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Porsha Monique Allen is a native and resident of Richmond, Virginia. She received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in The Scene & Heard Journal, Scalawag Magazine, Obsidian, Rattle, & FEED. She was selected as a semi-finalist for Naugatuck River Review’s 12th Annual Narrative Poetry Contest. You can find her on Twitter @porshamallen.
Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in Stone of Madness, Thirteen Myna Birds, and Caustic Frolic, among others.
Gerard Cabrera (he/him/his) is a gay Puerto Rican writer originally from Springfield, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from Brandeis University (1985), Hunter College School of Public Health (1995), and Northeastern University School of Law (1999). He has represented people with HIV in housing and family court, practiced health and regulatory law, and served in New York City government. Currently he works as a court attorney in child protective proceedings in the New York State Family Court system. His work has appeared in literary journals such as ACENTOS REVIEW, JONATHAN, and KWELI. He has attended Bread Loaf, The Writers Studio, and completed a residency at The Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. In 2019 he was interviewed about his novel Homo Novus on CNN en Español.
Joanna Cleary (she/her) is an emerging artist and recent graduate of University of Waterloo interested in using poetry to explore the intersection of sexuality, shame, and the body. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in The /tƐmz/ Review, The Hunger, Gordon Square Review, Every Pigeon, Always Crashing and Subterranean Blue Poetry, among others. Follow her on Instagram @joannacleary121.
Ven Corbet is a transmasculine writer and graduate of the University of Colorado Denver. He writes work in experimental forms about disability, trauma, and being queer. His work has been published in F(r)iction's online issue, Dually Noted.
Barbara Daniels’s Talk to the Lioness was published by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press in 2020. Her poetry has appeared in Cleaver, Faultline, Small Orange, Meridian, and elsewhere. Barbara Daniels received a 2020 fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Adwaita Das is an author and artist from India, Planet Earth. She studied English literature and film direction; worked in theatre, news, cinema and advertising. Her books—"27 Stitches", "Colours Of Shadow" and "Songs Of Sanity"—deal with the human psyche. Her art explores mindfulness. She has illustrated affirmation pieces for volume two in the "Mindscape Series: Young Mental Health". Adwaita facilitates creative sessions for mental awareness and wellbeing with cathartic doodles and writing.
Andrew Davidson-Novosivschei (b. 1987) is a translator and poet from Arizona. Translations have appeared in Asymptote Journal, Trafika Europe and others. His English-language poems have appeared in Nomans Journal and Extract(s). His Romanian-language poems have appeared in Poesis International and Tribuna. His is currently based in Bucharest.
Teresa Fellion founded BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance in 2011, after choreographing independently since 2004. She has performed for Lucinda Childs, Sarah Skaggs, Kimberly Young, M’Bewe Escobar, Skip Costa, and Martha Bowers, and performed works by Twyla Tharp, Deganit Shemy, Liz Lerman, and Megan Boyd. Teresa completed a Dance MFA from Sarah Lawrence under Scholarship, a Certificate from the Ailey School on scholarship, and a BA in French & English Literature with a dance minor from NYU as a Merit Scholar. She received Choreographic Fellowships from SummerStages Dance Festival, ICA Boston, and an American Dance Guild Fellowship for Jacob’s Pillow’s Choreographers’ Lab. BodyStories has shown work at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jacob’s Pillow, The Public Theater, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, University of Florida, ENTPE University (Lyon, France), NYU, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Bryant Park Summer Stage, BDF Edinburgh at EICC, Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center at Gibney Dance Center, NY City Center, Dixon Place, UME, ICA Boston, 92nd St. Y, Naropa University, Franco-American Cultural Center, CPR-Center for Performance Research, 14th St. Y, Merce Cunningham Theatre, The Dance Complex, Southampton Arts Center, Triskelion Arts, and in concerts with Phish. More info available at http://bodystoriesfellion.org/
Jeffrey Haskey-Valerius writes poetry and fiction in Southern California. His work has appeared in Northern New England Review, Thimble Lit Mag, and Sixfold, among others.
