Spring 2018
听Artwork听听
Ronald Sloan's听work is part of numerous private collections and has been听included in hundreds of group and solo exhibits around the country during his听fifty-plus years of painting. |
听Poetry
鈥Crack鈥澨斕齝urated Columbus, Ohio鈥檚, first poetry shows for biracial听writers (The Other Box), translation (Lingua Franca), and immigration (New听World). He鈥檚 a Callaloo fellow and his chapbook, Humming Dirges, won Paper听Nautilus鈥檚 Debut Series (2017). He has work on/forthcoming in Tinderbox, Juked, and听Glass. |
Britt Ashley is a queer femme from Texas who makes poems and biscuits.听Her writing and artwork has appeared or is forthcoming from The Pinch, cream听city review, Juked, Winter Tangerine, The Offing, and elsewhere. She is the former听editor-in-chief of Indiana Reviewand she recently served as the managing editor听at Bitch Media. |
is the author of The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy听and the recipient of a 2018 Pushcart Prize for his poem 鈥淚t鈥檚 Something People听in Love Do鈥; his recent publications include poetry in The Missouri Review,听Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Mid-American Review, and Hayden鈥檚 Ferry Review听and creative nonfiction in Boulevard, Passages North, and Colorado Review. Citro听received his MFA from Indiana University and lives in Syracuse, New York. |
Charlie Clark鈥檚 work has appeared in Pleiades, Smartish Pace, The Threepenny听Review, West Branch, and other journals. He studied poetry at the University of听Maryland and the Bread Loaf Writers鈥 Conference. Clark lives in Austin, Texas.听 |
is a poet living and working in Ann Arbor as a letterpress printer听and as the education coordinator at a non-profit creative reuse center. She studied听poetry at The University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers鈥 program where she听received prizes in both fiction and poetry. Her work may be found in Diagram, The听Literary Review, The Journal, and Black Warrior Review, among others. Birds with听Teeth, her first chapbook, was published by alice blue press. |
is a poet from Alabama who loves cats, crystals, and classic rock.听Hendrix is an MFA candidate at the University of Texas at Austin and serves as the听online content and web editor for Bat City Review. Their work has appeared or is听forthcoming in The Chattahoochee Review, Shenandoah, The Pinch, and elsewhere. |
is from California. She is the author of the chapbook Little Climates听(Bull City Press, 2017). She received her MFA from Columbia University and is听currently pursuing her PhD in literature and creative writing from the University听of Southern California, where she is a provost鈥檚 fellow. Her poems have recently听appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, The Antioch Review,听The Iowa Review, Narrative Magazine, The Southern Review, and other journals. |
鈥Sunken Place Sestina鈥澨斕 received an MFA in poetry from Florida International听University, where she was a Knight Foundation Fellow. She received a Rona听Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, and her debut collection, Magic City Gospel听(Hub City Press, 2017), won a silver medal in poetry in the 2017 Independent听Publishers Book Awards. Her second collection, dark // thing, won the Lena-Miles听Wever Todd Prize for Poetry from Pleiades Press, and is forthcoming in 2019.听Jones lives and teaches in Birmingham, Alabama. |
Lisa Maria Martin is a Cuban-American poet who earned her MFA at Cornell.听Her work has appeared in Pleiades, Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, Hayden鈥檚听Ferry Review, and others. Raised in Virginia, she currently lives in Boston and听works as an editor and information architect. Martin tweets about poetry, politics,听and Star Trek at . |
鈥White Earth鈥 鈥 is the author of five books of poems, including Holy Moly Carry听Me (BOA Editions), forthcoming in September 2018; Copia (BOA Editions);听and Ideal Cities (Harper Perennial), which was a 2009 National Poetry series听winner. She is currently an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech, where听she directs the MFA and undergraduate programs in creative writing. |
Alex Mouw鈥檚 poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Colorado Review,听Ruminate, poets.org, Briar Cliff Review, Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere.听He is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Society of Arts听and Letters, the Lilly Foundation, and Purdue University. Mouw served as a听poetry editor for Sycamore Review and is currently a visiting assistant professor of听English at Hope College. |
鈥Fawn鈥澨斕 is the author of Lethal Theater (forthcoming from Ohio听State University Press in 2019) and Teratology, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky听First Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in Crazyhorse,听The National Poetry Review, 32 Poems, Pleiades, The Los Angeles Review of Books听Quarterly, Guernica, and elsewhere. Nevison is currently at work on a collaborative听collection of poetry with the writer Molly McCully Brown. Beginning fall 2018,听she will join Sweet Briar College as a visiting assistant professor of English and听creative writing. |
Dustin Nightingale is the author of Ghost Woodpecker, a chapbook forthcoming听from BatCat Press. His poetry has been or will be published in journals such听as The American Journal of Poetry, New Ohio Review, Cimarron Review, Portland听Review, and decomP.Nightingale lives in Hartford, Connecticut. |
