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Contributor Biographies
Taylor Adel is an avid writer and reader who dabbles in baking and drinks more coffee than should be allowed. Ever. She adores her rescue dog, Homer, and finds inspiration in the weirdest places. Her short stories have been published by all the sins, The Birmingham Arts Journal, Every Day Fiction, and more. To learn what makes her tick, and to read more of her work, visit her website at https://ravingwrites.wixsite.com/tayloradel.
Menat Allah El Attma is a diaspora writer, photographer, and a Muslim North African immigrant. Having emigrated from Egypt to the United States in November of 2005, she is now a third-year undergraduate student studying English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Personally, she is invested in a myriad of art forms because it is necessarily through Art that we can meaningfully study history, religion, science, language, ourselves and each other.
Roseanna Alice Boswell is a queer poet from Upstate New York. Her work has appeared or will soon appear in: Driftwood Press, Jarfly Magazine, Capulet Magazine, and elsewhere. Roseanna holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University, and is the creator of Bunny Zine Press. Find her on Twitter @swellbunny posting about feminism and her love of exclamation marks.
Julia Antinozzi is a dance artist, gemini and optimist. Her work investigates the specificity of place; the practice of activating awareness to deeply understand physical surroundings and create embodied experiences. Julia earned her BA in Dance and Astronomy from Smith College in 2018, cum laude and high honors in Dance. She received the Excellence in Dance Studies Award for outstanding work in her senior capstone project and overall contributions to the Department of Dance. In the fall of 2018 Julia was invited to be a Postgraduate Diploma student at the Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School in Denmark, granting ample opportunity to further investigate her choreographic work. Julia is proud to have presented her work a number of times in the NYC area, MA, Seattle and Salt Lake City. You can learn more about what Julia is up to at her website, https://juliahha.wixsite.com/euphoria.
Juan Arabia (Buenos Aires, 1983) is a poet, translator and literary critic. In addition to publishing three books of poetry, he has written extensively on John Fante and the Beat Generation. He has translated Arthur Rimbaud, Ezra Pound, and a book-length anthology of Beat poets, among many others. He is the founder and director of the literary journal and press Buenos Aires Poetry.
Glen Armstrong holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters and has three recent chapbooks: Set List (Bitchin Kitsch,) In Stone and The Most Awkward Silence of All (both Cruel Garters Press.) His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Conduit and Cloudbank.
Christopher S. Bell has been writing and releasing literary and musical works through My Idea of Fun since 2008. His sound projects include Emmett and Mary, Technological Epidemic, C. Scott and the Beltones and Fine Wives. My Idea of Fun is an art and music archive focused on digital preservation with roots in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. (www.myideaoffun.org). Christopher’s work has recently been published in Anti-Heroin Chic, BlazeVOX17, Drunken Monkeys, Hobart, Queen’s Mob Teahouse, and Entropy among others.
Ama Birch has been published by A Gathering of the Tribes, Vail/Vale, Les Figues Press, Ali Liebegott, Vitrine, Insert Blanc Press, CalArts Creative Writing Program, and the State University of New York Press. Currently, she has two books available for sale: Sonnet Boom! a collection of 88 contemporary Shakespearian Sonnets and Ferguson Interview Project, a book of twenty interviews about Mike Brown's death.
Ishanee Chanda is a spoken word poet and prose writer from Dallas, Texas. She has been published in the Eckleberg Project, Stoked Words: A Queer Anthology, Z Publishing House’s Emerging Texas Writers, and Flypaper Magazine. She is a firm believer in the healing power of hugs and bursting into song.
Isla Cueva is a capricorn from Arizona. She is the daughter of Peruvian immigrants and attends Arizona State University. Her poetry has been published or forthcoming from Rust + Moth, Glass Poetry, L’Ephemere Review, and Yes Poetry, among other lovely places. Isla is the author of Rainlily (2018), Lady Saturn (Rhythm & Bones, 2019), Venus in Bloom (Porkbelly Press, 2019), and Bittersweet (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2019).
Marion Deal is by turns a storyteller and a scientist, a Renaissance Faire actor and a researcher, who aims to challenge a singular narrative of the self and the soul by applying interdisciplinary lenses. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in literary journals such as Rougarou, The Offbeat, The Claremont Review, and The Glass Kite Anthology, and has earned two national silver medals in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
Darren C. Demaree is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently “Bombing the Thinker”, which was published by Backlash Press. He is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louis Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
Hailing from Jersey, Leila Einhorn has worked as a bookseller, janitor, and copywriter for a holistic cat food company. She is the recipient of a Tremblay-Crow Creative Writing Fellowship from Colorado State University, where she is currently pursuing an MFA. Winner of the Andrew Grosbardt Memorial Poetry Prize, Leila co-founded the Philly Free Poetry Workshop, based in West Philadelphia. She currently lives with her partner in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she is a poetry reader and editorial assistant for the Colorado Review.
