Contributors:
Alison Swan
has authored several books, including A Fine Canopy (Wayne State University Press) which was shortlisted for a Poetry Medal from Independent Publisher (IPPY), and highly recommended by Orion and LitHub. Her newest collection of poems is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. She hosts the Eco Book Club at Ann Arbor's Literati Bookstore, where everyone is welcome. And she wishes to send out belated gratitude to Mr. Willis Brown, Mr. Harchick, and Mr. William Schlegelmilch, public school English teachers who not only didn’t crush her dreams but supported them.
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Cela Xie​
is a person of 25 years who has accomplished nothing in particular, except writing for almost two decades. His poetry has been published by Querencia Press, Gyroscope Review, TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics, new words press and The Pierian, and is forthcoming from Sine Theta Magazine, VOLT Magazine and Public School Poetry. He has a selection of poems, Before I Spoke to Myself, published by betweenthehighway press.
Dale Going
Dale Going's third collection, "The Beautiful Language of Our Disaster," forthcoming in June, was awarded the Codhill Press Guest Editor Selection. A chapbook, "For the Anniversaries of All Loving Kinds of Meetings," is forthcoming in April from Albion Books. Her work has been supported by The Fund for Poetry, California Arts Council, and Residency Fellowships at Yaddo, Watermill Center, Wedding Cake House, and Djerassi. Recent poems appear in Annulet, Interim, New American Writing, Posit, VOLT, and elsewhere. She lives in Manhattan after a former lifetime in Northern California. https://linktr.ee/dalegoing
Gahl Liberzon
(right) is a writer and educator in Long Beach, California. His fiction and poetry have appeared in After Happy Hour Review, Ghost City Review, and The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks. He has taught and performed throughout southeast Michigan, the greater Chicago area, and the greater Tokyo Metropolitan area. You can find more of his work at https://linktr.ee/gahllib
Jasmine An​
is from the Midwest. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Naming the No-Name Woman (Winner of the 2015 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize) and Monkey Was Here (Porkbelly Press 2020). Her creative work can be found online in journals such as Poetry Northwest, Waxwing, Guesthouse, and Michigan Quarterly Review, among others, or at jasmineanho.com. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Literature at Fulbright University Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City.
John Popielaski​
has recent poems in Bicoastal Review, Canary, and Common Ground Review. His poetry collection That Special Something (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions) is due out in June, and his novel Attuning (Broken Tribe Press) is due out in December. He lives in Connecticut and often feels as though he’s being followed, but when he turns to look for confirmation no one’s there.
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Kimberly Gibson Tran
Kimberly Gibson-Tran studied linguistics at Baylor and the University of North Texas. She's written critically about poems with "Lines by Someone Else" and has recent creative writing appearing or forthcoming in Passages North, Porter House, Third Coast, Dunes Review, Reed Magazine, Rowayat, Saranac Review, Paper Dragon, Thin Air Magazine, Saw Palm, and elsewhere. Raised by missionaries in Thailand, she now lives in Princeton, Texas.
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Patricia Clark​
is the author of O Lucky Day (Madville, 2025) her seventh book and Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars. She has recent work in Plume and Sheila-na-Gig, other work is forthcoming in Diagram, Atlanta Review, I-70 Review, and Bracken. Other book titles include My Father on a Bicycle, She Walks into the Sea, Sunday Rising and The Canopy.
Shou Jie Eng​
is a writer 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 Harvard Review, The Los Angeles Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. His chapbook, We Carry These Bones to Market, was a finalist for the 2024 Helena Whitehill Book Award by Tupelo Press, and he teaches courses in drawing at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Thomas Lynch​
has authored and published six books of poems, six books of essays, a book of short fictions and a play. His first novel, NO PRISONERS, will be published by Godine in September ’25. He keeps homes in Michigan and in Moveen, West Clare, Ireland. He is a retired funeral director and plays the harmonica in private.