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Directions for After Care: Biopsy by Kami Westhoff
Kami Westhoff is the author of the story collection The Criteria, and four poetry chapbooks, including Sacral, recent winner of the Floating Bridge Chapbook Prize. She teaches Creative Writing at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA.
The Vocabulary of Violence by Alison Colwell
Alison Colwell is a writer, mother, domestic violence survivor and community organizer. Her work has been published in several literary journals including: The Humber Literary Review, The Ocotillo Review, Roi Faineant Literary Press, Hippocampus Magazine, and Grist. She lives on Galiano Island, Canada. Connect with her at: alisoncolwell.com.
TITLE: Elimination Diet / A Buen Tiempo by Yamilette Vizcaíno Rivera
Yamilette Vizcaíno Rivera is a queer Afro-Dominican writer based in Brooklyn. Her work has been longlisted for the First Pages Prize and supported by Sundress Academy for the Arts, Velvet Park, Vermont Studio Center, and others. She’s a Hunter College MFA alum, a mom to her cat Sofrito, and is (perpetually) nearly finished with her memoir.
Tennessee Homesick Blues by Kathryn M. Barber
Kathryn M. Barber grew up in the mountains along the Tennessee/Virginia state line. She holds degrees from Mississippi State University, University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Carson-Newman University. Currently, she is the Editorial Director for Press Pause Press and lives on the shores of North Carolina. Her work has appeared in The Masters Review,The Pinch, Blue Earth Review, Moon City Review, and elsewhere.
On the Ass by Liza Flum
Liza Flum is the author of Hover, forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2025. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2020, AGNI, Narrative, Meridian, Washington Square Review, Lambda Literary, and Zócalo Public Square. She is a recipient of a Barbara Deming individual artist grant, and her writing has been supported by fellowships from the Saltonstall Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, Aspen Summer Words, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. She holds an MFA in poetry from Cornell and PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah. She currently teaches creative writing at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Origin Story
Danielle Cadena Deulen is the author of four books. Her most recent poetry collection is Desire Museum (BOA Editions, 2023). Her previous books include Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us,which won the Barrow Street Book Contest; The Riots, which won the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction and the GLCA New Writers Award; and
Shara Lessley is the author of The Explosive Expert’s Wife and Two-Headed Nightingale, and co-editor of The Poem’s Country: Place & Poetic Practice, an anthology of essays. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, her awards include an NEA fellowship, the Mary Wood Fellowship from Washington College, the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, an Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship from Colgate University, and a “Discovery”/The Nation prize, among others. Shara’s poems and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, and IMAGE, and have been included in the Pushcart and Best American Poetry anthologies. She is Consulting Editor for Acre Books.
GRIST CNF
Directions for After Care: Biopsy by Kami Westhoff
Kami Westhoff is the author of the story collection The Criteria, and four poetry chapbooks, including Sacral, recent winner of the Floating Bridge Chapbook Prize. She teaches Creative Writing at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA.
The Vocabulary of Violence by Alison Colwell
Alison Colwell is a writer, mother, domestic violence survivor and community organizer. Her work has been published in several literary journals including: The Humber Literary Review, The Ocotillo Review, Roi Faineant Literary Press, Hippocampus Magazine, and Grist. She lives on Galiano Island, Canada. Connect with her at: alisoncolwell.com.
TITLE: Elimination Diet / A Buen Tiempo by Yamilette Vizcaíno Rivera
Yamilette Vizcaíno Rivera is a queer Afro-Dominican writer based in Brooklyn. Her work has been longlisted for the First Pages Prize and supported by Sundress Academy for the Arts, Velvet Park, Vermont Studio Center, and others. She’s a Hunter College MFA alum, a mom to her cat Sofrito, and is (perpetually) nearly finished with her memoir.
Tennessee Homesick Blues by Kathryn M. Barber
Kathryn M. Barber grew up in the mountains along the Tennessee/Virginia state line. She holds degrees from Mississippi State University, University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Carson-Newman University. Currently, she is the Editorial Director for Press Pause Press and lives on the shores of North Carolina. Her work has appeared in The Masters Review,The Pinch, Blue Earth Review, Moon City Review, and elsewhere.
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