Contributors to Issue XXXIII (under construction)
Eliza Harris
Eliza Harris' comics, illustrations, and interviews have been published by Catapult Magazine, Feminist Press, The Rumpus, Passages North, HAD, and others. She lives in Seattle and can be found on Instagram and Twitter @elizaeharris or at elizaharris.com.
Andleeb Shadani
Andleeb Shadani (mshadani@gmail.com) is a poet, essayist, and short story writer. His works have appeared in EPW, Salt Hill Journal, The Rumpus, Waxwing, and CriticalMuslims, among others. He is the winner of Washington Square Review's New Voices Award, 2025.
Anthony Thomas Lombardi
Anthony Thomas Lombardi is a writer, educator, organizer, & romantic in revolt. He is the author of murmurations (YesYes Books, 2025) & the founder & director of Word is Bond, a community-centered benefit reading series partnered with Brooklyn Poets that raises funds for transnational relief efforts & mutual aid organizations. He was a Poetry Project 2021-2022 Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow; has taught or continues to teach with Borough of Manhattan Community College, Paris College of Art, Brooklyn Poets, Florida State University, Polyphony Lit’s apprenticeship programming, & community programming throughout New York City; & currently serves as a poetry editor for Sundog Lit. His work has appeared in Best New Poets 2023, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Nashville Review, Narrative Magazine, & elsewhere. He hails from Brooklyn where he lives with his cat, Dilla. He believes in a Free Palestine & thinks you should too.
Bailey Bujnosek
Bailey Bujnosek is a writer from California. Her fiction has appeared in Coffin Bell, X-R-A-Y, Lunch Ticket, Nighthawk Literature, and VIDA Review (R.I.P.). She also has bylines in Nylon, Highsnobiety, V Magazine, CR Fashion Book, and elsewhere.
Clare Harmon
Clare Harmon is an interdisciplinary artist and literary translator completing a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. Clare is a recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, including a Fulbright to pursue archival research related to their dissertation in Naples, Italy. Clare has published translations of Dante’s Inferno in Poetry Magazine, FENCE, and Poetry Northwest. Clare is currently based in Montpellier, France.
Colin Bailes
Colin Bailes holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he served as the 2020–2021 Levis Reading Prize Fellow and was awarded the Catherine and Joan Byrne Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. A 2022 National Poetry Series finalist, his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Best New Poets, Blackbird, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, Narrative Magazine, and Nashville Review, among other journals. He lives and teaches in Richmond, Virginia.
Cristoforo Landino
Cristoforo Landino (1424-1498) was a humanist, poet, and philosopher of the Italian peninsula. Landino produced multiple commentaries on classical and medieval literature, including Dante’s Divine Comedy, the works of Virgil, and Pliny’s Natural History.
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a poet and political theorist of the Italian peninsula. Dante is perhaps best known for his three-part epic, The Divine Comedy.
Emilie Guan
Emilie Guan (she/her) is a writer from Shanghai. She reads prose for The Lumiere Review, and her work has been published in VISIONS, The Indy, and elsewhere. She is fondly feral over Oxford commas.
Fay Dillof
Fay Dillof’s poetry has appeared in Best New Poets, New England Review, Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, Gettysburg Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Sewanee Writers' Conference, and was awarded the Milton Kessler Memorial Prize and the Dogwood Literary Prize. Fay lives in Northern California where she works as a psychotherapist.
Hana Inbar and Robert Manaster
Hana Inbar and Robert Manaster have published two books of cotranslations: Ronny Someck's The Milk Underground (White Pine Press), which was awarded the Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation, and Yossel Birstein's And So Is the Bus: Jerusalem Stories (Dryad Press). Hana Inbar is a native Israeli and the daughter of Yossel Birstein, a noted Israeli writer. Robert Manaster's poetry has appeared in numerous journals including Image, International Poetry Review, Rhino, and Maine Review. He's also published poetry book reviews in such publications as The Rumpus, Colorado Review, and North American Review.