Rose Elle writes.
Katherine M. Hedeen is the NEH Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College. She specializes in Latin American poetry and has researched and translated numerous contemporary authors from the region. Her translations appear extensively in prestigious American and British literary journals. She is an associate editor of Earthwork’s Latin American Poetry in Translation Series for Salt Publishing.
Bára Hladíková is a writer and artist based in Montréal. Her work can be found in Cosmonauts Avenue, Seafoam mag, Charcuterie, The Mainlander, and elsewhere. Her book, Behind the Curtain, was recently published by Publication Studio.
Charles Holdefer is an American writer currently based in Brussels. His work has appeared in the New England Review, Los Angeles Review, Chicago Quarterly Review and in the 2017 Pushcart Prize anthology. His recent books include DICK CHENEY IN SHORTS (stories) and GEORGE SAUNDERS' PASTORALIA: BOOKMARKED (nonfiction). Visit him at www.charlesholdefer.com.
Ali Jones-Bey recently earned her MA in English Literature at CSU East Bay. She holds a second MA in Poetry from the University of Manchester, and spent 2 years living in England and traveling. She is interested in the intersection of literature and real life, and in her free time, she reads poetry and science fiction. Her favorite podcast is The Read and she also enjoys long motorcycle rides, crocheting, and spending time with her family.
Sarah Julian is an MA candidate at the University of Northern Colorado, where she is currently writing her thesis on performative utterances in Shakespearean tragedy. She also serves as a peer writing tutor for the Center for Human Enrichment. Sarah has previously been published The Penwood Review, The Tulgey Wood (Hutchinson Community College), The Great Plains Review (Sterling College), and The Crucible, published at UNC.
Mary Lee is a senior working towards her BA in Anthropology at SUNY New Paltz. She minors in Creative Writing and Deaf Studies.
Elline Lipkin is a poet, nonfiction writer, and academic. She teaches poetry for Writing Workshops Los Angeles and affiliates with UCLA's Center for the Study of Women. Her first book, The Errant Thread, was chosen by Eavan Boland for the Kore Press First Book Award. She hopes 2019 will be a deeply creative year for all.
Susannah Lodge-Rigal is an MFA candidate at Colorado State University, where she teaches composition and serves as an associate editor for the Center for Literary Publishing. Her work as appeared in Colorado Review, Timber, Sycamore Review, and elsewhere.
Hannah Loeb is a poet and teacher who lives in Bellevue, Idaho. In 2012, she earned her BA at Yale, where she was a Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellow. In 2015, she earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow and a John C. Schupes Fellow.
DS Maolalai is a poet from Ireland who has been writing and publishing poetry for almost 10 years. His first collection, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden, was published in 2016 by the Encircle Press, and he has a second collection forthcoming from Turas Press in 2019. He has been nominated for Best of the Web and twice for the Pushcart Prize.
L.J. McCray lives in North Carolina. Her work has been published in Psaltery & Lyre; Awkward Mermaid; --hence, tirade; and Cargoes. She has a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Hollins University, as well as a master’s in Divinity from Yale Divinity School.
Keith Moul is a poet of place, a photographer of the distinction of place. Both his poems and photos are published widely. His photos are digital, striving for high contrast and saturation, which makes his vision colorful. poemsphotosmoul.blogspot.com.
AJ Padron is a High schooler in Eugene, Oregon, making his way through senior year. He is passionate about writing, drawing, painting, crafting, helping out in the local LGBT+ community and hanging out with his friends.
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, Forge, Poetry, Osiris, The New Yorker and elsewhere. His most recent collection is The Osiris Poems published by boxofchalk, 2017. For more information including free e-books and his essay “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com. To view one of his interviews please follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSK774rtfx8.
Yasmin Rafiei is an Irani-Canadian writer, a Rhodes Scholar, and a student at the University of Oxford. At times memoir and at others manifesto, Rafiei’s poetry is scattered ash — evidence of a life burning voraciously and a subversion of historical burial of stories like hers: of dislocation, of femininity, and radical imaginaries. Her poetry navigates different terrains, from politics to identity to trauma. At the heart of Rafiei’s work is a critical and compassionate voice advocating for empathy.
Marissa Rose's work has previously appeared in Tangerine Magazine, Facing LGBTQ Pride, and Raleigh Review, among others. In 2016, she was a finalist for Poet Laureate of the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 and was selected as the representative poet for her county in the collection, Mapping the Muse: A Bicentennial Look at Indiana Poetry.