Samuel Piccone is the author of Pupa, which was awarded editors鈥 choice in the听2017 Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize with Anhinga Press. His work has appeared听or is forthcoming in publications including, The Southeast Review, Passages North,听American Literary Review, and Z贸calo Public Square. Piccone received an MFA in听poetry from North Carolina State University and serves on the poetry staff at听Raleigh Review. Currently, he resides and teaches in Nevada. |
holds an MFA in poetry from Bennington College. Her work听has appeared in The Rio Review and Prairie Schooner and is forthcoming in North听American Review and Five Points (as the recipient of the James Dickey Prize for听Poetry). She was recently recognized with a 2017 Fall Fellowship at the Kimmel听Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Pryor lives and teaches in Lincoln, Nebraska. |
Jacob Sunderlin is a writer and musician who has received support from听the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Djerassi听Resident Artists Program. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit听Poetry Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Narrative听Magazine, Ninth Letter, Ploughshares, Third Coast, and elsewhere. His records听 and are available on cassette and for download. |
鈥In Praise of the Names of Things鈥听鈥 Chelsea Wagenaar is the author of Mercy Spurs the Bone, selected by Philip听Levine as the winner of the 2013 Philip Levine Prize. She holds a PhD in English听literature and creative writing from the University of North Texas. Recent poems听appear or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, The Normal School, and The Southern听Review, and recent nonfiction appears in Grist. Wagenaar currently teaches as a听postdoctoral Lilly Fellow at Valparaiso University and is at work on a second book听of poems, The Spinning Place. She lives in Indiana with her husband, poet Mark听Wagenaar; their daughter; and their son. |
2017 Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award winner听 is the 2016 winner of Red Hen Press鈥 Benjamin Saltman听Prize for Southern Tongues Leave Us Shining. His first two collections, The Body听Distances (A Hundred Blackbirds Rising) and Voodoo Inverso, won UMass Press鈥檚听Juniper Prize and the University of Wisconsin Press鈥檚 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, respectively. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from The New Yorker,Tin House, 32 Poems, FIELD, The Southern Review, Image, and many others.听Wagenaar teaches literature and creative writing at Valparaiso University, in Indiana. |
Alex C. Zhang has been featured or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Rust听+ Moth, The Blueshift Journal, The Sierra Nevada Review, and other publications.听He is currently an undergraduate student at Columbia University. |
Fiction
is an author and playwright. He has won numerous awards听for both fiction and drama, including five Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence听Awards. His short fiction has appeared in The Sun, North American Review,听Indiana Review, and Tampa Review. His novels include Strobe Life and the recently听completed Tiki Man. Atkinson and his wife live in Ohio and have two sons. |
Lance Dyzak is a PhD student in creative writing at the University of Tennessee,听where he is also working on his first novel. Dyzak鈥檚 work has previously appeared听in New Limestone Review and Per Contra.听 |
2017 Mary C. Mohr Fiction Award winner Shubha Venugopal holds an MFA in fiction and a PhD in English. Her work听has appeared or will appear in Nimrod International Journal Awards Issue, 2017;听Fish Anthology 2017; WomenArts Quarterly Journal; The Masters Review; BANG!;听The New Guard; Kartika Review; Potomac Review; Post Road Magazine; Storyglossia;听Word Riot; and in other journals. Her stories appeared in the anthology A Stranger听Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection and in the 2009 Robert听Olen Butler Short Fiction Prize anthology. Venugopal teaches at the California听State University Northridge. |
Nonfiction
Matt Muilenburg teaches at the University of Dubuque. His creative nonfiction has been featured in Southern Humanities Review, Storm Cellar, Superstition Review, Barnstorm, Atticus Review, New Plains Review, and others.听A graduate of the Wichita State MFA program, Muilenburg lives in Iowa near the Field听of Dreams. |
2017 Mary C. Mohr Nonfiction Award winner is is a Latina anthropologist, writer, and women鈥檚 rights听advocate. She is the author of Looking for Esperanza and My Mother鈥檚 Funeral.听Her essays have appeared in multiple literary magazines and noted in The Best听American Essays of 2012, 2013 and 2014. She teaches in the low-residency MFA听program at Fairfield University and is an alumna of Voices of Our Nations Arts听Foundation (VONA), a community of writers of color. P谩ramo is currently living听in Qatar where, oddly enough, she works as a yoga and Zumba instructor. |
Michael Waters has written twelve books of poetry, including The Dean of听Discipline;听Celestial Joyride;听Gospel Night; Darling Vulgarity, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize;听and Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems, finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize.听His poems have appeared in various journals, including The Yale Review, The Paris听Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review, and Rolling Stone. He is听professor of English at Monmouth University and also teaches in the Drew听University MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation. Waters lives with听his wife, poet Mihaela Moscaliuc, in Ocean, New Jersey. |