CONTRIBUTORS

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David Adamson grew up in Salt Lake City, UT, and now lives in Silver Spring, MD, with his wife, a cat, and occasionally two sons. He has a PhD in English studies from UCLA. His day job is writing and editing at a nonprofit policy studies firm. He recently resumed writing poetry after decades of keeping quiet. His other hobbies are hiking, reading history and literature, watching baseball, and drifting in and out.

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Idris Anderson was born and grew up in Charleston, SC; for the last two decades her home has been the San Francisco Bay Area. Her first collection of poems, Mrs. Ramsay’s Knee, was selected by Harold Bloom for the May Swenson Poetry Award 2008 and published by Utah State University Press. She won a Pushcart Prize (2010), a Pushcart Special Mention (2012), and has published poems in AGNI, Arts & Letters, Crab Orchard Review, The Nation, Ontario Review, The Paris Review, Plume, Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, and other journals. She recently completed a residency at The MacDowell Colony and won the Yeats Society of New York Poetry Prize, 2015.

Carl Auerbach lives in New York City, where he practices psychotherapy. He’s had three poems and a short story nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hawaii Pacific Review, Louisville Review, Nimrod International Journal, North American Review, The South Carolina Review, among others.
 

Philip Belcher has the great pleasure of living on a ridge top in Asheville, NC, where he’s thrilled to see bears in his yard frequently during the summer. He has published poems and critical prose in a wide variety of literary journals and is pleased to serve as an advisory and contributing editor for Shenandoah, the literary journal of Washington & Lee.
 

William Bonfiglio is an MFA candidate studying creative writing and environment at Iowa State University and a graduate of Bucknell University, where his poem “Remembering The Loons” was awarded the Julia Fonville
Smithson Memorial Prize in 2011. He previously served as poetry editor to Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment.
 

Heather Bowlan lives in Raleigh, NC, where she completed an MFA in creative writing at NC State in 2014. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Chicago Quarterly Review, Codex, The Nashville Review, Day One, and elsewhere. She’s received an Academy of American Poets University Award and a residency from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She’s the chapbook editor for BOAAT Press and on poetry staff for Raleigh Review.

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Robert Campbell’s poems have appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, Asheville Poetry Review, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He holds an MS in library science and is currently an MFA student at Murray State University. He lives in Lexington, KY, where he serves as reference and instruction librarian at Transylvania University and reviews editor for DIALOGIST, an online journal of poetry and art.
 

Cortney Lamar Charleston lives in Jersey City, NJ. He is a Cave Canem fellow, an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania’s performance poetry collective, The Excelano Project, and a founder of BLACK PANTONE,
an inclusive digital cataloging of black identity. His poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Beloit Poetry Journal, Crab Orchard Review, CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art & Action, Eleven Eleven, Folio, Juked, Kweli Journal, The Normal School, Rattle, Winter Tangerine Review, and elsewhere.
 

Wyn Cooper is the author of four books of poems, most recently Chaos is the New Calm. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Southern Review, AGNI, and in 25 anthologies of contemporary poetry. His poems have been turned into songs by Sheryl Crow, David Broza, Madison Smartt Bell, among others. He has taught at Bennington and Marlboro colleges, and at The Frost Place. He lives in Boston and Vermont, and works as a freelance editor of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. WynCooper.com
 

Darren C. Demaree’s poems have appeared or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including the South Dakota Review, Meridian, The Louisville Review, Grist, and Colorado Review. He is the author of As We Refer To Our Bodies (8th House, 2013), Temporary Champions (Main Street Rag Press, 2014), The Pony Governor (After the Pause Press, 2015), and Not For Art Nor Prayer (8th House, 2015). He is the managing editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and lives in Columbus, OH with his wife and children.
 

Born and raised in Utah, Justin Evans spent time in the U.S. Army before attending college, graduating from Southern Utah University in history and English education. He earned his master’s degree through the University of Nevada, Reno. He now lives in rural Nevada with his wife and sons, where he teaches at a local high school. His latest book, All the Brilliant Ideas I’ve Ever Had, is forthcoming from Foothills Publishing.
 

Kate Gaskin’s poems and other writings have been published or are forthcoming in Tar River Poetry, Cherry Tree, Turtle Island Quarterly, The Southeast Review Online, among others. She grew up in Alabama and now lives in the panhandle of Florida with her husband and toddler.

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Ben Gunsberg is an assistant professor of English at Utah State University. His poetry appears in CutBank, The Southeast Review, The South Carolina Review, among other magazines. He is the author of the chapbook Rhapsodies with Portraits (Finishing Line Press, 2015). His poetry manuscript, Cut Time, won the University of Michigan’s Hopwood Award for Poetry Writing. He lives in Logan, UT, at the foot of the Bear River Mountains.
 

Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo is super interested in overlaps between the sacred and the profane. In a recently former iteration she taught high school students about social justice and religion and facilitated their conversations about ethics and culture. She is currently off mooching friends who are International School teachers in Thailand and India. They seem to put up with her writing habit if she washes the dishes. ElizabethHarlanFerlo.com.
 

Tom Holmes is the editor of Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose and in July of 2014, he also co-founded RomComPom: A Journal of Romantic Comedy Poetry. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently The Cave, which won The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award was released in October 2014. His writings about wine, poetry book reviews, and poetry can be found at his blog, TheLineBreak.WordPress.com
 

Allison Huang is from the quieter, more rural corner of Princeton, NJ. She likes her poetry tangy with a lot of sweet. She leaves her window open when it rains, and takes the consequences—a mildewing wood pane—with
proper stoicism.
 

Zebulon Huset is a writer, teacher and blogger who lives in San Diego’s East County. His poems have recently appeared in The Southern Review, Portland Review, The North American Review, Harpur Palate, The Roanoke
Review, The Cortland Review, among others. Visit his blog NotebookingDaily for new writing exercises everyday.
 

Lexi Jocelyn is a young writer and educator-in-training. She earned a BA in English from Southern Utah University, with an emphasis in creative writing. She likes to see, hear, and feel things. Her hope is to turn the world into words.
 

Genevieve Kaplan’s poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Los Angeles Review, Zyzzyva, small po[r]tions, and Post45 Contemporaries; she is the author of In the Ice House (Red Hen Press, 2011), winner of the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s poetry publication prize, and Settings for These Scenes (Convulsive Editions, 2013), a chapbook of continual erasures. Genevieve lives in Southern California, where she edits the Toad Press International chapbook series, publishing contemporary translations of poetry and prose.
 

Andrew Koch has been to fifty American states, but currently lives in Texas. He is a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas and holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University. He enjoys serving as managing editor for the online journal Stirring: A Literary Collection and reading maps.
 

Kathleen Kraft’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many journals, including Five Points, Gargoyle, and The Madison Review. Her chapbook, Fairview Road, was published in February 2015 by Finishing Line
Press. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times. She lives in Jersey City, NJ, where she teaches yoga, movement, and writing—flows between them as it were.
 

Ashley Seitz Kramer has won the Ruth Stone Prize, the Schiff Prize, the Utah Writers’ Contest, and most recently, the 2014 Zone 3 Press First Book Award in poetry. She earned her MA from Ohio University and her
MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and she taught college writing in Ohio for a decade. She now lives in Salt Lake City, where she is an assistant dean at Westminster College and a doctoral student in education, culture and society at the University of Utah. Her first book, Museum of Distance, was released by Zone 3 Press in the fall of 2015.
 

Brian Laidlaw is a poet-troubadour from Northern California. He has released the poetry collections Amoratorium (Paper Darts Press) and The Stuntman (Milkweed Editions), each of which includes a companion album of original music; another full-length poetry collection called The Mirrormaker is also forthcoming from Milkweed. Brian continues to tour nationally and internationally as a folksinger, and will be joining the creative writing PhD program at the University of Denver in Fall 2016.
 

David Lee, retired, splits his time between Seaside, OR; Mesquite, NV; and Boulder, UT, where he scribbles and wanders available trails and byways, all at about the same rate and pace. He is currently in intense training to achieve his goal of becoming a World Class Piddler. His new book, Bluebonnets, Firewheels, and Brown Eyed Susans, will be out in early 2017 from Wings Press, and he will be teaching poetry in the MFA program at the University of Nevada/Reno this fall.
 

Sandra Marchetti’s is the author of Confluence, a full-length collection of poetry from Sundress Publications (2015). She is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays, including Sight Lines (Speaking
of Marvels Press, 2016), Heart Radicals (ELJ Publications, 2016), A Detail in the Landscape (Eating Dog Press, 2014), and The Canopy (MWC Press, 2012). Sandra’s poetry appears widely in Subtropics, Ecotone, Green Mountains Review, Word Riot, Blackbird, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. Her essays can be found at The Rumpus, Words Without Borders, Mid-American Review, Whiskey Island, and other venues. Currently, she is a lecturer in interdisciplinary studies at Aurora University outside of her hometown of Chicago.
 

Meredith McDonough lives in St. Louis, MO, where she takes care of a little girl who prefers to wear just one shoe. She teaches, makes glutton free deserts, and her poems have appeared in Linebreak, RHINO, Juked, and
elsewhere. One day she will master Olivia Newton-John’s dance to “Physical.”
 

Owen McLeod’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review, BOAAT, Willow Springs, the minnesota review, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. By day, Owen is a philosophy professor at
Lafayette College; by night, a studio potter. In the fleeting intervals between, he struggles to be a poet.
 

