POETRY

LORCÁN BLACK
is an Irish poet. His poetry is forthcoming or has been published in The Progentior, Drunk Monkeys, New Writing Scotland, Poet Lore, Stirring, Snapdragon, Connecticut River Review, Northern New England Review, Souvenir Lit, The Los Angeles Review & The Stinging Fly, amongst numerous others. He is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and has been longlisted for the Two Sylvias Prize. His first collection, Rituals, was published by April Gloaming Publishing in 2019.

CARL A. BOON
is the author of the full-length collection Places & Names: Poems (The Nasiona Press, 2019). His writing has appeared in many journals and magazines, including Prairie Schooner, Posit, and The Maine Review. He received his Ph.D. in Twentieth-Century American Literature from Ohio University in 2007, and currently lives in Izmir, Turkey, where he teaches courses in American literature at Dokuz Eylül University.

LUIGI COPPOLA, MARK SHUTTLEWORTH
Bonding over a love of the written word, the visual arts and alcohol, LUIGI COPPOLA and MARK SHUTTLEWORTH collaborate to bring their twisted, twined and transcendental take on the world to the masses. Visit www.ArtAndWordsAndWordsAndArt.blogspot.com for their Art and Words and Words and Art.

LAINE DERR
holds an MFA from Northern Arizona University and has published interviews with Carl Phillips, Ross Gay, Ted Kooser, and Robert Pinsky. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming from Antithesis, ZYZZYVA, Portland Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.

LOUISE A. DOLAN
is recently retired from North Carolina State University after teaching Spanish Language and Culture for more than three decades. She is currently a candidate for the MFA in Creative Writing at Mt. St. Mary University in Los Angeles. Previous publications include short story "The Crush," in the anthology Scattered Covered and Smothered; Personal essay "Here Kitty, Kitty," in The Urban Hiker, Stories in First Voice; and the poem, "Bach's Duet for Violins," The Windover Literary and Arts Magazine.

GALADRIEL FAYE
holds a B.A. in English from Mount St. Mary’s University in Brentwood, California. She is currently an MFA in Creative Writing candidate at Mount St. Mary’s University working on her thesis - a love letter to bad ass women and vampires. Galadriel loves horror movies, tattoos, and helping rescue animals.

SARAH E.G. FRANCIS
is a writer currently pursuing her MFA at Mount Saint Mary's University. Originally from Manhattan, she has worked as an educator in Los Angeles for the last eight years. She writes across genres, with particular interest in creative non-fiction, short story and poetry. Her work has been previously published in Prime Number Magazine.

BENJAMIN GOLUBOFF
is the author of Ho Chi Minh: A Speculative Life in Verse and Biking Englewood: An Essay on the White Gaze, both from Urban Farmhouse Press. Goluboff teaches at Lake Forest College and some of his work can be read at https://www.lakeforest.edu/academics/faculty/goluboff

DAVID A. GOODRUM
is a writer and photographer living in Corvallis, Oregon. His poems are forthcoming or have been published in Spillway, Star 82 Review, The Write Launch, The Closed Eye Open, New Plains Review, The Nebraska Review, The Louisville Review, and other journals. Additional work (both poetry and photography) can be viewed at www.davidgoodrum.com.

HILLARY GORDON
lives in Ojai, California. She works in FM radio and is in the process of completing her MFA in Creative Writing at Mount Saint Mary's University in Los Angeles, CA. 

ERIN JAMIESON
holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Miami University of Ohio. My published work includes two poetry chapbooks, over 90 pieces of short fiction and poetry, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. I teach English at the Ohio State University, as well as work as a freelance writer and YouTube content creator. My research has been published in The Journal of African American Studies.

CANDICE KELSEY
is a Cincinnati native; she is a poet, educator, and activist currently living in Georgia. She serves as a creative writing mentor with PEN America's Prison & Justice Writing Program; her work appears in Grub Street, Poet Lore, Lumiere Review, Hawai'i Pacific Review, and Poetry South among other journals. Recently, Candice was chosen as a finalist in Iowa Review's Poetry Contest and Cutthroat's Joy Harjo Poetry Prize. Her third book releases September '22. Find her @candicekelsey1 and www.candicemkelseypoet.com.

VIRGINIA LAURIE
is an MFA candidate at University of North Carolina Wilmington. She earned her BA in English from Washington and Lee University. Her poetry and visual art appears in Apricity Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal, Phantom Kangaroo, Cathexis Northwest Press, and more. Find her online at virginialaurie.com.

