Contributors
Cleo Abramian lives and writes between Colorado and Western Mass.
Louise Akers is a poet living in Queens, NY. They earned their MFA from Brown University in May of 2018, and received the Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop Prize for Innovative Writing in 2017 and the Confrontation Poetry Prize in 2019. Their chapbook, Alien year, was selected by Brandon Shimoda for the 2020 Oversound Chapbook Prize. Akers’s work can be found in the Berkeley Poetry Review, MIDTERM, Bat City Review, Fugue Journal, Confrontation Magazine, bæst journal, and elsewhere.
Chaelee Dalton (이채연) is the author of the chapbook Mother Tongue (Gold Line Press 2021). You can find their work published or forthcoming in The Offing, Pinwheel, and the Penn Review. A poet, zine maker, and educator, they have presented their work at arts and activist events in Seoul, Los Angeles, and New York. Born in Uijeongbu, South Korea, they currently live in New York.
Brandi Kruse (b. 1979 Ypsilanti, Michigan) is an artist and educator working in Portland, Oregon. Spanning multiple disciplines, Kruse’s artwork addresses expectation and sensitivity within real and imagined spaces. Her artwork has shown at numerous institutions in Portland and beyond including the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, Fuller Rosen Gallery, Fold Gallery (LA), and Worksound International (Mexico City). She is also co-founder of KC, a writers’ collective publishing poetry zines since 2013.
Jessica Laser is the author of two books of poems, Planet Drill (Futurepoem Books, forthcoming this year), winner of the Other Futures Award, and Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides (Letter Machine Editions, 2019). At the moment, she lives near Lake Michigan in Indiana and is a PhD candidate in English at UC Berkeley.
Patrick Nevins is the author of The Commission of Inquiry: Stories (forthcoming from Cornerstone Press). His writing has appeared in HAD (Hobart After Dark), Schyulkill Valley Journal Online, and other places.
Jerry Lieblich writes plays, poems, and operas in Williamstown MA, and Brooklyn NY. Plays include D Deb Debbie Deborah (Clubbed Thumb – Critic’s Pick: NY Times, TimeOut NY), Tongue Depressor (The Public Theatre, Brooklyn College), Nostalgia is a Mild Form of Grief (Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theater), Ghost Stories (Cloud City - Critic’s Pick: TimeOut NY), Your Hair Looked Great (Abrons Arts Center), and The Barbarians (New York Theatre Workshop, Dixon Place, PRELUDE), A Discourse on the Method… (Ensemble Studio Theatre), and Everything for Dawn (Experiments in Opera).
Jerry has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony (2020 Peter Wirth Fellow), MassMoCA, Blue Mountain Center, SPACE on Ryder Farm, UCROSS, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. They have received a EST/Sloan Commission and the Himan Brown Creative Writing Award (twice), and are an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Page 73's I-73 Writer's Group, and Pipeline Theater’s Playlab group. BA: Yale, Philosophy; MFA: Brooklyn College (Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney, chief instigators). www.thirdear.nyc
Violist and composer Kurt Rohde is a recipient of the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, a Radcliffe-Harvard Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lydian String Quartet Commission Prize, and commission awards from the Barlow, Fromm, Hanson, and Koussevitzky Foundations, and New Music/USA. He has received the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. Recent projects include new works for the Lydian Quartet, Brooklyn Art Song Society, cellist Rhonda Rider, pianist Genevieve Lee, cellist Michelle Kesler, and Ensemble Échappé.
Rohde is Artistic Advisor of and plays viola with the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. His CD Oculus—Music for Strings with the New Century Chamber Orchestra was released on the Mondovibe label, and his CD ONE: Chamber Music of Kurt Rohde was released by Innova Recordings. A forthcoming CD featuring Treatises for an Unrecovered Past for String Quartet and his song cycle It wasn’t a dream… was released on Albany Records in 2019.
Tzipporah Shapiro is a New York City-based writer and graphic designer with enough plants to constitute a medium sized jungle.
Peter Soucy was born in Rhode Island. He is a graduate of the MFA at CUNY Brooklyn College, where he edited nonfiction for the Brooklyn Review. He received the 2020 Himan Brown Award in Creative Writing.