Poetry

Tess Congo

Tess Congo creates poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her work has previously appeared in PANK magazine and Curlew Quarterly. She has studied writing at Harvard University, the University of New Orleans, and the University of New Hampshire and has received scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is currently earning her MFA in poetry from Hunter College.

Geoffrey O’Brien

Geoffrey O'Brien's eight books of poetry include Floating City (Talisman House, 1996), Red Sky Cafe (Salt, 2004), Early Autumn (Salt, 2010), In a Mist (Shearsman, 2015), and The Blue Hill (Marsh Hawk Press, 2018). He has also published prose books including Hardboiled America (1981), Dream Time: Chapters from the Sixties (1988), The Phantom Empire (1993), The Times Square Story (2000), Sonata for Jukebox (2004), The Fall of the House of Walworth (2010), and Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows (2013).
 

Cathy McArthur

Cathy McArthur (aka, Cathy Palermo) recently published poetry in The Rumpus, Cornelia and in Earth's Daughters. Her poetry has also appeared several times in The Bellevue Literary Review (in print and online) and in The Mom Egg Review, and in Juked, The Whale Road Review, Blueline, Barrow Street, Hanging Loose, Gargoyle, Lumina, Jacket, The Valparaiso Poetry Review and other journals She teaches creative writing and composition at The City College of New York.

Lynn White

Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud 'War Poetry for Today' competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Rhysling Award. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including: Apogee, Firewords, Capsule Stories, Light Journal and So It Goes.

Ellen Huang

Ellen Huang holds a BA in Writing and a Theatre Minor from Point Loma Nazarene University. She loves wearing capes on special occasions, burning things in pyrography, and swimming in the ocean (not all at once). She has pieces published or forthcoming in Royal Rose, Thimble Lit, Apparition Lit, Tiny Spoon, Mochi Magazine, TL;DR Press, Three Drops from a Cauldron, Madness Muse, Bleached Butterfly, Diverging Magazine, Enchanted Conversation, Sirens Call, Awkward Mermaid, HerStry, South Broadway Ghost Society, Gingerbread House, Between the Lines, Whispers, Quail Bell Magazine, The Folks, Hummingbird Review, The Driftwood, The Gallery, and Perfume River Poetry Review.

Penina Finger

Penina Finger lives in California and makes artwork, poems, and stories. After all these years she is still convinced everyone should make art.

Amelia Gorman

Amelia Gorman lives in Northern California where you can usually find her exploring tidepools and redwood forests with her dogs. She likes writing about monsters and homes. Her horror fiction has been published in the World Fantasy Award Winning anthology She Walks in Shadows and some of my recent poetry can be found in Liminality Magazine, Vastarien, and Star*Line.

William Lessard

William Lessard has writing that has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Best American Experimental Writing, McSweeney's, Hyperallergic and Plume. His visual work has also been featured at MoMA PS1 and is part of the permanent collection at Poets House.

Prose

 Evan James Sheldon

Evan James Sheldon's work has appeared most recently in Gone Lawn, Metaphorosis, and Queen Mob's Tea House. He is a Senior Editor for F(r)iction and the Editorial Coordinator for Brink Literacy Project. You can find him online at evanjamessheldon.com.

Shana Ross 

Shana Ross is a poet and playwright with a BA and MBA from Yale University. She bought her first computer working the graveyard shift in a windchime factory, and now pays her bills as a consultant and leadership expert. Since resuming her writing career in 2018, she has accumulated over 25 publication credits, including Anapest Journal, Chautauqua Journal, Ghost City Review, Mad Scientist Journal, The Sunlight Press, and Writers Resist. She is the recipient of a 2019 Parent-Writer Fellowship to Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and serves as an editor for Luna Station Quarterly. 

Carly Berwick

Carly Berwick is a teacher and writer, who has contributed articles to The New York Times, TheAtlantic.com, New York, and others. She hides novels in drawers and fights ghosts in machines.

Joe Pan

Joe Pan is the author of numerous collections, including the forthcoming Operating Systems (Spork, 2019). His work has appeared in such venues as the Boston Review, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, and The Philadelphia Review of Books. He is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Brooklyn Arts Press, an independent publishing house honored in 2016 with a National Book Award win. He graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the founder of Brooklyn Artists Helping, a services-oriented activist group that brings sleeping bags to homeless people.