ISSUE 18: Reinvention, Resolution, Recreation

Julia C. Alter is an MFA candidate at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poems can be found in, or are forthcoming from Palette Poetry, CALYX, Crab Creek Review, Crab Orchard Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Boiler, Bluestem Journal, Memoir Mixtapes, and elsewhere. She lives in Burlington, Vermont with her partner and young son

Laura Budofsky Wisniewski is the author of the chapbook, How to Prepare Bear (2019 Redbird Chapbooks) and the full length collection, Sanctuary, Vermont (forthcoming 2020 Green Writers Press). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hunger Mountain Review, American Journal of Poetry, Saranac Review, Confrontation and other journals. She is a 2018 Pushcart nominee. She was also a finalist for the 2017 New Millenium Literary Award, 2017 Fear No Lit Fellowship, and 2017 Paper Nautilus Chapbook competition.

Christina Camarena

Christina Camarena recently completed her MFA in fiction from the University of Nevada, Reno and currently teaches English and Women’s Studies at Olympic College, Bremerton. Her fiction has been published in Jabberwock Review and Funny in Five Hundred, and her poetry has been published in Clover, A Literary Rag, and Palimpsest Yale Graduate Literary & Arts Magazine. She and her partner raise two small children, a mini-pig, three water turtles, and two chickens

Chelsey Clammer is the author of the award-winning essay collection, Circadian (Red Hen Press, 2017) and BodyHome (Hopewell Publications, 2015). Her work has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, Hobart, Brevity, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Normal School and Black Warrior Review. She teaches online writing classes with WOW! Women On Writing and is a freelance editor. Her next collection of essays, Human Heartbeat Detected is forthcoming from Red Hen Press. chelseyclammer.com

Christie Cochrell’s work has been published by Catamaran, Orca, Belle Ombre, and Tin House, among others, and has won several awards including the Literal Latté Short Short Contest. Chosen as New Mexico Young Poet of the Year while growing up in Santa Fe, she now lives and writes by the ocean in Santa Cruz, California. She loves the play of light, the journeyings of time, things ephemeral and ancient.

Ruth Ann Dandrea is a freelance writer whose short fiction has most recently appeared in Stone Canoe, Heartland Review, and Main Street Rag. Earlier work can be found in The Dr. T. J. Eckleburg Review, Thema, Blueline, and other literary magazines. She is also co-author of a book on women’s kayaking, WOW: Women on Water which was named the Adirondack Center for Writing’s Nonfiction Book of 2012.

A native Chicagoan, I live in Dallas with my husband and teach both fiction and nonfiction at Writing Workshops Dallas. In addition to Minerva Rising, my work in both genres has appeared in various literary magazines, including the Sycamore Review, which nominated my essay for a Pushcart Prize, Mississippi Review, Crab Orchard Review, Chautauqua Literary Journal, as well as the Dallas Morning News. I received my MFA in fiction from Bennington College.

Katey Hawley is a writer, poet, and artist who is always trying to navigate the delicate balance of loving the world and wanting to shut herself away from it. Her work focuses on womanhood, mental health, and the beauty of everyday life. She hates small talk but loves coffee, people watching, and leaving her phone at home. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her partner and their two cats.

 

Alayna Hinson teaches middle school English by day and geeks out by night. When she is not writing, she likes to go on walks with her dog. Her poetry has previously been published in The Dime Show Review, Germ Magazine, Persephone’s Daughters, and other literary journals.

Lindsay Killips is an undergraduate student at CU Boulder studying psychology and minoring in sociology. She has poetry publications Minerva Rising Journal, the CU Honors Journal, and Harper College’s Point of View Literary Magazine. Her poem “blurred lines” has received two awards. Additionally, she has upcoming publications in Journal 2020. Aside from her academics, she works as a swim instructor.

Kate Kingston has published two poetry books, History of Grey and Shaking the Kaleidoscope, plus three poetry chapbooks. She is the recipient of the W.D Snodgrass Award for Poetic Endeavor and Excellence, the Ruth Stone Prize, and the Atlanta Review International Prize. Kingston has been awarded fellowships to the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Jentel, Ucross, and Fundación Valparaíso, Spain, among others. She currently lives and writes in Trinidad, Colorado.

Violet Mitchell is a Denver-based writer and artist. She earned a B.A S. in cognitive literary studies and is completing an MFA degree in creative writing poetry, both from Regis University. Her work has been published in Heavy Feather Review, The Blue Route, Sixfold, Loophole, ANGLES, Furrow Magazine, and several other journals. She received the Robert A. O’Sullivan, S.J. Memorial Award for Excellence in Writing in 2019.

Anne Myles

Originally from New York, Anne Myles recently retired early from her position as an English professor at the University of Northern Iowa and is working on an MFA in poetry at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in Lavender Review, Whale Road Review, Green Briar Review, and other journals. She lives alone with her cats and dog and is waiting to discover the rest of her life

Dorothy Neagle lives and writes in Hastings on Hudson, New York. She has studied poetry and memoir most recently at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, and her work has been published in The Nasiona, Mythos Magazine, and is forthcoming in the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. She is currently completing a full-length memoir and beginning a poetry collection.

Lynda Richards

Lynda Richards is inspired by the evergreen forests and ever changing seascape of the Puget Sound region; her three adult children; and the high school students she teaches. She lives on the Key Peninsula with her husband and corgi and works to create stories which capture the essence of the region and explore the connection we have to each other. She received her MFA in Creative Writing/Fiction from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts.

Annette Schlichter lives in Southern California and Germany. She regards her writing as one of the threads that help her navigate the spaces between continents, languages and other manifestations of “here” and “there.” Her poems appeared in various literary magazines. She is the author of the online micro chapbook Like Love, published by Ghost City Press.

Tina Schumann is the award-winning author of Praising the Paradox (Red Hen 2019), Requiem. A Patrimony of Fugues (Diode Editions) and As If (Parlor City). She is editor of the IPPY award-winning anthology Two Countries. U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents (Red Hen). Her poems have seen publication since 1999 in such journals as The American Journal of Poetry, Ascent, Cimarron Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Nimrod, Parabola, Palabra, Poetry International and Verse Daily. www.tinaschumann.com

My poems have appeared in literary reviews, such as Sycamore Review, RHINO, and Slipstream, and several anthologies, most recently in All We Can Hold by Sage Hill Press. I live in Spokane, WA, with my husband and daughter, and teach composition, literature, and creative writing at Spokane Falls Community College. I fight like a warrior for time to play with my poems while also tending to my family and my amazing students.

Judith Sornberger’s newest poetry book, I Call to You from Time came out in July 2019 from Wipf & Stock. Her other full-length poetry collections are Practicing the World (CavanKerry, 2018) and Open Heart (Calyx Books). She’s also the author of five chapbooks, most recently Wal-Mart Orchid, winner of the 2012 Helen Kay Chapbook Prize (Evening Street Press). Her prose memoir The Accidental Pilgrim: Finding God and His Mother in Tuscany was published by Shanti Arts Press in 2015. Sornberger is professor of emerita from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania where she taught English and created and taught in the Women’s Studies Program. Today she spends her time writing, being an activist, and teaching Tai Chi.

Diane Stone, a former technical writer-editor, lives on Whidbey Island north of Seattle. Her work has been published in Crosswinds Poetry Journal, The Stars (Outrider Press), The Comstock Review, The Main Street Rag, Chautauqua, and elsewhere.