Issue 128 Contributors
Emily R. Daniel’s chapbook, Life Line, was selected as a winner of the 2020 Celery City Chapbook Prize. Her poems can be found in The Penn Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Porter House Review, among others. Emily lives with her family in Kalamazoo, MI where she is an MFA candidate in Poetry at Western Michigan University and Poetry Editor for Third Coast Magazine. For more information, visit www.emilyrdaniel.com.
Haley DiRenzo is a writer and practicing attorney specializing in eviction defense. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in January House, Thimble Literary Magazine, Gone Lawn, and Ink in Thirds, among others. She is on BlueSky at @haleydirenzo.bsky.social and lives in Colorado with her husband and dog.
Heather Emmanuel is a writer of contemporary lesbian literary fiction and prose poetry. Her work is forthcoming in The Offing. You can find her at heather-emmanuel.com or at @heather.emmanuel8.
Loria Harris’s works of poetry and fiction are published in Oyster River Pages, Winged Penny Review, Reverie Literary Magazine, Club Plum, JAKE, and others. Her poems have received the Alyson Dickerman Poetry Prize and the Jim Haba Poetry Award. Loria received her MFA at Lindenwood University, where her fiction is nominated for the MFA in Writing Award. She currently works as an adjunct instructor and reads for Iron Horse Literary Review.
Nadeen Murhaf Maida is a Syrian-American woman who is pursuing a Master’s in Writing at Point Loma Nazarene University. She acquired her bachelor’s degree in English with a creative writing concentration from UCLA. As a person with a disability, Nadeen’s stories and poems use fantastical elements to portray ableism. Insta: @NadeenMaida
Chenxi Meng is a poet, somatic practitioner and dreamworker living between Australia and China. Her work dwells in the thresholds between body, dream, and language, weaving movement practice with subconscious imagery. She works largely with neurodiverse people, and writes in both English and Chinese.
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Ph.D., the 2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate is the author of 24 books, including How Time Moves: New & Selected Poems; Miriam's Well, a novel; and The Magic Eye: A Story of Saving a Life and a Place in the Age of Anxiety. Founder of Transformative Language Arts, she offers writing workshops, coaching, and collaborative projects. Her poetry has been widely published, including in Terrain, Half and One, Poets & Writers, Negative Capability, Mockingheart Review, Two Rivers, The New Territory, Louisville Review, New Letters, and dozens of other journals.
Donald Patten is an artist and cartoonist from Belfast, Maine. He creates oil paintings, illustrations, ceramics and graphic novels. His art has been exhibited in galleries throughout Maine. To view his online portfolio, visit @donald.patten on Instagram.
Lee Potts is founder and editor-in-chief of Stone Circle Review. His work has appeared in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Shore, The Night Heron Barks, Rust + Moth, UCity Review, Moist Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. He is the author of two chapbooks. The most recent, We’ll Miss the Stars in the Morning (Bottlecap Press), was published in 2024. He lives just outside of Philadelphia with his wife and daughter.
Sonya Schneider’s poems have appeared in Rattle, The Penn Review, Potomac Review, Rust & Moth, Moon City Review, Atlanta Review, SWWIM and Whale Road Review, among others. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has placed in New Letters' Patricia Cleary Miller Award and Raleigh Review's Laux & Millar Prize. She has also written and produced several plays. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.
Faith Thompson’s work has been published in many journals, including The Rush, The Lyric, Mezzo Cammin, The Measure Review, and The Orchard Poetry Journal. Her first poetry collection, Harmony & Counterpoint, is available from Kelsay Books. She is the 2022 recipient of the Lyric Prize and the Leslie Mellichamp Prize. She teaches at Point Park University, and lives with her husband in Blairsville, Pennsylvania. You can find her work at fairingforward.wordpress.com.
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