Contributors

Adedayo Agarau is a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University, Cave Canem fellow, 2022 Robert Hayden Scholarship fellow, and a recipient of the 2022 Stanley Awards for International Research at the University of Iowa. He obtained his MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop ’23. His poems have been featured in Poetry Magazine, Poetry Society of America, World Literature Today, Tab Journal, Anomaly, Frontier, Iowa Review, Boulevard, and elsewhere. He is the author of the chapbooks Origin of Names (2020), and The Arrival of Rain (2020). Adedayo is the editor in chief at Agbowó: An African magazine of literature and art.Sara Burge is the author of Apocalypse Ranch (2010), and her poetry has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Willow Springs, Prairie Schooner, CALYX Journal, The Louisville Review, The Los Angeles Review, River Styx, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is the poetry editor for Moon City Review. More of her work can be found at saraburge.com.Sébastien Luc Butler was born and raised in Michigan. He holds an MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Poe/Faulkner Fellow in poetry, and served as poetry editor for Meridian. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Narrative Magazine, Pleiades, Bennington Review, Black Warrior Review, Southeast Review, Four Way Review, and Southern Indiana Review, among others. The recipient of the 2021 Hopwood Award for Poetry and a finalist for the 2023 Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest, Sébastien was longlisted for the 2023–24 Gregory Djanikian Scholars by Adroit. He currently serves as an assistant editor at West Trade Review and lives in New York City.Jackie Chicalese is a teacher and writer from northern Appalachia. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Salt Hill Journal, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. She is a PhD student in composition and rhetoric at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.Robert Ciesla is an author and filmmaker from Helsinki, Finland. He has a BA in journalism, an MA in culture studies, and he likes rainy days. His personal website is robertciesla.com.Michael W. Cox is the author of two books of fiction, stories in Against the Hidden River (2013), and a novel, The Best Way to Get Even (2017). His stories have appeared in Atticus Review, Columbia, Fiction Southeast, Passages North, and Salt Hill. His essays and criticism can be found in New Letters, River Teeth, Sport Literate, Midwest Quarterly, and Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. He teaches creative and professional writing at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.Kelsey Down is an American writer living in the southeast of England. She is currently pursuing a master of arts at Northeastern University London; she also studied creative writing as an Oxford University Summer Scholar. Her short stories have been published by Storm Cellar Quarterly and The Nashville Review, and her work has placed in the Ann Doty Fiction Contest and received an honorable mention in the David O. McKay Essay Contest.Mo Fowler is a maker at Big Table Press and the author of the chapbook Sit Wild. Their writing is forthcoming in The Hopkins Review, and can be found in Seventh Wave Magazine, Bloodletter Magazine, Garland, Snaggletooth Magazine, Rust + Moth, and elsewhere.Aiden Heung (he/they) is a Chinese poet born in a Tibetan Autonomous Town. After living in Shanghai as a traveling salesman for years, he quit his job and relocated to St. Louis. He is an MFA candidate at Washington University, and his poems written in English have appeared in The Australian Poetry Journal, The Missouri Review, Poetry International, Cincinnati Review, Crazyhorse, and Black Warrior Review, among other places. On X: @aidenheung.Nat Holtzmann is a writer, editor, and bookmaker based in Chicago, Illinois. She frequently collaborates across genres with other artists and co-founded TEMPER Press, an experimental publishing project. More of her work can be found at natholtzmann.com.Sarah Horner is a writer and recent graduate of the University of Minnesota. Her poem “Molting” received the 2024 Walter Nathan Prize for Undergraduate Creative Writers. She has poetry and fiction in places such as Lunch Ticket, Defunkt Magazine, Across the Margin, and Anti-Heroin Chic. She lives in Minneapolis with her cat Goose.Melissa McEver Huckabay has writing in SWWIM, Poetry South, Thimble, Defunkt, and elsewhere, and her short fiction has won the Spider's Web Flash Fiction Prize from Spider Road Press. She has an MFA in poetry from Texas State University, and lives in Houston, Texas with her husband, son, and two affectionate cats. On Bluesky: @melpsoul.Brittany Jones is an emerging writer currently teaching high school English in Alexandria, Virginia. Jones writes nonfiction and fiction and has previously published in the literary journal Lammergeier.Farm girl, rock climber, and professor, Karen Kilcup feels fortunate to be getting old. Her book The Art of Restoration (2023) was awarded the 2021 Winter Goose Poetry Prize, and her chapbook Red Appetite (2023) received the 2022 Helen Kay Poetry Chapbook Prize. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has a second chapbook, Black Nebula (2023), and a second collection, Feathers and Wedges (2024).Stefanie Kirby lives and writes along Colorado's Front Range. