ISSUE #8: THE CONTRIBUTORS
Eartha Davis is a woman of Ngāpuhi heritage living on Wurundjeri land. She placed second in the 2022 Woorilla Poetry Prize Youth Section, with work published or forthcoming in the Australian Poetry Anthology, Cordite, Rabbit, Wildness, takahē, Minarets, Circular Publishing, Frozen Sea, South Florida Poetry Journal, Revolute, JMWW, LEON Literary Review, and ELJ Editions, among others. She wishes to live gently by a river, cradled by trees and mountains.
William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has taught at several colleges and universities. His most recent book of poetry is Cloud Mountain (2024). His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in many journals.
Okbi Han is a poet, painter, and video editor. She lives in Seoul and can be reached at okbisusu@gmail.com or https://www.chillsubs.com/user/okbi_han. She is also a professional french fries craver. Her works are scheduled to be published on Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, SoFloPoJo, and 50 Give or Take.
Dave Harrity's poems, essays, and erasures have appeared in Verse Daily, Ninth Letter, Copper Nickel, Mid-American Review, and Forklift, Ohio. His most recent book is Our Father in the Year of the Wolf (Word Farm, 2016). A recipient of an Emerging Artist Award and an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, he resides in Louisville.
Courtney Hitson teaches English at the College of the Florida Keys. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals including Wisconsin Review, Columbia Poetry Journal, DMQ Review, Emerge Literary Journal, McNeese Review and others. She currently has work forthcoming in Canary, Neologism, and Allium.
KP Kaszubowski (she/her) is a poet and filmmaker. Her debut poetry collection somnieeee was published in 2019 by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, and her debut feature film Ringolevio premiered in 2020 at Dances With Films in Los Angeles. As narrative designer and producer, her first feature length documentary My First and Last Film (director: Tracey Thomas) premiered in 2019. Her previous poetry has been published (as Kristin Peterson) by TriQuarterly, pitymilk press, Great Lakes Review, dancing girl press, Juked, Flag + Void, ICHNOS, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing through Eastern Washington University in 2023. She lives close enough to the Lake to pretend she can hear it. When she lived in Spokane, she could hear Lake Michigan there too.
Kirby Knowlton is a poet from South Carolina. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Thrush Poetry Journal, The Greensboro Review, among other journals.
BEE LB is the facsimile of a living poet, a porcelain pierrot with a painted face. They collect champagne bottles, portraits of strange women, and diagnoses. They've been published in G*Mob, MOODY, Landfill, and The Racket, among others. Their portfolio can be found at twinbrights.carrd.co