Issue One Hundred and Twenty
James Tadd Adcox's work has appeared in n+1, and CutBank, as well as previously in The Rupture. He is the author of a novella, Repetition, and a novel, Does Not Love, and is an editor at the literary magazine Always Crashing.
Zachary Bernstein is a writer who also writes songs as The Bicycats. One of his original musicals, "Disasteroid!" was published in 2020. He lives in Los Angeles.
Kristin Bock's second poetry collection, Glass Bikini, was published by Tupelo Press in December 2021. Her book, CLOISTERS, won Tupelo Press's First Book Award and an Eric Hoffer da Vinci Eye Award. The poem "DRESS" is from a collaborative fable written with poet L.I. Henley. Follow her on Instagram @kbock777.
Anne Graue is the author of Full and Plum-Colored Velvet, (Woodley Press, 2020) and Fig Tree in Winter (Dancing Girl Press, 2017) and has poetry in SWWIM Every Day, Verse Daily, Rivet Journal, Mom Egg Review, Flint Hills Review, Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, and in print anthologies, including The Book of Donuts (Terrapin Books, 2017) and Coffee Poems (World Enough Writers, 2019). Her book reviews appear in FF2 Media, Adroit, Green Mountains Review, Glass Poetry Journal, and The Kenyon Review. She is a poetry editor for The Westchester Review.
Brian Henry is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Permanent State (Threadsuns, 2020), and the prose book Things Are Completely Simple: Poetry and Translation (Parlor, 2022). He has translated Tomaž Šalamun's Woods and Chalices (Harcourt, 2008), Aleš Debeljak's Smugglers (BOA Editions, 2015), and five books by Aleš Šteger. His work has received numerous honors, including two NEA fellowships, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, a Howard Foundation fellowship, and the Best Translated Book Award.
Steph Jurusz is a human person that lives in Chicago. She writes essays that challenge the boundaries of genre and dreams of her Florida homeland during the snowpocalypse that is Chicago winter. She received her MFA in Nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago. Her work has appeared in The South Loop Review, The Newer York, and Habitat.
Nora Lange's short works have appeared in BOMB, Joyland, American Short Fiction, Denver Quarterly, The Fairy Tale Review, Hobart, LIT, HTMLGIANT, among others. Her novel Us Fools was a finalist for New Directions 2020 The Novel Prize.
Louie Leyson is a Filipino writer and UBC graduate who lives on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. You can find their work in Nat. Brut, The Malahat Review, Palette, Catapult, and others.
Josh Luckenbach's recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Nimrod, Birmingham Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas and a BA from the University of Virginia. He lives in West Texas where, in addition to pursuing his PhD, he serves as Managing Editor for Iron Horse Literary Review.
Natalie Marino is a poet and physician. Her work appears in Atlas and Alice, Gigantic Sequins, Hobart, Pleiades, Rust + Moth, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Memories of Stars, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press (June 2023). She lives in California.
Michael Martone anecdotes are taken from a new book called Anecdota: A Memoir in Prose Poems. Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana will be published this fall by Baobab Press. The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone came out last year, published by BOA Editions Ltd. He retired recently after teaching for 40 years at Iowa State, Harvard, and Syracuse Universities and Warren Wilson College. Now Professor Emeritus of the University of Alabama, he gardens, basks, and ambles below the Bug Line in Tuscaloosa.
Adam McOmber is the author of three queer speculative novels, The White Forest, Jesus and John and The Ghost Finders as well as three collections of short stories, Fantasy Kit, My House Gathers Desires and This New & Poisonous Air. He is a core faculty member in the MFA Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts as well as editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Hunger Mountain. His new novel, a Weird, erotic reimagining of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles is forthcoming from Lethe Press in October.
Marcus Pactor is the author of Begat Who Begat Who Begat (Astrophil Press) and Vs. Death Noises (Subito Press). The latter book won the 2011 Subito Press Prize for Fiction. His story "Megaberry Crunch" was selected for Best Small Fictions 2021. His work has most recently appeared in Always Crashing and 3:AM Magazine. He lives and works in Jacksonville, Florida.
Adam Peterson is the author of the collections My Untimely Death, The Flasher, and [SPOILER ALERT] with Laura Eve Engel (a Collagist Chapbook Winner!). His fiction has appeared in Epoch, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere.
Hilary Plum is the author of the essay collection Hole Studies, out in October 2022 from Fonograf Editions, as well as other works, including the novel Strawberry Fields and the work of nonfiction Watchfires. A collection of poetry, Excisions, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. She teaches fiction, nonfiction, and editing & publishing at Cleveland State University. She works at the CSU Poetry Center, and with Zach Savich she co-edits the Open Prose Series at Rescue Press.
Tomaž Šalamun (1941-2014) published more than 50 books of poetry in Slovenia. Translated into over 25 languages, his poetry received numerous awards, including the Jenko Prize, the Prešeren Prize, the European Prize for Poetry, and the Mladost Prize. In the 1990s, he served for several years as the Cultural Attaché for the Slovenian Embassy in New York, and later held visiting professorships at various universities in the U.S.
Shya Scanlon is the author of the novel The Guild of Saint Cooper and the poetry collection In This Alone Impulse. His essays and short fiction have appeared in Lit Hub, Guernica, The Literary Review, The Mississippi Review, The Believer, The Rupture, Hobart, and elsewhere.
Jeremy Schmidt is a writing instructor at the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in The Believer, Boston Review, Lana Turner, and Los Angeles Review of Books, and he was selected by John Ashbery for the 2014 "Discovery" Poetry Prize.
Hugh Sheehy is the author of two short story collections, Design Flaw, out in November from Acre Books, and The Invisibles, which won the 2012 Flannery O'Connor Award. His fiction has appeared in Fence, Crazyhorse, West Branch, Story, The Cincinnati Review, Five Points, Glimmer Train, and The Kenyon Review. He teaches at Ramapo College.
Dara-Lyn Shrager is the co-founder/editor of Radar Poetry. Her poetry collection, Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee, was published by Barrow Street Books in 2018. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals, including Crab Creek Review, Southern Humanities Review, Barn Owl Review, and Nashville Review. Learn more at www.radarpoetry.com.
Amber Sparks is the author of three collections of short fiction, including the most recent And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges. Her short stories and essays are widely published, and she is finishing up her first novel. She lives with two cats and two people in Washington, DC.
Tiffany Troy is an interviewer and reviewer. Her interviews and reviews are published/ forthcoming from Adroit Journal, EcoTheo Review, The Cortland Review, Heavy Feather Review, The Lit Pub and Tupelo Quarterly, where she serves as an associate editor.
Angela Woodward is the author of the novels End of the Fire Cult (Ravenna Press, 2010) and Natural Wonders (Fiction Collective Two, 2016), as well as two collections of short fiction. Her short stories and essays have appeared in many journals, including Ninth Letter, AGNI, Green Mountains Review, and the LA Review of Books. Her novel Ink is forthcoming from the University Press of Kentucky in 2023.