Shana Ross is a poet and playwright with a BA and MBA from Yale University. She bought her first computer working the graveyard shift in a windchime factory, and now pays her bills as a consultant and leadership expert. Her writing career has been dormant for 18 years for reasons both practical and best discussed in therapy. This year, her work has been published in or is forthcoming from Anapest Journal, Ghost City Review, Indolent Press’ What Rough Beast project, SHANTIH Journal, and Writers Resist.
Joshua Ruffin received his MFA from Georgia College & State University, where he also taught as a graduate fellow. He has held jobs as a peach picker, trail crew worker, radio producer, and once filled in as a bouncer on what was thankfully a slow night. Joshua's work has appeared in Post Road, 491 Magazine, Booth, and elsewhere. He lives in Madison, WI.
Morgan Russell is a 22-year-old poet and writer from Atlanta, Georgia. She likes to explore topics of philosophy, truth, identity, belonging, and mental illness. She is currently pursuing a BA in Rhetoric with a minor in Spanish. She aspires to gain both an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Communications.
Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of six books, most recently Border Crossings, a poetry collection. His novel Haywire won the Asian American Writers Workshop’s members’ choice award, and his memoir Guess and Check won the Electronic Literature bronze award for multicultural fiction. He received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
John Sibley Williams is the author of As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize) and Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize). A fourteen-time Pushcart nominee and winner of various awards, John serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review. Publications include: Yale Review, Atlanta Review, Prairie Schooner, Massachusetts Review, and Third Coast.
Aubre Siler is a current sophomore student in high school. She's enrolled in several writing classes and has had her work published in Appelley Publishing's 2018 Rising Stars Collection. This is her first ever submission to a literary journal.
Sarah Sophia Yanni is a half-Egyptian/ half-Mexican writer living in Los Angeles. She is an Editor at Sublevel Magazine and is currently pursuing an MFA from the CalArts School of Critical Studies. Her words have been published in Arkana Mag, BUST, Palaver Arts, and others. Find her on the internet at www.sarahsophiayanni.com.
Christina Yoseph is an emerging writer whose essays and poems have been featured in The Brown Orient, RaceBaitR, and Sukoon. She lives in California with her illustrator-musician girlfriend. You can find her at www.christinayoseph.com.
Emily Zogbi is a writer from Long Island. She earned her bachelor's degree at SUNY New Paltz. Her poems have appeared in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Gandy Dancer and Chronogram. She wishes she had been a dancer.
Menat Allah El Attma is a diaspora writer, photographer, and a Muslim North African immigrant. Having emigrated from Egypt to the United States in November of 2005, she is now a third-year undergraduate student studying English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Personally, she is invested in a myriad of art forms because it is necessarily through Art that we can meaningfully study history, religion, science, language, ourselves and each other.
Roseanna Alice Boswell is a queer poet from Upstate New York. Her work has appeared or will soon appear in: Driftwood Press, Jarfly Magazine, Capulet Magazine, and elsewhere. Roseanna holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University, and is the creator of Bunny Zine Press. Find her on Twitter @swellbunny posting about feminism and her love of exclamation marks.
Julia Antinozzi is a dance artist, gemini and optimist. Her work investigates the specificity of place; the practice of activating awareness to deeply understand physical surroundings and create embodied experiences. Julia earned her BA in Dance and Astronomy from Smith College in 2018, cum laude and high honors in Dance. She received the Excellence in Dance Studies Award for outstanding work in her senior capstone project and overall contributions to the Department of Dance. In the fall of 2018 Julia was invited to be a Postgraduate Diploma student at the Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School in Denmark, granting ample opportunity to further investigate her choreographic work. Julia is proud to have presented her work a number of times in the NYC area, MA, Seattle and Salt Lake City. You can learn more about what Julia is up to at her website, https://juliahha.wixsite.com/euphoria.
Juan Arabia (Buenos Aires, 1983) is a poet, translator and literary critic. In addition to publishing three books of poetry, he has written extensively on John Fante and the Beat Generation. He has translated Arthur Rimbaud, Ezra Pound, and a book-length anthology of Beat poets, among many others. He is the founder and director of the literary journal and press Buenos Aires Poetry.
Glen Armstrong holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters and has three recent chapbooks: Set List (Bitchin Kitsch,) In Stone and The Most Awkward Silence of All (both Cruel Garters Press.) His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Conduit and Cloudbank.
