Contributors to Issue XXVI
Kelli Russell Agodon
Kelli Russell Agodon’s newest book is Dialogues with Rising Tides from Copper Canyon Press. She is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press where she works as an editor and book cover designer. Her other books include Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room (Foreword Indies Book of the Year in Poetry), Hourglass Museum (Finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry), The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice (coauthored with Martha Silano), and Fire on Her Tongue: An Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry. She lives in a sleepy seaside town in Washington State on traditional lands of the Chimacum, Coast Salish, S'Klallam, and Suquamish people where she is an avid paddleboarder and hiker. She teaches at Pacific Lutheran University’s low-res MFA program, the Rainier Writing Workshop. Kelli is currently part of a project between local land trusts and artists to help raise awareness for the preservation of land, ecosystems, and biodiversity called Writing the Land.
Fred Arroyo
Fred Arroyo is the author of Sown in Earth: Essays of Memory and Belonging (University of Arizona Press, 2020); the collection Western Avenue and Other Fictions; and the novel The Region of Lost Names. His writing has appeared in the anthologies Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing and The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity and the Natural World. Fred’s writing is also included in the Library of Congress series “Spotlight on U.S. Hispanic Writers.” Fred lives in middle Tennessee.
Jacob Austin
Jacob Austin moves boxes in a supermarket distribution center. His published work is collected at jacobottoaustin.com.
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Dnipro, Ukraine, as a Jewish refugee in 1993, when she was six years old. She is the author of three poetry collections: The Many Names for Mother, Don't Touch the Bones and 40 WEEKS, forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2023. Her recent poems appear in Ploughshares, AGNI, and American Poetry Review, among others. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation, Lyric Witness: Intergenerational (Re)collection of the Holocaust in Contemporary American Poetry, pays particular attention to the underrepresented atrocity in the former Soviet territories. Julia is the author of the model poem for the “Dear Ukraine” Global Community Poem project. She is the Murphy Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Hendrix College and lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Todd Dillard
Todd Dillard’s work has appeared in Guernica, Sixth Finch, Fairy Tale Review, The Adroit Journal, HAD, and elsewhere. His debut collection of poetry Ways We Vanish is available from Okay Donkey Press and was a finalist for the 2021 Balcones Poetry Award.
Sam Dilling
Sam Dilling is a writer born and raised in Western Pennsylvania currently living and working in New York City. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and has work published or forthcoming around the internet. Presently, she is at work on a novel and can be found on Twitter at @knucklesamwitch.
Michael Dumanis
Michael Dumanis is the author of Creature (Four Way Books, 2023) and My Soviet Union (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007). Recent work appears in American Poetry Review, The Believer, Colorado Review, The Common, and Poetry. He teaches at Bennington College, where he serves as editor of Bennington Review.
Nancy Eimers
Nancy Eimers is the author of four poetry collections. She has been the recipient of a Nation “Discovery” Award, a Whiting Writers Award, and two NEA Fellowships. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
John Gallaher
John Gallaher’s forthcoming book of poems is My Life in Brutalist Architecture (Four Way Books, 2024). He lives and co-edits the Laurel Review in northwest Missouri.
Natalie Giarratano
Natalie Giarratano is the author of Big Thicket Blues (Sundress Publications) and Leaving Clean, winner of the 2013 Liam Rector First Book Prize in Poetry (Briery Creek Press). Her poems have appeared in Beltway Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly, Tinderbox, and American Literary Review, among others. She edits and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with her partner and daughter and is the city’s former poet laureate.
Miriam Grossman
Miriam Grossman holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia, and has work published or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Literary Matters, and Kirkus Reviews. She was the winner of the 2020 Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Contest and the 2018 ALSCW Meringoff Writing Award in Fiction. Currently, she is at work on her debut collection. She lives in Brooklyn.
Adrianna Jereb
Adrianna Jereb is a queer writer who loves stories where something weird happens. Her work has appeared in Stone of Madness, Olit, and warning lines mag. She lives in Minneapolis, MN.
Gillian Leichtling
Gillian Leichtling lives, writes, and works in social/health research in Portland, OR. Her stories appear in jmww and Yalobusha Review.
Duy Quang Mai
Duy Quang Mai is from Hanoi, Vietnam. His poems have been published in American Poetry Review, AAWW, diaCRITICS, among others. He is the author of the chapbook Journals to (Story Factory, 2019). More of his work can be found at duyquangmai.com.
Luisa Muradyan
Luisa Muradyan is originally from Odesa, Ukraine and is the author of American Radiance (University of Nebraska Press) which won the 2017 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. She is a member of the Cheburashka Collective and additional work can be found at Best American Poetry, The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, and Guernica, among others.
Stephanie Niu
Stephanie Niu is a poet from Marietta, Georgia, and the author of She Has Dreamt Again of Water (Diode Editions, 2022). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, The Georgia Review, and Southeast Review, as well as scientific collaborations including the 11th Annual St.Louis River Summit. She lives in New York City. Find her online at stephanieniu.com/poetry or on Twitter as @niusteph.
C.L. O’Dell
C.L. O’Dell’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, Best New Poets, and the New Statesman, among others. He is founder and editor of The Paris-American.
Benjamin Paloff
Benjamin Paloff’s books include the poetry collections And His Orchestra (2015) and The Politics (2011), both from Carnegie Mellon, and many translations from Polish, Czech, Russian, and Yiddish. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Common, Fence, Guesthouse, The Laurel Review, The New England Review, and others. Twice a fellow of the NEA, he is professor of comparative literature at the University of Michigan, where he is also director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
J.C. Rodriguez
J.C. Rodriguez is a writer from Long Island. His poems have appeared in places like Brooklyn Poets, Olney Magazine, & Meow Meow Pow Pow. He documents & marinates over some of his misadventures online @ brownmoon.rip/blog.
aureleo sans
aureleo sans is a Colombian-American, non-binary, queer, formerly unhoused writer with a disability who resides in San Antonio, Texas. She is also a 2022 Tin House Scholar, a 2022 Sewanee Writers Conference Scholar, a VONA alumna, and a Periplus fellow. She was named the second-place winner of Fractured Lit’s 2021 Micro Fiction Contest and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction. Her work has been published in The Offing, Shenandoah, and Electric Literature and is forthcoming in Passages North, Salamander, and elsewhere. Follow her at @aureleos.
Dorsía Smith Silva
Dorsía Smith Silva is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net finalist, Best New Poets nominee, Cave Cavem Poetry Prize Semifinalist, Obsidian Fellow, and Full Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize Shortlist (2021) and has recently been published or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Cream City Review, Poetry Northwest, the minnesota review, The Offing, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. She is the author of Good Girl (micro-chapbook), editor of Latina/Chicana Mothering, and the co-editor of seven books. She has also attended the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, Tin House Workshop, and The Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop. Lastly, she has a Ph.D. in Caribbean Literature and posts on Twitter @DSmithSilva.
Kieron Walquist
Kieron Walquist is queer, autistic, a cancer, and a hillbilly from Missouri. His work appears/is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Heavy Feather Review, IHLR, The Missouri Review, Pleiades, Small Orange, and others. He holds an MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and no longer hunts ghosts.
Jacqueline Xiong
Jacqueline Xiong is a fifteen-year-old writer from Houston. She enjoys composing music and putting together Spotify playlists, and can be found on Instagram at @jacquelinexiong_.
Hantian Zhang
Hantian Zhang is a writer living in San Francisco, with work published in Eclectica Magazine, The Offing, Manifest-Station, and elsewhere. He is a data scientist by day.
