Poets
Emma Bolden (Website, Instagram, Bluesky) is the author of a memoir, The Tiger and the Cage (Soft Skull), and the poetry collections House Is an Enigma, medi(t)ations, and Maleficae. Her fourth poetry collection, God Elegy, is forthcoming from BOA Editions. Her work has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, the New England Review, The Seneca Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, and Shenandoah. She is an editor of Screen Door Review.
Rebecca Brock (Website, Instagram) is the author of The Way Land Breaks (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions 2023). A MacDowell Fellow, her work has been published in The Threepenny Review, CALYX, Mom Egg Review, Rust + Moth, THRUSH, & elsewhere. Her awards include the 2025 Lascaux Poetry Prize, The Comstock Review’s Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Poetry Contest, and the Kelsay Books’ Woman’s Poetry Prize. She is a reader for SWWIM. Find more at www.rebeccabrock.org.
Patrick Deeley (Website) is a poet, memoirist and children’s writer who spent his childhood in a small Callows wetland or river meadow farmed by his mother in East Galway. His ten collections of poetry include Keepsake (2024), The End of the World (2019), Groundswell: New and Selected (2013), and The Bones of Creation (2008). His critically acclaimed, best-selling memoir, The Hurley Maker’s Son, was published by Transworld in 2016. He is the recipient of many literary awards including The Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award, The Dermot Healy Poetry Prize, and The Eilis Dillon Children’s Book of the Year Award.
Shou Jie Eng (Website, Instagram) is a poet and architectural designer. Originally from Singapore, he runs Left Field Projects, a multi-disciplinary design practice located in Hartford, Connecticut. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Harvard Review, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere, and he teaches courses on architectural drawing and other representational topics at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Malcolm Greenlee Farley is a poet, translator, and cultural journalist. His poems have appeared in Agni, The American Journal of Nursing, The American Scholar, Commonweal, The Harvard Review, The Los Angeles Review, The Paris Review, The Gay and Lesbian Review, and Raritan, His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, The American Psychoanalyst, and The Boston Review. He has also won residencies at MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. Currently, he is translating “Praise: Liturgy II,” a sonnet diary by the acclaimed French poet, Robert Marteau.
Julie Esther Fisher’s (Website, Bluesky) poems and stories appear in Waxwing, Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Citron Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Passager’s 2025 Contest Issue, and many other places. Grand Prize Recipient of the Stories That Need to be Told Anthology, Sheila-Na-Gig's Editor’s Choice Award, and Sunspot Lit's Rigel Award, she is a grateful recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant and has received multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart nominations. Forthcoming are a poetry chapbook, and a novel in stories from Silent Clamor Press. Raised in London, she lives on conserved land in the western part of the state.
D. Dina Friedman’s (Website, Substack, Instagram, Facebook) recent work includes a short-story collection Immigrants (Creators Press, 2023) and a poetry chapbook Here in Sanctuary—Whirling (Querencia Press, 2024). She is also the author of the chapbook Wolf in the Suitcase (Finishing Line Press) and two young adult novels: Escaping Into the Night (Simon and Schuster) and Playing Dad’s Song (Farrar Straus Giroux). Dina has published widely in literary journals including Rattle, Salamander, The Sun, Mass Poetry, Chautauqua Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Cider Press Review, Lilith, Negative Capability, and Rhino and received six Pushcart Prize and two Best of the Net nominations.
Daimys Ester García (Website, Instagram) is a Latinex writer, artist, and educator from Miami. She earned her PhD in Comparative Literature at SUNY Binghamton and is currently an Assistant Professor in English at the College of Wooster.
Rebecca Hawkes (Website, Instagram) is a queer painter-poet from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her first book, Meat Lovers (AUP) was a Lambda finalist and Laurel Prize winner. She edits Sweet Mammalian, co-edited the anthology of climate poetics No Other Place to Stand, and holds an HZWP MFA and IIML MA. Her poems have won awards from Palette Poetry, Salt Hill, and the Academy of American Poets, and are forthcoming in the Threepenny, Georgia, and Missouri Reviews. Her second collection will be released by Yes Yes Books and AUP in 2026.
Kathryn Hunt (Website) is a poet and makes her home on the coast of the Salish Sea. She is author of two poetry collections, Long Way Through Ruin and Seed Wheel, and two chapbooks, The Country I Come From and She Who Walks the Earth. She’s translated the work of Catalan poet Maria-Mercè Marçal and has recently completed a memoir, The Red Table, a mother-daughter tale. She is the artistic curator of Poetry on the Salish Sea, a series based on the Olympic Peninsula, a place of lush forests, deep waters, and many poetry lovers.
