Issue 86 Contributors
Shyamanga Barooah is a digital media professional with over 20 years of experience and has headed content operations at several global and Indian media organizations. On the academic front, he has been a student of English Literature and media studies. Besides his love for poetry, he is also passionate about music, especially blues, jazz, progressive rock, and folk music.
Susan Barry-Schulz grew up just outside of Buffalo, New York. She is a licensed physical therapist living with chronic illness and an advocate for mental health and reducing stigma in IBD. Her poetry has appeared in The Wild World, New Verse News, SWWIM, Barrelhouse online, Nightingale & Sparrow, Shooter Literary Magazine, Kissing Dynamite, Bending Genres and elsewhere.
Siddharth Dasgupta writes poetry and fiction from lost hometowns, cafés dappled in early morning light, and cities inflicted with an existential throb. His fourth book—A Moveable East—has arrived in March '21 via the independent publisher Red River. Siddharth's literature has appeared in Epiphany, Lunch Ticket, The Bosphorus Review, The Aleph Review, Kyoto Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in the Indian city of Poona, embraced by an always fickle muse. You’ll find the author on Instagram @citizen.bliss .
Emily Franklin’s work has been published in The New York Times, The London Sunday Times, Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, New Ohio Review, Blackbird, The Rumpus, River Styx, and The Journal among other places as well as featured on National Public Radio, and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries. Her debut poetry collection TELL ME HOW YOU GOT HERE was published by Terrapin Books in February 2021.
Andrew Kozma’s poems have appeared in Blackbird, Redactions, and Contemporary Verse 2, while his fiction has been published in Lamplight, Daily Science Fiction, and Analog. His book of poems, City of Regret (Zone 3 Press, 2007), won the Zone 3 First Book Award, and his second book, Orphanotrophia, was published in 2021 by Cobalt Press.
Hannah Land is a poet, theatre critic, and playwright from the Washington, DC area. Her poetry has appeared in publications such as Sick Magazine, Pangyrus Literary Magazine, Fatal Flaw Magazine, and The Hunger Journal. Her theatre reviews can be found on Broadwayworld.com.
Elizabeth Joy Levinson teaches and writes on the southwest side of Chicago. She has an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University and an MAT in Biology from Miami University. Recent work has been published in Whale Road Review, FEED, Tiny Spoon, Floresta, SWWIM, Cobra Milk, and others. She is the author of two chapbooks: As Wild Animals (Dancing Girl Press) and Running Aground (Finishing Line Press). Her first full length collection, Uncomfortable Ecologies, will be published in the fall of 2023 (Unsolicited Press).
Cameron Morse is Senior Reviews Editor at Harbor Review, and the author of eight collections of poetry. His first, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. He was diagnosed with an inoperable glioblastoma in 2014, graduated in 2018 with an MFA from the University of Kansas City-Missouri and lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife Lili and two children.
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is an Indian-Australian artist and poet, who serves as a chief editor for Authora Australis. Her recent artworks have been showcased in West Trestle Review, Oyster River Pages, and Libretto, and on the covers of Amsterdam Quarterly, Pithead Chapel, Stonecoast Review, and elsewhere. She lives and works in Sydney on the unceded traditional lands of The Eora Nation. Find her @oormilaprahlad and www.instagram.com/oormila_paintings.
Winner of Blue Mesa Review's Nonfiction and Storm Cellar's Force Majeure contests, finalist in the Noemi Press Prose and Essay Press Book contests, a Best of The Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, Anne Riesenberg's work has recently appeared in Lily Poetry Review, Voices Amidst The Virus, Pleiades, Posit, The New Guard’s BANG!, Heavy Feather Review, What Rough Beast, Naugatuck River Review, and elsewhere. She practices 5 Element acupuncture in Newcastle, Maine.
Jeremy M. Windham lives in Austin, Texas and holds an M.A. from Texas Tech University. His poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net, and have appeared in various journals and publications including Best New Poets, The Adroit Journal, Spillway, Portland Review, and Southern Humanities Review, among others. You can visit his website at jmarkwindy.com.