Poetry

Emily Brink

My bio is simple: my name is Emily Brink and I live in the cobwebbed house I grew up in, haunted by lost love and lost futures, and I have no qualifications to write poetry unless you include a degree in Literature but really, it is just what I was born to do.

Amanda Conover

Amanda Conover is a recent MFA alum based in Peoria, IL who often explores themes such as existentialism, spirituality, and social issues. She is the Poetry Editor for Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine and works in scholarly publishing. Her poetry has been published in Atlanta Review, the lickety~split, Sad Girl Diaries, the Chaffin Journal, and elsewhere. Find her at amandaconover.com or on Instagram: @amandamconover.

Karina DaSilva

Karina DaSilva is a Latinx writer currently living in Los Angeles. When not writing poetry, she enjoys creating ink illustrations and celebrating Halloween at least four times a year. She has previously had poetry featured in print and online publications, including plain china and Dead Peasant. Pronouns: she/her. Instagram: @thereapersrequiem

Bart Edelman

Bart Edelman’s poetry collections include Crossing the Hackensack (Prometheus Press), Under Damaris’ Dress (Lightning Publications), The Alphabet of Love (Red Hen Press), The Gentle Man (Red Hen Press), The Last Mojito (Red Hen Press), The Geographer’s Wife (Red Hen Press), Whistling to Trick the Wind (Meadowlark Press), and This Body Is Never at Rest: New and Selected Poems 1993 – 2023 (Meadowlark Press). He has taught at Glendale College, where he edited Eclipse, a literary journal, and, most recently, in the MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. His work has been widely anthologized in textbooks published by City Lights Books, Etruscan Press, Fountainhead Press, Harcourt Brace, Longman, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, Simon & Schuster, Thomson/Heinle, the University of Iowa Press, Wadsworth, and others. He lives in Pasadena, California.

Joseph House

Joseph House is a queer writer from Texas. He is currently in the Creative Writing MFA at The University of Alabama and has pieces featured in the North Texas Review. If seen in the wild, he might regale to you a tale about how you should always tip your waiters and say thank you to the bus driver.

Simon MacCulloch

Simon MacCulloch lives in London and contributes poetry to a variety of publications, including Reach Poetry, Aphelion, Spectral Realms, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, Black Petals and others.

Lance Mazmanian

Word/visual author Lance Mazmanian: previously Random House distributed with Harlan Ellison, got a coffee as payment. Mazmanian appears in London Writers' Salon, Fiction On the Web, WILDsound Festival (TIFF), many more. Leonard Cohen (RIP) once wanted himself and Mazmanian to create a poetry chapbook together, until the Scrapbook File imploded.

Mason Monteith

Mason Monteith is a published author, part-time poet, and avid reader. Recently graduated from Missouri State University, where she received a degree in Creative Writing, certification in Editing and Publishing, and worked as a staff member on the campus press, Moon City Press. She has two published fantasy novels, The Spellbound Abbey and The Final Born.

Fred Muratori

Fred Muratori’s work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Poetry, Boston Review, Hotel Amerika, Barrow Street, Redivider, Denver Quarterly, Poetry Northwest and others. He’s published three full-length collections of poetry (Despite Repeated Warnings, The Spectra, A Civilization) and one chapbook. His reviews of contemporary poetry appear in Manhattan Review, American Book Review, Library Journal, and elsewhere. He lives and work in Ithaca, NY.

Anna Lux Petro

Anna Lux Petro has no qualifications for writing poetry other than her desperate existence as a human being. She is twenty-three and works with children on the Carolina coast. Her published works and passion projects can be found at annaluxpoetry.com.

Hette Phillips

Scientists are undecided whether Hette Phillips is more properly defined as a poet and fiction writer, an unusual low atmosphere electrical phenomenon, or a spectral event. Eye witnesses describe an evasive blur of angry looking sequins only perceptible at the edge of vision or a sentient mist in lipstick. In human guise she closely resembles a bi autistic artist, typist and pylon enthusiast who lives in Manchester, UK whose previous lives include running a vintage shop, live-typing court cases, and doing academic research on true crime. She has been published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe, For Books Sake, Pace University Press and Palgrave Macmillan; her Arts Council funded free verse audio short story, Lignum Vitae, about uncanny happenings in a local park, can be listened to here: levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk/you-are-here

Prose

Raymond Brunell

Raymond Brunell writes literary speculative fiction that explores the intersection of technology, memory, and human connection. Their work focuses on neurodivergent perspectives and the ways extraordinary circumstances reveal hidden emotional truths. This is their first submission to Bowery Gothic.

Gabriel Morgan

Gabriel Morgan is a writer and visual artist who lives near Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he spends copious amounts of time gazing into the sky. His first poetry book, "Rodeo Wasteland," was published in 2021. His poetry, stories, and art can be found in publications including Milk Press, Bowery Gothic, Sweet Baby Lettuces, Elbazin and more. In the summer of 2025 he was a resident at Culterim Residency in Berlin, Germany. His visual work has been shown at Cank, Berlin, Pretty Garden, N.Y.C. and elsewhere. Between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., he works as a staff writer.

Allison Bothely

Allison Bothley is a writer and recovering MFA (The New School) who lives in Orangeville, Ontario. Her work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, White Wall Review, Sad Girl Diaries, Literary Review of Canada and elsewhere. She is the creator and publisher of Bangs Zine, an independent space hot for big feelings, emerging writers, and lazy Sunday readers.

Gary Duehr

Based in Boston, Gary Duehr has taught creative writing for institutions including Boston University, Lesley University, and Tufts University. His MFA is from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. In 2001 he received an NEA Fellowship, and he has also received grants and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the LEF Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Journals in which his writing has appeared include Agni, American Literary Review, Chiron Review, Cottonwood, Hawaii Review, Hotel Amerika, Iowa Review, North American Review, and Southern Poetry Review. His books include Point Blank, (In Case of Emergency), Winter Light (Four Way Books) and Where Everyone Is Going To (St. Andrews College Press).

Christina Tang-Bernas

When not out exploring the universe, Christina Tang-Bernas lives in Southern California with her family. Her work has appeared in Saros, Andromeda Spaceways, and NewMyths, among others. Find out more at www.christinatangbernas.com.