POETS
Jai Hamid Bashir (Website, Twitter, Instagram) was born to Pakistani immigrant artists. Her work has appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Frontier, Guernica Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Asian American Writer’s Workshop, and others. A recent graduate of Columbia University, she lives in Salt Lake City. Learn more at jaihamidbashir.com.
Chelsea Dingman’s (Website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) first book, Thaw, was chosen by Allison Joseph to win the National Poetry Series (University of Georgia Press, 2017). Her second poetry collection, Through a Small Ghost, won The Georgia Poetry Prize (University of Georgia Press, 2020). Her third collection, I, Divided, is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press in 2023. She is also the author of the chapbook, What Bodies Have I Moved (Madhouse Press, 2018). Visit her website: chelseadingman.com.
Jessica Goodfellow’s (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Website) books are Whiteout (University of Alaska Press, 2017), Mendeleev’s Mandala (2015) and The Insomniac’s Weather Report (2014). Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Scientific American, The Southern Review, and Verse Daily. A former writer-in-residence at Denali National Park and Preserve, Jessica lives in Japan.
Ashley Kunsa’s (Website) poetry is forthcoming from Massachusetts Review, Bennington Review, and Cream City Review, and her prose appears in The Forge, The Writer magazine, Los Angeles Review, and Sycamore Review. Originally from Pittsburgh, she is assistant professor of creative writing at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, MT, where she lives with her husband and two children. You can find her online at ashleykunsa.com.
Jak Emerson Kurdi (Website, Twitter, Instagram) is an emerging poet who just recently completed an M.A. in Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. (He’s still figuring out what to do next.) His first publications appear or are forthcoming in Chautauqua, Inklette, and The Dillydoun Review. If he has a weekend to spare, you could find him researching MFA programs, hiking in the Pecos Wilderness with his wife and dogs, or pretending to enjoy IPAs with his friends on a restaurant patio.
Batnadiv HaKarmi (Facebook, Instagram, Website) is a writer and visual artist who currently resides in Jerusalem. Her work has been published in Poet Lore, Ilanot Review, and most recently in Belmont Story Review. A graduate of the graduate writing program at Bar Ilan University, she is the recipient of the Andrea Moria Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize.
Cynthia Marie Hoffman (Website) is the author of Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, Paper Doll Fetus, and Sightseer. Hoffman is a former Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Director’s Guest at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Wisconsin Arts Board. Her poems have appeared in jubilat, Fence, Blackbird, diode, the Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. Learn more at cynthiamariehoffman.com.
K. T. Landon (Website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) is the author is Orange, Dreaming (Five Oaks Press, 2017) and received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Narrative, North American Review, and Best New Poets. She is a reader for Lily Poetry Review.
Michael Lauchlan (Facebook) 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, Lake Effect, Bellingham Review, and Southern Poetry Review. His most recent collection is Trumbull Ave. from WSU Press (2015).
Anthony Thomas Lombardi (Instagram) is a Pushcart-nominated poet, organizer, activist, and educator. He is the founder and director of Word is Bond, a community-centered reading series partnered with AAWW that raises funds for transnational relief efforts and mutual aid organizations, and currently serves as assistant poetry editor for Sundog Lit. A recipient of the Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship, his work has appeared or will soon in Guernica, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, North American Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn with his cat, Dilla.
Martha McCollough (Website) lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. She has an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in QWERTY, Bear Review, Zone 3, and Tampa Review, among others. She is the author of Wolf Hat Iron Shoes (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2022).
Daniel Edward Moore (Twitter) lives in Washington on Whidbey Island. His poems are forthcoming in Notre Dame Review, The Meadow, Southern Humanities Review, New Plains Review, Temenos Literary Journal, and Psaltery & Lyre. His book, Waxing the Dents, is from Brick Road Poetry Press. His recent book, Psalmania was a finalist for the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry.
Samuel Prestridge, a post-aspirational man, lives and works in Athens, Georgia. He sometimes plays acoustic blues and jazz in local bars under an assumed name. He has been published in Literary Imagination, The Arkansas Review, Southern Humanities Review, As It Ought to Be, Better Than Starbucks, and Autumn Skies, among others. Regarding his approach to writing, he says, “I write poetry because there are matters that cannot be directly stated, but are essential to the survival of whatever soul we can still have. Also, I’m no good at interpretive dance, which is the only other option that’s occurred to me.”
