Issue 92 Contributors
Auzin is a writer from the Pacific Northwest who strings words together because there are creations inside her which clamor to get out. She has published with Nowruz Journal, Rogue Agent Journal, and Agapanthus Collective. She is the former Managing Editor at Hecate Magazine and a current submissions reader for The Jupiter Review. Her work can be found at byauzin.com.
Subhaga Crystal Bacon’s new book, Transitory, has been selected for the Isabella Gardner Award and is forthcoming in the fall of 2023 from BOA Editions. A fourth collection, Surrender of Water in Hidden Places won the Red Flag Chapbook Prize and is forthcoming in the spring of ‘23. She’s the author of two previous collections, Blue Hunger, 2020, Methow Press, and Elegy with a Glass of Whiskey, BOA Editions, 2004. A Queer Elder, she lives, writes, and teaches rural northcentral Washington. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in 45th Parallel, The Indianapolis Review, Rise Up Review, Wood Cat Review, Wild Roof Journal, and The Meadowlark Review.
Melanie Figg’s collection, Trace, was named one of the Best Indie Poetry Books of the Year by Kirkus Reviews. Her work has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, MD State Arts Council, and others and been published in dozens of journals including The Iowa Review, Nimrod, The Rumpus, and the American Journal of Poetry. As a certified professional coach, she teaches writing, offers women’s writing retreats, and works 1-1 with writers. More at www.melaniefigg.net.
Robert Guzikowski published work in the 1970’s and 80’s in several magazines and co-edited The Parlor City Review. In the 1990’s he had encephalitis which caused brain damage. Aphasia was one of the sequelae. He has resumed writing poetry and some of these poems have been published or are upcoming in Kissing Dynamite, The Raw Art Review and Wild Roof Journal.
Thomas Mixon has poetry and fiction in Lover's Eye Press, Grim & Gilded, At Length, The Broadkill Review, and elsewhere.
Nathaniel Rosenthalis is an actor, singer, and poet. He is the author of the forthcoming I Won't Begin Again (Burnside Review Press 2023), winner of the 2021 Burnside Review Press Book Award selected by Sommer Browning, and The Leniad (Broken Sleep Books 2023) and of three chapbooks, including 24 Hour Air (PANK Books, 2022). He lives in New York City, where he occasionally teaches writing at NYU and Columbia University. More info can be found at www.nathanielrosenthalis.com.
Sarah Sassoon is a writer and poet of Iraqi-Jewish descent. Her work has appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review, Ruminate, Lilith, The Ilanot Review and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Andrea Moriah Poetry Prize, and her micro-chapbook, This is Why We Don’t Look Back was recently awarded first place in Harbor Review’s Jewish Women's poetry prize. Sarah is also the author of the children’s picture book, “Shoham’s Bangle” (Kar-Ben Publishing). Visit www.sarahsassoon.com.
Saga Savage (she/they) is a queer, disabled poet. She earned her MFA from Oklahoma State University. Saga's current work focuses on disability, neurodivergence, trauma, and witchcraft. She is an editor at Glass Pen and previously held an array of editor positions at Cimarron Review, Cleaver Magazine, and New Plains Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Witch Craft Mag, Rust + Moth, Petrichor, and The Central Dissent.
Wendy Mannis Scher, a graduate of Smith College, the University of Colorado’s School of Pharmacy, and the Low Residency MFA program for Creative Writing/Poetry at the University of Alaska/Anchorage, lives in Colorado’s Front Range. Her poems most recently have been published in Gyroscope Review, the chapbook, Fault (Finishing Line Press) and the anthology Thought for Food. For additional information, please visit www.wendymscher.com.
Shloka Shankar is a poet and self-taught visual artist from Bangalore, India. A Best of the Net nominee and award-winning haiku poet, Shloka is the Founding Editor of the literary & arts journal Sonic Boom and its imprint Yavanika Press. She is the author of the microchap Points of Arrival (Origami Poems Project, 2021) and her debut full-length haiku collection, The Field of Why (Yavanika Press, 2022). Website: www.shlokashankar.com.
Robin Smith listens for voices in the wind, the grass, the birds . . . and relays it via the pen, the ink, the paint. Co-founder & Co-editor of whiptail: journal of the single-line poem, and Associate Editor at Sonic Boom and Yavanika Press.
Diana Whitney writes across the genres in Vermont with a focus on feminism, sexuality, and motherhood. She is editor of the bestselling anthology You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, a Best Book of 2021 and winner of the 2022 Claudia Lewis Award. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Kenyon Review, Glamour, Tinderbox, and many more. She works as an editor and writing coach. More at www.diana-whitney.com.