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Pinocchia in the Drowning Trick
Lo Kwa Mei-en
(forthcoming November 2025)
Lo Kwa Mei-en is an Asian American writer and poet. She is the author of two chapbooks, Two Tales (Bloom Books) and The Romances (The Lettered Streets Press), and two poetry collections, Yearling and The Bees Make Money in the Lion. Her poetry and other writing can be found in The Offing, Apex Magazine, and her tarot blog, Little Nightporch. She lives with her family in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Author photo by Araminta Knight)
Molecular Memory
Natalie Giarratano
Originally from Southeast Texas, Natalie Giarratano is the author of two poetry collections—Big Thicket Blues and Leaving Clean. Her poems have appeared in Waxwing, Mississippi Review, McNeese Review, and South Carolina Review, among others. An editor, she lives in Colorado with her partner and daughter.
Amorak Huey is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress, 2021). Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books, Huey teaches at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2024).
Māori Maid Difficult
Nicola Andrews
Nicola Andrews (Ngāti Paoa, Pākehā) currently lives on Ramaytush Ohlone territory. An alum of the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation and Rooted & Written fellowships, in 2022 they were awarded second place in the Kohukohu Library Poetry Prize and Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize. Their micro-chap Sentimental Value is forthcoming with Ghost City Press. In their spare time, they watch dinosaur documentaries with their cat. For more of their work, follow them on Twitter (@maraebrarian), Instagram (@poi_division), or their website, bit.ly/NicolaAndrews.
Santa Muerte, Santa Muerte: I Was Here, Release Me
Lauren Brazeal Garza
Lauren Brazeal Garza is an essayist and author of four books of poetry, including her memoir-in-verse, Gutter, about her homelessness as a teenager. She earned her MFA in writing from Bennington College and her Ph.D. in Literature with a focus on testimonio and narratives from marginalized voices from the University of Texas at Dallas, where she teaches literature and creative writing. Her essays have most recently appeared in Waxwing and The Rumpus.
Cynthia Hogue taught in the MFA program at the University of New Orleans before moving to Pennsylvania, where she directed the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University for eight years. She then served as the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University until 2018. Her nine collections of poetry include Revenance (2014) and In June the Labyrinth (2017), both from Red Hen Press. She co-authored When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina (interview-poems with photographs by Rebecca Ross ), published in 2010 in the University of New Orleans Press’ Engaged Writers Series. When the Water Came was named a Notable Book in 2010 by Poetry International. Revenance was listed as one of the 2014 “Standout” books by the Academy of American Poets. Hogue’s tenth collection of poetry, instead, it is dark, will be published in 2023. Among her honors are a Fulbright Fellowship to Iceland, two NEA Fellowships, and the Witter Bynner Translation Fellowship, and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets (2013). She lives in Tucson.
Weren’t We Natural Swimmers
Aliah Lavonne Tigh
Aliah Lavonne Tigh’s poems have been featured in Guernica, The Texas Review, Matter Monthly, Storyscape, The Rupture, and others. Tigh has joined other writers for the Tin House Summer Workshop, read for Houston’s Poison Pen Reading Series and Hess Reading Series, contributed work for a Gulf Coast Journal and Texas Contemporary ekphrastic collaboration and was a grateful Recipient of Idyllwild Arts’ 2017 Bentley-Buckman Writing Fellowship. She holds poetry and philosophy degrees from the University of Houston and an MFA from Antioch Los Angeles. Tigh lives in Houston, Texas. You can follow her at @Alovetigh on Twitter.
Paper and Stick
Priscilla Wathington
Priscilla Wathington is a Palestinian American writer, editor, and human rights advocate. Her poems and other writings have appeared in Gulf Coast,Michigan Quarterly Review, Salamander, Matter, The Normal School, Mizna, Sukoon, Al Jadid, and +972 Magazine, among others. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Author photo by Chad Wathington
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