How to Love the Natural Sciences
Based in West Texas, Jennifer Loyd is a poet, translator, and a former editor for Copper Nickel, West Branch, and Sycamore Review. For her poetry exploring the archives of Rachel Carson, she has received a Stadler Fellowship, as well as research grants from Purdue University, where she earned an MFA. Her poems and prose, which explore the intersection between private voice and public narratives, appear in Best New Poets, The Southern Review, The Rumpus, Swamp Pink, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, and elsewhere.
self portrait as saint dymphna
MJ Lu (she/they) is a Southeast Asian American poet who hails from North Carolina. Her work was previously published in MudRoom, Bulb Culture Collective, and Von Aegir Literary.
This Map of the Profane by Erin Elkins Radcliffe
Erin Elkins Radcliffe is a third-generation oldest child and the author of “Station of Rain” (dancing girl press) and “Bottomland” (Sundress Publications). Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit, Tupelo Quarterly, Iron Horse Literary Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Indiana, she now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her family.
Wedded, at Last, to the Idea of Weeds by Rosanne Singer
Rosanne Singer been a teaching artist in the Maryland schools and part of small arts teams working with wounded warriors and their families at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and with pediatric patients at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. Currently she is getting her MFA at the University of Baltimore. Recent work has appeared online in The Baltimore Fishbowl and Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine and is forthcoming in Allium and 1-70 Review. Social media handles are Twitter: @poetsinger and Instagram: @rosannesinger5.
Snakes All the Way Down by Lou Terlikowski
Lou Terlikowski is an Appalachian poet who cannot stop thinking about family, inheritance, and the beauty of her home. She loves the mountains and is grateful for the time she spent earning an MFA at the University of Alabama and the University of Oregon. Her work can be found in Blue Earth Review, Screen Door Review, Psychopomp, and in small piles throughout her house.
Dear Honeybees, the Wind Unhinges by Dawn Terpstra
Dawn Terpstra is a poet, writer and beekeeper from Iowa. Her journal publications include Cities of the Plains: An Anthology of Iowa Poets and Artists, Pratik: Magazine of Contemporary Literature, Midwest Quarterly, Halfway Down the Stairs, Verse Daily, 2River, Ekphrastic Review and SWWIM. She is the author of a chapbook Songs from the Summer Kitchen. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is a graduate student working toward her MFA in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writing Workshop. She is the Poetry Editor of River Heron Review. Learn more at dawnterpstra.com.
“Forsythia” and “Act of Some Minor God” by Kate Welsh
Born and raised along the Mississippi River, Kate Welsh now lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BA from Barnard College and an MFA from Warren Wilson College, where she was the Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow in 2021. In addition to Grist, her work can be found in or is forthcoming from Variant Lit, Epiphany, SWWIM Every Day, and West Trade Review, among others. She is the co-founder/co-editor of The Swannanoa Review. www.kate-welsh.com
Ghazal Across a Series of Construction Lines Marked A’ Through G’ by Shou Jie Eng
Shou Jie Eng is an architectural designer and writer. Originally from Singapore, he runs Left Field Projects, a design and research practice located in Hartford, CT. His writing has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Cathexis Northwest, Softblow, Speculative Nonfiction, and the anthology New Singapore Poetries. He teaches drawing and representation at the Rhode Island School of Design.
20 Ways to Start a Poem by Rebecca Danelly
Rebecca Danelly holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University and is currently co-editor of poetry at “table//Feast Mag.” Her poems have been published in the anthology, Chaos, Dive, Reunion by Mutabilis Press, Defunkt Magazine, and in numerous other journals and anthologies. She is a mother and grandmother, a United States Air Force veteran, and teaches college writing in Houston on former Akokisa, Atakapa, Karankawa, and Sana land where she
resides with her partner, Jeremy, and Daisy, the oversized chihuahua.
The Judas Tree
Erica Wright is the author of seven books, including the poetry collection All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned (Black Lawrence Press) and the essay collection Snake (Bloomsbury). She was the poetry editor of Guernica for more than a decade.