Jennifer Jussel (Instagram) is a PhD student studying English and creative writing at Texas Tech University, where she also teaches undergraduate writing. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Eastern Washington University. Her Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated work has been published most recently in Booth, The Santa Clara Review, Cleaver, and others.
Claire Jean Kim’s poems have been published in or are forthcoming in TriQuarterly, Anacapa Review, Slipstream Press, The Lincoln Review, Arc Poetry, Pinch, The American Poetry Journal, North American Review, The Indianapolis Review, Chiron Review, ONE ART, Radar, Diode, and The Missouri Review, among other places. TriQuarterly nominated her poem “queen of mycenae” for a Pushcart Prize in 2025. The Lincoln Review nominated her poem “Things to do on a Fulbright fellowship in Japan” for Best of the Net in 2025. Terrain.org nominated her poem “Mastodon” for Best New Poets anthology in 2024.
Jan LaPerle’s (Website) book of poetry, Maybe The Land Sings Back, was published by Galileo Books. Her other books include: a book of poetry, It Would Be Quiet (Prime Mincer Press); an e-chap of flash fiction, Hush (Sundress Publications); a story in verse, A Pretty Place To Mourn (BlazeVOX), and several other stories and poems. She completed her MFA from Southern Illinois University. She lives in Kentucky where she retired from active duty at Fort Knox as an Army master sergeant. She now teaches high school English.
Courtney LeBlanc (Website, Instagram, Facebook) is the author of the four full-length collections, most recently Her Dark Everything. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press, and Poetry Coven, a monthly generative workshop. She loves nail polish, tattoos, and a soy latte each morning. Find her online at www.courtneyleblanc.com.
Campbell McGrath is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Fever of Unknown Origin (Knopf, 2023) and XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century, a 2019 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Born in Chicago, he lives in Miami Beach and teaches at Florida International University.
Alicia Potee (Instagram) is a 2002 graduate of St. John’s College in Annapolis and current MFA candidate at the University of Baltimore. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in ballast, Gone Lawn, trampset, BRUISER, Chestnut Review, Comstock Review, Hawaii-Pacific Review, Little Patuxent Review, and Baltimore Review, among other places. She lives in Towson, MD, with her tiny zoo of children and pets.
T. R. Poulson (Website, Instagram) a University of Nevada alum and proud Wolf Pack fan, supports her writing habit by delivering for UPS in Woodside, California. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Best New Poets, Quarterly West, Gulf Coast, American Literary Review, Barrow Street, and Booth. She is currently seeking a publisher for her first manuscript, tentatively titled Broken Feasts, Broken Forms. Find her at www.trpoulson.com.
Carey Taylor (Website) is the author of Some Aid to Navigation (Moon Path Press, 2024) and The Lure of Impermanence (Cirque Press-2018). She is the winner of the 2022 Neahkahnie Mountain Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, runner-up for the Concrete Wolf Louis Poetry Book Award, and has been published both nationally and internationally. Born in Bandon, Oregon, Carey has lived her entire life in the Pacific Northwest.
Chris Vasantkumar (he/him) is an American-Australian poet and anthropologist. His scholarly work has been published in numerous academic journals. His poetry appears or soon will appear in The Bennington Review, BoomerLitMag, Cordite Poetry Review, Plume Poetry Journal, and RHINO. He lives on Sydney’s north shore with his partner, two sons, and Clancy the chocolate labrador somewhere on the edges of unceded Garigal, Dharug, and Gayamaygal land.
John Whalen was born in Detroit, Michigan and is the author of three books of poems, most recently Above the Pear Trees, which won the Floating bridge Press Chapbook Award. His poetry has appeared in EPOCH, VQR, The Gettysburg Review, North American Review, Tampa Review, Catamaran, The Hollins Critic, 2River, and Terrain.
Shannon K. Winston (Website) is the author of The Worry Dolls (Glass Lyre Press, 2025) and The Girl Who Talked to Paintings (Glass Lyre Press, 2021). Her individual poems have appeared in Bracken, Cider Press Review, the Los Angeles Review, RHINO Poetry, SWWIM Every Day, West Trestle Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Bloomington, IN.
