Issue 101 Contributors
Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American writer, is the author of four poetry collections including Quarantine Highway (FlowerSong Press 2022). Among her awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, CantoMundo, California Arts Council, Foundation for Contemporary Arts NYC (Covid grant) and Creative Capacity. She lives in the hippie enclave of Topanga canyon.
Chel Campbell (she/they) is a poet from Sioux Falls, South Dakota whose work appears or is forthcoming in SWWIM, New Delta Review, trampset, Midway Journal, Pidgeonholes, Pithead Chapel, and elsewhere. In 2021, she completed an English M.A. at the University of South Dakota where she taught literature and composition and read poetry for South Dakota Review. They have been a stay-at-home parent since the pandemic began. Find her on Instagram @hellochel and Twitter @swell_chel
Faith Gómez Clark (she/they) earned their MFA from Warren Wilson. Their work can be found or is forthcoming in The Acentos Review, Salt Hill Journal, Huizache Magazine, and elsewhere.
Tresha Faye Haefner is the author of When the Moon Had Antlers (PineRowPress 2023), Take This Longing (Finishing Line Press), and Method and Mystery: A Research Based Guide to Teaching Poetry (The Poetry Salon Press). Her work has won the Robert and Adele Schiff Prize, Pangea Prize, been a finalist for River Heron, and been nominated for a Best of the Net and the Pushcart. She is founder of The Poetry Salon (www.thepoetrysalon.com).
Twin sisters Ann and Kirby Kenny are American writers and artists whose work explores themes of confinement, redemption, and self-discovery. They juxtapose folklore with realism as a means of probing their world. Their writing has appeared in Zimetra International Magazine and will appear in forthcoming issues of Ghost City Review and Hell of Fame Magazine. Their debut poetry collection, New Myths, will be available in 2024. Find them @annandkirbyworld.
Lucy M. Logsdon lives in Southern Illinois where she stewards cats, horses, land, family and community. Her poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in such venues as: Contrary; Nimrod; The Southern Poetry Review; Gingerbread House; My Body, My Words; Pure Slush; Drafthorse; Rust+Moth; Heron Tree; Five2One; Seventeen; Poet Lore; and Isacoustic. Nominations include Forward Poetry, Best of the Net, and Pushcart. She has taught creative writing & literature for over twenty years.
Sarah Mills is a freelance writer and editor. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beaver Magazine, Anti-Heroin Chic, Third Wednesday, Glass Mountain, Philadelphia Stories, and elsewhere. She is currently writing a young adult novel. You can visit her at sarahmillswrites.com.
Erin Murphy’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ecotone, The Southern Poetry Review, Waxwing, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her awards include the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, the Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award, The Normal School Poetry Prize, and a Best of the Net award. Her newest poetry book, Human Resources, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. She is Professor of English at Penn State Altoona and poetry editor of The Summerset Review.
Tolu Ogunlesi’s fiction and poetry have appeared in Wasafiri, Transition, Sable, Istanbul Literature Review, Magma, Orbis, Eclectica, VLQ, Inkpot, Mississippi Review, Times Arts Review, and many others. He's the winner of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, a PEN/Studzinski Literary Award, and writing/research fellowships from Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Sweden; University of Birmingham, England; Rockefeller Foundation and Harvard University. He currently divides his time between Abuja, Nigeria, and Cambridge, MA, USA.
Atia Sattar is a Pakistani-born teacher, scholar, and meditator living in Los Angeles. Her writing explores the embodied intersections of gender, race, mindfulness, and motherhood. Her work has appeared in various publications including Lion’s Roar and Tricycle. She is Associate Professor (Teaching) of Gender & Sexuality Studies at University of Southern California.