Issue 127 Contributors
Barbara Daniels books include Talk to the Lioness, published by Casa de Cinco Hermanas, Rose Fever and four chapbooks: Moon Kitchen, Black Sails, Quinn & Marie, and The Woman Who Tries to Believe. Her poems have recently been accepted by Main Street Rag, Amethyst Review, Caesura, Dodging the Rain, and Rumen. She has received four fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Valarie Hastings is the 2020 winner of the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize, finalist for the 2023 Laura Boss prize, and recipient of an Honorable Mention for the 2020 Allen Ginsberg Award. Valarie's work has been published or is forthcoming in Innisfree, A Certain Age, Jacdaw Review, Mixed Tape, A Year in Ink, Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Gyroscope, The New Guard, Paterson Literary Review, San Diego Poetry Annual, Literary Mama, SheMom and Crab Creek Review. Her first collection of poetry, Searching for Dandelion Greens, came out in 2021, with Garden Oak Press. She currently serves as Director of Judges for the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize.
Elizabeth Sochko Hussain is a writer living in Los Angeles. She received her MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has been published in Muzzle, Byline, Red Wheelbarrow, Quarterly West, and elsewhere.
Margaret Anne Kean (she/her) is a poetry reader of "Inch" micro-chapbooks with Bull City Press and author of the chapbook, Cleaving the Clouds (Kelsay Books, 2023). She is collaborating with a Portland, Oregon composer on “Grief Work,” a tanka series. Kean received her BA from Scripps College and MFA from Antioch University/LA. She lives and writes in Pasadena, California and Chicago, Illinois.
Susan Milchman is the author of the chapbook Mascara, Boobs & Headbands, (Porkbelly Press, 2024). Her poetry appears in many publications and anthologies including The Journal, Stirring, Feral, SWWIM Every Day, Rust+Moth, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Rogue Agent, tiny wren lit, and elsewhere. Susan’s poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and a selection of her published work can be found at susanmilchman.com.
Emily Patterson (she/her) is the author of The Birth of Undoing (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions), as well as three chapbooks. Her poetry is published or soon to appear in North American Review, SWWIM, Stirring, Literary Mama, Christian Century, CALYX, The Penn Review, and elsewhere. Emily lives with her family in Columbus, Ohio and works as a curriculum designer with Highlights for Children. Read more at emilypattersonpoet.com.
Sabyasachi Roy s an academic writer, poet, artist, and photographer. His poetry has appeared in Viridine Literary, The Broken Spine, Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Potomac, and more. He contributes craft essays to Authors Publish and has a cover image in Sanctuary Asia. His oil paintings have been published in The Hooghly Review. You can follow his writing on Matador here:
https://creators.matadornetwork.com/profile/e0x59k96/.
Miriam Sagan is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and memoir. She is a two-time winner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards as well as a recipient of the City of Santa Fe Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts and a New Mexico Literary Arts Gratitude Award. She has been a writer in residence in four national parks, Yaddo, MacDowell, Gullkistan in Iceland, Kura Studio in Japan, and a dozen more remote and interesting places. She works with text and sculptural installation as part of the mother/daughter creative team Maternal Mitochondria (with Isabel Winson-Sagan) in venues ranging from RV parks to galleries.
Julie Wong is an undergraduate student at UCLA. She writes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction and is particularly inspired by mythology. She has been published in ECHO Review and adolescence magazine, and she was a poetry finalist in the 2024 Rising Voices Awards.
Joshua Zeitler is a queer, nonbinary writer based in rural Michigan. They received their MFA from Alma College, and their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Foglifter, The Account, and elsewhere. They are the author of the chapbook Bliss Road (Seven Kitchens Press, 2025).
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