Visual Artists
Alia Bensliman (Website, Instagram) is a contemporary visual artist whose work examines personal and collective narratives through a lens shaped by cultural identity, memory, and the socio-political landscape. Her practice engages with themes such as taboos, religion, relationships, health, and human rights, often drawing from her own lived experiences. Many of her works function as visual journals and intimate reflections that merge inner life with broader societal concerns. Her process combines intricate linework, geometric structures, and repetitive patterning, enriched with color, ink, gold and silver leaf, and handmade environmentally crafted watercolor from nontoxic organic materials like flowers, leaves, spices and more. These methods allow her to build complex textures and depth on archival paper, underscoring her interest in different materials and their properties, their details and how things are crafted. Raised in Tunisia, North Africa, a meeting point of ancient Eastern traditions and contemporary Western influences, Bensliman’s work embodies this cultural intersection. She draws inspiration from North African, Islamic, and Indigenous Amazigh aesthetics, integrating symbolic language that speaks to personal milestones, memory, and daily life. Through this symbolic layering, she invites viewers to engage interpretively, encouraging the viewer to reflect on the work and interpret it multiple ways. There’s no single “correct” interpretation. The density of detail in each piece offers new discoveries with every encounter. During the pandemic, a profound sense of displacement and longing for home led her to develop a series of portraits depicting Amazigh and North African women. Set against arabesque geometric patterns and Arabic calligraphy, these works echo the architecture, colors, and landscapes of her childhood in Tunisia. The series served as a creative bridge to her Amazigh heritage, reconnecting her to place, memory, and identity. Bensliman’s work has been acquired by collectors around the world.
Andrea Bartine Caldarise (Website, Instagram) is a painter exploring the psychological connection between landscape and people. She received a BFA (Painting/Art History) from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, studying at Temple Rome Campus and receiving the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship at Yale University. She holds a Masters in Arts Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her painting practice, Caldarise has collaborated with dance company, RealLivePeople (2010-2013) creating artworks centered on first-person accounts to engage audiences through memory exercises and dance. From 2014-2019, Caldarise collaborated with Exquisite Corpse Company, building environments for immersive plays engaging with a variety of themes from manifesting memories around ideas of home to grappling with climate change. Caldarise worked at the New Museum of Contemporary Art as the Manager of Public Programs (2017-2022), producing public programs. A lover of cities and wilderness alike, her early paintings feature city parks as community hubs of everyday life, and her recent artwork draws inspiration from research trips to national parks, including Olympic, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, Big Sur, Petrified Forest, and Yosemite, among others. These artworks begin at iconic vistas, charting the emotions, histories, and secrets of these distinctive environments. Caldarise has participated in residencies at Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2018) and Post Contemporary, Troy, NY (2010; 2013) and received the FST Studio Projects Fund grant (2019). Andrea Bartine Caldarise has exhibited in New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Rome, Italy.
Roger Camp is the author of three photography books including the award winning Butterflies in Flight (Thames & Hudson, 2002). His documentary photography has been awarded the prestigious Leica Medal of Excellence and published in The New England Review, New York Quarterly, and Orion Magazine. He is represented by the Robin Rice Gallery, NY. More of his work may be seen on Luminous Lint Virtual exhibits.
Frieda Christofides (Website, Instagram) has an intense love for the outdoors and is happiest, most comfortable, and most productive when painting outside. She has started painting while traveling, picking locations that are “sketchable.” Even during the winter months she will paint looking out a window, in a greenhouse, or in a museum. Frieda will look for a pop of nature, flowers, and colors and then start direct painting. Frieda gathers energy from the places, movement, and life around her. She often paints together in groups. This has created a unique artist dialogue for her, which includes finding a location, discussing composition, and completing the project in the chosen spot. They often critique each other’s work, share materials, and offer support. Frieda is currently using mainly watercolor on cotton paper. But because of making art with a community, lately, she is trying to work more in mutlimedia, using markers, pencils, gelli printing, and stamps that her artist friends are using.
Kim Kopp (Website, Instagram) was born near Chicago, Illinois. After completing a MFA at the University of Chicago, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Kopp migrated to Port Townsend, Washington. There she reshaped her vision of being a working studio artist. She has been an EDGE Professional Development Participant and a GAP Grant recipient, both awarded by Artist Trust, Seattle. Kopp has been awarded artist residencies from Jentel in Wyoming, and Centrum Arts in Port Townsend. She has exhibited widely in the Pacific Northwest and is represented in several regional and private collections.
Laurie Campbell Pannell (Website, Instagram) is an independent artist and writer with an interdisciplinary practice. She earned her BA from Lipscomb University and MFA from Belmont University. In the studio, she explores ideas inspired from her readings, writings, and research, particularly around topics of memory—remembering and forgetting, saving and erasing. She questions most everything with a quirky perspective of how to fix, mend, repair, salvage, or stitch back together an unraveling story, a memory that is slipping into disrepair, creating a narrative retold with fragments pieced back together.
Ana Prundaru’s (Instagram) work blurs memory, place and the body, drawing on themes of displacement, longing and the Anthropocene. She has exhibited internationally and created art for fashion brands and literary magazines, such as Third Coast, The Adroit Journal, and Black Warrior Review Online. She lives in Switzerland.
Susan Pollet (Website, Instagram, Bluesky, Substack, Threads, X, LinkedIn) 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.
Sampy Sicada (Website, Instagram) is a British fine artist and visual developer based in Savannah, Georgia. He makes fine art in traditional medium such as graphite, colored pencils, and oil paints. Mainly specializing in surreal and photoreal portraits, his works have been exhibited in galleries internationally, including the 2021 London Art Biennale and 2023 Ad Art Show.
Haylie Skripac (Instagram) has been cultivating her artistic practice since the age of five. She developed a profound appreciation for the transformative power of art, specifically its ability to bring vitality to any space, and was driven to create work with the same effect. Haylie formalized her studies in college, graduating in May 2025 from Bethel University with a Liberal Arts degree. Find her work on Instagram at haylie_skripac_art.
Anastasia Yaroshevich was born in 1985 in Ukraine. I studied fine art at an art school, at university Faculty of Arts and then at the Kharkov State Academy of Design and Fine Arts. I paint in oil, watercolor, acrylic and draw with a pencil. I have been taking part in Ukrainian and foreign exhibitions since 2001. I am a member of the National Artists Union of Ukraine since 2021. My paintings are in collections of museums, galleries and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
Sim Chi Yin (Website, Instagram) is an artist from Singapore whose research-based practice uses artistic and archival interventions to contest and complicate historiographies and colonial narratives. She works across photography, film, installation, performance, and book-making. She was an artist fellow in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program (2022–23) and holds a PhD in War Studies from King’s College London. Recent exhibitions include: 60th Venice Biennale (2024) and at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2024); Gropius Bau, Berlin (2023); Barbican Centre, London (2023); Camera Austria, Graz (2024); Harvard Art Museums, Boston, USA (2021); Les Rencontres d’Arles, France (2021); Nobel Peace Museum, Oslo (2017), Datsuijo Tokyo (2024); Arko Art Centre, Seoul (2016); Zilberman Gallery Berlin (2021); and Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong (2019). She has also participated in the Istanbul Biennale (2022, 2017) and the Guangzhou Image Triennial (2021). In August 2024, she premiered a theatre performance on her project One Day We’ll Understand, on her family history and the anti-colonial war in what was British Malaya. The performance toured to the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts in Melbourne in February 2025. Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Harvard Art Museums, M+ Hong Kong, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Singapore Art Museum, and the National Museum Singapore. Sim is based in Berlin.
Juno Zago (Website, Instagram) is a queer painter and collage artist working in Newark, NJ. He was born in Brazil, came to the US in 2005, obtained his BA in 2016, and has been working in the arts since then, mainly in arts administration. His most notable, albeit short-lived, career title was as Creative Director at Gallery Aferro. Since leaving that position in 2023, he has worked primarily as an art handler and installer throughout North NJ. Previously a longtime artist-in-residence at Gallery Aferro, Zago moved studios to Index Art Center, also in Newark, NJ. Over his many years working and making art in Newark, he exhibited in all its galleries and has also exhibited in group shows throughout NJ museums. Notable ones include “Each One Teach One: Preserving Legacy in Perpetuity” at the Morris Museum, “Artful Healing” at the Newark Museum of Art, and “Reemergence – New Jersey Arts Annual 2022” at the New Jersey State Museum. His latest solo exhibition was in 2023 at the Kresge and Pascal Galleries at Ramapo Collegey, his alma mater. His artwork “Midas (or Worship)” was featured in two national tour stops of the “BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY)” traveling exhibition by Project for Empty Space. He was the inaugural Newark, NJ artist-in-residence and teaching artist for ProjectArt, where he worked directly with children without access to art classes, and is also amongst the recipients of the 2024-25 Creative Catalyst Grant by the City of Newark.