Category: Contributors

Juliette van der Molen is a writer and poet living in the Greater NYC Area. She is an intersectional feminist and a member of the LGBTQIA community. She is a poetry editor for Mookychick Magazine and author of Death Library: The Exquisite Corpse Collection, Mother, May I? and Anatomy of A Dress. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2018. Her work has also appeared in Burning House Press, Memoir Mixtapes, Collective Unrest and several other publications. Forthcoming books include: Little Ordinary Things (February 2020) and Confess: The untold story of Dorothy Good (TBA 2020).

@j_vandermolen | @juliette.writes

Jeff Burt lives in Santa Cruz County, California and works in mental health. He has been published in Rabid Oak, Terrene, The Monarch Review, and Clerestory, and won the 2017 Cold Mountain Review Narrative Poetry Prize.

Anushka Bidani (she/her) is an 18-year-old poet & essayist from India. She adores the rain, blue skies, open mic events, the human anatomy, & art in all its distinct magnificent shapes. She’s the Editor-in-Chief at Headcanon Magazine. She serves as a poetry editor for inQluded. Her work has appeared in Royal Rose Magazine, Esthesia Magazine, & Marías at Sampaguitas; among others.

@anushkabidani_

The only class Devon Marsh ever dropped at the U.S. Naval Academy was an elective on poetry. If he had not dropped it, he probably would not be writing today. His poetry has appeared in The Lake, Poydras Review, The Timberline Review, Muddy River Review, Penmen Review, Loch Raven Review, The Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets, and at http://devonmarsh.com.

Janice is a poet who lives and writes in the desert of Tucson, Arizona, and on a lake in Wisconsin. She has degrees in English and Communication Disorders; spent her career as a speech pathologist. Janice’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in Mojave River Review, Gyroscope Review, The Heartland Review, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, The Remembered Arts Journal, and 2 Bridges among others.

Cymelle Leah Edwards is an African-American emerging poet in Phoenix, Arizona. She recently graduated with her B.A. in English and is planning to obtain an MFA in Creative Writing. Her work has also appeared in Elm Leaves Journal, The Cerurove and The Pangolin Review, with work forthcoming in Gaillardia.

Dani Putney is a queer, non-binary, Asian American writer exploring the West. Their work most recently appears or is forthcoming in detritus, Empty Mirror, Juke Joint Magazine, Mura, and Noble / Gas Qtrly, among other publications. Presently, they’re infiltrating a small conservative town in the middle of the Nevada desert.

@01000100_Putney

Jody Burke-Kaiser was born barefoot in the Appalachian foothills of Kentucky to a family long steeped in storytelling and sarcasm. She has a MA in literature from Boston College, and an MSN in midwifery from Marquette University. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and her work has appeared in Panopoly, The Louisville Review, Rhino, Gingerbread House, After Hours, BrainChild, and Pirene’s Fountain, and other publications.

Max was born in Palm Springs, CA and went to school at the University of San Diego. He lived in Atlanta for five and a half years attending law school and appealing wrongfully obtained criminal convictions. He now lives in Seattle, WA and spends his time doing yoga, basketball and waiting for Seattle’s new hockey team. He plans on earning enough money to one day operate an independent bookstore at a modest loss. 

@take.it.to.the.max

Justin Karcher is a Pushcart-nominated poet and playwright born and raised in Buffalo, New York. He is the author of several books, including Tailgating at the Gates of Hell (Ghost City Press, 2015). He is also the editor of Ghost City Review and co-editor of the anthologies My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry (BlazeVOX [books], 2017) and MANSION (dancing girl press, 2019).

@Justin_Karcher | @the.man.about.town