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net, and appear or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, The Maine Review, The Massachusetts Review, Passages North, Poet Lore, Faultline Journal, and elsewhere.Max Kruger-Dull holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Litro Magazine, Roanoke Review, Quarterly West, The MacGuffin, Hunger Mountain Review, Best Small Fictions 2024 anthology, and others. He lives in New York with his boyfriend and two dogs. For more, please visit maxkrugerdull.com.Maren Loveland is from Atlanta, Georgia, and a PhD candidate in English at Vanderbilt University studying the politics and aesthetics of infrastructure.Melanie H. Manuel is a Filipina American poet. She obtained her BA in Asian American studies and English from UC Davis and her MFA in poetry from SDSU. Her work has been published by North American Review, Grist: A Literary Journal of Arts, Los Angeles Review, Zone 3 Press, Quillkeepers Press, 2River, and The Shore, to name a few, with more forthcoming. Her debut chapbook, in storyboard, is now out with Bottlecap Press.Erin McAllester lives in the wilds of Central Oregon with her partner and dog, where she gardens and hosts raucous dinner parties. She is a white girl, from a mixed-race, queer family, who explores cultural critique from an intersectional lens. By day, Erin works in tech, and by the light of the moon she's an MFA candidate in the OSU-Cascades low-residency program. Her work appears in Fugue and on various business blogs.Julia Ongking currently lives in her beautiful home country: the Philippines. Born and raised as a Chinese-Filipino, she enjoys developing her perspectives through reading, writing, and having meaningful conversations with people from all walks of life. Her work has appeared in SAND Literature and Rappler Magazine, among other digital and print publications.Homegrown in the Bay Area, Tal Santo Rizzo is a trans poet and occasional fiction writer with a BA in creative writing from the University of Denver. Tal's work can be found in Puerto del Sol. He works as a medication-assisted therapy case manager for youth and young adults. Tal resides in Seattle, Washington, with his cat and collection of Brautigan.Elise Thi Tran is a Vietnamese-Filipina-American writer and poet. She is the 2022 First Pages Prize winner and a fiction judge for NYC Midnight. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Blackbird, diode, Copper Nickel, The Kenyon Review, Salt Hill, TIMBER, and elsewhere. Find Elise on Instagram @elise.tran.Jo Wallace is a poet from Indiana and the poetry editor of Witness. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in New American Writing, Image, The Brooklyn Review, and Tupelo Quarterly, among others.Stacy Alaimo is professor of English and core faculty member in environmental studies at the University of Oregon. Her books include Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (2000); Material Feminisms (co-edited, 2008); Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (2010); Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (2016); and The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep-Sea Life (forthcoming 2025).Isabelle Carbonell is a sci-fi documentary filmmaker and assistant professor of film at the American University of Paris. Her research and practice lie at the intersection of expanded documentary, environmental justice, and the Anthropocene, and strive to develop new visual and sonic approaches and methods to rethink documentary filmmaking. Her recent works include The Golden Snail Opera (2012/2019), The River Runs Red (2018), The Blessed Assurance (2018), The Camel Race (2019), The Mississippi Multiverse (2020), and When Monsters Walk the Earth (2021). Her latest feature film, A Mirror of the Cosmos (2020/2023), in addition to an ongoing festival run, has been shown at the Manifesta Biennial at the Natural History Museum in Marseilles and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.Danielle Celermajer is professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Sydney and deputy director of the Sydney Environment Institute. Her research interests include: expanding the concepts and practices of justice to the more-than-human world, in particular more-than-human inclusion in politics; transforming moral imaginaries through praxis, ritual, and story; and concepts and practices of responsibility. She is author of Summertime, Reflections of a Vanishing Future (2021) and has been lead author on a number of articles on multispecies justice including “Multispecies Justice: Theories, Challenges, and a Research Agenda for Environmental Politics” in Environmental Politics.Kirsty Dunn (Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) is a lecturer in Aotahi, the School of Māori and Indigenous Studies at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha—The University of Canterbury in Aotearoa New Zealand.Nathaniel Otjen is a postdoctoral fellow in the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University and incoming assistant professor of sustainability and environmental studies at Ramapo College. He is currently codirecting an audio documentary project called Mining for the Climate and writing his first book, Entangled Lives: Multispecies Selves, Justice, and Narratives. His published and forthcoming research can be read in Environmental Humanities, Animal Studies Journal, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, among others.Jon Rose is a violinist/composer, instrument maker, and multimedia artist. He is author of Music of Place: Reclaiming a Practice (2013) and recipient of the Australia Council's Don Banks Award for his lifetime contribution to Australian music.Hayley Singer is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead (2023).Hollis Taylor is an ARC Future Fellow at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. A violinist/composer and zoömusicologist, she is author of Is Birdsong Music? (2017).Priscilla Solis Ybarra is a writer and professor in the Department of English at the University of North Texas. Her book Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment (2016) won the 2017 Thomas J. Lyon Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies and her coedited book Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial (2019) won the 2022 Modern Language Association Prize for an edited collection.Mary Marshall Martin is a figurative painter born in Tarboro, North Carolina. They currently attend Hollins University pursuing a BA in studio art. They have attended programs like Yale Norfolk School of Art and Mount Gretna School of Art. They have also participated in group shows like the Triangle Projects Miami exhibit, the Oxford Arts Alliance 9th Juried Show, and publications like Cargoes literary magazine, where they worked as a visual art editor.