Contributors
Eva Lucy Alvarado is a twenty-six year old from Charlottesville, Virginia. She enjoys causing trouble on the internet, the movie Fight Club, and her multi-use Lily Pulitzer tote bag/cooler. She possesses a degree in anthropology from the University of Virginia, and is interested in cultural criticism, film theory, and stories about disgusting women. She currently resides in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, but you are more likely to find her in Midtown Manhattan, weight lifting at the Virginia Club and eating large sandwiches.
Terry Belew lives in rural Missouri and is an instructor at State Technical College of Missouri. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Tar River Poetry, Storm Cellar, The American Journal of Poetry, The Fourth River, and Split Rock Review, among others. He is a student in the low residency MFA program at University of Nebraska-Omaha.
William J. Cobb is a novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work has been published in The New Yorker and many other journals. His three novels are The Bird Saviors (2012), Goodnight Texas (2006), and The Fire Eaters (1994), and his story collections are The Lousy Adult (2013) and The White Tattoo (2002). His novels The Donkey Woman and The Reinvented are forthcoming. He directs the writing program at Penn State and lives in Pennsylvania and Colorado.
Christine Degenaars has work published and forthcoming in Rattle, Nimrod, Bear Review, Cider Press Review, The Laurel Review, The Louisville Review, among others. She is the recipient of the Colie Hoffman Prize in Poetry as well as the Bishop Kelleher Award and an honorable mention for the Bennington Award. She graduated from Hunter College with a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry. She lives in New York City.
Born and raised in Perth, Western Australia, Bryn Dodson is a graduate of New York University’s creative writing program, where he was a finalist for the Axinn Foundation/E.L. Doctorow fellowship. His writing has appeared in [PANK], Westerly, Birdcoat Quarterly, and elsewhere. He co-organizes New York City’s Lunar Walk poetry reading series, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Tatiana Dubin is a creative nonfiction MFA candidate at Columbia University. She is writing an experimental biography of the ancient Mesopotamian poet Enheduanna.
Ahana Ganguly is a writer and editor based in the Bay Area and New York City. She is an MFA candidate at Pratt. She works primarily in creative nonfiction and the essay.
Benn Jeffries is a New Zealand writer currently living in New York.
Lynn Melnick is the author of the poetry collections Refusenik (2022), Landscape with Sex and Violence (2017), and If I Should Say I Have Hope (2012), all with YesYes Books, and the co-editor of Please Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets for the Next Generation (Viking, 2015).
Her memoir, I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton, is forthcoming from University of Texas Press's American Music Series in 2022.
Her poetry has appeared in APR, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, and A Public Space. Her essays have appeared in air/light, LA Review of Books, ESPN, and the anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture.
She has received grants from the Cafe Royal Cultural Society and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. A former fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and previously on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, she currently teaches poetry at Columbia University and the 92Y. Born in Indianapolis, she grew up in Los Angeles and currently lives in Brooklyn.
James Kelly Quigley’s poetry has received Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets nominations. Recent work has been published or is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, New York Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, Narrative, SLICE, The American Journal of Poetry, THE BOILER, Salt Hill, and other places. He received both a BA and an MFA from New York University, where he taught undergraduate creative writing and was an editor of Washington Square Review. James was born and raised in New York. He works as a freelance writer in Brooklyn.
Dafna Steinberg is an interdisciplinary lens-based artist and writer living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Her work embodies themes such as grief, personal intimacy, and gender. She is currently researching how artists can use photographic self-portraiture as a form of social practice for her MFA thesis in the graduate Socially Engaged Studio Art program at Moore College of Art and Design. Before tackling her MFA program, Steinberg worked as an adjunct studio art professor at Northern Virginia Community College.