POETS
Lorraine Doran (Bystander, Epiphany) is the author of Phrasebook for the Pleiades (Cider Press Review, 2014). Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Fugue, Gulf Coast, Barn Owl Review, FIELD, and American Poetry Review.
April Freely (Uncanny Valley) is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Forklift, OH, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. She earned a BA from Brown University, an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of Iowa, and she's currently studying poetry at NYU. She has received fellowships and awards from Cave Canem, the Ohio Arts Council, Vermont Studio Center, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the George Kaiser Family Foundation. She currently lives and works in New York City.
Susan Grimm (The Pause…) has been published in Poetry East, The Cincinnati Review, The Journal, and Field. Her chapbook Almost Home was published in 1997. In 2004, BkMk Press published Lake Erie Blue, a full-length collection. In 2010, she won the inaugural Copper Nickel Poetry Prize. In 2011, she won the Hayden Carruth Poetry Prize, and her chapbook Roughed Up by the Sun’s Mothering Tongue was published. In 2014, she received her second Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant.
Jill Klein (birds often beat…) holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a BA from Stanford University. In between came years of stay-at-home parenting and a career in commercial lending. Her poems have been published in Bellingham Review, Borderlands, Cold Mountain Review, Rattle, Scoundrel Time, The Fourth River, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Tupelo Quarterly. She lives in Silicon Valley with her engineer husband.
Michael Lauchlan (Vernal Discourse) has contributed to many publications, including New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The North American Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Sugar House Review, Louisville Review, Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, and Poetry Ireland. His most recent collection is Trumbull Ave., from WSU Press (2015).
A.D. Lauren-Abunassar (Autopsy) is an Arab-American writer who resides in Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative, The Moth, Cincinnati Review, Diode, Berkeley Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She was a 2018 nominee for the Best New Poets Anthology, a 2019 Narrative Poetry Contest finalist, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Elizabeth Leo (Hunting, Nearing) was a poet, teacher, and gardener who received her MFA in poetry from West Virginia University. A Philadelphia native, she lived in West Virginia until her death in 2019.
David Antonio Moody (Some days my mother…) is a writing instructor at Arizona State University and production editor for The Cortland Review. His recent work appears in The Florida Review, Superstition Review, Watershed Review, and Juked. An apprentice docent at the Phoenix Art Museum, he earned his doctorate at Florida State University where he performed in the Jack Haskin Flying High Circus.
John Poch (The Good Neighbor) is the author six collections of poetry, two which were published in 2019: Texases (WordFarm Press) and Between Two Rivers (TTU Press—with photographer Jerod Foster). His work has been published in Poetry, Paris Review, the Nation, Yale Review, and other journals.
Seattle poet Susan Rich (How To Travel…) is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, Cloud Pharmacy (shortlisted for the Julie Suk Prize) and The Alchemist’s Kitchen (finalist for the Washington State Book Award). She has been granted a Fulbright Fellowship, the PEN USA Award for Poetry, the Times (of London) Literary Supplement Award and a 4Culture Grant. Rich's poems appear in Harvard Review, New England Review, Poetry Ireland, and World Literature Today among many other publications. She has two collections forthcoming: A Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Press) and Blue Atlas (Red Hen Press).
Hayden Saunier (Beneath Lee) is the author of three poetry collections: How to Wear This Body, Say Luck, and Tips for Domestic Travel as well as a chapbook, Field Trip to the Underworld. Widely published, her work has been awarded the Pablo Neruda Prize, Gell Poetry Award, and Rattle Poetry Prize. She is the founder and director of the Poetry + Improvisation group No River Twice. Learn more at www.haydensaunier.com.
Iain Twiddy (Above The Blackbird) studied literature at university and lived for several years in northern Japan. His poetry has appeared in Harvard Review, Salamander, The Blue Mountain Review, Poetry Ireland Review and elsewhere.
Stephanie Yue Duhem (Nom et Nom) is a 1.5 generation Chinese-American poet and educator living in Jamaica Plain, MA. Her work appears or is forthcoming in PANK, Glass, Lunch Ticket, and Red Wheelbarrow, which named her a winner of its 2018 contest, judged by Naomi Shihab Nye. She is also the author of a picture book titled Robby and the Ice Cream Truck. She can be found on Instagram and Twitter @academoiselle, or at www.sydpoetry.com.
