Issue One Hundred and Seven
Karin Wraley Barbee teaches composition and creative writing at Siena Heights University. She lives in Adrian, MI with her two children.
Michael Collins is the author of a book of poems, The Traveling Queen (Sheep Meadow Press, 2013), and an intellectual biography—Understanding Etheridge Knight (University of South Carolina Press, 2012). He has also published many uncollected poems and essays in venues that include About Place, New Letters, E-Verse Radio, Harper's Magazine, and the Oxford American.
Megan Evershed is a writer based in New York. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Prospect Magazine, and i-D. She graduated in May 2019 from Columbia University with a BA in English Literature.
William Fargason is the author of Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara (University of Iowa Press, April 2020), winner of the 2019 Iowa Poetry Prize. His poetry has appeared in The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, Barrow Street, Indiana Review, Rattle, The Cincinnati Review, Narrative, and elsewhere. He earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and a PhD in poetry from Florida State University.
Anne Graue is the author of a chapbook, Fig Tree in Winter, and has poetry appearing in SWWIM Every Day, The Plath Poetry Project, Rivet Journal, Mom Egg Review, Into the Void, and in numerous print anthologies. Her reviews have been published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Rupture, Whale Road Review, and The Rumpus. She is on staff as a reviewer for Glass: A Journal of Poetry and as a poetry reader for The Westchester Review.
Matthew Hannah is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he teaches courses on digital humanities, electronic literature, and media studies. He received a PhD in English from the University of Oregon, focused on twentieth-century literature and culture. Despite his interests in linkages between culture and technology, he likes to spend his free time walking in the woods.
Emma Faesi Hudelson is a teaching fellow and PhD candidate studying literary nonfiction at the University of Cincinnati. She lives with two dogs, two cats, and one husband in a house by the woods near Indiana's White River. Emma writes about addiction, mental illness, and recovery. Horses, too. Her work appears or is forthcoming in BUST, The Chattahoochee Review, The Nasiona, The Rumpus, and other publications. Her essays have been selected as finalists in the 2017 International Literary Awards and Creative Nonfiction's Spring 2018 Contest.
A.T. Grant reads, writes, and teaches in Virginia. He is the author of Collected Alex, selected as the winner of the Caketrain Press award, and Wake, a hybrid novel. His work has been anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. His most recent work appears in Sixth Finch.
Jim Johnstone is a Canadian poet, editor, and critic. His reviews have been published in magazines like Maisonneuve, The Rumpus, and Poetry, where he won the Editor's Prize for Book Reviewing in 2016. Currently, Johnstone curates the Anstruther Books imprint at Palimpsest Press—his most recent book is The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry.
Natan Last is a researcher in refugee and migration policy and a public policy graduate student at Columbia University. He also writes crossword puzzles for The New Yorker and The New York Times. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative, The American Journal of Poetry, Protocols Magazine, The Seattle Star, and The Asheville Poetry Review.
David LeGault is the author of One Million Maniacs, a book of essays now available from Outpost19. Other recent work appears or is forthcoming in Juked, The Normal School, and Hotel Amerika, among others. Although he calls the Midwest home, he currently lives in Prague, Czech Republic.
Brian Leung is the author of the novels Lost Men, Take Me Home, and Ivy vs. Dogg: With a Cast of Thousands! as well as the short story collection World Famous Love Acts. He serves as core faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the Director of Creative Writing at Purdue University.
Ravi Mangla is the author of the novel Understudies. His work has appeared most recently in Quarterly West, Salt Hill, and Wigleaf. He lives in Rochester, NY.
Anna Mebel lives in Portland, OR. She has an MFA from Syracuse and is the author of the chapbook Eradicate Sex Chemicals! (dancing girl press). She co-edits Figure 1 Journal and co-hosts the Wallflowers readings series. Find more of her work in Softblow, The Journal, Pinwheel, and elsewhere.
Dev Murphy is a writer and visual artist. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Guardian, The Pinch, Anomaly, Passages North, Empty Mirror, Big Other, Queen Mob's Tea House, and elsewhere. She works in an art gallery and a bookstore in Pittsburgh. You can follow her on social media @gytrashh.
Kristine Ong Muslim is the author of nine books, including the fiction collections Age of Blight (Unnamed Press, 2016), Butterfly Dream (Snuggly Books, 2016), and The Drone Outside (Eibonvale Press, 2017), as well as the poetry collections Lifeboat (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015), Meditations of a Beast (Cornerstone Press, 2016), and Black Arcadia (University of the Philippines Press, 2017). She is co-editor of two anthologies—the British Fantasy Award-winning People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction and Sigwa: Climate Fiction Anthology from the Philippines, an illustrated volume forthcoming from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines Press. Widely anthologized, her short stories have appeared in Conjunctions, Dazed Digital, Tin House, and World Literature Today. She grew up and continues to live in a rural town in southern Philippines.
Linnea Nelson is a writer and editor. Recent and upcoming publications of her poetry are included in Beloit Poetry Journal, Seneca Review, Rattle, Rappahannock Review, and others. A graduate of the MFA program at Oregon State University, she serves as Associate Editor for Cloudbank Books.
Hannah Pass lives in Portland, Oregon and her stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Wigleaf, The Normal School, Tin House, and Kenyon Review Online, among other places. She is currently at work on her first novel.
Philip Sorenson is the author of two full-length collections: Of Embodies (Rescue Press, 2012) and Solar Trauma (Rescue Press, 2018). He is also the author of a shorter collection, New Recordings (Another New Calligraphy, 2018). He co-edits The Journal Petra with Olivia Cronk.
Gregg Williard's fiction, non-fiction and visual art have been published most recently (or forthcoming) in New England Review, Shenandoah, Queen Mob's Tea House and Litro. He teaches ESL to refugees in Madison, Wisconsin and does a late night book reading show on WORT radio.