Issue 106 Contributors
Cayenne Bradley is a writer and visual artist living on the unceded territory of the Lekwungen peoples in Victoria BC. She received an Honourable Mention at the 2023 National Magazine Awards, was a finalist for CBC Books’ 2022 Non-Fiction Prize, and won first place in EVENT Magazine’s 2021 Non-Fiction Contest and Room Magazine’s 2020 Short Forms Contest. Her work can be found in publications such as Contemporary Verse 2, Plenitude, and The Temz Review. She's currently working on a memoir and a novel.
Ronda Piszk Broatch is the author of Chaos Theory for Beginners (MoonPath Press, 2023), finalist for the Sally Albiso Prize, and Lake of Fallen Constellations, (MoonPath Press). She is the recipient of an Artist Trust GAP Grant. Ronda’s journal publications include Greensboro Review, Blackbird, Sycamore Review, Missouri Review, and NPR News / KUOW’s All Things Considered. She is a graduate student working toward her MFA at Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writing Workshop.
Megan Busbice is a poet and fiction writer currently living in Chicago. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied English and International Politics, as well as a Fulbright grant recipient. She now works in a communications role at the University of Chicago, where she’s part of a team focused on democracy and institutional reform. Megan’s writing has appeared in Cellar Door, Rainy Day, and New Critique.
Elisa A. Garza taught in public schools, universities, and community programs before cancer and now works as a freelance editor. Her full-length collection, Regalos, is forthcoming from Lamar University Literary Press and her most recent chapbook, Between the Light / entre la claridad, is in a second edition from Mouthfeel Press. Her poems have recently appeared in PRISM International, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Huizache, Texas Poetry Assignment, and several anthologies.
Dorian Kotsiopoulos was inspired to write this poem after documenting medical screening questionnaires in her job as a technical writer. She recently read her work at the 2023 Boston Poetry Marathon. Her work has appeared in literary and medical journals, including Poet Lore, Salamander, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, On the Seawall, Thimble, and The Westchester Review. She is on Instagram @doriankotsiopoulos and Facebook @Dorian Kotsiopoulos.
Austin Lubetkin is a software engineer and artist on the autism spectrum based out of Los Angeles, CA. His art is a platform for activism and Lubetkin frequently works with organizations like Arts4All representing artists with disabilities. Lubetkin’s work is inspired by the world of art therapy. As a child on the spectrum, the artist’s mother showed him how to express his emotions through art and since then art has been a source of both therapy and expression. His work is currently on display at shows across Los Angeles as well as in Florida including at the Monrovia Community Center, Tag Gallery, Artlounge Collective, The Pour House Monrovia, Museum of the Arts at Chipola College, and the Cummer Museum of Arts and Gardens. You can see more of his artwork on instagram @bocaaust .
Skylar Miklus is a poet living in Durham, NH. They obtained their B.A. in Philosophy from Dartmouth College and are pursuing their MFA-Poetry at the University of New Hampshire. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Defunct Magazine, Assignment Literary Magazine, new words {press}, Scavengers Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. You can find their work at https://skylarmiklus.wixsite.com/portfolio.
Noelle Marie Nagales is an Asian-American contemporary writer and author of The way we love. Her work focuses on existentialism, inspired by prose poetry and contemporary Japanese literature. She is currently an Assistant Adjunct Professor at The City College of New York and Baruch College, where she teaches composition and creative writing. http://noellenagales.com/
Nicho Teixeira blogs about his book, Blue 4 U (Dream Pop ‘22), at muppoems.com and can be found on online platforms @muppoet. Nominated for Best of the Net, his poems have appeared in Feral, Surfaces, Counterclock, Yes Poetry, Always Crashing, Mad Swirl, Misery Tourism, Amphora Lit, Juke Joint, Cosmonauts Avenue, Indolent Books, Humphrey Magazine, Stone of Madness, High Shelf Press, Sweet Tree Review, The Marbled Sigh, Another New Calligraphy, Arlington Literary Journal, Cape Cod Times, and elsewhere.
Whitney Vale holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Ashland University. Her poetry includes a chapbook, Journey with the Ferryman (Finishing Line Press) and poems in Gyroscope Review: The Crone Issue, Harpy Hybrid Review, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Quartet, RockPaperPoem, and Crab Creek Review Spring: Rituals, and is forthcoming in Anti-Heroin Chic. She has been a finalist for the Joy Harjo award, Barry Lopez award, and Minerva Rising’s memoir award.
Theodora Ziolkowski is the author of the Next Generation Indie Book-Award novella, On the Rocks, and the short story chapbook Mother Tongues. She lives in Kearney, Nebraska, where she teaches creative writing as an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Her debut poetry collection, Ghostlit, is forthcoming from Texas Review Press in Spring 2025.