Isabel Neal
Isabel Neal (b. 1989) is the author of Thrown Voice, which won the 2025 Yale Younger Poets Prize.
Janice Lobo Sapigao
Janice Lobo Sapigao is a community college educator, Filipina American writer, and author of the poetry collections like a solid to a shadow (Nightboat Books, 2022) and microchips for millions (PAWA, Inc., 2016). She is a 2023-2026 Lucas Arts Resident in Literary Arts at the Montalvo Arts Center. She was the Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Rare Materials Research Fellowship at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, a Visiting Scholar at the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL, an AWP Writer-to-Writer Mentee in fiction, the 2020-2021 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, and a Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets. She is a tenured Associate Professor of English at Skyline College. She is working on a novel.
Jessika Bouvier
Jessika Bouvier is a queer Cajun writer. Her work appears (or soon will appear) in monkeybicycle, HAD, SUNHOUSE, Split Lip, Black Fox, X-R-A-Y, and elsewhere. Recently, she was named a finalist in Washington Square Review’s New Voices Award and in fugue’s Prose Contest. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of So to Speak, an intersectional feminist journal. For now she's still on Instagram, @jessikavbouvier.
Jorge Teillier
Jorge Teillier (1935-1996) was a Chilean poet, editor, and critic. The author of twelve books of poetry—recently anthologized in Nostalgias de la Tierra (Catedra, 2013)—Teillier is perhaps best known as the founder of Laric Poetry, a poetics characterized by myth, childhood, and provincial life.
Justin Rovillos Monson
Justin Rovillos Monson, a Filipino-American poet & writer, was an inaugural PEN America Writing for Justice fellow and a recipient of the Kundiman / Asian American Literary Review / Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center A Lettre Mentorship in poetry. His work has appeared in POETRY, The Rumpus, The Nation, and elsewhere. He is currently serving a sentence in the Michigan Department of Corrections from which he hopes to be released in 2027.
Kanika Ahuja
Kanika Ahuja is a poet and educator from New Delhi, India. She is the winner of the 2023 Thomas H. Scholl and Elizabeth Boyd Thompson Poetry Prize and the AWP Intro Journals Project 2022. Her work appears, or is forthcoming, at Poetry Daily, Quarterly West, Puerto Del Sol, The Offing, and elsewhere.
Kelly Magee
Kelly Magee is the author of the story collections Body Language and The Neighborhood, as well as several collaborative books of poetry and prose. Recent work has appeared (or will soon) in River Styx, Epiphany, Triquarterly, Cutbank, Fiction Southeast, and others. She teaches creative writing and queer studies at Western Washington University.
Leah Umansky
Leah Umansky is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently, Of Tyrant (Word Works Books 2024.) She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has curated and hosted The Couplet Reading Series in NYC since 2011. She is the creator of the Stay Brave Substack which encourages women-identifying creatives to inspire other women-identifying creatives to stay brave in their creative pursuits. Her creative work has been featured on PBS, and in such places as The New York Times, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A Day, USA Today, POETRY, Bennington Review, and American Poetry Review. She is an educator and writing coach who has taught workshops to all ages at such places as Poetry School London, Poets House, Hudson Valley Writers Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and elsewhere. She is working on a fourth collection of poems, Ordinary Slendor, on wonder, joy and love. She can be found at www.leahumansky.com.
Marianne Jay Erhardt
Marianne Jay Erhardt is the author of Lucky Bodies, winner of the Iron Horse Prize. Her writing appears in Orion, The Kenyon Review, Oxford American, Electric Literature, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. She has received awards from the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has held residencies at Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center. She has an MFA in poetry from UW-Madison and teaches writing at Wake Forest University.
Mathew Weitman
Mathew Weitman is a PhD student in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston where he is an Inprint Brown Foundation Fellow and poetry editor for Gulf Coast.
Michael Mlekoday
Michael Mlekoday is a poet, performer, and educator from Minneapolis, currently living near the Salish Sea. Mlekoday’s first book, The Dead Eat Everything (2014), was chosen by Dorianne Laux as winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Their second book, All Earthly Bodies (2022), was chosen by Patricia Smith for the Miller Williams Poetry Series. Mlekoday is a National Poetry Slam champion and a co-founder of Button Poetry, and they currently teach high school English classes on monsters, gender and sexuality, hip-hop, and wilderness poetics. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Third Coast, Gulf Coast, and About Place.
Mrityunjay Mohan
Mrityunjay Mohan is a queer, trans, disabled writer of color. Mrityunjay's work has been published or is forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Fourteen Hills. He’s a Tin House scholar, Lambda Literary fellow, and a Brooklyn Poets fellow. He was a recipient of the Nella Larsen Memorial Scholarship for the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. He’s an editor for ANMLY magazine, and a reader for Split/Lip Press, Harvard Review, and The Masters Review.
Nicole W. Lee
Nicole W. Lee is a poet born in Sydney, Australia, to Chinese Malaysian parents. Her poetry has been published in or forthcoming from AGNI, Crazyhorse (now swamp pink), Gulf Coast, Meanjin, Palette Poetry, The Margins, and wildness, and has received fellowships and scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Tin House Summer and Winter Workshops, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, AWP, and Miami Book Fair. Her poem “Deluge: A Chinese Almanac” won the 2024 Palette Poetry Previously Published Prize and has been optioned for a feature film. Nicole is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and associate poetry editor at Four Way Review. She teaches classical Chinese poetics and its influence on contemporary poetry at the Asian American Literary Archive. For more, visit nicolewlee.com.
Patricia Q. Bidar
Patricia Quintana Bidar is a working class elder and writer of short form fiction. She is an alum of the U.C. Davis Graduate Writing Program, where she taught creative writing to undergraduate students and earned a M.A. in English. She also holds a degree in Filmmaking. Patricia’s stories have been widely anthologized including in Flash Fiction America (W.W. Norton, 2023), Best Microfiction 2023 (Pelekinesis Press), and Best Small Fictions 2023 and 2024 (Alternating Current Press). Her short works of fiction have appeared in The Pinch, SmokeLong Quarterly, Atticus Review, Wigleaf, and Moon City Review, among many fine literary journals. Patricia serves as a Submissions Editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. She lives with her family and unusual dog outside of Oakland, California.
Ronny Someck
Ronny Someck has published 15 volumes of poetry. He has been translated into 44 languages. He's recipient of the Prime Minister's Award, the Yehuda Amichai Award for Hebrew poetry, the "Wine Poem Award" in Struga Poetry Evenings (Macedonia, 2005) and the Hans Berghuis Prize for poetry in the Maastricht International Poetry Nights (2006). He has been awarded the Cross of The Order of The Knights of Poland and the knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France.
Tariq Karibian
Tariq Karibian is a Palestinian-Armenian writer from the Metro-Detroit area. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rising Phoenix Review, Phoebe Journal, Ox Mag, and Stork Magazine. His debut novel is in development. Tariq holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from Villanova University and a M.A. in Humanities/Creative Writing from the University of Chicago. Currently, he is a M.F.A. candidate at Emerson College, where he also teaches undergraduate rhetoric, composition, and research courses.
T. De Los Reyes
T. De Los Reyes is a Filipino poet and author of And Yet Held (Bull City Press, 2024). Her poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in Pleaides, Epiphany, Bellingham Review, The Los Angeles Review, Shō Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She is the designer of Nowruz Journal and the founder of Read A Little Poetry. She lives and writes in Manila, Philippines. Read more of her work at tdelosreyes.com.
Teri Ke
Teri Ke is a writer and artist living in Philadelphia. They are a recent graduate of Bryn Mawr College, where they studied Art History. Their work has appeared in Laurel Moon, Nimbus, among others. Right now, they are thinking about the moon.
