Issue 125 Contributors
Justin Demeter is a queer/trans poet and painter who lives and loves in Oakland, CA. He peddles paperbacks on mental health for a living. Justin has poems and art published in New Words 3rd Issue (New Words Press), Trans Bodies, Trans Selves 2nd Edition (Oxford University Press), and We Apologize for the Inconvenience (Beyond the Veil Press). He loves climbing things and thinks diastemas are wildly sexy. Find him on the internet at www.justindemeterart.com.
Jenna Lasby is a writer from Texas. Her work has appeared in CALYX Journal, Vagabond City, and Over/Exposed, among others.
Taylor Hamann Los Los holds an MFA from Lindenwood University and an MLIS from UW-Milwaukee. Her poetry has appeared or in Magma Poetry, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, trampset, and The Shore, among others. She is the author of Between My Spine & the River (Ridge Books, 2025). She lives with her family and two cats in Wisconsin. You can find her on X (@taylorhamannlos) and at taylorhamannlos.wordpress.com.
Maheen Majid is an American writer who enjoys the macabre the way crows enjoys shiny things. Her work also appears in Idle Ink Magazine. Find her on Bluesky or Tumblr @maheen-majid.
Martha McCullough is the author of Trash Witch (Lily Poetry Review Books 2025), Wolf Hat Iron Shoes (Lily Poetry Review Books 2022) and the chapbook Grandmother Mountain (Blue Lyra 2019). Her poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Pleiades, The Boiler, Bear Review, and Tampa Review, among others. Originally from Detroit, she lives in Amherst, MA.
Megan McDermott is a poet and Episcopal priest living in Western Massachusetts. She is author of Jesus Merch: A Catalog in Poems and two chapbooks, Woman as Communion and Prayer Book for Contemporary Dating. Her poems have been published in a variety of journals, including Amsterdam Review, U.S. Catholic, the Christian Century, UCity Review, Moist Poetry Journal, and Night Heron Barks. Connect with her at meganmcdermottpoet.com.
Christopher Phelps lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he tutors himself and others in math and related mysteries. He is queer and neurodivergent, a twainbow that underwrites his attempts at creative solvency and steadfascination. His poems have appeared in journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, The Nation, Poetry Magazine, Zoeglossia, and most recently in Jelly Bucket and Does It Have Pockets. Find him in the lost-and-found at www.christopher-phelps.com.
Jessie Raymundo is a poet and educator from the Philippines. In 2024, he was awarded a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship. His poems have appeared in TAB: The Journal of Poetry and Poetics, The Madrid Review, South Dakota Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Singapore Unbound's SUSPECT, and elsewhere.
Claire Scott is an award-winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review and Healing Muse among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.
Leslie Contreras Schwartz is the 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, the 2019-2021 Houston Poet Laureate, and the author of the 2022 C&R Press Nonfiction Prize Winner From the Womb of Sky and Earth, a lyrical memoir. She has published four collections of poetry and is a core faculty member at Alma College’s MFA program in creative writing and a lecturer at Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program in Writing.
Jia Yi is an Asian Canadian writer living in Vancouver, British Columbia currently studying English Literature. In her free time she enjoys journalling and taking walks outside. Some of her favourite books include Tender is the Flesh, The Things We Carried, and The Book Thief, which she hopes to take inspiration from for her own writing.
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