Issue 89 Contributors
Los Angeles-born Filipino-American poet Rachel Alarcio’s work has appeared in/is found at two award-winning WriteGirl anthologies, Exposition Review, Red Ogre Review, LAX’s Terminal 7-8, and elsewhere. They are a Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 2019 Medalist. She is currently working towards her B.A. in English from Kalamazoo College. Find them @rachelalarcio on Twitter, @raechillout on Instagram, and at rachelalarcio.com.
Shlagha Borah (she/her) is a poet from Assam, India. Her work is forthcoming or appears in Longleaf Review, long con magazine, Ninety Seven Poems (Terribly Tiny Tales & Penguin), LiveWire, Aainanagar, GroundXero, and elsewhere. She works as Associate Poetry Editor at Doubleback Review and Editor-in-Chief at Shabd Aaweg. She is the co-founder of Pink Freud, a student-led collective working towards making mental health accessible in India. Instagram: @shlaghab Twitter: @shlaghaborah
Geraldine Connolly has published a chapbook and four poetry collections including Province of Fire and Aileron. She has taught at the Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland, The Chautauqua Institution and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland Arts Council, and Breadloaf Writers Conference and her work appears in many anthologies including Poetry 180: A Poem A Day for High School Students and The Sonoran Desert: A Field Guide. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. www.geraldineconnolly.com
Violeta Garcia-Mendoza is a Spanish-American poet, writer, and photographer. She is a member of Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops and a reader for Split Rock Review/Press. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Peatsmoke, The Dewdrop, Saint Katherine Review, and elsewhere online and in print. Violeta lives with her family in Western Pennsylvania.
Batnadiv HaKarmi is a writer and visual artist who currently resides in Jerusalem. Her work has been published in Poet Lore, Belmont Story Review, Gray Sparrow Journal and is upcoming in Radar Poetry. A graduate of the graduate writing program in Bar Ilan University, she is the recipient of the Andrea Moria Prize for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the Brideport Prize. Her chapbook is upcoming from Kelsay Books. More work can be followed on www.batnadiv.com and on Instagram @batnadiv_art.
Talya Jankovits’ work has appeared in a number of literary journals. Her short story “Undone” in Lunch Ticket and her poem, “My Father Is A Psychologist” in BigCityLit, were both nominated for a Pushcart prize. Her micro piece, “Bus Stop in Morning” is a winner of one of Beyond Words Magazine’s, 250-word challenges. Her poem, “A Woman of Valor”, was featured in the 2019/2020 Eshet Hayil exhibit at Hebrew Union College Los Angeles. She holds her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University and resides in Chicago with her husband and four daughters.
Rachel Neve-Midbar’s collection Salaam of Birds won the 2018 Patricia Bibby First Book Award and was published by Tebot Bach in 2020. She is also the author of the chapbook, What the Light Reveals (Tebot Bach, 2014, winner of The Clockwork Prize). Rachel’s work has appeared in Blackbird, Prairie Schooner, Grist and Georgia Review as well as other publications and anthologies. Her awards include the Crab Orchard Review Richard Peterson Prize, the Passenger Poetry Prize and nominations for The Pushcart Prize. Rachel, a current PhD candidate at The University of Southern California, is also editor of Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation for the AuntFlo2020 Project.
Pam Sinicrope served as an editor for Howling Bird Press and is an MFA candidate at Augsburg University. She is a senior poetry editor for the new journal, RockPaperPoem. Some of her poems can be found in Spillway, The Night Heron Barks, The Muse, Aethlon, Indolent Books: Poems in the Afterglow, Literary Mama, 3 Elements Review, and Appalachian Journal. Pam lives in Rochester, MN. She has a doctorate in Public Health and engages in research to eliminate health disparities with a focus on cancer prevention. She enjoys time with her family, hiking with her dog, tennis, and independent films.
Malaya Stanger is a teen Native American poet who currently attends Nixyaawii Community School. She has previously been published in Body Without Organs. Other than writing, she also enjoys dancing, working with animals, and studying herbal medicine.
Bri Stoever is most interested in the connection between humans and their environments. She is a recent graduate of Iowa State University with an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment. Her work has been published in Neuro Logical, Ample Remains, Analogies & Allegories, and Your Impossible Voice.