Lucas Khan is a half Pakistani middle school teacher battling multiple sclerosis. He wants to represent the disabled and chronically ill in the poetry community and give them a voice.
Twice nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net awards, J.I. Kleinberg is an artist, poet, and freelance writer. Her visual poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, where she tears words out of magazines and posts occasionally on Instagram @jikleinberg.
Gillian Lee is a white queer trans individual in the burbs chasing blurbs.
Meg McCarney is a third-year student studying Creative Writing with a specialization in Poetry at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Previously, her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Commonthought Literary Magazine, and the Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle. She adores Jeopardy re-runs, corgis, and baking oatmeal raisin cookies, among other things. In her work, Meg aspires to help others name and confront their demons, whether those be internal or external, familial or romantic, centered within the self or concerning the world at large.
Austin Miles lives in Columbus, OH. He has poems published in Recenter Press, Dream Pop and the tiny.
Michael Quigg received a Bachelor's in English and Writing from Illinois State University. His poetry also appears in ISU's creative journal Euphemism. He has lived in various parts of central Illinois nearly all his life, and currently lives and works in Bloomington.
Hannah Radeke is a poet and photographer living in Chicago. They studied art history and creative writing in undergrad.
Giada Rotundo was born in 1991 lives and works near Milan, Italy. The artist's research was at the beginning founded on images of the past. Her art reflected the understanding of what has happened, at times forgotten, but represented in a modern way. That's why we often see men depicted, from the late 1800s beginning 1900s, re-elaborated using present day techniques. Nowadays she is facing up new themes that include horror and splatter in art. She has collaborated with the Visioni Altre Gallery, Atelie22, Pepita Ramone Space, Open Space Art Living, Metodo Milano Artist-run Space, Tirabasso Gallery, Passepartout Unconventional Gallery, Artepassante Project, Benjamin Mac Gallery, Tail Online Gallery and Galleriazro.
George Ryan was born in Ireland and graduated from University College Dublin. He is a ghostwriter in New York City. Elkhound published his Finding Americas in October 2019. His poems are nearly all about incidents that involve real people in real places and use little heightened language.
Theadora Siranian is a graduate of the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her poetry has appeared in Best New Poets, Rust + Moth, and Atticus Review, among others. She currently lives and teaches at Nazarbayev University in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, where she is also a poetry editor for Angime, the first trilingual literary arts journal in the country. Her chapbook, She, has just been released by Seven Kitchens Press. More of her work can be found at theadorasiranian.com. The road is narrow and it goes straight through the gardens of Paradise is borrowed from Laura Kasischke's poem "A Long Commute."
Erika Nina Suárez (she/her) is a photographer currently living and working in Fort Worth, TX. Suarez moved to Texas in 2012, from West Palm Beach, FL. She completed a BFA in photography at The University of North Texas in 2019. Her work is primarily made utilizing a medium format view camera. Suarez’s current body of work highlights concepts of intimate familial relationships, the irrevocable need to bear witness to habitual sensations, and investigates her own identity through her Hungarian and Nicaragüense parentage.
Andrew Walker lives in Denver.
Bill Wolak is a poet, collage artist, and photographer who has just published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind’s Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis Editions. His collages and photographs have appeared as cover art for such magazines as Phoebe, Harbinger Asylum, Baldhip Magazine, Barfly Poetry Magazine, and Ragazine.
Ally Zlatar holds a BFA in Visual Art & Art History from Queen's University & an MLitt Curatorial Practice from the Glasgow School of Art. Currently, she is pursuing her Doctorate of Creative Arts with the University of Southern Queensland. She has dualistic experience as a Curator/ Artist and has been involved in many projects and galleries globally. Ranging from projects with such galleries as Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Hunterian Art Gallery & Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Art. Exploring her artist practice as a methodology that suggests the human condition is more complex than it is currently understood. Using primarily paintings, she examines, instigates and provokes notions of the individual experience through specifically focusing on philosophical discourse, body image, embodiment & ethics. Additionally, her book The Starving Artist: Understanding Body Image and Eating Disorders within Contemporary Art is in over 30 Universities world wide including Harvard, Yale, Princeton etc. (More info here: https://thestarvingartist.pb.studio/). She started a charity for The Starving Artist as well which has raised over £5000 for Eating Disorder Treatment.
Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in Stone of Madness, Thirteen Myna Birds, and Caustic Frolic, among others.
Gerard Cabrera (he/him/his) is a gay Puerto Rican writer originally from Springfield, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from Brandeis University (1985), Hunter College School of Public Health (1995), and Northeastern University School of Law (1999). He has represented people with HIV in housing and family court, practiced health and regulatory law, and served in New York City government. Currently he works as a court attorney in child protective proceedings in the New York State Family Court system. His work has appeared in literary journals such as ACENTOS REVIEW, JONATHAN, and KWELI. He has attended Bread Loaf, The Writers Studio, and completed a residency at The Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. In 2019 he was interviewed about his novel Homo Novus on CNN en Español.
Joanna Cleary (she/her) is an emerging artist and recent graduate of University of Waterloo interested in using poetry to explore the intersection of sexuality, shame, and the body. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in The /tƐmz/ Review, The Hunger, Gordon Square Review, Every Pigeon, Always Crashing and Subterranean Blue Poetry, among others. Follow her on Instagram @joannacleary121.
Ven Corbet is a transmasculine writer and graduate of the University of Colorado Denver. He writes work in experimental forms about disability, trauma, and being queer. His work has been published in F(r)iction's online issue, Dually Noted.
Barbara Daniels’s Talk to the Lioness was published by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press in 2020. Her poetry has appeared in Cleaver, Faultline, Small Orange, Meridian, and elsewhere. Barbara Daniels received a 2020 fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Adwaita Das is an author and artist from India, Planet Earth. She studied English literature and film direction; worked in theatre, news, cinema and advertising. Her books—"27 Stitches", "Colours Of Shadow" and "Songs Of Sanity"—deal with the human psyche. Her art explores mindfulness. She has illustrated affirmation pieces for volume two in the "Mindscape Series: Young Mental Health". Adwaita facilitates creative sessions for mental awareness and wellbeing with cathartic doodles and writing.
Andrew Davidson-Novosivschei (b. 1987) is a translator and poet from Arizona. Translations have appeared in Asymptote Journal, Trafika Europe and others. His English-language poems have appeared in Nomans Journal and Extract(s). His Romanian-language poems have appeared in Poesis International and Tribuna. His is currently based in Bucharest.
Teresa Fellion founded BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance in 2011, after choreographing independently since 2004. She has performed for Lucinda Childs, Sarah Skaggs, Kimberly Young, M’Bewe Escobar, Skip Costa, and Martha Bowers, and performed works by Twyla Tharp, Deganit Shemy, Liz Lerman, and Megan Boyd. Teresa completed a Dance MFA from Sarah Lawrence under Scholarship, a Certificate from the Ailey School on scholarship, and a BA in French & English Literature with a dance minor from NYU as a Merit Scholar. She received Choreographic Fellowships from SummerStages Dance Festival, ICA Boston, and an American Dance Guild Fellowship for Jacob’s Pillow’s Choreographers’ Lab. BodyStories has shown work at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jacob’s Pillow, The Public Theater, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, University of Florida, ENTPE University (Lyon, France), NYU, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Bryant Park Summer Stage, BDF Edinburgh at EICC, Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center at Gibney Dance Center, NY City Center, Dixon Place, UME, ICA Boston, 92nd St. Y, Naropa University, Franco-American Cultural Center, CPR-Center for Performance Research, 14th St. Y, Merce Cunningham Theatre, The Dance Complex, Southampton Arts Center, Triskelion Arts, and in concerts with Phish. More info available at http://bodystoriesfellion.org/
Jeffrey Haskey-Valerius writes poetry and fiction in Southern California. His work has appeared in Northern New England Review, Thimble Lit Mag, and Sixfold, among others.
Lucas Khan is a half Pakistani middle school teacher battling multiple sclerosis. He wants to represent the disabled and chronically ill in the poetry community and give them a voice.
