Contributors

Christine Boyer’s writing has been cited as a Distinquished Story in Best American Mystery and Suspense  2022  and a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2020. Her debut novel, Black Maria, was published in 2024. She lives in Massachusetts and can be found at www.christine-boyer.com.

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Lisa Compo has poems forthcoming or recently published in journals such as: Waxwing, Colorado Review, Palette Poetry, Chicago Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is a PhD student in SUNY Binghampton’s creative writing program and obtained her MFA from UNC-Greensboro. She is the social media manager for The Shore and Poetry Editor for Harpur Palate.

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Liam H. Flake is a land-based essayist and poet from Fort Collins, Colorado. In his free time he likes to hunt for mushrooms and play the violin. He is currently halfway through his MFA in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University. His work has been published in Meniscus, Panorama, Oyster River Pages, and EcoTheo. He can be reached at liamflake1@hotmail.com.

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Seth Gleckman teaches high school English in Sonoma County, California. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Southern Indiana Review, Smokelong Quarterly, and others.

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Raised on four continents, Megan Harlan is the author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (UGA Press), awarded the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and Mapmaking (BkMk Press), winner of the Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her essays have been cited four times as “Notable” in The Best American Essays and appear in AGNI, Cincinnati Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, River Teeth, and Colorado Review. She works as a writer and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Michele Pizarro Harman is a poet interested in exploring dream logic. A semifinalist for the Walt Whitman Award and a finalist for the National Poetry Series, her poetry has appeared in Quarterly West, Midwest Quarterly, Puerto del Sol and elsewhere. With undergraduate and graduate degrees from UCLA and UF, she’s taught writing, fiction, drama and poetry from high school to university levels. She currently lives and writes in rural Washington.

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Spencer Jewell is a writer originally from Nashville, Tennessee, and an MFA candidate in poetry at LSU. She was a semi-finalist for the 2022 National Student Poets Program and received a National Silver Medal in Poetry from Scholastic. Her poems and lyric essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Chestnut Review, Brink, Bluestem, Radar Poetry, Poetry South, Delta Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

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Kendra Kvale is a fiction writer and award-winning playwright based in Texas where she lives with her husband and daughter. Dr. Kvale taught theatre for twenty years but has recently left the field to focus on her family, writing, and her farm.

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Xiaoly Li received a 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Grant, and her poetry collection Every Single Bird Rising (FutureCycle Press, 2023) was a Zone 3 Book Award finalist. Her poetry collection Wakening Between Worlds (Serving House Books, 2026) was short-listed for the 2024 Cinnamon Literature Award, a finalist for the 2023 Diode and 2024 Washington Prize, and she’s been nominated for Best New Poets, a Pushcart Prize (five times), and Best of the Net (four times).

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Kalina Smith (she/her) is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and high school English teacher. Her work appears in Nebo, The Ignatian, FLARE, ONE ART, Tulsa Review, and others, with work forthcoming in Dandy and Arkansas Review. She served as poetry editor for Shadowplay and has a chapbook, Scorpio Season, published by Kelsay Books.

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Lane Michael Stanley is a transgender writer and filmmaker whose work explores queerness, class, restorative justice, grief, and healing. His writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature, Phoebe, The Rumpus, Hopkins Review, Foglifter, and elsewhere. His community-engaged work has shown in soup kitchens, meditations gardens, addiction treatment centers, and throughout prisons in California. For more, please visit www.lanemichaelstanley.com.

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Shranup Tandukar is a poet, translator, and journalist from Lalitpur, Nepal. His works have appeared in Lucky Jefferson, Salamander magazine, Riverstone Literary Journal, and elsewhere. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi.

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Melody Wilson’s poetry appears in Rust and Moth, One, Gyroscope, B O D Y, and other publications. Her first collection, Madre Dura, was the 2025 Paul Nemser Prize winner from Lily Poetry Review. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Find more of her work at melodywilson.com.