Poetry

Joel Allegretti

Joel Allegretti is the author of, most recently, Platypus (NYQ Books, 2017), a collection of poems, prose, and performance texts, and Our Dolphin (Thrice Publishing, 2016), a novella. His second book of poems, Father Silicon (The Poet’s Press, 2006), was selected by The Kansas City Star as one of 100 Noteworthy Books of 2006. He is the editor of Rabbit Ears: TV Poems (NYQ Books, 2015). The Boston Globe called Rabbit Ears “cleverly edited” and “a smart exploration of the many, many meanings of TV.” Rain Taxi said, “With its diversity of content and poetic form, Rabbit Ears feels more rich and eclectic than any other poetry anthology on the market.”

Glen Armstrong

Glen Armstrong holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters and has a forthcoming book of prose poems: Invisible Histories. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Conduit, and Cream City Review.

Angelo Colavita

Angelo Colavita lives and writes in Philadelphia, where he serves as Founding Editor of Empty Set Press and Associate Editor at Occulum Journal. He is the author of two chapbooks of poetry — Flowersonnets (ESP 2018) and Heroines (ESP 2018) — with work appearing or forthcoming in the Operating System’s ExSpecPo series, Pigeon: A Radical Animal Reader vol. 2, Madcap Review, Prolit Magazine, Metatron, Dream Pop Journal, South Broadway Ghost Society, A Witch’s Craft, Luna Luna Magazine, Yes Poetry, Apiary Magazine, and elsewhere online and in print.

Follow him on Twitter @angeloremipsum and on Instagram @angelocolavita.

Philip Elliott

Philip Elliott is an award-winning author, freelance editor, and founder and editor-in-chief of Into the Void. His debut novel, comedic L.A. noir Nobody Move, won the Indie Author Project Award for the region of Ontario. Philip was a National Juror of the 2019 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and a winner of the 2018 Big Pond Rumours Chapbook Prize. A music and film obsessive, Philip lives in Toronto with his wife and their spoiled pug.
Learn more at http://angelcitynovels.com/

Gary Glauber

Gary Glauber is a widely published poet, fiction writer, teacher, and former music journalist. He champions the underdog to the melodic rhythms of obscure power pop. His two collections, Small Consolations (Aldrich Press) and Worth the Candle (Five Oaks Press), and a chapbook, Memory Marries Desire (Finishing Line Press), are available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and directly from the publishers. A new chapbook of surreal poetry is coming soon.

Juleigh Howard-Hobson

Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s poetry has appeared in The Comstock Review, Noir Nation, L'Éphémère, The Lyric, Weaving The Terrain (Dos Gatos), Poem Revised (Marion Street), The Nancy Drew Anthology (Silver Birch), “The Literary Whip” (Zoetic Press podcast) and other venues. Nominations include “Best of the Net”, The Pushcart Prize and The Rhysling Award. An English ex-pat, she now lives in the American Pacific Northwest, by a deep dark forest full of buried stars and secret whispers.

Mia Kaidanow

Mia Kaidanow is a Undergraduate Fine Arts student at Maryland Institute College of Art.

Daniel Edward Moore

Daniel lives in Washington on Whidbey Island. His poems have been in Spoon River Poetry Review, Columbia Journal, Cream City Review, Western Humanities Review, Phoebe, Mid- American Review, December and others. His poems are forthcoming in Weber Review, Cultural Weekly, Tule Review, Plainsongs, The Cape Rock, Artifact Nouveau, Gyroscope Review, Magnolia Review and Kestrel Literary Journal. His chapbook "Boys," was recently released from Duck Lake Books. His book, "Waxing The Dents," was a finalist for the Brick Road Poetry Prize and will be released February 2020. His work has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net. Visit him at Danieledwardmoore.com.

Joanna C. Valente

Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Joanna is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015) Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016), Sexting Ghosts (Unknown Press, 2018), No(body) (Madhouse Press, 2019), and #Survivor (The Operating System, 2020). They are the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing By Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017), and received a MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Joanna is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, as well as the senior managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine. 

Micah Zevin

Micah Zevin's writing has appeared in Poetry and Politics, Reality Beach, the American Journal of Poetry, Five2OneMagazine, Maudlin House, Heavy Feather Review, Big Other and elsewhere. He curates the Risk of Discovery Reading Series at Blue Cups in Woodside, Queens, N.Y

Prose

Ivy Waters

Ivy Waters is actually three writers stacked on top of each other wearing a trenchcoat. Together, they write literary fiction, speculative fiction, and, occasionally, romance, and have managed to get stories published in two separate anthologies (72 Hours of Insanity: Anthology of the Games Vol. 7 from The Writer's Workout and Diversity: 2019 Sydney University Student Anthology).

John Adams

John Adams (he/him/his) is an author from Kansas City. He’s been published by Australian Writers’ Centre, Siren’s Call, Weird Christmas, 101words.org, and The Drabble (forthcoming: Dream of Shadows, Paper Butterfly, The Weird and Whatnot). He’s been shortlisted by Furious Fiction and Molotov Cocktail’s Flash Monster Contest. His plays have been produced by Alphabet Soup (Whim Productions, 2018, 2020) and the 6x10 Play Festival (Barn Players, 2016) and selected for readings at the William Inge Theater Festival (2020) and the Midwest Dramatists Conference (Midwest Dramatists Center, 2017-2019). He performs with That’s No Movie, a multi-genre improv team.

Web: johnamusesnoone.com | Twitter: @JohnAmusesNoOne

Gregg Williard

Gregg Williard grew up in Columbus, Ohio and Brooklyn, New York. His fiction, non-fiction and graphic art have been published most recently or are forthcoming in New England Review, Queen Mob's Tea House, Shenandoah, The Rupture and Into the Void. His essay "MHW" was the recent recipient of the Brooklyn FilmArts non-fiction prize. He teaches ESL to refugees in Madison, Wisconsin and does a late night book reading show on WORT community radio.

Ed Halter

ED HALTER is a writer and curator living in Brooklyn. He is the author of From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Videogames (2006) as well as the editor of Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century (2015, with Lauren Cornell) and From the Third Eye: The
Evergreen Review Reader (2018, with Barney Rosset). His criticism has appeared in 4Columns, Artforum, the Criterion Collection, the Village Voice and elsewhere. He runs Light Industry, a venue for film and
electronic art in Brooklyn, and teaches as Critic in Residence at Bard College. You can check out his whole deal at edhalter.com .

R.A. Shockley

R.A. Shockley's stories have appeared in Epiphany Magazine, Emrys, The Petigru Review, The Del Sol Review, Scribble, Writer’s Post Journal, the Smoking Poet, Loose Change, and Clapboard House, among others.