Issue 122 Contributors
Amrita Skye Blaine develops themes of aging, disability, and awakening. She received an MFA from Antioch University. Her poems have been accepted by Braided Way Magazine, The Penwood Review, Delta Poetry Review, New English Review, Chiron Review, Blue Heron Review, and One Art. Her collection every riven thing, will be released by Finishing Line Press May 2025, and a collection on aging, strange grace, the ending season, comes out the end of March.
Sage Cohen is the author of the poetry collection Like the Heart, the World from Queen of Wands Press and the nonfiction books Writing the Life Poetic, The Productive Writer, and Fierce on the Page, all from Writer’s Digest Books. She won first prize in the 2024 Golden Nib poetry contest and serves as Poetry Editor of Certain Age Magazine. Sage guides poets and writers at sagecohen.com.
Natalia del Pilar is a Puerto Rican-Colombian storyteller, poet, and student reporter based in Washington, D.C. Her work has appeared in the award-winning speculative fiction magazine, Strange Horizons. She’s forever a fan of the moon, folktales about angry women, and coconut flan. Find more of her work at nataliadelpilar.com or subscribe to her newsletter, The Iridescence, on Substack.
Dagne Forrest’s poetry has appeared in The New Quarterly, december magazine, Whale Road Review, Rust + Moth, Unlost, The Ekphrastic Review and elsewhere. She was selected as a finalist in the 2025 Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize by Maggie Smith. She belongs to Painted Bride Quarterly’s editorial and podcast teams. Her chapbook Un / Becoming is published by Baseline Press (2025).
Jackie Hollowell is an extremely queer writer from the Pacific Northwest but lives in Vietnam. She has a love/hate relationship with capital letters and an all-hate relationship with capitalism. She has previously been published in The Dawn Review, The Wayfarer, and Boats Against the Current.
Andrew Kozma’s poems appear in Stone Circle Review, The Deadlands, and Contemporary Verse 2, while his fiction appears in Apex, ergot., and Seize the Press. His first book of poems, City of Regret, won the Zone 3 First Book Award, and his second book, Orphanotrophia, was published in 2021 by Cobalt Press. You can find him on Bluesky at @andrewkozma.net and visit his website at www.andrewkozma.net.
Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of 36 titles, including 12 full-length poetry collections such as Animals Out-There W-i-l-d and once upon a twin. His work has appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. His latest title is The Language of Home: Stories. An inaugural Zoeglossia Poetry Fellow, he lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [raymondluczak.com]
Ocean is a disabled poet and novelist living in the Pacific Northwest. His poetry, essays and fiction are known for their resuscitation of the mythic and their contribution to literary animism. He writes winding hypnogogic chronicles, ordeal fairy tales, pararealist poetry, postcards to no one, erasure novels, and abstract erotic literature. For selections of his work, navigate to: www.mirrorflower.org.
Yvonne Pepin-Wakefield is an artist and author. She works at her studio and exhibits at her gallery on the Columbia River in The Dalles, Oregon. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is in private collections throughout the world. Her doctoral research on art and psychology is published in international journals. She has taught art on three continents, to every age and ability and received awards for her art education practices. Book Publicists of Southern California awarded her Babe in the Books as the Best Memoir Series.
Kathryn Petruccelli is a Pushcart-, Best of the Net-, and Best Small Fictions-nominated poet with roots in spoken word and a degree in teaching English language learners. Her work has appeared in places like Whale Road Review, RHINO, Fictive Dream, and The Los Angeles Review. Kathryn recently relocated with her family to the west of Ireland. She teaches pay-what-you-can workshops and writes the Substack newsletter, Ask the Poet. Say hi at poetroar.com.
Laura Sheahen is an American poet who divides her time between Maryland and Tunisia. Her poems have been published in Four Way Review, The Manhattan Review, Stirring, The Interpreter's House, and other journals in the US and UK. She has traveled widely in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East as a writer for humanitarian aid groups. She is researching Amazigh (Berber) literature from North Africa. She curates One Good Poem and writes about literature on her Substack.