Issue 138 Contributors
Barbara Berg is a poet who is fascinated with the sciences of the body and the universe, and how they deepen our artistic world. Her work appears in As It Ought to Be, Poets for Science, Tupelo Quarterly, Lunch Ticket, Poemeleon, and others. She lives on the unceded land of the Tongva people in Los Angeles.
Saloni Chowdhury is a writer based in West Bengal, India. Her work often emerges from observation of insects, birds, and other small creatures that populate her garden. When not occupied with academics, she can be found sketching her favorite characters from television shows and comics.
Stasha Cole is a PhD student in literature, a poet, a photographer, and the editorial assistant for Nimrod International Journal. Her work can be found in journals such as Poetry South, Red Flag Poetry, Pinch, Anodyne, Wild Hyacinth, Susurrus, BarBar, and elsewhere.
Tessara Dudley is the author of Fallen/Forever Rising. Their poetry has appeared in Sun Star Review, Wordgathering, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and Words Dance, and in anthologies published by Minerva Rising, Zoetic Press, Damaged Goods Press, and Wingless Dreamer. They are currently working on their second poetry book, a collection of sapphic reimaginings of fairy tales, folklore, and myths. They can be found at tessaradudley.substack.com/
Heather D Haigh is a sight-impaired spoonie and working-class artist and writer from Yorkshire. She has visual work published by Pithead Chapel, Sunlight Press, Midnight Fawn Review, Dulcet, Lilomul, Viridine and others. She can often be found by the sea, napping or eating cheese.
Dana Henry Martin lives at the intersection of complex disability and chronic illness. Martin’s chapbooks include Love and Cruelty (Meat for Tea, forthcoming 2026), No Sea Here (Moon in the Rye Press, 2026), Toward What Is Awful (YesYes Books, 2013), In the Space Where I Was (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2012), and The Spare Room (Blood Pudding Press, 2009). Their work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Barrow Street, CALYX Journal, Muzzle, New Letters, and elsewhere.
Trystan Popish is a poet and essayist from Colorado. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and can be found in Pleiades, The Sunlight Press, Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, Rust & Moth, and elsewhere. She lives in Denver with her husband, their toddler, diabetes, depression, two dogs, and two hairless guinea pigs. Find her at trystanpopish.com.
Patrick G. Roland is a writer and educator living with cystic fibrosis. His work has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize as well as for Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction. His writing appears in Rattle, South Florida Poetry Journal, HAD, Sky Island, A-minor, and elsewhere. He lives near Pittsburgh with his wife and children.
Sabyasachi Roy is the author of Writing While the World Burns and Micro Craft for Sentences that Sing, e-books on the craft of writing published by Authors Publish. His poems have appeared in Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review, Singapore Unbound, The Wise Owl, and others. His fiction has been published in Viridine Literary, Inglenook Lit, After the Storm, among several journals. He writes craft essays regularly for Authors Publish.
Tasha Walston is a queer, feminist, death-positive, TTRPG-loving, AuDHD poet possessed by music, language(s), and the necrobiome. They fight fascism while teaching writing to both college students and systems-impacted women in the Pacific Northwest.
Allyson Wuerth is a writer and high school English teacher. She has published poetry in The Maine Review, Pine Row Press, Libre, Here: A Poetry Journal, Quarterly West, The Haiku Shack, Marrow Magazine, Belladonna’s Garden, The Marbled Sigh, and several other literary journals. She has poetry forthcoming in cream city review and was a finalist in the Sweet: A Literary Confection Poetry Prize. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, children, and four adorable cats. Allyson's poetry can be found at https://allysonwuerth.com/ .