Jessica Purdy (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) holds an MFA from Emerson College. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many journals including The Night Heron Barks, Lily Poetry Review, SoFloPoJo, One Art, Museum of Americana, Hole in the Head Review, The Hopper, and Harpy Hybrid. She is the author of the chapbook Learning the Names (Finishing Line Press) and two books of poems released by Nixes Mate Books: STARLAND and Sleep in a Strange House. The latter was a finalist for the NH Literary Award for poetry. Her poems have been nominated for Best New Poets and Best of the Net. She is poetry editor for the anthology Ten Piscataqua Writers.
Kristen Staby Rembold’s second poetry collection, What Used to be Country, is forthcoming from FutureCycle Press in January, 2023. Her first collection, Music Lesson, was published in 2019. She has also published two chapbooks of poetry and a novel, Felicity. Her writing has appeared in Smartish Pace, The Hopper, Literary Mama, Crab Orchard Review, Cider Press Review, and New Ohio Review, among others.
Kelly R. Samuels (Website) is the author of the full-length collection All the Time in the World (Kelsay Books) and two chapbooks: Words Some of Us Rarely Use and Zeena/Zenobia Speaks. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee with work appearing in The Massachusetts Review, RHINO, and The Pinch. She lives in the Upper Midwest. Find her here: krsamuels.com.
Bo Schwabacher (Instagram) is a South Korean adoptee. Born in South Korea, she was adopted at three months old. Bo grew up in Illinois. Her poems have appeared in Cha, CutBank, diode, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Redivider, The Offing, Zone 3, and others. Omma, Sea of Joy and Other Astrological Signs, published by Tinderbox Editions, is her debut collection of poems.
Heidi Seaborn (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Website) is author of PANK Poetry Prize winner An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe, the acclaimed debut Give a Girl Chaos, and Comstock Chapbook Award-winning Bite Marks. Recent work appears in Blackbird, Beloit, Brevity, Copper Nickel, Cortland Review, diode, Financial Times of London, The Missouri Review, The Offing, The Slowdown, Washington Post, and elsewhere. Heidi is Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal and holds an MFA from NYU. Learn more at heidiseabornpoet.com.
Sarah Dickenson Snyder (Instagram, Website) lives in Vermont, carves in stone, and rides her bike. Travel opens her eyes. She has three poetry collections, The Human Contract (2017), Notes from a Nomad (nominated for the Massachusetts Book Awards 2018), and With a Polaroid Camera (2019), with another book forthcoming in 2023. Recent work is in Rattle, Lily Poetry Review, and RHINO. Learn more at sarahdickensonsnyder.com.
Meghan Sterling’s (Website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Rattle, The Pinch Journal, Rust & Moth, The West Review, Colorado Review, Pacifica Literary Review, SWIMM, Sky Island Journal, Valparaiso Poetry Review, River Heron Review, and many others, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. She was the winner of West Trestle Review’s 2021 Annual Poetry Contest, Sweet Literary’s 2021 Annual Poetry Contest, Equinox’s 2021 Annual Poetry Contest, and a Finalist in River Heron Review’s 2021 Annual Poetry Contest and Gigantic Sequins’ 2021 Annual Poetry Contest. She is Associate Poetry Editor of The Maine Review, a Hewnoaks Artist Colony resident in 2019 and 2021, and her debut collection, These Few Seeds, came out in 2021 from Terrapin Books. She and her family live in Portland, Maine. Read her work at meghansterling.com.
Alyssandra Tobin (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) is the author of PUT EYES ON ME NOT LIKE A CURSE, published by Quarterly West. Her poems appear in New Ohio Review, Poetry Northwest, Puerto del Sol, Granta, and elsewhere.
Kim Welliver (Instagram) lives in Utah where she works as a full time caregiver. She is currently working on a full length poetry collection. Both a 2021 Pushcart Prize and Best of Net nominee, her can be found in print and online publications, including Rock & Sling, Mid-American Review, Night Picnic, Sidereal, Healing Muse, Corvid Queen, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Coastal Shelf, Duende, Fairy Tale Review Anthologies, and many others.
