Poetry
Eternal City
Aiden Heung(He/They) is a Chinese poet born in a Tibetan Autonomous Town, currently living in Shanghai. He holds an MA from Tongji University. His words appeared or are forthcoming in The Australian Poetry Journal, The Missouri Review, New York Quarterly, Poet Lore, Parentheses, The Columbia Journal, among other places. Read more about him at www.aidenheung.com. He can be found at twitter @aidenheung
At First There Was Nothing
Joe Woodward lives and works in Claremont, California. He is the author of ALIVE INSIDE THE WRECK: A Biography of Nathanael West (O/R Books, New York) and a four-time finalist and two-time winner of a Los Angeles Press Club Award. His work is forthcoming or has appeared in Brick, Carve, The Chariton Review, Columbia Poetry Review, The Greensboro Review, New Ohio Review, Passages North and elsewhere. He received his MFA from Brooklyn College and is online at www.joewoodward.net.
Tilting
Joe Woodward lives and works in Claremont, California. He is the author of ALIVE INSIDE THE WRECK: A Biography of Nathanael West (O/R Books, New York) and a four-time finalist and two-time winner of a Los Angeles Press Club Award. His work is forthcoming or has appeared in Brick, Carve, The Chariton Review, Columbia Poetry Review, The Greensboro Review, New Ohio Review, Passages North and elsewhere. He received his MFA from Brooklyn College and is online at www.joewoodward.net.
Our Lady of the Fallow
Megan Neville (she/her) is a writer and educator based in Cleveland, Ohio. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets (Poets.org), Cherry Tree, West Branch, Pleiades, Wildness, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Her full-length poetry collection The Fallow will be published by Trio House Press in 2022. She is an editorial assistant for Split Lip Magazine, and you can find her on Twitter @MegNev.
After All, I Promised to Read St. Augustine
Megan Neville (she/her) is a writer and educator based in Cleveland, Ohio. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets (Poets.org), Cherry Tree, West Branch, Pleiades, Wildness, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Her full-length poetry collection The Fallow will be published by Trio House Press in 2022. She is an editorial assistant for Split Lip Magazine, and you can find her on Twitter @MegNev.
Heroic Head of Pierre de Wissant, One of the Burghers of Calais (1886) by Auguste Rodin
Megan Neville (she/her) is a writer and educator based in Cleveland, Ohio. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets (Poets.org), Cherry Tree, West Branch, Pleiades, Wildness, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Her full-length poetry collection The Fallow will be published by Trio House Press in 2022. She is an editorial assistant for Split Lip Magazine, and you can find her on Twitter @MegNev.
GRIST POETRY
beach house
Rachel B. Glaser is the author of the novel Paulina & Fran, the short story collection Pee On Water, and the poetry books MOODS and HAIRDO. Glaser studied painting at RISD and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Umass-Amherst. In 2017, she was on Granta’s list of Best of Young American Novelists. Her fiction has been anthologized in New American Stories. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts and teaches at the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA.
Niceville
Collin Callahan was born in Illinois. His first collection of poetry, Thunderbird Inn, won the 2022 Minds on Fire Open Prize. His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, SLICE, Cream City Review, Hobart, Carve Magazine, Witness, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. Collin holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas—where he was awarded the 2017 Walton Family Fellowship in Poetry—and is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Florida State University. He is the recipient of the 2021 Bat City Review Editors’ Prize in poetry.
Luisa Anselmi as Saul at Damascus
Danielle Rose is the author of two short books: at first & then and The History of Mountains. Her work can be found at Palette, Hobart & Pithead Chapel.
Truth and Violence Carved My Baby Out of Stone
Jordan Escobar is a writer in Jamaica Plain, MA. He is a 2022 Djanikian Scholar in Poetry. Recent work can be found in Zone 3, Willow Springs, Colorado Review and elsewhere. He currently divides his time teaching at Emerson College and Babson College, and working as a professional beekeeper.
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