CONTRIBUTORS
Susan Bloch is an award-winning, multi-genre author. Her memoir, Travels with My Grief, won first place in the memoir category of the 2024 Nancy Pearl Book Award; the 2023 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards; and in the Transformation Travel category in the 2023 Memoir Book Prize. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in a variety of publications including Jelly Bucket, The Antigonish Review, The Summerset Review, and Eclectica Magazine, and received a notable mention in Best American Essays 2017. Find her at susanblochwriter.com and at Linktree, Susan Bloch.
Madison Ellingsworth likes walking. Her writing is forthcoming in several publications, including Apple Valley Review and Gargoyle Magazine. Madison can be found at Madison Ellingsworth.
Jad Josey’s work has appeared in Bayou Magazine, Ninth Letter, Passages North, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions, and his story, “It Finally Happened,” was selected for the Best Microfiction 2021 anthology. When he’s not writing, Jad spends as much time as possible in the cold ocean and the warm kitchen. He is currently working on a novella, myriad poems, and a collection of short stories. Read more at Jad Josey. Feel free to reach out on Twitter @jadjosey or Bluesky @jadjosey.bsky.social.
Meiko Ko’s works have been published by Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Literary Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Crab Orchard Review, failbetter, Juked, The Hong Kong Review, ANMLY, The Offing, the Longleaf Review, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, The Best Small Fictions 2023 Anthology, Atticus Review, Nat.Brut, Sleepingfish, Southampton Review, Inscape, A Velvet Giant, among other places, and is forthcoming in Barrelhouse. She is a Pushcart and Best Small Fictions nominee, finalist for the 2020 Puerto del Sol prose contest, and has been longlisted for the 2017 Berlin Writing Prize. Her writing has received support from Bennington Writing Seminars, Vona, Granta, Kenyon Review, One Story, Tin House, and Anaphora Arts. She can be reached at twitter @Ishihara2006 or Bluesky @meikoko.bsky.social.
Kim Magowan lives in San Francisco and teaches in the English Department of Mills College at Northeastern University. She is the author of the short story collection Don’t Take This the Wrong Way, co-authored with Michelle Ross, forthcoming from EastOver Press; the short story collection How Far I’ve Come (Gold Wake Press, 2022); the novel The Light Source (7.13 Books, 2019); and the short story collection Undoing (2018), which won the 2017 Moon City Press Fiction Award. Her fiction has been published in Colorado Review, The Gettysburg Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf, and many other journals. Her stories have been selected for Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf's Top 50. She is the editor-in-chief and fiction editor of Pithead Chapel. Website: Kim Magowan.
David B. Prather is the author of three poetry collections: We Were Birds (Main Street Rag, 2019), Shouting at an Empty House (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2023), and the forthcoming Bending Light with Bare Hands (Fernwood Press). His work has appeared in many publications, including New Ohio Review, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Cutleaf, and The Comstock Review. He lives in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Website: David B. Prather
Sam Rasnake’s works, published in numerous journals and anthologies, have been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He’s the author of four poetry collections and three chapbooks—most recently, Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit, 2023) and Fallen Leaves (forthcoming from Rare Swan Press). Follow Sam on Bluesky @samrasnake.bsky.social.
Claire Scott is an award-winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, and Healing Muse, among other journals. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called (IF SF Publishing, 2015) and Until I Couldn’t (Prolific Press, 2019). She is the coauthor of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry (She Writes Press, 2015).
Kevin Spaide has published dozens of stories in places such as Fictive Dream, Witness, Punk Planet, New World Writing, and Atticus Review. Recently he wrote a novel about a man who transforms into a monster while doing his nightly shopping. He lives in Madrid with his wife and son.
Angela Townsend lives just outside Philadelphia, where she writes for a small nonprofit and bears witness to mercy for all beings. She is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and seven-time Best of the Net nominee, and her work appears or is forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Chautauqua, The Disappointed Housewife, SmokeLong Quarterly, and West Trade Review, among others. She graduated from Princeton Seminary and Vassar. Angela has lived with Type 1 diabetes for 34 years, laughs with her poet mother every morning, and loves life affectionately.
Michael T. Young’s fourth collection, Mountain Climbing a River, will be published by Broadstone Media in late 2025. His third full-length collection, The Infinite Doctrine of Water (Terrapin Books, 2018), was longlisted for the Julie Suk Award. He received a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. His poetry has been featured on Verse Daily and The Writer’s Almanac. It has also appeared in numerous journals, including I-70, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, Rattle, and Vox Populi.