KATE MAXWELL
is a teacher and writer from Sydney. She’s been published and awarded in many literary magazines over the years. She was recently shortlisted for the ACU Poetry prize and Booronga Prize. Her first poetry anthology is Never Good at Maths (Interactive Publications, 2021) and her second anthology will be forthcoming in 2023. Kate’s interests include film, wine, and sleeping. She can be found at https://kateswritingplace.com/

JEAN NOEL RUHLAND
is achieving her Master's of Fine Arts Degree at Mount Saint Mary's University in Creative Writing. Her piece "Starlight, Starbright" can be read in As You Were: The Military Review, Vol. 16. She was a Chinook Helicopter Mechanic in the US Army, earned a degree in Dance, acted in New York City, and shares space with a five-pound Maltese named Poco.

JULIANA SCHICHO
is a writer from New Jersey. She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing as well as an M.L.I.S., and you can read her work in Defunct Magazine, Runestone Journal, Grim & Gilded, and Gandy Dancer. She currently works as a librarian, and is developing a chapbook exploring neurodiversity and chronic illness as they function in the American work space.

CORINNA SCHULENBURG (she/her)
is a queer trans artist/activist committed to ensemble practice and social justice. She’s a mother, a playwright, a poet, and a Creative Partner of Flux Theatre Ensemble. Poems in: Arachne Press, Beaver Magazine, Capsule Stories, Lost Pilots, Long Con, LUPERCALIA Press, miniskirt magazine, Moist, Moonflake Press, Moss Puppy, Oroboro, Okay Donkey, Poet Lore, SHIFT, The Shore, The Westchester Review, and more. https://corinnaschulenburg.com/writer/poet/

TRAVIS STEPHENS
is a tugboat captain who resides with his family in California. His book of poetry, “skeeter bit & still drunk” was published by Finishing Line Press. Visit him at:  zolothstephenswriters.com

FRANCIS JOHANN VERDOTE
was raised in Manila, Philippines.  He received his B.A. in English from California State University, Los Angeles.  He is currently a Creative Writing M.F.A. candidate at Mount St. Mary’s University.  His poems have appeared in Cultural Weekly and Statement Magazine.

JACOB VINCENT
is a writer in the UK with work appearing in Litro, Gone lawn and Crimson Leaf Review.

JESSICA WYLAND
is a writer and editor living in Southern California. Her work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, the Pasadena Star, About Such Things, and Heartless Bitches International.

STEVEN O. YOUNG JR.
lives on the rim of Detroit, where he received an MA from Oakland University and may sometimes be found paining the same floor over and over, typically by request and occasionally for pay. His latest poems can be found within Unlost Journal, Apricity Magazine, Havik, Penumbra, and Defunct Magazine, with others forthcoming in The Ear, Reunion: The Dallas Review, and West Trade Review. 

PHOTOGRAPHY

ROGER CAMP
is the author of three photography books including the award-winning Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, 2002 and Heat, Charta, Milano, 2008. His work has appeared in The New England Review, Southwest Review, Chicago Review and the New York Quarterly. His images are represented by the Robin Rice Gallery, NYC. More of his work may be seen at Luminous-Lint.com.

WILLY CONLEY
a former biomedical photographer, has photos featured in the books Listening Through the Bone, The Deaf Heart, No Walls of Stone, and Deaf World. Other publications: American Photographer, Arkansas Review, Baltimore Sun, Carolina Quarterly, Big Muddy, Folio, and 34th Parallel. His most recent book is The World of White Water -- Poems, which features a photo of his on the cover. Conley, born profoundly deaf, is a retired professor and chairperson of Theatre and Dance at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. If interested in seeing more of my work, please visit my website at: www.willyconley.com. 

ADRIAN KIM ESTRADA
is a writer and massage therapist living in Los Angeles. He is a Creative Writing MFA candidate at Mount Saint Mary's University, and these are his first published photographs.

DONALD GUADAGNI
is an international educator, author, and writer currently teaching and conducting research in Beijing China. His publication work includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose, academic, photography and his artwork. Former iterations, military, law enforcement, prisons, engineering, and forever the wayward son.

MARKA RIFAT
lives in north-east Scotland. Her photography has appeared in newspapers, journals and literary anthologies. She also writes stories, poems, plays and articles. Recently commended in the Saki, Toulmin and Janet Coats Memorial prizes and featured in the John Byrne Award, her work appears in more than 20 North American, UK and Australian anthologies.

ANNA WELCH
A writer originally from New Zealand, Anna Welch is fascinated by the ways that travel narratives can be used to tell deeper stories about landscapes and the creatures that populate them. She is currently writing her first book, a memoir about cycling across America. The photos in this issue were taken during that 3,700-mile adventure. Learn more about her work at www.annakwelch.com

JANE ZIMMERMAN
Photo by Jane Zimmerman as part of a Master’s degree program at the University of Wisconsin and a fitting launch for the author (Jean) in her MFA program at Mount Saint Mary’s.