Issue 104 Contributors
Lorraine Doran is the author of Phrasebook for the Pleiades. Her poems and essays have appeared in Fugue, Gulf Coast, Barn Owl Review, Third Coast, Radar Poetry, and elsewhere.
Elizabeth Forsythe (she/they) is a queer and chronically ill poet and educator currently living in the Pacific Northwest. She holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia College Chicago and is a Ph.D. candidate in rhetoric at Washington State University, where she also serves as the assistant poetry editor for Blood Orange Review. Their work has appeared in 2River View, Arcturus, Columbia Poetry Review, Jabberwock Review, Tinderbox Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Davi Gray (they/them) is a poet, writer, and storyteller, living in North Minneapolis, on the traditional homelands of the Dakota. They are queer, trans, and nonbinary, and have been having poems rejected for publication since they were 9 years old. However, Davi has been published (under their deadname) in Poetry, The Comstock Review, SLANT, and elsewhere, and has won prizes for their poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in PEN America Prison Writing Contests.
LC Gutierrez is a product of many places in the South and the Caribbean. He now writes, teaches and plays trombone in Madrid, Spain. His writing is published or forthcoming in Autofocus, Notre Dame Review, Sweet, Hobart, Peauxdunque Review and other wonderful journals.
Monique Reneé Harris was born an African American woman with spastic cerebral palsy. Using imaging software, she learned how to use a head wand to create digital art. Her artwork has appeared in Pentimento Magazine, Penumbra Online, Aji Magazine, Hey, I’m Alive Magazine, The Raw Art Review, Defunkt Magazine, Spoonie Press Literary Journal, and her poetry-art book Strength and Tragedy: The Mystery of the Blue Lady. She won the Red Planet Magazine Cover Art Contest.
Heather C. Krueger (they/she) is a deep-hearted queer poet whose work explores their childhood, divorce, and coming out late in life. They recently graduated from The Writer’s Studio at SFU under the mentorship of Rob Taylor and Pocket MFA under the mentorship of Jose Hernandez Diaz. They live on Treaty 7 territory and Metis Nation Region 3 with their two teenagers, two kittens and a fluffy dog. Find her on IG @heatherckrueger
Emily Moon (she/her) is a queer transgender poet from Portland, Ore. She is author of It’s Just You & Me, Miss Moon and Editor at First Matter Press. She was a semi-finalist for the Banyan Review Poetry Prize. Her work includes appearances in or forthcoming from Pile Press, Culinary Origami, On the High Journal, Incognito Literary Magazine, Ethel Zine, and elsewhere. She is on Instagram @emilymoonpoet and Facebook @Emily.Moon.57. Her link tree is: https://linktr.ee/EmilyMoonPoet.
Natalie Eleanor Patterson is the author of the chapbook Plainhollow (dancing girl press, 2022) and the editor of Dream of the River (Jacar Press, 2021), and has work featured or forthcoming in Sinister Wisdom, Hunger Mountain, CALYX, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Oregon State University and is currently pursuing her PhD in poetry. You can find her on Twitter @natalieepatt and on Instagram @imagine.nat.
Katharine Rauk is the author of Buried Choirs (Tinderbox Editions, 2016) and the chapbook Basil (Black Lawrence Press, 2011). She has poems published or forthcoming in Colorado Review, Pleiades, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Harvard Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Best of the Net, and other journals. She teaches at North Hennepin Community College in Minnesota.
Straddling Chicago and Delhi, Tanima writes poetry, makes theatre, and sometimes works on a PhD. Previous writing can be found in Soundzine, Rise Up Review, Stone Poetry Quarterly, The Passionfruit Review, Sky Island Journal and Indent: The Body and the Performative.
Rachel White (she/her) is an American-born poet and artist who lives and works on Kaurna land in South Australia. Her poetry has been featured in Kissing Dynamite and placed highly commended in the 2022 Woorilla Poetry Prize. Her work also appears or is forthcoming in Porcupine Lit, Amethyst Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Third Wednesday Magazine. You can find her on Instagram @rachelwhite.studio.