Visual Artists
Kimberly Alexander (Eviscerated Pear), an artist and educator living in Dallas, is the orphaned daughter of an orphaned father. This heritage of death and its generative violence is the engine behind her paintings, which also address social justice gaps observed among her high school students.
Lizzy Chemel (from Unset) is a New York and Providence based artist, born in Los Angeles, CA. She makes multi-media installations that exist somewhere between functional object and sculpture. Her modular units balance themselves, emit sound or light, and invite the viewer to turn them on/off. Exploring the language of self-enfolding and visual riddle, they give form to places of void, emptiness or absence housing media from cast bronze to 3D printed plastics. Chemel’s treatment of opacity, what is laid bare and what is no longer apparent, works in tandem with her acts of material translation. The logic — soft to hard, void to solid, and familiar to alien, can be continually opened up and investigated as entry points into her poetics. Learn more: www.lizzychemel.com/sculpture.
Ellie Davies (Between the Trees 3, Fires 9), born 1976, lives in Dorset and works in the forests of Southern England. She gained her MA in Photography from London College of Communication in 2008. Davies is represented by Crane Kalman Brighton Gallery in the UK, Patricia Armocida Gallery in Milan, Susan Spiritus Gallery in California, A.Galerie in Paris and Brussels and Brucie Collections in Kiev. Her work is on display in a touring exhibition for The Imperial Hospital Trust which started at Charing Cross in London in October 2019 and then moved to St. Mary’s Hospital in London, until late February 2020. Davies’ next solo show will be at Gilman Contemporary in Sun Valley, Idaho from 30 January - 2 February 2020. Her most recent Fires series was selected as a Finalist in the Klompching NY Fresh 2019 Summer Show and received a Gold and two Bronze awards in the Moscow International Photography Awards 2019 and Winner in the 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards: Professional Landscapes and Seascapes category. Fires was also selected Winner of the 12th Pollux Awards: Professional Fine Art Series, and Professional Conceptual Nominee: Fine Art Photography Awards 2019. Fires was also awarded Winner in the Nature, Environment and Perspectives category of the Urbanautica Institute Awards 2019. Davies was recently featured and interviewed in Rakes Progress Magazine Issue 9, Ernest Journal Issue 9 and China Life Magazine. Fires was featured in Dodho Magazine Issue 7. In November 2019 she began a collaboration with Philropy Philanthropy Card, which raises money to support The Carpathia European Wilderness Reserve in Romania. Learn more at elliedavies.co.uk, and read the artist’s latest newsletter here.
Tatiana Istomina (Nom) is an artist and writer based in New York; her practice includes painting, drawing, installation, and video. Her projects have been featured in exhibitions and screenings across the US and abroad; venues include Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, the Drawing Center, the Bronx Museum, Gaîté Lyrique, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Istomina is a recipient of multiple awards including the AAF Prize for Fine Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, the Chenven Foundation grant, the Puffin Foundation grant, and the Spillways Fellowship. She holds a PhD in geophysics from Yale University and an MFA from Parsons New School. She is currently an artist in residence at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (Netherlands).
Kate Puxley (Leap of Faith) was born in Edmonton, Alberta and has since lived in Toronto, Ottawa, Rome, and Montreal. After completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Concordia University in 2005, she extended her practice beyond the palette and became a certified taxidermist. She specializes in large charcoal drawings, sculpture, and ethical taxidermy (found animals, predominantly roadkill). Puxley has apprenticed with taxidermists in Canada, the UK, Austria, and Italy. In 2011, she was invited to create a diorama at The Museum of Zoology in Rome, Italy, and in 2016 presented her on-going installation ‘Trans-Canada’ at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Ontario. She recently completed her MFA in Sculpture at Concordia University, Montreal.
Thank you to the J. Paul Getty Museum of Los Angeles, Getty’s Open Content Program, and the Library of Congress.