Contributors

Below, find out more about the people who made this volume special. Give them your support, as we give you our gratitude.

C. R. Resetarits

C. R. Resetarits is a writer and collagist. Her collage art has appeared on the covers and in the pages of dozens of magazines. Upcoming collages will appear as covers for Shooter Magazine (UK) and Cowboy Jamboree (US). She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.

Bryan Edenfield is a human mammal animal. He is the author of Cake, published by Really Serious Literature. He also has a website: wordlessdictionary.com.
This particular breed of human author is rarely spotted in the social media terrain, but sometimes he is @wordlessdictionary (Instagram) and @funnycakebot (Twitter).

Bryan Edenfield

Zach Murphy

Zach Murphy is a Hawaii-born writer with a background in cinema. His stories appear in Reed Magazine, Ginosko Literary Journal, The Coachella Review, Mystery Tribune, Ruminate, B O D Y, Wilderness House Literary Review, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, and more. His debut chapbook Tiny Universes (Selcouth Station Press, 2021) is available in paperback and e-book. He lives with his wonderful wife Kelly in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Alexandra is an essayist and poet living in Brooklyn, New York. Her debut poetry collection Feast (Atmosphere Press, 2021) is available for purchase at online retailers. Her essays and flash fiction can be found on her newsletter, Picking Daisies, at ajoyantonop.substack.com.

Alexandra Antonopoulos

Tia Wray

Tia Wray has a BA in English and a MA in health psychology. She turned to writing as a way to process trauma therapy, and her themes have expanded into topics related to healing, grief, connection, and nature. In addition to being a writer, she is a mother and a meditator. She currently lives in Västerås, Sweden. Sweden. You can find her on Twitter @healwithpoetry.

Xan Indigo is a rogue astrophysicist and perpetual misfit with an overactive imagination. With an eclectic ethnic background, they like to explore cross-cultural and futurist themes in their fiction writing, with characters who don’t quite feel like they belong. In their spare time, Xan can usually be found drinking too much tea, cooking spicy food, and attempting to turn their apartment into a tiny rainforest.

Xan Indigo

Jessica Lightfoot-Toye

Jessica Lightfoot-Toye is an MA Creative Writing student studying at the University of Lincoln. She is also the editor-in-chief of the university’s in-house literary journal, The Lincoln Review. Her work has previously been featured in Tether’s End magazine and the Loft Books 2021 anthology.

Nadja Maril is a former magazine editor and journalist living in Annapolis, Maryland. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast Program at the University of Southern Maine and her short stories, portions of her novel in progress, and essays have been published in a number of small literary magazines including Change Seven, Lunch Ticket, and Defunkt Magazine. She blogs weekly at Nadjamaril.com and is the author of two reference books on American Antique Lighting as well as two children’s books. Follow her on Twitter at @SNMaril.

Nadja Maril

Jen Karetnick

Jen Karetnick's fourth full-length book is The Burning Where Breath Used to Be (David Robert Books, September 2020), a CIPA EVVY winner, an Eric Hoffer Poetry Category Finalist, and a Kops Fetherling Honorable Mention. Long-listed for the international 2021 Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize and recipient of a Merit Award in the Atlanta Review 2021 International Poetry Competition, she has won the Tiferet Writing Contest for Poetry, Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition, Hart Crane Memorial Prize, and Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize, among others. Co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day, she has had work in The Comstock Review, december, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review Poem of the Week, Poet Lore, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. Based in Miami, she works as a lifestyle journalist and is the author of four cookbooks, four guidebooks, and more, see jkaretnick.com.

Kate Meyer-Currey was born in 1969 and moved to Devon in 1973. A varied career in frontline settings has fuelled her interest in gritty urbanism, contrasted with a rural upbringing. Her ADHD also instils a sense of “other” in her life and writing. She currently has over 40 poems in print and e-journals, including Not Very Quiet, Mono, Granfalloon and Poetica Review. “Gloves” recently made top 100 in the UK’s PoetryforGood competition for healthcare workers.Her first chapbook County Lines (Dancing Girl Press) comes out later this year.