Christopher S. Bell has been writing and releasing literary and musical works through My Idea of Fun since 2008. His sound projects include Emmett and Mary, Technological Epidemic, C. Scott and the Beltones and Fine Wives. My Idea of Fun is an art and music archive focused on digital preservation with roots in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. (www.myideaoffun.org). Christopher’s work has recently been published in Anti-Heroin Chic, BlazeVOX17, Drunken Monkeys, Hobart, Queen’s Mob Teahouse, and Entropy among others.
Ama Birch has been published by A Gathering of the Tribes, Vail/Vale, Les Figues Press, Ali Liebegott, Vitrine, Insert Blanc Press, CalArts Creative Writing Program, and the State University of New York Press. Currently, she has two books available for sale: Sonnet Boom! a collection of 88 contemporary Shakespearian Sonnets and Ferguson Interview Project, a book of twenty interviews about Mike Brown's death.
Ishanee Chanda is a spoken word poet and prose writer from Dallas, Texas. She has been published in the Eckleberg Project, Stoked Words: A Queer Anthology, Z Publishing House’s Emerging Texas Writers, and Flypaper Magazine. She is a firm believer in the healing power of hugs and bursting into song.
Isla Cueva is a capricorn from Arizona. She is the daughter of Peruvian immigrants and attends Arizona State University. Her poetry has been published or forthcoming from Rust + Moth, Glass Poetry, L’Ephemere Review, and Yes Poetry, among other lovely places. Isla is the author of Rainlily (2018), Lady Saturn (Rhythm & Bones, 2019), Venus in Bloom (Porkbelly Press, 2019), and Bittersweet (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2019).
Marion Deal is by turns a storyteller and a scientist, a Renaissance Faire actor and a researcher, who aims to challenge a singular narrative of the self and the soul by applying interdisciplinary lenses. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in literary journals such as Rougarou, The Offbeat, The Claremont Review, and The Glass Kite Anthology, and has earned two national silver medals in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
Darren C. Demaree is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently “Bombing the Thinker”, which was published by Backlash Press. He is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louis Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
Hailing from Jersey, Leila Einhorn has worked as a bookseller, janitor, and copywriter for a holistic cat food company. She is the recipient of a Tremblay-Crow Creative Writing Fellowship from Colorado State University, where she is currently pursuing an MFA. Winner of the Andrew Grosbardt Memorial Poetry Prize, Leila co-founded the Philly Free Poetry Workshop, based in West Philadelphia. She currently lives with her partner in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she is a poetry reader and editorial assistant for the Colorado Review.
Rose Elle writes.
Katherine M. Hedeen is the NEH Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College. She specializes in Latin American poetry and has researched and translated numerous contemporary authors from the region. Her translations appear extensively in prestigious American and British literary journals. She is an associate editor of Earthwork’s Latin American Poetry in Translation Series for Salt Publishing.
Bára Hladíková is a writer and artist based in Montréal. Her work can be found in Cosmonauts Avenue, Seafoam mag, Charcuterie, The Mainlander, and elsewhere. Her book, Behind the Curtain, was recently published by Publication Studio.
Charles Holdefer is an American writer currently based in Brussels. His work has appeared in the New England Review, Los Angeles Review, Chicago Quarterly Review and in the 2017 Pushcart Prize anthology. His recent books include DICK CHENEY IN SHORTS (stories) and GEORGE SAUNDERS' PASTORALIA: BOOKMARKED (nonfiction). Visit him at www.charlesholdefer.com.
Ali Jones-Bey recently earned her MA in English Literature at CSU East Bay. She holds a second MA in Poetry from the University of Manchester, and spent 2 years living in England and traveling. She is interested in the intersection of literature and real life, and in her free time, she reads poetry and science fiction. Her favorite podcast is The Read and she also enjoys long motorcycle rides, crocheting, and spending time with her family.
Sarah Julian is an MA candidate at the University of Northern Colorado, where she is currently writing her thesis on performative utterances in Shakespearean tragedy. She also serves as a peer writing tutor for the Center for Human Enrichment. Sarah has previously been published The Penwood Review, The Tulgey Wood (Hutchinson Community College), The Great Plains Review (Sterling College), and The Crucible, published at UNC.
Mary Lee is a senior working towards her BA in Anthropology at SUNY New Paltz. She minors in Creative Writing and Deaf Studies.
Elline Lipkin is a poet, nonfiction writer, and academic. She teaches poetry for Writing Workshops Los Angeles and affiliates with UCLA's Center for the Study of Women. Her first book, The Errant Thread, was chosen by Eavan Boland for the Kore Press First Book Award. She hopes 2019 will be a deeply creative year for all.
Susannah Lodge-Rigal is an MFA candidate at Colorado State University, where she teaches composition and serves as an associate editor for the Center for Literary Publishing. Her work as appeared in Colorado Review, Timber, Sycamore Review, and elsewhere.