Visual Artists
Patrick Bayly (Website, Instagram) was born in Charleston, West Virginia, in 1994. He attended West Virginia University, where he earned his BFA in painting in 2018. That summer, he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture before starting at Columbia University. He earned his MFA from that institution in 2020. Bayly currently lives and works in New York City, and has had shows in NYC, Milan, Los Angeles, and Morgantown, West Virginia. You can follow him on his website, patrickbayly.com, or on instagram, @patrickbayly.
Retired children’s librarian Alan Bern is a published/exhibited photographer and cofounder with artist/printer Robert Woods of the press/publisher Lines & Faces. Alan has published three books of poetry, and he brings into his writing, publishing, and photography his love for, and obsessions with, Italia, where he lived in the mid-1960s. At the Boston University Creative Writing Program in the early 1970s, he worked closely with the classicist Donald Carne-Ross, both translating and producing ‘imitations’ of diverse works. Recent awards include: honorable mention for Littoral Press Poetry Prize (2021); flash fiction finalist for Ekphrastic Sex (2021). Alan photographs, and from his work with Lines & Faces, he combines his photos and words, now a vital part of his daily art practice, photo-haiga.* Recent photos publications include: Unearthed Literary Journal, Please See Me, and Mercurius. It is clear that Alan favors both hybridity and complex collaboration: he performs with dancer/choreographer Lucinda Weaver and with musicians and light artists as PACES: dance & poetry fit to the space and also with musicians from Composing Together.
Mircea Boboc (Website) is a Romanian artist who holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Language and Literature and a Master’s Degree in Translation and Terminology from the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași. He has published a chapbook of poems entitled The Semi-Lyrical Jukebox of Eccentric Poems and a fantasy novel called Elementa and held a Graphic Exhibition known as “Shadowed by Mountains.”
Sylwia Hans is a photographer currently living in Krakow, Poland.
Batnadiv HaKarmi (Facebook, Instagram, Website) is an American-born painter and poet who spent her formative years in the Old City of Jerusalem. Her work straddles the line between representation and abstraction and explores the intersection of painting and poetry. She studied art at the Jerusalem Studio School; the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Italy; and the New York Studio School. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from Bar Ilan University. Batnadiv has had two solo exhibitions at the Art Shelter Gallery, Jerusalem, and has taken part in numerous group shows and art events in Israel and abroad—most recently in the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem and the Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod. She currently heads the Art Program at Emunah veOmanut, Emunah College, and is on the Visual Arts faculty of the Brandeis Institute of Music and Art. She has been a member of Studio of Her Own since 2015. Learn more at batnadiv.com.
Alex Hirsch (Website, Instagram) makes artwork for exhibition and site-specific commissions. She loves the medium of watercolor for its intimacy, intuitive value and low-tech application. Using glass affords her great scale, wonderful color, architectural relevance and another kind of visual magic. She takes advantage of its performative nature that shifts in appearance with lighting and point of view. In the studio, she is focused on self-directed work and custom projects for public art and private clients. Her work is in collections including the United States Embassy (Bulgaria), Good Samaritan Hospital (Washington), City of Portland (Oregon), Oregon State University (Oregon), U.S. Aid (Uganda), Auburn High School (Washington), Sunrise Elementary (Washington), Hallmark Corporation (Kansas), Umpqua Bank (Oregon), ODS Companies (Oregon) and Southern Oregon University (Oregon).
Nicole Flaherty Kimball is an emerging poet from Salt Lake City, Utah. Nicole’s work is published or forthcoming in Sky Island Journal, Sunspot Literary Journal, Mom Egg Review, Club Plum Literary Magazine, and several others. She was the recipient of the Pat Richards and Joe Beaumont Scholarship and is pursuing a Bachelor's Degree at Utah Valley University.
Claire Taylor’s (Website, Instagram) process of art-making serves as an existential exploration and conveys the intelligence and agency of non-human animals, plants, and landscapes. The media she works with include watercolor, relief printmaking, and book art. She has held artist residencies at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and the Natural History Museum of Utah. She has held teaching-artist residencies working with underserved populations across Utah, in which she focuses on art and ecology. Claire currently has a solo exhibition, Snail Snake City, at the Utah State Capitol 4th Floor Gallery, which will be on display through September 29, 2022. Claire holds a Master of Science in Environmental Humanities and a BFA in Visual Art from the University of Utah. Her Instagram is @clairetaylor.art and her website is www.clairetaylor.art.
Thank you to The Art Institute of Chicago, Getty’s Open Content Program, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.