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Elisávet Makridis, a US-born great-granddaughter of Pontic Greek refugees, is a Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets nominated cross-disciplinary poet and educator. Recipient of the Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, Elisávet earned an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University where she taught for four years as a lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English. Her writing has received multiple awards and honors, selected most recently as a finalist for RHINO Poetry’s 2026 Founders’ Prize and Black Warrior Review’s inaugural Experimental Forms Contest and named a semifinalist for the Fall 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition (Black Lawrence Press). A 2026 McCormack (formerly Tin House) Winter Online Workshop Participant, Elisávet’s work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, RHINO, Poetry Northwest, Washington Square Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Canthius, amongst others. Her poetics aim to calibrate otherwise ways of communing with infinite ancestral beloveds across a lineage of forced displacement, refugeehood, and genocide to metabolize a wail that predates her body. Find her online at elisavetmakridis.com.
Polaroid Stories
London-based artist Tash Kahn has a multi-faceted practice that merges painting, Polaroids and sculpture. Working intuitively, images are arrived at spontaneously and chance encounters are embraced through colour, composition and form. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions in London, Sussex and New York. She also works as a freelance editor.
Cathy Rose is a San Francisco, CA writer whose stories have appeared in Sluice, Hunger Mountain, Greensboro Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Fourteen Hills and elsewhere, and in fiction and creative nonfiction anthologies. She holds an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University and is a practicing psychologist.
Issue 19
ISSUE 19 Grist’s latest issue appears each spring and boasts exclusive-to-print poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. BACK ISSUES Grist is published annually. To see all subscription
Could be the last time
Robin LaMer Rahija is the author of Inside Out Egg (Variant Lit 2024). She received her MFA from the University of Kentucky, where she is an administrative assistant in the Department of English. Her poems have appeared in Puerto Del Sol, FENCE, Spoon River Review, and elsewhere.