Issue 9 Contributors
Simeon Berry won the 2013 National Poetry Series for his first collection of poetry, Ampersand Revisited (Fence Books), and the 2014 National Poetry Series for his second book of poetry, Monograph (University of Georgia Press). He has been an Associate Editor for Ploughshares and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Jason Bradford did his MFA work in Poetry and taught at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He was the Poetry editor for UNCW’s literary journal, Ecotone. His poems appeared in jubilat, Fruita Pulp, Jellyfish Magazine, Rogue Agent, and the North American Review. The Inhabitants, a chapbook of poems, was published by Final Thursday Press. Jason passed away in January of 2016.
Caroline Cabrera is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Saint X, winner of the Hudson Prize from Black Lawrence Press. Her lyric essay collection, (lack begins as a tiny rumble) is forthcoming from Tinderbox Editions. She teaches poetry workshops for children and adults through the O, Miami Poetry Foundation and works as an early literacy specialist. She is founder and editor of Bloom Books and co-host of the arts and advice podcast Now that We’re Friends.
Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia, is the author of Imperfect Tense (poems), and three scholarly books in education. Winner of NEA “Big Read” Grants, the Beckman award for "Professors Who Inspire," and a Fulbright for nine-month study of adult Spanish language acquisition in Oaxaca Mexico, she's served for over ten years as poetry editor for Anthropology & Humanism, judging the ethnographic poetry competition. Her work has appeared in Georgia Review, American Poetry Review, Women’s Quarterly Review, Cream City Review, Barrow Street, and many other literary and scholarly homes. She posts at her blog http://teachersactup.com.
Tina Brown Celona lives near Denver. She works as an innkeeper at a bed-and-breakfast and is researching an opera based on tragedies in the lives of opera composers.
Adam Day is the author of the forthcoming collection of poetry, Left-Handed Wolf (LSU Press; March 2020), Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande), and Badger, Apocrypha (PSA). He directs The Baltic Writing Residency in Sweden, Scotland, Blackacre Nature Preserve, as well as the Stormé DeLarverie residency for underrepresented writers. He is also publisher of the literary and culture magazine, Action, Spectacle, and editor of the forthcoming anthology, Divine Orphans of the Poetic Project (1913 Press).
Amanda Dahill-Moore is a writer and educator from Durham, NC. She is the Special Features & Interview Editor for jubilat and cohosts a poetry podcast called Spaces. Recent interviews and poetry appear, or are forthcoming, in jubilat, Fence, and Big, Big, Wednesday. Her chapbook, Clock Birds, is forthcoming from Daisy Mayhem Press.
Michelle Dove is the author of Radio Cacophony (Big Lucks Books). With Brian Howe and Caitlyn Swett, she plays improv electro-poetry as Streak of Tigers. She works and teaches creative writing in the English Department at Duke University. Other writing and projects live at michelle-dove.com.
Jennifer Fossenbell's poetry and other linguistic experiments have appeared in online and print publications in China, the U.S., and Vietnam, most recently Black Warrior Review, The Hunger, where is the river, Spittoon Literary Journal, and Posit. She completed her creative writing MFA at the University of Minnesota in 2014.
Peter Milne Greiner is a poet and science fiction writer. His hybrid speculative volume, Lost City Hydrothermal Field, was published by The Operating System in 2017. Peter teaches high school in NYC, works in the hospitality industry, and independently studies maritime and ecological histories of the Southern Ocean. His work has appeared in Vice, Fence, Dark Mountain, Abyss & Apex, Big Echo: Critical SF, and elsewhere. Visit pmggoestospace.com for the things.
Carolyn Guinzio is the author of six collections: HOW MUCH OF WHAT FALLS WILL BE LEFT WHEN IT GETS TO THE GROUND? (Tolsun Books, 2018), OZARK CROWS (Spuyten-Duyvil, 2018), SPINE (Parlor Press, 2016), SPOKE & DARK, (Red Hen, 2012), selected by Alice Quinn as winner of the To The Lighthouse/A Room Of Her Own Prize, QUARRY (Parlor Press, 2008), and WEST PULLMAN (Bordighera, 2005), winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harvard Review, Agni, Boston Review, Bomb, Blackbird and many other journals. She co-edited the online project YEW: A Journal of Innovative Writing & Images By Women. Her films have been official selections at the Poetry Film & Video Symposium and the Fayetteville Film Festival. Her photographs have appeared on the covers of the numerous poetry books and literary magazines including Conjunctions, December, and New American Writing. A Chicago native, she has lived with her family in the Ozark Mountains just outside Fayetteville, AR since 2002.
