Poets
Zoe Boyer (Website) was raised in Evanston, Illinois on the shore of Lake Michigan, and completed her MA in creative writing among the ponderosa pines in Prescott, Arizona. Her work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Poetry South, Kelp Journal, Plainsongs, RockPaperPoem, About Place, West Trade Review, Little Patuxent Review, The Penn Review, and Pleiades, and has been nominated for Best of the Net.
Jo Ann Clark is the author of 1001 Facts of Prehistoric Life (Black Lawrence Press). Her poems, translations, and prose are forthcoming or featured in many periodicals, including ballast, Boston Review, Cincinnati Review, Paris Review, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, The New Republic, and Tupelo Quarterly. In a four-generation household, she lives with her family in New York's Hudson River valley.
Clara Collins is a poet and middle school teacher located in Bellingham, Washington. She has an MFA from The University of Oregon and her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Ellipsis, Qu, Lucky Jefferson, Poetry South, and elsewhere.
Lisa Compo (Website) has poems forthcoming or recently published in journals such as: Colorado Review, EPOCH, Arts & Letters, Chicago Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is a PhD student in SUNY Binghamton’s creative writing program and obtained her MFA from UNC Greensboro. She has received several nominations for the Pushcart award and Best of the Net. She is the social media manager for both The Shore and Harpur Palate.
Patrick Deeley (Website) is a poet, memoirist and children's author from Loughrea. He has received many awards for his writing, including The Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award, The Dermot Healy International Poetry Prize, and The Eilis Dillon Award. Keepsake, his tenth collection of poems, has just appeared from Dedalus Press.
Melina Draper is a queer Latina author of two books, Later the House Stood Empty (Boreal Books, 2014), and Place of Origin~Lugar de Origen (Oyster River Press, 2008), co-authored with Argentine poet Elena Lafert, and a chapbook, What Better Place Than This? (Pudding House Press, 2003). She was longlisted for Palette Poetry’s 2023 Resistance & Resilience Prize. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Salamander, Cirque, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She lives, works, and organizes in New York’s Finger Lakes region.
Mike Good (Website, X) lives in Pittsburgh. Some of his recent poetry and book reviews can be found in Bennington Review, Colorado Review, Five Points, Foreword Reviews, The Greensboro Review, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, Prolit, Puerto del Sol, Salamander, Terrain.org, Waxwing, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships from The Sun, Aspen Words, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and he is at work on his first book. From 2018 to 2024, he served as managing editor at Autumn House Press.
Carolyn Guinzio’s (Website) eighth book, The Moving Walkway, is forthcoming from Carnegie-Mellon University Press in 2026. Her most recent collections are A Vertigo Book (The Word Works), winner of the Tenth Gate Prize, and Meanwhile in Arkansas, winner of the Quarterly West Chapbook Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, and many other journals. Originally from Chicago, she lives in Fayetteville, AR.
Shelby Handler (Instagram) is a writer, translator, and organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace. Recent work has appeared in and or is forthcoming in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Redivider, Poetry Northwest, The Journal, Black Warrior Review Online, Four Way Review, among others.
Veronica Kornberg (Website) is a poet from the Central Coast of California. Recipient of the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, Poet Lore, Rattle, Indiana Review, Plume, Calyx, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Veronica is a Peer Reviewer for Whale Road Review, an avid explorer of tidepools, and a habitat gardener.
Gary McDowell (Website) is the author/editor of eight books, most recently Aflame (White Pine Press, 2020). His work has appeared in The Nation, American Poetry Review, Southern Review, and others. He is Professor of English at Belmont University in Nashville, TN.
Carolyn Oliver (Website) is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre, 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022; selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize), and three chapbooks. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in TriQuarterly, Image, Copper Nickel, Poetry Daily, Prelude, Consequence, and elsewhere. She lives in Massachusetts.
Sam Olson (Website) is a candidate for the MFA in Poetry at Oregon State University. Raised in Portland, Oregon with roots across Montana, he calls both states home. Prior to undertaking the MFA, he taught science, managed wilderness trail crews, and facilitated creative writing workshops in Montana's public schools and juvenile detention centers. His poetry can be found or is forthcoming in Cutbank, Flyway, HeartWood, and River Heron Review, among others.
Sara Rosenberg is a graduate of Hollins University and Emerson College. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Pine Row Journal, Passengers Journal, MER, and The Ocotillo Review. She lives in Austin, Texas.
Jen Grace Stewart (Threads, Bluesky, Instagram) is the author of Madonna, Complex (Cascade Books 2020), and the chapbooks, Latch and Visitations. Her poems have been published in AGNI, Colorado Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Denver Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Cynthia White’s (Website) poems have appeared in Adroit, Massachusetts Review, ZYZZYVA, Southern Poetry Review, New Letters, Poet Lore, and Plume, among others. Her work can be found in numerous anthologies, including Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them from Storey Press. She was a finalist for Nimrod’s Pablo Neruda Prize and the winner of the Julia Darling Memorial Prize from Kallisto Gaia Press. Her chapbook Glossogenesis will be published by Sundress Press in 2025.
Kathleen Winter (Website) is the author of Transformer, I will not kick my friends, and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, New Statesman, Yale Review, Diode, and Poetry London. Awards include the Poetry Society of America The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award and Rochelle Ratner Memorial Prize. Kathleen was granted fellowships at Cill Rialaig, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Maison Dora Maar, James Merrill House, and the Heinrich Böll Cottage. She serves as an associate editor for 32 Poems.
Visual Artists
Kelly DuMar (Website, Instagram, X, Bluesky) is a poet, playwright and workshop facilitator from Boston. She’s author of four poetry collections, including jinx and heavenly calling, published by Lily Poetry Review Books in March 2023. Her poems are published in Bellevue Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Thrush, and more. Her images have been featured on the cover of Josephine Quarterly, About Place, Synkroniciti, Cool Beans Lit, Young Ravens Literary Review, Etymology, Confetti, and Atlantic Northeast. Kelly's abstract photos celebrate the beauty and organic complexity of nature from the habitat of her home on the Charles River and her travels beyond.
Katie Hughbanks (Instagram) is a writer, photographer, and teacher whose photography has been published nationally and internationally in more than 50 magazines. She is the author of two chapbooks, Blackbird Songs (Prolific Press, 2019) and It’s Time (Finishing Line Press, 2024). She teaches English and Creative Writing in Louisville, Kentucky.
Tiffany Victoria López (Instagram) is a Salvadoran-American raised in Dover, New Jersey. Growing up in an immigrant household, López often struggled to find a sense of individuality. She started as a Nursing student at the County College of Morris before switching to a Visual Arts major. While taking her college courses, she gained a new appreciation for El Salvador’s artistic heritage. López proudly embodies her cultural background through her colorful and vibrant artwork. She hopes her artwork shows the duality of her personality, being a product of both the United States and El Salvador. López has provided freelance work for companies such as That’s Love Records and Las Los Sound. She also works alongside her cousin and fellow artist, Emily Villatoro, as co-creative director of their brand, Yucca Market. Their mission is to showcase up-and-coming young creators like themselves through carefully curated community events.
Susan L. Pollet (Website, Instagram, X, Bluesky, Threads) is a visual artist whose works have appeared in multiple art shows and literary publications. She studied at the New York Art Students League, has been a member since 2018, and resides in NYC. She is also a published author in multiple genres, including three children’s books, which she both wrote and illustrated. She has seen the darker sides of humanity but always searches for the light. Check out Susan’s art and books on her website and on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, and other online and local retailers.
Born and raised in the Garden State, Paul Rabinowitz (Website) has been creating across multiple art forms for almost two decades. When his photography takes the stage, each frame does what Rabinowitz seems to do best: telling a story. The subjects of his pieces are partially posed, but their pose doesn’t seem to be what he’s after. Instead of capturing a composition, his photos are about relaying a mood. Rabinowitz was a featured artist in Nailed Magazine in 2020, Mud Season Review in 2022, Apricity Press in 2023, Rappahannock Review in 2024, and The Woven Tale Press in 2025. His photo series Limited Light was nominated for Best of the Net in 2021. Rabinowitz uses only natural light, and shoots with his Nikon D7000.
Michelle Westmark Wingard (Website, Instagram) is an installation-based photographer, curator, and arts educator. In May of 2024 she became a member of Form + Content Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is Professor of Art and Gallery Director of Bethel University’s two exhibition spaces. In her seventeen years of programming exhibitions, Wingard has worked with 100+ artists in a diverse range of media. In the 2019-20 and 2020-21 program cycles, Wingard was honored to serve as a Curatorial Mentor for the Emerging Curators Institute (ECI). Her photographic and curatorial projects often seek to create experiential and participatory opportunities exploring themes of memory, grief, memorial, perception, and interconnection. Wingard thinks about all aspects of her work as gestures of care. She has curated several exhibitions and has also exhibited her own photographic work locally and nationally. She is the recipient of the Jerome Travel Grant (2015) and the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant (2017 and 2019). Wingard holds an MFA in photography from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York (2006). She lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota.