomy professor at Elon University which is in the middle of North Carolina. Her first full length book of poems, “Demise of Pangaea,” was published by Main Street Rag in April 2024. She has had work published in PANK, Tar River Poetry, Pinch, The Bitter Oleander, and the 34th Parallel among other places.
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Patrick Wilcox is the author of Acta from Cathexis Northwest Press and a Pushcart Prize nominee. He studied English and Creative writing at the University of Central Missouri where he also was an Assistant Editor for Pleiades and Editor-in-Chief of Arcade. He is a three-time recipient of the David Baker Award for Poetry, the 2020 honorable mention of Ninth Letter’s Literary Award in Poetry, and grand-prize winner of The MacGuffin’s Poet Hunt 26. His work has appeared in Southeast Review, Quarter After Eight, West Trade Review, and Copper Nickel, among others. He currently teaches English Language Arts at William Chrisman High School.
Elizabeth Bishop at the West Side YMCA
A.M. Goodhart received their MFA at Western Michigan University. They have published poems in Atlanta Review, Passages North, and Lake Effect. Their collection Neither Kind of Body was a semi-finalist for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize at BOA Editions and the Pamet River Prize at Yes Yes Books. They live in Madison, Wisconsin with Molly Grue (the dog) and Garrett Merz (the human).
When He Was Alive
Julie A. Cox received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, where she was an Edelstein-Keller poetry fellow. A finalist for the Loft Mentorship Series and Writers@Work competition, she has poems published or forthcoming in Cream City Review, Failbetter, Juke Joint Magazine, Salamander, and elsewhere.
The night I learn that quantum mechanics says that in trying to observe something you alter it
Bleah Patterson (she/her) is a southern, queer writer born and raised in Texas. A current MFA candidate and writing professor. She is a Pushcart nominee, has been a SAFTA and BAC resident, and her various genres of work are featured or forthcoming in Barely South, Write or Die, Phoebe Literature, The Texas Review, Milk Press, Beaver Magazine, Across the Margins, Electric Literature, Queerlings, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere.
Within is a moss of nonlinear relation
Ashleigh A. Allen is a graduate of The New School’s MFA program, and she has been teaching, first in New York City and then in Toronto, since 2010. Currently, she is a researcher, instructor, and Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum & Pedagogy at OISE/ University of Toronto. Her poetry is forthcoming or has recently appeared in The Malahat Review, PRISM international, the minnesota review, Fourteen Hills, Invisible City, So To Speak Journal, Contemporary Verse 2 and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the 2024 Writers Trust of Canada Bronwen Wallace Award for poetry and was longlisted for the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize.
The Poet & the City
Steven Cordova Steven Cordova’s full-length collection of poetry, Long Distance, was published by Bilingual Review Press in 2010. His poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, The Journal, New Orleans Review, Notre Dame Review, Los Angeles Review and Pleaides. From San Antonio, TX, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Bacardi Lips
Alejandro Lucero’s chapbook, Sapello Son, was named the Editors’ Selection for the 2022 Frost Place Competition (Bull City Press, 2024). His latest work appears and is forthcoming in Best New Poets, The Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, The Florida Review, Passages North, RHINO, and The Southern Review. He lives in Baltimore, where he teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins and is a managing editor for The Hopkins Review.