Contributors

Jay Stewart Anderson is a queer writer living in central Ohio. He is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at The Ohio State University, and his work can be found in The Banyan Review, Inverted Syntax, HOOT, and elsewhere.

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Lauren Breen received a BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University. She moved to Pittsburgh in 2012 and received her MFA in Poetry at Chatham in 2015. She became involved in Madwomen in the Attic shortly after graduating. She has since been accepted to Voices from the Attic, Dionne’s Story, Plants and Poetry Journal, Wingless Dreamer, and Middle West Press.

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Rachel Aviva Burns is a writer and artist living and working in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Atlanta Review, Rappahannock Review, Sand Hills Literary Magazine, Sheila-Na-Gig, the Wallace Stevens Journal, and elsewhere.

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Jeffrey Condran is author of the story collection, Claire, Wading Into the Danube By Night. His fiction has appeared in journals such as The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, and Epoch, and has been awarded the The Missouri Review’s 2010 William Peden Prize and Pushcart Prize nominations. He is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and co-founder/publisher of the independent literary press, Braddock Avenue Books.

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Sean Dennison holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside and has received scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Community of Writers. “Bodies” is his first published story. Originally from Montana, he lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Michelle McMillan-Holifield is a Southern poet who also pens short fiction, creative non-fiction, and occasional book reviews. She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, semi-finalist in The MacGuffin’s 29th Annual Poet Hunt (2024), and was longlisted for the Dzanc Poetry Prize (2024). Find her work in Boxcar Poetry Review, Nelle, Ponder Review, Rooted, Stirring, The Main Street Rag, and Whale Road Review, among others.

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Born on Oahu, Derek N. Otsuji is the author of The Kitchen of Small Hours (SIU Press, 2021), featured in Honolulu Magazine’s “Essential Hawaii Books You Should Read.” He is a 2023 Longleaf Fellow in Poetry and a 2019 Tennessee Williams Scholar. Recent work has appeared in 32 Poems, Southern Review, and The Threepenny Review.

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Pearson Prudent is a poet and prose writer based in Seattle, Washington. With a background in theater, his work has appeared in Sonora Review and Newtown Literary. He also co-founded one of the longest-running reading series in his hometown of Queens, New York. www.pearsonprudent.com.

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Katrin Redfern holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, where she was a Felipe P. De Alba Fellow. She currently lives between Brooklyn and the Catskills and is at work on a novel and a collection of short stories. You can learn more at www.katrinredfern.com.

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Stephanie Reents is the author of the novel We Loved to Run, and I Meant to Kill Ye, a bibliomemoir chronicling her journey into the strange void at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. She has twice received an O. Henry Prize for her short fiction.

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Rachel Rothenberg was born in Edison, New Jersey, and is a PhD Candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island. A recent winner of the Greg Grummer Poetry Prize, her work is featured or forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, phoebe, Raleigh Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. She is the Senior Associate Editor at Barrow Street Press.

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Sloane Scott (they/them) is a nonbinary lesbian poet from Missouri. They are Best New Poets 2025 nominee for their poetry in Up the Staircase Quarterly, and the founding editor of like a field, a seasonal journal of art and text.

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Aislinn/Amadeus Wallin (he/they/she) is a recent college graduate from Franklin & Marshall College and currently works at the library.