Volume 54, Issue 3 | Winter 2024–2025

Sakena Abedin is a practicing pediatrician and a lecturer in the History Department at Yale. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner and The Massachusetts Review.

Sarah Adler is a Philly-based writer. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program.

Christian Bodney is a writer and graduate of New York University’s creative writing MFA program. In 2023, he was the recipient of a CRAFT Creative Nonfiction Award. As associate editor for Hobart, he lives in New York City.

Katy Chrisler is a poet based in Texas. Her work has been featured in publications such as Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, The Volta, Tin House, and The Seattle Review.

Red Danielson is a self-taught painter and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has worked as a concrete mason, a framer, a heavy equipment operator, and a grave digger. He lives in the English River Valley of Iowa.

Georgie Fehringer is a writer and educator. Their writing has appeared in Black Warrior Review, The Chicago Review of Books, and The Rumpus, among others. Find them at georgiefehringer.com.

John Glowney’s poetry has appeared widely, including Narrative, Shenandoah, 32 Poems, and journals, and a full-length collection, Visitation (Broadstone Books, 2022). He lives in Seattle.

Brian Goedde is an Assistant Professor of English at the Community College of Philadelphia. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Seattle Review, among other publications.

David Greenspan is the author of One Person Holds So Much Silence (Driftwood Press), Milk Sickness (Querencia Press), and the chapbooks Nervous System with Dramamine (The Offending Adam), and Error (antiphony Press).

Carrie Grinstead lives in Los Angeles with her husband and dogs. Her stories have appeared in Tin House, Pithead Chapel, New Millenium Writings, and elsewhere. She is working on a novel.

Jerry Harp’s books of poems include Creature (2003), Gatherings (2004), and Spirit Under Construction (2017). His reviews appear in American Book Review. He teaches at Lewis & Clark College.

Mitchell Jacobs is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California and serves as Managing Editor of Ricochet Editions.

an chang joon was born in Seoul, Korea, but raised somewhere between Uzbekistan, Korea, and the eastern coast of the United States. His writing explores borders, not as a flat line, but as a liminal space of their own.

Philip Kobylarz is an itinerant teacher of the language arts and writer of fiction, poetry, book reviews, and essays.

Luc Le is an MFA candidate at the University of California, Davis. He lives in West Sacramento with his cat, Ophelia.

Margaret LeMay’s poems have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Better, Brink, The Cortland Review, a piano quintet commissioned by the Library of Congress, and elsewhere. She teaches at Coe College.

Angie Sijun Lou has a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz. Her stories have appeared in ZYZZVA, BOMB, FENCE, Joyland, and elsewhere.

Lucy McBee is an editor and ghostwriter living in Austin, TX. Her (non-ghostwritten) work has appeared in Indiana Review, New Letters, and The Pinch.

Sandra Meek has published six books of poems, most recently Still, named a “New & Noteworthy Poetry Book” by The New York Times Book Review. She teaches at Berry College and is Poetry Editor of the Phi Kappa Phi Form.

Petro Moysaenko holds degrees from NYU and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poems appear in Bennington Review, Denver Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, and other publications. He coedits the online journal Paperbag.

Valentina Rivera-Lies is a Mexican and Bolivian American writer from Lawrence, Kansas. She lives in Tucson with her husband and their two dogs.

Rachel Rix has published work in Wrath-Bearing Tree, Issued, Spillway, and others. Rix works as a CMT in Sacramento, California, where she lives with her husband Adam and their two cats, Floppy and Leo.

Kira Tucker is a poet and artist from Memphis. The 2024–2025 Artist in Residence in Creative Writing at Northwestern, Kira is an Associate Agent with the Shipman Agency and the current Assistant Managing Editor for TriQuarterly. Their poems appear in Tupelo Quarterly, Jazz & Culture, and elsewhere.

Elizabeth Willis is the author of eight books of poetry, including Liontaming in America, longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award, and Alive: New and Selected Poems, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.