Twice nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net awards, J.I. Kleinberg is an artist, poet, and freelance writer. Her visual poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, where she tears words out of magazines and posts occasionally on Instagram @jikleinberg.
Gillian Lee is a white queer trans individual in the burbs chasing blurbs.
Meg McCarney is a third-year student studying Creative Writing with a specialization in Poetry at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Previously, her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Commonthought Literary Magazine, and the Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle. She adores Jeopardy re-runs, corgis, and baking oatmeal raisin cookies, among other things. In her work, Meg aspires to help others name and confront their demons, whether those be internal or external, familial or romantic, centered within the self or concerning the world at large.
Austin Miles lives in Columbus, OH. He has poems published in Recenter Press, Dream Pop and the tiny.
Michael Quigg received a Bachelor's in English and Writing from Illinois State University. His poetry also appears in ISU's creative journal Euphemism. He has lived in various parts of central Illinois nearly all his life, and currently lives and works in Bloomington.
Hannah Radeke is a poet and photographer living in Chicago. They studied art history and creative writing in undergrad.
Giada Rotundo was born in 1991 lives and works near Milan, Italy. The artist's research was at the beginning founded on images of the past. Her art reflected the understanding of what has happened, at times forgotten, but represented in a modern way. That's why we often see men depicted, from the late 1800s beginning 1900s, re-elaborated using present day techniques. Nowadays she is facing up new themes that include horror and splatter in art. She has collaborated with the Visioni Altre Gallery, Atelie22, Pepita Ramone Space, Open Space Art Living, Metodo Milano Artist-run Space, Tirabasso Gallery, Passepartout Unconventional Gallery, Artepassante Project, Benjamin Mac Gallery, Tail Online Gallery and Galleriazro.
George Ryan was born in Ireland and graduated from University College Dublin. He is a ghostwriter in New York City. Elkhound published his Finding Americas in October 2019. His poems are nearly all about incidents that involve real people in real places and use little heightened language.
Theadora Siranian is a graduate of the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her poetry has appeared in Best New Poets, Rust + Moth, and Atticus Review, among others. She currently lives and teaches at Nazarbayev University in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, where she is also a poetry editor for Angime, the first trilingual literary arts journal in the country. Her chapbook, She, has just been released by Seven Kitchens Press. More of her work can be found at theadorasiranian.com. The road is narrow and it goes straight through the gardens of Paradise is borrowed from Laura Kasischke's poem "A Long Commute."
Erika Nina Suárez (she/her) is a photographer currently living and working in Fort Worth, TX. Suarez moved to Texas in 2012, from West Palm Beach, FL. She completed a BFA in photography at The University of North Texas in 2019. Her work is primarily made utilizing a medium format view camera. Suarez’s current body of work highlights concepts of intimate familial relationships, the irrevocable need to bear witness to habitual sensations, and investigates her own identity through her Hungarian and Nicaragüense parentage.
Andrew Walker lives in Denver.
Bill Wolak is a poet, collage artist, and photographer who has just published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind’s Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis Editions. His collages and photographs have appeared as cover art for such magazines as Phoebe, Harbinger Asylum, Baldhip Magazine, Barfly Poetry Magazine, and Ragazine.
Ally Zlatar holds a BFA in Visual Art & Art History from Queen's University & an MLitt Curatorial Practice from the Glasgow School of Art. Currently, she is pursuing her Doctorate of Creative Arts with the University of Southern Queensland. She has dualistic experience as a Curator/ Artist and has been involved in many projects and galleries globally. Ranging from projects with such galleries as Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Hunterian Art Gallery & Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Art. Exploring her artist practice as a methodology that suggests the human condition is more complex than it is currently understood. Using primarily paintings, she examines, instigates and provokes notions of the individual experience through specifically focusing on philosophical discourse, body image, embodiment & ethics. Additionally, her book The Starving Artist: Understanding Body Image and Eating Disorders within Contemporary Art is in over 30 Universities world wide including Harvard, Yale, Princeton etc. (More info here: https://thestarvingartist.pb.studio/). She started a charity for The Starving Artist as well which has raised over £5000 for Eating Disorder Treatment.