Contributors’ Notes

Joe Betz is an Assistant Professor of English at Ivy Tech Community College and lives in Bloomington, IN with his wife and young daughter. For a cute picture and links to other poems, visit www.joebetz.com.

Shwarga Bhattacharjee was born in Bangladesh. He received his BFA in Painting from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and his MFA in Painting and Drawing from Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Shwarga’s work focuses on exploration and manipulation of myth and life presented with fusion, layers, and variation with the surfaces.  

William Cass has had over a hundred short stories accepted for publication in a variety of literary magazines such as december, Briar Cliff Review, The Boiler, and J Journal.  Recently, he was a finalist in short fiction and novella competitions at Glimmer Train and Black Hill Press, received a Pushcart nomination, and won writing contests at Terrain.org and The Examined Life Journal.  He lives in San Diego, California.

Allen Davis‘s recent short fiction and creative nonfiction appears in Ragazine, Gravel, Schuylkill Valley Journal Online, and Fixional. His short short “Packy & Backy” was nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize.

William Jensen is the author of the novel Cities of Men. His short fiction has appeared in The Texas Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and elsewhere. Mr. Jensen now lives in Texas. Learn more about him at www.williamjensenwrites.com.

Diana Keren Lee‘s work has appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Prelude, and the first issue of TINGE Magazine. A recipient of fellowships from New York University and The MacDowell Colony, Lee lives in Los Angeles.

C.D. Lewis is a writer living in Brooklyn. This is her first fiction publication.

Brandi Jo Nyberg has spent the past several years wandering from place to place. She generally spends her summers whitewater raft guiding and her winters hovering over a typewriter (even though that’s old fashioned). Currently, Brandi Jo lives in Fairbanks, Alaska with her husband and two dogs, where she is pursuing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Alaska.

Ariel Resnikoff is a poet, translator, editor and teacher. His recent work has appeared in Golden Handcuffs Review, Jacket2, Full Stop Quarterly, Mantis and the Dibur Journal. Ten-Four: Poems Translations, Variations, a collaboration with Jerome Rothenberg, came out from The Operating System press (2015). With Stephen Ross, he is at work on the first critical bilingual edition of Mikhl Likht’s modernist Yiddish long poem, Processions; and with Lilach Lachman and Gabriel Levin, he is translating the collected writings of the translingual-Hebrew poet, Avot Yeshurun. Ariel is a contributing editor of Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury, forthcoming ’18) and Holocaust & Human Rights Education (Frontiers in Sociology, 2018. His writing is forthcoming internationally in La Traverse du Tigre (Les Carnets d’Eucharis) and Schreibheft Zeitschrift für Literatur.

Anna Strong is a curriculum specialist and faculty member in Penn’s division of Professional and Liberal Education. She received a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Literature from Boston College, and an MFA in poetry from Temple University. She teaches creative writing, critical writing, and modern and contemporary American poetry and poetics. Her poems and essays have appeared in Supplement, Cleaver, Peregrine, and other journals.

Melissa Wiley is the author of the essay collection Antlers in Space and Other Common Phenomena (Split Lip Press, 2017). Her creative nonfiction has also appeared in places like The Rumpus, DIAGRAM, Phoebe, Waxwing, The Offing, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Noble / Gas Qtrly, Juked, and PANK. She lives in Chicago.