Issue 98 Contributors
Allison Blevins is a queer disabled writer and the author of Cataloguing Pain (YesYes Books, 2023), Handbook for the Newly Disabled, A Lyric Memoir (BlazeVox, 2022) and Slowly/Suddenly (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2021). She is also the author of four chapbooks. She is the Director of Small Harbor Publishing and the Executive Editor at the museum of americana. She lives in Minnesota with her spouse and three children. For more information, visit allisonblevins.com.
Joanna Hope Bricher studied at Dartington College of Arts and is now based in a beautiful valley in the North of England. She lives with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and loves trees, herons and thinking about fungi. You can see some of her linocut and letterpress printing at pennybloodpress.wordpress.com.
Willa Carroll is the author of Nerve Chorus (The Word Works, 2018) and Demolition Suite (Split Rock Press, November 2023). Her poems have appeared in AGNI, Poem-A-Day, The Slowdown, Tin House, and elsewhere. She won Narrative Magazine’s Third Annual Poetry Contest, Tupelo Quarterly’s TQ7 Poetry Prize, and the 2022 Split Rock Press Chapbook Competition. Her poetry videos and multimedia collaborations have been featured in Interim Poetics, Narrative Outloud, TriQuarterly, and several international film festivals. She was awarded Best Poetry Film at the 2021 International Migration And Environmental Film Festival. www.willacarroll.com
Corie Feiner is a home birthing, homeschooling, cook-from-scratch yoga mama and founder of the Re/embody Poetry Workshop for body image empowerment. She is the Poet Laureate Emeritus of Bucks County, and an award-winning educator, author, and performance poet called “wonderful” by The New York Times. Get her weekly poems by subscribing to her Substack at: https://coriefeiner.substack.com.
Ed Go is a Chinese-Filipino-Portuguese-English-Scottish-Irish American writer raised in Massachusetts, Virginia, Alaska, Hawaii and Connecticut. His writings have been published in various online and print journals and anthologies, and his chapbook Deleted Scenes from the Autobiography of Ed Go as told by Napoleon Id was published in 2014 by Other Rooms Press, and “new machines,” a sequence of twenty-one prose poems in the anthology Urgent Bards in 2016 by Urbantgarde Press. More at https://edgosblog.wordpress.com.
Paris Jessie (they/she) is a black, budding wanderer. A moon enthusiast rooted to all things peculiar. You may find more at iamparisjessie.com .
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, the 2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate, is the author of 24 books, including How Time Moves: New & Selected Poems; Miriam's Well, a novel; and The Sky Begins At Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community, and Coming Home to the Body. Founder of Transformative Language Arts, she is offers writing workshops, coaching, and collaborative projects YourRightLivelihood.com with Kathryn Lorenzen, Bravevoice.com with Kelley Hunt, and TheArtofFacilitation.net with Joy Roulier Sawyer. CarynMirriamGoldberg.com.
Emily Perkovich (she/her) is from the Chicago-land area. She is the Editor in Chief of Querencia Press and on the Women in Leadership Advisory Board with Valparaiso University. Her work strives to erase the stigma surrounding trauma victims and their responses. She is the author of the poetry collections Godshots Wanted: Apply Within (Sunday Mornings at the River) & The Number 12 Looks Just Like You (Finishing Line Press), baby, sweetheart, honey (Alien Buddha Press) as well as the novella Swallow. You can find more of her work on IG @undermeyou .
Anna Swanson is a queer writer and librarian living in St. John’s, NL/Ktaqmkuk. Her writing is interested in themes of chronic illness, concussion, embodiment, queerness, and survival joy. Her first book, The Nights Also, won the Gerald Lampert Award and a Lambda Literary Award. Her writing appears in various journals and anthologies including Impact: Women Writing After Concussion and Best Canadian Poetry. She is a poetry editor with Riddle Fence, and loves wild swimming in all seasons.
Donna Vorreyer is the author of To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. She hosts the monthly online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey.