Issue 132 Contributors
Susan Barry-Schulz is a first generation Estonian-American poet and visual artist who grew up just outside of Buffalo, NY. She worked as a Physical Therapist for many years before becoming disabled due to chronic illness in 2020. Her work has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net awards and has appeared in The Westchester Review, Rust & Moth, SoFLoPoJO, and in many other print and online journals and anthologies.
Maudie Bryant is a poet, painter, and educator based in Louisiana. She holds an M.A. in English from ULM. Her work, which has appeared in Welter and 3Elements Review, explores thresholds between grief, healing, and the metaphysical, tugging at the unspoken edges of memory and identity. She lives in Shreveport, where her creative practice, teaching, and motherhood intersect.
LC Gutierrez is an erstwhile academic and product of many places in the South and the Caribbean. He currently lives, writes, teaches, and plays trombone in Madrid, Spain. His work is most recently published or forthcoming in New York Quarterly, Tampa Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, BoomerLit, and Trampset. He is a poetry reader for West Trade Review.
Katie Kim is a student attending Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts. As a writer, she is particularly interested in poetry and realistic fiction. Her work has previously appeared in Saranac Review, Little Patuxent Review, The Spotlong Review, and elsewhere. She is an alumna of the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference, the Juniper Institute for Young Writers, the Advanced Ellipsis Writing Workshop, and the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program. As well as creative writing, Katie enjoys visual art and playing the oboe. You can find her at @katiee.kkim on Instagram.
Yasmin Mariam Kloth writes creative nonfiction and poetry. Her writing is often rooted in her Middle Eastern heritage. Yasmin has work forthcoming in The Penn Review. In addition, her work has been published in the JuxtaProse Literary Review, Chestnut Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, LA Times, and others. Yasmin lives in Cincinnati, OH with her husband and daughter. Her debut collection, Ancestry Unfinished: Poems of a Lost Generation, explores her family memories and the Middle East.
Andrew Kozma’s poems appear in Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, and storySouth, while his fiction appears in Flash Fiction Online, ergot., and The NoSleep Podcast. His first book of poems, City of Regret, won the Zone 3 First Book Award, and his second book, Orphanotrophia, was published in 2021 by Cobalt Press. You can find him on Bluesky at @andrewkozma.net and visit his website at www.andrewkozma.net.
Danielle Pafunda is author of ten books including Along the Road Everyone Must Travel selected for the Saturnalia Poetry Prize by Hoa Nguyen, Spite (The Operating System), The Book of Scab (winner of Ricochet Editions' Troubling the I), and The Dead Girls Speak in Unison (Bloof Books) which was recently translated into Spanish by Cristina Rivera Garza (Dharma Books). Pafunda teaches creative writing, worldbuilding, and literature at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Christopher Phelps lives in Santa Fe, where he teaches math and related mysteries. Queer and neurodivergent, autistic and aphantasiac, these twainbows overhang and underwrite his creative steadfascination. The author of the poetry collections Cosmosis and Word Problems, he has poems in Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Broken Lens, Does It Have Pockets, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, and Poetry Magazine, among other journals. Find more at christopher-phelps.com.
Evyan Roberts she/her) is a queer, fat, black, femme who is deeply committed to intersectional feminism and #blackgirlmagic. She is clinical social worker focusing on healing trauma. Evyan is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet, her work has appeared in various online journals such as Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, Rogue Agent, Laurels & Bells, and others. She lives in MD with her soon to be wife and their silly orange cat.
Ellie White holds an MFA from Old Dominion University. Her work has appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, The Indianapolis Review, and many other journals. Ellie is the author of three chapbooks, Requiem for a Doll (ELJ Publications 2015), Drift (Dancing Girl Press 2019), Vanishing Below the Waist (Querencia Press 2024), and one full-length collection, and for too long after (Unsolicited Press 2019). She is a reader for Muzzle Magazine. To read more of her work, visit her website: elliewhitewrites.com.
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