Issue 83 Contributors
Sandra Crouch is a poet, artist and letterpress printer living in Los Angeles, California. She has studied poetry on two coasts and two continents for more decades than she may admit—most recently with Hollowdeck Press. Sandra's poems are forthcoming in Unlost. Follow her on Twitter @iamsandracrouch.
Kaleigh Dandeneau is a visual artist from Tennessee, living with and advocating for chronic and invisible illnesses. She uses her art to document this journey through the flesh, the mind, and the ever changing world around her. You can contact Kaleigh and follow her body of work at instagram.com/kmaeby. She continues to create in sickness, in health, and in love.
Ann Hudson’s first book, The Armillary Sphere, was published by Ohio University Press; a chapbook about radium, Glow, is available from Next Page Press. Her poems have appeared in Cider Press Review, Orion, Crab Orchard Review, Colorado Review, North American Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She is a senior editor for RHINO, and teaches at a Montessori school in Evanston, Illinois.
Satoshi Iwai was born and lives in Kanagawa, Japan. He writes poems in English and in Japanese. His English work has appeared in Heavy Feather Review, FLAPPERHOUSE, Small Po[r]tions, Your Impossible Voice, Poetry Is Dead, and elsewhere.
Miriam Kramer resides in New Jersey and works at an educational nonprofit. Her work has appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, Rising Phoenix Review, and Rat's Ass Review. Her debut chapbook, In Time This Too Shall Be Proven Foolish, was published by dancing girl press. Miriam has read poems out loud to friends and strangers in many parking lots and established venues all over the United States.
Cate McGowan is the author of the novel, These Lowly Objects. Her short story collection, True Places Never Are, won the Moon City Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for The Lascaux Book Prize. In addition, McGowan’s poems, stories, and essays have appeared in many literary outlets.
Fia Monterovis an autistic writer based in Des Moines, Iowa. She holds a BFA in art and design from Iowa State University, and a BSHS in pre-medical studies from Mercy College of Health Sciences. Her poetry has been published, or is forthcoming, in West Trestle Review, Literary Mama, and Passengers Journal. Reach her at fmonw@gmail.com.
Carolyn Oliver is the author of Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022), winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize. Carolyn’s poems appear in The Massachusetts Review, Indiana Review, Cincinnati Review, Radar, Shenandoah, 32 Poems, Southern Indiana Review, Cherry Tree, Plume, DIALOGIST, and elsewhere. Her awards include the E. E. Cummings Prize from the NEPC, the Goldstein Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Writer’s Block Prize. (carolynoliver.net.)
Patrick Redmond is a writer, teacher, and musician living in Brooklyn, NY. Recent writing is forthcoming or featured in Matter Monthly, -algia, The Columbia Review, The Hunger Journal, and elsewhere.
Alison Rosenberg is a writer and event planner living in Brooklyn. She graduated college in 2020 with honors in poetry, and is now eagerly delving to the literary world of New York City. Her work has previously appeared in The Orchards Poetry Journal.
Michael Steffen’s fourth poetry collection, Blood Narrative, was recently published by Main Street Rag Press. New work has appeared in Chiron Review, The Chestnut Review and The Comstock Review. Michael is a graduate of the MFA writing program at Vermont College and currently lives in Buffalo, NY.