Issue 93 Contributors
Critically acclaimed and multiple contests winner for short fiction, Mehreen Ahmed is an Australian novelist born in Bangladesh. Her historical fiction, The Pacifist, is a Drunken Druid's Editor's Choice. Gatherings, is nominated for the James Tait Black Prize for fiction. Her flash fiction have been nominated for 3x botN, Pushcart, Publication of the Month. A contributor to the Best Asian Speculative Fiction Anthology, 2022. her works have also been shortlisted, finalist, and have received honorable mention.
Jonathan B. Aibel is a recovering software engineer who lives in Concord, MA, homelands of the Nipmuc. His poems have been published, or will soon appear, in Chautauqua, American Journal of Poetry, Lily Poetry Review, Ocean State Review, Pangyrus, and elsewhere.
Rebecca Bornstein is a poet and worker currently living in Portland, Oregon. She holds an MFA from North Carolina State University, and is the recipient of a 2022 Oregon Literary Fellowship, Her work has appeared in many journals, including jmww, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Baltimore Review, The Journal, and elsewhere. Visit her website at rebeccabornstein.com.
Gillian Cummings is the author of The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, selected by John Yau as the winner of the 2018 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and My Dim Aviary, winner of the 2015 Hudson Prize from Black Lawrence Press. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Boulevard, The Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, and The Massachusetts Review, among other journals. She is also a visual artist.
Hannah D. writes from and occasionally about Kansas City, Missouri. She is a student of Creative Writing in the undergraduate program at University of Missouri - Kansas City, with occasional dreams of pursuing an MFA in Fiction after graduation. More consistently, she dreams nebulously of fame, glory, and immortality. She has not yet quit her day job as a technical writer. Her writing can be found in New Letters and Number One Magazine.
Eva Eliav received an honours BA in English Language and Literature from The University of Toronto. The child of holocaust survivors, she grew up in Canada and now lives in Israel. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in numerous journals, online and in print. She has published two poetry chapbooks: Eve (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2019) and One Summer Day (Kelsay Books, 2021).
Karis Lee is a middle-school-teacher. She lives and writes in Washington D.C. Her work can be found in MudRoom Magazine and The Baltimore Review.
Aiyana Masla is the author of the chapbook Stone Fruit (Bottlecap Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Cordella Press, the West Trestle Review, Thimble Literary Magazine, Vagabond City Poetry, as a part of the collection So Many Ways to Draw a Ghost, and elsewhere. She is an interdisciplinary artist and anti-bias educator, currently based in Brooklyn, New York.
Cassandra Myers (they/she) is a queer, non-binary, crippled, mad, South-Asian-Italian performance poet and counsellor from Tkaronto, Ontario. Raised in the slam poetry community for seven years, Cassandra has earned titles such as the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word Champion. As she transitions to the page, her work has won the ARC Poetry Magazine's Poem of the Year Award 2021 and the Reader's Choice Award, and long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize 2021. Their first collection of poems, Smash the Headlights, is forthcoming from Write Bloody North Publishing. Find them online @cass.myers.poetry or at their website: cass.myers.com.
Carina Solis is an African-American writer from Georgia. Her work has been recognized or is forthcoming in the Eunoia Review, the Ice Lolly Review, the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and the New York Times Summer Reading Contest, among others. She is also an editor at Polyphony Lit, an intern at Young Eager Writers, and a mentee at Ellipsis Writing. She is fifteen years old.