Poet and performer Valerie Hsiung is the author of three full-length poetry collections: e f g: a trilogy (Action Books, 2016), incantation inarticulate (O Balthazar Press, 2013), and under your face (O Balthazar Press, 2013). Her poetry and interviews can be found or is forthcoming in places such as American Letters & Commentary, Apiary, Black Nerd Problems, Cosmonauts Avenue, Denver Quarterly, Diode Poetry Journal, hydrographique, Moonshot, New Delta Review, Prelude, RealPoetik, Tammy, and VOLT. She has performed at Casa Libre en la Solana, Common Area Maintenance, Leon Gallery, Poetic Research Bureau, Rhizome, Shapeshifter Lab, and Treefort Music Festival, among elsewhere. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Hsiung studied literary translation at Brown University and is currently based out of Brooklyn, New York, where she works as a modern-day matchmaker. She serves as an editor for Poor Claudia. Find her online at http://flowersintheirmouths.com.
Megan Kaminski is the author of two books of poetry, Deep City (Noemi Press, 2015) and Desiring Map (Coconut Books, 2012), with a third book Gentlewomen forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2020. She is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Kansas and curates the Ad Astra Community Poetry Series in downtown Lawrence, KS. By exploring ideas of indeterminacy, rootedness, and resilience, her current book project, Withness, uses plant thinking as a model for response to our current moment and in thinking towards the future. http://megankaminski.com/
Michael Leong's most recent poetry books include Who Unfolded My Origami Brain? (Fence Digital, 2017) and Words on Edge (Black Square Editions, 2018). His study Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press. He works in the School of Critical Studies at CalArts.
Richard Lucyshyn is the author of I MADE FOR YOU A NEW MACHINE AND ALL IT DOES IS HOPE, a full-length poetry collection published by The Operating System, and Geoffrey Tungsten's Grievesome River, a chapbook of poems and illustrations from Sybil Press. His poems have appeared in Reality Beach, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Gramma, Sprung Formal, and elsewhere. He teaches poetry and creative writing at The College of William and Mary and lives in Richmond, VA with his spouse and two children.
Christopher Brean Murray’s poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Colorado Review, Jubilat, New Ohio Review, North American Review, Pleiades, and other journals. He lives in Houston, Texas.
Dusty Neu a poet and translator from rural California. He co-translated Alessandro de Francesco's Remote Vision (Punctum Books) from the Italian and his poetry has appeared in VOLT, Hardly Doughnuts, and 3am. He lives with his wife, son, and two cats in Rhode Island where he works as a salesman.
Douglas Piccinnini is most recently the author of Victoria (Bloof, 2019), Blood Oboe (Omnidawn, 2015) and Story Book: a novella (The Cultural Society, 2015). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming with Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Lana Turner, Nat. Brut, Seattle Review, Tammy, Tupelo Quarterly, Verse, and the Volta.
Colin Post is a poet and scholar living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His poems have appeared in Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, Deluge, and textsound. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina, where he researches the creation, dissemination, and preservation of net-based artworks.
Most recently, Christopher Shipman is author of Keats is Not the Problem (Lavender Ink), co-authored with Brett Evans, and The Movie My Murderer Makes Season II (The Cupboard). Shipman’s work appears in journals such as Cimarron Review, PANK, Pedestal, Plume, Salt Hill, So and So, Spork Press, and TENDERLOIN, among many others. His poem, “The Three-Year Crossing,” was a winner of the 2015 Motionpoems Big Bridges prize, judged by Alice Quinn. A Ship on the Line (2015), co-authored with Vincent Cellucci, was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. Shipman lives in Greensboro, NC, where he teaches literature at New Garden Friends School and dances to the Boss with his four-year-old daughter on his shoulders.
Born in Upstate New York, Poet and video artist Adam Tedesco is a founding editor of REALITY BEACH, a journal of new poetics. His work has been screened at MoMA PS1, &Now: A Festival of Innovative Writing, No Nation Gallery, New Hampshire Poetry Festival, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Conduit, Fence, jubilat, Laurel Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Misrule (Ursus Americanus, 2019). His first full-length poetry collection, Mary Oliver, was recently published by Lithic Press.
Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is a teacher, neighborhood activist and poet. Originally from New Orleans, she lives and writes in San Francisco and co-edits Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions. She is the author of Universal Fall Precautions (2017), As Water Sounds (2014) and Palm to Pine (2011), as well as over a dozen small books including 88 Haiku for Lorca, Against What Light, Room Service Calls, and What’s Going On. Recent work can be found in Duende, Paradise Now, Poetry Now, Positive Magnets, spoKe, and Yes Poetry.
Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. They are the author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Marys of the Sea, Sexting Ghosts, Xenos, No(body) (forthcoming, Madhouse Press, 2019), and is the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault. They received their MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Joanna is the founder of Yes Poetry and the senior managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine. Some of their writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Them, Brooklyn Magazine, BUST, and elsewhere. Joanna also leads workshops at Brooklyn Poets. joannavalente.com / Twitter: @joannasaid / IG: joannacvalente / FB: joannacvalente
Scott Wordsman's poems and essays appear in The Rumpus, Colorado Review, Coldfront, and elsewhere. He teaches at three colleges in the NYC area and runs the Uncle Fuggles Reading & Music Series in Jersey City.