Issue 130 Contributors
Susan Michele Coronel’s debut poetry collection, In the Needle, A Woman (Finishing Line Press, 2025) won the 2024 Donna Wolf Palacio Prize. A three-time Pushcart nominee, Susan has had poems published in numerous journals including Mom Egg Review, Nixes Mate, Pedestal, Redivider, One Art, Spillway 29 and SWWIM. In 2023, she won the Massachusetts Poetry Festival’s First Poem Award. Susan lives in New York City.
Sean Thomas Dougherty’s most recent book is Death Prefers the Minor Keys from BOA Editions. A longtime disability worker, he works as a Carer and Medtech for folks with traumatic brain injuries along Lake Erie. New poems and essays forthcoming in Craft, Midway Journal, Poetry Ireland, and Talking River Review.
Scott Ferry helps our Veterans heal as a RN in the Seattle area. His most recent books of poetry are Sapphires on the Graves (Glass Lyre, 2024), 500 Hidden Teeth (Meat For Tea, 2024), and dear tiny flowers (Sheila-Na-Gig, 2025). More can be found @ ferrypoetry.com.
Emily Hockaday is the author of Blood Music, In a Body, and Naming the Ghost. She has had work in a number of print and online literary journals. She writes about ecology, parenthood, chronic illness, grief, and the urban environment. www.emilyhockaday.com.
Justin Lacour lives in New Orleans and edits Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry. His first collection of poems, A Reading from the Book of Panic, was recently published by Lavender Ink.
Travis Chi-Wing Lau (he/him/his) is Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College. His research and teaching focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, health humanities, and disability studies. Alongside his scholarship, he has been published widely in venues of public scholarship and poetry, including three chapbooks and a full-length collection of poems, What’s Left Is Tender (Harbor Editions 2025).
Chloe Yelena Miller is the author of Perforated (2026) and Viable (2021), both published by Lily Poetry Review Books. Along with Shasta Grant, she’s a co-founder of the online writing community Brown Bag Lit. Chloe writes and teaches writing in Washington, D.C. Connect with her at www.chloeyelenamiller.com.
Daniel Edward Moore lives in Washington on Whidbey Island. His work has appeared in Southern Humanities Review, North American Review and others. His work is forthcoming in The Meadow Journal, Welter Journal, Ponder Review, The Chiron Review, and Novus Literary Journal. His book, Waxing the Dents, is from Brick Road Poetry Press.
Shea Pant is a queer, autistic goblin interested in the intersection of disability justice and design, collecting tiny trinkets and having an unwavering devotion to Shrek as both art and ideology.
Donna Vorreyer is the author of Unrivered 2025), To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. She hosts the reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey and is a co-founder/editor of the new journal Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters.
Amie Whittemore (she/her) is the author of four poetry collections, most recently the chapbook Hesitation Waltz (Midwest Writing Center, 2025). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. She is a creative writing and yoga instructor. Learn more at amiewhittemore.com.
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