Contributors’ Notes

Daisy Bassen is a practicing physician and poet. She graduated from Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program and completed her medical training at The University of Rochester and Brown. Her work has been published in Oberon, The Delmarva Review, Tuck Magazine, and several other journals. She was a semi-finalist in the 2016 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, the 2018 Adelaide Literary Prize, and is a 2019 Pushcart Prize nominee.

Jennifer M. Colatosti lives in Pine Lake, Georgia. She is Assistant Professor of English at Perimeter College at Georgia State University, where she co-chairs the Revival: Lost Southern Voices literary festival. Her fiction and nonfiction have previously appeared in The MacGuffin, Sequestrum, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, The Intentional, Southeast Review, and Midwestern Gothic.

Born in Italy some decades ago, Gabriella Garofalo fell in love with the English language at six, started writing poems (in Italian, and is the author of Lo Sguardo di Orfeo, L’inverno di Vetro, Di Altre Stelle Polari, Blue Branches, and A Blue Soul.

Alexander Luft‘s fiction has appeared in Yemassee, The Coachella Review, The Barely South Review, and other magazines. More of his work is available at alexanderluft.com.

Nate Maxson is an author of several collections of poetry and a performance artist living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He discovered poetry as a youth the way other people find religion or drugs and hasn’t looked back since. An iconoclast, he is incapable of keeping his big mouth shut in the presence of anyone presented as an authority figure.”

Kathryn Mecca is an American painter. She received her BA in Painting and Sociology from Rutgers University and is currently pursuing her MFA in Painting at Temple University in Rome. Her work highlights the figure and processes observed social interaction.

Megan Newcomer has served as the art editor for Scarab Literary Journal and illustrated two published books. Her work has recently appeared in Steel Toe Review, Santa Clara Review, Steam Ticket Journal, and Mochila Review. She is a recent graduate from Salisbury University with a BFA and BA in Creative Writing.

Paul Pekin lives in Chicago where he has worked as a printer, storekeeper, teacher, and police officer. His work has been published in the Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Reader, Sou’wester, South Dakota Review, the MacGuffin, The Little Patuxent Review, and many others. He has won awards from the Illinois Arts Council and the Chicago Headline Club.

Anna Villegas is a retired English professor living in Nevada City, California. Her published work includes many short stories, essays, poems, newspaper columns, and three novels. “The Things I Cannot Change” is one of several stories set in Bakerville, the fictional town inspired by the California foothills where Villegas has spent most of her life.

Coco Wilder is a poet, tutor, and restaurant worker living in North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Columbia University School of the Arts, she also serves as co-web editor of the Four Way Review and is a recipient of a 2018 Academy of American Poets University Prize. Find her writing online at Poets.org, Voluble Lab, and Oxford American.