Contributors:
Carrie Strand Tebeau
is a Northern Michigan poet and fiber artist. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood award. Recent poems appear in MAYDAY, Dunes Review, and others. This author photo was taken six months after she discovered she was a writer.
Damon Pham
makes art in language and audio. He grew up in California suburbs and most recently lived in Hồ Chí Minh City. He is an MFA student at Brown’s Literary Arts program. His recent work can be found in streetcake, ballast, The Rumen, and New Delta Review. Find him at damondpham.github.io.
Jayce Russell
serves as poetry warlock for the literary journal Outlook Springs, teaches English at a rural community college in North Carolina, and resides with a family in the general vicinity thereof.
Jeff Kass
teaches Tenth Grade English and Creative Writing at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor MI. He’s the award-winning author of Knuckleheads, Independent Publishers Best Short Fiction Collection of 2011, as well as two previous full-length poetry collections, My Beautiful Hook-nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave and Teacher/Pizza Guy, a 2020 Michigan Notable Book and runner-up for The Midwest Book Award. He is the winner of the 2024 Toledo Museum of Art Ekphrastic Poetry Contest and a featured poetry instructor with the Michigan Learning Channel. He’s taught poetry classes and workshops to thousands of students, and is a recipient of a prestigious 2023 Jack Hazard Fellowship for writers who teach in public schools. His newest poetry collection, True Believer, from Dzanc Books, consists of poems that spin around and through Marvel Comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Jen Karetnick
A National Poetry Series finalist, Jen Karetnick is the author of 13 collections of poetry, including Inheritance with a High Error Rate (January 2024), winner of the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award and semi-finalist for the PSV 2025 North American Book Awards. Forthcoming books include What Forges Us Steel: The Judge Judy Poems (Alternating Current Press, 2025); Domiciliary (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2026); and Organ Language (Lit Fox Books, 2026). She is the co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day. See jkaretnick.com.
Jessica L. Walsh
is the author of Book of Gods and Grudges (Glass Lyre, 2022) as well as two previous collections, The List of Last Tries and How to Break My Neck. Her work has appeared on the Best American Poetry Blog and journals like RHINO, Indianapolis Review, Crab Creek Review, and many more. Originally from small-town Michigan, she currently lives outside of Chicago and teaches at a community college.
Mary Buchinger's
most recent books are Navigating the Reach (Salmon Poetry, Honors, 2024 Massachusetts Book Award), The Book of Shores (2024), and Virology (2022) both from Lily Poetry Review Books, and she is the winner of the 2024 Elyse Wolf/Slate Roof Chapbook Prize. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Plume, Salt Hill, Seneca Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. www.MaryBuchinger.com
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Molly Spencer
is the author of three poetry collections: If the House (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019), Hinge (SIU Press, 2020), and Invitatory (Parlor Press, 2024). Her poetry has appeared in Blackbird, FIELD, New England Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and
elsewhere. Her critical writing has appeared at Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, The Writer's Chronicle, and The Rumpus, where she was a poetry editor from 2016 to 2024. She teaches writing at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Shakirah Ahmed
Teresa Scollon
is a poet, essayist, and educator. Her fourth collection, No Trouble Staying Awake, was published by Cornerstone Press in 2025. Scollon is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, alumna and former writer-in-residence at Interlochen Arts Academy. She teaches the North Ed Writers Studio at Career Tech in Traverse City, Michigan, and coedits the literary journal Dunes Review. See teresascollon.com.