Issue 133 Contributors
Liz Ahl is the author of Beating the Bounds (2017) and A Case for Solace (2022), which received the 2023 NH Literary Award in poetry. Her latest chapbook, A Stanza is a Place to Stand, was published in 2023 by Seven Kitchens Press. She lives in Holderness, New Hampshire.
Clayre Benzadón (she / they) is a queer (bi /pan) Sephardi-Ashkenazi poet, educator, and activist. Her manuscript, Moon as Salted Lemon, was recently named an honorable mention for Miami Book Fair's 2025 Emerging Writer's Fellowship and was chosen as a winner for Driftwood Press's Editor's Pick Poetry Prize. She has been published in places including Jet Fuel Review, Libre, and SWWIM. Find more about her here: https://www.clayrebenzadon.com.
Trish Hopkinson is a poet and advocate for the literary arts. You can find her online at SelfishPoet.com and in western Colorado where she runs the regional poetry group Rock Canyon Poets. Her poetry has been published in Sugar House Review, TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics, and The Penn Review; and her most recent book A Godless Ascends was published by Lithic Press in March 2024. Hopkinson happily answers to labels such as atheist, feminist, and empty nester; and enjoys traveling, live music, and craft beer.
Kim Jensen is a Baltimore-based poet, activist, professor, and translator whose books include The Woman I Left Behind, Bread Alone and The Only Thing that Matters. She was a finalist for the New Millennium Writing Awards, the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize, the New American Poetry Prize, the Richard Gabriel Rummonds Poetry Prize, and a recent awardee for the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation. In 2001, she won the Raymond Carver Award for short fiction.
Melanie McCabe is the author of four books of poems, most recently the forthcoming All The Signs Were There, which won the Longleaf Press Poetry Prize. Her debut novel Road Longer Than Memory will be out from Oceanview Publishing in June of 2026. Her memoir, His Other Life: Searching For My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams, won the 2016 University of New Orleans Press Prize.
Molly McGuire (she/her) received her MFA in creative writing in 2012 from the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Her work has appeared in B O D Y, Hobart, Little Patuxent Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Rock Island, Illinois.
Amy Miller’s Astronauts won the Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and The Trouble with New England Girls won the Louis Award from Concrete Wolf. Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, The Missouri Review, North American Review, Rogue Agent, and ZYZZYVA. She lives in Ashland, Oregon.
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Alex Stolis has had poems published in numerous journals. Two full length collections Pop. 1280, and John Berryman Died Here were released by Cyberwit and available on Amazon. His work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Piker’s Press, Ekphrastic Review, Louisiana Literature Review, Burningwood Literary Journal, and Star 82 Review. His chapbook, Postcards from the Knife-Thrower's Wife, was released by Louisiana Literature Press in 2024, RIP Winston Smith from Alien Buddha Press 2024, and The Hum of Geometry; The Music of Spheres, 2024 by Bottlecap Press. He lives in upstate New York with his partner, poet Catherine Arra.
Rachel Turney, Ed.D. is an educator and artist located in Denver, Colorado. Rachel is on staff at Bare Back Magazine and is a reader for The Los Angeles Review. Her chapbook Women Making Soup Together is available with Vinegar Press. Website: turneytalks.com Instagram: @turneytalks Bluesky: rachelturney
Rowan Waller is a teacher, rock climbing guide, and writer based in Durango, Colorado. When she isn’t working with students in outdoor spaces or the classroom, she can be found exploring the nearby mountains for inspiration with her rescue dog, Oatmeal. Her work has been published previously in journals such as the Tulsa Voice, Stirring Literary Review, BarBar Magazine, Wayfarer Books & Magazine, New Plains Review, and the Screen Door Review.
Sheridan Walter is a queer writer and doctor based in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. They work in public healthcare and hold a master’s degree in philosophy. Their poems stay close to the body: its failures, its paperwork, its small rebellions under clinical language. “Pre-Authorisation” is their first accepted publication.
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