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THESE ARE OUR CONTRIBUTORS TO ISSUE [21.3]. ENJOY THE AWESOME. IF YOU DO NOT ENJOY THE AWESOME SUFFICIENTLY, PLEASE CONTACT MANAGEMENT VIA THE [MASTHEAD].

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* Here's our feeling on the bios. We prefer them to be entertaining, but above all they should be useful. Hence we include email addresses and website where you can find the writers, if the writers agree to this. We don't like to list awards or graduate degrees unless they are useful for readers. (We suspect these are not useful for readers.) However, we are happy to list other places you might find these writers' work, and where they teach or work, if you want to find them and send them cash or love or creepy or dirty or just plain sweet photos.

Emma Aylor's poems have appeared in 32 Poems, New Ohio Review, Fairy Tale Review, Pleiades, and the Cincinnati Review, among other journals. She lives in West Texas. [website] [email]

Christopher Blackman is a poet from Columbus, Ohio. His poems have appeared in Mississippi Review, TYPO, Muse/A Journal, and Atlas Review. He currently resides in New York City. [email]

Joseph Byrd's work has appeared in Aji magazine, The Ravens Perch, Tipton Poetry Journal, Visio, West Wind Review, The Penwood Review, newversenews.com, as well as forthcoming work in PROEM.

Ina Cariño's poetry appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, Poetry Northwest, Apogee, Waxwing, New England Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. They are the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for their manuscript Feast, forthcoming from Alice James Books in March 2023. [website] [email]

Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. She is the author of All Heathens (Sarabande Books, 2020). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Kenyon Review, New England Review, AGNI, and elsewhere. [website] [email]

Ebony E Chinn is from New Jersey. She is an Editor-at-Large for Anomaly. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Frontier Poetry, Narrative, Callaloo, and Lolwe. 

Paul Crenshaw is the author of the essay collections This One Will Hurt You, published by The Ohio State University Press, and This We’ll Defend, from the University of North Carolina Press. Other work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Pushcart Prize, Oxford American, Glimmer Train, and Tin House. [twitter] [email]

Audrey Gidman is a queer poet living in Maine. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in Rust + Moth, Wax Nine, SWWIM, The Inflectionist Review, Luna Luna, Rogue Agent, The Shore, The West Review and elsewhere. Her chapbook, body psalms, winner of the Elyse Wolf Prize, is forthcoming from Slate Roof Press. [twitter]

John Hazard grew up in the southeastern Ohio village of Caldwell and now lives in Birmingham, Michigan. He has taught at the University of Memphis and, more recently, at the Cranbrook Schools and Oakland University in suburban Detroit, Michigan. His poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart and has appeared widely in magazines, including Ploughshares, Poetry, Shenandoah, Slate, The Gettysburg Review, Ascent, Carolina Quarterly, New Ohio Review, Harpur Palate, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. His 2015 book of poetry is Naming a Stranger (Aldrich Press). His second book-length manuscript, Interrupt the Sky, is looking for a publisher. [email]

Madeleine Mori is a Japanese-American poet born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Salt Hill, Sixth Finch, The Cincinnati Review, jubilat, American Poetry Review, and BOAAT, among others. She is a 2021 AAWW Margins Fellow and the Poetry Editor at Pigeon Pages. She lives in Brooklyn. [website] [email]

Alexis Quinlan has poems in online journals including Rhino, Tinderbox, and Juked. She teaches in New York City and performs sporadically with Extinction Rebellion's street theater troupe. [blog] [email]

Jessica Anne Robinson is a Toronto writer and, more tellingly, a Libra. Her poetry has been featured in anthologies and literary journals internationally, including SAND Journal, After the Pause, Hart House Review, and Room Magazine. She curates a weekly poetry series for Fare Well design house. [twitter] [email]

Josh Russell's most recent book is King of the Animals: Stories (LSU Press, 2021). [instagram]

Kevin Sampsell is a longtime bookseller (Powell's), small press publisher (Future Tense Books), author of a few books, and collage artist/curator. He lives in Oregon and sleeps with a beautiful cat. [website] [email]

Pete Segall lives in Chicago. His fiction has appeared recently in The Drift, The Bennington Review, and failed states. [twitter] [email]

Zach Semel is an avid Celtics fan, a wannabe psychoanalyst, and a lover of all things garlicky. Some of his previous poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in CutBank, The Nervous Breakdown, Wordgathering, Breath & Shadow, and other places. His forthcoming chapbook Let the tides take my body was awarded the 2021 May Day Mountain Prize by Hunger Mountain and will be available in July 2021. [email]

Ian Shank's prior work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Atlas Obscura, and Artsy, among other publications. He is a native of St. Paul, Minnesota. [email]

Jeffrey Skinner's recent poems have appeared in journals such as the Threepenny and Paris Review(s). He is cofounder and editorial consultant at Sarabande Books. [email]

Marta Skoczeń (born 1994 in Poland) is currently finishing her studies at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She mainly works with photography, film and drawing. Her work has been shown at various international shows, festivals and projections. Throughout last year, she worked as assistant director and is now developing her skills in filmmaking and photography, dividing her time between Warsaw and Paris. [email]

Sparrow has published nine books, the most recent being Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies (Monkfish). His reviews have appeared in the American Book Review, the Poetry Project Newsletter, the North Carolina Literary Review, and other publications.

Leah Umansky is the author of two full length collections The Barbarous Century and Domestic Uncertainties, among others. She is the curator and host of The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such places as Thrush Poetry Journal, Glass Poetry Journal,  The New York Times, POETRY, Guernica, The Bennington Review, and The Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day. She is resisting the tyrant with her every move. [website] [instagram] [twitter]

Anthony Varallo is the author of a novel, The Lines (University of Iowa Press), as well as four short story collections: This Day in History, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award; Out Loud, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize; Think of Me and I'll Know (Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly Books); and Everyone Was There, winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award. He is a professor of English at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and serves as the Fiction Editor of Crazyhorse. [website] [email]

Calvin Walds is a writer from Detroit. His poems and essays have appeared in Callaloo, ctrl-v, Hyperallergic, African-American Review, the Poetry Project Newsletter, iphone screens and professors' inboxes. He recently won the Split/Lip Press Nonfiction/Hybrid chapbook contest for Flee (2021). He enjoys looking out of windows. [email]

July Westhale is an essayist, translator, and the award-winning author of Trailer Trash and Via Negativa. Her most recent work can be found in McSweeney's, The National Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, CALYX, Hayden's Ferry Review, and The Huffington Post, among others. She also has an inventively-named collection of salty chapbooks. When she's not teaching, she works as a co-founding editor of PULP Magazine. [website] [email]

Alicia Wright is originally from Rome, Georgia, and is at present a PhD candidate in English & Literary Arts at the University of Denver, where she serves as the Denver Quarterly Editorial Fellow (Associate Editor). Her poetry and essays appear in The Paris Review, jubilat, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others.

Adam Zdrodowski (1979), writer, translator, critic; has translated authors such as Grzegorz Wróblewski (A Marzipan Factory, Otoliths, 2010), William S. Burroughs, Gertrude Stein, and Mark Ford. His most recent collection of poems, Moon Machine, was published by Convivo (Warszawa, 2019). [email]