ISSUE #11: THE CONTRIBUTORS
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Holly Day’s writing has recently appeared in Analog SF, Cardinal Sins, and New Plains Review, and her published books include Music Theory for Dummies and Music Composition for Dummies. She currently teaches classes at The Loft Literary Center in Minnesota, Hugo House in Washington, and The Muse Writers Center in Virginia.
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Kara Dorris is the author of three poetry collections: HitBox (Kelsay Books 2024), Have Ruin, Will Travel (2019) and When the Body is a Guardrail (2020) from Finishing Line Press. She has also published five chapbooks. Her poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Redivider, Nine Mile, DIAGRAM, Wordgathering, Puerto del Sol, and swamp pink, among other literary journals, as well as the anthology Beauty is a Verb (2011). Recently, she edited the poetry anthology Writing the Self-Elegy: the Past is Not Disappearing Ink (SIU Press, 2023). She currently teaches writing at Illinois College. For more information, please visit karadorris.com.
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Justin Lacour lives in New Orleans and edits Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry.
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Valerie Loveland is the author of [unsolved mysteries theme song], poems about the 1980s TV show Unsolved Mysteries and its host Robert Stack. Her next book, The Mailbox was a Miniature Version of the House, will be coming out next year with Crooked Treehouse Press. She likes knitting, silent movies, and audio poetry. She is back living in New Jersey again and back being an optician again after quitting her tech job.
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Edward Mayes has published poems in The New Yorker, APR, Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Best American Poetry, etc. Also, several of his books of poetry have won prizes: Juniper Prize (University of Massachusetts Press) and AWP Prize in Poetry (University of Pittsburgh Press). Recent poems in Poetry (Chicago), Gettysburg Review, Southwest Review, New Letters, and Mississippi Review. He lives in Durham, NC and Cortona, Italy with his wife, the writer Frances Mayes.
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Devan Murphy is the author of the chapbook I’M NOT I'M NOT I'M NOT A BABY (Ethel 2024), a collection of prose poems and essays and abstract comics about God and loneliness. Her writing and illustrations have appeared or are forthcoming in Electric Literature, Gigantic Sequins, -ette, The Iowa Review, The Guardian, Diagram, and elsewhere. You can find her online at devmurphy.club or on Instagram @gytrashh. She resides in Pittsburgh with her cat, Buddy.
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Charlie Peck grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and received his MFA from Purdue University. His poetry has appeared previously in The Adroit Journal, Cincinnati Review, Indiana Review, The Journal, Ninth Letter, and Best New Poets 2019, among others. His first collection, World’s Largest Ball of Paint (2024), received the 2022 St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press.
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Jennifer A. Sutherland is the author of Bullet Points: A Lyric, a finalist for Foreword Indies Poetry Book of the Year, and the forthcoming collection, House of Myth and Necessity (both from River River Books). Her work has appeared or will soon appear in Plume, Arcturus (Chicago Review of Books), Chicago Quarterly, Birmingham Poetry Review, EPOCH, Hopkins Review, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA at Hollins University and she lives and works in Baltimore.
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