Issue Three ContributorsKristin Chang lives in Cupertino, CA, and resides occasionally in Asia's watery bowels. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Word Riot, Winter Tangerine Review, BOAAT, Voicemail Poems, and elsewhere. She gets tired of licking things and just bites them. Keith Francese's work has appeared in Four Chambers, Gravel, Canyon Voices, and other publications. He received degrees in English and Creative Writing from the University of Arizona and currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona. Lydia Havens is a student-poet hybrid living in Tucson, Arizona. She is the co-founder and Executive Poetry Editor for Transcendence Magazine, as well as an intern for Spoken Futures, Inc. Her work has previously been published in Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Words Dance, and Textploit, among other places. In 2015, she was named the Women of the World Poetry Slam Youth Champion. She likes seafood too much. You can find her on her website, lydiahavens.weebly.com Bob Hicok's latest book, Elegy Owed (Copper Canyon, 2013), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Sex & Love & will be published by Copper Canyon in 2016. Amorak Huey is author of the poetry collection Ha Ha Ha Thump (Sundress, 2015) and the chapbook The Insomniac Circus (Hyacinth Girl, 2014). His writing appears in The Best American Poetry 2012, The Southern Review, Essay Daily, Cartridge Lit, Poet Lore, Menacing Hedge, and many other journals. He teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Follow him on Twitter: @amorak Mark Jackley's new book of poems is Appalachian Night, available for free at chineseplums@gmail.com. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Fifth Wednesday, Natural Bridge, Talking River, Cottonwood, and other journals. He lives in Sterling, VA. Jessie Janeshek's first book of poems is Invisible Mink (Iris Press, 2010). An Assistant Professor of English and the Director of Writing at Bethany College, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and an M.F.A. from Emerson College. She co-edited the literary anthology Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers (KWG Press, 2008). Gala Mukomolova received her MFA from the Helen Zell Writers' Program. Her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous publications. Monthly, she transforms into an astrologer called Galactic Rabbit. Lots of people believe in her. Martha Rhodes is the author of four collections of poetry: The Beds, Mother Quiet, Perfect Disappearance (Green Rose Prize), and At the Gate. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is the director of Four Way Books. Matthew Rohrer is the author of 8 books of poems, most recently SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS, published by Wave Books. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at NYU. Erika Russ is a big fan of painting things gold, collecting parts (of mannequins), and charming her plants into not dying. More at: https://victoriaolivia.wordpress.com/ |