poetry

Adrian T. Quintanar is a poet and editor from Pomona, California who received an MFA in Poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Adrian's work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Quarterly West, Denver Quarterly, Red Noise Collective, and others.

Allison Field Bell is originally from northern California but has spent most of her adult life in the desert. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Prose at the University of Utah, and she has an MFA in Fiction from New Mexico State University. Her prose appears in SmokeLong Quarterly,The Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, New Orleans Review, West Branch, Epiphany, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Pinch, and elsewhere. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Palette Poetry, South Dakota Review, Sugar House Review,The Greensboro Review, Nimrod International Journal, and elsewhere.

Allison Wilkins is the assistant director for Writing Workshops in Greece. She is the author of Girl Who. Her poems and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming with Sierra, Hayden's Ferry Review, Superstition Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Michigan Quarterly and others.

Andrew Alexander Mobbs (he/him/his) is the author of the chapbook, Strangers and Pilgrims (Six Gallery Press, 2013). A Pushcart Prize nominee, he's grateful his writing has appeared in Crab Creek Review, Frontier Poetry, Arkansas Review, Ghost Ocean Magazine, New Delta Review, Southwestern American Literature, and elsewhere. He's the co-founder of Nude Bruce Review and a recent graduate of Oregon State University's MFA program.

Charles Jensen is the author of SPLICE OF LIFE: A MEMOIR IN 13 FILM GENRES, forthcoming in May 2024; three collections of poetry, most recently INSTRUCTIONS BETWEEN TAKEOFF AND LANDING; and seven chapbooks. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Journal, New England Review, and Prairie Schooner, and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs designated him a 2019-2020 Cultural Trailblazer. He hosts The Write Process, a podcast in which one writer tells the story of crafting one work from concept to completion. He lives in Long Beach, California.

Christopher Shipman (he/him) lives on Eno, Sappony, & Shakori land in Greensboro, NC, where he teaches literature and creative writing at New Garden Friends School and plays drums in The Goodbye Horses. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Fence, New Orleans Review, POETRY, & elsewhere. His experimental play Metaphysique D’ Ephemera has been staged at four universities. In collaboration with Vincent Cellucci, Getting Away with Everything (Unlikely Books, 2021) is his most recent collection.

Kathleen Hellen’s collections include Meet Me at the Bottom, The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, and Umberto’s Night, and two chapbooks, The Girl Who Loved Mothra and Pentimento. Featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, her work has appeared widely in such journals as Arts & Letters, Colorado Review, Massachusetts Review, New Letters, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, West Branch, and Witness, among others. She is the recipient of the poetry prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House, the Thomas Merton prize for Poetry of the Sacred, and prizes from the H.O.W. Journal and Washington Square Review.

Patricia Clark is the author of Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars, her sixth book of poems, and three chapbooks. She has work just out (or forthcoming) in Plume, The Southern Review, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, Pedestal, Quartet, and Innisfree Poetry Journal. Her poem “Astronomy: ‘In Perfect Silence’” was chosen to go to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex on a NASA Space X flight in fall 2024.

Sara Henning is the author of the poetry collections Burn (Southern Illinois University Press, 2024), a 2022 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Editor’s Selection; Terra Incognita (Ohio University Press, 2022), winner of the 2021 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize; and View from True North (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award and the 2019 High Plains Book Award. She was awarded the 2019 Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Marshall University, where she coordinates the A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series. 

Weston Morrow is a poet and former print journalist with an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His recent poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Meridian, The Journal, and elsewhere. His visual art has appeared in Ninth Letter. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.

William Fargason is the author of Velvet (Northwestern University Press, 2024) and Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara (University of Iowa Press, 2020), winner of the 2019 Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2020 Florida Book Award in Poetry (Gold Medal). His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, The Cincinnati Review, Narrative, and elsewhere. He has an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and a PhD in poetry from Florida State University. He lives with himself in College Park, Maryland.