Contributors
Christopher S. Bell is a writer and musician. His fiction has recently appeared in Decomp Journal, Evening Street Review, Humble Pie and Nymphs among others.
Hannah Bonner's poems have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, So to Speak, The North Carolina Literary Review, The Pinch Journal, The Vassar Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Two Peach. She serves as the Poetry Editor at Brink https://www.brinkliterary.com/.
Isa Guzman is a poet and recent Brooklyn College MFA graduate from Los Sures, Brooklyn. Dedicating her work to the hardship, traumas, and political struggle within the Boricua Diaspora, especially the LGBTQ+ communities within it. Isa helps lead several projects including: The Titere Poets Collective, The Pan Con Titeres Podcast, La Esquina Open Mic, and La Cocina Workshop! She have published her work through several magazines, including The Acentos Review, The Bridge, Public Seminar, and also appears in several anthologies, such as The Other Side of Violet, Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea, and The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext. You can follow her through their social media: @Isa_Writes.
Adam Haslett is the author, most recently, of the novel Imagine Me Gone.
Simone Kearney is a Brooklyn-based writer and visual artist. She is author of the full-length book of poems, DAYS (Belladonna, 2021, forthcoming), and chapbooks My Ida (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017), and In Threes, a limited edition artist chapbook (Minute BOOKS, 2013). Other publications include: The Brooklyn Rail, Lit Hub, Lumina, Boston Review, Precog Magazine, and Riot of Perfume, among others. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (2014) and an Amy Award (2010). Residencies and fellowships include Paint School (Shandaken Projects), The Lighthouse Works, the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, The Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Woodstock Brydcliffe Guild, and Ragdale, among others. She has exhibited her artwork nationally and internationally. Most recently, she has exhibited her work at Olympia Gallery and Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York. She currently teaches at Parsons New School for Design.
Max Lebo is a Brooklyn-based writer in the fiction program at Hunter.
Clare Needham’s poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and The Best American Poetry series. Her work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Ploughshares Solos, New York Tyrant Magazine, Grub Street, Burning House Press, Catapult, Bodega Magazine, Apofenie, and elsewhere. She has received support from PEN America and have been a resident at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. In May 2016, she received an MFA in fiction from Hunter College, where she was a recipient of the Pearl Schwartz Scholarship.
Mari Pack is a writer living in Queens. She has an MA in English Literature from the University of Toronto (2013) and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter, CUNY (2020). Her poetry chapbook, The Description of a New World was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2019. Her cat does not understand poetry.
ZZ Packer’s collection of short stories Drinking Coffee Elsewhere won the Commonwealth First Fiction Award, an ALEX Award and was a National Book Award 5 under 35 winner. It became a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2004, and was selected for the Today Show Book Club by John Updike. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Story, Ploughshares, Granta, Zoetrope All-Story, Best American Short Stories 2000 and Best American Short Stories 2003 and, 100 Years of The Best American Short Stories published in 2015. Her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, The Believer, The American Prospect, The Oxford American, The Guardian, and The New York Times Book Review. She has appeared on MSNBC as a Huffington Post contributor. She was a Stanford Wallace Stegner Fellow, a Princeton Lewis Center for the Arts Hodder Fellow, and a Lillian Golay Knafel fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.
Katie Schorr is completing her MFA in Fiction at Hunter College this year ('21). She’s written for McSweeney’s and has performed her one-person shows at the UCB Theater, Ars Nova, and Joe’s Pub. She's also an audiobook narrator and a parent to two young children, both of whom wish her stories were scarier.