Contributors’ Notes

Chloe Alberta is an MFA candidate in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where she previously earned a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature. Her writing has most recently been recognized with a 2021 Hopwood Graduate Fiction Award. Find her on Twitter: @chloe_alberta

Becky Tuch is currently at work on a collection of stories about art, artists, and museum workers. Her stories have been honored with several magazine awards, fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and the Somerville, Massachusetts, Arts Council, and have appeared in dozens of publications including Post Road, Tikkun, The Carolina Quarterly, Salt Hill, Literary Mama, and Best of the Net. She lives with her family in Pittsburgh. Find her tweeting about lit mags @BeckyLTuch. Learn more at www.BeckyTuch.com.

Samantha Malay’s work recently appeared in Ponder Review, Shark Reef, and In Parentheses, and will soon be published by Kind Writers. She was born in Berlin, Germany, and grew up in rural northeastern Washington State. A graduate of Seattle University’s sociology program, she is a theatrical wardrobe technician by trade, a mixed-media artist, and a poetry editor in residence at Flying Ketchup Press. Her published words can be found at https://thistleandhasp.wordpress.com.

Natalie Mariko is a poet & English teacher living in Berlin. Her works can be found online or in print at feelings, trainszine, slanted house, lazy susan, paintbucket.page, bridge poetry & elsewhere.

Nicholas Karavatos is a visiting professor of poetics at the Arab American University of Palestine near Jenin in The West Bank. He was a U.S. Ambassador’s Distinguished Scholar to Ethiopia in 2018 at Bahir Dar University, and from 2006 through 2017, an assistant professor of creative writing at The American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. At the Modern College of Business and Science in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman from 2001 through 2006, he was a senior lecturer in humanities. His first year as an expat worker was on the faculty of the Fujairah Technical School in the UAE from 2000 to 2001. Nicholas Karavatos is a graduate of Humboldt State University in Arcata and New College of California in San Francisco.