Issue 12.1 Contributors
Dominic Anton is a Chaldean-American from Detroit and author of three published books. He currently resides in Miami, spending his free time in nature as well as working on his fourth collection of poetry.
Born in Vermont and raised in New Hampshire, Marc Audet lives near New Haven, Connecticut. He is self-employed as a web application developer. He and his wife enjoy long walks through the various parks in New Haven, and visits to coffee shops, bookstores, and museums. He has lived in Montreal, Canada, Oxford, England, and has traveled to Ireland and Europe. Marc first started writing by chronicling his extended travels in Europe, including five weeks hiking in the French Alps. His work has appeared in Books Ireland, Flash Fiction, Witcraft, and elsewhere.
Nick Caccamo is a resident of Illinois who lives in the Chicago area. He has a degree in Rhetoric/Creative Writing from University of Illinois. In his spare time Nick enjoys watching (bad) movies, drinking (good) beer, taking (long) road trips, listening to (loud, ear-bleeding) music, and cheering on (hopeless) Chicago sports teams. Nick is not particularly talented at writing short statements about himself in the third person. He’s up too late, distracted by the TV, and probably has to work in the morning. His fiction has previously appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Random Sample Review, The McNeese Review, DarkWinter, and Bull.
Karina Dove Escobar is a writer from Connecticut and New Jersey. She is currently living in Japan with her spouse and twin toddlers. You can find her other words in Planet Scumm, Grim & Gilded, and forthcoming in Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine, Blue Earth Review, and NUNUM’s 2025 Opolis Anthology.
Duane M. Engelhardt, author of the novella Code of Silence, has had short stories published or are forthcoming in Tulsa Review, Rockvale Review, The Charleston Anvil, and The Freshwater Literary Journal. After a career spanning such diverse pursuits as CFO of a branch of an international corporation, working on sailboats, managing an art gallery, stage acting, and making furniture, Engelhardt now puts his unique vision of life into photography and writing. When not traveling, Engelhardt and his wife Kit live in Denver, Colorado, while working on short stories and his novel Trade Winds.
Audrey Fatone currently resides in Raleigh, NC where she is in graduate school for Parks and Recreation. She writes about the intersections of queerness in the natural world and going to the woods as means for finding unconditional love and acceptance.
Joel Fishbane’s novel The Thunder of Giants is available from St. Martin’s Press and his work has appeared most recently in Penumbric, Orca, and South Dakota Review. www.joelfishbane.net.
Melissa Leigh Gibson is a writer, educator, and mother living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her poetry and nonfiction have been published in Proximity Magazine, Travel + Leisure, and Listen To Your Mother. She is an associate professor at Marquette University, and is currently working on her first book, Schooled: A Teacher’s Story of Unlearning.
Daniel Gleason lives in Dayton, Tennessee, where he teaches literature, composition, and creative writing at Bryan College. He earned a PhD at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and his poems have appeared in Rattle, South Carolina Review, The Cresset, The Windhover, Rock and Sling, Dappled Things and elsewhere.
Bob Haynes lives in Seneca Falls, New York. His poems have appeared in North American Review, Nimrod, New Letters, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, Bellingham Review, Lake Effect, Poet Lore, Cimarron Review, Natural Bridge, Louisville Review, and featured on the Verse Daily website. Poems have also been reprinted in anthologies Cabin Fever (Word Words) and Kansas City Out Loud (BkMk Press), and in the poetry textbook Important Words (Boynton/Cook Heinemann). His latest book, The Grand Unified Theory (Kansas City: Paladin Contemporaries). He currently teaches online writing and visual rhetoric and poetry workshops at Arizona State University.
Regina Landor is an alum of The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop as well as the Looking Glass Rock Writing Conference. She is the recipient of the Josie Rubio Scholarship at Gotham Writers for a 100-word essay. Her essays have appeared in Salon, the anthology Peace Corps at 50, Tales of a Small Planet, Foreign Service Journal, Black Fork Review, and Brevity Blog. She and her husband raised their two sons overseas with The Foreign Service. For more of her writing and pretty travel pictures, visit her website at https://www.reginalandor.com/ and https://substack.com/@thistravelinglife
Isabella Mason is an emerging nonfiction writer, currently in an MFA program at the University of Kentucky. As a North Carolina native, she graduated from NC State University with a BA in English and creative writing. Isabella now now lives in Lexington, KY with her partner and their cat. Her work has appeared in publications such as Carolina Muse, Stuck In Notes, and MAJORzine. Isabella is enamored by stories and likes to tell the ones she knows best.
Ann Matzke writes for adults and children. She’s published poems, articles, and nonfiction essays in Itima: Journal of Narrative Medicine, Brevity, HEAL, Horn Book online, Plainsong Review, and the Back End of Tuesday anthology and is the author of fourteen nonfiction books for young readers. Ann has worked as a certified Child Life Specialist interning at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and London’s Charing Cross Hospital and worked at Children’s Hospitals in the United States. Ann earned her MS from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and her MFA in Writing from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She lives in Hays, Kansas with her husband and two dogs.
Samuel McFerron (they/them) is from Oklahoma. They are a senior at Lewis University studying English literature and Philosophy. Samuel serves as the Managing Editor, Poetry Editor, and Webmaster of Jet Fuel Review. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in Windows Fine Arts, Beyond Thought, Red Cedar Review, and elsewhere.
Adam Rotstein has been writing TV, or whatever we call the multi-headed beast that is TV today, for a long while. It’s where he found people were willing to pay him, but it was never his first love. He’s wanted to write stories and books ever since he could hold a crayon without putting it up his nose.
Lucas Selby (he/him) is a queer Arizona writer and Fiction Editor at Radon Journal. His work also appears in The Scriblerus, isotrope, and SHIFT.
John Sieber is a queer poet and fiction writer based in Indiana. His work has been previously published in Oakland Arts Review, Marathon Literary Review, and others. When he’s not writing or reading, he enjoys traveling, being outdoors, daydreaming, and trying his best to understand the curious world around him.
Tara Troiano is a queer writer, advocate, and 2L at Georgetown University Law Center. She received her Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh in 2023, and her Bachelor’s from the University of Texas at Austin. Her most recent essay on censorship of queer writers was published by PenAmerica, and her fiction can be found in the literary anthology From Arthur’s Seat, Periphery, and Teen Ink.
Lindsey Warren is a Delaware native. She received her MFA from Cornell University, and her three collections (Unfinished Child, Archangel & the Overlooked, and Sentence, Forest) were published by Spuyten Duyvil. She has had poem collages published in Fugue, Midway Journal, Wild Roof Journal and Action, Spectacle, and her Substack “Wilmington Is a Poem” chronicles her citywide public poem collage project. Lindsey lives in Arden, Delaware with her partner and doggo.
Terrance Wedin was born and raised in Blacksburg, Virginia. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, Washington Square Review, and other journals. He is an assistant professor at Texas State University.
Amelia Clare Wright is a recent graduate of Columbia’s MFA program in nonfiction creative writing. She has work appearing in Oyster River Pages, The Blood Pudding, and The Hunger Journal, among others. She grew up in Baltimore City and now lives in Los Angeles. She is currently working on a memoir about pain and trying to decide if she wants to be a coral reef or a tree when she dies.