Contributors

Anuradha Bhowmik is a Bangladeshi American writer from South Jersey. She earned her MFA from Virginia Tech University.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello is a translator and the author of Hour of the Ox. Her small joys include handwritten letters and video games.

Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of the poetry collection Telepathologies. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he scouts potential Chicago Bulls first-round draft picks. Follow him on Twitter: @bardsbesidebars.

Maggie Cheatham is the pseudonym of an author who firmly believes in feminism but, to her shame, occasionally binge watches The Real Housewives of New York City.

Frederick Douglass was a writer, orator, and leader of the abolitionist movement. He died in 1895.

Amy Dryansky wishes she had a velvet frock coat, lived in a garret, and wrote with a quill, but truth is she’s a mother of two with a full-time job. Her latest collection of poetry is Grass Whistle.

Brian Gilmore teaches law at Michigan State University and is the author of three poetry collections. If he could make a living watching basketball all day long, he would give up literature and the law.

Brionne Janae is a California native who foolishly moved to Brooklyn, New York, to experience all four seasons. Her first full-length poetry collection is After Jubilee.

Ashley M. Jones is a poet who teaches at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham. She is the author of the poetry collection Magic City Gospel.

Airica Parker is an author and massage therapist who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Heather Sellers lives in a bright-pink house in St. Petersburg, Florida, very near where she grew up. She is the author of the memoir You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know.

Danez Smith is a Minnesota-based poet and the author of [insert] boy and Don’t Call Us Dead, a finalist for the National Book Award.

Hope Wabuke is the author of the chapbooks The Leaving and Movement No. 1: Trains. She teaches writing at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

LaToya Watkins once worked on a farm and had a horse. Now a writer, she lives in a suburb of Dallas, Texas.

Eve Williams turned to poetry while recovering from getting hit by a bus in 2015. She posts spoken-word videos on Facebook.

Rita Bernstein lives and works in Philadelphia and New York City, but spends her summers at a family cottage in rural Pennsylvania.

Larry Blackwood is a photographer and volunteer firefighter who lives in Bozeman, Montana.

Parthena Charistea is a photographer who lives and works in northern Greece.

Cheryle Easter is a photographer who lives in southwest Washington.

Gloria Baker Feinstein lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and is the founding director of Change the Truth, a nonprofit organization that provides assistance to Ugandan children.

Celeste Hollien is a photographer and stay-at-home mother who lives in Waynesboro, Georgia, where she home-schools her daughter.

Jon Kral spent decades taking photographs for three daily Florida newspapers. He lives in Boone, North Carolina.

Katherine Minott lives in Prescott, Arizona, where she rescues spiders, sleeps a lot, and has a crush on singer Justin Bieber.

Harry Wilson is a retired teacher and backwater malcontent living in Bakersfield, California.

Marcia Wilson is a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York.