David Moolten is a physician specializing in transfusion medicine, and he lives, writes, and practices in Philadelphia. His verse has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Georgia Review, North American Review,
and Water~Stone. His most recent book, Primitive Mood, won the T.S. Eliot Prize from Truman State University Press and was published in 2009.
 

Travis Mossotti was awarded the 2011 May Swenson Poetry Award for his first collection of poems About the Dead (USU Press, 2011), and his second collection Field Study won the 2013 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry
Prize (Bona Fide Books, 2014). Mossotti has also published two chapbooks, and recent poems of his have appeared in issues of the Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Southern Review, and elsewhere.
 

Amy O’Reilly lives in Omaha, NE where she is a student in the MFA program at Creighton University and an instructor in the university’s English department. When she is not writing poetry or grading papers, she enjoys
teaching her cats to meow on command and cooking with her amateur-standup-comedian husband.
 

Kate Peterson earned an MFA from Eastern Washington University in Spokane, where she lives and works as an adjunct professor. Her poetry, nonfiction, and interviews have been published and are forthcoming in many
journals such as The Sierra Nevada Review, Glassworks, Willow Springs, The Examined Life Journal, Baldhip, among others.

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Nate Pritts is the director and founding editor of H_NGM_N (2001), an independent publishing house that started as a mimeograph ‘zine, and the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Right Now More Than Ever (2013) and the forthcoming Post Human. Nate lives in the Finger Lakes of New York; find him in the digital world at NatePritts.com
 

Jason W. Selby’s poetry has appeared widely, most recently in North American Review; Boston Review; and War, Literature & the Arts. He was also a finalist in the 2014 River Styx International Poetry Contest. He is editor
of his hometown newspaper, the Times-republican, and lives in very rural southern Iowa with fellow writer Jennifer Pruiett-Selby and their three young children.
 

Karen Skolfield’s book, Frost in the Low Areas (Zone 3 Press), won the 2014 PEN New England Award in poetry. She received the 2015 Robert Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. New poems
appear in Baltimore Review, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, Forklift, Ohio, and others. Skolfield is an Army veteran and teaches writing to engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
 

Sarah J. Sloat lives in Frankfurt, Germany, a stone’s throw from Schopenhauer’s grave. Her poems and prose have appeared in Passages North, Whiskey Island, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Sarah’s chapbook of poems on
typefaces and texts, Inksuite, is available from Dancing Girl Press, which also published Heiress to a Small Ruin in 2015.
 

Derek Sugamosto is a writer/editor from a small town in the Metro Detroit area of Michigan. His work has been published in Greatest Lakes Review, Orange Coast Review, Dogwood, Sheepshead Review, Tulane Review,
and apt.
 

Nancy Takacs is the 2016 winner of the Juniper Prize for poetry, her collection The Worrier will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2017. She has two other books of poems, including Blue Patina recently published by Blue Begonia Press; and four chapbooks, one of which, Red Voice, will be out shortly from Finishing Line Press. Her poems have recently been published in the Harvard Review, terrain.org, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Kestrel.
 

J.R. Toriseva’s work has also appeared in or is forthcoming from The Cincinnati Review, Descant, Fulcrum, The Fiddlehead, CV2, Prism International, 14 Hills, Nimrod, The Adirondack Review, Grey Sparrow Journal,
Soundings East, JACKET, and Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sound (City Lights Books, 2009), among others. J.R.’s been awarded a waiter scholarship to Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Mary Merritt Henry Prize in Poetry, and currently serves as an assistant professor of English at SUNY-GCC.
 

Jonathan Travelstead served in the Air Force National Guard for six years as a firefighter and currently works as a full-time firefighter for the city of Murphysboro. Having finished his MFA at Southern Illinois University
of Carbondale, he now works on an old dirt-bike he hopes will one day get him to the salt flats of Bolivia. He has published work in The Iowa Review, on Poetry Daily, and forthcoming in The Crab Orchard Review, among others. His first collection How We Bury Our Dead from Cobalt/Thumbnail Press was released in March, 2015.
 

William Trowbridge’s graphic chapbook, Oldguy: Superhero, was published by Red Hen Press in March. A new full collection is forthcoming from Red Hen in 2017. His other collections are Put This On, Please: New and
Selected Poems, Ship of Fool, The Complete Book of Kong, Flickers, O Paradise, and Enter Dark Stranger. He teaches in the University of Nebraska lowresidency MFA in writing program and is currently Poet Laureate of Missouri.

John Sibley Williams is the editor of two Northwest poetry anthologies and the author of nine collections, including Controlled Hallucinations (2013) and Disinheritance (2016). A five-time Pushcart nominee and winner of the American Literary Review Poetry Contest and Vallum Award for Poetry, John serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and works as a literary agent. Previous publishing credits include: The Midwest Quarterly, Third Coast, Baltimore Review, Nimrod International Journal, Inkwell, Cider Press Review, Bryant
Literary Review, RHINO, and various anthologies. He lives in Portland, OR.