Contributors’ Notes

Chelsy Diaz Amaya is a writer, special education teacher, and adjunct instructor in Utica, New York. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing and Literature at Stony Brook University. Her Pushcart-nominated work has previously appeared in The Southampton Review, The Masters Review, South Dakota Review, DIAGRAM, and Ruminate Magazine. She is a recipient of the Money for Women in Non-Fiction Prize from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.

Collin Garrity (he/him) studied poetry at Warren Wilson College. He is currently editing a collection of poems about the three summers he worked on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska. “Blackberry Orphan” is one of 27 poems addressed to a blackberry bush, which Collin hopes to publish in a chapbook in 2025.

Margalit Katz was raised in Lenapehoking and currently teaches English as a Fulbright fellow in Aguascalientes, Mexico, on unceded Zacateco territory. They received their BA in Spanish and Anthropology from Wesleyan University, attended the 2023 Summer Graduate Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, and received a partial fellowship from Brooklyn Poets in 2024. Their work can be found or is forthcoming in Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry, SLANT, Emerge Literary Journal, and Stonecoast Review.

Cassandra Lopez grew up and lives in Philadelphia. She is currently a first-year student in Temple University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. She has published work in Girls’ Life Magazine and The Philadelphia Tribune.

Sidney Stevens holds an MA in journalism from the University of Michigan. Her short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Oyster River Pages, The Woven Tale Press, and Another Name for Darkness, an anthology from Sans. PRESS. Her nonfiction has been published in Newsweek, The Dillydoun Review, and the anthology Nature’s Healing Spirit. She lives in eastern Pennsylvania. www.sidney-stevens.com.

Katharine Suchan is a Philadelphia-based artist and teacher whose work seeks to embody fantastical experiences by observing her immediate environment. These manifestations appear through paintings, drawings, and installations. She received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in May 2024 and her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2020. Her work has been shown in Kansas City, New York, Minnesota, Rome, and Philadelphia and featured in New American Paintings Issue No. 160. Recent shows include her solo show The Light That Does Not Touch Us at Temple Contemporary (Philadelphia), as well as the group shows Commemorations (DRWC Flag Exhibition) at Spruce Street Harbor Park (Philadelphia), ROMA at Stella Elkins (Philadelphia), and poxoes at Gallery of Art (Rome, Italy).

Eryn Sunnolia (she/they) is a queer writer living in Philadelphia. Their writing has appeared in Electric Literature, HuffPost, Well+Good, Vast Chasm Magazine, and others. She is currently a first-year student in the creative nonfiction MFA program at Rutgers-Camden. She also likes making quilts. You can find them at erynsunnolia.com or on Substack.

Jonathan Travelstead served in the Air Force for six years as a firefighter and currently works as a full-time firefighter after receiving his MFA in narrative poetry. He sculpts jewelry as a goldsmith under his business name, Travelstead Studios. His collections How We Bury Our Dead and Conflict Tours were published by Cobalt Press (2015, 2017), and The Cloud Understands Our Scarecrow Hearts is forthcoming from Pierian Springs Press (2024).

Harry Wasnak is a Philadelphia-based writer and MFA student in Creative Writing at Temple University. He earned a B.A in Communication from Villanova University. His works examines the intersections of mundanity and marginalization, bringing together research and art.