Kate Meyer-Currey

Helen Gwyn Jones

Helen Gwyn Jones started recording her world at the age of 8 when she bought a Brownie camera from her sister, something which has become a lifelong passion.
A collector of the past (hers and other people’s) she likes nothing better than muted images of imperfection. May be found poring over Welsh grammar books when not photographing drains or going into raptures over rust. Recently published at BluesDoodles.com, Hungry Ghost Project, Free Flash Fiction, Acropolis Journal and Paddler Press; exhibited at Print Swap Exhibition, New York.

Lorelei Bacht is a European bookworm and poet living in Asia. She enjoys climbing trees and observing orb weavers. When she is not drawing sad little sketches, she writes—too much. Her work has appeared / is forthcoming in Visitant, The Wondrous Real, Quail Bell, Fahmidan, Abridged Magazine, Odd Magazine, Postscript, PROEM, SWWIM, Strukturriss, The Inflectionist Review, Slouching Beast Journal, Hecate, and others. She is also on Instagram: @lorelei.bacht.writer and on Twitter: @bachtlorelei.

Lorelei’s work was previously published with us in our Summerlude 2021: Cosmos mini-issue.

Lorelei Bacht

Corin Bauman

Corin Bauman, hailing from the Pacific Northwest, currently lives in Houston, Texas with her wife and dog. Always enchanted with stories, especially those told in her mother's languid tone, she has begun exploring her own storytelling voice through local writing workshops and the assistance of a loyal writing critique group.

Rick Hollon (they/them or fey/fem) is a nonbinary, intersex, bi/queer, neurodiverse writer, editor, and parent from the American Midwest. Feir work has appeared or is forthcoming in perhappened, Whale Road Review, Sledgehammer Lit, (mac)ro(mic), and other small-press publications. Find them on Twitter at @SailorTheia, or visit feir website: mimulus.weebly.com.

You can see more from Rick in our Vol. 1: Still Life.

Rick Hollon

Dylan Willoughby

A permanently disabled writer and composer, Dylan Willoughby was born
in London, England, and currently lives in Southern California. New
poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Laurel Review,
Bloom Magazine (Scotland), Fahmidan Journal, and Vulnerary Magazine.
Past work has appeared in Shenandoah, Southern Humanities Review,
CutBank, Denver Quarterly, Green Mountains Review, Salmagundi, The
Interpreter’s House (UK), Agenda (UK) and Stand (UK). Chester Creek
Press has published three letterpress, illustrated chapbooks of his poetry in
limited editions. Dylan has received fellowships from Yaddo and Macdowell, and a
scholarship from the West Chester Poetry Conference. He earned an MFA
in poetry from Cornell University, where he studied with A.R. Ammons and
Robert Morgan. He records music as Lost in Stars, which has been
featured by The Los Angeles Times, Nylon, XLR8R, Impose Magazine
(including an essay on the importance of the vinyl LP album), Insomniac,
Earmilk, Echoes (NPR), KCRW (NPR) and other venues.

DS Maolalai (he/him) has been nominated eight times for Best of the Net and five times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden (Encircle Press, 2016) and Sad Havoc Among the Birds (Turas Press, 2019).

DS Maolalai

Zoe Grace Marquedant

Zoe Grace Marquedant (she/her/hers) is a queer writer. She earned her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her work has been featured in Olney Magazine, The Cool Rock Repository, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. She is also a columnist and contributor for Talk Vomit. Follow her at @zoenoumlaut.

Zoe was previously featured with us in our Vol 1: Still Life.

Anna Kirwin is a writer and artist, living in London, but dreaming of the Arctic. Her last published piece considered exploration, but more generally, her recent work deals with language, thought and time. She sees light in the darkness.

Anna Kirwin

S. Haya

S. Haya lives and writes from Kenya about interesting intricacies of human life. He is the author of Forgotten Breaths, and tweets as @SHayawrites.

Jaco Beneduci graduated from UC Berkeley in December 2018 with a Bachelor's in English and a Creative Writing Minor. As an aspiring poet, he has been writing since childhood and has been published in One Report and AGNG. He was born in Singapore and currently resides in Los Angeles. Spiders are his Gods.

