Issue 73 Contributors
Based in Austin, TX, E. Kristin Anderson is the author of nine chapbooks of poetry, including A Guide for the Practical Abductee, Pray, Pray, Pray: Poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night, 17 seventeen XVII, We’re Doing Witchcraft, and Behind, All You’ve Got. Kristin is a poetry reader at Cotton Xenomorph and an editorial assistant at Porkbelly Press.
Lauren Bender lives in Burlington, VT. Her work has appeared in IDK Magazine, The Collapsar, Gyroscope Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Yes Poetry, and others. You can find her on twitter @benderpoet.
Willa Carroll is the author of Nerve Chorus (The Word Works). Her poems have appeared in AGNI, LARB Quarterly Journal, Narrative, The Slowdown, Tin House, and elsewhere. A finalist for The Georgia Poetry Prize, she was the winner of Narrative Magazine’s Third Annual Poetry Contest and Tupelo Quarterly’s TQ7 Poetry Prize. Her poetry video and multimedia work has been featured in Interim, Narrative Outloud, TriQuarterly, Writers Resist, and other venues. She earned her MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars and lives in New York City. Find her on the internet at www.willacarroll.com.
Kate Horowitz is a poet, essayist, and science writer in Maine. Her poems have appeared in journals including Monstering, Doubleback Review, Moonchild Magazine, and Yes Poetry, and in anthologies of poems on pop culture, tarot cards, and inanimate objects. You can find her online at thingswrittendown.com and on Twitter @delight_monger. Kate likes moss and rain and dogs on the beach and long walks at night. She lives by the sea.
Kristin LaFollette is a writer, artist, and photographer. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection Hematology (winner of the 2021 Harbor Editions Laureate Prize, selected by Missouri Poet Laureate Karen Craigo) and the chapbook Body Parts (winner of the 2017 GFT Press Chapbook Contest). She is a professor at the University of Southern Indiana and serves as the Art Editor at Mud Season Review. You can visit her on Twitter at @k_lafollette03 or on her website at kristinlafollette.com.
Zizheng William Liu is a student from Houston, Texas. His work has previously been recognized by the International Human Rights Art Festival's Youth Anthology and by Eunoia Review. When he's not writing, he loves snapping the ever-changing world around him with his Canon Rebel camera.
At age 12, Silas Plum won the East Coast POG tournament. The prize was 500 POG’s, small collectible cardboard circles, each with an identical red and blue design on the front. From that moment on, he became obsessed with the question of Value. Why were these important? How could anything not necessary for survival be worth more than anything that was? Does artistic sentiment have value? The POG’s are gone, but the questions remain. Through assemblages of defunct currency, discarded photographs, and long-forgotten illustrations, Silas Plum challenges the idea of objective vs subjective value. He believes strongly in the tired old maxim that the true value of an object is more than the sum of its parts, that the gut is a truth-teller, and that the Aristotelian notion of learning-by-doing is the best teacher around. Judge his worth at silasplum.com.
Charlie Quayle is a native Vermonter, currently based in New York City. A nonbinary actor and poet, Charlie is most interested in writing about gender, the body, and unique self-expression. Charlie also finds inspiration in nature, drawing from a love of sailing and exploring the outdoors. When not acting, Charlie can be found journaling or playing the guitar.
Sarah Degner Riveros (she/her) teaches Spanish and studies Creative Writing at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she is currently working on an MFA in poetry and creative nonfiction. Her work is forthcoming in Vassar Review, Clarion, and Pithead Chapel, and has appeared recently in Sonora Review, Grey Sparrow, Barnstorm Journal, Yes, Poetry, Willawaw, Bearings, Porridge, Murphy Square Quarterly, and Azahares.
Jen Yáñez-Alaniz is new to submitting her poetry after many years of writing. She is currently working on a collection of work that explores the repressive denigration of racial, sexual and personal value in patriarchal religion and society. Based on her own perceptions, her poetry utilizes the metaphors of traditional Catholicism and caste-level colonialism, to break free from painful traditions and to reveal hidden oppression. She also participates with and organizes readings promoting mental health awareness. She writes poetry to maintain mental health wellness and draws from personal experiences as well as through her experiences having grown up with a brother and father with multiple diagnoses. Jen is co-founder of Welcome: A Poetry Declaration, a platform for refugee and immigrant voices in partnership with San Antonio, TX. Immigration Liaison’s Office. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, Cutthroat: Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century, I Sing: The Body, and Cloud Women’s Quarterly Journal.