Issue 129 Contributors
Shanan Ballam is the author of the chapbooks The Red Riding Hood Papers and first poems after the stroke and two full-length poetry collections Pretty Marrow and Inside the Animal: The Collected Red Riding Hood Poems. Her work has recently appeared in North American Review, Wordgathering, Sugar House Review, The Quarter(ly), and Crab Creek Review. Visit her website at https://www.shananballam.org
Jessica Dubey is the author of the poetry chapbooks All Those Years Underwater and For Dear Life. She’s been nominated for a Best of the Net and her work has appeared in such journals as Stone Canoe, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal and Kissing Dynamite.
Anne Duncan is a poet, scholar and fiber artist. She is currently completing her MFA in poetry and PhD in literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her poems have been published in Cherry Tree, Permafrost and The Ekphrastic Review. She is currently working on a series of poems in the material form of fiber art objects.
Jennifer E. Hudgens (tree/them) is a disabled writer from OKC. Jen holds a BA in Creative writing from University of Central Oklahoma as well as a MFA in Poetry from Oklahoma State University. Jen watches the sky the way most people watch television & is obsessed with their yellow lab Penelope Garcia. Jen has been previously published in some stuff, Isele Magazine, 2024 (poetry & essay), The Canary Collective, 1st & 2nd issues (poetry & fiction). Jen hates talking about themselves in the third person, but is truly grateful that you read their work. They hope you enjoy these poems.
Rebecca Hurtado is an undergraduate student studying creative writing at Denison University. Her work ranges from creative nonfiction to poetry that utilizes research on esoteric topics uncovered through her liberal arts studies. Her work has appeared in undergraduate magazines such as Outrageous Fortune and Sink Hollow. Following a diagnosis of uterine cancer, for Rebecca, writing serves as a therapeutic reclamation of the body. Rebecca was born to a Cuban-American household and raised in North Carolina.
Judy Kaber’s poems have appeared in journals such as Pleiades, december, Poet Lore, and Prairie Schooner. She won the 2023 Maine Poetry Contest, the 2024 Maine Literary Short Works Poetry Award, and the 2024 Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Contest. She is a past poet laureate of Belfast, Maine (2021-2023).
Michael J. Kolb is an anthropologist based in Colorado. He writes across disciplinary thresholds, exploring nature, memory, commemoration, and illness, asking what we carry, and what we leave behind. You can read his work in Third Wednesday, Sky Island Journal, Eunoia Review, Defenestration, San Antonio Review, Speckled Trout Review, and Moss Piglet. He is the author of Making Sense of Monuments (Routledge 2020) and shares his writing on Instagram @michaeljkolb and at substack.com/@michaeljkolb.
Suzanne Langlois is a teacher from Portland, Maine. Her collection Bright Glint Gone won the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance chapbook award. Her work has appeared in Leon Literary Review, Florida Review, Rust + Moth, and the Best New Poets anthology. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College.
Xiaoly Li is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Grant (2022) recipient. Her poetry collection, Every Single Bird Rising (FutureCycle Press, April 2023), was a Zone 3 Press Book Award finalist. Her poetry collection, Wakening Between Worlds, will be published by Serving House Books, was a finalist in the 2023 Diode Editions Book Contests and the Word Works' 2024 Washington Prize. She was nominated for: Best New Poets, three times a Pushcart Prize, four times Best of the Net.
Annie Przypyszny is a poet from Washington, DC pursuing an MFA in Poetry at the University of Maryland. She is an intern at the DC Writers Room and a reader for Bicoastal Review. A finalist for Smartish Pace’s Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, her poetry is published or forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Tampa Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Laurel Review, and various others.
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