Hannah Loeb is a poet and teacher who lives in Bellevue, Idaho. In 2012, she earned her BA at Yale, where she was a Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellow. In 2015, she earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow and a John C. Schupes Fellow.
DS Maolalai is a poet from Ireland who has been writing and publishing poetry for almost 10 years. His first collection, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden, was published in 2016 by the Encircle Press, and he has a second collection forthcoming from Turas Press in 2019. He has been nominated for Best of the Web and twice for the Pushcart Prize.
L.J. McCray lives in North Carolina. Her work has been published in Psaltery & Lyre; Awkward Mermaid; --hence, tirade; and Cargoes. She has a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Hollins University, as well as a master’s in Divinity from Yale Divinity School.
Keith Moul is a poet of place, a photographer of the distinction of place. Both his poems and photos are published widely. His photos are digital, striving for high contrast and saturation, which makes his vision colorful. poemsphotosmoul.blogspot.com.
AJ Padron is a High schooler in Eugene, Oregon, making his way through senior year. He is passionate about writing, drawing, painting, crafting, helping out in the local LGBT+ community and hanging out with his friends.
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, Forge, Poetry, Osiris, The New Yorker and elsewhere. His most recent collection is The Osiris Poems published by boxofchalk, 2017. For more information including free e-books and his essay “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com. To view one of his interviews please follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSK774rtfx8.
Yasmin Rafiei is an Irani-Canadian writer, a Rhodes Scholar, and a student at the University of Oxford. At times memoir and at others manifesto, Rafiei’s poetry is scattered ash — evidence of a life burning voraciously and a subversion of historical burial of stories like hers: of dislocation, of femininity, and radical imaginaries. Her poetry navigates different terrains, from politics to identity to trauma. At the heart of Rafiei’s work is a critical and compassionate voice advocating for empathy.
Marissa Rose's work has previously appeared in Tangerine Magazine, Facing LGBTQ Pride, and Raleigh Review, among others. In 2016, she was a finalist for Poet Laureate of the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 and was selected as the representative poet for her county in the collection, Mapping the Muse: A Bicentennial Look at Indiana Poetry.
Shana Ross is a poet and playwright with a BA and MBA from Yale University. She bought her first computer working the graveyard shift in a windchime factory, and now pays her bills as a consultant and leadership expert. Her writing career has been dormant for 18 years for reasons both practical and best discussed in therapy. This year, her work has been published in or is forthcoming from Anapest Journal, Ghost City Review, Indolent Press’ What Rough Beast project, SHANTIH Journal, and Writers Resist.
Joshua Ruffin received his MFA from Georgia College & State University, where he also taught as a graduate fellow. He has held jobs as a peach picker, trail crew worker, radio producer, and once filled in as a bouncer on what was thankfully a slow night. Joshua's work has appeared in Post Road, 491 Magazine, Booth, and elsewhere. He lives in Madison, WI.
Morgan Russell is a 22-year-old poet and writer from Atlanta, Georgia. She likes to explore topics of philosophy, truth, identity, belonging, and mental illness. She is currently pursuing a BA in Rhetoric with a minor in Spanish. She aspires to gain both an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Communications.
Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of six books, most recently Border Crossings, a poetry collection. His novel Haywire won the Asian American Writers Workshop’s members’ choice award, and his memoir Guess and Check won the Electronic Literature bronze award for multicultural fiction. He received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
John Sibley Williams is the author of As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize) and Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize). A fourteen-time Pushcart nominee and winner of various awards, John serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review. Publications include: Yale Review, Atlanta Review, Prairie Schooner, Massachusetts Review, and Third Coast.
Aubre Siler is a current sophomore student in high school. She's enrolled in several writing classes and has had her work published in Appelley Publishing's 2018 Rising Stars Collection. This is her first ever submission to a literary journal.
Sarah Sophia Yanni is a half-Egyptian/ half-Mexican writer living in Los Angeles. She is an Editor at Sublevel Magazine and is currently pursuing an MFA from the CalArts School of Critical Studies. Her words have been published in Arkana Mag, BUST, Palaver Arts, and others. Find her on the internet at www.sarahsophiayanni.com.
Christina Yoseph is an emerging writer whose essays and poems have been featured in The Brown Orient, RaceBaitR, and Sukoon. She lives in California with her illustrator-musician girlfriend. You can find her at www.christinayoseph.com.
Emily Zogbi is a writer from Long Island. She earned her bachelor's degree at SUNY New Paltz. Her poems have appeared in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Gandy Dancer and Chronogram. She wishes she had been a dancer.