Photo: There, and Lack Thereof: Impermanent Marks: Joey Aronhalt
Author Bio: Savannah Slone is a writer, editor, and English professor who currently dwells in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in Split Lip Magazine, Paper Darts, The Indianapolis Review, Glass: A Poetry Journal, Crab Creek Review, FIVE:2:ONE, Pidgeonholes, decomP magazinE, Crab Fat Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Hobart Pulp, and elsewhere. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Homology Lit, as well as the author of An Exhalation of Dead Things (CLASH Books, 2021), Hearing the Underwater (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and This Body is My Own (Ghost City Press, 2019). She enjoys reading, knitting, hiking, and discussing intersectional feminism. You can read more of her work at www.savannahslonewriter.com.
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Photo: Goauche: Kelly Emmrich
Author Bio: Divya Mehrish is an emerging writer from New York. Her writing has been commended by the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award and the Scholastic Writing Awards, which named her a recipient of National Gold and Silver Medals. Her work has been published in the Ricochet Review, PANK Magazine, the Tulane Review, Body Without Organs, Inscape Magazine, Sandcutters, The Battering Ram, and Amtrak’s Onboard Magazine The National, among others.
Abecedarian Proceedings
Photo: Twilight Retreat: Timothy Phillips
Author Bio: Divya Mehrish is an emerging writer from New York. Her writing has been commended by the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award and the Scholastic Writing Awards, which named her a recipient of National Gold and Silver Medals. Her work has been published in the Ricochet Review, PANK Magazine, the Tulane Review, Body Without Organs, Inscape Magazine, Sandcutters, The Battering Ram, and Amtrak’s Onboard Magazine The National, among others.
Those Days Before
Photo: Pass It Down: Juan Cajigas
Author Bio: Alexandra Naparstek is a senior at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and a poetry editor of her school’s international literary magazine, Élan. Her poetry has been published in the Inlandia Journal, Élan, in a forthcoming edition of River Rising, and has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. She is most recognized for her eight-bit Bowser bumper sticker and her love for Siberian sheep herders.
12:01 AM
Photo: Pass It Down: Juan Cajigas
Author Bio: Los Angeles native Joshua Corwin is an emerging poet and a recent graduate from Pitzer College in Claremont, CA with a degree in Mathematics and a minor in Philosophy. He is published in SPECTRUM Vol. 20, Al-Khemia Poetica, Rattle’s Rattlecast #9 and #10, and forthcoming (April 2020) in poeticdiversity.
I Am Not Mother
Photo: White Dress 2: Baden Wolfe
Author Bio: Katie Pukash is a writer and poet based in Boise, Idaho. Her work has appeared in The Indianapolis Review, Ink&Nebula, The Rising Phoenix Review, among others. She has received 2019 Best of the Net Anthology nomination for her poem, ‘Curtain Call’. She has also represented Idaho as a member of Team Boise at the National Poetry Slam in 2013, 2014, and 2018.
Old Man Feeding Seagulls
Photo: Angel in the City: Francisco Serrano
Author Bio: Madeline Wierzal started writing from a young age and soon found her love of telling stories, playing with words nurtured and developed by her very bookish parents. She continues to write and find new ways to develop her voice and share her work. She has been published in several journals: Afterhours, 30 N., and The Asexual. Check out her work at maddwierdpoetry.wordpress.com.
A Connection
Photo: Existence is not denied: Hamed Afroozi
Author Bio: Originally from New York City, Beatrice Agbi is a junior attending high school in rural Massachusetts.
The Art of Cinema
Photo: Untitled: Sophie JiHye Yang
Author Bio: Yejin Suh is a New Jersey high school student who has been recognized by the Scholastic Awards and The Live Poets’ Society. She likes pretzel goldfish and heist movies.
Revolutionaries
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Author Bio: Celine Choi is a junior from A and M Consolidated High School in College Station, Texas. Her hobbies include making dozens of playlists on Spotify and taking Buzzfeed quizzes to find out which Parks and Rec character she is. She is passionate about reading, writing, politics, and music.
Distraction
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Author Bio: A native of northwest Georgia, Rebecca Case is currently enjoying the peripatetic life while serving communities across the United States through AmeriCorps NCCC.
Nursery
Photo: Untitled 01: Guilherme Bergamini
Author Bio: Robin Gow is the author of the chapbook HONEYSUCKLE by Finishing Line Press. Their poetry has recently been published in POETRY, New Delta Review, and Roanoke Review. They is a graduate student and professor at Adelphi University pursing an MFA in Creative Writing. They is the Editor at Large for Village of Crickets and Social Media Coordinator for Oyster River Pages. Their first full-length poetry collection is forth-coming with Tolsun Books.