Jaco Beneduci

Jameson Hampton

Jameson Hampton is an adventurer from Buffalo, NY who wishes they were immortal so they'd have time to visit every coffee shop in the world. Find him online at jameybash.com or on Twitter at @jameybash.

Rudi Dornemann grew up in Milwaukee and now lives in Maine. His writing has appeared places like Conduit, Strange Horizons, and the mummy anthology Spirits Unwrapped from Lethe Press. He instigated, facilitated, and contributed to the flash fiction website The Daily Cabal, and was second season host of Why Why Why: The Books Podcast. His latest project is a fiction podcast/email series, Notes from an Imaginary Place, which can be found (and subscribed to) at his website, www.rudidornemann.com.

Rudi Dornemann

Karen Lethlean

Karen Lethlean is a retired English teacher with fiction in Barbaric Yawp, Ken*Again, Pendulum Papers. She has won a few awards through Australian and UK competitions, including Best of Times with Bum Joke, Froth and Bubble literary festival with Long Haired Weirdo, and Wild Words with a piece titled Red, Yellow and Black. Almond Tree received a commendation from Lorian Hemingway Short Fiction competition and was published in Pretty Owl Poetry Journal. She is working on a memoir of military service 1972-76 titled Army Girl. In her other life Karen is a triathlete who has done Hawaii Ironman championships twice.

Anna (she/her) is a queer, bisexual actor-writer of mixed British and Asian heritage, based in North Yorkshire. As well as poetry, she writes short stories, fiction, memoir and scripts for stage and screen. Her existing works include Unknown (Stairwell Books, 2021); Little Irritants (Analog Submission Press); Love, Alberta; Wayside; 100 Friggin' Poems; It's OK To Fall For Camp Boys (self-published). Her work has also been featured at The Best New British and Irish Poets Anthology 2019-2021 (The Black Spring Press Group), Writing East Midlands Writers’ Conference 2021, Alpha Female Society, Dissonance, Enclave, Mookychick, Prismatica and Thirst Aid Kit podcast.

Anna Rose James

S.M. Keil

S.M. Keil is an empty-nester living outside Raleigh, NC. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology and Art History and an M.A. in Sociology. She writes about art, women, domesticity, and nostalgia rooted in the 1970s. When she’s not lounging on her balcony listening to Yacht Rock and quaffing tequila, she’s pasting together weirdo collages in her studio.

JP Legarte is a Pilipino-American junior at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working toward a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and an English minor. He desires to provide spaces through his writing where others can process their own emotions, ponderings, and anything else within life itself. His poems have been previously published or are forthcoming in Poetry Undressed, Dead Skunk Magazine, Words & Whispers, Ice Lolly Review, and The Global Youth Review among other journals and magazines. You can find him on Instagram at @jpl091 and @unspokenentropy.

JP Legarte

Sacha Archer

Sacha Archer lives in Ontario, Canada with his wife and two daughters. Most recently he has published Mother’s Milk (Timglaset) which was chosen by CBC as one of the best books of poetry of 2020. His work has recently been included in the anthologies Mouth of the Lion (steel incisors, 2021) and Watch Your Head (Coach House Books, 2020). Forthcoming this year are two chapbooks, Jung Origami (Enneract Editions) and Hydes (nOIR:Z). Archer’s concrete poetry has been exhibited internationally. Find him on Facebook and Instagram at @sachaarcher, or on Twitter at @sachaarchermeat.

Agwam Kessington

Agwam Kessington (he/him) is a budding writer and poet whose works are forthcoming in Mermaid Monthly, Corporeal, Celestite Poetry, Revolutionary Review, Cicada’s Lament, and elsewhere. His Twitter handle is @TheAgwam.

Matthew’s stories have appeared in Construction, Ilanot Review, Front Porch, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing and American lit at a small mid-Missouri university, and reads submissions for the online lit mag Craft.

Matthew Dube

Lynn Finger

Lynn Finger’s poetry has appeared in 8Poems, Perhappened, Twin Pies, Book of Matches, Drunk Monkeys, and Not Deer Magazine. Lynn is an editor at Harpy Hybrid Review and works with a group that mentors writers in prison. Follow Lynn on Twitter at @sweetfirefly2.