Issue 76 Contributors
Auzin is a writer in the Pacific Northwest. She is a chronic daydreamer, always cold, and usually in love. She hopes these are good qualities for a poet. Her work has appeared previously in Selcouth Station, Fahmidan Journal, and Hecate Magazine. She is also a joint Poetry Editor at Hecate Magazine. You can find more of her work at byauzin.com.
Cam Dyer-Hawes is a poet working and writing in central Massachusetts. His poetry publication debut, titled "Washitaw", appeared in The Adirondack Review, where he is now a staff member. He writes poems between stacking bales of hay at a horse farm and hopes to attend an MFA program this upcoming fall.
Teow Lim Goh is the author of two poetry collections, Islanders (Conundrum Press, 2016) and Faraway Places (Diode Editions, 2021). Her essays, poetry, and criticism have been featured in Tin House, Catapult, Los Angeles Review of Books, PBS NewsHour, and The New Yorker.
Rubin Hardin is a poet who adores magical realism. They founded a literary journal dedicated to non-speaking and semi-speaking disabled artists called Explicit Literary Journal. They have work published in Rising Phoenix Review, What Are Birds, Runestone, Crab Fat Magazine, Voicemail Poems, Can’t Somebody Fix What Ails Me, Iris Literary Journal, and Snarl. Hardin has upcoming work in Utterance and Snarl. Their favorite bird is a dragon.
Leah Claire Kaminski’s poems appear in places like Bennington Review, Fence, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, and ZYZZYVA. Dancing Girl Press published the chapbook Peninsular Scar, and her full-length collection Live oak nearly on fire has recently been long- or short-listed at Tupelo Press, Harbor Editions, and Ghost Peach Press. Her honors include Grand Prizes from the Summer Literary Seminars and the Matrix/LitPOP awards, judged by Eileen Myles. Find her at www.leahkaminski.com.
Jay Kophy is a Ghanaian poet and writer. His poems are forthcoming and have been featured in literary magazines such as AGNI, FourWay Review, Indianapolis Review, Glass Poetry, Kalahari Review, Tampered Press and many others. He is the winner of the inaugural Samira Bawumia Literature Prize in poetry. He's also curator of anthologies to grow in two bodies and How to Write My Country's Name. You can find him on Twitter @jay_kophy.
Kathleen Mitchell-Askar holds degrees in English from UCLA and California State University, Northridge. Her work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Spillway, THRUSH, and elsewhere. She works as an editor and lives in Sacramento with her three children.
Sara Quinn Rivara is the author of two collections, ANIMAL BRIDE (Tinderbox Editions, 2019) and LAKE EFFECT (Aldrich Press, 2013). Her work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Mom Egg Review, Indianapolis Review, Colorado Review, West Trestle, Whale Road Review and elsewhere. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.
Leslie Contreras Schwartz is the 2019-2021 Houston Poet Laureate and author of four collections of poetry, including Black Dove / Paloma Negra (FlowerSong Press, 2020 and Nightbloom & Cenote (St. Julian Press, 2018). Her work has appeared in Pleiades, The Missouri Review, [PANK], Iowa Review, and Xicanx: 21 Mexican American Writers of the 21st Century (University of Arizona, 2022. She has collaborated or been commissioned for poetic projects with the city of Houston, the Houston Grand Opera, and The Moody Center of the Arts at Rice University. Currently, she teaches at Alma College’s low-residency MFA Program in creative writing.
Sarah Dickenson Snyder has three poetry collections, The Human Contract, Notes from a Nomad (nominated for the Massachusetts Book Awards 2018), and With a Polaroid Camera. She has been nominated for Best of Net, was the Poetry Prize winner of Art on the Trails 2020, and a Finalist for Iron Horse National Poetry Month Award. Recent work has appeared in Rattle and RHINO. She lives in Vermont. sarahdickensonsnyder.com.
Lindsay Young is a poet from New York. She is a Winter Tangerine alumnus, a 2020 Watering Hole fellow, and the author of Salt to Taste, her debut book of poetry published in the Summer of 2019. Her work has been published in The Mark Literary Review, The Offing Magazine, and elsewhere. She currently works as a freelance poet and workshop facilitator and is getting her MSW from Columbia University.